This Bible study was recorded at Calvary Chapel
of the Finger Lakes and was taught by
Pastor Bill Gallatin.
This evening's chapter, Bill, covers the balance of
Acts, Chapter 2 and begins Acts, Chapter 3.
When we had our pastors, we get together,
all the outreach pastors from here, we just
stay in touch with each other.
It seems like the Lord's starting another Calvary
Chapel in Henrietta with one of the guys
and things are happening.
So what we do is that we, not
only do we go with the pastors from
here continually once a year to get away
and seek the Lord for vision and direction,
but now the outreach pastors that used to
be with us want to get together once
a year.
So we go together and we're planning on
getting together and seeking the Lord because we
just feel like the Lord's given us the
whole city of Rochester for all kinds of
neat things.
Well, we got together this past week to
pray and see what the Lord's doing at
the Sea Breeze and you've heard, you know,
the blessings that God's doing there.
But you remember we had the Harvest Crusade,
wasn't it?
We broke ground for the East Coast with
the Greg Laurie Harvest Crusade and they were
so pleased with the results and the demographics
of the city like Rochester that they really
wanted to come back right away.
And so we've been in contact and I've
seen Greg a lot, you know, at conferences
and get-togethers on the West Coast.
He said, well, you know, we still want
to come back.
We still want to come back.
I said, well, you know, we can either
use Frontier Field, but they don't seem to
be open to anything and you know how
the weather is.
And they did come back East a couple
times and then the Midwest and they got
caught in snowstorms and rainstorms and outdoor stadiums.
They like indoor venues and so they really
like the War Memorial, but the War Memorial
would not respond back to us.
The man who's in charge of it, they
wouldn't call us back.
We kept calling him and calling him.
Well, it just seems, the Lord's timing is
so perfect.
They're remodeling it and, you know, increasing the
seating capacity, modernizing it.
We got back from our meeting this past
week and we found out that John Collins
of the Harvest Crusade called again and said,
hey, what do you think about 1998?
We'd like to come back and maybe do
a Rochester thing for four or five days
and then shoot down and do Philadelphia back
to back.
What do you think in October?
So I said to Bob Lorenz, Pastor Bob
Lorenz is kind of our liaison, I said,
well, call War Memorial and just see what
happens.
And so Bob called War Memorial and finally
got a hold of Jeff Calkins and he'd
given us the month of October.
That was the, we got the first opening.
So we're going to have another Harvest Crusade
in October of 98 with Greg Laurie.
So keep that in prayer, the War Memorial.
So a lot of neat things happening just
to spread the gospel and touch a lot
of lives for Jesus Christ.
And it kind of fits in with what
we're going to be looking at tonight.
And you realize that the church is something
that God builds and the work of the
Lord is the Holy Spirit.
It's not people.
It's not us having to do something and
then get God to bless it.
It's God doing something and we respond to
it.
And it's so difficult for people to learn
that.
It's taking me a long time to understand.
I don't think anybody gets the handle on
it right away.
I think that's why they get so frustrated
with Christianity.
They think they have to do things for
God, that they have to perform for God.
And it's just the other way around.
God wants to perform for you.
Do things for the church and through the
church to affect the world with his power.
And there's such a difference.
And we're going to look at that this
evening as we finish chapter two and go
into chapter three.
So let's ask the Lord to bless his
word.
Father how we thank you for your word,
the revelation of yourself, your love, your truth,
your plan of the ages, your personality, the
way you do operate through mankind and in
this world.
Lord, it's such a wonderful revelation of grace
and power over sin and encouragement for those
who fail, which would include all of us.
We pray tonight, Lord, that you'd enable us
to be faithful to you as we share
your word, that we not spiritualize or stray
from the truth, but share it in such
a way that the Holy Spirit could ignite
each heart and bring your truth.
It would not be doctored up by our
personalities or our adjectives.
That's Lord spoken in such a way that
you could cause it to bear fruit in
each heart, to open every ear, to take
away any blinders or confusion or doubt, and
to free people from condemnation and guilt and
discouragement and sin, and to bless in a
wonderful way.
And we pray, Father, that you'd be glorified
above all.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Last week, we got through verse 41.
As we looked at the day of Pentecost,
it is typified in the New Testament.
The church, or the Gentile bride of Christ,
during the Age of Grace, the Gentile period,
the times of the Gentiles, that when the
bride is complete, the church will be raptured
and then God again will be dealing with
the nation Israel in a time that is
called Jacob's Trouble.
We are in the time frame Ezekiel 36
and 37.
We're in that time frame where we're just
about on the...we're seeing it on the horizon
when the Arab nations or the Islamic states,
as Ezekiel prophesied thousands of years ago, the
exact nations that are aligning right now with
Russia, with the Third World War, or that
begin the Tribulation period.
And that is when the times of the
Gentiles are over and when God Almighty begins
the day of His wrath, or the day
of the Lord, that He takes over the
affairs of man and begins to control things.
As Ezekiel states, he puts his books in
the jaws of the nations and leads them
forth into the Mideast.
And we're watching all the world, the United
States being drawn into the Mideast, Europe being
drawn into the Mideast, and even though we
do not want to, all because of the
problems with the Arabs and the Jews, with
the oil of the Mideast and the need
for it all and the political things that
are going on.
So we're right there at the doors.
But during this age, Jesus Christ is calling
out a people through the Holy Spirit.
And it's interesting how beautiful the real church
can be and can operate in such a
simple way.
Now, certainly when God forms His bride or
His church, He does not want it to
be defiled by sin.
Holiness and sin are mutually exclusive.
You can't, we can't go around claiming to
be filled with the Holy Spirit and then
defile someone by our own actions or defile
ourselves or our minds or our children by
our habits.
So there are things that God will do
in the church to purify, but it's the
work of the Holy Spirit.
The problem with the church today is that
it begins to form all kinds of rules
and regulations, much like the traditions of the
Pharisees that are non-biblical, and the church
becomes so legalistic that nobody wants to even
go to church.
It's a miserable place.
There's no joy at all to be given
the gospel of grace and then be placed
under the law and given all kinds of
rules and regulations.
You must do, you must perform, you must
be.
God Almighty works those things out, and many
of the traditions nullify the word of God,
even in the church today.
The same mistake being made as it was
in the days of the Pharisees when Jesus
came.
