the charges Peter leveled at the crowd.
12 When Peter saw this, he addressed the people:
“Fellow Israelites, why are you amazed at this?
Why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?
13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus,
whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.
14 You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer released to you.
15 You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead;
we are witnesses of this.
16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong,
whom you see and know.
So the faith that comes through Jesus has given him this perfect health in front of all of you.”
Believers should appropriately point others to Jesus.
Summarize the events at the temple gate in Acts 3:1-11.
the new church continued to grow, Peter and John took on ositions of leadership.
the Christian believers were still visiting the temple for regular times of prayer.
Note: the members of the early church were not going up to the temple for sacrifice.
Jesus had already presented Himself as the final sacrifice,
Instead, the Christians in Jerusalem would visit the temple to focus on prayer and evangelism.One day, Peter and John were heading into the temple for one of these prayer meetings
when they encountered a man who had been unable to walk his entire life.
Someone had placed him at the Beautiful Gate, one of the primary entries for the temple,
and he had been begging from people as they approached (Acts 3:2).
When the apostles came along, Peter told the man that they had no money to give.
In Jesus’s name, he commanded the beggar to get up and walk (3:6).
The man immediately obeyed, and he quickly went from walking to leaping, praising God the whole time (3:8).Peter’s miracle by the Spirit’s power was similar to the healings of Jesus
the man was healed completely.
also because the one who was healed praised and gave glory to God.
It is different, though, since Peter clearly acted under Jesus’s authority and in Jesus’s name.
Jesus never needed to appeal to anyone or anything outside Himself.people saw that the lame man had been healed, they were “filled with awe and astonishment” (3:10).
The astonishment gave Peter and John a chance to speak about the power of God
and to challenge the people gathered to believe that Jesus really was the Messiah they had been seeking.The crowd met the apostles at a place called Solomon’s Colonnade.
In this area of the temple, rabbis often met with their disciples for teaching and dialogue.
God used this area dedicated to the study of the law to reveal how Jesus was the One who fulfilled all that teaching.
He was the One the Torah and the prophets had anticipated.In the end, another five thousand people were added to the church that day.
God continued to work through the apostles as they declared that the messianic age has come.
Hope, life, and restoration are found in Jesus alone.
Peter wasted no time in seizing an opportunity to share Christ.
identify the key points in Peter’s sermon
using Pack Item 9 (Handout: Peter’s Sermons in Acts)
Peter pointed others to Jesus. He gave Jesus credit for healing the man, and He identified Jesus as the Messiah. The key to any witnessing opportunity is our ability to share Jesus for who He really is in order to point people toward Him.
Our own power or godliness
Peter made in abundantly clear that he did not heal the man through his own power. Peter had no reason to brag or bring attention to himself. He also could not claim any special form of godliness. Peter was working through the power of the Holy Spirit and pointing people to the Savior.