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Idolatry at Lystra

8 aAnd in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.  
9 This man heard Paul speaking.1 Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,  
10 said with a loud voice, a“Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.  
11 Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, a“The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”  
12 And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.  
13 Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, aintending to sacrifice with the multitudes.  
14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, athey tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out  
15 and saying, “Men, awhy are you doing these things? bWe also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from cthese useless things dto the living God, ewho made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,  
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Acts 14:9 The same heard Paul speak. He might have been carried by his friends to the place of speaking, some open square or thoroughfare, to gratify his curiosity, or even to ask alms. He had faith to be healed. Wrought by hearing the word. As faith is a gospel requisite that we should be healed of our sins, so it was required as a condition of miraculous healing of bodily diseases. Note that this miracle, like those of Christ, is a parable of redemption. There is (1) Hearing of the Word; (2) faith which comes by hearing (Romans 10:17); (3) the command that calls for an exercise of faith; (4) the effort to obey in faith; (5) salvation from the infirmity by obedience. As Christ so often said, so might Paul, "Thy faith hath saved thee" (Luke 7:50 18:42).




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