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“Church On The Move”
Acts 3:1-10
The TEMPTATION TO STAY!!!
Acts 2:42-47 = Unity and cohesiveness
Togetherness meant peace and wholeness.
It meant they were able to pray for abundance instead of maintenance.
It meant miracles, signs, and wonders…it meant they could live in awe of God instead of wondering if He was even there.
It meant they had what they NEEDED.
It meant fellowship with one another
It meant GLAD and GENEROUS HEARTS
It meant PRAISING GOD
For just a minute imagine that type of unity and peace.
Imagine being surrounded by people that were willing to give up their own comfort, to meet your needs.
I’ll be honest, that probably isn’t the hardest thing to imagine.
I think that is pretty doable, and most of us have experienced that type of Godly unity.
BUT, imagine this…
Imagine being with people, and in places that were absolutely saturated with the presence of God…
When I think about that type of presence I think about Isaiah in Isaiah 6
I think about Isaiah in that environment.
I think about him being in the temple with such a powerful presence of the Lord that he was broken.
This was Isaiah the prophet.
Certainly not your average run of the mill sinner, but in that environment, in the presence of the most high, he saw his lack.
He knew his brokenness!!!
The believers of the early church were living in that same blessing.
In that unity as the Body of Christ, as the agency Jesus established to be His witnesses, in their togetherness they were experiencing Psalm 133
IMAGINE ALL OF THAT AND STILL CHOOSING TO KEEP MOVING!!!
TO MOVE OUTSIDE THE PROVERBIAL WALLS OF THE ESTABLISHED BODY OF CHRIST!!!
TO MOVE INTO THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM WHERE THE PEOPLE THAT KILLED JESUS WERE!!!
How incredibly difficult would it be to be living, NOT JUST ATTENDING, BUT LIVING in that blessing and still CHOOSE to go and be around the very people that had killed The Savior!
But that’s exactly what the Church On The Move Looks Like and what the Church On The Move DOES!!!!
We take the blessing, encouragement, and edification from being together in His presence…WE TAKE THOSE FULL FUEL TANKS, and we allow it to propel us into the difficult places.
We take the blessing, encouragement, and edification and we seek to multiply it in other people.
Notice I didn’t say ADD it to others, I SAID MULTIPLY!!!
So, this morning we are going to move forward with the Church On The Move in the book of Acts…
It almost seems natural to look at Acts 3 and read it as a continuation from Acts 2:47.
What we need to recognize and continue to understand is that Acts 2:42-47 in the normative model for the church from the Day of Pentecost through today, and until the Rapture of the Church.
Acts chapter 3 is part of the history of things that happened in those first days and years of the church.
In Acts 2:43 where Luke records that awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles, he was looking at what happened in Acts 3 and 4 and 5 and even through today.
Acts 3:1 begins recording the daily life of the believer.
Peter and John were going to the Temple for the usual hour of prayer.
I am certain that Peter and John weren’t the only believers going to this community event at this very time.
Acts 2:46 says, “and day by day attending the temple together…”
In verse 44 is says “ALL WHO BELIEVED”
Did they NEED to continue attending the temple?
Certainly not for “religious” reasons.
This particular hours of prayer, the ninth hour, or 15:00 was the time for one of the daily sacrifices.
We go back to Matthew 5:17 and we know that Jesus came to FULFILL the Law.
Specifically, He came to fulill the need for daily, monthly, or yearly sacrifices.
No longer did the people need to meet once a day for wave offering or a peace offering or in this case the second half of the daily Tamid.
Exodus 29:38-46
38 “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly.
39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.
40 And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
41 The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
42 It shall be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.
43 There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.
44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar.
Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.
45 I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God.
46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them.
I am the Lord their God.
They didn’t need to go to stay connected with God in a relationship.
They didn’t need to go to the Temple to “meet with God and be sanctified by Him.” (Ex.
29:42-44)
They were the Temple of God.
They knew that the Veil had been torn and Jesus was the Final Lamb to be slaughtered for ALL people.
THEY KNEW THAT GOD RESIDED IN THEM THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT!
So why did they go to the temple daily?
Did they go to stay connected to their culture?
Did they go to pray?
Did they go to be around other people?
Did they go to Worship?
Did they go to WITNESS?
YES!!!
Yes
Yes
Yes and
Yes!!!
Were they following the religious pattern of the Old Testament?
No!!!
Were they bringing the new pattern into the Temple?
Absolutely!!!
In Exodus 29 God said,
I will meet with you there
I will dwell with you there
I will consecrate you there
You will know that I am the Lord God that brought you out of Egypt (BONDAGE) THERE!
Look at this story in Acts 3 and tell me that mission wasn’t being accomplished!!!
So, Peter and John are following the Deuteronic law, (by the mouth of 2 witnesses) they are following the pattern of Jesus (sending them out 2 by 2) and they are going together to the Temple…
I got pretty excited when I dug into the specifics of the 9th hour of prayer.
I got pretty excited about Exodus 29.
Just to add some more to it if we read Matthew 27:46-50 we would read that it was at the ninth hour that Jesus cried out, “WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME.”
IT WAS AT THE NINTH HOUR THAT JESUS YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT.
IT WAS AT THE NINTH HOUR THAT HE SAID “IT IS FINISHED”
The next verse says, Acts 3:2 that there was a guy that had been carried to this spot to beg for money for years.
It says that he was lame from birth.
He was broken,
He wasn’t even allowed to go into the temple because his affliction was looked down upon as a sin that had been committed by someone in his past.
HE WAS PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND SPIRITUALLY BOUND!
HE CAME BECASUE HE NEEDED MONEY
BUT WHAT HE REALLY NEEDED WAS
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