Power of the Name of Jesus | Pr Matthew Chang

You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message

will light up your day. Turn with me to X chapter three X Chapter

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I will share with you more about a book of CS. Okay X chapter

three from verse one, Now it says here, now Peter and John,

who is Peter and John the Apostles? Okay, Peter and John went up

together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. Okay,

this is the time when Jesus has died, but he rose again and

is now seated at the right hand of the Father. Now Pentecost has also

been done ready now. But then it says there that Peter and John were

at the temple, and they walked up there at the ninth hour, which

is about twelve three o'clock like that, okay, our time, And a

certain man laying from his mother's room was carried okay, whom they laid daily

at the gate of the temple, which is called beautiful, to ask arms

from those who entered the temple, who seeing Peter and John about to go

into the temple, ask for elms. Okay, let's stop there for a

while. Now, it says there at the temple, okay. First thing

we know is that there is a gate or a huge door, and the

door is actually called beautiful. Okay. How many of you have seen beautiful

doors and beautiful gatesiful Okay. I recently had a privilege to go to Italy.

Then we went to some of the cathedrals, and some of the cathedrals

the doors are. It's one of the most impressive things you can see in

the door itself. One of the doors I saw in Florence. They carved

the story of Exodus on the door. It's quite amazing. The artist street

they actually do so, not drawn and not carved, you know, and

some of the people bronze and sell. The actually is in the museum,

but they do a replica at the temple. Beautiful, beautiful, and it's

very very powerful. And before you enter in your like you're just watching the

door. It's like a privileged read and know it's like huge. It's probably

like from here the door is probably higher a few more fits higher than that

ceiling. Huge, massive, And this gate is called the gate beautiful because

it is one of the most beautiful gate in the entire temple. You know,

how powerful is the Temple of Jerusalem. When we talk about temple,

you have no idea, right, but this is no ordinary temple. This

is a Temple of Jerusalem. Now I want to ask you how many times

have the Temple Jerusalem been rebuilt? Everybody's looking at me. Are we in

a history class right now? H seven times? Three times? Three times?

I see your your faces are feeling with fear and trembling. You don't

there the answer, right? It has been built two times, two times?

The temple dress have been built two times. Okay. The first time

in during when King Solomon, not David, Solomon his son. King David's

son Solomon built the temple, but it was destroyed, okay, destroyed by

Babylon. Then who built it up again? Technically there was a rebuild during

the days of Nihimaya Okay, but it was not a proper full rebuilt.

When they rebuilt, some of the elders when they saw the temple, they

saw it as like half the size, and they cried because they remember how

beautiful the temple was. But then in the days of Jesus there was another

temple built, and this temple was built none other by King Herod. Okay,

King Herod decided to build the temple. Let me ask you another question.

Which one was bigger? The first temple or the second temple? Second

one? Who say the first one? How many say? Well, everybody

must raiz her Hannah? Who say the first one? Who says the second

one? And the answer is the second one. Why do you say the

first one was bigger because you think King Solomon richera ah, you go by

net worth one. The second temple was way bigger, almost three times as

bigger. Okay, three times as big. And it was beautiful, beautiful.

It was one of the wonders of the world. Beautiful. And they're

just saying, you know, they's say, if you have seen the Temple

of Jersey, you have seen beauty. Ah, how may you like to

live in a city like that? Come and visit our temple. If you

have seen the temple, you have seen beauty. The Temple of Josen is

marvelous. And a lot of times when Jesus was walking was doing ministry.

A lot of times he was talking, when he was performing miracles, when

he was talking about his teaching, a lot was referenced to the temple.

And if you follow the teachings in the News New Homes series in your homes

right, remember we're going through the seven am. I was writing it as

well. If you pay attention, most of the time when we go through

the seven im is talking about the story of Jesus before meing me regards.

And a lot of times he was in the temple when Jesus says that I

am the light of the world. You watch that story, read the story

clearly, Where was he in the temple when that woman caught it? An

adult tree? Was thrown to him. What wasn't it was in the temple?

And where was he under the big monorial light? You no monora lights

a big candle the time they burn. There was a thing about four big

lights that were burning. But yet under those beautiful lights, no matter how

beautiful this light was, so beautiful were because the temple in Jo was built

of marbles, you know, marble walls and ceilings. So when you light

the light, and what happens with the light it reflects off you know,

not one time in a bounce, bounds, bounce. So the whole temple

was a showcase of lights and one word and a beauty. But you're in

all this beauty, right. A woman was being condemned in an adult tree.

So Jesus was saying, you look at all these nights, you think

it's beautiful. No matter how beautiful this light, it cannot save this woman,

and it cannot shine the light into the darkness of men. You get

mean, right, You can live in the most beautiful temple, but your

heart is full of deceit. And Jesus says, I am the light of

the world, the light that can save, the light that pierces through the

darkness and lines of the men. It saves you know what I mean?

Right? That is the true light of the world. So beautiful, isn't

it. We look in the world, but Jesus looks beyondes as well.

