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Today on Summit Life with JD. Greer.
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You've got an opinion about Jesus.
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God has an opinion too, and God verified his through
miracles and through the resurrection. God declared him to be
the Lord. God declared him to be the salvation that
he gave from heaven. God declared him to be an
invitation for you to come home. I know you've got
an opinion about Jesus, but God said, that's my man,
That's the one I said. Are you listening to him?
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Hello, and welcome to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry
of pastor, author and apologist JD.
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Greer.
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As always, I'm your host Molly Videvich. Now, no one
can deny that there's plenty of suffering in the world today.
I mean, just turn on the evening news or scroll
through social media or read the newspaper, and we all
wonder one thing, really, why is that how the world
is supposed to be?
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Well?
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Thankfully today, Pastor JD explains that in the world to come,
God has a different plan for our lives, which doesn't
necessarily remove all of the troubles of today, but it
does bring us hope that it won't always be this way,
if you missed any of the previous teaching in this series,
you can always find it online at Jdgreer dot com.
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But for now, let's join Pastor JD in Acts Chapter three.
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You know, if you like to watch movies, you realize
that actors have a tendency to get typecast. You start
to know what to expect when you see a certain
person in a certain role. Some actors are known as
action heroes. Some are always buffoons. Some of them are
the wise, cracking sidekick. Whenever Tom Cruise stars in a film,
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I know to in fact the macho, insecure guy with
daddy issues. Right, Vin Diesel is never going to be
the articulate, witty, romantic type. You never hear that the
lead role in a certain movie has come down to
two people, Tatum or Kevin James. Right, Tatum only plays
Tatum roles. James only plays James trolls you. Grant is
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never going to play the role of a man, okay
in any movie. Nicholas Cage is never going to be
anything but awesome.
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All right, so you a tite cast.
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I read an article the other day that explained that
the church has been typecast in our society for many people.
The role that we play in society, not just us
as a summit church, but the church in general, and
the role we play is as antagonists to progress. So
whenever we're brought up we're morally regressive. We are against
the progress of science, we are against the development of
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good culture. Now that's not a new characterization. In fact,
if you study church history all the way back to Acts,
you'll find that the people of God have always been
regarded by the people of the world as those who
are enemies of the state, those who are hateful people,
and so forth. But what I want to try to
show you this weekend is that while that characterization is
not new, it is not at all accurate. And we're
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going to do that by looking at the first miracle
that we find in the Book of Acts. So, if
you have your Bible, if you would turn it on,
it figured you people out if you would turn it
on and you would scroll down to Acts three, We're
going to look at the first miracle in Acts. This
is the first post Jesus miracle and it involves Peter
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and John healing a guy. Now, physical healing is going
to occur frequently throughout the Book of Acts fourteen times
total in twelve of twenty eight chapters.
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In Acts, Acts three is the first instance.
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And some scholars say that if you understand this miracle,
you understand this one in a way, you're going to
understand all of them. Right, So we're going to look
at this one miracle as a way of kind of
understanding every miracle that takes place in the Book of Acts.
This miracle shows you how God feels about suffering in
the world and what He is doing about it. And
it shows you what He is saying to us in
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that suffering. And it shows us as a church, what
our mission is in the world in light of suffering.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna walk you
through this miracle and give you Peter's explanation of it.
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And at the end, I'm going to try.
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To answer several questions about physical healing that I often
get asked. Act chapter three. Let me summarize first eleven verses.
Miracle basically goes like this. Peter and John are going
to the temple, as they often do. As they're going in,
they see a guy there that they've seen many times,
but he's lame, can't walk and he's been that way
from his birth. So he holds up his hand and
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he says, sirs, may I have some money. He's a beggar,
he's been that way for as long as he has
been alive. Peter and John look at this man. Peter
looks him right in the eyes, and he says, I
don't have any money. I'm a poor you know evangelist.
He says, but silver and gold have a numb. But
what I do have I give to you in the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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Rise up and walk.
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And he reaches out his hand to this guy to
give him an opportunity to show faith.
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And this guy, you.
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Can almost kind of feel it for a minute, as
is he being made a fool of what's happening. He
reaches out his hand in faith and grabs hold of
Peter's hand, and the text says, immediately he leaves up,
which is a great way of.
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Thinking about this.
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I mean, he didn't like, you know, crawl up and start,
you know, walk in and then run. Like a month later,
he just jumps up immediately and does something on you
know whatever in the air, and he starts jumping up
and down and running around the temple court and seeing
how hi he can, you know, he touch things and
leaving and praising God. Well, this is caused, as you
can imagine, quite a commotion because everybody knows this guy.
He's been a staple in the temple. I'm right outside
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of it for years. And so there's this big commotion,
and a huge crowd gathers to ask what's happening, because
they're all amazed, and so Peter stands out verse twelve. Then,
of Israel, why.
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Do you wonder at this or why do you stare
at us?