But notice how God begins to bless immediately
the church.
Verse 42, and they continued steadfastly in the
apostles' doctrine or the apostles' teachings.
And fellowship.
The first thing we see when the Spirit
of God is moving, people love to fellowship.
People love to get together.
People desire to go to church, not because
they have to, to be saved.
Another mistake is that there are portions of
the church today that say, if you don't
show up, you won't be saved, or you
have to go to church to be saved.
Now, you usually go to a good church
after you are saved because you love fellowship.
You love clean and neat beauty of fellowshipping
together, breaking bread together, having this clean and
neat together.
And in the breaking of bread, and in
prayers, there's no set pattern.
And you see it especially in the different
Protestant denominations.
There's that absolute freedom how to develop and
have your own services, your own way of
fellowshiping together.
Now, the tragedy in a lot of the
church today is some people want everybody to
be exactly alike.
You know, we've got to be cloned.
And they come here because they're not satisfied
with their old church or something they've come
out of.
And then after all, they say, well, why
don't you sing this way in your church?
This is the way we used to sing
in our church.
And we kind of think, well, why don't
you go back to that church?
We just don't choose to sing that way.
Now, it's OK for you, but it's a
diverse body, and God has made it so
diverse, and it's wonderful.
And there is no certain way you have
to sing, or that you have to raise
your hands, or that you have to stand.
If God begins to develop a certain body
of believers, then they just become comfortable in
that way.
And God says, that's the way you can
do it.
It's all centered around Jesus Christ.
But the basic thing is the apostles' doctrine,
the teaching of the word of God.
As Jesus said, and I think it's even
Hosea said, my people are destroyed for a
lack of knowledge.
And that's what's causing the problems in the
church.
You remember the Pharisees would constantly challenge Jesus
Christ out of their stupid traditions.
And he was constantly correcting them with the
word of God.
He said, you do always err, for you
know not the Scriptures.
When you know the Scriptures, when you know
the apostles' doctrine, it keeps you from error.
It directs your life.
David said, thy word, O Lord, is a
lamp unto my feet.
It tells us in the Scriptures that thy
testimonies, O Lord, are my counselors.
And it's interesting, I have been a pastor
now twenty years, and I have met no
one knocking on my door that reads the
word of God on a regular basis that
needs counseling or professional help.
Thy word, O Lord, thy testimonies are my
counselors.
And so the apostles went everywhere teaching the
word of God, showing the importance of the
word of God, their doctrine, their teaching, their
instruction.
All Scripture is given for instruction, to strengthen
us, to guide us, to equip us, to
conform us into the image of Jesus Christ.
The entrance of the word of God is
a light, and in his light we see
light, the Scripture says.
It says he has magnified his word above
his name.
The word was made flesh.
The total expression of God was made flesh
and walked this earth, and then wrote out
his whole physical being, his personality, his persona
in the word of God from Genesis to
Revelation.
Jesus said, when you read the word of
God, you're eating my flesh, my work.
This is my flesh.
This is what sustains you.
This is what gives you life.
It washes and regenerates the mind.
You don't need pills.
You don't need somebody taking your hard-earned
money so much an hour and bringing you
back week after week and milking you for
six months or the rest of your life
and making you codependent.
The word of God washes and renews the
mind.
Paul said, Peter, you've not been given the
spirit of fear, but love, power and a
sound mind.
You've been given the mind of Christ.
You've been born again of the Spirit.
You have the mind of Christ, and the
word of God activates it, keeps us healthy.
It causes our faith to grow.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God.
They continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine, not
the tradition of the elders.
Jesus told the Pharisees, you traverse the earth
and cross the oceans and make one proselyte
of yourselves, of your traditions and your religion,
and you make that person a more full
-fold child of hell than yourselves, because all
you do is teach traditions, and you give
them rules and regulations.
Jesus said, these men, these people that sit
in Moses' feet and love to go around
being called rabbi or father, father.
Don't listen to them.
You do as Moses said, but don't do
the deeds of the Pharisees.
They lay these heavy burdens on you.
They don't even live up to the word
of God themselves.
The word of God sets us free, makes
us free.
Free indeed, Jesus said.
And so, the early church saw the value
of the Scriptures.
The apostles were uneducated men.
They were men that never even had formal
training in schools.
They were ridiculed by the educators, by the
formalists, by the Pharisees and the scribes and
the lawyers of Jerusalem that served around the
temple, and yet they knew the word of
God.
It poured out of them.
The Holy Spirit honored it because they read
it, they knew it, they loved it, and
so they continued in the apostles' doctrine and
fellowship, the importance of fellowship.
You remember in the book of Jude, Jude's
writing concerning the last days, and he speaks
of in the last days there would be
mockers or scoffers walking after their own lust.
These be men that are sensual, separating themselves,
having not the Spirit.
In other words, someone who is sensual and
unclean may fellowship with believers for a while.
Then after a while, they get a little
uncomfortable because they don't have the Holy Spirit.
They are continuing secretly in their uncleanness, and
then pretty soon, because of their sensuality and
their desire for that sin more than fellowship,
they will remove themselves.
You remember in Hebrews 10.25, Paul's writing
to the Christians there that were beginning to
fall away and fulfill prophecy of the last
days, that many would fall away just before
the coming of Jesus Christ.
He said, now don't be as the men
or some as you see that day approaching,
those that fall away.
Don't be keeping yourself from assembling together on
a regular basis as you see that day
approaching.
So, fellowship again is the work of the
Spirit in someone's life.
There's a desire to fellowship when the Spirit
of God is having His way in a
person's life, because it makes the body healthy
and it makes the person that's fellowshipping healthy.
Lookit, if you cut off the circulation of
your small finger, your whole body won't die.
The body will continue on, but atrophy will
set in with the individual, that one little
portion, and that part of the hand.
A lot of people have spiritual atrophy.
They're cutting themselves off.
Sometimes it's just a lust for TV or
pleasure or movies or something other that's always
at the night when it's Bible study night
or prayer.
Their priorities become shifted, and it's amazing how
spiritual atrophy begins to set in.
Now, the church doesn't die.
The church goes on, but pretty soon you
see that atrophy set in, and pretty soon
there's death.
When the blood doesn't get to the extremity
of that first part of the body, that
appendage, pretty soon, little things begin to go
wrong.
