Don’t ask.
A forty-year-old man (Acts 4:22) who was “lame from his mother’s womb” (Acts 3:2), was now walking, jumping, and praising God (Acts 3:8).
Peter and John had something to do with it.
The religious rulers of the day were not happy with what Jesus’ disciples were teaching about Him, so they took Peter and John into custody. Even then, people were converted by the Word they had preached (Acts 4:1-4).
The next day they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”
They weren’t going to like the answer.
Not because it was a lie.
Not because it was illegal.
Not because it was immoral.
Because it didn’t go along with what they wanted to believe.
Peter explained how this was evidence that Jesus was the One foretold by their prophets, Whose salvation they had rejected.
The leaders couldn’t deny it (Acts 4:16, 21-22).
So what did they do?
They tried to silence the truth.
It was inconvenient to their preconceived ideas and lifestyle, so they irrationally rejected it and attempted to make it disappear.
The title of the article quotes a common saying, but it isn’t the true application of this lesson.
We say, “If you don’t want to know, don’t ask.”
Instead of avoiding asking about truths that may be inconvenient to you, do the uncomfortable work of examining why you wouldn’t want to know the truth about it.
Then ask, desiring to hear the facts and go wherever they may lead.
Jesus, through his followers, stands on trial still. Will you consider the evidence? Do you know the case?
Ask,
Van
