WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.029 Grab your Bible and hold it up with us and we'll make a confession. 00:00:03.029 --> 00:00:06.589 Heavenly Father, we're here on a Wednesday night. 00:00:06.589 --> 00:00:15.531 We're watching live stream, we're ready to grow in you and we commit to you to listen with both ears. 00:00:15.531 --> 00:00:19.390 Our spiritual ears are open, our spiritual eyes are open. 00:00:19.390 --> 00:00:22.768 We can see the things that we need to change. 00:00:22.768 --> 00:00:38.112 Holy spirit, you're illuminating on the inside of us, things that we can do better, areas where we can change and be closer to you, and we honor your power, we honor your word and we honor your voice tonight and we're listening. 00:00:38.112 --> 00:00:42.049 And Jesus name, amen, amen. 00:00:42.100 --> 00:00:47.222 Well, turn with me to Acts in the third chapter, acts, chapter three. 00:00:47.222 --> 00:01:05.852 And before I get started, you know, every day excuse me, not every day on Tuesday at noon and on Thursday at noon, we have Facebook live as well, and yesterday my sister Claire, she was on and she preached on divine relationships. 00:01:05.852 --> 00:01:12.230 And if you missed that, when, when this broadcast is over, I encourage you to go click back on that Facebook. 00:01:12.230 --> 00:01:19.427 Sorry, that's only available on Facebook, but you don't need a Facebook account, by the way, to find us on Facebook. 00:01:19.427 --> 00:01:25.987 It's just facebookcom forward slash, glorious way, church, and you can get to our Facebook page. 00:01:25.987 --> 00:01:26.510 You can watch. 00:01:26.510 --> 00:01:29.396 You just can't comment unless you have a Facebook. 00:01:29.396 --> 00:01:31.263 But, like I said, you're welcome to watch. 00:01:31.263 --> 00:01:49.746 But she taught on divine relationships and and she used the story that we're about to read in her examples last night and her her points were spelled out pro, it was prayer, revelation and obedience, and so it really blessed me and I know it'll bless you if you just go back and watch that later on. 00:01:49.746 --> 00:01:53.322 But one of the biggest points that she made, that made that hit me. 00:01:53.322 --> 00:01:56.710 She was talking about during difficult times and in war. 00:01:56.710 --> 00:02:08.582 You know, in physical wars it uh, during war, men bond and they develop relationships and it creates a bond of trust that last, that lasts a lifetime. 00:02:08.582 --> 00:02:09.245 It really does. 00:02:09.245 --> 00:02:16.068 And so, uh, you know, when the chips are down and things are difficult, the church bands together and there's unity. 00:02:16.068 --> 00:02:24.060 And my dad likes to say it uh like this equation, an equation that he received years ago love plus unity equals miracles. 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:37.826 So we know, in these last days, as we continue to use God's love to to love on each other and stay in unity under the power of the Holy ghost, we can experience an atmosphere of miracles, amen. 00:02:37.826 --> 00:02:41.766 And so, with that in mind, if you'll turn to acts, chapter three. 00:02:43.564 --> 00:02:45.572 I got a message and title for you tonight. 00:02:45.572 --> 00:02:50.311 What you got, what you got, and so we'll start. 00:02:50.311 --> 00:02:53.878 Uh, acts three, one I'm going to read out of the amplified Bible. 00:02:53.878 --> 00:02:59.290 That's the girl's version of the Bible, the women's version, because it's nice and wordy. 00:02:59.290 --> 00:03:01.000 And, uh, nobody's here really to laugh at my jokes. 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.979 I get like one or two or three, but uh, and that's okay. 00:03:04.979 --> 00:03:07.939 Uh, maybe, justin, we could set up a laugh meter back there. 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:14.151 So I know, like you can kind of gauge it If I can make Justin laugh and I know it's funny, right. 00:03:14.151 --> 00:03:15.818 And so, uh, verse one. 00:03:15.838 --> 00:03:29.979 It says now, peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour of the day, three o'clock in the afternoon, and Claire made this point yesterday, um, that this is something that they did every day. 00:03:29.979 --> 00:03:37.534 And so she was saying that, uh, you know, if you complain about going to church once a week, on a Sunday, they were going to church every day. 00:03:37.534 --> 00:03:44.919 And so here they were, peter and John, making the same trek to church, uh, that they do every day. 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:51.979 And in verse two, when a certain man that's why he was a certain man they, they passed him before they knew who he was. 00:03:51.979 --> 00:04:01.000 He was crippled from his birth, was being carried along, who was laid each day at the gate of in the temple, which was called beautiful. 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:07.829 The gate was called beautiful so that he might beg for charitable gifts from those who entered the temple. 00:04:07.829 --> 00:04:19.771 And when he saw the lame man, when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him a gift. 00:04:19.771 --> 00:04:24.115 He asked them what you got? 00:04:24.115 --> 00:04:31.687 What you got for me, peter, what you got for me, john, john and uh, and Peter and John about to go in the. 00:04:31.687 --> 00:04:32.230 They asked him. 00:04:32.230 --> 00:04:44.324 First floor, and Peter directed his gaze intently at him and so did John, and Peter said look at us Now. 00:04:44.365 --> 00:04:51.336 I know, several months ago, I was reading this, maybe sometime last summer, and I had a blonde moment for a second and I was. 00:04:51.336 --> 00:04:58.920 I wondered why Peter was asking a blind man to look at him, and then I realized, oh, he's not blind, he's just he's lame. 