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Sermon #B638 -
There is Power in the Name
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Pastor Byrd:Acts chapter 3 verse
number one if you have it let me
you say, Amen. [Congregation:
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Amen.] The word says now Peter
and whom everybody went up
together into the temple at the
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hour of what?
[Congregation: Pray.]
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Being the what hour? And a
certain man lame from his
mother's womb was carried whom
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they laid daily at the gate of
the temple which is called what
everybody? [Congregation:
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Beautiful.] To ask alms of them
that enter into the temple. Who
seen, Peter and John about to go
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into the temple and he asked
in what? [Congregation: Alms.]
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Alms and Peter fastened his eyes
upon him with John said, “Look
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on us,” and he gave heed
unto them expecting to receive
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something of them. Then Peter
said, “Silver and gold have I
none,” but such as I have to
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give I thee in the name of
Jesus. In the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth rise up and
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what everybody and he took him
by the right hand and he lifted
him up and immediately his feet
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and ankle bones received
strength, and he leaping up,
stood and walked and entered
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with him them into the temple
walking, leaping and praising
God and all the people saw him
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walking and praising God and
they knew that it was he, which
sat for alms at the beautiful
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gate of the temple, and they
were filled with wonder and
amazement at that which had
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happened unto him. Now, I want
you to have a struggle with what
to call this sermon,
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I even asked Pastor Goodridge to
help me, I thought about calling
it dancing in the church.
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But then I figured some of you
would take that DVD and you'd
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send it everywhere and look he's
saying dance in the church, so
we'll just go with dance,
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there's power everybody says
power. [Congregation: Power.]
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In the name. [Congregation: In
the name.] All right you may be
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seated, very good. All right so
now you feel good you feel
comfortable there's power.
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[Congregation: In the name.] In
the name, all right quickly two
of the disciples Peter and John.
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Peter and whom
everybody. [Congregation: John.]
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Are on their way to the temple
for a three o'clock prayer
meeting at the church.
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This wasn't abnormal or strange
for them but it was normal for
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them because biblical history
suggests that devout Jews and
Gentiles went to the temple
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to observe three times of
prayer every day at 9AM, at 3PM,
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and at 6PM so then this wasn't
strange for Peter and John they
went to church for prayer
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meeting because they knew that
with much prayer there's much
what everybody. [Congregation:
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No.] Now, Peter and John were
prayer partners and every
Christian ought to have a prayer
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partner because there's power in
prayer, and there's power when
you pray with somebody in
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prayer. Jesus even said that in
Matthew 18 when he said that if
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just two of you, so touch and
agree it shall be done for
wherever there are two or three
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gathered in my name I should be
in the midst but in this text,
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Peter and John are on their way
to the temple for their usual
time of afternoon prayer
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but just as they get to the
temple, they get to the gate
which is called beautiful,
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everybody say beautiful.
[Congregation: Beautiful.]
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They meet a man who's laying
from his birth and the man's
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begging for money. Now notice
it's important to note that the
man's not inside the temple
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but the man's outside the temple
begging at the gate. Let me say
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it again because somebody missed
that. The man is not inside the
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temple, but the man is outside
the temple begging for some
money. Now, every day he's at
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the gate he's begging. In order
to live he has to beg, in order
to survive he has to beg, in
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order to eat he has to beg. He
can't work, there are no social
service institutions, there is
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no Social Security, there is no
public assistance, this man has
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to beg but if the truth be told
even though we have social
service institutions today,
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even though we have the united
way, even though we have the
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salvation army, even though
we have Adventist community
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services, even though we have
Social Security there are still
some people in the 21st century
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who live in the United States
the most industrialized nation
in the world and they still have
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to beg. In fact nearly one-half
of the world's population three
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billion people live on less
than 2$ and 50 cents per day,
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and of these three billion
people, 1.3 billion live less or
less than the dollar and 25
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cents per day, and there are
some people that think that
given all of our government,
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and non-government assistance to
help the poor that we shouldn't
be seeing beggars on the
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streets. But I need you to
understand that sometimes it's
hard for people to get on their
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feet because we do live in a
society where the rich are
getting richer and the poor are
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getting poorer. In case you
didn't know not all beggars are
con artists, not all beggars are
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on drugs or alcohol, not all
beggars are mentally disabled
there are some beggars who have
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genuinely had a hard life,
they've had a tough life. Now
you may sit there and act like
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you don't know what I'm talking
about but if you don't believe
me, miss your check one month,
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and see what happens to you. Do
I have a witness in this place?
[Congregation: Yes.]
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I tell folks don't look down on
another folk because somebody
knows your one check away.
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One pay period away from
foreclosure, from bankruptcy,
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from homelessness, do I have a
witness in this place?