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Though by our own power of piety we've made this
man walk. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers,
has glorified his servant, Jesus, whom you delivered over and
denied and residence of Pilot when Pilot had decided to
release him.
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You killed the author of.
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Life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we
are witnesses. You see his name. By faith in his
name has made this man whom you see and know,
He has made him strong. And the faith that is
through Jesus has given this man this perfect health in
the presence of all of you, and now, brothers, I
know that you acted in ignorance, just like your rulers did.
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Repent then and turn to God, so that your sins
may be wiped out, and that times of refreshing may
come from the Lord, that he may send again the
Messiah who has been appointed for you.
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Even Jesus, the one.
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You rejected heaven, had to receive him until the time
comes for God to restore everything, just like he promised
long ago through his Holy prophets.
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Verse twenty two.
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Moses said, the Lord God will raise up for you
a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen
to him and whatever he tells you, and it shall
be that every soul who does not live listen to
that prophet shall be destroyed from the people. One commentator
that I was listening to reading said that this Peter's
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explanation of this miracle.
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Shows you four different.
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Directions, that this miracle points four different directions this miracle point.
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So I want to give those to you and.
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Show you how you learn what is happening in these
miracles through these four directions.
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First direction is upward.
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It points upward to God's authentication of Jesus.
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Everybody point upward.
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We're gonna do a TPR total physical response learning technique. Okay,
all right, you teachers impressed, I know that right, So
everybody upward, all right, put your hands down upward to
God's authentication of Jesus Verse fifteen. You killed the author
of life, but God rais him from the dead, and
then we're witnesses of that. And then by Jesus's resurrected name,
that's how we gave this man's strength, a resurrect from
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his laying position and begin to walk. Miracles were God's
validation of the apostles. It was like a find signature
that God put on their message, showing that it was
not forged. I showed you last week that prophecy was
another signature. Miracles are the other one. The writer of
Hebrews says it this way. Listen, Our great salvation was
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declared at first by Jesus, by the Lord, but then
it was attested to us by those who heard, meaning
the apostles. God also bearing witness by signs and wonders
and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Miracles were God's way of saying these guys are really
from me. The message they're given is accurate. It's what
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I want the world to know. You See, if you've
got two contradictory opinions about Jesus, you should take the
one that is validated by miracles.
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Right.
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Shoving God in wherever there's a gap in knowledge is
bad scientific technique because that technique will keep us from
discovering things God wants us to know about the world.
God made the world to run according to the law,
and if we keep pressing on scientific and historical problems,
we can almost always discover those laws. And it's kind
of like if you're trying to figure out a magician's tricks.
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Seen a magician, like how does he do that? It
looks like magic.
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If you really want to figure out what he or
she is doing, take off the table that you know
Hogwarts is real, you know, and there really is like
magicians who can do that.
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You know, it's always a trick of some kind. If
you want to.
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Press through to figure it out, you got to take
off the table that there's a supernatural explanation. Right. So
when it comes to these things, I fully buy into
that method. But having said that, there are certain times
in history so extraordinary that any reasonable consideration that you
give to them must conclude that they've got to be
There's got to be some kind of divine in there.
I mean, the very beginning of the world is like that.
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Regardless of whether you believe in you know, special creation
or evolution.
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You got the problem of where's it all come from.
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The idea that nothing times nobody equals everything is not
compelling at all. Right, Well, the events of Jesus's life
and resurrection are.
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Also in that category. He said.
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Well, I'm an educated person and I just don't want
to believe in miracles.
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Look, here's a news flash.
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If you believe in God, you're acknowledging the possibility of miracles.
There's no miracle greater than the statement in the beginning.
God created the heavens and the earth. So if you
believe in God, you have to accept the possibility of
a miracle. A God who created the laws of the
universe could certainly suspend them.
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I remember hearing a story of a little girl, and
she's twelve years old in the sunny school.
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Class prone to ask questions, as they often are the
central teacher teaching about Jonah and the Big Fish or
the whale and she's like, well, okay, wait a minute, Seriously,
how did the fish know exactly where to be in
the ocean when Jonah got thrown overboard? And how did
he stay alive in there for three days?
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You know?
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Where did he get air? And how did the fish
know exactly where to fit him?
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Ops?
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Well, you go preaching Nenema really and the teacher's like, well,
I mean, you know God made the fish?
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God, did you know?
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And she's like, well, yeah, if you bring God into it,
you know, then that's an explanation.
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But that's kind of the point.
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There are certain places, like around Jesus's life and resurrection,
that you can't just take God off the table to
being closed minded.
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You really have two choices.
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You're either a committed avowed atheist or you allow the
possibility of miracles.
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Those are really the only two categories.
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Now, again that doesn't mean that's the way the universe
normally works, but God surrounded the ministry of Jesus with
miracles authenticating the message, and there's really no other good
explanation for the events of Jesus' life and the birth
of the church besides that. Now, having said that to you,
I will tell you that the miracles are really just there.
