Day 324: The Name of Jesus (2024)
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IT is day three hundred and twenty four. We are three days into the age of the church. More reading actually postle.

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Today is day three hundred and twenty four reading the axy apoel chapter three, letter of same paul, the ruins, chapter four and five, as well as probably chapter twenty seven, the first three verses, the act of the apostles, chapter three, Peter heels, a lame beggar. Now, Peter and john, we're going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the nine hour, and a man lame up from birth was being Carried, whom they layed daily at the gate of the temple, which is called beautiful, to ask alms of those who entered the temple. Seeing Peter and john about to go into the temple, he asked for alms, and Peter directed his gaze at him with john and said, look at us.

And he fixed this attention upon them, expecting to receive something from them. But Peter said, I have no silver and gold, but I give you what I have in the name of jesus Christ of nazis. Rise and walk.

And he took by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. And leaving up, he stood and walked and entered the temple with them, walking and leaving and praising god. And all the people saw him walking and praising god and recognized him as the one who SAT for alms at the beautiful gate of the temple.

And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. Peter addresses the people in Solomon's protocol. While he clung to Peter and john. All the people ran together to them in the particle called tolerance, astounded.

And when Peter said he addressed the people, men of israel, why do you wondered this? Or why do you stare at us as though by our own power or poetry, we had made him walk the god of a Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the god of our fathers glorified his servant jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of pilot when he had decided IT to release him. But you denied the holy and regions one and asked for a murderer to be granted to you and killed the author of life whom got raised from the dead to this, we are witnesses.

And his name, by faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. And the faith, which is through jesus, has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers, but what god were told by the mouth of all the profits, that is, Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled, repent, therefore, and turn again that your sins may be blooded out.

That times of refreshing may come from the presence of the lord, and that he may send at the Christ appointed for you. Jesus, whom haven't must receive until the time for establishing all that god's spoke by the mouth of his holy profits from of old moses is, said, the lord god will raise up for you a profit from your brethren. As he raised me up, he shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.

And IT shall be that every soul that does not listen to that profit shall be destroyed from the people and all the profits who have spoken from Samuel and those who came afterwards also proclaimed, these days you are the sons of the profits end of the covenant, which god gave to your father's singing to Abraham and in your posterity show all the families of the earth be lesse god, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first to bless you and turning every one of you from your weakness. The letter of thing, paul, to the romans, chapter four, the example of the faith of Abrahama. What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boost about, but not before god.

For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed god, and I was reckoned to him as righteousness. Now, to one who works, his wages are not reckon as a gift, but as his due.

And to one who does not work, but trust who justifies the, his faith is reckons as righteousness. So also David pronounced a blessing upon the man to whom got reckon's righteousness. Apart from works.

Blessed are those whose in equities are forgiven and whose sines are covered. Blessed is the man against whom the lord will not reckon his sin. Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised or also upon the uncircumcised? We say that faith was recorded to Abraham as righteousness.

How then was IT recorded to him? Was IT before or after he had been circumcised. IT was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received circumcision as a sign or a seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised.

The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcise and who thus have righteousness recorded to them, and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised, but also follow the example of the faith which our father, Abraham, had before he was circumcised. God's promise revealed through faith the promise to Abraham and his descendants that they shouldn't herit. The world did not come through the law, but through the righteous ness of faith.

If IT is the adherents of the lock or to be the air, faith is no, and the promises boyd for the law brings. Rh, but where there is no law, there is no transgression. That is why IT depends on faith in order that the promise may rest on Grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law, but also to those who share the faith of bAbraham, for he is the father of us all.

As IT is written, I have made you the father of many nations in the presence of the god in whom he believed who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist in hope. He believed against hope that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told social, your dissidence b. He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of series wm.

No distrust made him wave or concerning the promise of god, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to god, fully convinced that god was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was recorded to him as righteousness. But the words IT was reckon to him were written not for his sake alone, but for hours.

