3.5- Speaking truth to powerful people.

 3.5- 

Speaking truth to powerful people. King David had a man from God to tell him had done wrong. It's not easy to tell a person with great power that he has done wrong.

Anything worthwhile is not easy.

During Watergate Charles Colson told Nixon what he wanted to hear, but later he changed his mind and told the truth to that he had failed God and Nixon during that time of his life.

Men and women of God must not say what their culture wants said, but what God wants said. We don't need "ear ticklers" or "yes men".

We need Daniels and Nathans and men and women like Sharack, Meshack and Abednigo and Peter and Stephen. Speak the truth in love and let God handle the consequences.

Acts 4

4 As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them, 2 being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming [a]in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them and put them in prison until the next day, for it was already evening. 4 But many of those who had heard the [b]message believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

5 On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem; 6 and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent. 7 When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?” 8 Then Peter, [c]filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “[d]Rulers and elders of the people, 9 if we are [e]on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to [f]how this man has been made well, 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that [g]by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—[h]by [i]this name this man stands here before you in good health. 11 [j]He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among mankind by which we must be saved.”