They're kind of like fireworks or kind of like a
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firecrick or disrect your attention to Jesus, because if you
really want a solid foundation for your faith, don't put
it in the miracles. Put it in Jesus. That's my
faith is not rest on the evidence for miracles. My
faith rest on the character and the beauty of the
God Man that came, the beauty of Jesus Christ.
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That's when you become really convinced.
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Or I love how one guy says that God did
not give us a watertight argument. He gave us a
water tight person, right, and the arguments are just there
to kind of like flash for you so that you
will consider the So if you doubt this, just get
into Jesus and look at who he is. Let the
miracles at least raise your awareness of who is this
man who came claiming to be God, claiming to be
the Holy One, to die for my sin, to rescue me.
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Let me ask you the same question that Peter asked
this group. Have you listened to Jesus? That's the way
he concludes, is right. Every soul who does not listen
to that prophet will be destroyed from the people.
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You've got an opinion about Jesus.
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God has an opinion too, and God verified his through
miracles and through the resurrection. God declared him to be
the Lord. God declared him to be the salvation that
he gave from heaven. God declared him to be an
invitation for you to come home. I know you've got
an opinion about Jesus, but God said, that's my man.
That's the one I said. Are you listening to him?
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There's too much happening back here for you just to
relegate this as to something you're going to get to
when you're in your fifties. Are you listening to that
prophet because he came with power and that power demands
your attention, because he came as the Lord to be
your savior, Which leads me to number two. This miracle
points everybody point out upwards. Number two, This miracle points forward.
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Everybody point forward. Everybody Okay. That means you people on
the back, Okay, I'm pointing at you right now, forward right, everybody,
point forward to the future restoration, points upward to the
authentication from heaven. It points forward to Jesus' future reservation.
Peter verse twenty one says that this healing is a
sign of the coming restoration of all.
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Things that God has promised.
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You see, Jews would have recognized the healing of this
layman as a fulfillment of Isaiah thirty five six.
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When Isaiah prophet.
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Size the future restoration that God brings to the world,
he says, this, then shall the lame man leap.
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Like a deer.
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That's what's significant about the man getting up and immediately
doing a cartwheel.
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He's leap. I'm not that deer's do cartwheel, but you
know what I mean, he's leaping. He's fulfilling this verse.
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Isaiah explained that when God sent a messiah, he would
purchase healing for the whole world Isaiah fifty three five.
By his wounds, we will be healed, and through his
work all the pain of the earth would be reversed.
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In fact, this was end my time with God this week.
That's still so beautiful these passages I was reading.
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The lion will lay down with the lamb, and the
infant will play near the cobra's den. The young child
will put his hand into the viper's nest. I mean,
they do that anyway, but it'll be okay. You know
when they do it, they will neither harm. There will
be no harm or destruction on all my holy mountain,
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of
the Lord.
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As the waters cover the sea.
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Then will the eyes of the blind be open, and
the ears of the death unstopped.
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Then the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue.
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Will shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become
a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. Look around you
and see for all your children will.
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Come back to you.
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You that have lost children, they'll come back to you.
They will carry your little sons back to you in
their arms. They will bring back your daughters on the
shoulders of angels.
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That's the future. That's the future. Now this is important.
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Does that mean that from now on, anyone who believes
in Jesus is going to be healed.
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Well, no not now.
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You see there were lots of lame people at the temple.
This is not the only guy. Peter only healed that one.
This healing, get this, this is so important, was a
sign of the full restoration coming in the future. You see,
not only did the apostles message point upward to God's
authentication of the message, the miracle pointed forward to the
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kind of restoration that Jesus was going to.
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Bring to the whole world. I've explained this to you before.
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Jesus's miracles were not simply magic shows about how powerful
he was. If Jesus wanted to prove how powerful he was,
he could have written his name in the sky with
his finger, right, But that's not the kind of miracles
that he did. Every miracle that Jesus and the Apostles
did was an alleviation of suffering everyone. They pointed to
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Jesus's saving purpose. I've heard it said like this. Jesus
miracles did not show off the naked fact of his power.
Jesus miracles revealed the redemptive purpose of his power.
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We follow that.
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So he healed leprosy, he cured blindness, He stopped storms,
he raised the dead. These miracles show us that God
is no happier with the world and the condition that
it's in. Then you or I are happy with it.
God did not create the world with pain, with blindness, disease,
or death. That all came to the corruption of sin.
Pain and disease are not natural to a world that
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is now read in tooth and claw. Those are foreign
to the world. They are introduced by the rebellion of
our world against God.
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And these miracles point.
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Us to the world, back to the world as God
created it to be, and the world as God wants
it to be again, and the world as God will
one day make it again. You've heard me say this before.
Miracles are not a suspension of the natural order. Miracles
are a return to the natural order. Jesus healings are
the only natural things in a world that is unnatural, demonized,
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and wounded. To those of you who are in pain,
see that is your great hope, and that is your
sustaining joy.
