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The Miracle at the Temple Gate called Beautiful

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Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you.

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."

[Acts 3:6]

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Jesus was taken up to heaven and the Holy Spirit had come in 10 days.

The people were filled with the Holy Spirit and could perform miracles by themselves because the Holy Spirit helped them.

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The Israelites set the time to pray to God. They made praying a habit.

One day Peter and John were going up to the temple as usual.

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Peter and John came into the temple gate called Beautiful.

There was a beggar who was begging at the door.

He was a crippled man from birth.

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When Peter and John were passing by the beggar, he asked them for money.

"Let me help. If you help me, God will bless you, please."

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Peter and John looked at him with pitiful eyes.

They did not have enough money to help them.

But they wanted to help something him.

They asked for help from the Holy Spirit and went near him.

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Peter said, "Look at us!"

The beggar saw them, expecting to get something from them.

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Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you.

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."

Peter said this to a man who had never walked in his entire life.

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Peter took his right hand and helped him up.

Instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong.

It was amazing. It was a miracle.

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The man was so pleased. So he went with them into the temple courts.

He began to walk, jump, and praise God.

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The people knew the man used to sit begging at the temple gate

called Beautiful, and were amazed. "Wasn’t the man crippled from birth?"

"Yes. That is right. It is miracle."

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The beggar held on to Peter and John.

All the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon's Colonnade.

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The people thought Peter and John performed this miracle

So Peter said to them "Why does this surprise you?

Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? No, this is not our own power."

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"By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong.

It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes through him that has given this complete healing to him, as you have seen."

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Peter and John said to the people that it was not their own power

but Jesus’ power coming through them.

They told many people about how Jesus died on the cross

and rose again in three days.

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Peter and John were normal people like us.

But when the Holy Spirit was with them, they could perform miracles

like the crippled man from birth.

The Holy Spirit is able to do everything that we cannot do and even think.

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Therefore we should have the passion to preach the gospel like Peter

and John had done.

If we have the mind to preach the gospel, the Holy Spirit will help us.