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:13.163 And so, anyways, but picturing yourself this man that's paralyzed, that has to be carried every day to the temple, the temple gate, in order to beg. 00:05:13.163 --> 00:05:14.990 Imagine what that was like for him. 00:05:14.990 --> 00:05:35.468 Put yourself in his shoes for a moment and realize how demeaning that was, that he was spit upon, that he was ignored, that he was made fun of, that he might have been bullied, but every day somebody had to carry him down there in order for him to make a living, in order for him to beg for a living. 00:05:35.468 --> 00:05:47.439 And so my first point that I wanted to point out here is that in verse three I should have underlined these. 00:05:47.620 --> 00:05:53.846 But basically, all of these different a meaning of the word look, they're all different in the Greek. 00:05:53.846 --> 00:06:07.225 So Peter, directing his gaze at him, he didn't just notice him, he was looking on the inside of him, he could see through him. 00:06:07.225 --> 00:06:18.266 In other words, he could see through the outward appearance and he could look into the heart of the lame man, into his soul, into his spirit. 00:06:18.266 --> 00:06:31.733 He didn't just see the lameness on the outside, he didn't just see the paralyzed man laying there, he looked into him and then he says look at us. 00:06:31.733 --> 00:06:39.331 And that look is a different Greek word and that means, it basically means to feel us. 00:06:39.331 --> 00:06:50.908 In other words, I'm not just gonna say words, I'm about, in other words, pay attention, because I'm about to say something that's gonna change your life forever. 00:06:50.908 --> 00:07:17.228 That's what that look means, and so it's just sometimes you wanna, when you're studying the Bible, it's good to get a Greek concordance out so you can really dig down deep and know that all of these different looks and fasten their gaze upon him, all of those have different meanings and even the man paid attention to them, expecting that he was gonna get something from them. 00:07:17.228 --> 00:07:23.146 That just means to notice, to pay attention to or notice. 00:07:23.146 --> 00:07:25.228 So that was how to different meaning. 00:07:25.228 --> 00:07:27.848 And yet it's a similar word in the King James version. 00:07:27.848 --> 00:07:30.488 So, anyways, we get past all of that. 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.644 And what does Peter say? 00:07:31.644 --> 00:07:44.649 Verse six Peter says silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have, that I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth walk. 00:07:44.649 --> 00:07:58.307 And so I'd like to just point out first of all that again this definition in the Amplify in the Greek, peter's not saying I don't have any money, I'm poor. 00:07:58.307 --> 00:07:59.682 Woe is me. 00:07:59.682 --> 00:08:02.826 He's saying no, I just, I don't have any change on me. 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:09.367 And you say no, the disciples in the early days of the church, they were broke. 00:08:09.367 --> 00:08:13.029 No, it goes on in the previous chapter. 00:08:13.029 --> 00:08:21.910 It talks about they had all their needs met, that they banded together everything that they had and no one went without. 00:08:21.910 --> 00:08:23.163 No one went without. 00:08:23.163 --> 00:08:24.146 No one had a need. 00:08:24.146 --> 00:08:31.463 And then at the end, towards the end of the next chapter and chapter four, it goes on in a different way, explaining that. 00:08:31.463 --> 00:08:35.524 And so, no, it wasn't that Peter was poor or that John was poor. 00:08:35.524 --> 00:08:38.126 No, they had money, they had more than enough. 00:08:38.126 --> 00:08:41.750 But number one, he's meeting this man's need. 00:08:41.750 --> 00:08:50.285 This man did not have a money problem, he needed the power of the Holy Ghost that was on the inside of Peter. 00:08:50.285 --> 00:08:50.726 Amen. 00:08:50.726 --> 00:08:52.812 And what did he tell him? 00:08:52.812 --> 00:08:54.706 He said rise up and walk. 00:08:54.706 --> 00:09:08.426 Then he took hold of the man's right hand and, with a firm grip, and raised him up and at once his feet and his ankle bones became strong and steady. 00:09:08.426 --> 00:09:09.529 Amen. 00:09:09.659 --> 00:09:12.265 So let's just break that down for a little bit. 00:09:12.265 --> 00:09:15.493 What you got? 00:09:15.493 --> 00:09:17.988 You know, silver and gold have I none. 00:09:17.988 --> 00:09:20.386 But what I do have, give I thee. 00:09:20.386 --> 00:09:21.089 What do you got? 00:09:21.089 --> 00:09:25.168 What you got, you've got the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:09:25.168 --> 00:09:26.183 What did Peter have? 00:09:26.183 --> 00:09:32.807 He had healing power, the power of Jesus on the inside of him he was able to share. 00:09:32.807 --> 00:09:35.888 That changed this man's life forever. 00:09:35.888 --> 00:09:43.288 So again, as we're going over this story, don't just look at yourself as the lame man. 00:09:43.288 --> 00:09:46.208 Look at yourself as Peter and John. 00:09:46.208 --> 00:09:58.128 Full of the Holy Ghost able, they had a revelation of who they were in Christ, and that's what they were sharing with this man, not just healing power. 