WEBVTT 00:00:00.479 --> 00:00:01.120 Acts. 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:02.879 You guys been enjoying Acts? 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.000 All right, Pastor Joey's going to break open Acts for us here. 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:08.160 Well, let's do it because that was a rousing response. 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:09.679 Are you enjoying Acts? 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:11.839 Acts chapter 3. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:14.240 If you can hold it together. 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:15.359 Oh my word. 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:18.000 Acts chapter 3, we're going to be in verse 1. 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:23.760 And uh if you want to know where we have been, you can jump on. 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:32.159 We have uh Hope City sermons on Spotify and Apple, and uh you can jump back through it and um catch up if you've been missing out. 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.520 So we've been seeing the Holy Spirit pour out. 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.439 We've seen Peter preach and 3,000 come to Jesus in one day. 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.320 Uh we've seen uh signs, wonders, and miracles happening. 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:43.359 The church is growing. 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:45.439 We've seen that the church is having fellowship. 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.359 We talked about that last week called Koinania. 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:53.359 We saw that the these new believers in Jesus are devoted followers. 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:55.359 They're not casual followers. 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.679 So if we call ourselves Jesus followers, we recognize that we are devoted to this. 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:01.840 It's not a casual thing that we're about. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:03.840 There's no weak sauce Christianity. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.159 Either you are a believer or you're not. 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:06.480 Yeah? 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.159 Either you're serving him or you're not. 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:13.200 And the tree of your life should be bearing a fruit that looks like something that he would produce, not that you would produce. 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:13.680 Yeah? 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:14.560 Awesome. 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:23.280 So we're in chapter three, verse one, and this is what it says Peter and John went to the temple one afternoon to take part in the three o'clock prayer service. 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:24.480 I'm gonna stop right there. 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:30.000 I love that these guys, as they come to Jesus, we recognize these are all Jewish men, right? 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:32.079 They did not stop being Jewish. 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:40.239 They did not receive Jesus as their Savior, as the Messiah, as prophesied by the Old Testament, and then just stopped doing the Jewish life. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.560 Listen, going to the temple was a habit. 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:47.359 They were devoted in this and recognizing that they didn't no longer need to have sacrifices made. 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:50.239 But when there was a prayer time in the gathering, they kept doing that. 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:50.719 Yeah? 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:57.280 And it wasn't until persecution pushed them out of that that they had to stop going to the temple. 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.719 But until the persecution started, they went. 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.079 So they were going to the afternoon prayer service. 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:09.439 As they approached the temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in. 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:18.319 Each day he was put beside the temple gate, the one called the beautiful gate, so he could beg from the people going into the temple. 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:22.560 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money. 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:26.000 Peter and John looked at him intently, and Peter said, Look at us. 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:29.360 Then the lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money. 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:36.639 But Peter said, I don't have any gold, or excuse me, I don't have any silver or gold for you, but I'll give you what I have. 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:41.759 In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.840 Then Peter took the lame man by the right hand and helped him up. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.960 And as he did, the man's feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened. 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:54.879 He jumped up, stood on his feet, and began to walk. 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:56.479 Exclamation point. 00:02:56.719 --> 00:03:01.919 Then walking, leaping, and praising God, he went into the temple with them. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.280 All the people saw him walking and heard him praising God. 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:13.039 And when they realized he was the lame beggar they had seen so often at the beautiful gate, they were absolutely astounded. 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:20.080 They all rushed out in amazement to Solomon's colonnade, where the man was holding tightly to Peter and John. 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.000 This will be our text for today. 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:28.639 I tried to debate if we could get into Peter's sermon that comes following this, but we'll get into that next week. 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.599 I want to jump all the way back to verse one. 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:36.000 Peter and John went to the temple one afternoon to take part in three o'clock prayer service. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:37.120 I want to tell you something. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:44.159 When you are living a devoted life, opportunities to share Jesus will find you as much as you'll find them. 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:45.520 Right? 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:49.840 So sometimes we look at it like, how can I be of encouragement to my community? 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.560 How can I be encouragement to the people that are around me? 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:57.199 When you live a devoted life towards Jesus, opportunities are gonna find you as much as you find them. 