The feeling goes.
The nerve's not working right.
The temperature of the flesh, everything, heat, something
goes wrong, and you see spiritually the same
thing happens to an individual that breaks off
fellowship.
So, fellowship on a regular basis is healthy,
not just for the body, but for the
individual that atrophy doesn't set in.
You don't get cut off and wither on.
But the life of the body just keeps
flowing through everybody.
And in breaking of bread, just fellowshiping together,
commemorating the Lord's death till he comes on
a regular basis in the body that God
has put you in.
And in prayers, that marvelous desire, a desire
to pray.
And prayer isn't a duty.
It's not some mechanical thing that we have
to do.
Prayer is communion and fellowship and talking with
God.
Now, there are certain Christians that I love
to fellowship with.
I just like to talk with them.
I like to have them talk to me.
I like to learn from them.
But no one can compete with talking to
God.
And that's what prayer is.
I'm talking to God.
I'm going to my Father in heaven when
I have a need or a fear or
a doubt.
And I learn that he's always there.
I learn that he will help me.
I become confident in his love and his
grace and his protection and his provision.
I know that I have constant access when
I have a need.
And so, the early church was so aware
of this.
They loved to pray.
They loved to pray for each other.
They loved to pray together.
Jesus said, whenever any two of you on
this earth touch anything and agree on anything
on this earth, you will have it of
your Father which is in heaven.
Agreeing together in prayer.
And fear.
Remember, it says the fear of the Lord
is clean.
There's a wholesomeness, a holiness.
The fear of the Lord is clean.
When someone begins to sin and defile themselves,
they've lost the fear of the Lord.
They're no longer clean.
The fear of the Lord is clean, the
Bible says.
And so, fear came upon every soul.
Tremendous reverence.
And many wonders and signs were done by
the apostles.
You remember in Mark chapter 16, verse 17,
Jesus said to go out and to make
disciples, or literally to teach, baptizing in the
name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Ghost.
And these signs shall follow.
And Jesus spoke of miracles following salvation.
That you could depend upon it if you
needed it.
Not preceding the salvation, but following.
And this is what I find interesting.
It says, fear came upon every soul and
many wonders and signs were done by the
apostles.
Now, that's interesting to me.
It doesn't say by the three thousand and
the apostles.
Now, remember, Peter already preached at Pentecost and
there were already three thousand believers.
But it's interesting, the miracles and the signs
and the wonders were done by the apostles.
It doesn't say by many or some of
the three thousand.
Now, what am I saying?
I'm not saying that there are no miracles
today, that nobody here cannot perform miracles if
God wants to perform a miracle through your
life.
We've seen miracles.
I've seen miracles through my life praying for
people.
But I do know that I'm no apostle.
And I do know that there's a difference
because the twelve foundations of the city, New
Jerusalem in glory, are going to have the
apostles' names.
They did have certain gifts and powers given
by God that I believe work in a
more powerful, regular way than ordinary Christians.
And we do know also that during the
church age and even now, there are gifts
of the Spirit.
People can be given gifts, miraculous gifts, the
gifts of healing.
And it's plural, gifts of healing.
There are people that are given gifts of
signs and wonders to work mighty things.
And you see, you could be in a
situation, Jesus Christ is not going to forsake
anybody, and you might be in a situation,
you need a miracle to come right through
your life for someone else.
We were just sitting in a restaurant the
other day, just to show you, you can't
figure out how God works.
But it's interesting that just the other day
we were having breakfast over at Denny's, an
important meeting with the pastors over eggs and
sausage and biscuits and gravy.
And this woman walks up to me, and
I didn't recognize her, but she recognized me.
And she says, I've just got to tell
you, I've got to tell you.
And I'm thinking, well, what?
And I didn't know her, but she had
been coming not too long ago, bringing a
friend of hers that had lymphoma cancer.
And there's just a hole for her.
Bringing her to men's prayer meeting.
And like we normally do on Saturday night,
as the Bible says, as the Bible says,
if any of you are sick, bring to
the elder.
Call on the elders of the church, they'll
anoint with oil, and God can heal and
help that person.
And so we just do it out of
obedience to the Lord.
And evidently, this woman was bringing her friend
that doesn't even come to this church for
men's prayer.
There was nothing else to be done.
The doctor said there's no hope for her
and all this.
And she said, well, we'll anoint her with
oil.
We started to anoint her with oil, and
Pastor John prayed for her.
And we hadn't seen her for some time,
and we forgot all about it.
And the woman says, you can't believe what's
happened.
We said, well, what's going on?
You remember Celestella?
Well, my gosh, she's driving everybody crazy at
Strong Memorial Hospital.
And I said, well, why?
She said, well, she's completely healed, and the
doctors don't know what happened to her.
And she works as long as she's running
around telling everybody that Jesus Christ has healed
her.
And yet there's another girl in our church
who's got tremendous faith, and she's struggling for
her very life.
It's Celestella that we've prayed for with cancer.
You can't figure that out.
I don't have an answer for all these
things.
But I do know that signs and wonders
do follow.
We've seen these things happen.
But here, there were 3,000 believers beside
the 12 apostles, but God wasn't working the
signs and wonders to them.
It says many wonders and signs were done
by the apostles.
Does that mean that God doesn't do signs
and wonders to us?
Absolutely not.
But I think the Holy Spirit's clearly showing
us that there was something about the apostles
that God handpicked these men for a specific
reason.
And it probably happened on a more regular
basis through their ministry continually.
That's all.
You might see a miracle tonight.
You could go pray for someone tonight and
see a miracle.
I've seen it.
I've seen it happen in my own life.
And yet I've prayed for people, I've seen
them get sicker.
So I know I don't have the gift
of healing.
But I know that God heals.
And all they believed were together and had
all things common.
Just that there again, there's the true agape
love.
Someone who is freed from materialism.
That they really have been touched by Jesus
Christ, and if they see someone with a
greater need, they are not so possessed by
their possessions that they couldn't let go of
it if there was a greater need in
another home.
That's what it's saying.
There is no legal mandate here.
There's no thing that Jesus laid out of
the apostles that you have to do this
or have to do that.
It's nothing but spontaneous love from a heart
that has been overwhelmed by Jesus Christ, and
their possessions do not possess them.
Jesus Christ truly possesses their possessions.
