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by Sandy Shaw
Surely, if I have a real true genuine ‘Pentecostal’ experience, all my troubles and problems will disappear. Not so!
Very soon after some three thousand new believers in Jesus Christ were baptised, and given some basic teaching, Peter and John made their way up to the Temple to pray.
At the gate called Beautiful, a severely crippled man, in his 40’s, sat begging, and he looked to Peter and John for a few pennies.
Peter and John had no money, but what they did have they gave him. Peter spoke to him and took him by the hand, helping him to his feet, and he was healed instantly.
Now, healing does not always happen instantly!
People at the Temple recognised that this man, who had been so lame, was now exceedingly mobile. Peter had some explaining to do.
He told how the Jesus, who had been crucified, was raised from the dead, and through faith in this risen living Jesus the crippled beggar had become strong.
Peter also called to the people to repent by turning to God, and have their sins wiped out and forgiven, and be refreshed.
This did not go down at all well with the religious authorities, and almost as instantly as the man was healed, they were arrested and put into prison.
One of the consequences of a Pentecostal experience can be praising God in languages one has never learned, but on this occasion, as on many other occasions, the evidence is trouble.
When Jesus was born, within a few months, there was severe suffering in Bethlehem and its surrounds.
Not long into Jesus’ ministry, His popularity waned, as storm clouds gathered.
It has ever been so, and will continue to be so, until Jesus Christ comes again to resolve every issue.
Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship
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