00:09:58.128 --> 00:09:58.990 We're gonna get into that. 00:09:58.990 --> 00:10:07.910 I'm gonna make some points here that go well beyond healing, and so let's so things to notice. 00:10:08.179 --> 00:10:14.068 Then he took hold of the man's right hand and with a firm grip, he raised him up. 00:10:14.068 --> 00:10:22.804 So right there, you can get several points out of this one verse just by looking at what Peter did not do. 00:10:22.804 --> 00:10:29.081 You know, for all the social justice warriors out there, this is what Peter did not do, did Peter? 00:10:29.081 --> 00:10:38.370 You know there's such a huge cry for empathy. 00:10:38.370 --> 00:10:39.241 Oh, you just. 00:10:39.241 --> 00:10:51.941 Everyone needs more empathy, and we were going through a situation a few months ago and I ended up shouting at the top of my lungs Jesus wasn't moved by empathy, he was moved with compassion, and I was. 00:10:51.941 --> 00:10:56.804 It kind of surprised me that I even yelled that and I was like wait, am I right? 00:10:56.804 --> 00:10:57.508 Was that right? 00:10:57.508 --> 00:11:03.870 And I had to go back and study the differences between empathy and compassion. 00:11:03.870 --> 00:11:10.384 And so empathy is living vicariously through someone's emotional state. 00:11:10.384 --> 00:11:12.907 And so Peter did not do that. 00:11:13.059 --> 00:11:18.827 Peter did not bend down and show empathy meaning oh you poor thing. 00:11:18.827 --> 00:11:21.006 What was it like to be spit on. 00:11:21.006 --> 00:11:23.067 What was it like to be ignored. 00:11:23.067 --> 00:11:28.807 What was it like all those times you asked for money and nobody ever gave you Jack squat nothing. 00:11:28.807 --> 00:11:31.166 Or Diddley squat nothing. 00:11:31.166 --> 00:11:35.350 You have problems with both the squat brothers. 00:11:35.350 --> 00:11:35.841 You know that. 00:11:35.841 --> 00:11:41.686 Just no, he didn't get down on his level and he didn't show empathy. 00:11:41.686 --> 00:11:45.308 He showed compassion, just like Jesus did. 00:11:45.860 --> 00:11:48.388 The word compassion means to be sympathetic. 00:11:48.388 --> 00:11:58.562 A sympathetic consciousness of others distresses with the answer or the power to alleviate it. 00:11:58.562 --> 00:12:01.869 You have compassion on the inside of you. 00:12:01.869 --> 00:12:04.923 The love of God has been shed abroad in your heart. 00:12:04.923 --> 00:12:06.606 You have compassion. 00:12:06.606 --> 00:12:13.171 That means you have the power to alleviate all the mess that people have gone through. 00:12:13.171 --> 00:12:16.038 The blood of Jesus is More than enough. 00:12:16.038 --> 00:12:16.520 Amen. 00:12:16.520 --> 00:12:27.048 The blood of Jesus can take, can take the hardest cases, the most abused person, and make them whole again, make them well again, amen. 00:12:27.629 --> 00:12:32.004 And I just wanted you to notice what Peter did in verse 7. 00:12:32.004 --> 00:12:43.150 He Remained in a standing position and he bent over just slightly, grabbed his right hand and raised him up to his level. 00:12:43.150 --> 00:12:51.407 So in other words, we are seated with Christ and you say, jay, you're talking about standing and you're talking about sitting and you're. 00:12:51.407 --> 00:12:55.302 You're mixing up your Analogies and I just don't know if those work. 00:12:55.302 --> 00:12:56.846 Just hear me out real quick. 00:12:56.846 --> 00:13:01.551 He's standing in authority, peter is standing in authority. 00:13:01.551 --> 00:13:15.970 He did not bend down, he did not go off a camera when I do that, but he did not just squat down, he stayed in his standing authority and pulled that lame man up into his position. 00:13:15.970 --> 00:13:19.541 So that changed this man's position forever. 00:13:19.541 --> 00:13:23.729 And I want you to, I want you to watch what happens in the next few verses. 00:13:25.235 --> 00:13:30.418 You know, in verse 7 that man, immediately Peter, stayed up. 00:13:30.418 --> 00:13:40.280 He didn't bend down again, he stayed in his place of authority and he pulled that man up right into his realm, right into his realm of authority. 00:13:40.280 --> 00:13:42.086 And so let's see what happens. 00:13:42.086 --> 00:13:47.524 And, leaping forth, the man stood and began to walk and he went. 00:13:47.524 --> 00:13:53.364 He went into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 00:13:53.364 --> 00:13:56.254 And so like I know exactly what it just said. 00:13:56.254 --> 00:14:11.464 But I Get this mixed up with another testimony of Jesus in the Gospels, where the man went off into the village walking and leaping and praising God and he went away From no, no, he went into the temple with them. 00:14:12.144 --> 00:14:14.289 So in other words, here's a man. 00:14:14.289 --> 00:14:18.365 We don't know this, but I don't think he'd ever been inside the temple before. 00:14:18.365 --> 00:14:21.239 You can't prove me wrong. 00:14:21.239 --> 00:14:22.662 So you can try if you want to. 00:14:22.662 --> 00:14:24.847 But but you can't prove me wrong. 00:14:24.847 --> 00:14:27.543 He'd never been in the temple before. 00:14:27.543 --> 00:14:35.465 And here, right after he received Strength into his legs, he received he's no longer paralyzed. 00:14:35.465 --> 00:14:37.788 And people think, hey, that's the miracle. 00:14:37.788 --> 00:14:42.034 Hey, he's no longer paralyzed, that's just the beginning of the miracle, amen. 00:14:42.034 --> 00:14:52.629 And so he went into the temple with them At verse 9, and all the people saw him walking about and praising God. 00:14:53.056 --> 00:14:55.182 He's rejoicing at the top of his lungs. 