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  • No Longer Paralyzed: Walking in Lydda

    No Longer Paralyzed: Walking in Lydda

    Lydda or Lod about halfway to the coast from Jerusalem is a place where Peter healed a paralyzed man
    Aeneas of Lydda: “I can walk!

    Paralyzed until Peter’s missionary journey

    What must it be like to be paralyzed, either from birth or as the result of a traumatic impact of this fragile flesh and bones at any time?

    We have seen paralyzed men many times in Scripture. And Simon Peter had met paralyzed or lame men at various times in his lifetime. For this Apostle, who by faith had walked on water when Jesus had called out to him from their boat, Peter certainly would have had great empathy for any person who could not walk on the many roads of Galilee, Samaria and Judea or the streets of Jerusalem.

    Luke has just shown us in Acts that now Peter and the Apostles are no longer confined to Jerusalem, but travel as missionaries for the Gospel of the risen Jesus throughout their beloved Israel.

    https://talkofjesus.com/acts-9-12-more-acts-of-peter/
    Acts 9:31 Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified.

    Acts on a Missionary Journey of Peter

    32 Now it came to pass, as Peter went through all parts of the country, that he also came down to the saints who dwelt in Lydda.

    Acts of the Apostles 9:32 NKJV

    Please understand something of Simon’s mission from the Lord: Peter travels the same roads between the cities of his fellow Jews where the Apostle followed his Teacher and Lord, the Anointed One, Yeshua.

    Luke 22: Recalling the Lord’s Supper

    From the Hebrew Names Version of Luke's Gospel

    When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles..

    “I have earnestly desired to eat this Pesach with you before I suffer..

    .. “This is my body which is given for you.

    Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you..

    But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom.

    You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisra’el.”

    plain of Sharon Israel

    Πέτρος

    Petros in Lud

    Simon Peter’s journeys from the hills of Jerusalem bring him down to the plain of Sharon, which lead through Jewish towns approaching the Mediterranean ports controlled by Rome, like Joppa and Caesarea (from where they just sent Saul back to Tarsus).

    32 Now it came about that Kefa, passing through all the parts of Eretz Yisrael, came down also to Moshiach’s kadoshim dwelling in Lud. 

    Simon was given the name Peter by Jesus. The apostles name translates as "ROCK." (for more info about the Aramaic form, Kefa, click HERE)

Λύδδα - Lydda [lud'-dah] Lydda = "strife" - a town 9 miles (15 km) from Joppa, and is the first town on the northernmost of the two roads between that place and Jerusalem 

It's Hebrew name לֹד
lōḏ Lod = "travail" in the plain of Sharon in the territory of Benjamin was the head of a family of returning exiles from Babylon.
    Lydda or Lod about halfway to the coast from Jerusalem is a place where Peter healed a paralyzed man

    Aeneas of Lydda

    33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him,

    “Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed.”

    Ἰησοῦς Χριστός ἰάομαι σύ

    JESUS CHRIST HEALS YOU

    Immediately he got up.

    Imagine that you are Aeneas, a paralyzed saint in Lydda who believes that Yeshua IS the Anointed One of Israel who IS risen from the grave after His horrific Blood Sacrifice on a Roman Cross in Jerusalem.

    And now, into your town of Lud on his way to Jaffa comes Simon Peter, who in Jerusalem had stood in the Temple with a man lame from birth clinging to his side as the Apostle preached to the crowds. Many witnesses have already passed through Lydda.

    Like the man who had clung to John and Peter, YOU are no longer paralyzed!

    So as the Apostle had done in the Temple, Peter continued to preach the gospel of Jesus the Christ to all in your town with you (Aeneas) as a sign of proof from God standing at his side.

    35 So all who dwelt at Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

    How about you? – Is YOUR faith paralyzed?

    Jesus and the Apostles had seen it many, many times. After some sign from God many came to follow the Lord, the Anointed One of the Father. They could not deny the powerful sign — the miracle of God; YET some remained paralyzed – confined to their failing flesh of this brief life even as they marvelled at men and women of faith in Jesus doing what only God could empower.

    We have all heard the amazing signs before, even as Peter or another Apostle or one of their many disciples came into our town.

    A Man Lowered Through a Roof

    Aeneas the paralyzed man may have heard of this man whose name we do not know and his faithful friends who we also do not know by name. YOU have heard the story of this great sign as Jesus taught to a houseful of those paralyzed in their faith.

From Luke's Gospel & also (Mat 9:2–8; Mar 2:1–12 )

Peter and the Apostles had been there..

    One day He was teaching, and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing..

    .. because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus.

    “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.”

    .. Who can forgive sins, except God alone?” ..

    “Why are you thinking this way in your hearts? Which is easier, to say: ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”

    He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher, and go home.”

    Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your own bed.” Immediately he got up.

    ACTS 9:34 καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος Αἰνέα ἰᾶταί σε Ἰησοῦς Χριστός ἀνάστηθι καὶ στρῶσον σεαυτῷ καὶ εὐθέως ἀνέστη

    And immediately he got up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

    Gospel of Luke 5:25

    GET UP.

    Saul of Tarsus got up after he had seen the Lord Jesus. Apneas got up after the Apostle Peter commanded him in the Name of Jesus Christ.

    IMMEDIATELY he got up, Scripture records of those men like the paralytic on the mat before Jesus.

    So what keeps YOU from immediately wanting to TALK OF JESUS CHRIST to others?

    Please comment on this sign of healing in the name of Jesus Christ TODAY.

May grace, peace and the love of our Lord heal your frozen witness for the only Gospel which raises the paralyzed perishing soul.

Roger@TalkofJESUS.com

ACTS of the Apostle Peter: to be continued...

  • Interrupting Jesus 5 – persistent faith

    Interrupting Jesus 5 – persistent faith

    And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying,

    “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and

    “God has visited his people!”

    17 And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. – Luke 7:15-17

    Can you imagine hearing about this? Can you imagine what you would think as you heard other stories about this Jesus of Nazareth (who now lived in Capernaum) healing many in the crowds who now followed this expected Messiah of Israel?

    And dare we wonder how the Good News (Gospel) must have affected those with continued needs of healing. The Good News about Jesus is abuzz in the ears of all Galilee, Judea and even Samaria.

    mark-1-21-28-jesus_rebukes_the_unclean_spirit_in_a_possessed_man_in_the_synagogue_001Mark 1

    21 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. 22 And they were astonished at his teaching,for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, 24 “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”

    Jesus routinely goes to worship, but is interrupted by a demon who knows He is the Son of God.

    Jesus frees the man from his demon! He goes to the house of Simon Peter and heals his wife’s mother of a fever. He heals many sick as the crowds come to hear the Messiah in Galilee.

    … Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter. – Mark 1:45b

    Jesus’ personal and daily life (normalcy, we might call it) was interrupted in every way. God, in the Person of Christ, in your neighborhood is Headline News… Good News.


    Mark 2

    man lowered through roofAnd when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.3 And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. 4 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

    5 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

    I love friends persistent in their love; don’t you? These men had heard all about God With Us, the Christ who heals. They had little chance of getting to Him through the crowds, but by persistence of faith and constancy of love pressed on to reach the unreachable God, interrupting the teaching of this Superstar in their midst.

    It reminds me of the love of the friends of Job.

    Job 2:7-8; 11-13 excerpt

    Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place…  They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him… And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

    These are the quality of friends who would bring a man to the Messiah, boldly interrupting Him, asking the Lord for the mercy of healing.

    And what was the usual reaction of the congregation? What are they thinking as Jesus is teaching to them in this most worshipful setting; that is, until the commotion of men breaking through the roof above them? And how does a compassionate God With Us react to this interruption of His preaching?

    “Son, your sins are forgiven.” (The paralyzed man is healed!) That should be the end of it: another miracle.

    (Now moving on: what was I telling you about God?)

    Yet these witnesses of God’s mercy now receive the rebuke of an even more authoritative teaching:

    “Why do you question these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?

    (You, church goer! Are you paying attention here? My sermon about God’s judgement, mercy, love and power is for ALL; not just you.)

    [Well, that’s probably the unkind way I might have said it.] Jesus turns to those of his original faithful audience with the best seats in church:

    10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”

    —he said to the paralytic— 11 “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”

    12 And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

    Other eye-witness accounts of the miracles of the Messiah, the Good News of the Gospels might say something like:

    ‘Because of their faith, many believed.’

    Does anyone believe because of your faith in Jesus Christ?

     

    All were amazed. Some believed.

    The Apostle Matthew in his Gospel reports: And he rose and went home.  When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men. Matthew 9:7-8

    Imagine that you are one in the crowd who pressed against this house in Capernaum where Jesus was surrounded by Scribes and many others – a house where men with a make-shift stretcher had pushed through until visibly climbing onto the roof and relaying the paralyzed man up to each other then lowering him down inside. Out the door walks a group of faithful friends which included the joyous man healed by Christ Jesus! What is your reaction?

    • Does Jesus Christ have authority in your life?
    • Do you believe in the Messiah of Almighty God now?
    • Do you have just a bit more hope and joy like the man walking on legs which were lifeless?
    • Is your soul lifeless without the hope of the forgiveness of sins spoken by Christ Jesus?

    “God has visited his people!”

     

    “Son [or daughter], your sins are forgiven.”