We're continuing our series on the Day the Kingdom Came, and
this morning's sermon is entitled.
Actually, it's Peter's Sermon Part 2.
But it's the story of Jesus and how fitting and appropriate it
is that we just sang that song, Victory in Jesus, because it's
all about what Jesus did. And in Peter's masterful sermon,
divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, preached another
masterpiece. In this section of that sermon
as an introductory text, I direct your attention to Acts
chapter 2, beginning in verse 22.
Peter says men of Israel hear these words.
Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you by
miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did through him in
your midst, as you yourselves also know him, being delivered
by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have
taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death whom
God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was
not possible that he should be held by it.
As an introduction, I'm going to be very brief summarizing what
we've studied. Jesus told the apostles to wait
in Jerusalem till they got endued with power from on high.
That's Acts 1. Acts chapter 2.
Power came in the form of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
It came to 12 men, it came to 12 apostles and it caused them to
be able to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
We studied in great detail last time.
These tongues were not gibberish.
It was not ecstatic Babble. It was actually normative
languages. You remember what they said?
What meaneth this? As the King James says, these
men are from Galilee and yet we hear them speak in our their own
language, the wonderful works of God.
What else? In our own language that we were
born and that word means dialects.
So they understood. But when they did that, there
was an interesting response. Their reaction was they were
perplexed as what could this mean?
And others said, oh, wait a minute, these guys are drunk.
And then Peter's response is twofold. 1 He appeals to their
logic. And #2 he appeals to prophecy
first. He appeals to logic.
He said these guys aren't drunk like you say they are.
It's only 9:00 in the morning, the third hour of the day.
And as we noticed, it's even customary for even in Scripture
for people to understand that those that get drunk get drunk
in the night. So it appeals to their logic.
And that kind of got their attention.
But then he says what you're seeing is the words of the
fulfillment of the prophet Joel. And that was last time.
That was our last sermon. Now we come to this one.
Beginning in verse 22, Peter now comes to the real theme of the
message, and that is the story of Jesus Christ.
It is the greatest story ever told.
It is the story about Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah that the
Jews rejected. And the first thing that Peter
calls him is Jesus of Nazareth. You know, we understand because
we are believers in God. We are believers in Jesus
Christ, and we know all about what the Scripture says
regarding who Jesus is. He's our Lord, He's our savior,
He's our mediator, He's our Redeemer.
He's our propitiation, fancy word meaning he paid our fine.
He's all that stuff. He's our king and we serve him.
We know that. So why the words Jesus of
Nazareth? He's so much more than that.
Interestingly, the phrase Jesus of Nazareth, he's called a
Nazarene because he was from Nazareth.
Do you remember? Even in the Garden of
Gethsemane, Jesus prays to his Father.
Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
Not my will, but your will be done.
Then with a determined resolve, he goes forward.
And here is this band of men. Here's these Roman soldiers.
Scholars tell us about 600 of them along with the temple
police and the mob. Right.
And out in front is the awful betrayer, that vile betrayer,
Judas. Jesus goes forward and Jesus
says first, who you're looking for?
I'm not getting into the story. We all know the story.
Just saying one thing. Who you looking for?
What did they say? We are looking for Jesus of
Nazareth. The reason they phrased it as
such is they didn't recognize Jesus from whom we recognize who
Jesus is. They were looking for a Galilean
Carpenter and his friends and they called him Jesus of
Nazareth because that's where he was from.
How about on the superscription? What about the title above the
head of Jesus that Pilate wrote? And by the way, it was written
in the three ancient languages of the time, Hebrew, Greek and
and Latin. You know why?
So everybody that walked by would look up and not only see
it, but they could read it and they could understand it.
Three ancient languages. What were the words?
Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross, and the writing
was Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
But you know that name will be declared as a source of power
and a source of authority from this point forward all the way
through history and even now. Here's the sermon.
Men of Israel hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth.
And then he says, a man attested by God to you by miracles,
wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as
you yourselves also know. You know what's amazing Here
Peter begins to speak undeniable facts about Jesus.
