WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.620 Yo, good morning. God is good. God is great. 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:07.839 Hope everybody staying blessed, focused, highly 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:11.480 favored. We back with another one. God is good. 00:00:11.539 --> 00:00:13.800 We're gonna be reading out of Acts chapter three 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:17.640 today, and God got a blessing for us. Hope everybody 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:20.379 keeping a smile on their face, taking one day 00:00:20.379 --> 00:00:24.489 at a time. Let's win every day. keep a smile 00:00:24.489 --> 00:00:26.350 on your face. If y 'all bow y 'all heads, we 00:00:26.350 --> 00:00:28.949 gon' pray, then we gon' get into the daily reader, 00:00:29.390 --> 00:00:31.530 then I got a good word I'ma read out of Acts 00:00:31.530 --> 00:00:33.390 chapter three. We probably gonna read probably 00:00:33.390 --> 00:00:36.909 two to three chapters. Amen, God is good. If 00:00:36.909 --> 00:00:39.729 y 'all bow y 'all heads. Our Father, which art 00:00:39.729 --> 00:00:42.420 in heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom 00:00:42.420 --> 00:00:45.439 come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.280 give us this day our daily bread and forgive 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:50.719 us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.759 us not into temptation but deliver us from evil 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:56.460 for thine is the kingdom the power the glory 00:00:56.460 --> 00:01:01.960 forever amen amen god is good god is great I'm 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.519 getting to the daily reader, man. The daily reader 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:08.120 is something I read every morning. It's a daily 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:10.959 devotion you gotta read every morning, and then 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.120 you read the scriptures after and put it together. 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:18.379 Amen, God is good. As it reads, come to me and 00:01:18.379 --> 00:01:22.340 rest in my peace. My face is shining upon you 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:25.180 in rays of peace, transcending understanding. 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:28.040 Instead of trying to figure things out yourself, 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:30.379 you can relax in the presence of the one who 00:01:30.379 --> 00:01:33.420 knows everything. As you lean on me in trusting 00:01:33.420 --> 00:01:36.239 dependence, you feel peaceful and complete. This 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.099 is how I designed you to live, in close communion 00:01:39.099 --> 00:01:42.280 with me. When you are around other people, you 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:45.540 tend to cater to their expectations, real or 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:48.340 imagined. You feel enslaved to pleasing them, 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:50.760 and your awareness of my presence grows dim. 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:53.640 Your efforts to win their approval eventually 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.939 exhaust you. You offer these people dry crumbs 00:01:56.939 --> 00:01:59.719 rather than the living water of my spirit flowing 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.739 through you. This is not my way for you. Stay 00:02:03.739 --> 00:02:06.859 in touch with me, even during your busiest moments. 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:09.819 Let my spirit give you words of grace as you 00:02:09.819 --> 00:02:12.960 live in the light of my peace. Let God's spirit 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.319 give you words of grace as you live in the light 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:20.000 of God's peace. Amen. And God is saying, stay 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.960 in the presence of God. We gotta stay in the 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.680 present. We gotta stay in the present time. We 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.180 can't worry about the future. We can't worry 00:02:28.180 --> 00:02:32.500 about the past. You gotta stay in your now. Amen. 00:02:32.889 --> 00:02:35.229 Now we're gonna read us some scriptures. In the 00:02:35.229 --> 00:02:37.069 first scripture we're gonna read is John chapter 00:02:37.069 --> 00:02:41.629 7 verse 38. God is good. John chapter 7 verse 00:02:41.629 --> 00:02:45.009 38 reads, He that believeth on me as the scripture 00:02:45.009 --> 00:02:47.949 has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers 00:02:47.949 --> 00:02:52.330 of living water. He that believeth on me as the 00:02:52.330 --> 00:02:55.110 scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow 00:02:55.110 --> 00:02:58.409 rivers of living water. God is telling us when 00:02:58.409 --> 00:03:01.189 we put our trust in God, all our trust in God, 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:04.259 We can't fail. Everything that comes out of us, 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.879 everything that we do, will be greatly blessed, 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.340 will be turned to gold. Amen. The next scripture 00:03:10.340 --> 00:03:13.479 we're gonna be reading is Matthew chapter 13 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.900 verse 46. Amen. Hope everybody keeping the head 00:03:17.900 --> 00:03:22.039 up, man. Staying positive, staying righteous. 00:03:23.139 --> 00:03:26.479 God is good. Every day wake up and put your foot 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:29.759 forward. We're going into the week great. We're 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.240 going into the week blessed. We're going into 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.020 the week highly favored. We ain't having no negativity. 00:03:36.539 --> 00:03:39.620 Amen. We're gonna be positive. Positive outgains 00:03:39.620 --> 00:03:42.719 negative at all times. Matthew chapter 13 verse 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.219 46. Who when he had found one pearl of great 00:03:46.219 --> 00:03:49.159 price went and sold all that he had and bought 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:55.539 it. Amen. again the kingdom of heaven is like 00:03:55.539 --> 00:04:00.400 unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls who 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:02.800 when he had found one pearl of great price went 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.620 and sold all that he had and brought it amen 00:04:06.620 --> 00:04:10.099 to the kingdom of God giving your all to the 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:13.240 kingdom of God and that's what we gonna read 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:16.839 about in Acts 2 is when we bring when we bringing 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.180 our blessings to God we gotta come fully with 00:04:20.180 --> 00:04:24.139 it we gotta come fully with it And not saying 00:04:24.139 --> 00:04:25.519 that you're gonna be perfect because it's gonna 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:28.240 be times where you feel like you ain't doing 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:31.879 enough But I'm telling you keep going keep going. 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.660 We don't suffer a tongue Amen. God is good. We're 00:04:35.660 --> 00:04:38.180 gonna get it to X. Let's go ahead and get into 00:04:38.180 --> 00:04:56.810 X X chapter 3 We're gonna read 3 through 6 God 00:04:56.810 --> 00:05:04.589 is good. Keep God first in everything that you 00:05:04.589 --> 00:05:12.230 do. You can't fail. And what we're gonna be reading 00:05:12.230 --> 00:05:16.810 in Acts, the first in John chapter, I mean in 00:05:16.810 --> 00:05:18.870 Acts chapter three, the start that we're gonna 00:05:18.870 --> 00:05:22.089 be reading is gonna be a blessing to a lot of 00:05:22.089 --> 00:05:26.750 people. And I say this because we gonna understand 00:05:26.750 --> 00:05:30.310 how God's blessings work through faith, through 00:05:30.310 --> 00:05:35.910 faith, through faith. Amen. He was a lame man. 00:05:35.930 --> 00:05:42.129 He was born a lame. And he went past Peter and 00:05:42.129 --> 00:05:46.689 John and he asked them for money. And they said, 00:05:47.610 --> 00:05:51.649 no, I don't got no money, but I got God, I got 00:05:51.649 --> 00:05:55.149 faith. I got something better than money amen 00:05:55.149 --> 00:05:58.629 and the lame man was healed off his faith amen 00:05:58.629 --> 00:06:01.350 and we're gonna start at verse one chapter three 00:06:01.350 --> 00:06:04.470 a lame man was healed now peter and john went 00:06:04.470 --> 00:06:07.610 up together into the temple at the hour of prayer 00:06:07.610 --> 00:06:10.290 being the ninth hour and a certain man laying 00:06:10.290 --> 00:06:12.889 from his mother's womb was carried whom they 00:06:12.889 --> 00:06:15.389 laid daily at the at the gate of the temple which 00:06:15.389 --> 00:06:18.500 is called beautiful to ask Ames of them that 00:06:18.500 --> 00:06:21.279 entered into the temple, who seen Peter and John 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:24.160 about to go into the temple, asked in Ames, and 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.459 Peter fastening his eyes upon him, and John said, 00:06:27.620 --> 00:06:31.060 Look on us, and he gave heed unto them, expecting 00:06:31.060 --> 00:06:33.879 to receive something of them. Then Peter said, 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:36.740 Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have 