1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:07,640 We're continuing our series on the Day the Kingdom Came, and 2 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,160 this morning's sermon is entitled. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,120 Actually, it's Peter's Sermon Part 2. 4 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:16,360 But it's the story of Jesus and how fitting and appropriate it 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,600 is that we just sang that song, Victory in Jesus, because it's 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,040 all about what Jesus did. And in Peter's masterful sermon, 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,160 divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, preached another 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,479 masterpiece. In this section of that sermon 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,520 as an introductory text, I direct your attention to Acts 10 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,880 chapter 2, beginning in verse 22. 11 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,040 Peter says men of Israel hear these words. 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,080 Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you by 13 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,720 miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did through him in 14 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,800 your midst, as you yourselves also know him, being delivered 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,520 by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have 16 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,800 taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death whom 17 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,760 God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was 18 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,040 not possible that he should be held by it. 19 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,080 As an introduction, I'm going to be very brief summarizing what 20 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,200 we've studied. Jesus told the apostles to wait 21 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,920 in Jerusalem till they got endued with power from on high. 22 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,320 That's Acts 1. Acts chapter 2. 23 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:29,160 Power came in the form of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 24 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:33,720 It came to 12 men, it came to 12 apostles and it caused them to 25 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,640 be able to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 26 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,960 We studied in great detail last time. 27 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:41,560 These tongues were not gibberish. 28 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,520 It was not ecstatic Babble. It was actually normative 29 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,160 languages. You remember what they said? 30 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,800 What meaneth this? As the King James says, these 31 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,600 men are from Galilee and yet we hear them speak in our their own 32 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,960 language, the wonderful works of God. 33 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,760 What else? In our own language that we were 34 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,600 born and that word means dialects. 35 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,800 So they understood. But when they did that, there 36 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,920 was an interesting response. Their reaction was they were 37 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:15,080 perplexed as what could this mean? 38 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,520 And others said, oh, wait a minute, these guys are drunk. 39 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,520 And then Peter's response is twofold. 1 He appeals to their 40 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,680 logic. And #2 he appeals to prophecy 41 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,160 first. He appeals to logic. 42 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,800 He said these guys aren't drunk like you say they are. 43 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,760 It's only 9:00 in the morning, the third hour of the day. 44 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,720 And as we noticed, it's even customary for even in Scripture 45 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,960 for people to understand that those that get drunk get drunk 46 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,760 in the night. So it appeals to their logic. 47 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,120 And that kind of got their attention. 48 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,520 But then he says what you're seeing is the words of the 49 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,480 fulfillment of the prophet Joel. And that was last time. 50 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,520 That was our last sermon. Now we come to this one. 51 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,040 Beginning in verse 22, Peter now comes to the real theme of the 52 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,840 message, and that is the story of Jesus Christ. 53 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:07,640 It is the greatest story ever told. 54 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,320 It is the story about Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah that the 55 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,600 Jews rejected. And the first thing that Peter 56 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:22,040 calls him is Jesus of Nazareth. You know, we understand because 57 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,960 we are believers in God. We are believers in Jesus 58 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,280 Christ, and we know all about what the Scripture says 59 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,600 regarding who Jesus is. He's our Lord, He's our savior, 60 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:32,800 He's our mediator, He's our Redeemer. 61 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,360 He's our propitiation, fancy word meaning he paid our fine. 62 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,240 He's all that stuff. He's our king and we serve him. 63 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:47,360 We know that. So why the words Jesus of 64 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,680 Nazareth? He's so much more than that. 65 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,080 Interestingly, the phrase Jesus of Nazareth, he's called a 66 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,520 Nazarene because he was from Nazareth. 67 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,080 Do you remember? Even in the Garden of 68 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,320 Gethsemane, Jesus prays to his Father. 69 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,880 Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. 70 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,880 Not my will, but your will be done. 71 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,000 Then with a determined resolve, he goes forward. 72 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,640 And here is this band of men. Here's these Roman soldiers. 73 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,160 Scholars tell us about 600 of them along with the temple 74 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,480 police and the mob. Right. 75 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,160 And out in front is the awful betrayer, that vile betrayer, 76 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,160 Judas. Jesus goes forward and Jesus 77 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,560 says first, who you're looking for? 78 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,640 I'm not getting into the story. We all know the story. 79 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,280 Just saying one thing. Who you looking for? 80 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:40,480 What did they say? We are looking for Jesus of 81 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,400 Nazareth. The reason they phrased it as 82 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,000 such is they didn't recognize Jesus from whom we recognize who 83 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,680 Jesus is. They were looking for a Galilean 84 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,640 Carpenter and his friends and they called him Jesus of 85 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,600 Nazareth because that's where he was from. 86 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,560 How about on the superscription? What about the title above the 87 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,480 head of Jesus that Pilate wrote? And by the way, it was written 88 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,960 in the three ancient languages of the time, Hebrew, Greek and 89 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,160 and Latin. You know why? 90 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,440 So everybody that walked by would look up and not only see 91 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,640 it, but they could read it and they could understand it. 92 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,320 Three ancient languages. What were the words? 