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acts 14 look at this this man and Paul
and Barnabas were preaching the gospel
there and in lstra by the way I've been
to lra it is now in in uh uh turkey amen
I was there a few years ago and very
interesting place a certain man was
without strength in his feet was seting
a from his mother's womb a
from his mother's womb now which
doctor wants to undertake that not many
all right a sounds like he needs
from his mother's womb a
miracle he was sitting there who had
never
walked not even as a child from his
mother's womb okay how do you solve a
problem like
that some say we just have to accept it
well you know what this guy did Paul and
Barnabas were preaching to go gospel
this man heard Paul
speaking this man heard Paul speaking by
the way the word heard in the Greek is
in the present continuous sorry uh
imperfect tense imperfect means he kept
on hearing perfect means once and for
all but imperfect means he kept on kept
on kept on hearing and hearing and
hearing he kept on hearing Paul
speaking Paul OB observing him intently
and seeing that he had Faith to be
healed said with a loud voice stand up
straight on your feet and he liap and
walked never walked before crippled from
his mother's womb in one one one one
blow One
swipe he jumped and walked it's a year
of
walking and possessing the man walked
now
the thing is this we all like verse 10
we all want to see that happened to our
loved one where the tumor disappears
gone like what we heard just now where
the disease is no more there we want we
want verse 10 we want that result but
look at that before that
happens verse 9 says Paul saw that he
had Faith this man had
Faith to be healed but there were other
people listening but this man the Holy
Spirit single him out he had Faith to be
healed why why do he have faith to be
healed we all know that we need Faith to
receive from God Amen the one of the
biggest complaints I don't have faith
like Caleb like Joshua you know no
friend Faith you don't have faith faith
cometh cometh you don't have faith faith
cometh coming coming coming Faith
cometh by hearing stop complaining you
don't have faith start
hearing
faith when look upon takes wings and
fly God's word when you are
hearing imparts faith faith when you
look upon it it flies away don't look at
Faith look at Jesus and Faith
remains now before his Miracle we all
want a miracle but take one step back
before the miracle he had Faith to be
healed how come he had Faith to be
healed this man heard Paul speaking the
word heard there what he kept on
hearing present sorry uh imperfect tense
but active voice he kept on hearing now
what does that mean maybe Paul preached
the same sermon in the same place and
the people come to carry him no no no
leave me alone I want to I want to hear
again I want to hear again I want to
hear again because in those days they
don't have iPod they don't have all
these things so they have to hear again
or maybe Paul push somewhere else change
location and he would tell his friends
carry me there carry me there he kept on
hearing
how come I'm not healed Pastor Prince
how come I'm
not he kept on
hearing okay so the miracle how did the
mirac happen he had Faith to be healed
how come he had Faith to be healed he
kept on
hearing all right what did he hear next
question all right go back again they
were preach Paul and baras were
preaching the gospel
there now here is where some people say
well we also preach the gospel not
everyone that says they preach the
gospel is preaching the
gospel all right would you like to know
what's the gospel I'm going to tell you
anyway this is verse 7 right acts 14:7
just four verses before this it tells
you what they were preaching go back
four verses therefore Paul and Barnabas
stayed there a long time speaking boldly
in the Lord who was bearing witness to
the word of his grace granting signs and
wonders to be done by their hands what
was the Gospel that Paul preached the
word of his
grace what did God do through the word
of his grace God was bearing witness
granting signs and wonders to what the
word of his grace when Grace is preached
make sure the sermon you are hearing and
I know this house I think is full of
grace
that's why I I I I I cannot speak for
certain of who you are hearing whether
the person has the same thing there was
everyone will say we are preaching the
gospel and you hardly hear Grace
sometimes see God God God's word is very
clear in the passage the context context
is King is preaching the gospel what's
the gospel the word of his grace and
what was God doing granting signs to
witness the word of his grace well well
Pastor Prince I I just don't believe the
kind of Grace that you teach well what's
the kind of Grace I teach you tell
people that their sins are forgiven
without telling them to repent okay and
you tell them that they're no longer
under law and yet they are righteous in
Christ okay now you you accuse me of all
that I must answer
right okay this is acts 14 right so what
what kind of word of his grace did Paul
and Barnabas preach I'm so glad this is
acts 14 the chapter before this is acts
13 and in Acts 13 we have a whole word
for word documentation of what Paul
preached would you like to see it and
let's see what Paul preached we canot
see the whole thing we just have to see
the climax the F the final part Paul was
in synagogue and Paul said this
therefore to all the people in the
synagogue let it be known to you that
through this man Jesus Christ is
preached to you the Forgiveness of sins
now wait a minute Paul wait a minute you
you you you didn't say repent wait wait
wait wait Paul Paul Paul you must make
sure that they repent before you say
they are forgiven wait wait wait wait
wait wait Paul Paul this is a synagogue
this is not a church hey Paul how do you
know these people taking your your your
sermon in the right Spirit you just said
that by this man is preached to you the
Forgiveness of sins how can you tell
that you must qualify your sermon you
must you must put barriers and and
fences so that they don't abuse it how
can you just say in a full unqualified
way that they are forgiven through Jesus
Christ Paul obviously knew something
these people
don't Paul knew if he proclaim a full
unqualified gospel it will produce
repentance without even having to preach
repentance how about the next one Paul
says to them and by him by Jesus Christ
by Christ everyone say everyone everyone
who believes is Justified made righteous
from how many things from all things
from which you could not be justified by
the law of
Moses so let's put them all
together Paul preached the word of his
grace full and
qualified does it mean everybody is safe
in the world no you must believe but
full
Proclamation full Proclamation will
produce the
result of repentance Revelation and then
people receive then not only that Paul
also preached that we are not
justified by the law of Moses when we
believe on Jesus we are just ified from
all
things right that's the gospel he
preached and that's the gospel the
crippled man heard and that's the gospel
that he received his
Miracle so guess what's going to happen
when you keep on hearing let the
you might be crippled in your
relationship you might be crippled in
your communication maybe you are shy
very shy maybe you're crippled
emotionally yeah even from your mother's
womb but there's a miracle for you you
with your name on it but it comes to you
when you're
hearing not when you're working does
this help
you
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jabz called on the god of Israel saying
oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed
and enlarge my C and that thine hand
might be with me and that thou would
keep me from Evil that he may not grief
me
a lot of
me did you hear that and God granted him
what he requested you know what God says
of this prayer they say when we pray for
health and all kind of thing they say
that we are being selfish God calls Jes
verse 9 jabz was more
honorable he was more honorable the word
honorable is the word
glory in Hebrew he had the weightiness
about him he had the glory hey God says
when you pray press like
this you are more honorable than people
who
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don't believe right about God can you
trust a God who gave up the best Heaven
has the son that he loved how he must
have pained God's heart to give up that
son and delivered him to what to what to
glory to fame no delivered him up to
shame and
speing and
finally
death for us
all can we trust this God has he not
with him also freely given p stand
doesn't say given right even though it's
true God has given us everything when he
gave us Jesus but this is not what the
verse is saying this verse is saying how
shall say shall you know what shall
present tense and future tense means
from now on if God gave us his son I'm
telling you from now on how will he not
present and in the future the forever
and ever God will always show and
manifest himself as the one great
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