[Congregation: Yes.]
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Somebody knows if it had
not been for the Lord on my side
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where would I be, but then
there's a flipside to this.
There are some people who don't
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want to do better for
themselves. They like to talk
about what they don't have
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instead of using what they do
have. They'd rather wallow in
the pits of discouragement
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despair and discomfort by
indulging in pity parties. Some
people don't want the
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responsibility of what goes
along with being healed, being
sick gives them an excuse to lie
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on their backs, and wait until
somebody else does something for
them. The fact is that there are
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many people who will go through
extraordinary lengths to avoid
doing something in their lives.
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They live in the twilight zone
right zone of thinking that
doing nothing will get them
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something. For them nothing is
right neither right no wrong,
nothing is neither good nor bad,
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nothing neither helps or
hinders, nothing is sorrow no
joy, nothing neither laughs no
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cries, nothing comes or
goes, nothing is nothing
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because it is nothing and
nothing will be nothing but
nothing for there is nothing to
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be but nothing. So because they
do nothing they're in the same
place where they've always been.
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[Congregation: Oh
yes. That's right.]
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Their minds are stagnant,
they have no new ideas.
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Innovation is dead and buried,
creative thoughts don't stand a
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chance. Thinking outside the box
never crosses their minds they
think that things will never
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change, so they do the same
thing they've always done and
that was this lame beggar.
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The lame man sat at the same
place begging for the same money
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every day. Every morning the
lame man waited for somebody to
carry him to the gates,
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every evening the lame man
waited for somebody to carry him
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back home, and then between the
morning and the evening he
begged. But you know I'm a
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businessman and I want to say
at least we ought to give this
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beggar some credit because at
least he was a wise beggar, at
least he was a businessman
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beggar. Why? He picked the most
profitable spot in Jerusalem to
beg. Each day he said at the
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gate of the church, outside the
church to have the best chance
possible to receive money from
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those entering the temple, after
all, my friends if there were
people who should have been
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concerned about the needs of
other people it should have been
those going to church,
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after all, folk can't go into
church and pray and ignore the
cries of those at the gates,
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so the man waits at the gate of
the church but not only that
he's a wise business beggar
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because people coming to this
temple to this gate, we're
probably people of means
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because the Bible says that
the gate was called beautiful
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which means it was decorated
with Corinthian bronze,
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and when the sun rose the sun
cast its glorious glow upon the
gate. [Congregation: Yes.]
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But let's expand this concept of
begging because it's not just
those outside the temple who are
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begging, but it's also those
inside the temple who are
begging. What am I talking about
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I'm so glad you asked. You see a
beggar is defined as one who
comes to get something but gives
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nothing. Let me say that again,
a beggar is somebody who comes
to get something but never give
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something.
[Congregation: All right.]
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There are a lot of people who
come inside the church and they
want something but they give
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nothing. They want something out
of worship, but they don't want
to give anything in worship.
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They want somebody to pray for
them, but they don't want to
pray for somebody else.
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They want a good hymn but they
don't want to sing the hymn,
they want a good sermon
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but they don't want to encourage
the preacher during the sermon,
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they're always ready to receive
but they're never ready to give.
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Peter and John walk up to
the gate, the blind beggar--
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the lame beggar rather start
screaming, “Alms, alms, alms,”
which meant money, money, money.
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The Bible says that Peter looks
at it and he says look at us.
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Now this is
important, why is this important
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because it's in harmony with
those actions of Jesus when the
average Jesus went to heal
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somebody. Remembers Jesus never
walked up to somebody and simply
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touched them and healed them
without first directing their
attention to himself.
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Jesus always captivated the
attention of the individuals he
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wanted to heal and directed them
to focus their eyes upon him,
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and the reason he did this
is because it stirred a sense of
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expectation. It quickens the
individuals faith. This is what
is happening right here in Acts
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3, the man thought that he
was going to get some money from
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Peter and John, but his faith
was quickened by Peter's words,
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look at us which means in order
to receive anything from God
you've got to first expect
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something from God. And that's
why when I come to church I'm
looking for a miracle.
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I'm expecting the impossible
because without faith it is
impossible to please the Lord.
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Now there are some of us, who've
been going to church for years
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but your lives are no different
from when you first started
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going to church because you've
never given your attention to
God help me Holy Ghost.
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You've never expected to receive
anything when you came to
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church. You come down to the
altar for prayer but you really
are not expecting God to do
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something on your behalf. Where
do you come to church, when you
get in a church service you turn
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your mind off. You start
thinking about other stuff, you
take a mental vacation.
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You're looking at your
phone, you're on social media.