93 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,080 Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross, and the writing 94 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,480 was Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. 95 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,880 But you know that name will be declared as a source of power 96 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:44,600 and a source of authority from this point forward all the way 97 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,240 through history and even now. Here's the sermon. 98 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,720 Men of Israel hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth. 99 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,800 And then he says, a man attested by God to you by miracles, 100 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,680 wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as 101 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,120 you yourselves also know. You know what's amazing Here 102 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,800 Peter begins to speak undeniable facts about Jesus. 103 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,240 You know one scholar put it this way, undeniable facts about the 104 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,600 hated Nazarene. But you know what? 105 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,880 These are the same facts that are going to cause some about 106 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:28,440 3000 to be cut to the heart. You know, I got to thinking 107 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,240 about that. The Bible is filled with 108 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:39,360 undeniable facts about Jesus. And did you know that because I 109 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,280 believe in it and I do with all my heart and I am I, I am 110 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:47,120 absolutely certain I'm speaking to an audience of people that 111 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,360 believe it like I do. You believe in Jesus, The 112 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,680 undeniable facts about Jesus, right? 113 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,160 We get it. But did you know that because we 114 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,880 believe it doesn't make it true. If somebody doesn't believe it, 115 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,680 it doesn't make it not true. He's presenting undeniable 116 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:08,800 facts. What happened? 117 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,360 Some were cut to the heart and said later on, we're going to 118 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,320 get to in the next sermon, men and brethren, what shall we do? 119 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:16,440 And then the solution came, right? 120 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,400 But there was 3000 that did that. 121 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,800 And we look at that and say, man, 3000 souls, what an amazing 122 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,000 sermon. What an amazing gospel meeting. 123 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:30,400 I say this, scholars tell us there was over maybe a million 124 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:37,080 people there that day. So only 3000, OK, undeniable 125 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,560 facts 3000 were cut to the heart. 126 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:45,680 The majority was not. But it didn't change the truth. 127 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,600 It didn't change the truth. JW Mcgarvey says this, though in 128 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,600 one breath they're reminded of the wondrous miracles and signs 129 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,680 that Jesus wrought among them. They are charged with knowing 130 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,960 this is true. In other words, he says, man of 131 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:03,440 Israel hear these words about Jesus of Nazareth, all the 132 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,520 things it was facts and you know that it's true. 133 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,760 You know that it is. And then he continues on in the 134 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:17,880 next verse, his statement here, him being delivered by the 135 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,520 determined purpose and foreknowledge of God. 136 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,080 I got to stop and make a little point here. 137 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:29,280 OK, When the Jews delivered Jesus to the Romans to be 138 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:34,080 crucified, it was by the determined purpose and 139 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,720 foreknowledge of God. I'm going to get to the Jews 140 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,919 role in just a moment, but I want to make a point because I 141 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,080 was driving down the road and I was listening on the radio. 142 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,000 Sometimes I TuneIn this stuff and there was a big debate going 143 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,720 back and forth on who was responsible for crucifying Jesus 144 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:55,480 and somebody says, well, the Jews crucified Jesus and this 145 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,320 guy got on there. He called in, he was infuriated. 146 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,360 He was saying why blame it on the Jews? 147 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,480 I'm tired of people blaming it on the Jews. 148 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,000 It was the Romans that crucified Jesus. 149 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,200 Hold that thought. I'm going to make my point again 150 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,520 though. When the Jews delivered Jesus to 151 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:18,840 the Romans, it was by the determined purpose and 152 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,520 foreknowledge of God. It's according to the definite 153 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,960 plan that was orchestrated by God himself from the foundation 154 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,040 of the world, that Jesus would be God's Lamb. 155 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,840 John 316. We know that passage. 156 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,760 Everybody knows that passage. Sporting events hold up that 157 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:38,920 passage. For God so loved the world that 158 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,680 he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him 159 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:43,520 should not perish, but have everlasting life. 160 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,440 So it was all by the determined purpose and for knowledge of 161 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,520 God. OK, let's get to the next 162 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:50,840 statement. I'm going to prove my point. 163 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,400 You have taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death. 164 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:02,000 OK, who's you? Who's he talking to earlier on? 165 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,640 It says in Jerusalem there that day, on the day of Pentecost, 166 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:10,120 there were Jews, devout men gathered there out of every 167 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,120 nation under heaven. So who's the you? 168 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,600 The you was the Jews. Little side point here. 169 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,800 Why did the Jews take Jesus to Pilate? 