So the temple was a very very important place, okay. And John and

Peter was walking and then he saw this man carry and put in front this

beautiful this gate called beautiful. Now why is it called beautiful? Like I

said, it's beautiful to behore, But more than that, it was the

gate where I think, if I'm not mistaken, you must understand the temple

has many layers. Okay, the first level not to say, hi,

the first outer quarra. Okay, it's only for gentiles. You cannot go

beyond a certain part. Then another day it's a court of women where the

women are where that is where Jesus was teaching and say I'm the life of

the world, and they proceed further. It is only for Jews and men

only. So before you enter past that gate, you need to be either

not a woman or you need to be purified yourself. You want say I'm

saying that and take the temple at that time. It's not as simple hey,

just part your car and you go in one and all. You cannot

go to temples and synagogue just like that one. Okay, you go to

temple. Now this if you if I'm not me saying now this, you

go to the synagogue. Before you're going, you're supposed to go through a

cleansing ritual. Okay at that time, mind they actually will wash their feet

washing and someone that will actually go take a bath before they entered in my

cleansed and purified before you enter a temple. We should do that in excell

maney okay, we should put a bath there before you all you come in

there and make sure you take your shower before you come in. Then you

present yourself pure and clean before the Lord. You know, did you have

any idea or not? This is actually what it meant. He was like,

oh, I didn't know. Why do you think the temple was filled

with baths and water? They were like, oh, I didn't know that.

And they can only cleanse yourself with not just any water. You can.

You saw there are different levels of water. When I went into studying

POMPEII, right, you know, with this city that was there, I

was I was walking with the archaeologist there. Then I was like, then

they were showing no, no, the best water was collected in every house.

Right, they don't have whalmer, but they have water in every house

the house, I say, they have water in every house. So in

the ceiling there is a hole and the whole will actually dripped the water when

they ring, it was dripped down and you will go into the into sort

of like an underground well. There's a name for it. Remember what's the

name, cistern. Okay. A system is not throng Okay. A system

is something is sort of like a container area below your floor, Okay,

where you store living water. Why it's living water. In ancient times,

you don't have tap water. You can buy mineral water. You drink water

either whatever you have not there are rivers from the well, rivers from sorry,

waters from the well, waters from the river, waters from rain Okay.

But the Romans they don't drink water from the river. They don't drink

waters there are stale. They drink water. They are living. Living water

is considered either from rain water or water. They came from the mountain.

That is why they built the aqueduct. You know the aquaduct. The aquaduct

is those big you know, no construction the built, but miles and miles

away to tap the water coming down. Why is it called living water?

Because your stale water there is muddied right, contains a lot of germs.

You wouldn't drink it, isn't it. But when the water is moving,

especially from the rain from the mountain, is the best pure water. And

those are called living water. But everyone wants to drink from Ah. Now

you're thinking about Jesus said, I am the living water different senses. I

come from a sauce that you cannot get from the river, not from a

sauce that you get from a sister. I am the sauce that comes from

Heaven. The type of purity water you drink, you'll never thirst again.

You drink the living water on earth, you will still thirst, you want

some more. But the living water that comes from Heaven, you will you

will never thirst again. Amen. And the not the living water, living

water. The sauce is inside, you're not outside, and an hour of

it will burst out rivers of living water. I thought the ribel is outside,

but you say the river is inside. So amazing, isn't it?

Greater? And beyond the world is so I teach so many things ready enough

for today? Read you know how mean if you're learning something new today.

You're learning something new today and should appreciate your history, appreciate your geology.

Okay, appreciate it. So Jesus was talking about Okay, I digress a

lot here, got so much to go, so much to share. Anyway,

this beautiful gate, it's it's very important gate, the gate that they

are supposed to you know, one of the most motive gets that go into.

Okay, so there's a likelihood that this lame person he was not just

placed there to beg He was placed there because he cannot enter. He cannot

enter because you must understand and that time people need a reason to make sense

of the world. What do I mean by that? They need to understand

why there is war or why there are diseases, why people die. Have

you ever wondered why things they are pain and suffering in this world when you're

young, No, you never wonder. You need to see more of the

world, You need to see more what there suffering in this world? Then

you wonder why. And sometimes happening in your life, you answer why.

And some people need a reason, and society has given them a reason.

And why is the reason? They think that you suffer because you are a

sinner. There's a belief you are born porn because you were a sinner,

or your father is a sinner, or the life before you were a sinner.

That's the belief. That's why they say that you are born in sin,

you are not worthy to come in. So a lot of them there

were lepers, blind, they were man or whatever it is. They believe

they were sinners, so they could not enter the past. If you God

really has for given you, you would have been healed. So the desire

for these people was to be healed so that they are forgiven. You get

me a right forgiven my sins and forgiven of the sins of my family or

my four fathers before. They believe that. And Jesus broke that idea,

saying that you know, if you do not repent, you likewise will die.

You get what I mean, right, She's not saying you like wise

you don't repair, you will die as well. I came here to forgive,

to heal the sick and the broken hearted, not to condemn them.

You know what I'm saying. Society has a wrong view of people who were

sick, people who were diseased, and they cast them outside the beautiful gates.

Okay, now let's proceed. And then he says here in verse uh

four, okay, okay. So the guy was looking at Peter and John

and he was asking for money, elms, please give me some money.

And then he says here and Peter and Peter fixed his eyes on him with

John and said, look at us. See here, It's very powerful,

isn't it. You can be poor, you can be sick, you can

be wretched, you can be cast out society. And yet when God or

or a person of God comes and pass you by it, your eyes may

not be fixed on theminal until someone tells you look at us. What does

that mean? It means that miracles and God, God and miracles can come

and visit you and you still miss it. If you do not look.

You can be praying all your heart, God, give me a breakthrough.

God, do this for me just for one moment, and that moment of

encounter, moment of faith. You fail to respond to the call of God,

you can miss it out. Yeah, I mean right, So on

God response not based on how pathetic or sek you are. God responds based

on the faith that you have. Understanding I'm saying when that means what you

don't go to pick God? I'm so poor, I'm so said, I'm

sorry. No, when you pray, no matter how painful it is,

you must always pray with faith. But without faith, it is impossible to

please God. You know what I'm saying. You know you must always no

matter what you go through you're in pain. God understands. But God responds

to faith. If you read the Bible again, and that's why I want

to go. You go through the Book of Acts again and again, you

see every time faith no miracles responding. What did God respond to faith?