Also, IT will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dead jesus, our lord, who was put to death for our trust pass and raised for our justification. Chapter five results of justification. Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with god through our lord jesus Christ.

Through him, we have obtained access to this Grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of god. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

And hope does not disappoint us, because god's love has been poured into our hearts through the holy spirit, who has been given to us while we were yet helpless at the right time. Christ to die for the ungodly dly, why? One will hardly die for a righteous man, though, perhaps for a good man, one will there even to die.

But god shows his love for us, and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, since therefore, we are now justified by his blood. Much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of god, for if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to god by the death of his son. Much more now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life? Not only so, but we also rejoice in god through our lord, that jesus Christ, through whom we have now received a reconciliation.

Adam and Christ, therefore, as sin, came into the world through one man and death through sin. And so death spread to all men, because all man in sin, indeed, was in the world before the law was given. But sin is not counted, whether is no law yet death rained from adam to moses, even over those whose since were not like the transmission of adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

But the free gift is not like the trespass, for many died through one man's trust pass. How much more have the Grace of god and the free gift in the Grace of that one man? Jesus crist, a bounded for many.

And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's a sin for the judgment following one trust pass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many transposes brings justification if, because of one man's trace pass, death rained through that one man, much more for those who receive the abundance of Grace and the free gift of righteousness rain in life to the one man jesus Christ. Then, as one man's trust pass LED to condemnation for all men. So one man's act of righteousness leads to a quitter le and life for all men.

For as by one man's this obedience, many were made sinners. So by one man's obedience, many will be made righteous. Blaw came in to increase the trust pass, but we're sin, increased Grace a bounded all the more so that as sin rained in, Grace also might rain through righteous ness to eternal life, through jesus Christ, our lord.

The book of proverb chapter twenty seven versus one through three do not boost about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring forth. Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. A stone is heavy and sand is windy, but a fools provocation is heavier than both.

Father and have having to give you praising. Thank you so much. Thank you for the gift of this day. Thank you for the gift of your mercy, which are new every single morning. Thank you for the gift of Grace that comes to us as a complete and free gift, not something that we've earned and not something that we deserve, but simply something that we receive because of your goodness, that because of our worth now, because of our goodness, that because our dignity, but simply because you are good, because you are just because you are du god who is good, you, the lord of all, and you have purchased us at a Price.

You've won us to yourself, not only by resting us from the power of sin and death, but you've won our hearts by revealing your gentle heart, your strong heart, your faithful heart, you're relentless heart that loves us and chooses us no matter what. So we thank you. Help us to choose you, help us receive your love no matter what.

In jesus name, I pray, K, I man, hand the name the father and of the son and the holy spirit I meant, speaking of injury, s name is incredible, actually possible. Chapter three. So we had penticost, and now there's thousands people have have been baptised.

Now there, all the people are following the lord. They're gathering together. We mentioned this foreign Peter two.

They held steadfast ally to the apostles, teaching and fellowship, breaking in the bread, the prayers that's axing. Two, forty two, so important. But here's x after three, Peter and john going up to the temple.

Now why would they go up to the temple? They go up to the temple to pray because they're good juice, right? So we have to remember this, that the reason why we spent all of that time reading through the old testament is because the old testament is still in effect.

The new testable is the filming of the old testers, right? So when I say it's still in effect, what I mean is that there is this harracles way back in the day that said that the old testers is abolished now that the scripture and heads ript res completely unnecessary and useless. That's not the case that that was a heracles that was condemned essentially he says, no, the new text ment, or in Christ jesus, the old tesman, god's promises of old are fulfilled, not abolish.

Jesus even says as much. So here are Peter and john going up to the temple. Yeah, maybe they are going up there because they want the opportunity to be able to preach in the temple print, but also because they're going up at the hour of prayer, because they saw themselves as jews, just judy ism fulfilled in jus cries, right OK.