170 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,680 You might remember from a previous lesson, they did so 171 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:29,360 because they had to the right of the sword belonged only to Rome. 172 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,280 So the only way that you can lawfully execute somebody was to 173 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:34,920 go to Rome. They had to do it. 174 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,760 And by the way, incidentally, it also had to do that to fulfill 175 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,960 prophecy that Jesus would be lifted up on a cross and fulfill 176 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,080 what the Old Testament said and not a Jewish Stony. 177 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,200 We know all that. So why this then? 178 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,440 Why does it say you Jews have been taken by lawless hands? 179 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:56,360 What does that mean? Well, Bruce says it this way. 180 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,640 While the hands that carried out the grisly work of the 181 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:04,280 crucifixion were the hands of lawless men, that is to say the 182 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,120 Romans, why were they called lawless men? 183 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,480 Because they were outside the range of the law received by 184 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,320 Israel. They were outside of Jewish law. 185 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:22,080 The Jews were God's people. The Jews took Jesus to those 186 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,480 that were outside of God's people, and they were called 187 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,000 lawless men. Notice he further says. 188 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,400 Yet the instigators of the ACT were the Jews. 189 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,560 It was the chief priestly leaders of the people who 190 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:38,080 engineered his death. It was the Jerusalem mob, egged 191 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,680 on by those leaders who yelled crucify him. 192 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,960 But all who took part either directly or indirectly and 193 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,800 putting him to death were unconsciously fulfilling the 194 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,480 determined purpose and foreknowledge of of God. 195 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,880 Amazing God's plan. By the way. 196 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:05,640 Can I just slip this in? Doesn't that make you feel a 197 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:12,280 greater desire to serve God and follow Jesus when you realize 198 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,200 that the terrible acts that were done to him that God allowed, 199 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:21,200 not only did God allow it, it was by His divine purpose, His 200 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,440 foreknowledge, and He set it into motion. 201 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,400 How about that kind of makes you want to serve Him more? 202 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:35,000 But notice continues the thought in verse 24, whom God raised up, 203 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,920 having loosed the pains of death. 204 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,120 Now there's a sharp contrast between what man did to Jesus 205 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,720 and what God did for him. Now I want to notice, please, 206 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,600 there's a literal application and there is a spiritual 207 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,280 application. So notice this. 208 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:57,200 First of all, Zur brings up the physical aspect or the literal 209 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,800 application. He said this. 210 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,520 This statement here in this passage means that God released 211 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,920 his son who had been bound in a death that had been accompanied 212 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,040 by pain. That was literal, that was 213 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:19,400 actual, that was physical. Jesus died, but God loosed the 214 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:24,360 pains of death. Now remember, there's also a 215 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,320 spiritual application. But notice this phrase right 216 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,320 here. Because it was not possible that 217 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,760 he should be held by it. That doesn't mean any 218 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,040 impossibility on God's part, on Jesus's part. 219 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,440 The impossibility is on death's part. 220 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:41,440 Remember that song leads to saying death could not keep his 221 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,360 prey. Jesus my Savior, He tore the 222 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:45,840 bars away. You know why? 223 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,960 Because God was going to raise him up and loose the pains of 224 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,080 death and he did. So. 225 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:57,800 A big contrast between what man did to Jesus and what God did 226 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,560 for him, and not only for him, but all of mankind. 227 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,920 That's the literal application. What is the spiritual 228 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,960 application here? First of all, know this, when 229 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:13,600 Satan caused Jesus to be put to death, he sealed his fate. 230 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,320 Do you remember when Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper? 231 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,680 Do you remember when Jesus has that private conversation with 232 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:28,200 Judas Iscariot and Jesus says to him, after he said, one of you 233 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,040 will betray me? And then Jesus says, whatever 234 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:31,240 you're going to do, do it quickly. 235 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,120 Go do it. Go do it quickly, right? 236 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:40,200 And then it says Satan entered Judas. 237 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,520 It didn't mean he was demonically possessed. 238 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:45,280 It means he was listening to Satan. 239 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:51,120 So when Satan LED those men to not only betray Jesus, but to 240 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,920 crucify Jesus, the spiritual application of this passage is 241 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,840 this. It sealed the devil's fate. 242 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:05,600 Oh, but the very same act. It unleashed the power of God to 243 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:11,560 salvation. In other words, man crucified 244 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,840 Jesus, but then God used the pains of death. 245 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,880 And it was all by the determined purpose and for knowledge of 246 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,240 God. Twofold application, both 247 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,800 literally for Jesus and spiritually for all mankind. 248 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:29,480 And I'm so thankful. And by the way, that's the 249 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,000 reason. OK, may I just say something a 250 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,440 little comforting here? That's why we have hope. 251 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:44,680 Death has no more sting to the child of God. 252 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:50,120 To those that are in Christ, death has no more sting. 253 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,040 Why? Because of what Jesus did. 254 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,320 God raised him and loosed the pains of death. 