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This morning we are picking back up in the book of Acts.
If you’re new to our church, it would be good for you to know that we practice a form of preaching called “Expository Preaching”.
What that means is we believe the Bible is best taught by taking books of the Bible and then studying them chapter by chapter, verse by verse, in order to understand what they mean in our lives today.
With that said, we are currently working our way through the book of Acts.
A book of the Bible that gives us a template for the mission and purpose of the church.
Jesus sums up it p like this in .
Right before Jesus ascends into heaven He says this:
In this statement Jesus gives us the mission of the church and the means to accomplish the mission.
The mission is to take the gospel to the entire world.
And the means for that to be accomplished is through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
So as a result, not only have we been studying the mission of the church, for the last several weeks we have been studying the empowerment of the Spirit as well.
An event that took place in as God poured His Spirit out upon the first Christians.
And with that outpouring came a spiritual empowerment that enabled the first Christians to share the gospel with supernatural boldness, authority, and power.
Last week we saw the first demonstration of this empowerment as Peter and John were on their way to the temple to pray.
You may recall as Peter and John approached the temple, they encountered an opportunity for ministry.
Luke puts it like this:
Acts 3:
Luke says the opportunity is a man who has been crippled from birth.
A man who for years had sat outside of the temple begging for mercy from those who passed by.
A man who had never been able to enter the temple and experience the presence of God.
And it’s at this point Peter and John see opportunity.
Because while they had passed by this man many times before, this time it’s different.
This time Peter and John are operating under the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
This time Peter and John are spiritually equipped and prepared to minister to the needs of this man.
This time Peter and John are walking with a spiritual mindset.
So, seeing the opportunity, instead of passing him buy, they stop.
And in this moment of divine opportunity they offer this man something money can’t buy.
They offer him something no doctor can give him.
They offer him the healing power of Jesus.
Luke records it like this:
Luke says in a moment of spiritual awareness and boldness, Peter and John operate in the power of the Spirit as they offer this man the ability to walk.
How did they do it?
How was it possible?
They did it in the name of Jesus.
A name that has power.
A name that has authority.
A name that brings hope, healing, and salvation.
And in that moment a lame man who had never walked, got up.
Now, while that’s an amazing story, the real question is, “How does this apply to us?”
And as we learned last week, it applies in the same way.
How do we know?
For two reasons:
Number 1, The fact is, people like this man are still sitting outside of the church today:
People who are spiritually crippled and are separated from God.
People whose marriages are crippled and on the brink of divorce.
People who are crippled by addiction and substance abuse.
People who are crippled by depression and thoughts of suicide.
People who are living with no hope for tomorrow.
The fact is, people like this man still sit outside of the church today.
Number 2, it applies because if we’ll embrace the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, Jesus still wants to heal those people through us.
Because that’s what the gospel is all about.
The good news of the Gospel is that Jesus Christ has come to heal the spiritually broken person.
And because of Jesus, they don’t have to live in a crippled state any longer.
The good news of the Gospel is that Jesus Christ has come to heal the spiritually broken person.
Jesus himself says this in :
Jesus Christ has come to restore broken relationships.
Jesus Christ has come to deliver people from addictions.
Jesus Christ has come to bring hope into hopeless.
And most importantly, Jesus Christ has come to restore what sin has stolen and restore our relationship with God.
Jesus has come to raise us up.
That’s the message of hope Peter and John brought to this crippled man, and it’s the message of hope we can bring to people as well.
The fact is, what happened through Peter and John can happen through us.
The truth is, if we’ll walk with a spiritual mindset.
If we’ll be open to the opportunities that surround us.
God will put people in our path who need help and healing.
People who are spiritually crippled.
People who are in need of a savior.
Like Peter and John we have to walk with a spiritual mindset.
Because as the man sat there begging for alms, Peter and John didn’t pass him by.
They didn’t pretend like they didn’t see him.
They weren’t distracted by their smartphones.
They weren’t preoccupied with their own needs.
No, seeing the opportunity, they stopped.
And in this moment of opportunity they offered him something money couldn’t buy.
They offered him something no doctor could give him.
They offered him Jesus.
So, seeing the opportunity, instead of passing him buy, they stop.
And in this moment of opportunity they offer this man something money can’t buy.
They offer him something no doctor can give him.
They offer him the healing power of Jesus.
Luke records it like this:
Acts 3:
Luke says in a moment of spiritual boldness, for the first time Peter and John operate in the power of the Spirit as they offer this man the ability to walk.
How did they do it?
They did it in the name of Jesus.
A name that has power.
A name that has authority.
A name that brings hope, healing, and salvation.
And in that moment a lame man who had never walked rose up.
And what happened in that moment through Peter and John can happen through us as well.
The truth is, if we too will walk with a spiritual mindset.
If we too will be open to the opportunities that surround us.
God will put people in our path who need help and healing.
People who are in need of a savior.
People who are spiritually crippled.
And in that moment of opportunity, if we are willing to step out in faith, through the power of the Spirit we can offer them hope and healing.
In the name of Jesus we can help a spiritually crippled person walk.
Which brings us to our passage today.
Because as we saw last week, if we’re willing to do that, it’s going to get people’s attention.
Because when crippled people begin to walk again, people take notice.
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