I was awakened today at 4:30 a.m. March 27, 2020 with this message in my heart and I was prompted through the HOLY GHOST that I must get up write and share! I pray that you are blessed.
Many have lost their way in this world!
The Organized Church has lost its way!
We are surrounded at times by calamity!
We face many challenges!
But the early NT Church in the Book of Acts faced even greater challenges than most experience today. However, a few of our brothers and sisters in the LORD are facing similar challenges today as those in the early NT Church as they are being persecuted for their faith. They have been tossed into prisons! Some of them were beheaded and killed in other cruel and torturous ways for their faith!
Focusing back on the early NT Church, they possessed something that we have lost and we need to find and possess again – THE NAME OF JESUS!
They consistently relied on, trusted in, proclaimed, preached, had faith in, and lived by THE NAME OF JESUS!
If you read the first five chapters of the Book of Acts, you will find this pattern that they consistently preached in THE NAME OF JESUS. They healed by faith in THE NAME OF JESUS. (Click here for our NT Church Movement’s Chart of the first 5 Chapters of Acts!)
When told that they could NOT preach in THE NAME OF JESUS, they challenged the rulers of their day and asked a question. They asked which of these is right; should we obey man or should we obey GOD? (Acts 4:17-20)
Today we are being requested through various means NOT to preach or teach in THE NAME OF JESUS! Many find THE NAME OF JESUS offensive!!
But I am writing to remind you that there is POWER in THE NAME OF JESUS! There is HOPE in THE NAME OF JESUS! There is FAITH in THE NAME OF JESUS! And when we call THE NAME OF JESUS, HEAVEN HEARS! Because GOD has proclaimed that when we preach and teach in THE NAME OF JESUS, He would show up with signs and wonders! (Acts 4:29-30)
I believe that we do NOT see the miracles that the early NT Church witnessed in their day because we have forgotten THE NAME OF JESUS! We have NOT been focusing on the Scriptural commandments that we should call on and have faith in THE NAME OF JESUS!
It was JESUS who died for us! It was JESUS who hung and bled on the cross for our sins! JESUS was falsely accused! JESUS was beat and tortured more than any man ever! They whipped JESUS with 39 lashes!! His body was ripped to shreds! He should have died from the beating alone! They pressed a crown of thorn into His head! They put a heavy wooden cross on his back! They made Him carry that heavy cross up Golgotha’s hill! And if that were not enough, they nailed Him to the cross; nails in His hands and nails in His feet. And, they hung Him up at the sixth hours which is the brightest part of the day at noon. And, JESUS hung on that cross from the sixth (noon) to the ninth hour (3 p.m.) and He died at the time of the evening Passover sacrifice (3 p.m.). And then JESUS died as our Passover LAMB! And when JESUS died, He entered the Most Holy place in the temple, DESTROYING the VEIL, once and for all! JESUS fulfilled the OT Law and ended the practice of Temple worship. NT Believers are now the Temple of the HOLY GHOST and of GOD! (1 Cor. 3:16-17; Eph. 2:19-22)
(Heb 9:11-12 KJV) (11) But CHRIST being come an High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; (12) Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but BY HIS OWN BLOOD HE ENTERED IN ONCE INTO THE HOLY PLACE, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
No one has suffered more and GOD allowed His SON to do this because He loved us so much. GOD so loved us that He allowed His SON, JESUS, to die the most horrible death that has been witnessed in history!
The FATHER loved His SON!
The SON loved us!
NO one else has suffered in such a manner for us!
NO one else died for us!
It is SAD that we have forgotten about THE NAME OF JESUS. It is SAD that we NO longer call and trust in THE NAME OF JESUS.
But if you want to regain your power, if you want to restore your faith, and if you want to have or be at peace in a tumultuous world, it is once again time that today’s Believers begin to WALK by THE NAME OF JESUS! TALK about THE NAME OF JESUS! STOP focusing on inviting people to your Organized Church and STOP focusing on getting them to follow your favorite religious personality. But BEGIN telling them your testimony about THE NAME OF JESUS. And BEGIN inviting them to KNOW and FOLLOW JESUS. STOP praying aimlessly but BEGIN command healing in THE NAME OF JESUS!
And when we call on that great NAME JESUS, the FATHER hears! It is a recognition of CHRIST’S suffering, His death, but more important His resurrection through which we have life.
Let today mark the day that we once again fervently, faithfully, and continually begin to call THE NAME OF JESUS! Without fear, without shame! Trust in JESUS! Call that NAME JESUS in FAITH! Believe in THE NAME OF JESUS! And you too shall obtain salvation, grow in faith, and see and receiving healing in your life and in lives of those around you!
