Title: Get Up and Walk
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Peter is a Jew, so he is familiar with Jewish rituals. Then, when I was called by Jesus, I became a disciple and lived in community with Jesus for three years. Not long ago, I also experienced receiving the Holy Spirit in Mark's upper room. Now, he is a central figure in Christianity to the extent that anyone can say that he is a Christian prototype. However, he is still accustomed to prayer time (3 times a day) in Judaism. (You can see that the form and system necessary for Christianity and religion have not yet taken shape) Anyway, Peter, as Jews usually do, prayed during prayer time. We are “going to God” using the beautiful gates of the temple to pray with John in the temple.
1. Let's think a little more about the cripple.
People who have never stood up are not sedentary beings, but they have been sitting or lying down all their lives. Of course, I never walked or ran. It's not because I don't have legs. However, it is a leg that only causes discomfort even if there is mana. It's a bridge that can't stand people up and have them walk and run, but can't do that at all. A person who can always move only when he is on the back of another person. A person who becomes a burden to others rather than a person who helps and relieves the burden. A person who cannot carry one's life and spends the rest of his life on others. Moreover, it has to depend on other people's pockets to make a living. Every day, I go to and from work according to the prayer time, sit in a reserved seat and do regular things, but all of this is to buy sympathy. It is a life where people who ask for something to give rather than giving even a little bit, bow their heads to eat and forsake their personality and pride, and their greatest concern is “what to get”.
2. Look at Peter.
This means that there is no silver and gold that the sick and beggars demand now. Instead, there is an alternative, which is “the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.” Here we know what the needs of people outside the temple (outside Jesus) are. But more than that, it should be noted that although they are of little interest, what we have to give is “the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.” There is no need to lament that I do not have the silver and gold to give what the world needs. We must believe and practice that we are given the name of Jesus, who has the authority to change the lives of the lame and the beggar, and the name of Jesus with power. The name of Jesus has “power” to raise the lame. The church (saint) has a great name that can walk and history. It turns the useless into the essential, and the discarded into the useful to all. This name of Jesus is like the master key held by the general manager of the hotel, so he can open all the rooms of the hotel and enter. The name of Jesus is the source of power and authority that makes all things possible. Peter gave him this name of Jesus.
3. The change in the crippled
1) From a seated position - got up, walked and ran.
I gave up my reserved seat. I also blew up the bulkhead I was sitting on. The beggar's position was also canceled, and the name "Byeongsin" disappeared. The name of Jesus has the power to lift up, to walk, and to jump.
2) From the temple gate - into the temple
From the “before the beautiful gate”, where he risked his life to protect the place where he had been navigating, he now runs into the temple (into the body of Christ = becoming one of the members of Christ). The name of Jesus has the authority to make people who were in the world run into Jesus (to the world of salvation).
3) Approaching God - Praise
Those who heard the hymns flowing out of the temple became hymns. The name of Jesus gives us hymns. The name of Jesus makes us experience miracles, and those miracles open our mouths to praise.
4. When did this (power in the name of Jesus) happen?
Verse 1 - “As Peter and John went up to the temple at the ninth hour of prayer, the authority and power of the name of Jesus is a work that is revealed to those who go to the temple during the prayer time. At the time of prayer, the power hidden in the name of Jesus is revealed, and the authority of Jesus is revealed to those who go to the temple. Are there people around us who sit and hit the ground with frustration, despair, failure, or disease? Let us rise up in the name of Jesus. Let us be the protagonists of miracles that raise up those who are sitting, in the name of Jesus, spoken to those who pray and go to the temple.