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THE HEALING OF THE LAME MAN (1-11)
THE MIRACLE AT THE TEMPLE GATE (1-8)
Peter and John go to the temple
At the hour of prayer
Which was the ninth hour (3 p.m.)
The lame man at the temple gate called Beautiful
Lame from his mother's womb
Carried daily to the gate to ask for alms
Seeing Peter and John, asks them for alms
Peter heals the lame man
They fix their eyes on the man, and Peter tells him to look at them
The man gives them his attention, expecting to receive something
Peter has no gold or silver, but gives what he has
He commands the lame man in the name of Jesus to rise up and walk
He takes him by the right hand and lifts him up
Immediately his feet and ankle bones receive strength
Leaping up, the man stands and walks
He enters the temple with Peter and John
He is walking, leaping, and praising God
THE RESPONSE OF THE CROWD (9-11)
The people see the lame man walking and praising God
The people know him as the one who begged alms at the Beautiful Gate
They are filled with wonder and amazement at what happened
As the lame man holds on to Peter and John, the people run to them in Solomon's Porch
PETER'S SECOND SERMON (12-26)
THE MIRACLE EXPLAINED (12-16)
Peter questions why the crowd marveled
Why look at Peter and John so intently?
As though by their own power or godliness they made the man walk?
God has glorified His Servant Jesus
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of their fathers
Has glorified Jesus
Whom they delivered up and denied
In the presence of Pilate
When he was determined to let Him God
The Holy One and the Just
Whom they denied
And asked for a murderer to be granted to them
The Prince of life
Whom God raised up
Of which Peter and John are witnesses
It was through faith in His name that made the man strong
A man whom they see and know
Faith which comes through Jesus has given him perfect soundness in their presence
THE CALL TO REPENT AND BE CONVERTED (17-26)
Peter knows they and their rulers crucified Christ in their ignorance
Those things God foretold by the mouth of His prophets
How Christ would suffer, God has fulfilled
Peter commands them to repent and be converted
That their sins may be blotted out
That times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord
That God might send Jesus Christ
Who was preached to them before
Whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things
Which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets
Since the world began
Even as Moses warned the fathers (cf. Deut 18:15,18-19)
That God would raise up for them a Prophet from their brethren
Whom they should hear in all things, whatever He says
Those who will not hear that Prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people
As all the prophets foretold these days, from Samuel and those who followed
They are the sons of the prophets, of the covenant God made with their fathers
Saying to Abraham, "And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed"
To them first, God sent His Servant Jesus to bless them
Having raised Him up
To turn every one of them from their iniquities
Executable Outlines, Copyright © Mark A. Copeland, 2023
THE HEALING OF THE LAME MAN (1-11)
THE MIRACLE AT THE TEMPLE GATE (1-8)
Peter and John go to the temple
At the hour of prayer
Which was the ninth hour (3 p.m.)
The lame man at the temple gate called Beautiful
Lame from his mother's womb
Carried daily to the gate to ask for alms
Seeing Peter and John, asks them for alms
Peter heals the lame man
They fix their eyes on the man, and Peter tells him to look at them
The man gives them his attention, expecting to receive something
Peter has no gold or silver, but gives what he has
He commands the lame man in the name of Jesus to rise up and walk
He takes him by the right hand and lifts him up
Immediately his feet and ankle bones receive strength
Leaping up, the man stands and walks
He enters the temple with Peter and John
He is walking, leaping, and praising God
THE RESPONSE OF THE CROWD (9-11)
The people see the lame man walking and praising God
The people know him as the one who begged alms at the Beautiful Gate
They are filled with wonder and amazement at what happened
As the lame man holds on to Peter and John, the people run to them in Solomon's Porch
PETER'S SECOND SERMON (12-26)
THE MIRACLE EXPLAINED (12-16)
Peter questions why the crowd marveled
Why look at Peter and John so intently?
As though by their own power or godliness they made the man walk?
God has glorified His Servant Jesus
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of their fathers
Has glorified Jesus
Whom they delivered up and denied
In the presence of Pilate
When he was determined to let Him God
The Holy One and the Just
Whom they denied
And asked for a murderer to be granted to them
The Prince of life
Whom God raised up
Of which Peter and John are witnesses
It was through faith in His name that made the man strong
A man whom they see and know
Faith which comes through Jesus has given him perfect soundness in their presence
THE CALL TO REPENT AND BE CONVERTED (17-26)
Peter knows they and their rulers crucified Christ in their ignorance
Those things God foretold by the mouth of His prophets
How Christ would suffer, God has fulfilled
Peter commands them to repent and be converted
That their sins may be blotted out
That times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord
That God might send Jesus Christ
Who was preached to them before
Whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things
Which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets
Since the world began
Even as Moses warned the fathers (cf. Deut 18:15,18-19)
That God would raise up for them a Prophet from their brethren
Whom they should hear in all things, whatever He says
Those who will not hear that Prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people
As all the prophets foretold these days, from Samuel and those who followed
They are the sons of the prophets, of the covenant God made with their fathers
Saying to Abraham, "And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed"
To them first, God sent His Servant Jesus to bless them
Having raised Him up
To turn every one of them from their iniquities
Executable Outlines, Copyright © Mark A. Copeland, 2023

![Alexander of Lycopolis : Of the Manicheans - c. 301 AD
Alexander, Bishop of Lycopolis
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[a.d. 301.]