255 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,600 It's truly the great mystery of all the ages, the hidden wisdom 256 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:04,600 of God. In all my life I've heard people 257 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,560 say when something bad happens to a good person, they say, why 258 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,560 in the world did God allow it? What is God's thought on that? 259 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,200 Blaming God, questioning God, all the stuff that I've heard 260 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,000 all my life well, you know what? If you want to question 261 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,800 something, why don't you question this? 262 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,520 You know why nobody questions this? 263 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,440 Because we get a great benefit from it. 264 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,360 We don't usually question stuff that we are the recipient or 265 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:32,040 beneficiary of something good. We just question when it's bad. 266 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,480 I got news for us all. As you know, it's still the same 267 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,840 God who's still in control. And look at what God did for all 268 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,160 mankind. Notice 1st Corinthians 2 269 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:48,760 beginning in verse 7. But we speak the wisdom of God 270 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:51,120 in a mystery. Interesting word, mystery. 271 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,640 Sometimes I've heard it interpreted well. 272 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:55,360 Mystery means plan. No, it doesn't. 273 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,520 It's talking about the plan of God. 274 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,360 It was always the plan of God. But the mystery, the word 275 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,920 mystery doesn't mean plan. The word mystery means mystery. 276 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,560 It means something that existed in the mind of God. 277 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,319 I know it's just semantics, but I want to say it. 278 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,960 It's something that existed in the mind of God but was not yet 279 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,440 revealed. It was God's plan. 280 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,280 What was God's plan? Notice the hidden wisdom of God 281 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:22,720 ordained before the ages of glory for our glory, which none 282 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,280 of the rulers of this age knew, for had they known, they would 283 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,520 have not crucified the Lord of glory. 284 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,120 It was always God's plan. It was the great mystery of the 285 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,920 world that was not made known yet. 286 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,000 Wow. OK, now we're going to fly 287 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,920 through the next few verses because you're going to refer to 288 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:44,960 Psalm 16, verses 8 through 11, and it's verses 25 through 28. 289 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:46,960 We'll just read this and we're going to move on. 290 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:52,160 For David says concerning him I foresaw the Lord always before 291 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,600 my face, for he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. 292 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,720 Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad. 293 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,560 Moreover, my flesh also will rest in hope. 294 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,280 For you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will you allow 295 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,680 your Holy One to see corruption. You have made known to me my 296 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,520 way, the ways of my, to me the ways of life. 297 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,360 You will make me full of joy in your presence. 298 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:18,360 Again. It's a direct quote from Psalm 299 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:23,520 16, verses 8 through 11. OK, here's the point. 300 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,520 David's speaking in first person, but he's not talking 301 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,160 about himself. Peter's going to show that the 302 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:35,200 Holy One who will not see corruption, I mean corruption 303 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,480 meaning the body decaying, right? 304 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,040 It can't be David. He's going to make that point 305 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,080 again. The whole story is about Jesus. 306 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,840 The thrust is to reveal Jesus and no one else as the promised 307 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,440 Messiah. OK, so he begins this in verse 308 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,280 29. He says men and brethren. 309 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,800 First of all, this is talking about kinship, brethren, meaning 310 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,800 Jewish brethren, not Christian brethren. 311 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,320 They weren't Christians yet. So he says men and brethren, we 312 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,720 know there was men there. I already said that about men 313 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:07,880 out of every nation under heaven. 314 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,520 Jews, OK, but he calls them brethren, showing a kinship with 315 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:13,200 them. And you know what? 316 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,120 Tell you something. I know the whole sermon is 317 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:19,520 divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, but this is brilliant. 318 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,280 Anytime you've got to make some real stern or serious points, it 319 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,920 is always wonderful to make a connection of some sort in some 320 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,600 way. But it's also the same kind of 321 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,440 phraseology when a coach would go to a player and try to 322 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,720 establish something positive. What he's doing here is he's 323 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:43,720 establishing kinship. In other words, he changed and 324 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,560 he's Jewish also. He says, men and brethren, what? 325 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,240 Let me speak freely to you. What does that phrase actually 326 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,000 mean? Well, Vincent says it means this 327 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,920 speaking everything and therefore without reserve. 328 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,320 In other words, Peter's saying, I'm going to give it all to you. 329 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:09,200 And the first subject, or the subject in particular, is about 330 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,040 the patriarch David. That's a very important subject. 331 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,600 David is a very important subject to a Jewish person. 332 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,200 Do you know why? Because King David was the 333 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,400 greatest king Israel ever knew in the Old Testament. 334 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,920 That's number one. Number two, the Jews also 335 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,400 understood. OK. 336 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,600 They also understood that it would be through the lineage of 337 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,920 David that somebody was going to rise and sit on David's throne 338 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,520 and rule Israel. That promise was given in the 339 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,320 Old Testament in Psalm 132 and 11. 