Now, you remember the sad case of the
rich young ruler who was a moral man.
He obeyed some of the Ten Commandments.
His relationship with man was all right, and
his parents.
But his relationship with God was really lacking,
and that's what Jesus put his finger on.
This rich young guy with all this potential
came running up to Jesus, and a lot
of people like that.
They get an excited time, and they get
all excited running up there, and sure enough,
Jesus put his finger right in the guy's
problem.
He knew this guy was really materialistic down
deep inside.
He liked things and money and power and
influence, and so Jesus told him, he said,
now I've done all these things since my
youth, but what must I do to inherit
eternal life?
He said, sell all that you have and
give to the poor and follow me.
And the rich young kid looked at him
and says he went away sad, for he
had much possessions.
He couldn't follow.
His possessions possessed him, and he couldn't follow
Jesus.
Oh, he would have moments when he'd get
all excited, but it would, you see, it
never would take him to the point where
he'd just walk away.
He couldn't do it.
His possessions possessed him.
Now you see, that isn't a teaching where
everybody has to do that.
In this particular young man's life, that was
his, you see, his snare.
It could be something else in someone else's
life, and Jesus put his finger on it
and said, now you walk away from this.
You stop doing this.
You make a decision in this part of
your life if you're going to follow me.
But this young man, you see, his possessions
possessed him.
And that was his downfall.
Here they sold their possessions and goods and
part of them to all men as every
man had need.
Just the love of God just moving in
a mighty way.
Far different than the legalistic pharisees and how
people operate under the law of Moses and
legalism.
And they continuing daily with one accord in
the temple.
They loved to go to church.
They didn't just form coffee clutches and call
that fellowship.
They didn't just have one or two or
three friends and stop going to church and
call that fellowship.
They continued daily in the temple.
They just loved to get together and breaking
bread from house up.
They still had good home fellowship.
You see, they were being consumed with worship
and a new life, and they did eat
their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
praising God and having favor with all the
people.
And look at who builds the church.
Not evangelists, not pastors, not street ministry.
And the Lord added to the church daily
such as should be saved.
No strain, no five-year plans or two
-year plans or programs and committees to try
and increase the Sunday school or get more
people to show up or get more money.
God, you see, when God's pleased, he just
brings people.
They just show up.
And that doesn't mean that you don't evangelize,
that you don't teach, that you don't share
your faith with us.
But, you see, God's the one who adds
to the church.
God's the one who does the saving.
He does it all.
And so fellowship is wonderful.
You don't form a church to try and
build something.
A church is a place of fellowship.
When a church becomes something other than a
religious business or an organization rather than an
organism, then the spirit is dreamed and clenched
and pretty soon you've got nothing but dead
legalism and ritual and traditions, and a church
has to resort to entertainment and gimmickry to
get people to come.
Or some way to affect the emotions and
the senses with gold and fancy altars and
incense and candles and robes to do something
to the emotions.
But the spirit, nothing's happening to the spirit.
And so then they begin to use traditions
to tell people you're saved just to keep
them showing up.
And then they form all kinds of things.
And no one's spirit's being touched.
And no one's lives are being converted.
And there's no victory over sin.
There's no change.
And people get discouraged and condemned and dislike
Christianity.
There's no joy in legalism.
There's no joy in having to do something
to be blessed.
But there's joy in God Almighty working in
us through his Spirit, through his Son Jesus
Christ, performing the work for us and in
us and through us.
And so we gather together.
That's what church is, gathering together and fellowship.
Now, Peter and John went up together into
the temple at the hour of prayer, being
the ninth hour.
That would be three p.m. in the
afternoon.
Now, the Jews had three times of prayer
at the temple, nine in the morning, twelve
at noon, and three p.m. the afternoon
service.
And notice, they're born again and they're going
to church.
Not because they have to, but because they
desire it.
They desire to be around God's people.
And so, it's about three o'clock in
the afternoon.
They're going up to the temple, and a
certain lame man from his mother's womb was
carried, whom they laid daily at the gate
of the temple, which is called Beautiful.
That would be the eastern gate that overlooks
the Valley over toward today.
It's not the exact gate that we see,
the famous gate that you'll look today, but
it would be in that general area.
That gate, by this time, had been destroyed
by Titus and probably buried under rubble.
It's interesting that a famous archaeologist named Warren
was doing an excavation outside the eastern gate
that we see today that was sealed up
by the Turks, and the ground gave way
and he fell underground, and as he lit
a torch, he looked and there was another
full gate underground, just like the one above
ground.
A full gate that was buried underground.
And when the Muslims found out about that
and saw that there's another gate that would
predate Arab existence and Islam by hundreds of
years, they immediately put a cemetery there to
stop any more excavation.
But beneath the eastern gate that you see
today, in the famous picture of Jerusalem, when
we go over there every year, is another
full-size gate, the eastern gate, and it
could be that's the foundation or the gate
Beautiful that it speaks of here.
What's interesting is there's an indication in the
Psalms that when Messiah, or Jesus Christ, returns,
the king returns, the Psalmist shouts, lift up
your heads, O gates, for your king cometh.
And there's going to be a mighty earthquake
on the Mount of Olives and Mount Zion,
and it's going to change the whole Temple
Mount, and more than likely, the original gate
is going to push right up, and that's
the gate we're going to come back and
go through with Jesus Christ at the second
coming, the original gate that is underground there.
Very possible.
But anyhow, there at the Temple Mount, they've
got this beggar, they've laid there, he's been
lame since birth, never can hold down a
job or anything, probably can't even get somewhere
to buy a lotto ticket, to ask alms
of them that enter the Temple.
Now, here's a man who has been crippled
all of his life, nobody can help him,
his friends have sympathy for him, and so
they take him to church and put him
in front of the doors of the church,
just hoping that when people go in, they
would give alms.
Now, the alms were the excess of the
tithe.
Now, when you tithe the Lord, which was
under the law, you had to tithe almost
before the year.
The legal tithe under the Mosaic law was
30 percent, and the different tithes for the
temple and the temple taxes and the offerings.
The alms were above and beyond, that would
be an act of love or kindness out
of your pocket to someone else, just to
show love.
Beside the tithe, you were legally bound to
tithe in the Old Testament under the law.
Aren't you glad that the New Testament church
had changed and now it's under grace and
it's out of love and out of a
joyful heart that you give to God.