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.360 They're gonna find you as much as you find them. 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:04.159 So on their way, this man that's been lame since birth is put by the gate. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:09.759 We're gonna find out later on in Luke, excuse me, in Acts, that Luke says that he has been lame. 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:11.680 He's 40 years old. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.039 All he's known is not being able to walk. 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.759 All he's known is to be carried wherever he has to go. 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:23.360 All he's known is a life that he doesn't get fed if somebody doesn't bless him with money. 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.240 And so almsgiving was a part of the Jewish lifestyle. 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:31.439 It was taking care of the poor that was sincerely important to them in a way that they honored God. 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:37.199 And so he was looking towards that act of worship so that he could be taken care of. 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:44.720 So imagine that you wake up in the morning, you can't go anywhere, do anything unless somebody picks you up and takes you there. 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.720 Your day can't get going until somebody else's day gets going. 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:51.120 And that's what you know for life. 00:04:51.920 --> 00:05:00.560 You're waiting on the love or the care or the what whatever it would be of others to get you to wherever you need to be. 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:02.560 You can go nowhere on your own accord. 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:07.120 Can you begin to imagine how that feels like you're in a prison cell? 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:08.319 Right? 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:14.079 Listen, I anybody, I'm gonna say the word, and hopefully this doesn't get flagged uh by the government. 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:15.759 Back in COVID, right? 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:16.959 You had to stay in your home. 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:18.639 They're like, don't go out anywhere. 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:21.920 Listen, three days in, a lot of us were bugging out, right? 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:26.720 Like every piece of gym equipment was sold out because we're like, we're getting in shape now. 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:29.040 All the bikes were bought, all the frisbees. 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:30.720 You couldn't buy anything that was an activity. 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:37.519 Every bit of Lego was purchased, and people are going out of their mind because they can't go and do the way they want to go and do. 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:42.800 And think about this man, he cannot do anything without anyone else. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:53.920 And I'm thinking to myself, man, sometimes we read scripture and you'll read through a couple verses, and you will not consider what it was to be that person. 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:58.240 And I want you to consider what it is to be this man. 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:05.600 I don't want you just to like, man, say, ah man, Joy's trying to make me feel a type of way. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:14.480 But unless we can get a deep glimpse into somebody's life, we're gonna miss out to the significance of what goes on. 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:15.680 Right? 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:23.759 It says, as they approach the temple, a man lame from birth, a man lame from birth, he's about to get healed. 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:24.879 Spoilers, we know this, right? 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:25.759 We've already read through it. 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:26.879 He's gonna get healed. 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:27.920 Let me just say this. 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:32.879 Luke specifies the man had been unable to walk since birth, placed there daily. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:40.000 And in the honor and shame type of society, people would have recognized and seen this man. 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:45.680 And because he was lame since birth, maybe they were thinking this is some kind of judgment of God because of his family. 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:54.800 But regardless, people as aware of his presence, and I want to say this we see that he's 40 years old, he's been lame from birth. 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.839 Should time have any bearing at all on if we should pray for healing or not? 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:08.240 Because sometimes you're like, man, I'll pray for you if you just got sick, but you've been sick for 40 years. 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:09.920 Your whole life has been this. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:11.360 I don't know. 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:19.839 And so we'll find the reasons of why not to pray for healing for somebody rather than just to act on what God's called and commanded us to do. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.560 You've been heal, you, you, you've been lame since birth. 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:24.000 You were born that way? 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:26.480 Well, that's probably just how it's going to be then. 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.680 Said no believer in Jesus ever, right? 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.560 Like you look at it and you can't find that in the text. 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:34.480 He's lame since birth. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:35.600 40 years. 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.480 And listen, I would I would venture to say this. 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:45.120 It's very likely he's been passed by the disciples before this day as they've gone to that temple to pray. 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:50.720 There is a chance it's not in the text, chance that Jesus would have passed by him. 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:51.680 Right? 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.079 You said, Man, why didn't Jesus do it? 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:57.279 This is implied. 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:01.759 Again, I'm not trying to create some theology that's not there, but I want to just say something. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:05.279 I believe that the love of God is always now. 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:06.959 Right? 