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It's temporary. You can listen to it.
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The mute mute tongue will one day shall for joy
the years of the death are unstopped. It will bring
back your little sons in their arms. They'll carry your
daughters back to you on the shoulders of angels. That's
the future that God has prophesied for you. I remember
reading the biography of Joonie Ericson.
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Todde years ago.
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She's probably in her sixties now, but when she was
a teenager, she had a diving accident, broke her neck,
paralyzed from the neck downs quadriprilegian.
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She still had full, you know, use of her facial.
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Features and and her you know, her head, but she
you couldn't move anything from her neck down. God used
that to bring Joni Ericson Toadda back to himself. And
she talked about in her biography and just about how
what life is like for her, but how joyous it
is to have been reunited to God, and that if
this is what it took for God to get her attention,
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then she would one day think of that as the
greatest blessing that God put.
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In her life.
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But then she begins to kind of dream a little
bit about heaven in a way that only she or
you and I probably are not as able to do it.
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And she said this, and I just think this is
so beautiful.
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She said one day in heaven at that great marriage
Supper of the Lamb. The first thing I think I'll
do on my newly resurrected legs is fall to my
glorified knees and praise the God of resurrection and healing.
And then I will stand and dance before him with
all of my mind. That's the future for those of
you who are in pain. Do you want that future healing?
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Don't you know by the way deep down that you're
made for that kind of healing. Don't you know that
you are created to be in a world without brokenness
and pain?
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Don't you know that?
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But for the people of God, He says, this is
what I have coming for you, that which you are
created for, that which I am doing. I will one
day make every sad thing come untrue, and one day
there will be no more pain, no more crime, and
I will remove every bit of disease and death because
I created you to walk with me, to walk in
my blessing.
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Do you want that? Do you want that?
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Then you've got to repent towards Jesus, for only in
Him is that healing found. And the only ones who
will go into that blessed eternity are those who have
surrendered and been reconciled to God through Him, Which leads
me to number three points. I could see you people
a chapel hill, raise your end. It points upward to
God's authentication of Jesus. It points forward to the coming restoration.
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It points inward. He got fake you out in the who.
It points inward inward to our soul's need of salvation.
It points inward to our soul's need of salvation. The
physical ailments of some point of the heart condition of
all you see. Some people are physically blind, but Ephesian
says we're all spiritually blind. The physical sickness of our
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bodies points to the inward sickness of our souls.
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Now, do not under misunderstand me.
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I am not saying that if you have a physical ailment,
it points to something uniquely wrong with you, as if
the reason you have that physical problem is because of
a spiritual problem.
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I'm speaking in a general sense. I am saying that the.
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Physical brokenness of the world you know all over the
place is a sign to us of the broken condition
of our and our disconnect from God. Our world is
physically sick because we're spiritually sick. Our world experience is
physical death because we are dead in our tresfast as
and sin. So the miracles of Jesus and the apostles
are a message about the salvation that.
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Jesus can bring to our souls. The lame guy asks
for money. He thinks that's going to be the greatest
blessing he can get.
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Right, if I can just have some money, right, And
Peter says, look, I don't have any money, but what
I do have, I got something better. I got some better,
I get something deeper, Rise up and walk. But then
the guy goes on to become a disciple of Jesus.
You'll see that in chapter four, which is the greatest
of all the gifts that Peter could have.
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Given to him.
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You see, as bad as suffering is, there's something worse.
As bad as physical suffering is, there's something worse, and
that is being crippled by our sin.
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You were listening to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry
of pastor, author and apologist JD.
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Greer.
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Listen online or download the complete unedited transcripts free of
charge when you visit us at Jdgreer dot com. A
little while ago, I said down with Pastor JD to
ask him what he hopes and praise for. As people
open up his new book, Twelve Truths in a Lie,
here's what he had to say.
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Well, first of all, this is one of those books
that every single chapter stands on its own. As with
all these things, I wanted to help people understand and
be more confident in their walt with God. I pray
over everything I've ever written that it would it would
it would introduce people who don't know Jesus to him,
That it would strengthen those who know Jesus to be
more confident in him, to love him more, to trust
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him more, and.
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That it would light a fire. It would be part
of the.
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Motivation of sending them out into the fields Jesus said
that were white under harvest. So that's really kind of
the heart behind this book. Has taken twelve of the
most difficult questions that we either ask as Christians or
we get asked as Christians. A lie in the book
is that the presence of these kinds of questions, the
presence of doubts, means there's something.
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Defective about your faith.
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The majority of our Bible was written by people who
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they learned to.
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Try us God through the doubts.
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Today on Summit Life with JD. Greer.
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You've got an opinion about Jesus.
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God has an opinion too, and God verified his through
miracles and through the resurrection. God declared him to be
the Lord. God declared him to be the salvation that
he gave from heaven. God declared him to be an
invitation for you to come home. I know you've got
an opinion about Jesus, but God said, that's my man,
That's the one I said. Are you listening to him?
