1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,400 County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,720 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:41,360 The gospel isn't the gospel without the proclamation of not 6 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,200 only the death and the burial. You got to tell him the rest of 7 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,880 the story. He rose again on the third day, 8 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,520 because without a resurrection there is no power in Christ's 9 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,440 death, is there? Only through the fact that he 10 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,800 truly was the Messiah. And he came and he died, He was 11 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,880 buried and he rose again according to the Scriptures on 12 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,360 the third day. This Jesus Goddess raised up 13 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,800 which we are all witnesses. The gospel can shine like a 14 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,280 beacon, but it's incomplete without the full truth. 15 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,720 In today's message, Pastor Clark unveils how the good news isn't 16 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,520 just Jesus's death and burial, but his resurrection on the 17 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,520 third day. Without that victory, his death 18 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:27,320 would hold no power. Scripture affirms he died, was 19 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:30,400 buried, and rose, proving he's the Messiah. 20 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,560 You're called to share this whole story, not just parts. 21 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,360 His resurrection is the heartbeat of your faith, showing 22 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,960 God's Immaculate and limitless power over death. 23 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,480 Now here's Pastor Clark in the book of Acts Chapter 2 with 24 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,480 today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 25 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:55,080 I was praying Lord, I prayed it. The name I drop here will be of 26 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,400 some influence. I know, Officer such and such. 27 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,080 OK. He goes back to the car. 28 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,480 He probably called him up and said, you know, this character 29 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,920 by the name of Clark, you know? But fortunately, he let me go 30 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,160 and I was grateful. But I said, Lord, forgive me for 31 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,240 not paying it. I wasn't like, I don't think 32 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,200 intentionally wanting to put the pedal to the metal, but I was 33 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,720 sort of just daydreaming when I was driving. 34 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,880 You ever do that and the next thing you know you're going much 35 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,040 faster than you should be and you suffer the consequences. 36 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:27,120 But the whole idea is this idea of wine influence. 37 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,960 They think these guys are drunk. Paul teaches in the book of 38 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,040 Ephesians that the influence of alcohol has negative effects 39 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,200 when it's controlling us. That why we absolutely need to 40 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,040 be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. 41 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:46,400 And so in verse 14 and Peter, he stands up with the 11 I I I'm 42 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,640 encouraged with this and pastor Lewis I'm sure is too anybody 43 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:52,800 that's called to preach the gospel. 44 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,920 He's calling people that he can work in their lives to perfect 45 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:01,320 them for the work of the ministry, but he never looks 46 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,200 down and says well, I'm going to wait till such and such is 47 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,960 perfect and then I might use them. 48 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:11,920 We know Peter, shortly before this incident, was denying the 49 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:16,120 Lord right? He denied him three times, and 50 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,920 now he's chosen by God, the Holy Spirit, to bring forth the first 51 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:27,320 evangelistic message after this experience of Pentecost. 52 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:35,080 That should really encourage all of us that Peter was used to do 53 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,880 something that was remarkable by the work of God's Spirit. 54 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:45,040 So Peter, standing up with the 11, raised his voice and said to 55 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,600 them, Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be 56 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,480 made known to you, and heed my words, for these are not drunk 57 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,520 as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 58 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,000 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. 59 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,600 Now this particular section of Scripture in Joel is beginning 60 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:09,720 to show forth the whole economy of God until the 2nd coming of 61 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,960 Christ, when he establishes His Kingdom and the millennial reign 62 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,920 in Jerusalem. That's when this section of 63 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,320 Scripture will be completely fulfilled at that particular 64 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,560 time. But there is indicators here 65 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,400 that this is the beginning of this movement of God in the last 66 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,840 days. And the last days begin from the 67 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:30,040 day of Pentecost until the day of Christ return. 68 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,200 So we've been in the last days for several thousand years. 