340 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,920 The Lord has sworn in truth to David. 341 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:51,400 He will not turn from it. I will set upon your throne the 342 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,560 fruit of your body. They understood that. 343 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,280 Here's where they messed up, and here's where they had trouble. 344 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:07,520 They thought the Jews, they thought it was going to be an 345 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,120 earthly king. They thought it was going to be 346 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:15,480 a Kingdom of this world. They thought it was going to be 347 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,040 a messianic king Kingdom that was part of this world. 348 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,680 They all longed for that, to possibly even remove the 349 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,920 oppressive thumb of Rome. They missed the point. 350 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,480 The Kingdom of Jesus Christ, though, is what we're talking 351 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,960 about, and it is a spiritual Kingdom. 352 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:36,480 It is not of this world. Jesus even said himself, My 353 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,520 Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this 354 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:45,600 world, my servants would fight. Like Brent talked about the 355 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,440 other day. He talked about the very idea 356 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:52,000 when he was waiting on the table before the communion, and he 357 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,920 said that he could have called more than 12 legions of angels 358 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,320 and put a stop to the whole matter. 359 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,160 You know why? Because he had the authority to 360 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,880 do that. But he didn't do that because 361 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,160 his Kingdom was not of this world. 362 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,280 And you know, that very thought became a very major stumbling 363 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:15,480 block to the Jews. Then he says, Speaking of the 364 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,200 patriarch David, very specific here. 365 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,320 He's both dead and buried. And his tomb is with us to this 366 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,680 day. Here's an undeniable truth that 367 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,240 David cannot be the Holy 1. He cannot be the one that did 368 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:30,840 not see corruption. You know why? 369 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,440 Because David is dead. David is buried and the tomb is 370 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,720 still there. And by the way, I don't know how 371 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,960 many years before this David was dead and buried, but many, many 372 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,520 years. These words were written in AD 373 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,960 33, and I understand about the adjusted calendar of 8030 or 33. 374 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,600 I do believe it's 8033. That's a sermon for another 375 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,520 time. But let's just suffice it to say 376 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,080 this was written a whole lot of years later, right? 377 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,680 And Peter says the promised 1 of Psalms that did not see 378 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,680 corruption can't be David. Why? 379 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:13,320 Because David is dead, David is buried, and David's tomb is 380 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:20,800 still with us this day, 8033. We live in in 2025 and if the 381 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,160 Lord wills, we're going to see 26 in a few days if the Lord 382 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,360 wills, right? Do you know what when that 383 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:32,320 happens, David will still be dead, David will still be 384 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:37,640 buried, and David's tomb is somewhere so he can't be the one 385 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,120 that didn't see corruption. You get in the point. 386 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,280 The attention of the Jews now in this sermon should be off of 387 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,920 David and toward the correct Holy One in the book of Psalms. 388 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,880 Then in verse 30 he said, therefore, being a prophet, he's 389 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,720 talking about David. David being a prophet, he just 390 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,680 prophesied back in Psalm 132 and 11 about this very thing. 391 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,640 David the prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath 392 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:11,320 to him. The promise is that through the 393 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,600 fleshly lineage of David, Jesus would come. 394 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,640 You know, over a dozen times in the New Testament, Jesus is 395 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:24,000 referred to as the Son of David. Here's just three, Matthew 1 and 396 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,120 verse one, Matthew 12 and verse 23, Luke 18 and 20 and 38. 397 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,680 It was prophesied that from the fruit of his body, according to 398 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,200 the flesh would come the Savior would come, the Messiah. 399 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,360 Paul said the following two by the way, in Romans chapter 1 and 400 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:43,960 verse three he said concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, 401 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,560 who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh. 402 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,760 Again, not trying to be redundant. 403 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,320 These verses are proving his point. 404 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:01,480 It's about Jesus now. Peter laid this foundation. 405 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,640 The main point of the entire discourse is the Holy 1 is not 406 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:06,960 David. Then who is it? 407 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:12,040 It has to be Jesus to reign in this new Kingdom and that comes 408 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:16,240 in verse 31 He would raise up or verse 30 he would raise up 409 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,760 Christ to sit on that throne. He's the one. 410 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,880 Verse 31, he foreseeing this spoke concerning the 411 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:29,840 resurrection of Christ. Now obviously David is speaking 412 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:35,240 by direct inspiration from God. He knew David knew the reference 413 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,520 was not to himself, but it was to the Christ that would come. 414 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:40,520 And I want to notice this right here. 415 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:45,520 This is very important. Remember where's David? 416 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,480 He's dead. He was buried and his sepulchre, 417 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,400 his tomb, his grave is still there. 418 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,760 What about the Holy 1 though that would not see corruption. 419 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,040 He David foreseeing bespoke concerned the resurrection of 420 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:06,840 Christ, that his Jesus soul was not left in Hades, nor did his 421 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,760 flesh see corruption. OK Hades. 422 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,960 Hades is defined by fear as the common receptacle of disembodied 423 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,880 spirits in the New Testament. It's also called paradise. 