00:06:36.740 --> 00:06:39.319 give, I thee, in the name of Jesus Christ of 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.000 Nazareth, rise up and walk. Amen, in the name 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.600 of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 00:06:45.899 --> 00:06:50.060 He told him in God's name when you choose God 00:06:50.060 --> 00:06:54.699 get up walk go You can win and he took him by 00:06:54.699 --> 00:06:57.139 the right hand and lifted him up and immediately 00:06:57.139 --> 00:07:00.680 his feet and ankle bones received strength and 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.220 He leaping up stood and walked and entered into 00:07:03.220 --> 00:07:05.819 them into the temple walking and leaping and 00:07:05.819 --> 00:07:08.660 praising God And all the people saw him walking 00:07:08.660 --> 00:07:11.180 and praising God. And they knew that it was the 00:07:11.180 --> 00:07:14.160 witch sat for aims at the beautiful gate of their 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.519 temple. And they knew who it was already. So 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:19.980 the people was already looking. They already 00:07:19.980 --> 00:07:21.980 knew the lame man. They seen him every day because 00:07:21.980 --> 00:07:24.639 he would go to the temple every day. And they 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:26.860 knew that it was the witch sat for aims at the 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:29.180 beautiful gate of the temple. And they were filled 00:07:29.180 --> 00:07:31.399 with wonder and amazement at that which had happened 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.589 unto him. And as we read on, you're going to 00:07:34.589 --> 00:07:36.949 see where Peter and John tell the people, why 00:07:36.949 --> 00:07:40.670 are y 'all surprised by this? Because it ain't 00:07:40.670 --> 00:07:43.509 not us. Because the people was looking at Peter 00:07:43.509 --> 00:07:46.529 and James like they had did it. And they tell 00:07:46.529 --> 00:07:48.790 the people, no, Jesus Christ, this was all his 00:07:48.790 --> 00:07:52.470 work. Peter admonishes the onlookers, and as 00:07:52.470 --> 00:07:55.230 the lame man which was healed held Peter and 00:07:55.230 --> 00:07:57.430 John, and all the people ran together unto them 00:07:57.430 --> 00:08:00.410 in the porch that is called Solomon's Greatly 00:08:00.410 --> 00:08:03.009 Wondering. And when Peter saw it, he answered 00:08:03.009 --> 00:08:06.350 unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel 00:08:06.350 --> 00:08:09.949 ye at this? Or why look ye so earnestly on us, 00:08:10.329 --> 00:08:12.949 as though by our own power or holiness we had 00:08:12.949 --> 00:08:15.990 made this man to walk? The God of Abraham and 00:08:15.990 --> 00:08:20.040 of Isaac and of Jacob and the God of of our fathers 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.740 has glorified his son Jesus whom ye delivered 00:08:22.740 --> 00:08:25.800 up and denied him in the presence of pellet when 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.759 he was determined to let him go but ye denied 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.399 the holy one and that just and desired a murderer 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:34.240 to be granted unto you and killed the prince 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:37.299 of life whom God has raised from the dead thereof 00:08:37.299 --> 00:08:40.450 we are witnesses And his name, through faith 00:08:40.450 --> 00:08:43.710 in his name, has made this man strong, whom ye 00:08:43.710 --> 00:08:46.269 see and know. Yea, the faith which is by him 00:08:46.269 --> 00:08:49.049 has given him this perfect soundness in the presence 00:08:49.049 --> 00:08:52.649 of you all. And now, brethren, I want that through 00:08:52.649 --> 00:08:58.230 ignorance ye did as did also your rulers. I know 00:08:58.230 --> 00:09:00.649 and now brother and I know that through ignorance 00:09:00.649 --> 00:09:03.909 he did and as did also your rulers and that those 00:09:03.909 --> 00:09:06.269 things was God before had showed by the mouth 00:09:06.269 --> 00:09:08.909 of all his prophets that Christ should suffer 00:09:08.909 --> 00:09:12.490 he has so fulfilled so the lame man was suffering 00:09:12.490 --> 00:09:16.789 the lame man was begging for money and God healed 00:09:16.789 --> 00:09:22.669 him and brought him up repent ye therefore and 00:09:22.669 --> 00:09:26.149 be converted that your sins may be blotted out 00:09:26.090 --> 00:09:28.230 when the times of refreshment shall come from 00:09:28.230 --> 00:09:30.929 the presence of the Lord and he shall send Jesus 00:09:30.929 --> 00:09:33.490 Christ which before was preached unto you whom 00:09:33.490 --> 00:09:36.090 the heaven must receive until the times of restitution 00:09:36.090 --> 00:09:38.850 of all things which God has spoken by the mouth 00:09:38.850 --> 