69 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,480 So that's because a lot of stuff's going on right now in 70 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,720 the world does not mean literally that tomorrow Jesus is 71 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,240 coming. And these are the last days. 72 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,840 This last day, phenomena and experience of world insanity and 73 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:51,640 crisis and evil dictators and rulers and sin and all the other 74 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:56,200 things that comprise human existence have begun in Genesis, 75 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,000 but in the Church age, they began at Pentecost. 76 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,480 The last days before Christ's second coming will be fulfilled 77 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,640 at His second coming. And so this is the prophecies 78 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,320 that are beginning to be fulfilled. 79 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,680 It shall come to pass in the last days, says God. 80 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,360 I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. 81 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,880 Your sons, your daughters shall prophecy. 82 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,440 Your young men shall see visions, your old men shall 83 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,560 dream dreams. And my men servants, and on my 84 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,960 maidservants, I will pour out my spirit in those days, and they 85 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,240 shall prophecy. And I will show wonders in 86 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,520 heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath. 87 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:32,960 Blood and fire and vapor, smoke. The sun shall be turned Into 88 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,160 Darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great 89 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,080 and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that 90 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:44,680 whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 91 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,480 And that's the gospel, right? And the ideas of prophesying is 92 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,040 proclaiming the word of God, speaking forth the truth of God. 93 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,360 Men and women can do that equally as God empowers them. 94 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,840 You give a witness somewhere, you give a testimony. 95 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,320 It isn't for telling the future per SE. 96 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,800 That's a very rare thing because we got the future dictated in 97 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,600 this book, Genesis through Revelation. 98 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,720 We know what God's going to do and what's going to come to 99 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,840 pass. But prophesying is the ability 100 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:19,640 to, you know, exhort people, warn them, edify, build them up 101 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,360 and comfort them. That's the real true meaning of 102 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,560 prophecy. The apostle Paul said, I wish 103 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,080 all of you would. Prophecy meaning that you would 104 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:33,920 in your ministry, warn people, build people up and comfort 105 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,080 them. That's something that we should 106 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,600 all want to emulate, right? We should all want to have that 107 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,680 gift occurring in our lives to be useful to God. 108 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,760 Visions and dreams, people have them. 109 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,760 Sometimes they're caused by eating too much pizza the night 110 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,280 before. But I'm not negating the fact 111 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:58,480 that God can't speak through a dream or a vision. 112 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,480 But these things will increase in magnitude during the time of 113 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,080 right prior to the return of Lord. 114 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,760 Some of these phenomenas in the heavens haven't occurred yet. 115 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,720 Of course, some commentators try to tie these into what happened 116 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,720 when Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70. 117 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,560 It looked pretty traumatic when Rome sacked the city. 118 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:25,440 But this what is being depicted here and Acts is unlike anything 119 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,600 that the world has seen yet. And these signs will be 120 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,400 obviously near the end of the Tribulation, right prior to the 121 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,880 return of Christ of His second coming, when He establishes His 122 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,160 Kingdom and rules and reigns in Jerusalem. 123 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:43,840 And then Peter continues, Men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus 124 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,320 of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you, by miracles, 125 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,840 wonders, and signs, which God did through him in your midst, 126 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,640 as you yourselves also know Him, being delivered by the 127 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,520 determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have 128 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,480 taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death, whom 129 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,080 God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was 130 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,920 not possible that he should be held by it. 131 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,760 For David says concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before 132 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:18,560 my face, for he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. 133 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,680 Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad. 134 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,080 Moreover, my flesh also my will rest in hope. 135 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,480 For you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will you allow 136 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,080 your Holy One to see corruption. You have made known to me the 137 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,600 ways of life. You will make me full of joy in 138 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,520 your presence. Of course, this is the 139 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,760 fulfillment of what Christ experienced. 