424 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,720 It's a place where Jesus went when he died. 425 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,040 It's a place where he took that dying thief, the dying thief 426 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,400 that said to Jesus, and by the way, please get this, this is 427 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,520 very important. Where do you go when you die? 428 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:45,160 Stay with me, Jesus said to this dying thief who said the 429 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,760 question or said the words, Lord, Remember Me when you come 430 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,640 into your Kingdom. Jesus says today you will be 431 00:26:52,640 --> 00:27:00,360 with me in paradise. Paradise is where the save go 432 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,600 when they die. That's where Jesus went. 433 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:09,120 It's the same word as Hades. Let me ask you a question. 434 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,240 Where's David? Well, he's dead. 435 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,520 He was buried. His grave still here. 436 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:20,760 Where's David? David is in Hades or paradise, 437 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,800 where dead people go when they're saved. 438 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:27,920 By the way, can I just suggest something here too? 439 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,560 Sometimes the word paradise can refer to heaven. 440 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,840 But in this case, when Jesus said paradise, Luke 16 with the 441 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,760 rich man of Lazarus, it's talking about paradise. 442 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,840 That word is heydays. It's talking about the place 443 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,480 that you go when you're saved, awaiting the resurrection. 444 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,600 It is not heaven. So where's David? 445 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,440 David's still in paradise. What about Jesus though? 446 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:04,600 His soul was not left in Hades. So in other words, the physical 447 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,800 body goes to the ground. The Bible says the spirit, the 448 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,120 life force, goes back to God who gave it when you die. 449 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:13,840 But what else then? The soul goes somewhere. 450 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,480 The soul never dies. The saved go to paradise. 451 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:24,360 OK, David's still there in paradise. 452 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,840 Lazarus is still there in paradise. 453 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,280 All those that have died are still there in paradise that are 454 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,880 saved. Abraham is in paradise. 455 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,080 All those that are saved are redeemed. 456 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,000 Christians that are redeemed are in paradise. 457 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:43,600 Now here's my question. He was not left in Hades. 458 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,480 And the second thing, he didn't see his flesh, did not see 459 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,960 corruption. So I want to ask you a question. 460 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,840 Have you ever wondered about the significance of three days? 461 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,520 OK, we know about three days. What is the significance 462 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:05,800 scripturally about 3 days? When they came to Jesus in 463 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,600 Matthew chapter 12 and verse 40 and they wanted to know, they 464 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,280 said give us a sign, show us some kind of a magic trick that 465 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,680 you are who you are and all that stuff. 466 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,160 You know what he said? An evil and adulterous 467 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,760 generation seeks after a sign. Then he said, And the only sign 468 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,280 you're going to get is the sign of the prophet Jonah. 469 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,960 For as Jonah was 3 days and three nights in the belly of the 470 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,560 great fish, so also shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three 471 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:31,760 nights in the heart of the earth. 472 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,080 Significant. Jesus told his disciples, I'm 473 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,160 going to die, and three days after that I'm going to rise. 474 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,640 What is the significance of three days beyond scriptural 475 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,880 proof? What about the practicality of 476 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,520 that? We'll notice please, when a man 477 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:59,080 dies, his soul or inner man goes to the unseen or intermediate 478 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,840 realm and that's called Hades that we just noticed. 479 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,760 His body remains on the earth, but after three days it will 480 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,080 begin to decompose or see corruption. 481 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,400 This fact explains the words of Martha in John Chapter 11 and 482 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,760 verse 39. Remember, Jesus is going to 483 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:24,120 raise Lazarus from the dead. He goes there and he says take 484 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,720 away the stone. And Lazarus's sister Martha 485 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,160 says, oh, wait a minute, Lord, it's been 4 days and he's 486 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,040 already, there's already a stench. 487 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,360 That's what the new King James says. 488 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,520 The old King James says he already stinketh. 489 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,000 He's decomposing. Why it's been 4 days? 490 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,440 Because in three days that's exactly what happens. 491 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,840 Notice but this noted passage, Acts 231 means that the soul of 492 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,400 Jesus was not to remain in Hades long enough for his body that 493 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,680 had been placed in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea to start 494 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,960 decaying. This is why it was necessary for 495 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,000 Jesus to be raised from the dead after three days according to EM 496 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,080 Zur. OK then he says this. 497 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:14,360 In summary, he says this Jesus God raised up, of which we are 498 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:19,080 all witnesses. Jesus, a descendant of David, 499 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,520 now has been raised to be ruler over God's people. 500 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,800 I'm going to give you 2 Old Testament passages, Psalm 89.3 501 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,800 and four. I've made a covenant with my 502 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,840 chosen. I've sworn to my servant David 503 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,080 your seed. I will establish forever and 504 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,400 build up your throne to all generations. 505 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,360 One more passage, Second Samuel 712 and 13. 506 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,440 When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your Father's, I 507 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,520 will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, 508 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,120 and I will establish His Kingdom. 