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Getting More than you Expected1
Acts 3:1-10
Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
“Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me, I was once lost but
now I’m found, was blind but now I see!”2 Do you remember the unspeakable joy the day when
you were not only cleansed but born again (John 3) and sealed by the very Spirit of God
(Ephesians 1:13)?
As the living waters flowed through your soul (John 4:1-26) no longer did the
cross seem foolish to you (1 Corinthians 1:18) or the Bible mere words but the very breath of
God that trained you in righteousness (2
Timothy 3:16-17).
Having been blessed
with every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus
(Ephesians 1:3) surely going from being a
Ge ng
babe (1 Corinthians 3:1) to being a living
More
sacrifice (Romans 12:1) who constantly
prays (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) and thirsts
Than
for the living God (Psalms 42:1-2) has
You
already been realized in your life?
And yet
Expected
despite being Christ’s ambassadors (2
Corinthians 5:20) capable of planting and
sowing seeds of righteousness (1 Corinthians
3:6-9), doing miracles in His name (Acts
3:6) and approaching His throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16) to draw nearer (James 4:8) and be ever
more transformed into His likeness; many Christians are satisfied with an occasional glimpse of
His glory!
“Do you have the expectations of a beggar, or are you looking for God to do
exceedingly, abundantly, above all that you can ask or think, according to the power, of the name
that is at work in you?”3
The goal of this sermon is to spur you on and hopefully with the
Spirit’s conviction have you be ignited with passion to not just exist in His kingdom but to be
lifted up, dance, leap, and praise God4 with every fiber of your being with the assurance that
whom God has enabled (Ephesians 2:10) truly can do unimaginable and glorious things that
honors the Father in heaven (Matthew 5:15-16)!
1
Title taken from Tony Evans, “‘Getting More Than You Expected,’” in Tony Evans Sermon Archive (Tony Evans,
2015), Ac 3:1–10.
2
Words written by John Newton.
3
Tony Evans, “‘Getting More Than You Expected,’” in Tony Evans Sermon Archive (Tony Evans, 2015), Ac
3:1–10.
4
Tony Evans, “‘Getting More Than You Expected,’” in Tony Evans Sermon Archive (Tony Evans, 2015), Ac
3:1–10.
Going to the Temple
To help ignite your passion to become more like Jesus I want to share the story of the
lame beggar being healed in Acts 3:1-10.
The story begins by stating that Peter and John went to
the temple to pray.
While there is “little recorded information concerning the forty days that
Jesus spent with the disciples between the
resurrection and His ascension,”5 Luke
describes this time period as being one in
which “everyone was filled with awe, and
many wonders and miraculous signs were
done by the apostles” (Acts 2:43).6
Not many
days ago Peter and John stood at the empty
tomb unsure of their future7 but now instead of
arguing about who is the greatest they are seen
here walking in unity8 through the gate called
Beautiful and along the steps “leading from
the outer court to the inner court” for a
“service of prayer which accompanied the evening sacrifice.”9
Even though Pentecost had
already come and the apostles themselves became the temple of the Spirit they chose not to
“separate from the traditional practices of their religion”10 but to enter His gates with
thanksgiving in their hearts (Psalms 100:4) and fulfill Christ’s command to bear witness first to
the people of Jerusalem (Acts 1:8).11
As they repeated the prayers of the Shema (Deuteronomy
5
Chris Benfield, “There’s Just Something about That Name (Acts 3:1–8),” in Pulpit Pages: New
Testament Sermons (Mount Airy, NC: Chris Benfield, 2015), 588.
6
James Montgomery Boice, Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997),
64.
7
Chris Benfield, “There’s Just Something about That Name (Acts 3:1–8),” in Pulpit Pages: New
Testament Sermons (Mount Airy, NC: Chris Benfield, 2015), 588.
8
Chris Benfield, “There’s Just Something about That Name (Acts 3:1–8),” in Pulpit Pages: New
Testament Sermons (Mount Airy, NC: Chris Benfield, 2015), 589.
9
F. F. Bruce, The Book of the Acts, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand
Rapids, MI: Wm.
B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1988), 77.
10
David G. Peterson, The Acts of the Apostles, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI;
Nottingham, England: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009), 167.
11
David G. Peterson, The Acts of the Apostles, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI;
Nottingham, England: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009), 167.
6:4-9), 18 Benedictions and the Ten Commandments,12 the apostles and the other Christians13
rejoiced amongst the Jewish crowd that the Lord was their “source of salvation and strength.”14
Being Lame from Birth
In verse two are told that there was “a man who was lame from birth was being carried
into the temple gate called, Beautiful, where
he was put every day to beg from those going
into the temple courts.”
Since there was no
real social network in his day the only way
this man could survive was by going to the
entrance of the temple and hope that since
“almsgiving which was classed in Judaism as
a meritorious act” 15 might lead to some not
looking away16 but instead giving him a
copper coin to buy some food.
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