00:00:08 Chapter I.
The Excellence of the Christian Philosophy; The Origin of Heresies Amongst Christians.
00:03:01 Chapter II.
The Age of Manichæus, or Manes; His First Disciples; The Two Principles; Manichæan Matter.
00:05:42 Chapter III.
The Fancies of Manichæus Concerning Matter.
00:09:01 Chapter IV.
The Moon’s Increase and Wane; The Manichæan Trifling Respecting It; Their Dreams About Man and Christ; Their Foolish System of Abstinence.
00:11:46 Chapter V.
The Worship of the Sun and Moon Under God; Support Sought for the Manichæans in the Grecian Fables; The Authority of the Scriptures and Faith Despised by the Manichæans.
00:15:25 Chapter VI.
The Two Principles of the Manichæans; Themselves Controverted; The Pythagorean Opinion Respecting First Principles; Good and Evil Contrary; The Victory on the Side of Good.
00:18:48 Chapter VII.
Motion Vindicated from the Charge of Irregularity; Circular; Straight; Of Generation and Corruption; Of Alteration, and Quality Affecting Sense.
00:22:15 Chapter VIII.
Is Matter Wicked? Of God and Matter.
00:26:18 Chapter IX.
The Ridiculous Fancies of the Manichæans About the Motion of Matter Towards God; God the Author of the Rebellion of Matter in the Manichæan Sense; The Longing of Matter for Light and Brightness Good; Divine Good None the Less for Being Communicated.
00:29:18 Chapter X.
The Mythology Respecting the Gods; The Dogmas of the Manichæans Resemble This: the Homeric Allegory of the Battle of the Gods; Envy and Emulation Existing In God According to the Manichæan Opinion; These Vices are to Be Found in No Good Man, and are to Be Accounted Disgraceful.
00:32:06 Chapter XI.
The Transmitted Virtue of the Manichæans; The Virtues of Matter Mixed with Equal or Less Amount of Evil.
00:33:53 Chapter XII.
The Destruction of Evil by the Immission of Virtue Rejected; Because from It Arises No Diminution of Evil; Zeno’s Opinion Discarded, that the World Will Be Burnt Up by Fire from the Sun.
00:37:00 Chapter XIII.
Evil by No Means Found in the Stars and Constellations; All the Evils of Life Vain in the Manichæan Opinion, Which Bring on the Extinction of Life; Their Fancy Having Been Above Explained Concerning the Transportation of Souls from the Moon to the Sun.
00:39:19 Chapter XIV.
Noxious Animals Worshipped by the Egyptians; Man by Arts an Evil-Doer; Lust and Injustice Corrected by Laws and Discipline; Contingent and Necessary Things in Which There is No Stain.
00:42:00 Chapter XV.
The Lust and Desire of Sentient Things; Demons; Animals Sentient; So Also the Sun and the Moon and Stars; The Platonic Doctrine, Not the Christian.
00:43:43 Chapter XVI.
Because Some are Wise, Nothing Prevents Others from Being So; Virtue is to Be Acquired by Diligence and Study; By a Sounder Philosophy Men are to Be Carried Onwards to the Good; The Common Study of Virtue Has by Christ Been Opened Up to All.
00:46:42 Chapter XVII.
The Manichæan Idea of Virtue in Matter Scouted; If One Virtue Has Been Created Immaterial, the Rest are Also Immaterial; Material Virtue an Exploded Notion.
00:49:06 Chapter XVIII.
Dissolution and Inherence According to the Manichæans; This is Well Put, Ad Hominem, with Respect to Manes, Who is Himself in Matter.
00:52:01 Chapter XIX.
The Second Virtue of the Manichæans Beset with the Former, and with New Absurdities; Virtue, Active and Passive, the Fashioner of Matter, and Concrete with It; Bodies Divided by Manichæus into Three Parts.
00:55:00 Chapter XX.
The Divine Virtue in the View of the Same Manichæus Corporeal and Divisible; The Divine Virtue Itself Matter Which Becomes Everything; This is Not Fitting.
00:56:42 Chapter XXI.
Some Portions of the Virtue Have Good in Them, Others More Good; In the Sun and the Moon It is Incorrupt, in Other Things Depraved; An Improbable Opinion.
00:59:19 Chapter XXII.
The Light of the Moon from the Sun; The Inconvenience of the Opinion that Souls are Received in It; The Two Deluges of the Greeks.
01:03:09 Chapter XXIII.
The Image of Matter in the Sun, After Which Man is Formed; Trifling Fancies; It is a Mere Fancy, Too, that Man Is Formed from Matter; Man is Either a Composite Being, or a Soul, or Mind and Understanding.
01:09:00 Chapter XXIV.
Christ is Mind, According to the Manichæans; What is He in the View of the Church? Incongruity in Their Idea of Christ; That He Suffered Only in Appearance, a Dream of the Manichæans; Nothing is Attributed to the Word by Way of Fiction.
01:12:38 Chapter XXV.
The Manichæan Abstinence from Living Things Ridiculous; Their Madness in Abhorring Marriage; The Mythology of the Giants; Too Allegorical an Exposition.
01:15:33 Chapter XXVI.
The Much-Talked-of Fire of the Manichæans; That Fire Matter Itself. Alexander of Lycopolis : Of the Manicheans - c. 301 AD](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wGmdu-0jb38/mqdefault.jpg)