509 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,840 He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the 510 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:01,080 throne of His Kingdom forever. Notice, in spite of this record, 511 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,760 there's a lot of people today that are still looking for Jesus 512 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,760 to come and establish a Kingdom. That's really sad. 513 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,720 Three things. Irrefutable facts about the 514 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,560 Kingdom. OK, the Kingdom was established 515 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,800 during the lifetime of the apostles promised in Mark 516 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:22,000 Chapter 9 and verse one fulfilled in Acts chapter 2 #2 517 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,200 What's the Kingdom? The Kingdom of Jesus on the 518 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,080 earth is His church that He promised to build in Matthew 519 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:33,280 1617 and 18. OK, who are those? 520 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,160 Who does that make up? Some club? 521 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,200 No, not a club you join up. What is the club? 522 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,360 No club. The church is made-up of those 523 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,320 who've been baptized for the remission of sins. 524 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:48,960 Acts 238 Baptized believers in Jesus Christ are members of the 525 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:53,640 Kingdom or the church that Jesus said that he would build. 526 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,840 OK, what else about Jesus? Verse 33. 527 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,040 Therefore, being exalted by the right hand of God. 528 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,280 Now Peter is answering not only an anticipated question about 529 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:10,680 where Jesus is, but by the phrase the right hand of God. 530 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,880 He's not just talking about a location. 531 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,360 In other words, this phrase means God raised Jesus and has 532 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:23,520 given him power and authority. OK, He's given him power and 533 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,840 authority to do what? Having received from the Father 534 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,280 the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this which you now 535 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,520 see and hear. So he's summing up the events on 536 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,400 Pentecost. They just witnessed it, the 537 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,200 great multitude. Here's the results. 538 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,320 It's the promise of what Jesus made to the apostles. 539 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:49,520 And that's what happened. Now, the last two verses of this 540 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:54,160 sermon for David did not ascend to the heavens. 541 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,400 Can I pause there, please? Did you see that? 542 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,080 And when I said David's not in heaven yet, I wasn't talking out 543 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,560 of school, folks. But trust me, if you stay with 544 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,640 me, it's going to get real good at the end, OK? 545 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,600 Just don't misunderstand what I'm saying. 546 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:15,239 It says David did not ascend into the heavens. 547 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:22,280 It's not there yet, but it's about Jesus. 548 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,560 And he says of himself, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right 549 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,280 hand till I make your enemies your footstool. 550 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:37,080 Now Sir says it this way. Coming back to David, Peter 551 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,840 reminds them again that the prophet had not ascended to 552 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,520 heaven and was therefore not at God's right hand. 553 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,360 That would explain that another noted prophecy could have not 554 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,520 meant David, for it says the Lord who was Christ was to sit 555 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,320 on the right hand of God until Christ had become a universal 556 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,840 conqueror. And this prediction is in Psalm 557 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,160 110 and verse one. That's the quote that we just 558 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:10,040 read in the previous verse. So how long is Jesus going to 559 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:15,240 reign as king on the throne at the right hand of God with all 560 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:18,640 authority and all power? How long is Jesus going to 561 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,880 reign? First Corinthians 15 beginning 562 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:25,400 in verse 24. Then comes the end when he 563 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,880 delivers the Kingdom to God the Father, when he puts an end to 564 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,440 all rule and authority and power. 565 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,200 For he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet, 566 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,360 and the last enemy that we should be destroyed is death. 567 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,560 OK. So are men still dying today? 568 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:48,600 Yeah, unfortunately, yeah. So as long as men are still 569 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,720 dying, Jesus is still reigning over the Kingdom. 570 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,880 I said David did not ascend to heaven. 571 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,800 So when will David finally get to go to heaven? 572 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,520 It didn't say when saved, didn't say he's paying a price in 573 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:03,840 purgatory. That's unscriptural. 574 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,880 I didn't say any of that. He's the place where the saved 575 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,920 go, awaiting something. When will David finally get to 576 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,040 heaven and when will the saved get to heaven? 577 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,120 Let's answer it with the Bible first Thessalonians 4, beginning 578 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,800 in verse 15. For this we say to you by the 579 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,360 word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the 580 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,520 coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are 581 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,840 asleep, and that means that have died, OK. 582 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,720 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a 583 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:37,560 shout, with the voice of the Archangel, with the trumpet of 584 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:42,040 God, And the dead in Christ will rise first. 585 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,320 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with 586 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,760 them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. 587 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:56,640 And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 588 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:03,280 OK? If people die and go straight to 589 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,960 heaven, why would he come back to bring us home? 590 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,240 Sister Sue don't want to embarrass Sister Sue. 591 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:16,760 She said something beautiful last Sunday. 