ACTS 3 [by the Alamodome]
Acts 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall
the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall
ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
https://youtu.be/j0Pd7DI6TNU Acts 3
[Alamodome]
ON VIDEO-
.Miracles break forth
.They were ‘flying signs’ back then!
.Silver and gold I don’t have
.But be healed instead!
.All the prophets spoke of him
.Moses too
.Most concentration of miracles in O.T. happened during
Moses and Elijah
.Then came Christ
.Jesus ‘held back’ until the restoration of all things
.The ‘seed’ promise comes up again
.Did Moses know what he was saying?
.It’s all free
PAST POSTS [Past teaching I did that relates to today’s
video]
I talked about the gifts in Corinthians- here’s my past
commentary-
(739) ACTS
3- Peter and John go up to the temple and heal the lame man. This stirs up a
commotion and gives opportunity for Peter to preach Christ. I want you to see
something here. The miracles of healing thru out this book testify of something
specific. They do not simply prove the existence of God. These first century
people were not ‘post moderns’ they had no pre enlightenment era that affected
their minds. For the most part they were highly religious! Paul will tell them
this later in Acts ‘you are too superstitious’ [religious]. The miracles are
testifying to the fact that Jesus is alive, he really rose from the grave!
Peter’s sermons are centered around the reality of Christ being the fulfillment
of all that the prophets have spoken about! The church must not be ashamed of
the gospel. Recently the ‘church world’ was up in arms over the Popes recent
reinstating of the Tridentine Mass [the Latin Mass]. After Vatican 2 the
Mass was done solely in the language of the hearers. Many old time Catholics
were wanting the Latin too. So Pope Benedict said fine, you have the option to
practice it either way. Now, this ancient Mass had a prayer that simply prayed
for the Jewish people to come to know Jesus. Well, this upset the Jewish groups
and they demanded a change in the prayer. At first the Pope re wrote it but it
still asked for prayer for the Jews to come to Jesus. This still offended them.
So finally the church produced some prayer less offensive. We should not be
ashamed of the gospel of Christ and his resurrection! Peter was preaching the
reality of the resurrection and was in their face about it! Jesus has proven
himself to be alive, we are not just witnesses of the existence of God, we are
witnesses that Jesus is the way to him. The only way! Now Peter ends this
chapter in a unique way. He invokes the ‘blessing of Abraham’ and says it means
‘the blessing of Jesus in turning you away from sin’. We just finished a study
in Genesis. I emphasized how the New testament apostles viewed the Abrahamic
blessing thru the lens of redemption. They did not teach it in a materialistic
way. Peter also quotes Moses [as well as David] and says ‘Moses said the Lord
would raise up a prophet like myself, whoever doesn’t hear him will be
destroyed’. Peter sees the fulfillment of ‘the Moses type prophet’ in Christ.
Peter has a great gift of taking the old testament prophets and proving Christ
from them. There is a young hearer in this early church. He will eventually
become one of the first Deacons. His name is Stephen, boy he must be drinking
everything in. He is seeing and hearing the testimony of Jesus straight from
those who walked with him. He hears Peter’s teachings on Christ. He becomes
familiar with the way Peter associates the ‘Moses prophet’ with Jesus. This
young man will testify in Acts 7 of the reality of Jesus being the fulfillment
of the Moses prophecy. He will give the longest recorded sermon in scripture.
He will brilliantly trace the roots of Israel and show how Jesus is the
fulfillment of the prophets. He will be accused of going against the law and
the temple. He has the first grasp of ‘Pauline theology’ [actually Paul got it
from him!] and does such a convincing job of proving Jesus to be Messiah that
they stone him to death. He becomes the first martyr in the book of Acts. At
his death he says ‘forgive them; don’t hold this sin against them’. A witness
named Saul is sitting by. God answers Stephens’s prayer and Saul will become
one of the greatest fire starters known to man.
VERSES-
Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at
the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
Acts 3:2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was
carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called
Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Acts 3:3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple
asked an alms.
Acts 3:4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said,
Look on us.
Acts 3:5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive
something of them.
Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as
I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Acts 3:7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and
immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
Acts 3:8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with
them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Acts 3:9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
Acts 3:10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the
Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at
that which had happened unto him.
Acts 3:11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and
John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called
Solomon's, greatly wondering.
Acts 3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye
men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as
though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God
of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied
him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Acts 3:14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a
murderer to be granted unto you;
Acts 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from
the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Acts 3:16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this
man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him
this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Acts 3:17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did
it, as did also your rulers.
Acts 3:18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the
mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins
may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence
of the Lord.
Acts 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was
preached unto you:
Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution
of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets
since the world began.
Acts 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall
the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall
ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Acts 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will
not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Acts 3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that
follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant
which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all
the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent
him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
7 But the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to
one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge
by the same Spirit;
9 To
another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same
Spirit;
10 To
another the working of miracles;
1st Cor. 12
Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a
Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye
shall hearken;
Deuteronomy 18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD
thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the
voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I
die not.
Deuteronomy 18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken
that which they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their
brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall
speak unto them all that I shall command him.
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