There are so many sick people, so many people who are poor. Did

Jesus heal every one of them? Did what everyone of them heal? Some

of the places Jesus go to, he couldn't even perform a miracle because they're

like faith, Not because they're like sickness, they're like faith. So sometimes

the best thing you can bring to someone who is downtrodden, who is poor,

who is sicker, it is not to give money, you know,

just to help encourage them and give them faith makes sense makes sense. So

you don't need to be rich to help someone. You know, everyone has

the gift of encouragement. The world needs encourages. And how many doctors are

here? I see a doctor here? It's sure or not? Do we

need more encouragement? It's not just money, you know, it's the faith

to believe God? Can you believe? That's what there is? There is

the di scarcity, not medicine of faith. You know, God, God

responds to faith. Without faith, it is impossible to please God, amen

and learn something. And I better write that down. Okay, write that

down. Okay, So please continue to visit your friends, and but go

there and encourage. Okay, Now what did he say there? He said,

fixing his eyes on him, Peter said, look at it. Okay,

the guy who's looking at him, and he said, so he gave

so that the guy who was laying gave to John and John and Peter his

attention, expecting to receive something from them suddenly, like okay, okay,

I'm expecting right now. You can't ask without expecting money. Now. But

when God called okay, he responded, met the criteria. He expected something

from them. Then Peter said, silver and God, I do not have,

but what I have I give to you. This is the very important

thing. Okay, if the underling is passed in the name of Jesus Christ

of Nazareth, rise up, and I want you to underline there. Okay,

this is what I'm going to be preaching about. Silver and God.

I do not have, but what I do have I give you in the

name of Jesus Christ. Rise up and walk underlying the name of Jesus Christ

of Nazareth. Okay, he said, I got no money. You a

place. You're asking for silver and go I do not have, but because

of your faith, I give you what I have. I give you one.

Because of your faith, I give you what I have. And he

says he took him by the right hand and left them him out, and

immediately his feet and anchor bones received strength. So he liping up, stood

and walked and entered the temple with them. Wow, So what's the miracle

here? Was? He just made hell? Made whole hell? Not only

there, you know? He says that he entered the temple walking, leaping

and praising God, a man who has never been. He says that more

than forty years already in there towards the end of the chapter, more than

forty years old, born lame, never being able to pass through that door.

But every day he will sit there and will see people going in,

going in, going into the worship. He's been sitting outside there. So

for one moment that could have easily passed him by, he responded, and

he say that I believe I expect something from God today. Just a simple

moment of Eggo faith, and his whole body was restored. And not only

he was restored, his whole person was transformed. You see, how did

he walk in? He says one walking means he was laying. He now

he walks, lipping and praising God. I asked you this question, how

I wonder how many people who walk past that door, who were healthy,

was walking, lipping and praising God entering into the temple. I ask you

another question, how many of you here you have been safe and bought by

the precious blood of Jesus Christ, made alive again by him. How many

of you today are walking, liping and praising God? Today entering has the

beautiful git of God and into His presence. That is why when you come

to church, there is no excuse you should be sad. No excuse.

I don't care how bad your day is. No excuse, you know,

no excuse you think your time, the life is bad. It's not about

you and all. God has done all he can. He has given you

all that you need, more than anything else. If you are coming in,

he said, Oh God, because you haven't given given me this,

given me that you have not you are full of ungratefulness. You must be

able to gather all the things that God has done for you, and you

know, depend on it to walk into the gates of God. Not on

your fruits that was rotten. It on you take the best of your life.

He said, God has been good to me. I'm not looking at

my brought them back and I take that and I walk into the Thank you

God. It's like you're walking into Chinese New Year or during Christmas time and

you walk into your Christmas dinner or Chinese New your time thinking about talking in

your family table about the things that you don't have, about your own suffering.

Just the fact that you'd be invited to a table. It's a blessing,

you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you cannot be mournful going into

the into church complaining about Oh this person has wronged me. This person God

have no answer, no no excuse. The only way that all of us

have been saved by God to come into church and into the presence of God

is what walking, liping and praising God. The only way, the only

way. If not, you are outside the door. Only a person who

is unregenerate, unrepentant sits outside the door. You came mean, right,

But are you? Have you been saying I God? Have you been saved

by God? Has God touched you? Are you still having a breath right

now? No matter how bad you're like, No, everybody, it's not

about equality. You know, everybody must equal, then only we come to

church. Nonsense. God preached about equality. Some people have one one talent,

some people have two, some people have five talents. Every one of

them got requires. It's not about equality, you know. It's about you

being grateful with what you have. God is done and you go in.

So how should you respond? Next week? You better be leaping man,

You better be jumping man. Not because it's Christmas, man, because God,

this is the day the Lord has again. I said, this is

the day the Lord has Amen. I sometimes I you know, I get

it, so I get caught up with my own world. I get caught

up with the week, not the six days. There are sometimes bad,

you know, horrible, But on a Sunday, it's a new day.

It's a day of the Lord. Pass you away. No excuses. You

always tell yourself, no excuses. If you learn to live like that,

it would be very powerful. Your sundays will beautiful. Your people, the

people who knew, who depend on you, will be blessed. If your

self help, no excuses, true, not no excuses. I show up.