You know one scholar put it this way, undeniable facts about the
hated Nazarene. But you know what?
These are the same facts that are going to cause some about
3000 to be cut to the heart. You know, I got to thinking
about that. The Bible is filled with
undeniable facts about Jesus. And did you know that because I
believe in it and I do with all my heart and I am I, I am
absolutely certain I'm speaking to an audience of people that
believe it like I do. You believe in Jesus, The
undeniable facts about Jesus, right?
We get it. But did you know that because we
believe it doesn't make it true. If somebody doesn't believe it,
it doesn't make it not true. He's presenting undeniable
facts. What happened?
Some were cut to the heart and said later on, we're going to
get to in the next sermon, men and brethren, what shall we do?
And then the solution came, right?
But there was 3000 that did that.
And we look at that and say, man, 3000 souls, what an amazing
sermon. What an amazing gospel meeting.
I say this, scholars tell us there was over maybe a million
people there that day. So only 3000, OK, undeniable
facts 3000 were cut to the heart.
The majority was not. But it didn't change the truth.
It didn't change the truth. JW Mcgarvey says this, though in
one breath they're reminded of the wondrous miracles and signs
that Jesus wrought among them. They are charged with knowing
this is true. In other words, he says, man of
Israel hear these words about Jesus of Nazareth, all the
things it was facts and you know that it's true.
You know that it is. And then he continues on in the
next verse, his statement here, him being delivered by the
determined purpose and foreknowledge of God.
I got to stop and make a little point here.
OK, When the Jews delivered Jesus to the Romans to be
crucified, it was by the determined purpose and
foreknowledge of God. I'm going to get to the Jews
role in just a moment, but I want to make a point because I
was driving down the road and I was listening on the radio.
Sometimes I TuneIn this stuff and there was a big debate going
back and forth on who was responsible for crucifying Jesus
and somebody says, well, the Jews crucified Jesus and this
guy got on there. He called in, he was infuriated.
He was saying why blame it on the Jews?
I'm tired of people blaming it on the Jews.
It was the Romans that crucified Jesus.
Hold that thought. I'm going to make my point again
though. When the Jews delivered Jesus to
the Romans, it was by the determined purpose and
foreknowledge of God. It's according to the definite
plan that was orchestrated by God himself from the foundation
of the world, that Jesus would be God's Lamb.
John 316. We know that passage.
Everybody knows that passage. Sporting events hold up that
passage. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
So it was all by the determined purpose and for knowledge of
God. OK, let's get to the next
statement. I'm going to prove my point.
You have taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death.
OK, who's you? Who's he talking to earlier on?
It says in Jerusalem there that day, on the day of Pentecost,
there were Jews, devout men gathered there out of every
nation under heaven. So who's the you?
The you was the Jews. Little side point here.
Why did the Jews take Jesus to Pilate?
You might remember from a previous lesson, they did so
because they had to the right of the sword belonged only to Rome.
So the only way that you can lawfully execute somebody was to
go to Rome. They had to do it.
And by the way, incidentally, it also had to do that to fulfill
prophecy that Jesus would be lifted up on a cross and fulfill
what the Old Testament said and not a Jewish Stony.
We know all that. So why this then?
Why does it say you Jews have been taken by lawless hands?
What does that mean? Well, Bruce says it this way.
While the hands that carried out the grisly work of the
crucifixion were the hands of lawless men, that is to say the
Romans, why were they called lawless men?
Because they were outside the range of the law received by
Israel. They were outside of Jewish law.
The Jews were God's people. The Jews took Jesus to those
that were outside of God's people, and they were called
lawless men. Notice he further says.
Yet the instigators of the ACT were the Jews.
It was the chief priestly leaders of the people who
engineered his death. It was the Jerusalem mob, egged
on by those leaders who yelled crucify him.
But all who took part either directly or indirectly and
putting him to death were unconsciously fulfilling the
determined purpose and foreknowledge of of God.
Amazing God's plan. By the way.