00:09:41.809 of all his holy prophets since the world began 00:09:41.809 --> 00:09:45.210 restoration whom the heaven must receive until 00:09:45.210 --> 00:09:48.330 the times of restoration of all things which 00:09:48.330 --> 00:09:50.629 God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets 00:09:50.629 --> 00:09:53.870 since the world began and God gonna send them 00:09:53.870 --> 00:09:57.529 prophets For Mosley truly said unto the fathers, 00:09:57.730 --> 00:10:00.370 A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto 00:10:00.370 --> 00:10:03.269 you of your brethren. Like unto me, him shall 00:10:03.269 --> 00:10:05.889 ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say 00:10:05.889 --> 00:10:08.309 unto you. And it shall come to pass that every 00:10:08.309 --> 00:10:11.570 soul which will not hear that prophet shall be 00:10:11.570 --> 00:10:14.129 destroyed from among the people. Yeah, and all 00:10:14.129 --> 00:10:16.029 the prophets from Samuel and those that follow 00:10:16.029 --> 00:10:18.769 after, as many as have spoken, have likewise 00:10:18.769 --> 00:10:21.450 foretold of these days. Ye are the children of 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:23.649 the prophets and of the covenant, which God made 00:10:23.649 --> 00:10:26.110 with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, and in 00:10:26.110 --> 00:10:27.809 thy sheaves shall all the kindreds of the earth 00:10:27.809 --> 00:10:30.649 be blessed. Unto you, first God, having raised 00:10:30.649 --> 00:10:33.309 up his son Jesus, sent him to bless you, and 00:10:33.309 --> 00:10:35.470 turning away every one of you from his iniquities. 00:10:36.269 --> 00:10:39.169 Peter and John are arrested and Peter and John 00:10:39.169 --> 00:10:41.870 get arrested for speaking God's words as we see 00:10:41.870 --> 00:10:44.269 and as they spoke unto the people the priest 00:10:44.269 --> 00:10:46.690 and the captains of the temple and the Sadducees 00:10:46.690 --> 00:10:49.269 came upon them being grieved that they taught 00:10:49.269 --> 00:10:51.269 the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection 00:10:51.269 --> 00:10:55.490 from the dead and They laid hands on them and 00:10:55.490 --> 00:10:58.190 put them in hold unto the next day for it was 00:10:58.190 --> 00:11:03.710 now eventu For it was now eventu It was now evening 00:11:04.899 --> 00:11:07.620 How about many of them which heard the word believed 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:10.460 and the number of the man was about five thousand 00:11:10.460 --> 00:11:13.879 Peter's sermon to the council so Peter go talk 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.399 to the council and it came to pass on the marrow 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.059 that their rulers and elders and scribes and 00:11:19.059 --> 00:11:21.740 Enos the hot priest and Cephas and John and Alexander 00:11:21.740 --> 00:11:24.320 and as many as were the kindred of the hot priests 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.799 were gathered together at Jerusalem and when 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:29.259 they had set them in the midst they asked by 00:11:29.259 --> 00:11:31.860 what power about what name have you done this 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.039 Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost and said 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:36.919 unto them ye rulers of the people and elders 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:40.059 of Israel If we this day be examined of the good 00:11:40.059 --> 00:11:43.559 deed done to the impotent man By what means he 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.539 is made whole be it known unto you all and to 00:11:46.539 --> 00:11:48.840 all the people of Israel That by the name of 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:51.639 Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified whom 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:54.779 God raised from the dead Even by him does this 00:11:54.779 --> 00:11:58.149 man stand here before you whole this is the stone 00:11:58.149 --> 00:12:00.509 which was set at nought of you of you builders 00:12:00.509 --> 00:12:03.450 which has become the head of the corner neither 00:12:03.450 --> 00:12:05.990 is there salvation in any other for there is 00:12:05.990 --> 00:12:08.570 none other name under heaven given among men 00:12:08.570 --> 00:12:11.610 whereby we must be saved now when they saw the 00:12:11.610 --> 00:12:13.809 boldness of peter and john and perceived that 00:12:13.809 --> 00:12:17.049 they were unlearned and ignorant men they marveled 00:12:17.049 --> 00:12:19.350 and they took knowledge of them that they had 00:12:19.350 --> 00:12:23.799 been with jesus and beholding the man which was 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:26.100 healed standing with them they could say nothing 00:12:26.100 --> 00:12:28.320 against it but when they had