Here they are, and there is a person sitting begin at the gate. I love this because they look at him intently. And IT says that the man looks back at them, expecting that he, they will give him something.

And Peter says, I will either have gold or silver. But what we do have, we give you freely in the name of jesus cristo nurse, I say you arise, and the man is able to walk. And I love his response.

IT is exactly the response you would expect from anybody who was unable to walk, who then of a sudden is completely restored multiple times, IT says. Leaving up, he stood and walked into the temple, walking and leaving and praising god. And then they saw walking and praising god, the sam leaving in the sam, you know exactly, that's what you would be doing if you were unable to walk and you were able once again, to be fully restored.

Wouldn't you use that gift? When this was back to x chapter two, right yesterday, we talked about this, how here's the law who sends the holy spirit upon the abuses, to do what not simply began to a holy huddle, but to move out and to use the gift that god is given to them. Here is the begger who was unable to walk.

Now god is given him the gift of being able to watch. What is he doing? He is using the gift that god gave to him.

And this is one of the things for every single one of us that is, given all of us various gifts. These gifts, yes, I meant to be enjoyed, but there are also meant to be used. And we glorify the lord, and we glorify the lord.

When we giving thanks for the gifts is given us, I would say we glorify him even further when we use the gifts that is given us. And so here, Peter and john, using the gift of healing. Here's the man who has been given the gift of walking in, leaving and dancing, jumping.

And he's using that gift. But IT is so powerful because, you know, this miracle accompanies what this miracle accompanies, the proclaim tion of jesus. One of the things that happens has happened in the last two thousand years of Christianity is there are many midy works.

There are many incredible miracles. But those miracles, they almost all have to accompany the proclaim tion of jesus Christ as the lord, as the saker, as the one who is conquered death on behalf of the father and for us. And so this is so important, miracles, yes, or are because god loves us.

Miracles exist, but kind of, in the some ways, you say the function of miracles, or the reason why god would continue to do miracles in our world. Okay, not only because he loves us, because sometimes to meet the miracles n't happen, right? But even more is so that he can be known so that here is the mike work that's done.

Here is the miracle that brought. Here's the healing that happens so that he can then be proclaimed. And that's that's the key thing because we realized, yes, physical healing is so important, but spiritual healing is even more important because spiritual suffering in spiritual death is even more debilitating ating.

And so again, healing almost always must. The company, the proclamation of jesus Christ as lord as IT happens today. And it's incredible in jack or three, you're going to find out that also comes at a Price because then tomorrow we're going to see that Peter and john are someone before the council, the same hedrin.

And um yes, we will see how that goes tomorrow. But today we also have the litter of same pause to the romance. As I mentioned before, this is same polls masterwork. This is a proclaim tion of the gospel like none other and so it's going to be really difficult to try to summ up what is same paul saying in his letter to the romans but one of the things he is saying, remember before this he talked about how um those who are gentiles, right those who who didn't know the law, they didn't know the revelation of god.

They have no excuse because they should know right from wrong and the jews, they do know right from wrong and also they don't live up to the law so basically no one live up to the law. And yet, yesterday we heard in chapter three about, yes, but we've all fall in sort of the glory of god, but were justified by his Grace as a gift with the rep to the redemption, which in Christ cheeses, which is incredible. And then in chapter four and five, chapter four saying pole points to Abraham, which I love, because not only do we hear about Abraham in chapter three of the xy puzzles, but we also here about Abraham in chat four of romance.

And the point the polis making is this go back member in rome, there were two groups of Christians, Christians who came from judaism, and Christians who did not come from judaism. There was a span of maybe five years or so where jews were kicked out of rome. Now they came back, including jews or Christians. They came back and they might have different views on how things should be done, how people should live. So the role of circumcision, that might be one of those rules.

And so same paul goes back to the circumstance of Abraham and says, okay, was IT Abraham's circumcision that made him righteous, or was IT his faith? And we go back to member genesis that actually Abraham trusted in the lord before he was circumcised, and that circumcision was a sign of his trust, but he already had faith in the lord. He already trusted in the lord before the circumcision, and so saying, pauls making the point of saying, yeah, everyone at one point of circumstance.

