Post by Les Brewer on Aug 26, 2014 14:04:52 GMT
God’s Purpose for Miracles (Acts 3:1–11)
We are, on Sunday nights, taking a look at the Book of Acts, the history of the early church, if you will, the acts of Christ through the Holy Spirit as He finishes His work through the apostles, proclaiming the gospel and establishing His church. We find ourselves in chapter 3, so if you will, turn in your Bible to chapter 3, and I want us to take a look at verses 1 to 11. I’m always challenged to go through an entire passage like this, as you well know, but for the sake of getting the whole picture in these wonderful passages, we’re doing our best to compress them.
We have, in chapter 3 verses 1 to 11, a miracle here, one of many miracles, by the way, that were going on at this time in the early development of the church. If you go back a little bit into verse 43 of chapter 2, when the church was born, everyone kept feeling a sense of awe, “and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles.” The miracles that were common in the ministry of our Lord and the delegated power to do miracles that He granted to His apostles were still going on. He had ascended by this time into heaven; the apostles were still there, and they were doing miracles to validate themselves as the messengers of God.
To continue the text sermon please follow this link www.gty.org/resources/sermons/44-14
We are, on Sunday nights, taking a look at the Book of Acts, the history of the early church, if you will, the acts of Christ through the Holy Spirit as He finishes His work through the apostles, proclaiming the gospel and establishing His church. We find ourselves in chapter 3, so if you will, turn in your Bible to chapter 3, and I want us to take a look at verses 1 to 11. I’m always challenged to go through an entire passage like this, as you well know, but for the sake of getting the whole picture in these wonderful passages, we’re doing our best to compress them.
We have, in chapter 3 verses 1 to 11, a miracle here, one of many miracles, by the way, that were going on at this time in the early development of the church. If you go back a little bit into verse 43 of chapter 2, when the church was born, everyone kept feeling a sense of awe, “and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles.” The miracles that were common in the ministry of our Lord and the delegated power to do miracles that He granted to His apostles were still going on. He had ascended by this time into heaven; the apostles were still there, and they were doing miracles to validate themselves as the messengers of God.
To continue the text sermon please follow this link www.gty.org/resources/sermons/44-14
