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Who Have You Been With

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.”   As we look at the apostles and how they changed their culture if we were to look for a common denominator we might find a couple. First we know that according to the society of their time, they were nobodies.  In other words if you looked at them they had no power, affluence or charisma that are looked on as qualities of great leaders.   Acts 4 contains this verse “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished."  This is the most freeing thing that we can have in our life. We don't need to be weighed down by the feeling that we can do nothing because we are common people.  The knowledge that we do not have to be an amazing person to be used by God liberates us.  In fact, it bears repeating in case we missed it th