But also he had faith before he was circumcise. Therefore, circumcision itself is ultimate easy. And say, IT doesn't mean anything.

Now, obviously, IT meant something in the old covenant, but in this context, where you have jewish Christians and gentle Christians having debates over the role, circumstance, policy, no, no, this is what depends on faith, because Abraham had faith even prior to the circumcision. Hopeful that that makes some sense. I mean, obviously get deeper than that because it's a call for us to have faith as well.

But that's kind of the context in the example that samples using here in chapter four. And then chapter five is just I mean, there's so many things to say, but one of my to my favorites i'll say this to my favorites at the beginning of chapter of five samples is okay. Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with god through our lord is Christ.

Imagine this because sample would later go on to describe how actually there was a time when we were enemies of god. Let's pauses in that first second. There was a time when you and I were enemies of that.

And so through our sins we make ourselves enemy again. But sample's, we're justified by faith, and we have peace with god. To our logic, the jesus has transformed our our enmity that we have between us and god into a friendship, into peace, and now threw him.

We have access to this Grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of god. That is incredible.

Those are the first two verses of chapter. But then beyond that, he says, more than that, we rejoice in our sufferings. And why? Because we know that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character.

Character produces hope. And hope does not disappoint us. Because god love has been poured into our hearts, to the holy spirit that has been given to us.

It's not useless, right? We know the god uses everything. We know that nothing is wasted when given to god.

So even our sufferings do something are suffering's produce enduring endurance produces character. Character produces hope. And hope does not disappoint. Because we have god love in our hearts to the holy spirit. But then, but then here's my favorite.

I I quote this probably once a week, probably while we were yet helpless at the right time, Price died with the Young dly. why? One will hardly die for a righteous man, though PS.

For a good man, one will dare even to die. But god, in my translation I used often times, is the new american bible. He says, but god proves his love.

And R, S, V, here says, but shows his love. The god shows his love for us and that while we were yet sinner, chryse died for us. And this is just, this is such good news that while we were enemies of god, he died for us.

While we were his enemies, jesus cries, died for us. Well, we were yet sinners. He died for us. Yes, if we were good, maybe a really good person, if we were already righteous, if we were artist friends, be a good person would even find courage to die.

But god proves his love for us in that while we were still as enemies, while we were still sinners, cries to died for us. How much more he goes on to say, how much more that now we reconcile? Shall we be saved by his life? And this is just, oh my gosh, what a gift, incredible gift.

And then was on to talk about adam, the old adam, through whose this obedience brought death to the world. Here's jesus of the new adam. And through his obedience brings life to everyone who belongs to him. You guys, this is literally what they call the great adventure. We spent over three hundred days listening to this huge story, and now this is the the apex of the story.

This is the the summary of the story, that all of the promises from the old testable, all the hope and all the longing, all the suffering, all the option downs, all the brokenness of the old testament, is now fulfilled in jesus Christ. And we have access to that because of him, because of his unending, relentless love for every single one of us. You and I have access to this Grace because while we were enemies of god, he died for us, while we were sinners, while we were broken, while we had nothing to offer.

He offered everything to give us the chance to belong to him, to give us a chance to be his, to give us the chance to be a sons and daughters. And like god, be our father. This is insane.

Ah what a gift. Okay, what's anyway? I'm gushing. Apologize, but praise the lord. He loves you so much right now and you need to know this the lord that loves you very much he delights to you. He declares over you, you are mine, never believe the live you're not wanted, never believe the lie that your life doesn't matter, you are loved. You're wanted, and he .

will never .

stop loving .

you no matter what.

I hope that you believe that. I pray that you believe that. And I am praying for you.

Please pray for me. My news, father, and I cannot wait to see you tomorrow. God less.