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From the Minister's Study
God's words provide hope for restoration
By Pastor Andrew Versteeg
Brussels Community Bible
Chapel
"Restoration" — that is a word we
are all acquainted with. We work
hard at restoring buildings, vehicles,
furniture, the environment, our
complexion, our health,
relationships, etc. The word,
`restoration' implies that things have
fallen apart and are in need of repair.
But restoring old furniture or
buildings or even our relationships is
something of a temporary nature. We
might restore them today but years
from now, they will break down
again and need to be restored all
over.
Thankfully, God's word holds out
the hope of a future time in which all
things will be restored and that
permanently. It is called the "time of
restoration of all things" (Acts 3:21).
It is a wonderful true hope for those
who are trusting in Jesus.
The scene was the temple in
Jerusalem. Peter and John, two of
the disciples who had been with
Jesus during His ministry the
previous three years, were on their
way to the temple to pray. At the gate
they met a man who had been lame
from birth. He had never been able
to walk. He was a regular at the
temple gate, begging money in order
to sustain himself.
Spotting Peter and John he began
to entreat them for money, but they
had none. Instead they had
something much better to give. Peter
turned to look at the lame man and
said: "I do not possess silver and
gold, but what I do have I give to
you: In the name of Jesus Christ the
Nazarene — walk!" (Acts 3:6). That
man was healed immediately and he
followed Peter and John into the
temple, praising God and leaping for
joy.
This caused quite a commotion in
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the temple and many people began
to gather around to see what had
happened. What happened next was
somewhat unexpected. The people
were in awe that Peter and John
would be involved in such a miracle,
but Peter quickly turned everyone's
focus from the miracle to the One
who had done the miracle, namely
Jesus Christ.
Peter then went on to explain what
this miracle, and I would argue all
healing miracles, are intended to
demonstrate. All of the Biblical
miracles teach us three things about
Jesus: 1. Jesus is alive. 2. Jesus is
God. 3. Jesus is the Saviour.
It had been almost two months
since Jesus had died on the cross and
many people still believed Him to be
dead. Everybody around Jerusalem
knew what had happened. Peter said
to them, "you disowned the Holy
and Righteous One — you put to
death the Prince (author) of life — but
God raised Him up and we are
witnesses and it is through faith in
Jesus that this man has been made
well"
In other words, Jesus, who is truly
alive, has the power and the love to
heal this man! He is alive and
therefore active. As God, He has the
power to heal. As Saviour of the
world, He has the love and desire to
bring about the healing.
Sometimes still today Jesus will
do a miracle of healing often for the
same three purposes to demonstrate
the truth to those watching. He is
alive! His power to do a miracle
demonstrates that He is God because
only Jesus, the Prince of life, can do
such miracles. Jesus does not
promise to do these miracles of
healing whenever we want them, but
by His own will and initiative He
sometimes works them because He
is God. The lame man in the book of
Acts was made completely well and
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this is the way that God does His
work, completely and perfectly.
This leads us to the main point,
namely that Jesus is the Saviour.
Having established that Jesus is
alive, that He is God, Peter then
teaches about Jesus' greater work of
being a Saviour. Peter states that
though these people had put Jesus to
death on a cross, this was actually
God's will and plan. Jesus had come
to die in order to deal with sin.
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of all of our problems. Indirectly, sin
was the cause of this man being
lame. Disease and death entered
creation when our first parents,
Adam and Eve, disobeyed God. God
has promised a day in the future that
is described here as the time of
"restoration of all things." Jesus will
restore all things at the end of the
age, after His final judgment. At that
time there will be no disease, no
death, no sin and even a completely
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during the sermon.
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