I'm grateful, I keep thanks to God. Life will be a lot

more beautiful. Life will be a lot more successful for you. Amen,

I'm taking my time really on this. Okay, good, no, okay,

learning a lot grace gone okay. And all he says he and verse

not. And all the people saw him walking and praising God. See,

all the people have been going in the church. They never do that,

but they saw this guy for the first time. He was like walking in

like living and praising. Not only God has healed me, he has welcomed

me into his presence. I can walk with him right now, I can

be with him. And he says the praise. And then they knew that

it was he who sat bagging arms at the beautiful gate of the temple,

and they were filled with wonder and amazement and what happened to him. Sometimes

we come to church and we wonder why this guy is jumping and seeing him

so much? Must be fake. One must be a new Christian. That's

why he jumped and singing like that. No, it is those who have

been saved and knows what God has done in them. Don't come to church

trying to miss the worship. Okay, a lot of people know this,

are come to church and they just missed the worship. I want to see

who's preaching. Do you know that? People down they do that? Why

not? It's like it's like the guy for concert or co play is only

playing at this time. The first fifteen minutes are going buy drinks first,

because the first four performance is not cop play, isn't it. I mean,

if we went to Coplay concert, I didn't go by better get to

ties and offerings. Okay, I'm not I'm not condemning you joking here.

I'm not gonna I'm just making a fund. That's how to pull your leg.

Okay, what I'm saying is that you know what do you want to

say what was? Why do you stop just not before the cold paper?

Oh, don't miss worship. Yes, I've really addressed this with two churches

and two church plants. Now I changed my summer. I was like,

people are working inn after worship. I was like, how can it be?

What ship is the time? And that it's not about you, It's

about God. It's like you're going to birthday and you missed their birth cutting.

But but the cutting and then the way you have birthday. You just

come for the food because you say, oh, I'm coming here to get

fat. I want to be fed by the Word of God. So coming

to church is about you getting fat. Going to someone's birthday party is about

you eating the food, not about the birthday person. Do you want to

invite people like that to your birthday party? Did you realize there? Did

you realize that it's horrible? Right? But that's what we do when we

misworship. I was like, Oh, today this guy is preaching I don't

want to come. It's like, oh, your birthday is at this restaurant.

I don't want to come. Would you do that? I only come

for your birthday based on the restaurant you go to what in the world since

when it's about the preacher, It's about God, isn't it. It's not

about the restaurant, it's about the birthday person past. That is horrible burn.

Also you come, okay it's true or not, no enough seeing you

come? Also you come? You know your grandfather, your mother will score

you. Okay, you come. But we have a misconstrued idea. You

know what I'm saying here, because it's all about us. That's how the

world thinks. Okay. Sorry, I'm not scolding you guys. Okay,

sometime I'm scolding, but I'm not scolding it. You guys are good,

Okay, Okay. So we're talking about in the name of Jesus. So

I've done half my semonary. The second half is more exciting, okay.

X Chapter four, let's look at worse. One says here. Now,

as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple,

and the seduces came upon them, being greatly disturbed that they thought the

people uh that, and that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the

resurrection from the dead. Okay, it'll be of context here. Why they

stay there obvious. You must understand that at that time Israel is not by

rule by any government. Okay, they were occupied by the Romans. By

the Romans, Saul of their like to work in the background. Okay,

they have military power, but they don't interfere too much as long as you

remain lawyer and subjugated to them. But in Israel it's different from a lot

of other nations. Instead that there are a nation that is ruled by the

by by the religious body. There are theocracy. Now we have democracy,

we have you know, communism and democracy, but they are theocracy. Theocosty

means that the you know, they have a king, but the priests is

very very very powerful. The religion, everything is very very powerful. Even

the temple they decide the laws and everything is for the people as well.

But if you go to Rome, the laws are decided by the Senate and

the Republic. But in Israel it was different by the temple and by the

priests, by the teachers. Well, so these people who arrested them are's

basically the highest body of the government. Okay, when you say the captain,

temples, the priests, they were the highest level of the authority.

Was addressed arresting them because they were teaching something, not just teaching, they

were in a way changing the law, affecting the law of the of the

nation at that time so important. So that's why it was a national crisis

for Israel as well. And but the committee of this of Israel was called

the Sanhedrin. We don't have to know it, but the Sanhedrin. The

Sanhedrin was a council of it's seventy two and seventy one members. There were

seventy one members. Okay. Jesus appeared before them when he was giving his

testimony before he died. Okay, these are the people who say that you

must go and see Pilot and they wanted Jesus die. But they were split.

But some of them were belonging to Pharisees, some of them belonging to

seduces. Gay Pharisees and Seduces are like two major groups. They don't like

each other one. It's like Pakatan and BN or Pakatan Yemen right, Yemen,

right, it's like that my political party. Okay, there the Pharisees

and the Studuces. But instead of political difference, they have a religious difference

as well. They believe in God, but the Seduces Seduceesa, they don't

believe in the resurrection of the dead. The only believe in the Torah up

to the first uh for the first four books of Moses only all the rest

of the books Jeremiah isay, Yeah, they don't recognize it. That's why

they don't believe in the resurrection. The Pharisees instead different, They believe in

though entire the rest of the books for the Prophets as well. But they

are extremely religious, extremely religious because they believe they are appointed by God to

save Israel, so the Israel will not fall back to their sins. What

was their sin idolatry and not obeying the Sabbath. So when you read the

New Gospel, that the Gospel right, a lot of times Jesus was contending

with them about what Sabbath with the Pharisees Sabbath because the Pharisees believe it was

Israel transgressing and breaking the Sabbath. That was the reason why they went into

exile for forty nine years. That was the they believe that. So it's

like if you if you continue in your scene breaking the Sabbath and you don't

follow all the religious laws, you're gonna go back into exile again. So

they believe that Phariracis are put into place to police this nation so that we

don't enter into Babylon again. Literally, that's how they think. So when

people were not cleansing their caps, they were working on the sabab, you

just spit on the mank or day you were working. You are a sinner.

