SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/29/2017
8:21 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 The
Sign
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 3:7-8a
Message of the
verses: We continue to look at this
main section “The Sign” in today’s SD by looking at the last two aspects of
this miracle.
IT WAS INSTANTANEOUS
“7 And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him
up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.”
This miracle that was done to this beggar happened right
away, there was no stages to it as there were at times when Jesus did miracles
when He was on the earth, although most of His recorded miracles were also
instantaneous too. One has to think
about what happened to make this man be able to walk for the first time in his
life as whatever was wrong with his body was instantaneous made well by the
Lord.
John MacArthur writes “The genuine gift of healing, in
contrast to the alleged healings of today, resulted in immediate cures.”
IT WAS COMPLETE
“8 With a leap he stood upright and began to walk;
and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping”
Peter did not have to manhandle the beggar to get him to
his feet as he just took him by the hand and as the beggar felt the strength
come into his feet and ankles he was able to jump and you could really say he
was jumping for joy and entered the temple with Peter and John.
MacArthur concludes this section: “The four characteristics of this miracle
provide a checklist to screen all alleged miraculous healings. A healing that fits the true biblical pattern
will stem from God’s sovereign choice, it will be done to glorify Jesus Christ,
it will be instantaneous, and it will be complete. Needless to say, the so-called instances of
healing claimed by modern ‘healers’ do not meet those criteria.”
I have mentioned in earlier SD’s that God still heals
people but there are no “healers” like in the early days of the book of Acts.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “30 pieces of silver” (Matthew
27:3).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said “"Sir, come
down before my child dies."”
Answer in our next SD. 8/29/2017 8:42 AM
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