Love in JESUS CHRIST!
Apostle Kelvin Godfrey Franklin
Follow THE NAME OF JESUS through the first five chapters of the Book of Acts
(NOTE: I always provide Scripture because it is my desire that your faith rests in the Holy Scriptures and not my words! All Scriptures are from the King James Version (KJV). Visit our Online Bible Study page for our all our NT Church Movement’s study materials for the Book of Acts)
JESUS DID MIRACLES, SIGNS, AND WONDERS
(Acts 2:22) Ye men of Israel, hear these words; JESUS of Nazareth, a man approved of GOD among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which GOD did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
JESUS RAISED THE DEAD
(Acts 2:32-33) (32) This JESUS hath GOD raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. (33) Therefore being by the right hand of GOD exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the HOLY GHOST, He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED IN JESUS CHRIST
(Acts 2:38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the HOLY GHOST.
(Acts 3:6) Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I NONE; but such as I have give I thee: In THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth rise up and walk.
REPENT AND RECEIVE JESUS
(Acts 3:19-20) (19) Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the LORD; (20) And He shall send JESUS CHRIST, which before was preached unto you:
RELIGIOUS LEADERS GRIEVED OVER PREACHING ABOUT JESUS
(Acts 4:1-2) (1) And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, (2) Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through JESUS the resurrection from the dead.
RELIGIOUS LEADERS WANTED TO KNOW THE SOURCE OF BELIEVER’S POWER
(Acts 4:7) And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
LAME HEALED BY THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
(Acts 4:8-12) (8) Then Peter, filled with the HOLY GHOST, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, (9) If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; (10) Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom GOD raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before you whole. (11) This is the Stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. (12) Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other NAME under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
COMMANEDED NOT TO TEACH OR PREACH IN NAME OF JESUS
(Acts 4:17-18) (17) But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to NO man in this NAME. (18) And they called them, and commanded them NOT to speak at all NOR teach in THE NAME OF JESUS.
APOSTLES DEFIANT AND OBYED GOD RATHER THAN MAN / PREACHED IN THE NAME OF JESUS
(Acts 4:19-20) (19) But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of GOD to hearken unto you more than unto GOD, judge ye. (20) For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
APOSTLE’S PRAYER – GOD HEALS, SIGNS AND WONDERS IN THE NAME OF JESUS
(Acts 4:26-30) (26) The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the LORD, and against His CHRIST. (27) For of a truth against thy HOLY CHILD JESUS, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, (28) For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. (29) And now, LORD, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy Word, (30) By stretching forth thine hand to HEAL; and that SIGNS and WONDERS may be done by the NAME OF THY HOLY CHILD JESUS.
APOSTLES GAVE WITNESS OF THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS
(Acts 4:33) And with great power gave the apostles WITNESS of the RESURRECTION of THE LORD JESUS: and great grace was upon them all.
ANGEL COMMANDS GO TO TEMPLE AND PREACH OF JESUS AND HIS LIFE
(Acts 5:17-20) (17) Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, (18) And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. (19) But the angel of the LORD by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, (20) Go, STAND and SPEAK in the TEMPLE to the people ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LIFE.
RELIGIOUS LEADERS WANTED TO KNOW BY WHAT NAME WHERE THEY PREACHING
(Acts 5:27-28) (27) And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, (28) Saying, Did NOT we straitly command you that ye should NOT teach in this NAME? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this MAN’S BLOOD upon us.
APOSTLES PROCLAIM PREACHING AND TEACHING IN JESUS NAME
(Acts 5:29-32) (29) Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey GOD rather than men. (30) The GOD of our fathers raised up JESUS, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. (31) Him hath GOD exalted with his right hand to be a PRINCE and a SAVIOUR, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. (32) And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the HOLY GHOST, whom GOD hath given to them that obey him.
COMMANDED NOT TO SPEAK IN THE NAME OF JESUS
(Acts 5:40) And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should NOT speak in THE NAME OF JESUS, and let them go.
APOSTLES TAUGHT AND PREACHED JESUS CHRIST IN TEMLE AND FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE
(Acts 5:41-42) (41) And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His NAME. (42) And daily in the temple, and in every HOUSE, they CEASED NOT to teach and preach JESUS CHRIST.
I PRAY THAT ALL WHO READ AND STUDY THIS ONCE AGAIN BOLDLY PROCLAIM THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST AGAIN THROUGHOUT THE EARTH!!!
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