How could you do that. You're gonna You're not just a singer.

You're gonna plunge the whole nation into exile again. That was the way they

believe. You see what I'm saying. That's why they were so upset with

Jesus. How can you not observe our traditions? Whereas they know they don't

do just themselves as as religious people. They think of themselves as avengers.

You know, you have me right to think of yourself as a priest's waney,

But to think that you are a savior of a nation is another thing.

They think that they were right. They think that they're helping people,

but they got rich at the same time as well. They got very rich

at the same time as well. Now, so there's there's a bit of

the context. Okay, okay, now let's move on verse seven. And

when they have set them in their midst they ask, this is the very

most important question, By what power or by what name? Have you done

this? Okay, what was the question? The first question they asked and

the most important question they asked that set them up, was this, by

what power or by what name? Have you done this? Now? Why

is this so significant? Because they didn't even ask whether the miracle was real

or not. This is a miracle. We're talking about a it's not just

any cases. It's about a miracle. Or They didn't just say that,

oh, how did it happen? No, they didn't even deny it happened.

They just say that, by what name or by what power did you

perform this? Power? And name these two things. Power means what power

means. Either you have the direct power to heal someone means that healing flow

through you to heal this someone. This means you are like a god,

some kind of god or angel, or somehow power. The second person that

you have can heal is a power is a person under authority. You have

authority, not just that you have authority. The person behind you who gave

you the authority is alive. And powerful. If the person is there,

you have an authority. You know, you see, if you come from

the previous government, there's no longer in power. You're not authority. Want

government has changes in it. That's why the administration changes it because he's gone.

Right there, we're talking about a person who is alive or death.

If his person is there, are no matter previously you were that thought that

thing. Prime Minister, you have no power because the person who gave you

the authority is that godle finish, dismissed, reti you expired? Did I

cover everything? Ready? You know what I mean? Right? In government,

you understand it. In school, you understand everything. You understand authority

is delegated to you and from the person above you as well by the power

authority. So they were asking by what power an authority did you get?

Did you perform this miracle? I tell you this was the question that set

them up. And in verse eight, then Peter, filled with the Holy

Spirit, said to them, this is the very important thing you must underline,

okay, rulers of the people and elders of Israel. He's basically addressing

the parliament. You know, literally, you say rulers or the people mom

we elected in the name o parl. PM is listening to this guy right

now? Okay, we this day are being judged. Say I'm standing here

being judged for a good deed done to a helpless man. Say you didn't

ask me how it was done? You didn't ask mean what I did?

Okay, you've already agreed that it was done. It was clean, and

it is for a good thing. It's not an evil thing. I did

not murder. I did not still, I did not hurt any person.

It was a good thing. You agree, it is a good thing.

The only thing you're judging me for a good thing is by what power?

I more than gladly answer you today. I'm more than gladly because half the

case is solve ready, you know? Yeah, I mean right, most

of the time you stand trial, you're the proof yourself. What was so

intense, isn't it? Why did you do this? You do? You

say that I'm doing a good thing. So half the case is gone,

ready, Okay, half the case is set up. Ready, I'm clear.

It's a good thing. Now you know my power not my power.

Let it be known to you all and to all the people Israel. Okay

that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth post there for while by the

name of by the name of Jesus Christ, say it's the name of Jesus

Christ. I won't let you know today there is power in the name of

Jesus. The single most power thing you do can do as a believer,

every one of you, every one of you can do, is to believe

and to be able to wield wisely the name of Jesus. This is a

very important thing. First miracle, major miracle that Peter and the first America,

major America that Peter and John did was in the name of Jesus Christ.

Now why is it so important? Because all of us has been called

to preach, to teach, to evangelize, so that all men know that

Heaven rules. How all men, everyone may know that Heaven rules. If

you're only just word coming out, but without power, we have all the

knowledge, isn't it. But we just didn't need the knowledge. We need

power. Power comes from what I told you, either directly from you or

from authority. Coronna, either directly from you or from authority. He just

said, let it be known by the name of Jesus Christ or Nazareth.

He didn't say. He stated that they were. They were examining him.

Peter and John was in the parliament, they were examining him. He said,

oh, let me retort. Let me now reflect the accusation back against

you, because the way I performed this miracle is under the name of authority

of Jesus Christ. By the way, this is the guy whom you crucified.

The parliament crucified the Semeihedrid crucified. This is the guy you crucify.

But God raised from the dead. You crucify and God raised means that you

and God are contradicting each other. You put to death by God raised in

mom you say you're from God. If you are really from God, why

did you put him to death? If you're really from God? And if

you hurt from God, why did God raised him up? You know what

I mean right? It's like you saw something wrongly here, but then your

boss had to buy it back. You know what I mean right? You

say you you're from God, but you killed this guy se Yeah, they

obviously they realize that who is that trial here? Is it? John and

Peter? No, the Sanhedrim was at trial. They are not being judged.

You they are not judging them, John, Peter, John, and

Peter is judging them right now judgment time. Then Jesus, Jesus. Just

a few few days ago, Jesus was being judged byveryone, anyone condemned.

