Acts 4:1-22 Very simply put, we need to know who we believe and what we believe and with God's help our walk and our talk needs to be a clear window to that belief. God spoke clearly through His prophets, judgment through clinging to the status quo; but always a clear ray of light, of hope, of escape. To clearly point to a God of love, mercy, and grace, who was looking for even a faint glimmer of real repentance, so that He wouldn't have to bring the judgment they rightly deserved. As the clearest signal of all, He sent His Son, just like the prophets had spoken about. Every moment of His life was an unmixed, uncompromised representation of the almighty God in human form. He came to show them in clear language they could hear and understand, that God loved them and didn't want to judge them. When He healed, I believe that He was saying, "you see how your body is made whole, in the same way, I want to make your heart and your spirit whole. In the same way, I want to make your nation whole." His sermons, His parables were to say, "God loves you and wants you to find repentance and forgiveness; to escape your rebellion." In Luke 19:41f we get a glimpse of His heart, "If you, even you, had only known. " Then in the clearest message of all, He was cruelly executed on the cross, forgiving as He died; He was buried and rose again, saying, "that's how much God loves you, see I have opened the way of reconciliation." After the resurrection Peter and John finally understood and were willing to put their lives on the line in order to deliver a clear message from God. "We can't help speaking what we've seen and heard. . . we must obey God rather than man." God expects no less of us. We who have received the truth, need to let our walk and talk clearly and without confusion, illustrate the love of God and Jesus as a way of reconciliation to God and a way of escape from a lost and soon to be judged world.

Clear Signals