But he's there to ask alms of them
that entered into the Temple, who seeing Peter
and John about to go into the Temple,
asking alms.
He's saying, hey, you got a dime?
You got some shekels?
And Peter fastening his eyes upon him John
said, look at us.
I've got some food stamps here for you.
He didn't, did he?
He didn't have any money.
It's interesting, Peter didn't make any offer to
give him any money, either.
I'm sure if somebody had a welfare program
going then, they'd probably see that it's so
cruel.
Here's a guy that's lame and needs money
for food and can't take care of himself,
and you're going to tell him about Jesus?
He said, look at us.
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to
receive something of them.
See, he resigned himself to this life of
just being a beggar, living in that state,
just asking for money to continue the rest
of his life.
And obviously, here the Spirit of God does
something far different than even a social program
that a lot of people will even do
today.
So 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.
Now, I would imagine if someone heard that,
that was a non-believer, they'd say, how
cruel, how stupid and foolish.
This man needs food, he's lame, he's a
cripple, and you're going to tell him about
Jesus?
You're just giving him Jesus?
But you see, here's a man who had
a greater need than to walk, really.
He could stay on the welfare the rest
of his life and be crippled, you know,
hoping in people's mercy, or he could exercise
faith.
And it shows us here that when someone
truly does exercise faith from the heart, they
change.
They don't end up back at the gate
or at the flop house the next night
for another meal, drunk again.
The conversion is real.
There's an absolute effect when it's real.
This man never showed up there again.
In fact, immediately the conversion was so real,
he never resorted to that again and then
to go through the motions all over again.
His life was drastically changed, and isn't it
wonderful that the apostles weren't into the prosperity
doctrine?
What if Peter did have a pocket full
of money, because he's a king's kid, and
he had tremendous faith, and rather than serve
Jesus Christ just with the clothes on his
back and the sandals that he had, trusting
in the Lord like Jesus did, as a
real servant of God, he just didn't have
a lot of money to say, here you
go, man, here's five bucks.
Get you through the rest of the week
and go on into worship.
Peter didn't give him money, and it seems
like he had none to give.
There's an interesting proverb.
I think it's Proverbs 8, verse 19, that
my fruit is better than gold, fine gold,
and my revenue greater than choice silver, the
Lord says.
The thing he really needed, you see, was
a touch from Jesus Christ to stand on
his feet and get his life going, and
Jesus Christ can supernaturally do this.
If Jesus Christ can do that to a
man who's been crippled from his life, he
can do that to someone here tonight who's
not that crippled.
If Jesus Christ can turn a life around
like that, it's that cripple that someone had
to carry into a gate.
Everybody here tonight walked into their own strength.
Just think what Jesus Christ can do for
you.
Now, notice the faith.
There's a lot of faith involved here from
different directions and different measures.
Now, notice Peter just didn't say it and
then walk in.
Now, Peter must have sent something.
First of all, God gave Peter a measure
of faith.
At this point, the man had no faith
whatsoever, so you can't give the man credit
for his faith, for his healing or initiating
it.
He had no faith.
He was just looking for money.
He wasn't looking for a healing.
He had no concern for Jesus Christ.
He didn't know who Jesus was or even
care about Jesus Christ.
So, here's nothing but the pure grace and
love of God and the concern and the
sensitivity of a man of God for the
need of someone else.
He wasn't rushing in the church, pushing by
somebody to get the best seat in the
temple.
He was aware of people around him in
the parking lot or walking in the front
door.
He was looking.
He saw a need on somebody.
He just didn't rush through the door to
get in and get a seat.
He was aware of those around him.
And the most important thing in his life
is to share Jesus with somebody, to be
free from my own problems enough to see
the need in somebody else and be concerned
for someone else for a change.
And he took him by the right hand
and lifted him up, and immediately his feet
and his ankle bones received strength.
In the Greek, it says they snapped and
they popped as the ligaments reinforced themselves and
went back to normal.
They actually made a noise.
And he, leaping up, stood and walked and
entered with them into the temple, walking and
leaping and praising God.
You see, it was a true touch from
God, and the first thing he wanted to
do was go into the temple.
Not go back to what the old problem
was or some other area.
The first thing he wanted to do was
get in with the rest of God's people.
A true touch.
And all the people saw him walking and
praising God, and they knew that it was
he which sat for alms at the beautiful
gates of the temple.
And they were filled with wonder and amazement
at that which had happened unto him.
And as the lame man which was healed
held Peter and John, all the people ran
together under them in the porch that is
called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
Now, there's this tremendous column made on the
eastern wall or portion of the Temple Mount
of Solomon overlooking the Kidron Valley.
That is what's called Solomon's Porch, and that
is what is around the Court of the
Gentiles.
Actually, it goes from the north to the
south on the far eastern edge of the
Temple Mount.
And the eastern gate, or the beautiful gate,
went up through Solomon's Porch.
And so that's where many people would congregate
under those amazing colonnades all along the length
of the temple area.
And they all came running over.
Multitudes of people were always in there fellowshipping,
and the money changers were there, and the
sellers of doves where people wanted to buy
offerings to glimpse of the priest into the
courtyard or the inner part of the temple
for sacrifice.
And so there's a lot of people in
that area.
And they saw this, and they knew this
man.
And notice, as soon as Peter noticed something,
when Peter saw it right away, and there's
this, there's something about it, and I must
caution everybody, that when God begins to use
you, the ignorance of the people that your
life may touch usually comes forth and they
kind of look at you as though you're
something.
Be very, very careful.
And when God begins to use you, if
you pray for somebody or in any way,
and people begin to be enamored with your
life, you better be careful and correct it
immediately, because it can be destroying.
You see, that's what destroyed Satan.
He was a creative being, and God gave
him abilities to bring God's glory.
And God gave him the privilege of having
influence over others with those abilities.
And Satan began to want people to look
to him, forgetting that the only reason anything
was being done to his life is because
God enabled him.
And that's what got him cast out of
heaven.
That's what got him to disfavor with God
beyond redemption, and defiled the whole universe, and
has been destroying lives ever since.
Thinking we're something, or we're doing God a
favor by being used as him, and we're
all very expendable.
God won't skip a beat.
