Sermon Notes
Setting the Scene v 1-5
The church was very Jewish for the first 40 years? Why?
Why did Peter and John go to the Temple? Why did the beggar?
He asked Peter and John for alms. V 3
Should the church give beggars what they ask, or what they need, or both?
What is Word and deed ministry?
What does the spiritually of the church mean?
Stepping over a homeless man
How do you really help him?
The Healing v 6-7
What does in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene mean?
Is this physical or spiritual healing, or both? (v 16 explains v 6)
Is faith required? Whose faith? Faith in what, or whom? (Matt. 17:20; Acts 14:8-10)
What was the command?
God is asking for the impossible. He does it all the time.
Augustine wrote, "Command what you will, and give what
you command."Grace gives what God commands.
It was a sign of the messiah that the lame leap for joy. (Isa 35:4-6; Luke 7:20-23)
Response of the restored Cripple v 8-10 Walking and leaping and praising God in the temple.
Is this proper behavior in the house of God?
I want to know the fullness of Joy in God’s house? (John 15:11; 16:24; 17:13)