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:08.480 So when is the love of Jesus? 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:10.399 The love of Jesus is right now. 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:14.959 So I'm gonna operate as if the love of Jesus is always right now. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:16.560 Does this make sense? 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.560 So if I see somebody, I'm not going to wonder, is today the day? 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.319 I'm always gonna act like and operate as if today is the day. 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:25.680 Yeah? 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:31.360 Because if you keep putting it off, listen, you can talk yourself out of loving on and ministering to people for years. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:39.679 You can talk yourself out of loving on and ministering to family for years, praying for somebody for years, asking God to heal somebody for years. 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:41.679 You can be like, I don't know if now's the time. 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:43.120 What if it doesn't happen right now? 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:44.879 I don't feel like I have the faith right now. 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:53.200 Listen, if healing was all about your faith, then man, Jesus paid a severe price for you to get enough faith so that it could happen. 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:56.000 Right? 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:02.799 Some of the most amazing miracles I've seen was when I had little faith, but I operated in obedience. 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:10.159 What if we were more about obedience and trying to get and fidget up this kind of immense faith, whatever that feels like? 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:12.080 You got to feel the warm tinglies. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:13.759 No, that's emotionalism. 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:22.480 The church is impotent to a large degree because we become emotionally driven to be obedient to God when we feel like we should be obedient to Him. 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:29.120 We wait to raise our hands until a pastor says, raise your hands without understanding that the scripture says, raise your hands. 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:30.240 It's a given. 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:31.039 I don't know why. 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:32.559 God likes hands. 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:34.720 We've talked about this, right? 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:36.960 Don't know why you like these. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:39.120 They're cool. 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.440 They've got fingerprints on them. 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.600 Some of them are catalyst, some of them nice and lotioned up and soft. 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:51.840 They're all like all of our hands, they're different, but you like them so I'm just gonna give them to you. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:53.759 You want you like hands, God? 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:54.240 Boom. 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:55.360 Got it. 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:08.559 And so I sit and I look at this and I'm thinking, okay, man, it's a long time this guy's been showing up. 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:16.159 Long time that he's experienced life with zero, zero hope that it's ever gonna be different. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:21.120 All he knew is that probably his life would be like that till the day he died, right? 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:23.519 Why would he expect anything else? 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:27.360 40 years of the same routine, why would it ever shift? 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.559 I love that um we see this. 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:38.879 This honest moment. 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.240 Each day, I love Luke's language. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.679 Each day, he was put beside the temple gate. 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:49.679 Each day. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.799 I would highlight that, I would underline that. 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:54.320 Each day. 00:10:57.840 --> 00:10:59.120 Did he have any hope? 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:00.720 What was what was he hoping for? 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:02.639 He's hoping for money. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.840 That's what that's what he needed to survive. 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:07.120 Hoping for money. 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:08.639 Was there hope for anything else? 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:09.200 No. 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:11.679 Hoping for money. 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:15.200 Peter and John looked at him intently. 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:18.639 This is verse 4. 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:20.559 Peter and John looked at him intently. 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.559 And Peter said, Look at us. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.639 The lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money. 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:36.000 One of the things I notice when I see people or have been in communities, uh, and you're walking, and there's maybe somebody who's homeless or begging. 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:39.919 Eye contact is not always the thing that comes first for most people. 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:41.360 Rarely ever. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:42.399 Right? 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:48.799 I had this this dog, this chocolate lab, that he'd get in trouble and we and we and we would get on him. 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:50.159 His name was Micah. 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:53.919 And Micah would do something, and Micah, what are you doing? 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.159 And he would not look at us at all. 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:59.840 He would look at everything in the room but your face. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:02.480 Right? 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.360 And we go Micah mode when we get around beggars. 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:07.440 We get around the poor. 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:10.720 I look at everything. 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:18.159 You pull up to you pull up to a stop sign, and they're right there begging, and you're like, adjust the mirror, change the rating. 