He now even from the grave. Jesus Jesus is judging them right now from

the grave. This guy is relentless and not three disciples dodging them right now,

because Jesus rolls from the death. If I didn't rose from that way,

did my power come from? Okay, let me let me let me

expand it before that. This is a very important thing for you guys,

whom you crucify, whom God raised by him. This man stands here before

your home. Okay, before you heard this is the stone which was rejected

by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone you rejected but got many

as a cornerstone. Nor is there salvation in any other for there is no

other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be safe. Wow,

you must understand now that. Okay, let me let me put this.

How mean if you have applied for loans before? Okay, apply for

loans sometimes if you don't have enough credit or salary. Right, the loan

won't give you, the bank won't give you the loan's name. But what

if you get a guarantee. You're at a very rich guarantee and more than

happy. It's like, oh, this is that thought? Oh you know

that was a beIN You know that does a been network, very good,

more than happy. Cannot long immediately approve, not ten percent, fifty percent

give to you? Oh give you interest free? Someone you're melting away?

Ready? How they do your praise the lord? Because why he's rich,

and there's power in his name's name. There is power power, Thank yous

a being not here just joking. See the name is so powerful, isn't

it. But even as he riches, he is even if one day's a

been you know in the future you expired? Ready, okay, and someone

tries to use your name to apply again? Would the band give him long?

Why not? He's dead? Expire. You cannot use your great gray

funders need to apply for bank woman at a My great grandfather used to be

a multi billionaire from that belong before. You cannot use, cannot be verified

no living to have power, you must be living. You must be living.

If Jesus is there. There is no way this man can be healed.

No power can come from the death. Simple logic. You must understand

it. You know. That's why I said, under whose name? If

God healed, God is alive, God can he because God is alive.

You don't heal under any other dead man's name. Nobody will do that,

silly. Nobody will apply on the dead. But the name by which you

healed this man, whose thing did you use Jesus by don Jesus died unless

he didn't die. He died, but he didn't remain dead. And not

only did not he mean that there is something more to his name because someone

who is alive. It's not enough to raise to heal a personal someone who

came directly from God, because all power comes from God. But God has

subjugated and made everything under the feet of Jesus amen gone on. Not just

anyone someone God has given authority and power. Every time every niche shall bow.

Not just someone who is alive. Someone God has given authority, and

that name is Jesus. Now do you believe that miracles can still happen today?

Miracles cable. They're not just because you prayed hard, No Oh,

yes, you need faith. But the most important thing for a miracle to

happen is one that you pray in the name of Jesus. In the name

of Jesus, people, you don't understand now how powerful that signature is.

You know, you can have a big check book, but if you do

not have the right signature, it's nothing. You can put as many zero

as you can. You can go to every bank and check it. Maybe

I go to this church and I check it here. Maybe I go to

this bank and I catch it in. You cannot catch it in because there's

the wrong signature. But when you pray in the name of Jesus, there

is power with God honorary. Of course, it's another thing whether you have

faith or not, but it must always be done in the name of Jesus.

You think in the end of the days, you think, just how

good preaching the people will believe? Did Peter and John preach a good message

here? Did he have a worship session? Hey, let's do an author

call here? Hey, laymen, you at the beautiful gate there you want

to respond? No, he gave a call to him and said that do

you believe? Rise up and stand? And I called to you right now,

stretch up my hand in the name of Jesus, be here and power

flowed through. Nowadays. Do you believe miracles still happen? Of course he

can. Why not because the name of Jesus is still alive and powerful.

People, Jesus is alive and not. If you say it doesn't work,

means Jesus is dead and all it's still buried in all. But Jesus is

alive. That's why, even though you don't have to see Jesus appearing in

the clouds, that you know Jesus is alive because his name still bears power.

People you know, ask me why I know Jesus first brother his name

still bear powers. How come I catch my check under his name? I

still still got money coming into my Bankma, because the guy is still alive.

It's simple as that I can't see it. My father is in the

forum place, I can't see it. But I still can't catch tru I

know, I know, I know. When I pray in the name of

Jesus, he hears, he answers, I still see me because he is

alive working in my life, because he's a name of Jesus. People,

are you convinced right now that Jesus is alive, or do you still demand

that the evidence of God's miracle or God's presence is everywhere people, everywhere,

Jesus is alive. And the most powerful thing that you can do to your

friend who a non believer, someone who has not the experience God, is

to bring the reality of God being alive into their world. And the one

the ways to do that is what in the name of Jesus. I pray

with you right now. Every time they go through something difficult, a family

break up, a sickness, you in you without you, without giving us

incessantly prayer and labor and praying by the stretching of your hand, with baldness

and courage, praying in the name of Jesus that the person be healed.

Behold no other name, no other sermon, but the name of Jesus.

You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying now, let me, let

me and let me so. They come to a cosse here number fifteen.

Sorry, that's the thing here now. When they saw the bonus of Peter

and John and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained man, they marveled,

who are these guys? When they realized they had been with Jesus. What

does that mean? It's not just about praying the name of Jesus. That

signature is important. But they had been with him, they had been spending

time with him. And because they know Jesus, they have the boldness,

they understand their authority. That that is why they used it. Okay,

they walk with Jesus. If you never walk with Jesus like you will never

pray in the name of Jesus with power and authority. One you get what

I'm saying. You just don't don't know, do you? I mean?

Right? You can be in the same company the boss none. The boss

mays, be like, but you cannot simply sign that check. People don't

recognize you because you had not been walking with God. Ah, it makes

sense, and that you know me? Even showing up to work? Oh

oh spicy? True or not? Why would your boss trust you? I

got money, but why should I trust you? Have you been coming?

