1. Unsafe / Acts 5:12-25

2. Act 4:29 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.

3. Key Point #1
Faith-filled Christians are more concerned with servanthood than personal safety.

4. An Unsafe Ministry Model
An Unsafe Mission Field
Act 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

5. It is unsafe to go into enemy territory.

6. It is unsafe to go into enemy territory.
We will answer the call regardless.

7. An Unsafe Ministry Model
1) An Unsafe Mission Field
2) An Unsafe Reputation
Act 5:13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

8. It is unsafe to have such “extreme” beliefs.

9. It is unsafe to have such “extreme” beliefs.
We will display our foolish faith.

10. Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

11. An Unsafe Ministry Model
1) An Unsafe Mission Field
An Unsafe Reputation
An Unsafe Message
14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

12. Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

13. It is unsafe to preach Jesus so explicitly.

14. It is unsafe to preach Jesus so explicitly.
We will preach and we will bear fruit.

15. An Unsafe Ministry Model
1) An Unsafe Mission Field
An Unsafe Reputation
An Unsafe Message
The Unsafe Movement of God
15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid [them] on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. 16  There came also a multitude [out] of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.

16. It is unsafe to be in the midst of God’s movement.
We will believe God for more.

17. Key Point #2 A Christianity without risk is a
Christianity without gain

18. Unsafe Outcomes
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. 21 And when they heard [that], they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught.

19. Unsafe Outcomes
21…But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told, 23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

20. Key Point #3 Wherever you go with the gospel on your
lips is an unsafe place for the lost to be.

21. It’s time to lay down ANYTHING that brings us fear.
It’s time to start trusting God to face the unsafe.