A physical condition in which walking is difficult or impossible. In the Old Testament, lame animals were not acceptable sacrifices Deuteronomy The lame were prohibited from serving as priests though they were allowed to eat from the priests' provisions Leviticus The Jebusites boasted that their stronghold of Jerusalem was so impregnable that even the blind and lame would be able to turn back David's troops 2 Samuel 5: In the New Testament, the healing of the lame forms an important part of Jesus' messianic work Matthew By healing the lame in the Temple, Jesus restored these excluded ones to full participation in the worshiping community Matthew Acts tells of the early church continuing Jesus' healing ministry to the lame: Peter and John Acts 3: Monday, December 17th, the Third Week of Advent.
Enter query in the box: And the misery of the East End, and of the fat, well-fed, but still wretched West End, is utterly untouched by our Christianity. Not so with Peter and John. Do we believe after all at bottom the conclusion of the whole matter is this: It is time that we did, whether we do or not — more than time.
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Peter and John fastened their eyes upon him and looked at him. They did not go past him.
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What a lesson for preachers! There are teachers abroad, let me tell you, who do not want to see you; you are a hard nut for them to crack. Why, when you were better off they could speak to you, and you go to them, but since these hard days have come upon you you have dropped going there. When comfort was needed they were too cold.
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Now, you are right for the gospel. Christ Jesus is here for the sake of this impotent man, and He has lifted up you and me, if we are lifted up, that we may go and fetch the others who have not been brought yet. This is really the whole scope and purpose of the mighty work which God has done upon you, and I rather fear that you are forgetting it. Think of Peter and John stepping forward there.
Try to catch the light in their faces as their eyes burned like twin lamps, when, not only they, but Christ, the loving Saviour, in them and through them, bent down and stretched out a hand and looked into the very despairing soul of that helpless creature. And then let me understand, and let you, O Christian worker, understand how much is needed to be, indeed, in this wretched world a servant of Jesus Christ. Oh, if we are able to bring ourselves and our Christ into naked, palpitating contact, let us do so.
Let us stand over the perishing as though we meant to take a two-handed grasp of them, and by our own power to lift them right off the sodden bed on which sin has stretched them. Ah, we need an eye in our head, and a tongue in our mouths, and a hand at the end of our arm which has in it some tingle of everlasting love, and we need a heart working behind all three which has been kindled from the heart of Jesus Christ, who for us men and for our salvation took flesh and died upon the Cross.
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The man gave heed. I do not like a man to hide behind his fingers and peep at me. I have not much hope of that. When the audience looks broadly and frankly up into the preacher's face things are looking hopeful. What an anti-climax to all that had gone before! All the delight going out of them, and his long face getting still longer and blacker, and perhaps his tongue uttering indignant words, as he might have said, "Sirs, if you have neither silver nor gold do not add insult to my wretchedness.
You might have passed on, and left me unnoticed and unchallenged.
I read a book not long ago with a very fine title by a very learned man. I do not question his learning. He just broadly said this — that we preachers can do nothing for this helplessness that is represented here, that we are only talking. They level against us the objection that was levelled against Jesus Christ, when another helpless man was laid at His feet, and instead of curing his physical wretchedness He went first to what was first in importance — his spiritual wretchedness, and said, "Thy sins be forgiven thee.
It is a great blessing for that poor man himself that he was not impressed by it when Peter and John said, "Silver and gold have I none. I am not sure that we are not getting to be too much impressed by the thought that what the East End needs is coals and blankets, and boots and shoes, and stockings for itself and its wife and its bairns.
But suppose we fed the wretchedness of the East End, and suppose we clothed them; after all, what have we done? At the most and best we have only soothed their passage to the grave.
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Silver and gold can do much, and far more of the silver and gold that belongs to these who call themselves Christians ought to be spent in this blessed way. But there is an end to the power of silver and gold, and the Church was never better in possession of her true wealth than when she was represented by a couple of penniless fishermen, from the crevices of "whose hands I am not quite sure that the fish-scales had yet been dried.
You who have got silver and gold, who have come to Jesus Christ, come as humbly as you can. Forget your silver and gold. Yet it was well said, and it was better done. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
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Those of us who have been at college know the weary days we spent on what is called summum bonum — "What is the highest good? It is a very practical question, and that poor man lying there that day had to solve for himself very speedily. Virtually this question was put to him: Is it silver and gold?
Young fellow, you are toiling, you are trying to reach the summum bonum. Put it philosophically or non-philosophically, that is what we are all trying to do. Now, what is your highest good? Does it not lie in the direction of silver and gold, in the direction of all that is covered by these gilded, these very comprehensive terms, both in their notation and in their denotation?
Through the grace and working of God's Word and God's Spirit — aye, and through the hardships of life — are not some of us beginning to get an. I have been looking for it in a wrong direction, the world cannot give it. Thou hast got the summum bonum ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.