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You're thinking about what
you're going to eat after you
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get out of church, but life
changing truth that comes from
the word it misses you,
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it passes you right on by and
you can sit in here for years
and never be changed.
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There are some young people
who've been raised in the
church. Some of them grew up
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right with me, but they show no
evidence that God is at work in
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their lives, and that's because
they've never heard those words
from Jesus, look at me and pay
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attention, this is why Jesus
always said to the people who
told me preached. He that hath
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an ear let him hear. But as soon
as the beggar is told by Jesus
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to look at Him. Peter has the
man's attention, and the man
expects to receive something,
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Peter responds to the man's one
begging plea with two responses.
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First, Peter admits
his financial bankruptcy.
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He admits his financial
bankruptcy in the material realm
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and so he says, “Silver and gold
have I none,” in other words
what he's trying to say is we
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don't have what you want but we
do have what you need, because
there's a difference between our
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needs and our wants I wish I had
a church in this place. We want
a lot of things but we only need
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some things. What are you
talking about? Well, we want a
Bentley but we really only need
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a Ford. We want some
steak, Swiss steak. [laughter]
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But we only need some salad. We
want a hamburger but the
impossible burger is really what
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we need. Wants satisfy a desire
but needs satisfy a necessity.
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Peter said we don't have
anything in the material but I
do have something in the
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spiritual. If you're looking
for money, if you're looking for
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silver and gold, I have none but
I've got something better. Peter
said in the name of Jesus of
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Nazareth, rise up and walk and
friends of mine it's at that
miraculous moments,
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as this man is looking at Peter
and John as he hears these words
at the mention of the name of
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Jesus something miraculous
begins to happen, strength comes
flowing into his ankles.
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Peter senses it he takes him by
the hand. The Bible says the
right hand and he lives him up.
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The man rises up,
the man begins to leap,
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and shout and jump around trying
out this newfound strength in
his legs which he'd never known.
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But as I'm reading this story
you all, I asked myself the
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question. Why didn't Jesus heal
the man when Jesus was on planet
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Earth himself? After all, the
man had been lame from his
birth. [Congregation: Mercy.]
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Which means he had to be around
when Jesus was on this Earth,
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because remember Pentecost
happens only 50 days after Jesus
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resurrection, Acts chapter 3
which we're reading from comes
after Acts chapter 2 when
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Pentecost took a place, so the
man then had to be alive when
Jesus was on this Earth. But
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Jesus is a on time God.
[Congregation: Praise God.]
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Our timing it's not his time,
somebody knows he may not come
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when you want Him, but he's
always right on time feel like
preaching now, and one of the
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reasons in my eisegesis, not
exegesis, I see Jesus that I
believe Jesus didn't heal the
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man when he was on this Earth,
it's because Jesus wanted to
show us that there's power in
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the name of Jesus not in the
person of Jesus but there's
power in the name of Jesus.
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It was the name of Jesus that
lost the power of God to work in
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this man's body, strengthening
his ankles in his feet. It was
not the person of Jesus because
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Jesus had died. Jesus had been
buried, Jesus had risen, Jesus
had ascended back to heaven,
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Jesus was not physically there,
but the healing took place.
[Congregation: Whoa.]
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Because of the name. Somebody's
still not getting this.
[Congregation: Whoa. [applause]
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You see back in the day it was
believed that the name of a
person carried both the power
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and the authority of that
person. So then if a king sent a
messenger in his name,
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that messenger represented the
same power and the same
authority as that king.
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You understand what I'm saying.
In other words, if Pastor
Williams sends Pastor Goodrich
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in his name. Pastor Goodridge
represents all the power,
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and all the authority has
wrapped up in the name of Pastor
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Williams. You know all
not hearing what I'm saying,
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back in the day it was believed
that the name of a person
carried both the power
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and the authority of that
person, that's why when I tell
Christyn and go get Caileigh
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and tell Caileigh to be quiet.
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Caileigh understands she's not
listening to Christyn but she's
listening to her daddy
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because Christyn is speaking in
the name of Carlton Byrd and
she's carrying all the power
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and the authority of my name and
when the name of Jesus is
spoken. [Congregation: Yes.]
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When somebody speaks in the
name of Jesus the same power,
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the same authority of Jesus is
now in that person, the same
power over heaven and earth is
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in that person, the same power
over demons is in that person.
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So in the name of Jesus,
I have power over demons.
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In the name of Jesus, I have the
power to tread over serpents.
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In the name of Jesus, I have the
power to tell sickness to flee.
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I have power to tell cancer to
go in remission. I have the
power to rebuke bankruptcy and
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foreclosure. In the name of
Jesus, students you have power
to declare an A over a F.