140 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,800 Men and brethren, let me speak in verse 29 freely to you of the 141 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,760 patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and His tomb is 142 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,200 with us to this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and 143 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,880 I knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him that of the 144 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,840 fruit of His body according to the flesh, He would raise up the 145 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,800 Christ as seed coming through David would raise up the Christ 146 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,720 to sit on the throne. He, foreseeing this, spoke 147 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,160 concerning the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not 148 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,480 left in hell or hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. 149 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,320 This Jesus God hath raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 150 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:24,000 The Gospel isn't the gospel without the proclamation of not 151 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,880 only the death and the burial. You got to tell him the rest of 152 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,480 the story. He rose again on the third day. 153 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,040 Because without a resurrection there is no power in Christ's 154 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,920 death, is there? Only through the fact that He 155 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,240 truly was the Messiah. And He came and He died, He was 156 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,240 buried and He rose again according to the Scriptures, on 157 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,640 the third day. This Jesus goddess raised up, 158 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,680 which we are all witnesses. Therefore, being exalted to the 159 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:53,000 right hand of God, and having received from the Father the 160 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,000 promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now 161 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,400 see and hear. So all this is ordained by God. 162 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,560 If you don't think God is in control, read this later on 163 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:05,920 slowly. God is sovereign. 164 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,600 When Christ had to die that terrible death. 165 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,960 This was preordained by God before the foundation of the 166 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,840 earth. There was no mistake even though 167 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,440 the Jewish people were guilty, as we all are because of our sin 168 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,080 of having Christ crucified. Nothing was out of control from 169 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,280 the throne room of heaven at at any time in in human existence, 170 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,320 nor will there ever be any time when anything is out of control. 171 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,200 And the purpose of what they're experiencing right now was also 172 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,560 ordained by God from the Father, the promise of the Holy Spirit, 173 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:40,840 which they are all experiencing right now. 174 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:45,280 He poured out this which you now see and hear. 175 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,400 This is all the work of a sovereign God, who has 176 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,680 everything under control. For David did not ascend into 177 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:56,720 the heavens, but he says to himself, The Lord said to my 178 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,480 Lord, sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your 179 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,280 footstool. Therefore let all the House of 180 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,960 Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you 181 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:13,400 crucified, both Lord and Christ. Amen to that. 182 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,160 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart. 183 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:23,360 And this is the power of the Word of God through the vessel 184 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:29,840 of God, empowered by God, the Word. 185 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,760 When it goes forth, God promises it will not return void. 186 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,960 It will accomplish the purpose for which He sends it. 187 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,440 There's nothing you or I can do to invalidate the power of the 188 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:42,640 Word. We can reject it. 189 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,760 We can ignore it. We can walk away from it. 190 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,560 We can choose to not believe it. But it doesn't negate the fact 191 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,960 that the Word, from God's vantage point, will never come 192 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,760 back to him empty. It'll accomplish the purposes 193 00:11:54,760 --> 00:12:00,320 for which He sends it, whether it's to save you today and to 194 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,080 cast you into the outer darkness through the preaching of the 195 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,280 Word. That doesn't accomplish is all 196 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,120 this. And He chooses through the 197 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,280 preaching of the Word to save some. 198 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,320 This is what He chose. This is the methodology. 199 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:20,080 He chooses us as people to proclaim the gospel to people. 200 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,360 And it isn't up to us whether they believe or they don't 201 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,680 believe. We're just to communicate it. 202 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,160 And when we communicate it, it has power. 203 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,240 Not your power, not my power, but His power. 