Acts 3:12-13 NASB [12] But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk? [13] The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, …
Acts 3:16 NASB And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.
The Christian life is supernatural simply because the Christian life is Jesus re-presenting himself through us, His body, and everything Jesus is and does, is supernatural. When the man at the gate beautiful was healed, the people around who saw it became enamored with Peter and John, even clinging to their feet. Peter explained to them very clearly that the crowd was not to worship the vessel through which Jesus worked but the Jesus who works through the vessel. He told them that the man was not healed because he or John was powerful or holy enough, but that God had glorified His servant Jesus. When Peter explains that it was the name of Jesus that healed the man, he was simply saying that it was Jesus, not him or John who healed the man. When you invoke the name of Jesus, you are invoking His presence, authority, and power. As a matter of fact, when Peter says in verse 16, “and the faith which comes through Him has given him health in the presence of you all,” he was saying that they had invoked Jesus and His faith to heal this man. Because we are in Christ, and Christ is in us, we have His name to use, which means Jesus, by us, re-presents himself through us as we rest in union with His faith to do the supernatural. As new creations, we live by His power and His piety because we are in union with Him. We don’t live by our independent power and piety because if we did, nothing would happen that could be explained only in terms of God and His activity.