00:14:55.182 --> 00:15:02.182 In other words, in an instant, in a moment, he has a revelation of who God is, of who Jesus is. 00:15:02.182 --> 00:15:02.583 Amen. 00:15:02.583 --> 00:15:03.284 At verse 10. 00:15:03.284 --> 00:15:06.918 And they recognized him, the, the men of Israel. 00:15:06.918 --> 00:15:18.460 They recognized him as the man who usually sat begging for alms at the beautiful gate of the temple and they were filled with wonder and amazement and bewilderment Over what had occurred to him. 00:15:18.460 --> 00:15:33.057 Now, while he is still firmly clung to Peter and John, all the people, and utmost amazement, ran together and crowded around them in the covered porch or the walkway called Solomon's. 00:15:33.057 --> 00:15:34.822 So this was Solomon's porch. 00:15:35.443 --> 00:15:39.383 But see, I Ran right by an important part. 00:15:39.383 --> 00:15:47.033 See, when you're reading the Bible, it's good to just stop and meditate on it and get every point out that you can possibly get. 00:15:47.033 --> 00:16:04.062 And so, right there in the verse 11 now, while the man still firmly clung to Peter and John, you know there's a lot of pastors and there's a lot of people who who think that they're amazing Christians that wouldn't allow that man to cling to them. 00:16:04.062 --> 00:16:06.989 They would think he's too clingy, he's too needy. 00:16:06.989 --> 00:16:09.681 Guys, go sit down, go over there. 00:16:09.681 --> 00:16:12.868 No, hey, I'm about to preach this mighty big sermon. 00:16:12.868 --> 00:16:14.302 I can't have you pulling on me. 00:16:14.302 --> 00:16:15.447 Get away from me. 00:16:15.447 --> 00:16:16.654 Who do you think you are? 00:16:16.654 --> 00:16:19.024 No, that man needed help. 00:16:19.024 --> 00:16:21.315 He was still clinging tightly to Peter. 00:16:21.315 --> 00:16:24.342 He was still clinging tightly to John. 00:16:24.342 --> 00:16:29.118 You know that's what Making disciples is all about. 00:16:29.118 --> 00:16:29.379 It's. 00:16:29.379 --> 00:16:35.450 It's about allowing people that are new to the Lord to cling to you, to lean on you. 00:16:35.450 --> 00:16:40.461 Some people just need a little extra help, just a little extra leaning. 00:16:41.222 --> 00:16:49.359 And, um, you know, in our studio audience here Tara's here and it just. 00:16:49.359 --> 00:16:59.469 We had a volunteer event this last Saturday and our volunteers got to vote on all kinds of different categories of you. 00:16:59.469 --> 00:17:07.713 Know who encourages you the most, and so on and so forth, but the one that has that we've seen the most growth in by far. 00:17:07.713 --> 00:17:11.145 Like 90 plus percent of the people voted for Tara. 00:17:11.145 --> 00:17:19.634 She's just amazing how far in the 10 or more years that she's come here, how far she's come in that amount of time. 00:17:19.634 --> 00:17:23.528 And I'm telling you we literally could throw her the keys to the building. 00:17:23.528 --> 00:17:28.088 She could do anything in the building, but then on a ministry level she could do anything as well. 00:17:28.088 --> 00:17:33.470 She can call people and pray for people and minister to people in the altar. 00:17:33.470 --> 00:17:35.479 She's taught in the youth department. 00:17:35.479 --> 00:17:46.131 She's taught in children's church before and she was one of our teachers in our leadership classes here recently and taught all about Israel and it was really powerful. 00:17:46.131 --> 00:17:55.750 I heard I wasn't part of that class, but I know I've heard her teach on Israel and the youth before and she's an amazing young woman of God and so. 00:17:56.634 --> 00:18:02.070 But when she first got here, all of our staff, we had to allow her to cling to us. 00:18:02.070 --> 00:18:05.103 She just was a little clingy, she was a little needy. 00:18:05.103 --> 00:18:18.077 She would call the office I'm still talking about you, tara, in a good way how y'all doing Glad to have you and so she was a little clingy, she was a little needy, just a little bit. 00:18:18.077 --> 00:18:19.047 When she first got here. 00:18:19.047 --> 00:18:25.249 She'd call the office every day, maybe every other day, and she just needed some extra attention. 00:18:25.249 --> 00:18:27.012 She just needed some extra help. 00:18:27.012 --> 00:18:28.196 But we were there. 00:18:28.196 --> 00:18:29.007 We helped her. 00:18:29.007 --> 00:18:32.236 We allowed her to cling to us. 00:18:32.236 --> 00:18:40.252 We didn't push her away we'd all get away from us, or we didn't delegate it down to another person. 00:18:40.252 --> 00:18:50.184 No, we allowed her to establish a relationship here in the church and we poured into her and hardly any of it leaked out. 00:18:50.184 --> 00:18:55.196 She was just like a sponge, and I'm telling you that's what discipleship is all about. 00:18:55.196 --> 00:18:56.125 Amen. 00:18:56.727 --> 00:18:58.130 And so that's what Peter and John. 00:18:58.130 --> 00:19:00.715 They allowed this man. 00:19:00.715 --> 00:19:03.387 I wish he had a name because he's no longer lame. 00:19:03.387 --> 00:19:05.733 We'll just call him the healed man. 00:19:05.733 --> 00:19:07.747 We're gonna go through the next couple chapters. 00:19:07.747 --> 00:19:09.451 I'll start skipping verses soon. 00:19:09.451 --> 00:19:13.309 This won't be as long as it's sounding amen anyways. 00:19:14.153 --> 00:19:18.906 All the people, in utmost amazement, ran together and crowded around them in the covered porch. 00:19:18.906 --> 00:19:20.569 And Peter, verse 12,. 00:19:20.569 --> 00:19:27.251 And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, you, men of Israel, why are you so surprised and wondering at this? 00:19:27.251 --> 00:19:35.938 Why do you keep staring at us as though this healing happened on our account and the power was just our power alone? 