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Grace to you and peace
from God our Father,

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and the Lord
Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Dear friends in Christ,

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as I listened once again
to our text from Acts 5,

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as it was just read to us,

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I was reminded of
the many reasons why

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most Lutherans don't generally

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care much for
the Book of Acts.

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Signs and wonders,

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healings bordering on magic,

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converts won by miracles.

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Believers are added,
but where's the gospel?

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Where's preaching, witnessing?

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Even the name of Jesus,

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so important to this book,

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is missing from our text.

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When we look at the picture of

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the church painted
for us here in Acts 5,

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we may conclude that
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common with them is that no
one dares to join us either.

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In his Kingsbury
lecture earlier this week,

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Dr. Voelz offered the
kind of analysis that only he

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could of what went wrong
50 years ago on our campus.

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During the Q&A, a question
about us was posed to Dr.

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Voelz, in what ways might we
today be in danger of making

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the same kind
of wrong turn of

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getting stuck in
the same kind of

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exegetical tar pits,
forgetting just what kind of,

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no, forgetting just whose
word we're reading.

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I would like to propose that

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our feelings about
our text this morning,

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whether we love it or
simply pretend it isn't there,

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our stance over
against this text is

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the perfect
opportunity to examine

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our vulnerability to just
such a getting stuck.

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What was really going on?

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Hear the importance and
the danger of that question.

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How should we answer it?

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Well, what does this text
require of us as its readers?

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It's a pretty
straightforward episode.

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We know the apostles
and we know about

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signs and wonders and
healings from the gospels.

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We may not know exactly
where Solomon's portico is,

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but we're pretty sure
we're talking about

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the environs of the
Jerusalem temple.

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The reference
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is admittedly a bit strange,

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at least unexpected,
but there's

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no real translation
issue here.

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We know what a shadow is.

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We know how it can fall on

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someone as one
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Oh, and I read that
some ancient people

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believe that not only
a person's shadow,

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but even a person's
scent might transmit

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benevolent or
malevolent effects.

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What was really going on?

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Seems pretty
easy to reconstruct.

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Where the apostles were,

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their signs and
wonders were happening.

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They stayed together
as they carried out

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this ministry of signs
and wonders in the temple.

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After all, that's where
the crowds of people were.

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They were respected, but
just a little bit scary too.

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All this power, wonder,
and shadowy mystery

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would have made quite
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That was the world
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Why should we
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such an astounding presence

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as these powerful
apostles would bring

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more believers than
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The sick, the
weak, the troubled,

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physically and spiritually,

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they came or were carried
here for healing, for therapy.

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That's what was going on.

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And it's a marvelous picture.

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But it ain't us.

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In fact, the picture
we've sketched looks a

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lot like so-called churches
that we know today.

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Churches that we criticize
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because they're all
about experience.

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People come for what
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The whole thing,
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is all about demonstrations
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giving people
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and making people feel
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It's all about
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community for one another.

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The very things
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up a true church,
we point out,

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are missing there
and here in our text.

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How can people
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Lord if the Lord isn't
being proclaimed?

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But that's our problem.

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We're told that people
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and not just to a
fellowship or to some group,

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but added to the Lord,
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What are we to make of this?

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I think what
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is that we need
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We've ended up in
just the kind of dead end

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that always results from
a reading of Scripture

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that pays almost
no attention to

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Scripture itself,
to the text.

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We grab a few facts, match on
to some familiar situations,

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piece together
what we know of

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such things from
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and what we can
learn from antiquity,

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and suddenly the
text has become

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little more than
footnotes for us.

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Arm wrestled
into supporting our

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conclusions about
what was really going on.

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But what else can we do?

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Well, we can try
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Through the hands of
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happening many signs and
wonders among the people.

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What do you know
of these apostles?

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This is hardly their
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We've followed
carefully their story

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from the first
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the lives of these unclean
men were transformed forever.

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Lives changed by a word from
this Lord who said simply,

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Follow me.

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And so they were added to Him.

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And they followed
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more or less, for
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until they didn't dare
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because joining
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that moment would
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So they fled, they denied,
they betrayed, they abandoned.

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But He passed through death to
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He took from them
the flight, the denials,

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the betrayals,
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and gave them peace.

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He opened their
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them how to read
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He promised them that
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He promised
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would empower
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And then He
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their glorious Lord
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These are the very men who
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And the fact that
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doing it makes
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But why through their hands?

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Why not just through them?

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And now we're asking
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even bigger than Luke
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Recall all the times
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the Bible through or
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What do all those times mean?

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They mean that
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become tools or
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Our text certainly
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they did these things
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They're agents.

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And these men
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be agents of only one Master.

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Only one Lord has
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power of His Spirit
to be His witnesses.

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And even more than
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So where's the body?

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We're already catching
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theme that will sprout in
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People are added to the Lord.
They become parts of Him.

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Somehow, don't
ask me to explain

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it, it's sign and wonder.

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Many bodies now become
one body with many hands

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and with many feet
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And this head acts through
His hands which in this

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text happened to be
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And what has
happened to our picture?

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Actually reading the text, tracing the
lines of this narrative, we have a picture

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that looks dramatically different and
we're only six or seven words into it.

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These aren't just men, not
just miracle workers performing

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great and random feats to get
people to join their movement.

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These are men of promise.