204 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:40,880 And His word is anointed. His word is all powerful, and it 205 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,320 accomplishes the purposes for which He sends it. 206 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,000 So when they hear this, and perhaps when you hear it today, 207 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,520 and when I hear it, there should be a conviction in my heart that 208 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,880 God is true. He's pure, He's holy, He's 209 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,520 righteous. I need a savior or I'm a 210 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,680 Christian, but I need to get deeper in my ways and my walk 211 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:05,080 with God. I need to allow Him to take over 212 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,040 more control of my life. I need to surrender things that 213 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,120 are in the way and things that are quenching His spirit and 214 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,040 things that are grieving His spirit. 215 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,760 I need to allow God to remove anything in my life that's in 216 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:21,280 the way so that He can have His way with this short life that 217 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:25,080 He's given to each of us. So they're convicted. 218 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,120 Cut to the heart means there's a problem right here. 219 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,000 It's getting to me right here. It's one thing for it to get to 220 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,400 my mind and I think a little bit about it, and then I forget 221 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,320 about it. Later when it's here, it's doing 222 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:41,000 some surgery and it's beginning to cause something to change 223 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,640 internally. Something's happening. 224 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,960 Wonderful. At this point in time, they said 225 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,800 to Peter and the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what 226 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:58,120 shall we do? And that's someone who's aware 227 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,000 of the fact that they're lost and what they're hearing is 228 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,360 true, and now they need a solution, They need an answer. 229 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:12,080 And Peter says to them, repent. And repent means to turn from 230 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,600 one way of living and one position of life toward what God 231 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:21,960 says we should do, turn away from sin and turn to God. 232 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,360 Repentance is not beating yourself up in an altar and and 233 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,840 crying for three hours and hoping your emotion. 234 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,160 You think we'll get God's focus and he'll pay attention if 235 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,320 you're really all out of sorts or whatever. 236 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,440 No, repentance is like the guy in the pigpen that left his 237 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,520 father's wealth and and squandered it and he's finally 238 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,320 dead one day and the pigpen saying I shouldn't be here, I 239 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,720 shouldn't be living like this. It's crazy. 240 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,520 My dad, you know, he, I'm going back home. 241 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,640 This is not the way I want to live anymore. 242 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,920 He repented. He turned from the immoral way 243 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,760 of living and the and the self centeredness and the destructive 244 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,920 path of life and he turned and he started heading home toward 245 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,640 his father. Peter tells him repent without 246 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:11,680 repentance, without any turning, there is no salvation and only 247 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,640 God can see the heart. Whether it turns, of course, 248 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,280 God's the one that makes a hard turn too. 249 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,920 That's another mystery. And I'm going to get into all 250 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,840 that today. It takes a long time, but all I 251 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:26,080 know is that the simple gospel is the preaching of the crosses 252 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,160 of them that are perishing foolishness, right? 253 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:31,320 People that are on their way to hell, That's a joke. 254 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,240 You guys are crazy. But unto us who are saved, and 255 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,400 that's the majority of us here today, I'm sure it's the power 256 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,120 of God and the salvation to everyone that believes, right? 257 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,360 We've experienced this. That's why we worship. 258 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,760 That's why we come here and gather to worship Him and to 259 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,120 follow him. Repent and let everyone of you 260 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,720 be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of 261 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,800 sins. And you shall receive the gift 262 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,880 of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to 263 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,080 your children and to all who are afar off, as many as our Lord 264 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,400 our God will call. And so the simple gospel, 265 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,680 repent. Already I'm turning, I'm coming 266 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,000 to Peter with the other thousands of people, 3000. 267 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:19,600 I need salvation. I want to have my sins forgiven. 268 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,880 And so they're all lining up there and they're all going to 269 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,720 be baptized. The baptism is the outward sign, 270 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,200 the picture to those who are there that I am now a follower 271 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,640 of Jesus Christ. It isn't what saved them. 272 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,160 They were saved when when they were convicted and they 273 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:37,280 believed. OK. 274 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,560 And the the evidence of their belief was that they turned 275 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,920 toward God. And then the evidence in the 276 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,880 reality of the fact that they want to, you know, unite with 277 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,880 this new movement called the way the birth of the church. 