00:19:35.938 --> 00:19:37.186 No, it was the power of Jesus. 00:19:37.186 --> 00:19:39.633 And so what does Peter do here? 00:19:39.633 --> 00:19:41.036 He begins to preach a sermon. 00:19:41.036 --> 00:19:46.339 So where is the healed man now, while Peter is preaching? 00:19:46.339 --> 00:19:47.363 Where's this healed man? 00:19:47.363 --> 00:19:49.087 He's still clinging to him. 00:19:49.749 --> 00:19:54.238 And again we're in Acts, chapter 3, verse 13, and again Peter's preaching. 00:19:54.238 --> 00:20:07.807 He says the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified a servant and a son whom you indeed delivered up and denied and rejected and disowned in the presence of Pilate. 00:20:07.807 --> 00:20:25.414 So again Peter is talking to the men of Israel, and they're important men, they're men of the government, they're men of and we'll see that later on they're men, the highest religious and highest political leaders in Israel. 00:20:25.414 --> 00:20:32.374 And Peter is not holding anything back, he's letting them have it with both hands. 00:20:32.374 --> 00:20:33.876 Right verse 14,. 00:20:33.876 --> 00:20:37.411 But you denied and rejected and disowned the pure and holy one. 00:20:37.411 --> 00:20:38.614 Verse 15,. 00:20:38.614 --> 00:20:43.971 But you killed the very source, the author of life, whom God raised from the dead. 00:20:43.971 --> 00:20:46.195 To this we are witnesses. 00:20:46.777 --> 00:20:47.438 Verse 16,. 00:20:47.438 --> 00:20:58.532 And his name, through and by faith in his name, talking about the name of Jesus, has made this man, whom you see and recognize well, strong. 00:20:58.532 --> 00:21:11.122 Yes, the faith which is through and by Jesus has given the man this perfect soundness of body before all of you amen. 00:21:11.122 --> 00:21:16.759 That's the power that you have, that's the boldness that's on the inside of you. 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:24.443 Again, when we're reading this story, put yourself in the place of Peter, put yourself in the place of John. 00:21:24.443 --> 00:21:25.907 We'll skip down to verse 19,. 00:21:26.950 --> 00:21:48.839 And Peter encouraged him by saying so repent, change your mind and your purpose, turn around and return to God, that your sins may be erased, blotted out, that the times of refreshing, of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air, may come from the presence of the Lord. 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:55.913 I'm telling you, we're living in the last days and we're living in the times of refreshing. 00:21:55.913 --> 00:21:56.315 Amen. 00:21:56.315 --> 00:22:05.811 We're experiencing revival breaking out all over, and that's a faith statement right now, but I can see it through my eyes of faith, can't you amen? 00:22:05.811 --> 00:22:08.480 And so Peter is letting him have it. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:17.469 He's laying out an amazing message directly from the Holy Ghost, and I want to skip down all the way to verse 26,. 00:22:18.451 --> 00:22:29.987 It was to you first that God sent his servant and his son, jesus, while he raised them up, to bless you in turning every one of you from your wickedness and your evil ways. 00:22:29.987 --> 00:22:33.012 Let's pick it up in chapter 4, verse 1,. 00:22:33.012 --> 00:22:44.451 And while they, peter and John, were talking to the people, the high priests and the military commander of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them. 00:22:44.451 --> 00:22:54.938 So, in other words, they're talking to the men of Israel, and here's even more of the highest ranking religious and political leaders of that day. 00:22:54.938 --> 00:23:15.925 They come up and what being vexed and indignant that means they're really thoroughly mad says indignant through and through because they were teaching the people and proclaiming Jesus the resurrection from the dead verse 3, so they laid hands on them, not the way you think. 00:23:15.925 --> 00:23:24.088 They arrested them and put them in prison until the following day, for it was already the evening. 00:23:24.088 --> 00:23:32.228 So here we go Peter's preaching a message, john's there and the man that just got healed is clinging to them. 00:23:32.228 --> 00:23:44.174 Ok, so… I was reading this story of not that long ago again and I realized something that I don't think I'd realized before. 00:23:47.049 --> 00:23:50.953 It doesn't say anything about the healed man going home, going back to his village. 00:23:50.953 --> 00:23:52.934 So guess what happened? 00:23:52.934 --> 00:23:57.974 That man was clinging to Peter and John and he got thrown into prison too. 00:23:57.974 --> 00:24:00.316 And you say, jay, it doesn't say that. 00:24:00.316 --> 00:24:01.353 Well, it does not say it. 00:24:01.353 --> 00:24:02.938 So you can't prove me wrong. 00:24:03.710 --> 00:24:06.118 And how do you think that went? 00:24:06.118 --> 00:24:08.750 You know, like that night they are here. 00:24:08.750 --> 00:24:11.398 They were in jail and this guy had never been in jail. 00:24:11.398 --> 00:24:21.330 He'd been paralyzed and now he's healed, now he's able to walk and leap and run, but he's inside these bars, he's inside these chains and he's probably you know. 00:24:21.330 --> 00:24:23.070 Do you think he was like Peter? 00:24:23.070 --> 00:24:25.534 What in the world, what were you doing? 00:24:25.534 --> 00:24:29.036 Why didn't you just shut up my freedoms in your hands? 