Wednesday night, we continue through the Bible,

verse by verse, chapter by chapter,

and we'll be studying Acts chapter three this Wednesday.

If you wanna read ahead, you can do so.

But we draw our text from our upcoming Wednesday study,

and it's Acts chapter three, we'll start right today in verse one,

right where we left off really on Wednesday night.

So before we get into this, you know, I love the stories of the Bible, and they always leave

such a nice impression and things you can remember.

But have you ever tried to think about the circumstances before and after the story, the part

that's not in the Bible?

I think that's always kind of fun to do.

And in this case, we can deduce certain things about the story that we're going to read.

I'm not sure you'd want to die on the battlefield that you know all the details.

But in this case, our story really kind of begins around 10 BC, 10 BC.

And what happened was, as a little baby was born to a parent,

a couple that was crippled, crippled from the womb.

Now at that time period, 10 BC, often they would let that child die. And there were reasons they had that were both

physical and then secondly spiritual. There was a false narrative that, well, this child's crippled

because the parents must have done something really sinful. And that was a wrong way of thinking.

Jesus would clarify that in his ministry that that wasn't the right way to think.

But that's the way they thought.

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