• The Occasion – Act 3:1-10
  • The circumstances
    • Peter and John are going together to the Temple to pray
    • At the Temple gate there is a lame beggar
    • Peter and John were used by the Lord to give this man a miraculous healing
    • The result
      • The man was healed
      • The people were amazed
  • The spiritual principles taught by this miracle
    • A picture of the Church
      • Peter and John are together
      • They are going to pray
      • They stopped to help
      • They trusted the Lord
    • A picture of the world
      • The lame man reveals the helplessness of every man out of Christ
        • The lost condition of society
        • The total depravity of man
        • Lost in sin
      • The lame man reveals the Church’s opportunity
    • The Church’s gift
      • What Peter and John did not do
        • They did not give “silver and gold”
        • They did not give a scientific philosophy of feet and ankles
        • Did not build a school to teach why the man is lame
      • The transforming power of the Lord Jesus Christ
    • The healing transaction
      • The direct eye contact
      • The Church must make personal, immediate, direct contact with lame humanity
      • The Church must go to the man outside the gate - and take him by the hand
      • The Lord Jesus Christ through His Church was making contact with a human need
      • The miraculous power
        • “In the name of Jesus Christ rise up and walk”
        • He took Him by the hand, He lifted Him up and immediately the man received strength
      • The completeness of conversion
        • Christ takes a man who is lame and puts him on his feet
        • The man: arose, stood, walked, leaped and praised God
        • Christ cancels disability and communicates ability
        • Christ makes the person useful
        • Christ makes the man whole and complete – Col 2:9
  • The purpose of the miracle
    • To help the man directly
    • To open up a witness to the people – Act 3:12-4:4
• The Application
  • We are the Church
  • We have the name of Jesus Christ
  • We are to exercise faith in His name
  • His name is working today

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