Have you been showing up to work? And then the but they have been

with Jesus said, oh, don't simply just go out Jesus name just same,

He'll hey, how come doesn't work? One course, you never show

up for work? You've never been walking with course. Yeah, I got

power, I got authority, I got all this thing I can give to

you. But you never work with me. You never walk with me.

Okay, now let's moving here and verse forty and seeing the man who had

been here standing with them, they could say nothing against it. You see

why it is praying the name of Jesus so powerful because they stand before the

parliament not giving big apologetic you know, project it is important. I'm a

big aprojected guy also, I love it. But not if you preach a

projected there, they're going to refute to you. But Jesus, the way

that the world will come to know Jesus is true, true to ways,

to words, and through power. You can preach, but your work's best

witness to your word, And I can preach by your power, best witness

to who I am. Jesus came teaching and performing miracles, always two hands,

the word and the works. The word and the works. Okay,

my work's bad witness to my word. My works is consistent to my word.

You know what I'm saying. The works and the word is always consistent.

When you go out, you don't just have the word on it.

No, no, no, no, no no, I always too.

There's an effective ministry words and works, word and works. Are you fuel

just for the word? If you do a lot of works, what is

it based on? You know what I mean? Right? Both science and

wonder world company, the preaching office word name gave me right now you must

accompany one. There is what the church is called to do, both the

word and the works. You look at it everywhere they go, word and

works, word and works, word and works. Master. It is bad

witness to each other one from old Testament until now the word and the works,

the word and the works. Okay, So when they saw the works,

this man is standing there. Hell, everybody knows it, whole entire

temper for the past thirty forty years. They've been seeing it. They cannot

deny it. They've got nothing to say, No apologetic can refute it,

you know. Okay. So when they had come and then verse fifteen,

But when they had commanded them to go outside of the council, they're conferred

among themselves saying, what shall we do to this man? Because they don't

like it. They're teaching very powerful things. And not only teaching powerful these

guys are accusing us as murderers because this guy heal in his name, and

he's saying that God bears sweetness with this guy, the guy we just killed.

If we approve, that makes us the bad guys we agree that we

are murderers. If we agree we are murderers, who will appoint us as

parliament next time? It's a political problem, now, isn't it. Now?

You see that a big pickle, isn't it? Right? Now?

Understand not the start, it's a great work. But if we agree that

we become murderers, do you want to be murderers? I don't want to

be murderers the start? Okay, So what did they do in verse seventeen?

But so that it spreads no further among them, let us severely threaten

them that from now on they speak to Norman in this name. They could

only threaten. But what did they threaten? You don't meet up in church

anymore, you don't come to the temple anymore, you don't do good works

anymore. It means, I see the world has no problem. Are you

church doing all that? We have a bigger gathering the things you know,

no problem? And one thing they don't like is that you're preaching the name

of Jesus came right, because when you're preaching the name of Jesus and the

name of Jesus has power, the whole world changes. Everything they're believing is

wrong. You destroy that reality. You're not say what I'm saying here.

You have destroyed their idols and religion. The moment that you're preaching the name

of Jesus and there is power, the whole world crumbles. You can do

powers, but never in the name of Jesus. You can't do what you

want, but don't destroy our war and our kingdom with the name of Jesus.

That's the one thing they want to stop you when you go out next

time, when you're in your house, in your family. But they said,

no, just pray for me. No, you insist on one thing

and pray for family members who are sick. Insists on one thing. D

Mom, brother, sister, I want to pray for you. Let me

pray for you and what in the name of Jesus Christ, with fullness of

faith you pray no shortcut. People are no shortcut. You sign checked.

You don't short cut, Okay, you know why not pray in the fullness

of faith in the name of Jesus Christ. You don't when you pray for

healing, in the Bible said you must pray for five minutes, must a

beginning, middle end, and then I don't know what closing announcement, and

only the person who heal is it must only go to then go heal he

should be. It's just a platform, you know, coming here, it's

just a platform. And now the key is what the name of Jesus?

Now you why I want to speak there so much because I think on day

people church is just church. But when you go back, it's a hurting

world, people, broken world around you, your family, your friends,

don't be a shamed the word and the words, and you preach out and

stretch up your hand, pray in the name of Jesus. Let that person

hear, because this is the authority. May God heal you. Let them

know that it is the power of what it is calling forth into their lives.

There is that one name that the world wants to stop, and you

can choose to either let it be stopped or not. Seeing on they cannot

do nothing, but they only can do They can only force you to choose

to use or not use. So now you today you have to decide to

choose or not use. What will you choose today? Will you use the

name of Jesus? Will you believe in the name of Jesus? You don't

say what I'm saying. Nothing more powerful in our lives than not. It's

the name of Jesus. That's why we with the so how would be saying,

there is fall in the name of Jesus. Break everyaching, break air

reaching, and break every reach. You believe that or not. You believe

that or not. We take it for granted. We pray no thank you

love for the food in the name of Jesus. I mean it's like we

take a powerful signature, we put it on a small receipt when we have

no idea. The name of Jesus is so powerful that the world, the

United Nations, is trying to stop you literally Christmas. Don't say Christmas right

now, don't put the name of Jesus poop across there right now? You

pray for me, don't you tell me right Everyone is trying to put a

stop because the moment the name of Jesus works, the whole entire world crumbles.