The kingdom of God or his plan will
not skip a beat or miss anything if
I drop dead or someone dropped dead here
tonight, ever.
The mighty, mighty, mighty saints of old have
gone by the wayside, and the church has
continued on.
Salvation has continued on.
God is still glorified, and the gates of
hell have not been successful.
They will not stand.
They will not succeed.
Ever.
God will just replace us and go on
through the power of his Holy Spirit.
It's very important.
Peter immediately, and you see, this is why
God used Peter.
This is why God used them.
There's nothing in them, and Peter is so
faithful.
He saw, he could sense they're enamored with
him, almost to the point where they're going
to worship him as though there's something special.
And Peter thought, he answered unto the people,
You men of Israel, why marvel you at
this?
Or why you look you so earnestly on
us, as though by our own power or
holiness we had made this man to walk,
as though we had something to do with
it.
You know, someone may come up to him
and just go, Oh, you are so wonderful.
You are so anointed.
Would you pray for me?
Would you touch me?
And see, Peter is so faithful to the
Lord.
We're really nothing.
Now, notice how faithful Peter is to correct
these people who are almost trying to make
him, put him on a pedestal as though
he's some mighty man of God or something.
The God of Abraham and of Isaac and
of Jacob, the God of our fathers, have
glorified his son Jesus.
Don't be looking to me and try to
put glory on me or exalt my ministry.
And it's interesting, Peter didn't claim to have
the healing ministry or try to form a
healing ministry.
In fact, you never see that in the
book of Acts.
It's amazing.
If the church wants to stay faithful, it
has to stay faithful to the book of
Acts to see how the Spirit operated and
why the Spirit did miracles when it did
miracles.
Notice, he did not use this as a
platform for the gift of miracles or the
gift of healing, any more than after Pentecost
he used that phenomenon for a teaching on
the gift of tongues.
You never even mentioned it.
Remember that.
And here he says, immediately, every time there's
a miracle or a supernatural phenomenon, a work
of the Spirit, it's always to exalt Jesus.
And the apostles are always faithful to speak
and teach of Jesus, not even the Holy
Spirit.
Or, I fast a lot, and so God
has given me this anointing and this power
because I went off into the hills for
30 days and I just sought God's holiness
and power.
You know, you hear that stuff and it
makes you want to, yuck.
Some of these guys on television, on the
radio, I love to read the Word of
God and see how true men of God
react when God does something through them.
The God of Abraham and of Isaac and
of Jacob, the God of our fathers, have
glorified his son Jesus, whom you delivered up
and denied him in the presence of Pilate
when he was determined to let him go.
Now, here they're ready to call him a
God and praise him and glorify him, exalt
him, and he says, You're the one that
killed Jesus.
Right away he's preaching.
Let's get back to Jesus, who you rejected.
This is who did this, the one that
you put on the cross.
That would change their attitude toward him quick.
But you denied the Holy One in the
just and desired a murderer to be granted
unto you.
As you remember the account, they desired Barabbas,
and Pilate gave them Barabbas to be politically
correct and expedient, to maintain his office and
not create problems, even though down in his
heart he claimed and he declared as a
judge, as a Roman judge, he said, This
man is innocent.
Yet to be politically expedient and correct because
of the fear of his office, he went
along with the crowd knowing he was wrong.
Gave into the pressure, the pure pressure of
the voters, a quibbling, a weak man.
You denied the Holy One in the just
and desired a murderer to be granted unto
you, and you killed the Prince of Life,
the one that really gives us life, whom
God hath raised from the dead, whereof we
are witnesses.
And through his name, now he's making sure
they know, it isn't through me, it isn't
through my anointing or some gift of healing
or power that I have or holiness.
It's through his name.
This man walks that was lame.
This man's life has been changed because of
Jesus, not me praying for him or laying
hands on him.
I've heard people make statements, Oh, you're better
now.
Oh, I prayed for you.
I'm glad the money came through.
I prayed for you.
Touching the glory.
Be careful.
If the money came through, you're healed because
Jesus and his love did something for you.
So, Peter's very careful.
It's his name.
I'm not some kind of a special person.
Through faith in his name.
In other words, faith in the name of
Jesus.
Believing.
A decision to believe.
That's what faith is.
A decision to believe what the Word of
God challenges me to believe.
Not to understand.
Faith is never a decision to understand or
the ability to understand.
It's always a decision to believe and to
act upon the Word of God.
And so, it's through his name and through
faith in his name that's made this man
strong whom you see and know.
He ain't faith which is by him.
Now, here Peter's faithful to say even the
faith is a gift from Jesus Christ.
You can't even boast about the faith.
Have given him this perfect soundness in the
presence of you.
Now, you see there are different areas and
measures of faith.
Now, first of all, you remember Peter's very
faithful to say.
Now, Peter had the initial faith.
The man didn't.
But what did Peter do?
He did not leave it up to the
man because the man had no faith.
So, here you see faith and operations.
Two different measures of faith.
Yet, all being given by God to perform
a miracle.
And Peter's faithful to bring it all out
and point all the glories back to God.
Notice, Peter had the faith to begin.
He grabbed the man and lifted him up.
If he hadn't have done that, probably the
man would have sat there and not even
tried.
But, Peter grabbed him, remember?
And until Peter grabbed him and picked him
up, nothing happened.
And then that man responded.
Now, remember in Matthew 17.20 when Jesus
cursed the fig tree?
No, that's later.
This is in Matthew 17.
I think that's when he came down off
the Mount of Transfiguration after he revealed himself
and he showed his glory to Peter, James
and John.
Moses and Elijah appeared and God the Father
spoke.
They came back down off the mountain and
here's this man with a lunatic boy, demons
were just throwing him in the water in
the fire trying to kill him all the
time.
And they've been trying to cast out the
demons and everything and the cloud was there.
And Jesus cast the spirit out of the
boy.
And then they said, why couldn't we do
this?
And Jesus said, because of your unbelief.
You're at a stage, and this early in
your walk, it's difficult right now in a
case like this.
He said, now, if you have the grain
of the seed of a mustard, or this
small tiny seed which grows into the largest
herb there is, he said, there will come
a time when you'll say unto this mountain,
Be ye removed, and it shall be removed.
In other words, if you have the faith
of a grain of mustard, as you continue
to walk with me, you continue to grow,
I will bring you to that point and
you're going to be able to do the
same thing.