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.480 You touch every dial in your car. 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:21.279 Right? 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:24.240 You're not even doing it, you just you're just moving air. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.600 And we see that Peter looks and says, Look at us. 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.279 I don't I don't have what you're asking for. 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:45.279 And it doesn't mean that he doesn't care because even if you jump all the way to Galatians, Paul talks about a time when he gets to come and have time and he spends it with Peter. 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:46.080 Right? 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.399 And he's hanging out with Peter and he's sharing the story. 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.080 And and and this is what it says. 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.000 It says they they blessed everything. 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:55.919 The disciples, the apostles blessed everything that Paul was doing. 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:00.320 But they encouraged him in this keep taking care of the poor. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.919 That's what it Peter's like, keep Paul, you're doing awesome. 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:07.279 Keep taking care of the poor. 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:08.799 Let me let me pull that up. 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.519 Because this is in Galatians, it's in chapter 2. 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:16.399 This is chapter 2, verse 10. 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:19.279 Uh actually, let me back up to verse 9. 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:24.559 It says, in fact, James, Peter, and John, who were known as pillars of the church, recognized the gift God had given me. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:29.279 This is Paul talking, and they accepted Barnabas and me as their co-workers. 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:34.000 They encouraged us to keep preaching to the Gentiles while they continued their work with the Jews. 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:40.879 Their only suggestion was that we keep on helping the poor, which I have always been eager to do. 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.320 So this is not like sometimes we're like, we think, I'm just gonna pray for you, right? 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:49.360 But we as a church, I want to give you a little insider information. 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.679 We're preparing right now, you'll get more information as the weeks come. 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:59.840 We're gonna start something called Hope City's Closet, where we can bring in things and needs uh that are in the school system of socks and underwear. 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.559 In some cases, there's special need kids that need diapers. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:04.559 And we're gonna give you a list of what's needed. 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:12.000 And as a church, whenever we're in the store, we're gonna make sure that we have an active lifestyle that we're gonna take care of those who can't take care of themselves, yeah? 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.799 And because we see this as a biblical principle. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:16.960 And sometimes they think I'm just gonna pray for that person. 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:17.919 Yeah, prayer is awesome. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.799 We're about to see how prayer affects and changes our life right now. 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.960 But I want to encourage you in this, it doesn't mean it has to be either or it's both and, yeah? 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.679 So we're gonna be a both and kind of a church, yeah? 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:28.720 I love that. 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:38.320 So he says, I don't have any silver or gold for you, but I'll give you what I have. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:44.000 Check this out in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:45.600 In the name, what does he have? 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.000 He has the name of Jesus Christ of Nazarene, right? 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.759 I love that he adds of Nazarene, because it reminds everybody, hey, he was born. 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.279 Here's where he lived. 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:58.399 You can go get confirmation that this guy existed. 00:14:58.639 --> 00:14:59.279 Yeah? 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:03.120 I love that he adds that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene. 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:10.080 Listen, that is not a magical phrase to pray to get somebody to be healed. 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:18.159 So I want to encourage you, when you pray for somebody, I would definitely pray in the name of Jesus Christ when you're praying for healing. 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:24.240 But what I don't want you to start thinking is this is some kind of secret code that if you say it just right, they get healed. 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.480 Because it's not in the code, it's not in the words, it's in the name. 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.360 It's the name of Jesus because we've talked about this before. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:37.519 For Jewish people, we recognize that the name recognizes identity, authority, power. 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:38.159 Yeah? 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:40.799 Identity, authority, power. 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:42.320 We see this in the context. 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:48.320 So when he's saying the name of Jesus, he's operating that this is the one who is the Messiah. 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:53.039 And oh, by the way, it says the Messiah is going to, the lame will leap. 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:53.840 Yeah? 00:15:54.000 --> 00:16:00.399 So I, so the authority that had the Messiah has is to see the sick healed, because he's paid the price for it. 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.639 That is his habit. 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:04.159 That is what he has done. 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:07.039 That's what he is doing, that's what he will always do. 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:10.799 So I am operating with the name of Jesus. 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:11.840 This is what Peter's doing. 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:20.559 He comes up and he says, I don't have silver, don't have gold on me, but what I have, the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, rise and walk. 