So they called themselves and then bus eighting. Let me draw to a

close. Ok, yeah, you're okay so far. It's sorry to give

me another ten minutes I can a sorry, yeah, I know, but

eighteen. So they called them, commanded them not to speak at all or

teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered to them and

said, whether it is right in the side of God to listen to you

more than to God, you judge, well, we cannot but speak the

things which we have seen and heard. So when they have further threatened them,

they let them go, finding no way of punishing them because of the

people, since they allied gone for what had been damn for the man was

over forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing has been performed last

one, verse twenty three. And being let God, they went on their

own account. They went to their own companions means they're their believers, and

reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. So when

they heard that, all the believers raised their voice with one accord and said,

this is the very powerful part. Lord. You are God who made

the heavens and the earth, and the seas and all that is in them,

who by the mouth of your servant, David had said, why did

the nation's rage, Why the people plot vain things? The kings of the

earth to their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the law and

against his Christ. For truly, against your holy Servant, Jesus, whom

you have anointed both herod and ponscious pilot, with the gentiles and the people

of Israel were gathered together. Is that all the authorities and power gethered together

to do whatever your hand and your purpose determined before to be done. What

the world intended for destruction, what the world gathered for evil to snap out,

God had turned around for could Jesus know Jesus Joseph is a type of

Jesus. What we see in Joseph's life, what evil happened to him,

God turned it for good, is a preview of what Jesus experience, what

man and the world see. Yah. Joseph experienced evil from his brothers.

You know, Jesus experienced evert from who from the nations. The entire nation

saw him and crucified him. His own people, whom he came for,

betrayed him, put him in the pits, not only saw him crucify him,

knowing on the cross. It's a preview. You know. That's a

story of Joseph, isn't it. Joseph is a type. You know,

it's a type. When you say a type of jess is a four shadowing

a preview. Jesus was greater than Joseph. We always say Jesus is greater

than Moses. Jesus was greater than David. Jesus was greater than Jacob.

Jesus was greater than Joseph. A story similar. You see a pattern there,

Okay, now he says there verse twenty nine, the last part.

Now, Lord, look on their threats. See look at that all together.

But what can they do? The only thing they can do is to

threaten. See yah. When they when they try to do and they cannot,

what do they result? Eventually, you must understand this is what the

world will come through them. They will tell you there's not God. They

will tell you that God doesn't work. Then the name of Jesus what doesn't

work. But the more you're preaching the name of Jesus, and the more

science comes in, wonder, they run out of excuses, they run out

of answers, they run out of apologetics already, and they start to come

through threats. You always come down to threats because they cannot overcome the world,

and they cannot overcome the power, the work and the works. They

cannot overpower when you're both your hands are looking to it. They cannot overpower

and they will start to threaten. He said, Now, Lord, Lord,

look on their threats. Now what did they ask for? They could

ask for prayer, and God say, give you a prayer. Request What

do you ask for right now? You as a believer, right now,

what do you ask for right now when the world is coming to it and

when the world is strengthening, what do you ask for? God? Give

me safety? They take me to an island. God, take me to

a country where the don't have to to such a difficult life. Or Lord,

you know, surround me with good and faithful people and all my Christian

word would just do I just want to serve your ministry and come. You

know God can do that. It's not a bad thing to ask. But

what was the heart? What do you, as a believer wants more than

anything else? If you really believe in God and you know that the name

of Jesus, what do you want more than anything else? People? If

you pray, and someone got healed and converted to Christ. What is it

that you want more than anything else? And someone is s threatening you were

heaven faster. But there's one thing that we cannot do in heaven. We

cannot preach the gospel to the loss. There are no lost people. What

do you want more than anything else? He says that, grant to your

servants that we all boldness. Say Lord, they are threads, but give

us more boldness. No not, you don't run away. I want to

run forward, not run back. Run forward. A lot of times we

run back and on the wrong direction. First thing as a believer, get

your direction right, get mean right. Not for more things in life,

get your direction right. You can run out by your wrong right, wrong

direction. A lot of times we pray very hard, but you pray very

help for the wrong direction. It's like, why are you going there?

You know we pray very help for the wrong direction. No boldness, Okay,

that we may speak your word. I've seen your word. Your name

works. I want more so that all men on, oh men on,

that your name works. That by the stretching out, that's stretching out your

hand los by stretching out your hand. It's not my hand, but when

I stretch out my head, it is your hand. Lord. By stretching

off your hand, that signs and wonders may be done through the name of

your Holy Servant Jesus Christ. There's not one day more than anything else.

Lord, I ask. I want the right direction, and I want to

stretch out where your word is, where You're showed me. I want to

go and I want to reach out. It's called outreach, you know,

outreach out. It's not just like hey, go in this. No,

outreaching is about the name of Jesus, reaching out, not just working on

works. Every time you meet someone in your friend, anyone you share with

the gospel, pray for them doing just by bye, pray. Do you

have any need you know? I mean right, you can preach, but

they remember, but the moment you win the key to events to pray for

them. I want to tell you about this bank, but no, I

want to give you a signature. I want to give you a check.

I want you to try it out because nothing is more compelling than than the

reality and the power of Jesus touching your life. You know what I'm saying

here or not? So I'm teaching badalism here. So what are you gonna

do to next week? You me, a friend, Are you gonna pray

for them? Are you gonna pray for them? Pray for them. That's

the best thing you can do. And pray for them in the name of

Jesus. Okay. And when they had prayed, the place where they were

assembled together was shaken. Oh my goodness, it's authority. Suddenly everybody is

catching in their check, you know. And the bank had to stop them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. You know why,

because what they spoke is true. What they spoke, the Holy Spirit agrees,

Jesus agrees, and the Father agrees. Oh shakes power, isn't it.

The world cannot threaten them. And they spoke the word of godness,

the Word of God with boldness. Ay Man, We hope you've been blessed

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