You'll even go beyond that.
Any mountain, any obstacle, you'll have the faith
to remove it.
And then he said, this time comes forth
by prayer and fasting.
In other words, if you really want to
cast those mountains, if you really want this
kind of faith, you better have a life
of prayer and fasting and walking close to
me.
Now, that faith, each one of us can
grow into that measure of faith, but it's
up to us.
Now, there's an initial faith that's given to
us for salvation, and that's the gift of
God.
Remember, it's all from God.
Romans 12.3 says, every one of us
is given a measure of faith.
I think it tells us in Ephesians 2,
verses 7 and 8, that you're saved by
grace through faith, and that not of yourselves.
It is the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast.
That's even the gift.
God gives us the gift of faith to
believe that he might save us.
But then after that, there's that gift of
saving faith, and God gives every single one
of us a measure of faith, and then
faith grows and increases like the mustard seeds
as we read the word of God.
And then also, Paul tells us in 1
Corinthians 12, verse 9, that some people, there's
a measure of faith beyond everyone else.
It's the gift of the Spirit.
But we all have different measures that God
gives us, and you can have your own
faith grow depending on the amount of the
word of God you read and what you
believe.
Faith is a decision to believe what God
tells me, not to understand it.
And when I act upon it, God honors
it, and then my faith increases.
But faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.
Every single person here that says you've been
given the gift to believe by God, you
say, well, maybe if I'm not really born
again, if I can't believe, maybe God doesn't
want to give me the gift.
I don't know anywhere in the Bible where
someone did not want to believe that God
didn't give them the gift to believe.
That's how much God loves you.
If you want to be saved, God will
give you the faith to be saved.
If you want to remove the mountain, if
you want to increase faith, read the word
of God.
Walk with Jesus Christ.
Learn the beauty of prayer and fasting, and
see what it will do for you.
Yes, every man is given a measure of
faith.
And here's an interesting thing.
As soon as Peter exercised his faith, and
that man responded by his faith that God
gave him, you see, Peter's being faithful to
say, the whole thing was all done by
God Almighty.
All the faith came by him, by Jesus
Christ.
Not by Peter.
And Peter wouldn't walk away if the guy
wasn't healed and blame it on the lack
of faith of the guy, like so many
people do, because all the faith comes from
Jesus Christ.
When it all works together and people respond
and trust and believe, it releases God to
perform the miracle and work in your life.
He gets all the glory.
He's pleased, and you're blessed.
It's like a child.
You see, faith is much like the child
who refuses to take the first step and
walk.
It's all programmed in the child.
The muscles, the strength of the hips, everything
is designed as soon as the sperm hits
the egg.
God and the DNA and the marvelous genetic
code of the human life is programmed at
that time.
There's a certain age if the child will
start to exercise by his own will and
decision to move his leg and step and
not run around that little stroller and bouncing
off the tee he's set in the living
room the rest of his life.
And mommy and daddy won't be afraid of
him falling and bumping his nose and letting
him walk.
You see, God's programmed it that he'll walk,
his legs will get stronger, the stability will
come, the coordination will come, and pretty soon
he'll be running and jumping.
What if he refuses to do it?
He'll be crippled the rest of his life.
He can grow to the age of 30,
and the atrophy will come in, the muscles
will never develop, he'll be crippled all his
life simply because he didn't want to fall
down.
He's afraid to bump his nose in the
beginning, and the parents encourage him to walk.
That's the same way faith is.
Don't be afraid to fall.
God's going to be there.
He says, underneath us are his everlasting arms.
Don't be afraid to step.
He's not going to let anything happen to
you.
You're a child, and that faith will grow.
The mustard seed will begin to grow.
Now look at the grace and the beauty
of God.
Now he's already told them, you see, and
this is the true gospel.
You must tell the person their sin.
Get people out of their denial and their
social programs and blaming it on other people.
You know, I'm a victim and all this
stuff.
You've got to tell the people that you
are in trouble because you've done what you've
done with your life.
But I have good news for you.
I have a blessing.
Jesus Christ is willing to forgive you and
free you and turn your life around if
you turn your life over to him.
Notice what Peter does here.
He says, you're responsible for rejecting the Son
of God.
This one who healed the cripple, you're wondering
who did it.
It wasn't me.
It wasn't John.
It was the very Messiah and Savior that
you rejected, that your hand put to the
cross.
You killed the Prince of Life.
But God raised him from the dead.
Your deed did not stand.
The power of Satan was nullified by the
love of God, raising his son from the
dead.
That's the love of God for you.
He overcomes our sin and our ignorance.
Now look at what Peter says here.
Talk about grace.
And now, brethren, I want not through ignorance
you did it, as did also your rulers.
Now here's the love of God.
All the way back in Leviticus, chapter 4,
verse 13, God made a provision in Levitical
law for all kinds of sin, and one
of the offerings for the sins of Israel
was the sin of ignorance.
A special offering for the sin of ignorance.
God prefiguring Jesus Christ going to the cross
through the ignorance of his very own people.
As John said in John chapter 1, he
came unto his own and his own refused
him.
They actually...what am I trying to say?
If you try to give something, his own
received him not.
That's it.
Thank you, Rosemary.
Thank you, Lord, for my help me.
And here's the grace of God.
What did Jesus say on the cross in
Luke?
Father, forgive them, for they know not what
they do.
He was the fulfillment of the Levitical sacrifice
for the sin of ignorance.
If he came to fulfill all the law,
his life, if he fulfilled all the animal
sacrifices, all the meal offerings, every aspect of
sin, and so on the cross, Jesus said,
knowing and in their ignorance, they turned him
over to Pilate.
They rejected him.
They said, grab us, and yet God still
loved these people so much, just as much
as he loved you and I.
Jesus on the cross says, Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do.
And that carries right down to your life
tonight.
No matter what you've done, Jesus has said,
Father, forgive them, for they know not what
they do.
Your sin is covered at the cross if
you'll put your faith and your trust in
Jesus Christ who died for you.
Peter goes on to say, but those things
which God before had showed by the mouth
of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer,
so hath he fulfilled.
Psalm 22, Isaiah, chapter 53, Zechariah, all the
prophecies of the Old Testament speaking of the
rejection of Jesus Christ.
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.
