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Who are Peter and John?
Where are they?
When is it?
Who were they likely meeting at the Temple?
(Acts 2)
Why was this man crippled/why do bad things happen?
Lets look at a story that might have influenced the actions of Peter and John
Bad things happen in our world because of sin, but that doesn’t mean that every bad thing is a direct consequence of sin.
Bad things happen because we live in broken world that needs fixing.
What is the solution?
The solution to the world’s brokenness is not healing or wealth, it is a personal relationship with Jesus.
All those other things, although they can be important, mean very little compared to what we have in Jesus.
Jesus is the only one who can fix our eternal ailment, and that is exactly what He came to do!
For the blind man, it did not matter that he had his sight or that he was kicked out of the temple, what mattered was that he now had a relationship with Jesus and his life would never be the same.
Receiving his sight made him thankful, but receiving Christ made him worship.
As Christians we have and eternal hope.
This life is not all there is.
If it were that would be a sad reality, this world is damaged and broken.
In this world we lose loved ones, we get hurt, we get sick, we feel sorrow, all these things that will one day vanish in the blink of an eye.
What would it look like to live each day from an eternal perspective?
Like each day could be our last?
Would we love others better?
Would we show more grace?
Would we be more courageous?
Would we trust God more?
When those difficult times come it is important to remember what God has done and what He continues to do in our lives, working all things for His glory and for our good and because of that we can always trust Him.
The world looks at Christians expecting something from them.
How do we handle the expectations of moral excellence placed on us by both the culture and by Scripture?
Are they the same expectations?
Are morals/ethics relative or subjective?
Christian Ethics: How we ought to live from a Biblical perspective.
How does the Bible say we should live?
What are the moral principles we follow as followers of Jesus?
Internal/individual ethics or how we think/what we think about and External/corporate ethics, the words and deeds we say and do to others.
How we act as Christians is important and, in some ways, it is easy to say that living a Christian lifestyle is legalistic.
That is the pressure the world puts on us as Christians, and that pressure either makes us bitter or it makes us better.
We can be encouraged that God helps us to do what is right, and that He has freed us from our sins so that we can choose to do good in every circumstance both internally and externally.
We are motivated by love to use every word or action for the sake of glorifying God, and making His Kingdom grow.
This miracle isn’t really important in and of itself.
The man would eventually grow old and die and that would be the end of it.
What this miracle proves however is that the Apostles ministry as well as their writings carried the same amount of authority as Christ’s (Matthew 28) and it opened the door for the preaching of the Gospel.
It continued to prove the power of Jesus’ resurrection.
That power is still alive today.
It is by this name alone that we are saved.
Romans 10 says,
This is what makes the preaching of the Gospel so important.
It isn’t just enough to do good things and hope people come to Christ.
Doing good things makes people think you are a good person, but sharing the hope of Jesus is what communicates that you are a follower of Christ.
Likewise, faith without actions is dead faith.
James says in the second chapter of his book,
Both our faith and our actions are necessary in how we represent Christ.
Abrahamic Covenant and Davidic Covenant
When God makes a promise, we can trust that He will always keep it.
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