12 Men who shook the world!

Notes: 12 Men who shook the world!

Pastor Greg

Harvest OC

January 9, 2014

What is a Saint? They are people that the light shines through.

Saint is another word for believer.

God can use anyone

1 Corinthians 1:26 (MSG)

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have---right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start---comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."

2 Corinthians 4:7-13 (NKJV)

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. [8] We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; [9] persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed- [10] always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. [11] For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. [12] So then death is working in us, but life in you. [13] And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,

1. Simon Peter - the most talked about. The most questions asked and the most known. Spoke his mind and some times too often.

He trusted and doubted Jesus throughout the Bible.

God doesn't see who you are he sees who you can be.

Crucified on an upside down cross

2. Andrew was always introducing people to Jesus.

Andrew was hung to an X shaped cross.

John 1:41-42 (KJV)

He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. [42] And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

3. James and John - the suns of thunder. They we're know as the Sons of Thunder.

Them and Peter spent the most time with Jesus.

Mark 10:33-34 (NKJV)

"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles; [34] and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again."

Mark 10:35-37 (NKJV)

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Him, saying, "Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask." [36] And He said to them, "What do you want Me to do for you?" [37] They said to Him, "Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your glory."

Herod beheaded James.

John was known as the apostle of love, he was banished to the island of Patmos.

4. Phillip - he was called by Jesus himself.

John 1:43 (NKJV)

The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, "Follow Me."

John 6:5-7 (NKJV)

Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?" [6] But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do. [7] Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little."

5. Bartholomew

6. Thomas - known for his doubt.

Doubt is not always a sign a man is wrong, it can be a sign that he is thinking.

7. Matthew - tax collector. Author of the Gospel.

Jesus said the two words - "Follow me"

8. Judas Iscariot - life ended in suicide.

John 12:5-6 (NKJV)

"Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" [6] This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.

The Bible says that Satan entered his heart.

Judas could of repented. Jesus loved him.

God can do a lot with a little.