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Hello, and welcome to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry
of pastor, author and apologist JD.
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Greer.
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As always, I'm your host Molly Videvich. Now, no one
can deny that there's plenty of suffering in the world today.
I mean, just turn on the evening news or scroll
through social media or read the newspaper, and we all
wonder one thing, really, why is that how the world
is supposed to be?
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Well?
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Thankfully today, Pastor JD explains that in the world to come,
God has a different plan for our lives, which doesn't
necessarily remove all of the troubles of today, but it
does bring us hope that it won't always be this way,
if you missed any of the previous teaching in this series,
you can always find it online at Jdgreer dot com.
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But for now, let's join Pastor JD in Acts Chapter three.
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You know, if you like to watch movies, you realize
that actors have a tendency to get typecast. You start
to know what to expect when you see a certain
person in a certain role. Some actors are known as
action heroes. Some are always buffoons. Some of them are
the wise, cracking sidekick. Whenever Tom Cruise stars in a film,
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I know to in fact the macho, insecure guy with
daddy issues. Right, Vin Diesel is never going to be
the articulate, witty, romantic type. You never hear that the
lead role in a certain movie has come down to
two people, Tatum or Kevin James. Right, Tatum only plays
Tatum roles. James only plays James trolls you. Grant is
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never going to play the role of a man, okay
in any movie. Nicholas Cage is never going to be
anything but awesome.
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All right, so you a tite cast.
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I read an article the other day that explained that
the church has been typecast in our society for many people.
The role that we play in society, not just us
as a summit church, but the church in general, and
the role we play is as antagonists to progress. So
whenever we're brought up we're morally regressive. We are against
the progress of science, we are against the development of
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good culture. Now that's not a new characterization. In fact,
if you study church history all the way back to Acts,
you'll find that the people of God have always been
regarded by the people of the world as those who
are enemies of the state, those who are hateful people,
and so forth. But what I want to try to
show you this weekend is that while that characterization is
not new, it is not at all accurate. And we're
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going to do that by looking at the first miracle
that we find in the Book of Acts. So, if
you have your Bible, if you would turn it on,
it figured you people out if you would turn it
on and you would scroll down to Acts three, We're
going to look at the first miracle in Acts. This
is the first post Jesus miracle and it involves Peter
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and John healing a guy. Now, physical healing is going
to occur frequently throughout the Book of Acts fourteen times
total in twelve of twenty eight chapters.
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In Acts, Acts three is the first instance.
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And some scholars say that if you understand this miracle,
you understand this one in a way, you're going to
understand all of them. Right, So we're going to look
at this one miracle as a way of kind of
understanding every miracle that takes place in the Book of Acts.
This miracle shows you how God feels about suffering in
the world and what He is doing about it. And
it shows you what He is saying to us in
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that suffering. And it shows us as a church, what
our mission is in the world in light of suffering.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna walk you
through this miracle and give you Peter's explanation of it.
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And at the end, I'm going to try.
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To answer several questions about physical healing that I often
get asked. Act chapter three. Let me summarize first eleven verses.
Miracle basically goes like this. Peter and John are going
to the temple, as they often do. As they're going in,
they see a guy there that they've seen many times,
but he's lame, can't walk and he's been that way
from his birth. So he holds up his hand and
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he says, sirs, may I have some money. He's a beggar,
he's been that way for as long as he has
been alive. Peter and John look at this man. Peter
looks him right in the eyes, and he says, I
don't have any money. I'm a poor you know evangelist.
He says, but silver and gold have a numb. But
what I do have I give to you in the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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Rise up and walk.
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And he reaches out his hand to this guy to
give him an opportunity to show faith.
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And this guy, you.
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Can almost kind of feel it for a minute, as
is he being made a fool of what's happening. He
reaches out his hand in faith and grabs hold of
Peter's hand, and the text says, immediately he leaves up,
which is a great way of.
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Thinking about this.
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I mean, he didn't like, you know, crawl up and start,
you know, walk in and then run. Like a month later,
he just jumps up immediately and does something on you
know whatever in the air, and he starts jumping up
and down and running around the temple court and seeing
how hi he can, you know, he touch things and
leaving and praising God. Well, this is caused, as you
can imagine, quite a commotion because everybody knows this guy.
He's been a staple in the temple. I'm right outside
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of it for years. And so there's this big commotion,
and a huge crowd gathers to ask what's happening, because
they're all amazed, and so Peter stands out verse twelve. Then,
of Israel, why.
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Do you wonder at this or why do you stare
at us?
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Though by our own power of piety we've made this
man walk. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers,
has glorified his servant, Jesus, whom you delivered over and
denied and residence of Pilot when Pilot had decided to
release him.
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You killed the author of.
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Life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we
are witnesses. You see his name. By faith in his
name has made this man whom you see and know,
He has made him strong. And the faith that is
through Jesus has given this man this perfect health in
the presence of all of you, and now, brothers, I
know that you acted in ignorance, just like your rulers did.