Isn't it wonderful to know my sins are
blotted out, no matter what they are, by
the blood of Jesus Christ.
There's no more charge against me.
When God opens the book at that last
day, the book of records of what my
sin has been, there'll be no record there.
My name's been transferred to the book of
life, the Lamb's book of life, and all
the charges of against Bill Gallat and all
the thirty years of sin and blasphemy blotted
out.
There's nothing there.
Your sins can be blotted out, everything you've
ever done.
In the time of refreshing, isn't it wonderful?
Jesus said, I will not leave you comfortless
or without refreshment or strength.
I will come to you.
I will send you the Holy Spirit to
be refreshed daily on a continual basis by
the Holy Spirit of God, because I've repented.
I've put my trust in the Lord.
And he shall send Jesus Christ as before
was preached unto you, the second coming, whom
the heavens must receive until the time of
restitution of all things which God has spoken
by the mouth of all his holy prophets,
since the world began."
In other words, the time when all the
promises and the covenants to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
and David's promises of the kingdom on this
earth, everything will be brought to pass.
For Moses truly said unto the fathers," now
notice, here's the verification that Moses wrote Deuteronomy,
because they're quoting Deuteronomy.
Moses is the writer.
He wrote Deuteronomy.
"...Moses said truly unto the fathers, A prophet
shall the Lord your God raise up unto
you of your brethren like unto me.
Him shall you hear in all things whatsoever
he shall say unto you, and it shall
come to pass that every soul which shall
not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from
among the people."
Interesting.
The lies that reject Jesus Christ as you
watch the slow deterioration of a life who
continues to reject Jesus, just as the word
of God says.
Now, what was Jesus like?
Why would Moses say a prophet shall come
like unto me?
Well, first of all, look at the lives
of Moses and Jesus.
Moses survived being put to death by a
decree, by a leader, to kill all the
infants.
Jesus Christ survived Herod's decree to kill all
the babies.
You had Jesus Christ leaving the wealth.
It was actually Jesus Christ being raised by
another man, not his own father, Joseph.
You had Moses being raised by another man,
the Pharaoh, not his own father.
You had Jesus Christ leaving the wealth of
his father to deliver his people.
You had Moses leaving the wealth of the
Pharaoh to deliver his people.
You had Moses being rejected as a criminal
and a murderer, having to flee.
You had Jesus Christ being rejected as a
criminal, a common criminal, and put to death.
You had Moses after he was rejected in
his first attempt to deliver his people disappearing
for a long time.
Jesus Christ has disappeared from his people, the
Jews, for a long time.
While Moses is gone, he becomes a shepherd
and he marries a Gentile bride.
Jesus is a shepherd.
He's taking a Gentile bride to church.
Moses came back a second time and delivered
his people.
Jesus Christ is coming back a second time
and he will deliver his people.
And there's many, many more that I could
tell you.
I'll let you look at it and get
blessed.
So it shall come to pass that every
soul which will not hear that prophet shall
be destroyed from among the people.
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and
those that follow after, as many as have
spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
You are the children of the prophets and
of the covenant which God made with our
father, saying unto Abraham, and in my seed
shall all children of the earth be blessed.
That one seed that comes out of the
loins of Abraham, and then God made that
statement to David.
It's a seed, not seed.
The seed being Christ, Paul brings out in
the book of Galatians.
That seed is Christ.
And not only to the Jews, but all
of us Gentiles are being blessed.
We've been given new life by Abraham's seed,
the son of God, the Messiah, the Savior
of the world, Jesus Christ, God's own son,
whom man crucified, but God raised him from
the dead for our eternal life, for our
redemption.
And unto you first, the Jew, God having
raised up this son, Jesus, sent him to
bless you in turning away every one of
you from his iniquities.
Only God can turn us away from our
iniquities.
I've met so many people in so many
programs, and they may get in a program,
and that program deals with one iniquity, but
then they get into another iniquity.
They're free from that iniquity because of the
program, but they sometimes are driven into another
iniquity.
And you run out of programs.
Why not just take the one step and
get right to the guy who can free
you from all iniquity, Jesus Christ.
He's got the power.
He's got the love.
Or you're never going to be free from
that iniquity, no matter what you do.
What kind of a program?
You can get hypnotized.
You can say whatever you want to, read
this, read that, take that in the mail,
join this.
Now, what happens?
How can we be free from our iniquity?
We're crucifying Christ.
Put to death.
And see, then that old sin nature is
gone.
It can't just continue.
That old man's dead, and then Christ comes
in and dwells within you.
You've got a new life, a new power
growing within you, giving you power over that
iniquity, leading us away from that iniquity, giving
us new desires, fulfilling us in ways that
are free from iniquity.
I'm fulfilled now in doing things that are
not sinful.
Life is satisfying.
I've experienced the prince of life.
Shall we stand?
Well, we got through it a little longer
than I thought, but I had so much
in chapter 2, seeing what the Lord does,
I pray that God has spoken to your
heart and you realize how wonderful it is.
I would pray that there's nobody here tonight
that really hasn't made that decision for Jesus
Christ yet.
Or maybe you did some time ago and
something in your life has turned you off
to Christianity and it's made you doubt Jesus.
Doubt people, doubt organizations, doubt movements, but don't
doubt Jesus.
Maybe tonight you need to renew yourself.
You need to open your heart afresh and
realize how wonderful he can be, and he's
the one that will fulfill, and he's the
one that will free from iniquity.
He has the power, and he'll fill you
with a love that doesn't compare with anything
on this world, a love and a peace
and a joy that you can't comprehend.
It's past understanding and it's wonderful.
Father, we thank you what the real church
is like and can be like.
We thank you, dear Lord, for the faith
that you will grant to us and the
opportunity to have our faith grow.
And we pray, dear Father, that we be
faithful to you, that Jesus Christ would receive
all the glory, that you would begin to
use us, Lord, and oh, what fulfillment, what
joy it is, what purpose in life when
you begin to use us.
Oh, it's wonderful, Lord, to see you touch
lives, to see your light come upon darkness,
and to turn a life around.
Oh, Lord, we thank you for that.
Enable us, dear Lord, to be faithful to
you and give you all the glory.
And, Lord, may we be sensitive to those
around us as we enter into places that
we might offer Jesus Christ.
In his name we pray.
May the Lord richly bless you as you
continue to study his word.
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