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:25.039 There's debate whether get up was there, right? 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.519 In the scripture, was that in the original text or not? 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:35.919 That's that that's secondary to me because the word for sure that's in there in every single uh uh finding of this verse is walk. 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:39.440 And it doesn't mean just stand up so you can get a picture taken. 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:45.440 It is start walking, keep walking, be about walking, do walking. 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:47.200 Right? 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.960 This is an active, this is a healing that is going to keep on going. 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:54.320 This is not just a one-off for a show or for a spectacle. 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:56.639 This guy's life is about to change. 00:16:57.039 --> 00:16:57.679 Yeah? 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.120 So here's what I'm about. 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:07.920 When I pray for somebody for healing, I am not about seeing a just a momentary shift in who they are or what's going on in their body or in their life. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.160 I'm praying for an eternal one. 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:18.000 One that there would be an encounter with God deep to the soul, but also whatever the infirmity in their body is, that they would be healed totally and made right. 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.640 So that they would start walking, keep walking, and be about walking. 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:23.839 Yeah? 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:25.359 Cool. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:31.839 Y'all are so fired up, I just can't like you're just pulling it out of me this morning. 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:33.920 Hmm. 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:39.119 In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk. 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:40.480 Exclamation point. 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:49.200 Then Peter, check this out, took the lame man by the right hand, helped him up, and as he did, the man's feet and ankles were instantly healed. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:58.400 You'll find out in the original uh the language, the original writing of this, these are kind of medical terms that is unique to Luke. 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:00.640 Because he's he's a doctor, right? 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:01.599 Physician. 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:06.319 So he's using these kind of terms of like what part of the foot and what's going on. 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:14.640 And I love the detail of this because it's like, hey, we we we don't know for sure what happened, what was going on with the foot, but we know what's happening with the foot right now. 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:15.440 Yeah? 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:16.880 And so he says what? 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:23.039 He says the man's feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened. 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:24.559 Do you ever think about that? 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:38.240 We we had a uh a young lady in our church that was in Montana and she was in a wheelchair, and uh I showed up one Sunday morning after a Saturday night service that I had to leave early from, and the wheelchair was there. 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:41.119 I was like, what is Danielle's wheelchair doing here? 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:43.839 And they're like, Oh, dude, she got healed last night. 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:45.680 I'm like, shut up. 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:47.920 I missed it. 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:51.200 They're like, yeah, I'm like, no way. 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:57.920 And the next time I saw Danielle, she walks in and she has new shoes on because she's only been wearing socks. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:59.039 Because why did she need shoes? 00:18:59.200 --> 00:18:59.759 Just wear socks. 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:01.039 It was just easier. 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.079 But now she needs shoes because she's walking somewhere. 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:12.960 And it occurred to me, I thought to myself, like, I'm like, man, it's amazing that you got healed and are walking, but you ever start to process like, wait a minute, you've been you've not been walking for a long time. 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:14.480 Muscles atrophy. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:22.480 So God had to strengthen and heal the muscles that had been atrophied so that she could carry the weight of her body to start walking and start moving. 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:24.960 You think about everything that had to happen there. 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.000 Yeah? 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.480 I was talking to a friend that he was recently down in Brazil, prayed for a blind woman. 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:31.759 Her eyes were open. 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.680 He said, Tell me what you see. 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:39.200 And she's looking around the room and she just can't say anything because she had never seen before. 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:43.920 And you're thinking about everything that has to happen in the brain to process sight. 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:46.880 Crazy. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:47.920 Here's what's crazy. 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:51.920 She goes, I don't know how to describe it. 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:58.960 But what I've heard angels are supposed to look like, I feel like I see them in the room. 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:03.039 Right. 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:10.079 This man gets healed. 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:11.839 Legs strengthen. 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:13.680 He stands up. 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:15.279 What does it say? 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:16.160 Verse eight. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:19.440 Jump up. 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:22.480 And then what? 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:27.359 He stood there with his hands crossed and swayed. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:31.839 Right? 