No Other Name

Acts 4

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of our people, 9 are we being questioned today because we’ve done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed? 10 Let me clearly state to all of you and to all the people of Israel that he was healed by the powerful name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene,the man you crucified but whom God raised from the dead. 11 For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says,

‘The stone that you builders rejected
has now become the cornerstone.’

12 There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”

We preacher types often want to compare ourselves to Peter. Bold, brash, speak before thinking Peter. That is the Peter before the Resurrection. Post Resurrection Peter is Bold, Confident in Christ, and No Nonsense in his approach. Now, THAT’S the Peter to which I want to be compared. The one who unashamedly and fearlessly proclaims the name of Jesus tell all that there is no other Name under heaven by which we must be saved.