He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.And leaping up, he stood, and began to walk; and he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
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… Three effects of when we care sacrificially like Peter and John have done in Acts 3, verse 1-10. See what happens. First of all, verse 11, the crowd was attracted together. All these people come running to see what has happened. They come running to these people called Christians to say, what's the deal? What's going on here? because they had seen the care of Christ in Peter and John and what had happened, this wonder, it drew a crowd there. I want you to think of the implications there for our culture today. How many people that are hardened toward the Gospel, how many people that in our lives, here even in Birmingham but other places in the United States as well as around the world, who want nothing to do with the Gospel, that their hearts would be softened if they only saw an expression of the grace and love and mercy of Christ in a sacrificial care that goes completely counter-cultural in reaching out to them. It's amazing what happens when sacrificial care begins to be expressed. …
… you can't work around. And in Oakland, something happened. I was in the middle of my sermon. I was preaching on Acts chapter three, verses one through 10. The message was called surprise. And I was talking about Peter and John at the gate called beautiful. And a man showed up and he wasn't expecting to get healed, and they weren't expecting to be healers, but surprise. Right when I'm revving up, I've gotten my background covered, all the lights in the whole arena go out. Not gradually, not dimmed. Out. I'm thinking, huh, that's weird. They'll come back on in a minute. Six minutes and 45 seconds. No, I'm not exaggerating. It felt like six years. It felt like six years, because all the lights go out. The first thing I think the whole audience thought was, oh, this is a part of his sermon. So I tell them real quickly, I'm like, this is not a part of my sermon. I'm standing up there. Ten seconds goes by. …
… but if you go down in your Bible Acts chapter 3 verse 8 I'm leaping. in verse 2 I was sorrowful but oh in verse 8 I'm shouting and I know you don't understand somebody walk out here on stage looking like this you don't even understand because you see my joy but you don't know my journey you see my adoration but you don't see my complication and God has been real good to me I've come a long way from verse 2 I'm over in verse 8 and if you happen to read Acts chapter 4 verse 22 it's going to tell you how old I am I'm older than 40 years old it's been 19 months I ain't been in the sanctuary in 19 months church been closed now in 19 months I don't know when pastor is going to open back up listen I don't feel bad for none of y'all because for all of my life over 40 years I've never been able to go in the temple because of my ailment. …