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:36.000 He just like, I don't want to be a distraction. 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:39.759 Right? 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:44.799 Just just swayed sway to the music playing in the background at the temple. 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:51.680 Just sway. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:53.119 Right? 00:20:57.599 --> 00:20:57.920 No. 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:05.119 This man jumped up, stood on his feet, and began to walk. 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:08.880 You said in the name of Jesus, I could. 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:10.319 He's walking. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:11.920 I think he's pacing, right? 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:13.279 What else does it say? 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:15.359 Then walking and what? 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:16.880 Leaping. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.119 There's got to be something in the Bible about that, I suppose. 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:23.680 Isaiah 34, verse 5 through 6. 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:28.720 Say to those with fearful hearts, be strong and do not fear, for your God is coming to destroy your enemies. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:30.160 He is coming to save you. 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:34.960 And when he comes, he will open the eyes of the blind, unplug the ears of the deaf. 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:41.359 The lame will leap like a deer, and those who cannot speak will sing for joy. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.519 Springs will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams will water the wasteland. 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:47.920 The lame will leap like deer. 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.880 There's fulfillment of the Old Testament, even right there. 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:53.359 He is healed. 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:54.079 He's walking. 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:59.200 He's like, I saw these kids the other day out playing with the ball, and they were. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.200 They were jumping. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:02.799 Can you imagine this guy? 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:04.559 He just like, is he just jumping around? 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:06.079 Like, what does this look like? 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:11.119 He's just getting what he's just jumping everywhere. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:12.799 He's doing like the heel click. 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:15.359 I can do the heel click. 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:16.240 I've seen that. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:17.599 And he is what? 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:19.440 And praising God. 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:22.720 Then walking, leaping, and praising God. 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.400 He went to the temple with them, walking, leaping, praising God. 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.279 All the people saw him walking and what? 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:30.960 Heard him. 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:33.200 How did they hear him? 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:36.480 Oh God, thank you. 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:52.640 Right? 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:55.759 No, they heard God. 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:58.400 Thank you for healing me. 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:01.920 Thank you for touching my body, for strengthening my legs. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.920 God thank you that I have strength to dance before you. 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:11.839 People heard him why he was excited about what God listened in that moment of his life. 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:12.559 Hopeless. 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:16.880 God met with him through a lover of Jesus. 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:21.839 And his life radically changed in that moment. 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:25.440 And he goes in the temple and worships like the sun. 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:49.039 However, we know that when Jesus dies, the veil is torn so that we can have access into his presence, regardless of lame or not. 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:56.559 But this man is now healed and getting into the presence of God in a way that he could have never fathomed or imagined. 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:08.720 When you take into account that when you're born, you're born needing a savior. 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:10.640 Everybody. 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.839 Something has to happen miraculously for you to be saved and made whole, yeah? 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:45.680 What what what's the what's the the the the result if you live your life without Jesus? 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.279 Listen, some people say, like, is God really gonna send people to hell? 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:55.599 No, I think he's just gonna honor their wishes because if you didn't want to spend time with him in life, why would you want to spend time with him in eternity? 00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:58.079 I'm gonna honor your wish. 00:24:58.160 --> 00:24:59.039 You don't want to be with me. 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:00.319 I'm gonna honor that. 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.200 I'm not gonna send you to a place that you chose. 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:05.599 I'm respecting your wish. 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:07.359 Right? 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:08.880 So check this out though. 00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:10.079 What is hell? 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.400 It's eternity separated from God. 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:18.480 Weeping, gnashing of teeth, there is no leaping and dancing and singing. 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:22.960 There's crying and pain and torment for eternity. 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:40.559 Now suppose you remember when you are worshiping God that he healed you from something that you could not heal yourself from, and then you realize, man, in his healing, I no longer have an eternity of pain and torment awaiting me. 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:49.200 I have an eternity in his presence where there's wholeness and fullness of joy, where there's no more sickness or pain or anxiety or depression. 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:50.319