592 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:23,360 We were talking and she said, you know, one day we're going to 593 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:31,360 all be there together. Amen and Amen. 594 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:34,920 I'm going to add something to it. 595 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:41,960 Not only are we going to all go and be together, we're going to 596 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:49,440 all go together. We're going to all go together. 597 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:59,560 When I didn't make this up when give you bobble on that for as 598 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,560 Adam all die Even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 599 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:07,400 That's talking about spiritually alive, but each one in his own 600 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,280 order. Christ the first fruits. 601 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,200 In other words, Jesus Christ is the first fruits, meaning he's 602 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,240 the first one to ever die raised from the dead, never to die 603 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:18,680 again. That's how he's the first 604 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,760 fruits. He's first. 605 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:29,440 What about the rest of us, but afterward, those who are Christ 606 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:37,280 when at his coming, I'm going to tell you something we talk about 607 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,200 and I don't know how it's going to be. 608 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,640 I don't I don't know. I don't know. 609 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,120 I don't know how it's going to be, but I do know this. 610 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,360 We talk about a great reunion and him listen, we get to take 611 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:55,000 the trip together. My son-in-law, 11 time we were 612 00:38:55,120 --> 00:39:01,240 going skiing and my son-in-law loves all the prep to get ready 613 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:03,080 to go on a trip, you know, getting the truck ready, getting 614 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,240 this ready. He said, man, this is the this 615 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:06,760 is the best part, best part. And I was thinking to myself 616 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,680 when he said that before he left my second man, if he thinks this 617 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,400 is the best part, he's going to be blown away by the ski trip. 618 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,080 Can you imagine the road trip together? 619 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:28,760 We're not only going to be together, we're going to go 620 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,520 together. So last Sunday when Chris LED 621 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,880 that song about what we're going to see, you know what the beauty 622 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,080 of that is? It's true. 623 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:45,880 But we're all going to see it together at his coming. 624 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:53,320 OK, That's Peter's sermon. What's next? 625 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:58,480 The results and the blessings that's coming next. 626 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:02,000 Stay tuned on that. We never know the hearts and 627 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,080 minds of those that are present. I don't know how it is with you 628 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:08,440 today. I talked about how important it 629 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:16,040 is for a Christian because death has no more sting to a 630 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:22,120 Christian. And it's all because God removed 631 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:30,280 or released Jesus from the pains of death when he raised him from 632 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,920 the dead. The spiritual application is it 633 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,080 opened the floodgates for man's salvation. 634 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,240 So if a person wants to go to heaven, they can. 635 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,400 Jesus says whoever will. In other words, if you'll come 636 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,120 to Jesus, you get to go. Isn't that great? 637 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,960 If you want to, and you will, you can. 638 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,400 Period. But this is what you got to do. 639 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,200 You got to hear the word of God. These are the steps to become a 640 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:00,960 child of God. Romans 10/17. 641 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,880 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. 642 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,600 After you hear the word of God, you got a choice. 643 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,000 You got to believe with all your heart. 644 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,920 Hebrews 11 and 6. Without faith it's impossible to 645 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,400 please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and 646 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,200 that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. 647 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,640 Do you believe in Jesus? Surely you do, Surely you do. 648 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,640 Then you're willing to just make a little change in your life in 649 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,800 your mind. First you got a repent of your 650 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,160 sins. I'm going in this direction. 651 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:30,880 I'm going to follow Jesus and go in that direction. 652 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,720 Acts 1730. Truly these times of ignorance 653 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:37,520 God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent. 654 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,200 Then what? I got to confess Jesus as the 655 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,120 Son of God. Acts 837 Then Philip said, if 656 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,720 you believe with all your heart you may. 657 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:49,160 And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the 658 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,560 Son of God. These points lead to salvation, 659 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,840 but the point of salvation is being baptized for the remission 660 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,920 of sins. Acts 238 Mark 16/16. 661 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,840 He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does 662 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,160 not believe will be condemned. And finally, first Peter 321 663 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,360 from the old King James. I like the way the old King 664 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,920 James renders this verse the light figure wherein the even 665 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,760 baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away the filth 666 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,320 of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God by 667 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,120 the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 668 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,480 If you've never become a Christian, we would love to 669 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,160 assist you in that. And these are the steps to 670 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,080 become one. Contact the blood of Jesus, rise 671 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,560 to walk in newness of life and be saved today. 672 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,520 Maybe you've taken these steps. Just maybe there's some 673 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,160 correction you need to make in your life, something of a public 674 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,040 nature. Maybe we can pray with you and 675 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,080 for you. Whatever be the case, let your 676 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,720 request be made known while we stand and while we see.