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A lot of “Getting Up”
*** The paragraph just before our text today is a healing, the Healing of Aeneas (pron: ih-Nee-us)
Sometimes we “Get up” because we believe the work of God awaits
Sometimes we “Get up” because the power of God is at work, without which we could not stand
*** Photo: Armenian earthquake
The 1989 Armenian earthquake needed only four minutes to flatten the nation and kill thirty thousand people.
In his book, “When Christ Comes,” Max Lucado recounts a true story that came after that horrific earthquake.
Moments after the deadly tremor ceased, a father raced to an elementary school to save his son.
When he arrived, he saw that the building had been leveled.
Looking at the mass of stones and rubble, he remembered a promise he had made to his child: “No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you.”
Driven by his own promise, he found the area closest to his son’s room and began to pull back the rocks.
Other parents arrived and began sobbing for their children.
“It’s too late,” they told the man.
“You know they are dead.
You can’t help.”
Even a police officer encouraged him to give up his task.
But the father refused.
For eight hours, then sixteen, then thirty-two, thirty-six hours he dug.
His hands were raw and his energy gone, but he refused to quit.
Finally, after thirty-eight wrenching hours, he pulled back a boulder and heard his son’s voice.
He called his boy’s name, “Arman!
Arman!”
And a voice answered him, “Dad, it’s me!”
Then the boy added these priceless words, “I told the other kids not to worry.
I told them if you were alive, you’d save me, and when you saved me, they’d be saved, too.
Because you promised, ‘No matter what, I’ll always be there for you.’”
Sometimes we “Get up” because we believe the work of God awaits
Sometimes we “Get up” because the power of God is at work, without which we could not stand
Joppa
*** Map showing Lydda & Joppa
Joppa in Jonah
Joppa in Acts
*** Photo: Jonah being vomited up by the fish
Joppa is the place Jonah resists preaching to the Gentiles, going so far as to take a ship to the far western edge of the Mediterranean Sea
Joppa is the place where Peter comes to terms with Christianity’s invitation to the Gentiles
Tabitha / Dorcas
A generous and beloved woman
*** Image of Peter and Tabitha
Continuing Jesus’s Ministry
A short report of a healing in Lydda (9.32-35)
A medium length report of Tabitha’s raising at Joppa (9.36-43)
A lengthy description of Peter’s vision at Joppa, which concludes with a trip to the generous centurion in Caesarea where the Gentiles receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 10)
Get up!
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