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Repent then and turn to God, so that your sins
may be wiped out, and that times of refreshing may
come from the Lord, that he may send again the
Messiah who has been appointed for you.
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Even Jesus, the one.
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You rejected heaven, had to receive him until the time
comes for God to restore everything, just like he promised
long ago through his Holy prophets.
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Verse twenty two.
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Moses said, the Lord God will raise up for you
a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen
to him and whatever he tells you, and it shall
be that every soul who does not live listen to
that prophet shall be destroyed from the people. One commentator
that I was listening to reading said that this Peter's
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explanation of this miracle.
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Shows you four different.
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Directions, that this miracle points four different directions this miracle point.
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So I want to give those to you and.
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Show you how you learn what is happening in these
miracles through these four directions.
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First direction is upward.
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It points upward to God's authentication of Jesus.
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Everybody point upward.
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We're gonna do a TPR total physical response learning technique. Okay,
all right, you teachers impressed, I know that right, So
everybody upward, all right, put your hands down upward to
God's authentication of Jesus Verse fifteen. You killed the author
of life, but God rais him from the dead, and
then we're witnesses of that. And then by Jesus's resurrected name,
that's how we gave this man's strength, a resurrect from
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his laying position and begin to walk. Miracles were God's
validation of the apostles. It was like a find signature
that God put on their message, showing that it was
not forged. I showed you last week that prophecy was
another signature. Miracles are the other one. The writer of
Hebrews says it this way. Listen, Our great salvation was
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declared at first by Jesus, by the Lord, but then
it was attested to us by those who heard, meaning
the apostles. God also bearing witness by signs and wonders
and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Miracles were God's way of saying these guys are really
from me. The message they're given is accurate. It's what
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I want the world to know. You See, if you've
got two contradictory opinions about Jesus, you should take the
one that is validated by miracles.
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Right.
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Shoving God in wherever there's a gap in knowledge is
bad scientific technique because that technique will keep us from
discovering things God wants us to know about the world.
God made the world to run according to the law,
and if we keep pressing on scientific and historical problems,
we can almost always discover those laws. And it's kind
of like if you're trying to figure out a magician's tricks.
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Seen a magician, like how does he do that? It
looks like magic.
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If you really want to figure out what he or
she is doing, take off the table that you know
Hogwarts is real, you know, and there really is like
magicians who can do that.
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You know, it's always a trick of some kind. If
you want to.
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Press through to figure it out, you got to take
off the table that there's a supernatural explanation. Right. So
when it comes to these things, I fully buy into
that method. But having said that, there are certain times
in history so extraordinary that any reasonable consideration that you
give to them must conclude that they've got to be
There's got to be some kind of divine in there.
I mean, the very beginning of the world is like that.
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Regardless of whether you believe in you know, special creation
or evolution.
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You got the problem of where's it all come from.
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The idea that nothing times nobody equals everything is not
compelling at all. Right, Well, the events of Jesus's life
and resurrection are.
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Also in that category. He said.
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Well, I'm an educated person and I just don't want
to believe in miracles.
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Look, here's a news flash.
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If you believe in God, you're acknowledging the possibility of miracles.
There's no miracle greater than the statement in the beginning.
God created the heavens and the earth. So if you
believe in God, you have to accept the possibility of
a miracle. A God who created the laws of the
universe could certainly suspend them.
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I remember hearing a story of a little girl, and
she's twelve years old in the sunny school.
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Class prone to ask questions, as they often are the
central teacher teaching about Jonah and the Big Fish or
the whale and she's like, well, okay, wait a minute, Seriously,
how did the fish know exactly where to be in
the ocean when Jonah got thrown overboard? And how did
he stay alive in there for three days?
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You know?
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Where did he get air? And how did the fish
know exactly where to fit him?
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Ops?
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Well, you go preaching Nenema really and the teacher's like, well,
I mean, you know God made the fish?
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God, did you know?
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And she's like, well, yeah, if you bring God into it,
you know, then that's an explanation.
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But that's kind of the point.
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There are certain places, like around Jesus's life and resurrection,
that you can't just take God off the table to
being closed minded.
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You really have two choices.
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You're either a committed avowed atheist or you allow the
possibility of miracles.
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Those are really the only two categories.
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Now, again that doesn't mean that's the way the universe
normally works, but God surrounded the ministry of Jesus with
miracles authenticating the message, and there's really no other good
explanation for the events of Jesus' life and the birth
of the church besides that. Now, having said that to you,
I will tell you that the miracles are really just there.
They're kind of like fireworks or kind of like a
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firecrick or disrect your attention to Jesus, because if you
really want a solid foundation for your faith, don't put
it in the miracles. Put it in Jesus. That's my
faith is not rest on the evidence for miracles. My
faith rest on the character and the beauty of the
God Man that came, the beauty of Jesus Christ.
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That's when you become really convinced.
