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Will you allow distractions?
We are always busy busy busy,
Buiser that a one arm paper hanger
Buiser than a one legged man in a kicking contest.
Now if you have ever put up wall paper you know you need at least 5 hands.
Try standing on one leg and kicking something.
Can I watch when you try....
I go to work with so much to get done, I tell eveyone I cant have any distractions today.
No visits, no phone calls.
No distractions.
no exceptions..
guess how much I got don ethat day, not much at all, there is always things that come up.
There are days when my scheduleis way less demanding andi get no interuptions at all.
But then there are times when I am busy as a bee and things come up and I say i dont have time.
I am preaching this morning, I have to get to church,
How many times are we interupted by the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes the interuptions seem like distractions and only annoy us.
But when we yeild to those interuptions we find that this point in time has been set aside by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit.
If we keep a schedule so tight, planned out to the miniute, for the entire day where dose God have room to work?
Its ok for us to make plans but its The Lord who shoud direct our steps.
We see this in our text today.
acts 3 gives this.
Now Peter and John are heading up to the Temple to pray.
It was the tradition to pray in the temple at 9,12 and 3 pm.
They are headed their.
Here we see Peter and John going to pray at the temple, this was a custom, If anyone understood Grace it was John and Peter.
Did they have to go to the temple to pray?
No..
But we see they went, though they were under grace they still went to the Temple to pray.
The prayer times were 9, 12 and 3 pm.
It would last about a hour.
Prior to the prayer time they offered sacrifices in the temple,
We never see any of the Apostles attending these because they knew the ultimite sacrifice had been given.
They went to pray, they went to worship and share Jesus!
Now they dont have a lot of time to get there, Prayer starts at 3, its right afer the offerings and we know they didnt attend that part of the service.
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Notice this verse.
Lame from birth.
they carried and laid him daily at the temple.
It was at the Gate,
Imagine our main doors that everyone entered and exited through.
You see even the people who didnt beleive in Jesus knew the most caring people arond were at the Church.
They knew the lame man would gettaken care of being postined there.
The lame man would ask people for alms.
When a person needs help, they should always be able to turn to the people of the church.
We have been meeting as a church for about 7 years now, we have seen a lot of people come to the church when they had needs or needed help.
Some had genuine need, and some had a habit.
Some who had real needs.
we helped as we could.
Some of these came in and worshipped The Lord.
Yet some only received and went away.
Some who had habits wanted to worship to get.
Some only come to the Church when they have problems.
but as soon as the problem passes or gets under control they slip away.
But they usally reappear when the problems resurface again.
It becomes a cycle.
James wrote this,,,, The Lord embraces the humble but rebukes the proud.
Paraphrase..
Peopel come to Jesus wanting there circumstances changed, But Jesus only desires to change their life.
You see, when Jesus touches, their lives are changed all their circumstances change!
This man wasnt just sitting there waiting, he was asking for alms.
a giving from mercy.
Man..... Peter and John are busy, they are going to the Temple to pray,this they do everyday.
vers 2 tells us that this man is there daily, this day isnt the first day Peter and John have walked past this man.
Surely they have known about him and seen him many times before.
They are headed up to the temple and this man asks they for alms,
They had a schedule to keep, a time to be somewhere.
This was a divine appointed time for this lame man.
It was a devine time for Peter and John.
They stopped, they communicated with the lame man.
They allowed the Holy Spirit to be in control!
I beleive Peter and John knew this.
You see they were allowing the Holy Spirit to work in them, therfore it could work through them.
Now Peter and John could have responded it a lot of different ways, but they responed this way,
Peter says look at us!
What would the lame man see?
two poor men, two fishermen?
The man would see two men in touch with Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit!
Give me your attention Peter says.
Peter wants this man to see Jesus, but first this man needs to see Jesus in them!
Before you can show someone to Jesus, first they have to see Jesus in you!
This man lay there before the gate Beautiful, and Beautiful it was, it was known for its Beauty, for upholding the law and its releigion, a dead releigion at that.
but could offer nothing or do nothing for this man!
Peter wanted this man to turn from facing religion and worrying about his problems and to focus on his redeemer!
Look at us!!
Can We say this to the ones around us?
Are we such a reflection of Christ that to look on us is to look, as it were Him?
The man wanting alms will do what you tell him, just as this man did.
He fixed his attention on them.
He was focused, he wasnt watching for someone to come along that looked more promising for his alms, he looked at them.
Alms means mercy, mercy given.
He knew he was about to receive.... the lame man was probably not expecting much from two poor fishermen.
Peters first words must have devestated this mans hopes for any alms,
I have no silver or gold......
I have no silver or gold......
There is a old story about Thomas who visted the Pope and found him counting a large sum of money.
Ah Thomas the Pope said.. The church can no longer say silver and gold have I none.
That is true your holliness said Thomas, but then neither can it no w say Arise and walk either!
When the Church focous on prosperity of the church more than they focus on Jesus they loose its power!
But what I do have I give to you!
Jesus!!!
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