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August 30, 1992
What does the church have to offer the needy and hopeless that nobody else can? While God’s people can and should give humanitarian aid, anyone can do that. Therefore, we must be sure to offer one thing above all else: the transforming power of Christ. Using the story of Peter’s encounter with a crippled and desperate man, Alistair Begg describes how God wants to work through us to bring men and women into new life in Christ.
1Now Peter and John were ogoing up to the temple at pthe hour of prayer, qthe ninth hour.1 2And a man rlame from birth was being carried, swhom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate tto ask alms of those entering the temple. 3Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. 4And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” 5And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. 6But Peter said, u“I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. vIn the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” 7And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. 8And wleaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 9And xall the people saw him walking and praising God, 10and recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
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