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Or I love how one guy says that God did
not give us a watertight argument. He gave us a
water tight person, right, and the arguments are just there
to kind of like flash for you so that you
will consider the So if you doubt this, just get
into Jesus and look at who he is. Let the
miracles at least raise your awareness of who is this
man who came claiming to be God, claiming to be
the Holy One, to die for my sin, to rescue me.
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Let me ask you the same question that Peter asked
this group. Have you listened to Jesus? That's the way
he concludes, is right. Every soul who does not listen
to that prophet will be destroyed from the people.
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You've got an opinion about Jesus.
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God has an opinion too, and God verified his through
miracles and through the resurrection. God declared him to be
the Lord. God declared him to be the salvation that
he gave from heaven. God declared him to be an
invitation for you to come home. I know you've got
an opinion about Jesus, but God said, that's my man.
That's the one I said. Are you listening to him?
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There's too much happening back here for you just to
relegate this as to something you're going to get to
when you're in your fifties. Are you listening to that
prophet because he came with power and that power demands
your attention, because he came as the Lord to be
your savior, Which leads me to number two. This miracle
points everybody point out upwards. Number two, This miracle points forward.
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Everybody point forward. Everybody Okay. That means you people on
the back, Okay, I'm pointing at you right now, forward right, everybody,
point forward to the future restoration, points upward to the
authentication from heaven. It points forward to Jesus' future reservation.
Peter verse twenty one says that this healing is a
sign of the coming restoration of all.
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Things that God has promised.
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You see, Jews would have recognized the healing of this
layman as a fulfillment of Isaiah thirty five six.
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When Isaiah prophet.
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Size the future restoration that God brings to the world,
he says, this, then shall the lame man leap.
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Like a deer.
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That's what's significant about the man getting up and immediately
doing a cartwheel.
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He's leap. I'm not that deer's do cartwheel, but you
know what I mean, he's leaping. He's fulfilling this verse.
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Isaiah explained that when God sent a messiah, he would
purchase healing for the whole world Isaiah fifty three five.
By his wounds, we will be healed, and through his
work all the pain of the earth would be reversed.
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In fact, this was end my time with God this week.
That's still so beautiful these passages I was reading.
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The lion will lay down with the lamb, and the
infant will play near the cobra's den. The young child
will put his hand into the viper's nest. I mean,
they do that anyway, but it'll be okay. You know
when they do it, they will neither harm. There will
be no harm or destruction on all my holy mountain,
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of
the Lord.
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As the waters cover the sea.
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Then will the eyes of the blind be open, and
the ears of the death unstopped.
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Then the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue.
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Will shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become
a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. Look around you
and see for all your children will.
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Come back to you.
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You that have lost children, they'll come back to you.
They will carry your little sons back to you in
their arms. They will bring back your daughters on the
shoulders of angels.
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That's the future. That's the future. Now this is important.
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Does that mean that from now on, anyone who believes
in Jesus is going to be healed.
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Well, no not now.
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You see there were lots of lame people at the temple.
This is not the only guy. Peter only healed that one.
This healing, get this, this is so important, was a
sign of the full restoration coming in the future. You see,
not only did the apostles message point upward to God's
authentication of the message, the miracle pointed forward to the
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kind of restoration that Jesus was going to.
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Bring to the whole world. I've explained this to you before.
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Jesus's miracles were not simply magic shows about how powerful
he was. If Jesus wanted to prove how powerful he was,
he could have written his name in the sky with
his finger, right, But that's not the kind of miracles
that he did. Every miracle that Jesus and the Apostles
did was an alleviation of suffering everyone. They pointed to
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Jesus's saving purpose. I've heard it said like this. Jesus
miracles did not show off the naked fact of his power.
Jesus miracles revealed the redemptive purpose of his power.
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We follow that.
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So he healed leprosy, he cured blindness, He stopped storms,
he raised the dead. These miracles show us that God
is no happier with the world and the condition that
it's in. Then you or I are happy with it.
God did not create the world with pain, with blindness, disease,
or death. That all came to the corruption of sin.
Pain and disease are not natural to a world that
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is now read in tooth and claw. Those are foreign
to the world. They are introduced by the rebellion of
our world against God.
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And these miracles point.
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Us to the world, back to the world as God
created it to be, and the world as God wants
it to be again, and the world as God will
one day make it again. You've heard me say this before.
Miracles are not a suspension of the natural order. Miracles
are a return to the natural order. Jesus healings are
the only natural things in a world that is unnatural, demonized,
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and wounded. To those of you who are in pain,
see that is your great hope, and that is your
sustaining joy.
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It's temporary. You can listen to it.
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The mute mute tongue will one day shall for joy
the years of the death are unstopped. It will bring
back your little sons in their arms. They'll carry your
daughters back to you on the shoulders of angels. That's
the future that God has prophesied for you. I remember
reading the biography of Joonie Ericson.
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Todde years ago.