278 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:51,960 They had to be publicly baptized. 279 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,160 And baptism was a death sentence for a lot of people because if 280 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,920 they saw you being baptized, they'd tie you in with what they 281 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,480 called was a religious sect and they would try to martyr you and 282 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,000 get rid of you. OK, Pretty hard to do when you 283 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,200 got 3000 people doing it at one time, though. 284 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,760 It was a quite, quite a powerful move of God. 285 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,720 And so they were baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy 286 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,640 Spirit. And, and you know, this isn't 287 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,880 that you don't some people I'm just going to baptize in the 288 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,200 name of Jesus Christ. No, Jesus said on the mouth 289 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,560 before he ascended. You baptize them in the name of 290 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,160 the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So this isn't like a different 291 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,560 kind of baptism, but it is focused on the Trinity being 292 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,160 baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, 293 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,960 and what will happen whenever they are moved to do this work 294 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,440 of God in their hearts, God's doing the work of belief, Then 295 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:48,000 the evidence of their new life occurs, and the most important 296 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,000 evidence that they're truly born again is that they'll receive 297 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,360 the Holy Spirit. He'll come in and dwell in them 298 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,600 and he'll live in them and be with them forever. 299 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:02,080 I don't know how people can live these days life without the Holy 300 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,280 Spirit. The the tragedy, though, the 301 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:09,960 Church of Jesus Christ has tried to do his work without the Holy 302 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:14,720 Spirit, and that's why it's so anemic in the world. 303 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:22,200 And how can the work of God become more empowered by God? 304 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,840 It only can get stronger. I believe by us become more 305 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:35,400 desperate for a deeper walk with God, that our lies would by 306 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:40,560 God's grace, begin to become supernaturally empowered at a 307 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:46,160 different level than maybe we've experienced because we've let 308 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,800 things get in the way. We all have the cares of the 309 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,880 world. Look what's happening in the 310 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,320 world. If it's getting you offset and 311 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,480 all worked up, it's going to drain you spiritually. 312 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,560 The cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches. 313 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:08,720 If my whole life is focused on my wealth and I'm absorbed by my 314 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:14,320 material possessions, it's going to drain me spiritually. 315 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:16,640 And then the lust of other things. 316 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:20,800 Jesus says, 'cause His word to become not empowered. 317 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,000 So we can know this Bible inside and out. 318 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,160 We can know the truth, we can know the doctrine, we can know 319 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,320 the history. But if those three things are in 320 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:34,200 the way in any of our lives, then we are quenching the work 321 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,760 of God's Spirit in our lives and we're grieving the Spirit. 322 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,960 We, we wound, we hurt the Spirit. 323 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,560 You can hurt my feelings, I can hurt your feelings and that's 324 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:47,960 not good. But boy, you know, hurting God, 325 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,800 wounding the Spirit of God, very, very serious. 326 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:59,000 So my sin and your sin is what hurts our God. 327 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,120 So we want to become more surrendered. 328 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:08,440 We want to become more yielded. And you know, perhaps today you 329 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,720 might be inclined to come forward just you and the Lord 330 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,000 and say, Lord, these things are in the way of my life. 331 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,280 Now I want to publicly declare before you and before this 332 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,240 people. That I want to go deeper with 333 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,000 you. You can do it in your seat, you 334 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,080 can do it in front, you can do it in the car on the way home. 335 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:29,080 But somehow this coming to some kind of sense in your life that 336 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,680 you want more of God and less of yourself. 337 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,360 I know I do. I mean, this is something I 338 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:36,760 think about every day. This not when I'm preaching on 339 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:42,560 this on on a Sunday. How can I get closer to the Lord 340 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:47,400 and how can I become more of a blessing to him and to you guys? 341 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,520 That's my desire. We always remember His death, 342 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:56,960 His burial's resurrection, and I'd like to also think more 343 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:02,200 about this indwelling Holy Spirit that's in us. 344 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:07,400 If there's anything there today in my heart that's in the way of 345 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,320 His will for my light, that he would make it clear to me. 346 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:15,000 And, and I might not be able to resolve it today, but at least 347 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,200 my mind is aware of it now. Maybe because the Holy Spirit's 348 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,680 showing me. And then I can work on that 349 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,800 right in the days ahead with the Lord's help, I can see him help 350 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,560 me through what it is I need to to grow in. 351 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,360 And no, no guilt trips, no condemnation. 