00:24:29.036 --> 00:24:37.954 No, I say he immediately had that revelation because he acted like he had revelation right Of who Jesus was. 00:24:37.954 --> 00:24:41.996 He immediately started praising God like he knew who God was right. 00:24:41.996 --> 00:24:53.298 And I believe this whole time he's with Peter, he's with John, he's receiving discipleship right there, hands on, and he's not frustrated that he's in jail. 00:24:53.298 --> 00:24:59.594 Instead, he's encouraged, he's already it's like instantly being put into the ministry, right. 00:24:59.594 --> 00:25:01.294 And so what happens? 00:25:01.294 --> 00:25:06.115 And so they laid their hands on him, arrested him I get thrown in jail for the night. 00:25:06.115 --> 00:25:07.057 But in verse four. 00:25:07.470 --> 00:25:15.679 But many of those who heard the message believed to and heard to and trusted in and relied on Jesus as their Christ. 00:25:15.679 --> 00:25:18.017 In other words, they made it personal right. 00:25:18.017 --> 00:25:25.675 You know, it's never too late for you to make Jesus your Lord and make him personal, amen. 00:25:25.675 --> 00:25:30.298 And it says the number grew and came to about 5,000. 00:25:30.298 --> 00:25:40.021 So here's just this one message from this one healing that Peter made outside the temple on Solomon's porch. 00:25:40.021 --> 00:25:43.439 5,000 people came into the kingdom. 00:25:43.439 --> 00:25:44.212 Isn't that amazing? 00:25:44.212 --> 00:25:45.272 Isn't that awesome? 00:25:45.272 --> 00:25:49.076 I'm telling you, that gets me excited. 00:25:49.076 --> 00:25:53.460 And we have that same power living on the inside of us. 00:25:53.460 --> 00:25:56.857 We can accomplish those same things. 00:25:56.857 --> 00:25:59.778 Greater works are living in us. 00:25:59.778 --> 00:26:00.810 Jesus said so. 00:26:00.810 --> 00:26:06.813 We have even greater works, like we're seeing in the book of Acts amen, and so verse five. 00:26:07.034 --> 00:26:16.381 Then on the following day, the elders and the scribes and all these other important people assembled there and it named some more titles. 00:26:16.381 --> 00:26:27.721 And in verse seven, and they set the man in their midst and repeatedly demanded by what sort of power or by what kind of authority did you do this healing? 00:26:27.721 --> 00:26:36.421 And Peter, because he was filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit, said to them. 00:26:36.421 --> 00:26:43.756 Then Peter, because he was filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit, no, your stream is not skipping. 00:26:43.756 --> 00:26:58.273 Then Peter, because he was filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit, said unto them and he started another message Under the power of the Holy Ghost, you have the same Holy Ghost living on the inside of you. 00:26:58.273 --> 00:27:06.957 And if you would just allow yourself and if you would just allow yourself to operate with the same level of boldness. 00:27:07.589 --> 00:27:12.018 And again, we're gonna read some of these scriptures I know it's getting a little bit long and a little bit late. 00:27:12.018 --> 00:27:18.099 We're gonna read a little bit of the specifics of how he again, he didn't hold anything back. 00:27:18.099 --> 00:27:25.638 He was bold as a lion, and that's what this church, this church, has the same spirit of faith on it. 00:27:25.638 --> 00:27:34.699 Our pastor is bold as a lion, this staff is bold as a lion, our members and you guys are bold as lions. 00:27:34.699 --> 00:27:35.099 Amen. 00:27:35.099 --> 00:27:46.337 And so you don't have to hold anything back, you don't have to be fearful or afraid of a virus, you don't have to be fearful of the left that wants to take away our religious freedom. 00:27:46.337 --> 00:27:49.136 They were just talking about it today in the news. 00:27:49.136 --> 00:27:57.174 We say no, we rise up together in the same boldness that we see Peter here rising up and we say no, amen. 00:27:57.174 --> 00:28:02.075 And then Peter, because he was filled with the Holy Ghost, set unto them. 00:28:02.155 --> 00:28:33.298 Rulers of the people and members of the council, if we are being put on trial here today and examined concerning a good deed done to benefit a feeble or helpless cripple, by what means this man has been restored to health, let it be known and understood by all of you and by the whole house of Israel that in the name and through the power and authority of the name of Jesus, that it was by the name of Jesus whom you crucified again with boldness. 00:28:33.298 --> 00:28:35.036 He's coming, he's laying a case. 00:28:35.036 --> 00:28:52.996 Watch how he basically I won't call it negotiating, but watch how he starts to make his case Whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, and in him and by means of him, this man is standing here before you, well and sound in his body. 00:28:52.996 --> 00:29:06.878 This Jesus is the stone which was despised and rejected by you the builders, but you the builders, but which has become the head of the corner or the cornerstone verse 12,. 00:29:06.878 --> 00:29:18.897 And there is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved. 00:29:19.670 --> 00:29:36.058 Now, when they saw the boldness and unfettered eloquence of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and untrained in schools in other words, they were just common men with no education or no advantages they marveled. 00:29:36.058 --> 00:29:48.395 In other words, peter was so bold and laid out this argument in such a smart way because the Holy Ghost was there, making him look like a genius. 