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#567 *A**SOMETHING TO GIVE**@*
Text: Ac.3:1-11
*INTRO:*
It is not in our nature to give.
It is not easy to give away what we have earned, or what we have accumulated or saved for the future.
We are afraid to lack later, if we give something away.
We do not really believe that God will pay back what we give to others.
We are afraid that God will not take care of us, if we give away too much.
It is not even easy to give what we have received for free, something that did not cost us anything.
God is a Giver by nature & He wants us to be like Him, givers by nature.
This am. in our text, we are going to take a look at 2 men who were able & willing to give something to someone else.
Freely they had received, freely they gave.
Hopefully, we will learn today, that we all have something to give.
*TURN TO TEXT: Acts 3:1-11 *(as we continue where we stopped)
Divided into 2 parts: *#1)* The Man (vv.1-11) - *#2)* The Message (vv.12-26).
We will see 2 things about the man: *a)* His tragedy - *b)* His transformation.
We will also see 2 things about the message: *a)* Sadness of it - *b)* Seriousness of it.
With this chapter, we start a new section.
Chapters 1&2 dealt with the Principles of the early church.
Starting here & all the way to chapter 12, we have the Practices of the early church.
The emphasis in chapters 3 & 4 is on the name of the Lord Jesus.
A name implies much more than identification; it carries with it: authority, reputation, and power.
When somebody says, A/You can use my name/!@
We then hope that the name is worth using.
If an order is given in the name of the President of the United States, or the Prime Minister of Great Britain, those who receive the order know, that they are obligated to obey.
If, anyone of us, was to issue orders at the White House, (if we could get in), nobody would pay much attention because our name has no official authority behind it.
*CONT’D…*
\\ But the name of the Lord Jesus has /A//all authority//@/ behind it, (Mat.28:18) for He is the Son of God.
So, because His name is A/above every name/@ (Phil.
2:9B11)...
He deserves our worship and obedience.
Also in chapters 3 & 4, we will learn 7 things about Peter.
We will see what kind of man he really was.
In our text this am.
we will see the 1st 2 of them.
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V.1 - It used to be Peter & his brother Andrew, & James & his brother John.
Now it is Peter & John.
Calvary had brought these 2 men into closer fellowship w~/each other.
By nature & temperament they were very different.
Peter & John were opposites.
By nature they might have gotten on each other=s nerves, but now they walked together.
Peter & John were not so caught up w~/large crowds, that they had no time for individuals.
Nor were they so busy in ministry that they could not pray.
They had learned their lesson well form the Lord.
Even though there were already over 3,000 people in their fellowship, they had time for prayer & time to minister to 1 man.
Here we se the 1st thing about Peter: *He was a man of prayer!
*He may have fallen asleep when the Lord asked him to pray earlier, but now, after receiving the power of the H.S., he was a man of prayer.
He went to the temple at the hour of prayer.
The people offered prayers in the temple 3 times per day:
1) Early in the morning - 2) In the afternoon - 3) At sunset.
The date of this even is not given, but the time is.
It was 3 o=clock in the afternoon.
It is interesting that the time of prayer was 3 o=clock in the afternoon.
It was the very moment when Jesus had dismissed His spirit, bowed His head & died.
A fitting hour for 2 men who loved Jesus, to go to pray, in the name of Jesus, at that very hour.
V.2 - The arrival of the apostles at the temple coincided w~/the arrival of a man crippled from birth, who was carried there, by friends or relatives, so that he could beg from those who came to worship & pray.
Luke tells us of the tragedy in this man=s life: He was lame from birth.
*Think about the parents*: They were all excited that it was a boy, & when they looked upon their little boy they saw that his legs were not right.
The defect became increasingly evident as the months passed.
He could not stand & he never learned to walk *CONT’D…*
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*Think about him*: He could never run & play w~/others, he had to be carried everywhere.
There had never been a day in this man=s life, when he had not been a burden to somebody.
He could not walk & he could not work.
All he could do was beg & sit there, where his friends or relatives dropped him & hope that his situation w~/provoke pity.
There were only 2 good places for beggars to go to beg: 1) At the door of the Temple, because people might be moved to give as they were coming to the house of God.
2) At the door of rich people, because their rich visiting friends might be moved to give.
This man here had chosen the temple, while Lazarus (Lu.16) chose the rich man=s gate.
We do not know anything about this man.
We are not told exactly how old he was, we are told over 40 (4:22), where he was from, nor what his name was.
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All we are given is: 1) Where he would lay down to beg: /A//at the gate called Beautiful//@/ - 2) What he did all day long: A/asked alms from those who entered the temple./@
Scholars are unable to say w~/certainty where the gate called ABeautiful@ was located.
It is believed by most of them that it was the Nicanor gate, located east of the court of the Women.
It provided access to the court of the Women from the court of the Gentiles.
It was called A/Beautiful/@ because its doors were made of Corinthian bronze.
Notice that he asked alms from those entering the temple & not leaving the temple.
Why ??? On the way IN, a person=s thoughts w~/be more sharply focused on the nature & character of God, than on the way OUT.
The superstitious, hoping to appease God & secure His goodwill, were more disposed to drop a coin or 2 in the beggar=s hand, as they went in, than as they went out.
(Maybe should receive tithes & offerings come in)
God had told the Israelites (Deu.15) that there should not be any poor among them, but the Jews ignored God=s command & refused to take care of them.
They considered giving alms to beggars, a virtue, as seen in Mat.6.
*CONT’D…*
\\ This cripple man is a vivid illustration of the lost sinner in 4 different ways:
*#1)* He was born lame - & all are born sinners;
*#2)* He could not walk - & no sinner can walk so as to please God;
*#3)* He was outside the temple - & sinners are outside God=s temple, the church;
*#4)* He was begging - & sinners are beggars, searching for satisfaction.
V.3 - When he saw Peter & John, he asked them for money.
To him, they were nameless worshipers.
He had no clue who they were.
They were leaders of a revival that was the talk of the town.
Thousands had come into new life in Christ.
All he knew was that he was hungry & poor & handicapped, that life had cheated him & that if he did not get some money, he would go to bed hungry.
He expected that they w~/stop & give him money.
V.4 - We notice 2 things in this verse:
*#1*) Peter was not interested in the symptoms of the man=s condition.
He did not ask him any question about his disability, how it had happened or when.
Peter wanted to restore the man physically.
He wanted to do something for him.
*#2*) Peter was not interested in performing a healing miracle without response from the man.
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