352 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:33,840 It's just this recognition of there's no end to how deep we 353 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,720 can go until we're out of this world. 354 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,160 And the Bible says then we'll see him as he is or we will see 355 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,280 him and be like him because we we shall see him as he is. 356 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,520 But on this side of heaven. It's a lifelong process, isn't 357 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,880 it, of becoming more like him. And it doesn't happen overnight, 358 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,560 but it does significantly happen when we come to these points in 359 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,320 our life where we decide to just say, Lord, I'm done with this. 360 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,240 I want to surrender that. Lord. 361 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,320 We're just so grateful for your patience with us, how much you 362 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:07,720 love us, how gentle you are to us, Lord, how you've convicted 363 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,000 us so many times that we didn't listen and we offended you, we 364 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,160 wounded you, we grieved you, we quenched you. 365 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,120 And it was stupid. Because Lord, you want to pour 366 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:23,080 out blessings, You want to bring living waters from your throne 367 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,880 into our hearts to be poured out to others. 368 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:30,240 And we so often, Lord, allow trivial things to to get in the 369 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,560 way. Self centeredness, 370 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:37,040 unforgiveness, bitterness, Lord's selfishness, our own 371 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,640 agendas, our own will. Lord, you know what we're like 372 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,640 and you still work with us. You still love us. 373 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,120 And so Lord, each of us today we to give to you whatever it is 374 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:50,800 that you're asking us for, to be willing to listen to you about 375 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,640 whatever it is you might want to show us. 376 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,280 So Lord, we can be prepared. Like Peter was that day. 377 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,880 Whenever you forgave him for the denial, you lifted him up. 378 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,560 You told him to get back up into the battle, and You empowered 379 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,080 him. You poured out your spirit upon 380 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,120 him and filled him. And Lord, he was a different man 381 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:13,960 than he was that night when he was trembling, denying you. 382 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,560 He spoke boldly. Lord, Your word and Your word 383 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,280 was effectual and the preaching and it brought many to 384 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,360 salvation. Lord, we know that You want to 385 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:27,440 use each of us in different ways, Lord. 386 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,920 So Lord, I pray for your people today that you would bless them 387 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,600 and encourage them and, and help them to see the, the growth in 388 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,240 their own life as they surrender to you. 389 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:40,520 Show them, Lord, your pleasure as they surrender certain things 390 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,280 and, and, and allow you to change them to become more like 391 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,800 you. That's that's the purpose of 392 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,320 your church. And we would become more like 393 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,200 you, Lord Jesus. So Lord, whatever it is, 394 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,320 whatever it is that's been brought to you today, Lord, we 395 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,160 just lay at your feet and we thank you. 396 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,240 We're so glad you joined us today on this edition of Living 397 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,240 Waters of Grace. Pastor Clark is teaching through 398 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,560 the Book of Acts, which is the only book that chronicles the 399 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,360 history of the early church immediately after Jesus's 400 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,520 ascension. It gives us a front row seat to 401 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,760 how the Gospel began to move outward, starting in Jerusalem 402 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,880 and reaching into the heart of the Roman Empire in just three 403 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,240 decades. A small group of frightened 404 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,600 ordinary believers became a bold, spirit empowered movement 405 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,760 that transformed the known world. 406 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,640 Acts is not just a history lesson. 407 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,880 It's a reminder of what God can do when His people are 408 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,680 surrendered, obedient and filled with the Holy Spirit. 409 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,440 Their perseverance still inspires us today. 410 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,920 May we follow their example and live faithfully for Christ in 411 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,280 our own time. We hope today's message 412 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,000 encouraged you. Living Waters of Grace is a 413 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,840 ministry of Calvary Chapel, Westmoreland. 414 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,240 If you're in the Greensburg, PA area, we'd love to have you join 415 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,920 us in person. 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