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She's probably in her sixties now, but when she was
a teenager, she had a diving accident, broke her neck,
paralyzed from the neck downs quadriprilegian.
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She still had full, you know, use of her facial.
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Features and and her you know, her head, but she
you couldn't move anything from her neck down. God used
that to bring Joni Ericson Toadda back to himself. And
she talked about in her biography and just about how
what life is like for her, but how joyous it
is to have been reunited to God, and that if
this is what it took for God to get her attention,
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then she would one day think of that as the
greatest blessing that God put.
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In her life.
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But then she begins to kind of dream a little
bit about heaven in a way that only she or
you and I probably are not as able to do it.
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And she said this, and I just think this is
so beautiful.
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She said one day in heaven at that great marriage
Supper of the Lamb. The first thing I think I'll
do on my newly resurrected legs is fall to my
glorified knees and praise the God of resurrection and healing.
And then I will stand and dance before him with
all of my mind. That's the future for those of
you who are in pain. Do you want that future healing?
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Don't you know by the way deep down that you're
made for that kind of healing. Don't you know that
you are created to be in a world without brokenness
and pain?
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Don't you know that?
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But for the people of God, He says, this is
what I have coming for you, that which you are
created for, that which I am doing. I will one
day make every sad thing come untrue, and one day
there will be no more pain, no more crime, and
I will remove every bit of disease and death because
I created you to walk with me, to walk in
my blessing.
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Do you want that? Do you want that?
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Then you've got to repent towards Jesus, for only in
Him is that healing found. And the only ones who
will go into that blessed eternity are those who have
surrendered and been reconciled to God through Him, Which leads
me to number three points. I could see you people
a chapel hill, raise your end. It points upward to
God's authentication of Jesus. It points forward to the coming restoration.
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It points inward. He got fake you out in the who.
It points inward inward to our soul's need of salvation.
It points inward to our soul's need of salvation. The
physical ailments of some point of the heart condition of
all you see. Some people are physically blind, but Ephesian
says we're all spiritually blind. The physical sickness of our
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bodies points to the inward sickness of our souls.
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Now, do not under misunderstand me.
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I am not saying that if you have a physical ailment,
it points to something uniquely wrong with you, as if
the reason you have that physical problem is because of
a spiritual problem.
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I'm speaking in a general sense. I am saying that the.
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Physical brokenness of the world you know all over the
place is a sign to us of the broken condition
of our and our disconnect from God. Our world is
physically sick because we're spiritually sick. Our world experience is
physical death because we are dead in our tresfast as
and sin. So the miracles of Jesus and the apostles
are a message about the salvation that.
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Jesus can bring to our souls. The lame guy asks
for money. He thinks that's going to be the greatest
blessing he can get.
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Right, if I can just have some money, right, And
Peter says, look, I don't have any money, but what
I do have, I got something better. I got some better,
I get something deeper, Rise up and walk. But then
the guy goes on to become a disciple of Jesus.
You'll see that in chapter four, which is the greatest
of all the gifts that Peter could have.
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Given to him.
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You see, as bad as suffering is, there's something worse.
As bad as physical suffering is, there's something worse, and
that is being crippled by our sin.
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Listen online or download the complete unedited transcripts free of
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little while ago, I said down with Pastor JD to
ask him what he hopes and praise for. As people
open up his new book, Twelve Truths in a Lie,
here's what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Well, first of all, this is one of those books
that every single chapter stands on its own. As with
all these things, I wanted to help people understand and
be more confident in their walt with God. I pray
over everything I've ever written that it would it would
it would introduce people who don't know Jesus to him,
That it would strengthen those who know Jesus to be
more confident in him, to love him more, to trust
(23:28):
him more, and.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
That it would light a fire. It would be part
of the.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Motivation of sending them out into the fields Jesus said
that were white under harvest. So that's really kind of
the heart behind this book. Has taken twelve of the
most difficult questions that we either ask as Christians or
we get asked as Christians. A lie in the book
is that the presence of these kinds of questions, the
presence of doubts, means there's something.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Defective about your faith.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
The majority of our Bible was written by people who
were asking why questions were a time of doubt, and
they learned to.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Try us God through the doubts.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
You can request that when you give to support the
Ministry of Summit Life, and you can do that at
my website, of course, Jdweer dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You can get your copy of Pastor JD's latest book,
Twelve Truths in a Lie when you give thirty five
dollars or more to this ministry. Not only is the
book written in a way to help those who are
exploring their faith, but the discussion guide helps you take
conversations to a deeper level with a friend, your children,
or a small group. To give, call us now at
eight six six three three five fifty two twenty, or
(24:32):
you can visit Jdgreer dot com anytime. I'm Molly Vidovich.
Be sure to join us again Thursday when Pastor JD
continues our study on the miracles and the message of Jesus.
We'll see you tomorrow on Summit Light with Jdgreer. Today's
(24:53):
program is produced and sponsored by Jdgreer Ministries.
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