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August 18 - Acts 3 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Monday, it's the 18th of
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  August and it's great to have your company as we begin another
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  week unpacking God's word to see what's going to happen as Peter
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  and his mates are going around preaching God's word, healing
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  and doing all sorts of amazing things in Jesus name as our
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  church begins to grow. Yes, this is the book talk of
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  Acts and we are just a couple of chapters in and this is a story
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  we are going to be settling into over the next few weeks as Jesus
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  begins or continues rather his ministry after his resurrection.
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  What a story it is. And this is our story friends.
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  This is the same church that we belong to.
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  So this is our origin story. So you can get on your superhero
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  pose just like your favourite Marvel character who's had the
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  first movie yet. Now it's time for the origin
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  story. So let's go back friends to a
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  world where the Spirit began to move.
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  Reading together Acts chapter 3. Peter and John went to the
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  temple one afternoon to take part in the 3:00 prayer service.
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  As they approached the temple, a man lame from birth was carried
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  in. Each day he was put beside the
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  temple gate, the one called the Beautiful Gate, so he could beg
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  from the people going into the temple.
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  When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some
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  money. Peter and John looked at him
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  intently, and Peter said, Look at us.
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  The lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money.
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  But Peter said, I don't have any silver or gold for you, but I'll
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  give you what I have in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene,
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  get up and walk. Then Peter took the lame man by
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  the right hand and helped him up.
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  As he did, the man's feet and ankles were instantly healed and
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  strengthened. He jumped up, stood on his feet
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  and began to walk. Then walking, leaping and
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  praising God, he went into the temple with them.
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  All the people saw him walking and heard him praising God.
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  When they realised he was the lame beggar they had seen so
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  often at the beautiful gate, they were absolutely astounded.
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  They all rushed out in amazement to Solomon's colonnade, where
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  the man was holding tightly to Peter and John.
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  Peter saw his opportunity and addressed the crowd.
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  People of Israel, he said, what is so surprising about this?
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  And why stare at us as though we had made this man walk by our
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  own power or godliness? For it is the God of Abraham,
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  Isaac and Jacob, the God of all our ancestors, who has brought
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  glory to his servant Jesus by doing this.
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  This is the same Jesus whom you handed over and rejected before
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  Pilate despite Pilate's decision to release him.
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  You rejected this holy righteous 1 and instead demanded the
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  release of a murderer. You killed the Author of life,
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  but God raised him from the dead and we are witnesses of this
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  fact. Through faith in the name of
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  Jesus, this man was healed, and you know how crippled he was
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  before. Faith in Jesus name has healed
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  him before your very eyes. Friends, I realised that what
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  you and your leaders did to Jesus was done in ignorance.
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  But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had foretold about
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  the Messiah, that he must suffer these things.
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  Now repent of your sins and turn to God so that your sins may be
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  wiped away. Then times of refreshment will
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  come from the presence of the Lord, and He will again send you
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  Jesus, your appointed Messiah, for he must remain in heaven
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  until the time for the final restoration of all things, as
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  God promised long ago through His holy prophets.
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  Moses said, the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet
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  like me from among your own people.
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  Listen carefully to everything he tells you.
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  Then Moses said, anyone who will not listen to that prophet will
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  be completely cut off from God's people.
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  Starting with Samuel. Every prophet spoke about what
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  is happening to day. You are the children of those
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  prophets and you are included in the covenant God promised to
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  your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, through
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  your descendants, all the families on earth will be
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  blessed. When God raised up his servant
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  Jesus, he sent him first to you, people of Israel, to bless you
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  by turning each of you back from your sinful ways.
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  Jesus, thank you that long before the world is made, your
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  rescue plan was set, and that you're going to come to save us
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  and restore us before God your Father.
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  And that you have power and dominion over all things.
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  And you bring all those things back into the way that you
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  wanted them to be. And in your good time, you'll
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  restore us all to that perfect union with you and your Father
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  and the Spirit. I thank you.
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  Thank you for all that you do for us.
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  Thank you for your love, for your forgiveness, for your
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  kindness and your invitation into your beautiful, perfect
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  family. We say yes, we accept your
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  invitation. We are your children, and here
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  we are. We pray all these things in your
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  precious and holy name, Jesus, Amen.