Week 41 Acts
In Acts 3 Peter was instrumental in helping a man who had never walked walk. The man actually started jumping around in excitement, and witnesses were pretty impressed too.
Not so excited and not so impressed was a group of people that included: the leading priests, the captain of the Temple guard, and some of the Sadducees. They came and arrested Peter.
The miracle was what it was, but the leader’s big concern was who Peter attributed the miracle to. Peter told them the lame man: was healed in the name and power of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, the man you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead.
Then Peter said something extra about the Lord: there is salvation in no one else! There is no other name in all of heaven for people to call on to save them.
I’ve been reading through some of the Analects the last couple of weeks. They’re pretty good and they really make you think. And Confucius seems like a pretty good guy – smart, sincere, gentle, earnest, genuine, serious. He seems like a real character guy.
So this thing that Peter says about the Lord slows me down a bit.
It’d be different if Peter said that only a couple of dozen key people can save me. But he says only one can.
Note: quotes from Acts 4:1, 10, 12 (NLT)