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Ministry of One
A. The Rapport of the Time
In my reading this week I came across the name Alexander Solvhenitsyn.
Having no idea who he is I went about looking up his name and found out the great influence that he would have upon people like John Piper and C.S. Lewis.
Piper said this about him “
, A nobel prize-wining author, lived to tell the world about the torture and death in Russian Gulags, prison camps in Siberia where the Communists exiled millions of people.
Family member or Russian Orthodox church
Lost his faith in Christianity and became an atheist and embraced Marxist-Leninism
B. The Review of the Text
We have seen an amazing witness of a person who was set on destruction now changed completely.
One who was dead in their trespasses in sin now alive the things of God.
One that was completely spiritual blind now able to see both physically after three days and also Spiritually after living a life for himself pursuing what he thought was best.
C. The Reading of the Text
D. The Relevance of the Text
How precious are the lives of man before the God who not only created them but holds them together?
Even more amazing is a God that is in relationship with those he created to direct and guide us as we walk the life that himself has provided for us.
The confidence that he gives us to know that we are not alone but can go about our business of day to day life knowing Christ is with me for HIS purpose.
My desire this morning is that we would see that hand in the life of those in the text today and understand that God can and will do those same things with you and I.
T.S.
We meet in Acts in vs. 32 with “A life Healed in the Lord’s Name”
I.
A Life Healed in the Lord’s Name
I love how this portion of scripture starts with Peter went here and there.
NIV says Peter traveled about the country.
and NASB says traveling through all those regions.
If you don’t know what is going on at the moment you might think that Peter is wondering around aimlessly looking to get into the next thing that he runs into.
But we know what is happening to Peter don’t we! God is being led by God to share the Good News about the Son of God as he is going just like he has been told by Christ himself and this day he has made it to the town called Lydda.
He has come to be among the saints in Lydda and he finds among the saints a man names Aeneas.
It is interesting that Aeneas is counted among the saints before his healing which is unusual for the healing that we experienced when Jesus walked the earth.
The healings of Jesus seemed to be the beginning of faith for people not something that had been completed after their faith.
But for Aeneas we learn quickly that he has been bedridden for some eight years because he was paralyzed.
Luke draws great pictures in Acts around the works of God in peoples lives and this time is no exception.
The scene is a man who has come to Christ by faith sitting in his bed paralyzed unable to help himself who is about to be healed because on this day Peter comes to visit and be used by God.
Vs. 34 says that Peter tells him..”Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you, rise and make your bed.”
There are debates about what happened in this moment on what it meant to make your bed or pick up your Mat as other versions describe the event.
Beloved, I think just maybe we may be missing the point of a man just got healed who was paralyzed for 8 years!
It did not take a week for the healing to take affect.
The healing was immediate and complete!
This is the way Jesus healed people when he walked among us.
Jesus has ascended into the heavens to take his place as the name that is above all other names and no longer walks in this world but now uses his disciples to spread his fame in the early days of the church.
Turning to the Lord was the way it has been often said in the OT of the nation of Israel repentance before the Lord.
turning, repentance is what our hearts desperately need!
T.S.
No only was a life healed but in the next verses a life is restored in the Lord’s name.
II.
A Life Restored in the Lord’s Name
Before thinking this woman has an alias understand that Dorcas is her Greek name and Tabitha is her name in Aramaic.
It was common during this time for people to go by either of these names.
The information that we need is in that she was a disciple(only female use of word in NT) who get this “was full of good works and acts of charity.”
Don’t rush over the statement “Full of Good works and acts of charity.”
Dorcas is a disciple of the Lord who according to these verses was involved in the lives of the widows, caring for them and loving on them just like we had been told earlier by Luke had been a problem in the early Christian church.
vs. 37 informs us that she has died and they washed her for burial which is according to custom but then they laid her in the upper room, which is far from custom.
Usually they would be trying to bury the body immediately.
But the follower in Joppa have a plan and a great faith!
What they do next is an expression of their belief that their Lord is very much still involved in their lives.
Lydda was about 10 miles from Joppa about a 3 hour walk.
Hearing that Peter is close they have placed her in the upper room thinking that Peter can do something about it.
Faith of these disciples that Peter can be used by THEIR LORD to works such an amazing Miracle!
Peter upon hearing of the death of Dorcas heads to Joppa and is greeting by the widows.
The widows are showing him garments that they have on that have been made by Dorcas and speak to her care for them as a disciple of the Lord’s.
Peter clears the room and then seeks the Lord.
Make no mistake Peter had been a room just like this before but with his Master and he knew what he was capable of doing.
Dorcas is risen from the dead and Peter takes her to those with whom she has been serving and gives her back to them.
The event that happen this day did absolutely serve the widows of the area to give them back Dorcas.
But this was all part of the Plan of God because of vs. 42.
Many believed in the Lord.
T.S.
A life Healed and a life restored, but I don’t want you to miss a life Utilized by the Lord.
III.
A Life Utilized by the Lord
In passing at the end of this section we find that Peter stayed in Joppa for many day.
I want you to think about our big footed, big mouth, leader of the disciples friend Peter.
The one that our Jesus saw the potential in far before he would ever become the man we see in these verses.
Peter the one who:
This is who our Lord chose to lead the disciples.
This is the man that he is using this day to raise Dorcas from the dead.
This is the man that our Lord saw fit to get him to Joppa to raise Dorcas so he would be ready for the next mission that is in Caesarea that Peter doesn’t even know about yet!
This is a follower of the Lord’s that is being utilized for the Kingdom of God!!
Application:
I want finish by telling you about a man named Boris Kornfeld.
Chuck Colson wrote about him in his book titled, “Loving God.”
He was a Jewish doctor, Kornfeld met a devout Christian in the prison camp who shared with him how Jesus came for the Jews first and gave His life for all.
Gradually, Kornfeld would grasp the Truth of the Gospel and became a Christian himself.
The scarcity of doctors in these isolated camps meant the doctors lived in better conditions than most prisoners.
His medical skills were needed for guards and prisoners.
Boris Kornfeld knew his life was in danger for not signing documents that meant almost certain death for prisoners, and for reporting the orderly, who was sentenced to three days in the punishment block.
Kornfeld shared his newfound faith with a young prisoner - whom he operated on for cancer of the intestines - talking to him throughout the afternoon and into the night.
Kornfeld continued to pray the Lord’s Prayer as he went about his backbreaking, hopeless tasks as camp doctor.
He tried to help the prisoners suffering from disease, cold, overwork, beatings and malnutrition.
The doctor had been repeatedly asked to sign forms certifying prisoners were healthy enough for punishment.
Eventually, he refused to sign the forms.
As Colson writes, the patient pondered the doctor’s impassioned words.
As a result, he, too, became a Christian.
The patient survived that prison camp and went on to tell the world what he had learned there.”
The next morning Dr. Kornfeld died after suffering eight blows to his head.
His young patient was Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Imagine the conversation in heaven when Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Dr. Boris Kornfeld were reunited.
Solzhenitsyn once said, “…no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.”
Think about the immeasurable impact of one life.
There’s a Russian proverb Solzhenitsyn would quote, “One word of Truth outweighs the whole world.”
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