On May 11, 2025, Singapore Immanuel Church held its Sunday Service.
Intern Pastor Deborah preached the sermon on Acts 3:1-10, which was entitled, “Silver or Gold I Do Not Have, in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Walk”. The sermon continued the study of Acts where the first healing miracle of the disciples of Christ was explicated. As both apostles Peter and John went up to the temple to pray, the united heart of prayer and co-working was highlighted in the early church. The temple was the place where their Lord Jesus Christ was wrongfully persecuted and ultimately crucified, yet the apostles did not have fear but certainty and boldness to go up to the temple to keep the time of prayer and eventually to preach the gospel message to the enemies of Christ.
As the apostles met the lame beggar at the gate of the temple, their exhortation to the lame man to look at them is to shift the perspective of being fixated on money and the things of the world, to seek the Salvation in Jesus Christ. Though the beggar likely has no expectation of healing and only expected some small change to sustain his life, the apostles delivered to him the name of Jesus Christ that fundamentally changed his life and healed him to stand up with joyful praise to God.
The apostles used to live as fishermen but they have now been transformed by the grace of receiving the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ to be fishers of man. They were the ones who used to be like the lame beggar seeking for just their livelihoods, to now making many spiritually rich though they possess nothing. In embodying the life of Jesus to deliver the Word of God that truly satisfies the thirsty and hungry in the world, the apostles reveal the unthinkable work of Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ to give new life to those who are like the lame beggar.
The sermon concluded with an exhortation to come to meet Jesus Christ for those who have yet to experience and long for the healing that they could be the channel of God’s grace to share the good news of Jesus Christ to many more as apostles Peter and John did.
May God continue to lead all attendees to deeply meditate on the joyful Salvation to be received in the Lord and to grow deeper in the Word that their lives can be fundamentally changed to live for Jesus Christ to share the good news to many more.