THE SPIRIT OF EASTER
“Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, spoke up.” —Acts 4:8 On the day of Jesus’ death, Peter denied Him three times. After receiving the Holy Spirit, however, Peter became a new person. He fearlessly obeyed the Lord even to being thrown into prison. At his trial before “Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly class” (Acts 4:6), Peter defied the religious leaders. He proclaimed that “Jesus is ‘the Stone rejected by you the builders Which has become the Cornerstone’ ” (Acts 4:11). The Holy Spirit transformed Peter into a powerful evangelist and the...