00:29:48.395 --> 00:30:00.434 Right, when you just yield yourself to the power of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost will make you look like a genius every time, not every other time, not every third time, but every time, amen. 00:30:00.434 --> 00:30:11.700 And so now, when they saw the boldness, they marveled, they just couldn't get over it and they recognized that they had been with Jesus. 00:30:11.700 --> 00:30:40.954 In other words, they recognized this was real, they recognized it, they recognized the power that Jesus left them, they recognized the authority that Peter and John were both operating in and again, it doesn't say this, but because the man was healed, was still there clinging to them, they recognized that power through him as well, because of his testimony. 00:30:40.954 --> 00:30:43.912 Amen, verse 14,. 00:30:43.971 --> 00:30:54.057 And since they saw the man who had been cured standing there beside them, they could not contradict the fact or say anything in opposition. 00:30:54.057 --> 00:31:03.775 But having ordered the prisoners to go aside out of the council chamber, they conferred and they were saying to one another what are we to do with these men? 00:31:03.775 --> 00:31:06.055 And let's see verse 17,. 00:31:06.055 --> 00:31:11.357 But I order that they may not spread further among the people and the nation. 00:31:11.357 --> 00:31:17.278 Let us warn and forbid them with a stern threat to speak any more to anyone in this name. 00:31:17.278 --> 00:31:19.433 Whose name is that the name of Jesus. 00:31:19.433 --> 00:31:32.772 So they summons them back together and instructed them to not in any way teach in or about the name of Jesus In verse 19,. 00:31:34.497 --> 00:31:36.711 Peter said yes, all we wanna do is be let go. 00:31:36.711 --> 00:31:40.032 We'll never talk about that guy Jesus again, never, ever. 00:31:40.032 --> 00:31:40.876 You have my word. 00:31:40.876 --> 00:31:42.380 No, that's not what they said, did they? 00:31:42.380 --> 00:31:48.692 Yes, democrat governor will shut our church down, no problem, we'll just. 00:31:48.692 --> 00:31:55.157 We'll just go to live stream only, and maybe Facebook or YouTube might shut us down Because they don't like our message. 00:31:55.157 --> 00:31:57.450 But whatever, we'll just, we'll do whatever you say. 00:31:57.450 --> 00:32:00.861 No, he didn't say that, but Peter and John replied to them. 00:32:01.530 --> 00:32:08.833 Whether it is right and people want to really like they take verses like this and they scratch it out of their Bible, they cut it out. 00:32:08.833 --> 00:32:19.334 You know, no, we're not, we're grabbing hold of these verses with both hands is whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you and obey you rather than God. 00:32:19.334 --> 00:32:22.823 You must judge, but we ourselves cannot help. 00:32:22.823 --> 00:32:24.461 We cannot help. 00:32:24.461 --> 00:32:29.743 We cannot help telling what we have seen and what we have heard. 00:32:29.743 --> 00:32:30.444 I'm telling you. 00:32:30.444 --> 00:32:35.930 I cannot help but be a witness to the things that I've experienced in Christ, amen. 00:32:36.832 --> 00:32:45.380 Then, when the rulers and the council members had had further threatened them, they let them go, not seeing how they could secure a conviction against them. 00:32:45.380 --> 00:32:46.522 Because of the people. 00:32:46.522 --> 00:32:47.531 Listen to this. 00:32:47.531 --> 00:32:48.957 Because of the people. 00:32:48.957 --> 00:32:51.571 For everybody, shout. 00:32:51.571 --> 00:32:52.074 Everybody. 00:32:52.074 --> 00:32:59.820 Everybody was praising and glorifying God for what had occurred, and so it was through. 00:32:59.820 --> 00:33:01.509 I want you to see this again. 00:33:01.509 --> 00:33:04.997 You had the, the biggest, the greatest religious leaders. 00:33:04.997 --> 00:33:11.314 You had the biggest and greatest political leaders being swayed by the people. 00:33:11.314 --> 00:33:14.979 But what, more importantly, what were the people doing? 00:33:14.979 --> 00:33:16.984 They were glorifying God. 00:33:16.984 --> 00:33:17.926 For what? 00:33:17.926 --> 00:33:43.715 For this testimony, I'm telling you, when we band together as a group, as a church, in the, in the power and authority that Jesus gave us, and we begin to glorify God for all of the faithful things that he's bestowed on to us all, the wonderful, awesome, marvelous, mighty Works that he's done in our midst, I'm telling you, it changes Immediately the hearts of these political figures. 00:33:43.715 --> 00:33:45.760 Oh, but don't preach politics. 00:33:45.760 --> 00:33:47.270 We can't be preaching man. 00:33:47.290 --> 00:33:59.130 This is a very political book and the more, the more I read it, the more revelation comes out that here these men were changing the hearts of the, of the, of the most important leaders of their day. 00:33:59.130 --> 00:34:09.235 They were not just influencing their generation, they were influencing every leader in Jerusalem, every, every leader in in Israel. 00:34:09.235 --> 00:34:09.677 Amen. 00:34:09.677 --> 00:34:24.177 And they were doing it and in, the people were joining together and through their praise, through their glorifying of God, through their shouting, through their agreement, through their unity, it changed their hearts. 00:34:24.177 --> 00:34:26.427 It changed the hearts of leaders, amen. 00:34:26.427 --> 00:34:31.813 So I, I present to you today that that is Our job. 00:34:31.813 --> 00:34:32.454 Amen. 00:34:32.454 --> 00:34:41.077 What you got, you got a lot of praise, you got a lot of power on the inside, you got a lot of the Holy Ghost able to help you. 00:34:41.077 --> 00:34:46.235 And I'm telling you don't shrink back, don't quit, don't pull back. 00:34:46.235 --> 00:34:52.641 Remain bold in your Expression of who God is and what he's done for you. 00:34:52.641 --> 00:34:57.454 Be bold in your testimony Of what he's done for you. 00:34:57.454 --> 00:34:57.916 Amen. 00:34:57.916 --> 00:35:00.623 And I'm just gonna leave you with two more verses. 