Bible Study 5/15/2025

In Between the Topics – Bible Study #5
Acts Chapter 3

•Acts 3:1-12 – Silver, Gold and the Power of God

•The Healing at The Gate (1-3)

•Significance of the Account

•Relationship to Acts 2:43

•Account the contributions of Peter

•Purpose > Prosecution

•Designated Time for Designated Purpose

•To Pray but not To Sacrifice

•Reference – John 19:30

•Supported Condition – Changed Condition

•What Peter Said (4-6)

•Lame Man Looked/Expected

•Example of a “Version of Faith”

•Expecting the Right Things from God

•Sharing the Supernatural

•What the Lame Man Did (7-10)

•Supernatural Faith produces the Received Miracle

•Validation/Verification/Celebration (Acts 4:22, 3:10)

•Peter’s Begins His Second Sermon 3:11-12

•Introduction: Why do you think ‘we’ have done something great?

•Seizing the Opportunity

•Testimonial Period of the “Walking Man” or Preach the Gospel

•Romans 10:17

•Peter’s give Glory to God by deflecting and rejecting any praise towards himself

•Reminds the crowed that the miracle is not an anomaly

•Peter Preaches Jesus (v 13-15)

•Connection of NT realities with OT relationship

•Jesus as the Servant

•Isa 42, 52:13-53:12

•Delivered and Denied

•John 18:29-19:16

Holy One/Exchanged for a Murderer(Luke 23:13-25)/The Prince of Life

•How the Man was healed (vs 16)

•And His Name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong:

•Through Faith in His name:

•Not good intentions

•Not talents and gifts

•Not material resources

•Not reputation and prior success

•Not hard or smart work

•Further Explanation of the Sufferings of Christ (19-21)

•Call to Repentance – as repeated in Acts 2:38

•Conversion – I Cor 5:17

•“Blotted Out” – context of wiping ink off of a document. This was a relative context understood by those to whom were being preached.

•To be Refreshed – (Matt 23:37-39, Romans 11:25-27)

•Danger of Rejection (22-26)

•Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-9