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There's power when we preach in
the name of Jesus. There's power
when we pray in the name of
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Jesus. There's power when we
witness in the name of Jesus.
There's power when you serve in
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the name of Jesus. There's power
when you touch in the name of
Jesus. There's power when you
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work in the name of Jesus,
there's power when you worship
in the name of Jesus, all hail
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the power of Jesus' name. Let
angels' prostrate fall at the
name of Jesus. Every knee shall
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bow, every tongue must confess,
there is no other name under
heaven whereby we can be safe
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but the name of Jesus. Peter
told the man to get up, to rise
up, to walk in the name of
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Jesus. I'm almost done but I
got one more point, got two more
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points. How many more points
everybody? Two. All right.
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Before Jesus, think about it you
all because I got Oakwood got to
come with something
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because you all have read the
Bible. So you got to come with
something think about it.
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Before Jesus told the man to
rise and walk, the man had
everything he needed to walk.
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He had feet, he had ankles, he
had legs, he had knees, he had
hips, he had tendons, he had
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muscles, and he had bones. The
man had all the basic equipment
that God gives to every one of
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us but the man still couldn't
walk. But when Peter told him to
rise up and walk in the name of
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Jesus, when the power of the
name of Jesus was released in
him, his feet got to moving, his
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ankles got to shifting, his
knees got to bending, his hips
got to moving his legs got to
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walking. Peter didn't lay hands
on the man. Peter didn't touch
the man, Peter didn't anoint the
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man, but in the name of Jesus,
the man walked. Some of us are
just like the lame man.
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Some of our churches are like
the lame man. Some of our
ministries are like the lame
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man. Some of our schools are
like the lame man. We have
everything we need to live for
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Jesus. We have everything we
need to grow God's work. We
panels, we have organs, we have
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speakers, we have screams, we
have podiums, we have buses, we
have internets, we have
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websites, we have preachers, we
have teachers, we have choirs,
we have the intellect, we have
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the structure, we have supports,
we have skills, we have talent,
we have gifts, we have money, we
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have resources, we have
buildings, we have members, we
have everything we need.
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[Congregation: Amen.] But the
reason some of our churches
aren't growing. The reason,
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some of our institutions aren't
growing is because we don't have
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the power. But in the name of
Jesus give us power, power to
walk right, power to talk right,
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power to act right, power in our
churches, power in our
ministries, power in our
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schools, power in our preaching,
power in our teaching, power in
our singing in the name of Jesus
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gives us power. But I
got one more thing to teach.
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and just like Peter the church
needs to offer healing to people
whether they believe or not
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because if you live the life of
Christ before them by beholding
they will become change.
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But like Peter, we've got to
help people up. I'm almost done
but I'm a throw this in,
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I've got a problem with folk who
make it to the Upper East Side.
[Congregation: Yes.]
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Who forget about the rough side,
from whence they come from?
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I've got a problem folk when I
hear them say, I've got mine now
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you get yours. I get bothered
when I hear folks say you've got
to pull your own self, by your
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own bootstraps. Let it be clear
today I stand on the shoulders
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of somebody else and it's my job
to help pull somebody else up so
they can stand on my shoulders.
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Peter took the lame man by his
right hand and he lifted him up
and when the man was healed,
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the man couldn't stop leaping,
he couldn't stop jumping, he
couldn't stop shouting,
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he couldn't stop dancing,
he couldn't stop praising,
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because somebody cared enough to
reach out say him in the name of
Jesus and his life was changed.
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The man was walking, the man was
leaping, the man was jumping,
the man was dancing,
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the man was praising God, and
just like the man. When God does
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something for us, we shouldn't
keep it to ourselves but we
ought to tell somebody, we ought
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to show some sign, lift your
hand, wave your hand, clap your
hand, stomp your foot, say Amen,
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nod your head, smile, but tell
somebody what God has done for
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you because when he's done
something for me I can't keep it
to myself but I've got to tell
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somebody, because when I think
of the goodness of Jesus and all
he's done for me, my soul cries
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out. Hallelujah, thank God for
saving me. Who cares what side
of town you're from, say
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something. Who cares how many
letters you have behind your
name, say something.
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Who cares you have a big
house or not, say something.
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Who cares if folks look out
you're funny, say something.
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Who cares if folks talked about
you, say something. If God been
your bridge over troubled
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waters. If God woke you up this
morning, If God healed you from
cancer, If God healed you from
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that disease if God helped you
pass that class, if God paid
your tuition, say something.
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Let them redeemed, of the Lord
say so, there's power in the
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name of Jesus. There's salvation
in the name of Jesus, there's
healing. [Congregation:
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Applause.] In the name of Jesus,
we have everything we need.
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