00:35:00.623 --> 00:35:04.438 So, in other words, let's just kind of wrap it up here. 00:35:04.498 --> 00:35:05.021 The story. 00:35:05.021 --> 00:35:17.159 They released them and they returned back into their own company, and it says so they begin to pray, they begin to Shout and rejoice even more when they were back with their own company. 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:32.514 In verse 29, it says Peter is praying I believe right here, and he's saying Lord, observe their threats and grant To your bond servants full freedom to declare your message Fearlessly so. 00:35:32.514 --> 00:35:37.128 So even though he just demonstrated this and it was done, man, he's still. 00:35:37.128 --> 00:35:40.061 He's doubling down, he's still praying for it. 00:35:40.061 --> 00:35:41.210 Amen, in verse 31. 00:35:41.751 --> 00:35:57.331 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they continued to speak the word of God with freedom and with boldness and with courage Amen. 00:35:57.331 --> 00:36:00.300 So again they provided the. 00:36:00.300 --> 00:36:06.782 Here they were by themselves, back with their own company, not in front of these important men anymore. 00:36:06.782 --> 00:36:15.521 Quote unquote and the place that, because of their prayer, because of their fervorants, the whole place was shaken. 00:36:15.521 --> 00:36:24.715 The Holy Spirit moved, they were all filled with a Holy Ghost and they all began to speak the word of God with freedom, boldness and courage. 00:36:24.715 --> 00:36:32.539 So then it spread, not just with Peter, not just with John, but now it's to the lame man who's now healed, and it's to their entire company. 00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:34.242 This boldness, amen. 00:36:34.242 --> 00:36:38.884 So we have this boldness, we carry this boldness, amen. 00:36:38.884 --> 00:36:41.050 What you got, you got boldness. 00:36:41.050 --> 00:36:43.860 You got the power of the Holy Spirit on the inside of you. 00:36:43.860 --> 00:36:45.626 You got the power to heal. 00:36:45.626 --> 00:36:51.179 It's not your power, it's the power that Jesus gave you, that we get to distribute it. 00:36:51.179 --> 00:36:51.639 Amen. 00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.103 We're distributors. 00:36:53.103 --> 00:36:59.876 We are Immediate responders, immediate responders. 00:36:59.876 --> 00:37:15.362 You know I tell I've told this story many times, but Several years ago Selina and I we went down to Surfside Beach Just to relax for like one night, and so we were staying in a hotel slash motel. 00:37:17.891 --> 00:37:29.255 I don't think she'll ever go back, but anyways, I've gone down there several times to pray and so on and so forth, but we were kind of relaxed and sitting out on the on the deck, I guess, waiting like it. 00:37:29.255 --> 00:37:35.853 Basically, you can see you're right on the beach, and so it's kind of a cool place for For Texas. 00:37:35.853 --> 00:37:39.018 You know, our beaches are not the best, but we're grateful for them. 00:37:39.018 --> 00:37:59.318 And and this lady in her suburban so it was a two-wheel drive, suburban it was, it was blue, I don't know why, I'm telling you details that don't matter but she pulled on the beach, she rolled down her windows, she cranked back her her seat and she fell asleep, and so we just kind of watched this happen and then we got busy. 00:37:59.318 --> 00:38:01.451 Maybe we went down and got something to eat, I don't remember. 00:38:01.652 --> 00:38:18.601 But we come back and I'm noticed the tide is coming in and it's swallowed all of her Suburban and it's beginning to sink in the sand and she is really freaking out and there's several people that rush out there to try to push on the suburban. 00:38:18.601 --> 00:38:21.617 But it's completely stuck and I ran. 00:38:21.617 --> 00:38:27.014 I grabbed my keys, I got in my four-wheel drive suburban Any car nuts out there it was. 00:38:27.014 --> 00:38:32.284 It had a 496 in it with 410 gears, big oversized tires. 00:38:32.284 --> 00:38:33.733 It was very powerful. 00:38:33.733 --> 00:38:37.922 I put it in four-wheel low, I will drove right up there into the water. 00:38:37.922 --> 00:38:49.101 So a couple guys dug and got the toe rope under her axle and around her axle and I yanked that suburban all the way back to safety. 00:38:49.101 --> 00:38:58.197 And when I say yank, I remain yank, because I was on it to try to get that thing unstuck and then the sheriff pulled up. 00:38:58.197 --> 00:39:01.576 So if she would have waited for the tow truck, it would have been too late. 00:39:01.576 --> 00:39:06.434 If she would have waited for the fire truck would have been too late, she would have waited for the sheriff. 00:39:07.237 --> 00:39:08.902 I was the immediate responder. 00:39:08.902 --> 00:39:14.903 So not only do we have to be first responders, we've got to be immediate responders because we have the answer. 00:39:14.903 --> 00:39:16.210 Man, people are stuck. 00:39:16.210 --> 00:39:17.574 They don't know what to do. 00:39:17.574 --> 00:39:19.021 Their hands are in the air. 00:39:19.021 --> 00:39:22.673 There's so much confusion right now and you have the answer. 00:39:22.673 --> 00:39:24.378 You are fully equipped. 00:39:24.378 --> 00:39:29.860