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Men filled with the
Spirit of the Lord and sent

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to carry out His work,
serving as His hands.

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But still, signs and wonders?

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These are not isolated events
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Read with me, read the text.

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What had the Lord promised?

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That He would pour out
His Spirit on these people

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and what had already
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He had done just that.

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And Peter borrows
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prophet Joel
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Wonders in the heavens
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Signs.

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Signs point to things.

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And these men and their signs
are pointing to one thing, that

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everyone who calls on the name
of the Lord will be saved.

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So why doesn't
Luke just say that?

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Well, he does.

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Read with me.

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And they were all together in
Solomon's portico, we heard.

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But the word
translated together

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suggests more
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Luke regularly uses this
word to express the unity and

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singleness of desire that made
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What was it they desired?

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Luke never answers
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But the nature of
this community's

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life answers the
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Their unity expressed itself in
a life of praying together, of

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eating together, of worshiping
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Their devotion
focused on the apostolic

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teaching and on
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Their life together
saw to the needs of

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each and every member
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That's the desire that
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And the last time they were in
Solomon's portico, yes, when you

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hear Solomon's portico you're
supposed to think, oh, they're back.

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The last time they were
in Solomon's portico, Peter

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preached a sermon so powerful
that it landed him in prison.

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A healing, a wonder and a sign had been
performed and Peter explained very clearly

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that even though his hand was involved, it
certainly did not happen by his own power.

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Neither his power nor
his piety could make a

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lame man walk. How
could anyone think that?

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A group of guys walking
around performing

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healings to get people
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Not hardly.

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Luke assumes that you are reading and that you
are reading his whole story and that when you

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read only part of the story, always a risky thing
to do, you will keep the rest of it in mind.

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The Lord's apostles, men sent with a commission doing
signs and wonders that neither their power nor their piety

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could possibly bring about as hands, agents of the Lord
they serve, working signs that point to the Lord they serve.

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For witnessing of him and
of his resurrection, that was

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the one burning desire that
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It was their Lord's
one burning desire

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that all should
come to Him and live.

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And now that same desire
had set their hearts on fire.

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An intimidating holiness, a marvelous
greatness that kept people fearful

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of getting too close to them but
not of getting close to their Lord.

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And believers were
added to the Lord.

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Multitudes, men and
women, but believers in what?

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Well keep reading. Believers in the Word, believers in
the proclaimed good news, believers in the Lord Jesus

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Christ, not believers in the Twelve, though they believed
the Word they proclaimed, and not believers in healings.

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The healings were happening all
around them, nobody had to believe

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they were happening, they just had
to open their eyes and look around.

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But believers in the Lord
were added to the Lord.

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But still you say, okay, maybe
it's not as bad as I thought,

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but I still don't see what
any of this has to do with me.

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Read with me.

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People put the sick right out
on the sidewalk so that when

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Peter comes even his shadow
might overshadow some of them.

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Could Peter's shadow
heal people? Could Peter's

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hands heal people?
Could Peter heal people?

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But could someone heal
people through Peter?

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And if that someone could heal,
and if that someone's spirit

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was at work and his agent to
heal, do you think it mattered?

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Whether it was
his hand, or his

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shadow, or his handkerchief?

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There are only two shadows mentioned in
Luke Acts. One is the shadow of death,

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and one is the shadow that brings
life and wholeness, healing and peace.

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And there is in Luke Acts only
one who overshadows. The power of

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the Most High overshadows a
virgin and the Son of God is born.

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The cloud of the heavenly
voice overshadows

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these apostles and the
Son of God is revealed.

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That the shadow of the power within Peter should
overshadow someone and bring healing by the Son

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of God might seem weird to anyone else, but it
does not seem strange at all to the one who reads.

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And so I close
with a question for

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you. What kind of
shadow do you cast?

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Will you be a barrier
that constantly comes

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between the one in need
and the light of the world?

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Will your shadow
block out the Son of

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Righteousness who rises
with healing in His wings?

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And I think you know what
kind of shadow you will cast.

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But what if the spirit that
fills you, the power at work

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in you is that same Lord who
was at work in the apostles?

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What if he can use your hands too? What if when you pass by,
the weak, the sick, the oppressed, the tormented find shade at

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their right hand so that they have relief night and day and
rest in the protection of this overshadowing peace of the Lord?

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What if? There is no what if. You
know in whom you have believed. You

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know into whom you were baptized.
You know whose spirit fills you.

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It is that same Lord who now
says to you, follow me. That same

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Lord who passed through death
to make you his own once again.

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That same Lord who is taking from you
the flights, the denials, the trails,

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abandonments, the failures, and
giving you his peace in their place.

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That same Lord who has opened
your minds and is teaching you

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how to read. You, he has
promised, will be his witnesses.

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He has filled you with his Holy
Spirit to do just that and He

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now reigns on high as your
glorious Lord of heaven and earth.

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So let your shadow fall on at least
someone. Be that cooling shade,

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that refreshing breath of grace,
that cup of cold water that restores.

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No place should ever be the
same once you have passed

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through it. No person once your
shadow has passed over him.

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And your presence will draw people to you.
They may not even understand the attraction,

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but your presence will draw people to you
because where you are, there your Lord is.

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In the name of the
Father, and of the

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Son, and of the
Holy Spirit. Amen.