Wednesday night, we're going to continue our through the Bible study, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book, right through the Bible.

And in our journey, we're in the book of Acts right now. So we draw our text on these Sunday mornings from our upcoming Wednesday study.

So why don't you turn with me to Acts chapter four? I'd like to pick up right where we left off in our Wednesday night study.

In Acts chapter four, you kind of need to know the setup because it's sort of a response to what happened in chapter three.

But many of you know, if you were here last Sunday, we saw the man that was crippled sitting there at the gate beautiful as you go into the temple

people you know worshippers going into the temple they'd pass this guy crying out for alms alms for the poor

alms for the poor he'd been crippled from his mother's womb but about three o'clock in the afternoon

peter and john went up to the temple to pray for the hour of prayer.

And on the way, they saw this crippled man who was crying out for alms.

And Peter stopped and looked at him, and he said, look at us.

And the man looked at him expecting to get some money from Peter and John.

But Peter and John said, silver and gold have I none, but such as I have given to thee in the name of Jesus Christ

of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And Peter reaches with his right hand and pulls this guy up

from his crippled condition, crippled from his mother's womb, and the man stands up.

And then he's standing, and then he starts walking, and then leaping and praising God.

There's this guy busting a move on the Temple Mount.

Walking and leaping.

And everybody wondered, the story says, because they knew the guy was crippled.

They'd seen him there for 40 years sitting at the same gate day after day, and now he's walking and leaping and praising God.

And they wondered, it says. Well, why they wondered, some gave glory to God, but there were others

who saw what was going on here and they were grieved.

Have you ever met someone who has grieved at good things?

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