# Acts Lesson 12: How the Church is to Respond to Persecution

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Podcast: [The Caldwell Commentaries Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caldwell-commentaries-podcast-1213282)
Published: 2026-07-24T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://caldwellcommentaries.podbean.com/e/acts-12-first-church-response-to-persecution/
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## Resource

In this important lesson on Acts 4:23-33, we learn, by example, how a Spirit-filled Church responds to persecution! In the previous lesson, we had an example of how Spirit-filled individual Christians respond to opponents of the Gospel. Now, we are given the example on how the entire body of believers corporately should respond to the persecution of those in the Body of Christ, which is a threat on all of them. What is our response to the pressures being increasingly brought on Christians in our world (and nation) today? Do we magnify the power of the Lord in our responses or do we magnify the enemy? Are we filled with anxiety and fear and anger and resentment? If so, we are magnifying evil men way out of proportion to the power and authority and sovereignty of our Almighty God!

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