commanded them to 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.799 go aside out of the council they conferred among 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:33.740 themselves saying what shall we do to these men 00:12:33.740 --> 00:12:36.100 for that indeed a notable miracle has been done 00:12:36.100 --> 00:12:38.799 by them is manifest to all men that dwell in 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.539 jerusalem and we cannot deny it so they was trying 00:12:41.539 --> 00:12:44.360 to and i made a post about this earlier i said 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.120 man this is like this is what they do in the 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:50.120 world today people would try to put you down 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.649 and silence you When they know you, you speak 00:12:53.649 --> 00:12:55.409 in the word of God. When they know it's righteous, 00:12:55.450 --> 00:12:57.850 when they know it's good. And we can't worry 00:12:57.850 --> 00:13:00.230 about that because the goodness of God will prevail. 00:13:00.850 --> 00:13:03.090 But that is spread no further among the people. 00:13:03.370 --> 00:13:05.490 Let us straightly threaten them that they speak 00:13:05.490 --> 00:13:08.289 henceforth to no man in his name. And you will 00:13:08.289 --> 00:13:11.809 get threatened. You will get threatened. You 00:13:11.809 --> 00:13:14.809 will get put down. They gonna try to stir you 00:13:14.809 --> 00:13:17.429 the wrong way. Keep going. Stay positive. Let 00:13:17.429 --> 00:13:20.419 your light shine. as a person. When you step 00:13:20.419 --> 00:13:23.379 into the world, show them that God is real. Peter 00:13:23.379 --> 00:13:26.200 and John must speak. And then they called them 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.460 and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach 00:13:30.460 --> 00:13:33.080 in the name of Jesus. And Peter, John answered 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.399 and said unto them, whether it be right in the 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:37.399 sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:41.059 God, judge ye, for we cannot but speak the things 00:13:41.059 --> 00:13:43.679 which we have seen and heard. so when they had 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.139 further threatened them they let them go finding 00:13:46.139 --> 00:13:48.159 nothing how they might punish them because of 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.860 the people for all men glorified God for that 00:13:50.860 --> 00:13:53.679 which was done for the man was about 40 years 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.080 old whom this miracle of healing was showed a 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:01.600 prayer for boldness in being let go They went 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:03.879 to their own company and reported all that the 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:05.720 chief priests and elders had said unto them. 00:14:06.019 --> 00:14:07.679 And when they heard that they lifted up their 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.419 voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, 00:14:10.620 --> 00:14:12.799 thou art God, which has made heaven and earth 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:15.639 and the sea, and all that them is, who by the 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.360 mouth of thy servant David has said, why did 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:20.600 the heathen rage and the people imagine vain 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.590 things? the kings of the earth stood up and the 00:14:23.590 --> 00:14:25.529 rulers were gathered together against the lord 00:14:25.529 --> 00:14:28.289 and against the christ for of truth against thy 00:14:28.289 --> 00:14:31.669 holy child jesus whom thou has anointed both 00:14:31.669 --> 00:14:34.029 herod and point and polyth with the gentiles 00:14:34.029 --> 00:14:36.090 and the people of israel were gathered together 00:14:36.090 --> 00:14:38.429 for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council 00:14:38.429 --> 00:14:42.110 determined before to be done and now lord behold 00:14:42.110 --> 00:14:44.529 thy threatenings and grant unto thy servants 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:47.500 that with all boldness they may speak thy word 00:14:47.500 --> 00:14:50.360 by stretching forth thy hand to heal and that 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.500 signs and wonders may be done by the name of 00:14:52.500 --> 00:14:54.919 the holy child Jesus and when they had prayed 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:57.519 the place that was shaken where they were assembled 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:59.519 together and they were all filled with the holy 00:14:59.519 --> 00:14:59.840 ghost