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Are You The Real Deal?
Or Are You Counting Cards?
This story would’ve spread among the early Christians as a separate story- one that begins to verify ALL that had been happening already.
The early Christians were continuing attendance at the temple- they were watching the wonders and miracles that the apostles had done- and they were listening to their teaching.
Now, the writer Luke is going to give us a single illustration of what is going on- this is a representative story that would’ve been told and repeated many times over.
They are in Jerusalem because it was the center of Christianity.
Why? Wouldn’t it make better sense for Christians to be centered in Galilee?
Remember, Jesus had told them to stay at Jerusalem and wait for the coming of the Spirit of God.
They did.
But now Pentecost has happened, and they are still there.
The early Christians looked at Jerusalem as having much importance.
They were the remnant within Israel, members of the Messiah’s eschatological community, and even though originally from Galilee, they centered themselves in Jerusalem.
They continued to adhere to Israels institutios and their forms of worship.
Petere and John are going UP to the temple at the time of prayer- 3 oclock in the afternoon.
This man is “lame from birth” and having to be carried to the “temple gate called Beautiful”.
Almsgiving was meritorious in Judaism.
It was extra credit.
He was place at the gate so those coming in could give him a coin and gain extra credit.
Peter responds to this man’s request- Look at us!
The beggar thought he had a benefactor, so he looked immediately.
This would not have been what the man was expecting.
When Peter stated the name of Jesus, he was invoking botht he power and the presence of jesus in this situation.
And He told the man to rise up and walk.
Immediate healing.
He stands up and begins to leap, walk, and enter the temple.
He begins to walk, leap and praise.
Count the verbs in this verse- 6 of them..
Some scholars have complained about all of the activity.
STanding, leaping, walking, entering, walking again, leaping, praising....
Wilbur Rees wrote the following:
“I would like to buy $3 worth of God please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.
I don’t want enough of him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant.
I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth.
I want a pound of the eternal in a paper sack.
I would like to buy $3 dollars worth of God please.”
And that tells you why some commentators have a problem with this verse.
We aren’t used to this much of God’s grace that it makes that much of a difference.
This was a token event of the messianic age they were seeing- Isaiah 35.6
Compare Acts 2 & 3. Acts 2, Peter is the preacher, in Acts 3 he is working personally with a single individual; In Acts 2, Peter is working with multitudes, Acts 3 with one poor man.
In Acts 2 peter does ministry which results in blessing, and In Acts 3 Peter does ministry that gets him arrested, persecuted, and thrown in jail.
Christianity can be dangerous if you care to actually practice it.
Peter and John were partners in fishing.
See Luke 5.10
Peter and John prepared the last passover for Jesus in Luke 22.8
Peter and John run to the tomb on the first Easter Sunday morning in John 20.3-4
You may remember, they were at one point competing for greatness.
And you may see that now they are working together to buid the church.
Peter and John were working together to build the church.
This man represents what salvation is like.
This man was born lame- he couldn’t walk.
All of us are born with sin, unable to please God.
This man was poor.
We too are bankrupt before God.
This man was “outside the temple”.
We are separated from God- no matter how close we are!
This man was healed by one thing- God’s grace.
(God coming out of the temple to meet him!)
This man asked for help- he needed healed.
We look for God’s help- when we need God’s grace.
The apostles had no money to give; but the man did not need money most. he needed salvation for his soul and healing for his body and money could provide neither.
We want God to get us “through” something.
God wants to get through to us.
We sit outside the temple gate- God walked through them to get to us.
When God Takes Your Hand There Should Be No Question Where You Stand
This man walked leaped and praised God- Acts 3.8
He identified with the apostles in the temple- Acts 3.11
We cling to Jesus like he is our life raft- because he is.
He stood with Peter & John in their trial (arrest) in Acts 4.14
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