Can I just slip this in? Doesn't that make you feel a
greater desire to serve God and follow Jesus when you realize
that the terrible acts that were done to him that God allowed,
not only did God allow it, it was by His divine purpose, His
foreknowledge, and He set it into motion.
How about that kind of makes you want to serve Him more?
But notice continues the thought in verse 24, whom God raised up,
having loosed the pains of death.
Now there's a sharp contrast between what man did to Jesus
and what God did for him. Now I want to notice, please,
there's a literal application and there is a spiritual
application. So notice this.
First of all, Zur brings up the physical aspect or the literal
application. He said this.
This statement here in this passage means that God released
his son who had been bound in a death that had been accompanied
by pain. That was literal, that was
actual, that was physical. Jesus died, but God loosed the
pains of death. Now remember, there's also a
spiritual application. But notice this phrase right
here. Because it was not possible that
he should be held by it. That doesn't mean any
impossibility on God's part, on Jesus's part.
The impossibility is on death's part.
Remember that song leads to saying death could not keep his
prey. Jesus my Savior, He tore the
bars away. You know why?
Because God was going to raise him up and loose the pains of
death and he did. So.
A big contrast between what man did to Jesus and what God did
for him, and not only for him, but all of mankind.
That's the literal application. What is the spiritual
application here? First of all, know this, when
Satan caused Jesus to be put to death, he sealed his fate.
Do you remember when Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper?
Do you remember when Jesus has that private conversation with
Judas Iscariot and Jesus says to him, after he said, one of you
will betray me? And then Jesus says, whatever
you're going to do, do it quickly.
Go do it. Go do it quickly, right?
And then it says Satan entered Judas.
It didn't mean he was demonically possessed.
It means he was listening to Satan.
So when Satan LED those men to not only betray Jesus, but to
crucify Jesus, the spiritual application of this passage is
this. It sealed the devil's fate.
Oh, but the very same act. It unleashed the power of God to
salvation. In other words, man crucified
Jesus, but then God used the pains of death.
And it was all by the determined purpose and for knowledge of
God. Twofold application, both
literally for Jesus and spiritually for all mankind.
And I'm so thankful. And by the way, that's the
reason. OK, may I just say something a
little comforting here? That's why we have hope.
Death has no more sting to the child of God.
To those that are in Christ, death has no more sting.
Why? Because of what Jesus did.
God raised him and loosed the pains of death.
It's truly the great mystery of all the ages, the hidden wisdom
of God. In all my life I've heard people
say when something bad happens to a good person, they say, why
in the world did God allow it? What is God's thought on that?
Blaming God, questioning God, all the stuff that I've heard
all my life well, you know what? If you want to question
something, why don't you question this?
You know why nobody questions this?
Because we get a great benefit from it.
We don't usually question stuff that we are the recipient or
beneficiary of something good. We just question when it's bad.
I got news for us all. As you know, it's still the same
God who's still in control. And look at what God did for all
mankind. Notice 1st Corinthians 2
beginning in verse 7. But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery. Interesting word, mystery.
Sometimes I've heard it interpreted well.
Mystery means plan. No, it doesn't.
It's talking about the plan of God.
It was always the plan of God. But the mystery, the word
mystery doesn't mean plan. The word mystery means mystery.
It means something that existed in the mind of God.
I know it's just semantics, but I want to say it.
It's something that existed in the mind of God but was not yet
revealed. It was God's plan.
What was God's plan? Notice the hidden wisdom of God
ordained before the ages of glory for our glory, which none
of the rulers of this age knew, for had they known, they would
have not crucified the Lord of glory.
It was always God's plan. It was the great mystery of the
world that was not made known yet.
Wow. OK, now we're going to fly
through the next few verses because you're going to refer to
Psalm 16, verses 8 through 11, and it's verses 25 through 28.
We'll just read this and we're going to move on.
For David says concerning him I foresaw the Lord always before
my face, for he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.
Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad.
Moreover, my flesh also will rest in hope.
For you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will you allow
your Holy One to see corruption. You have made known to me my
way, the ways of my, to me the ways of life.
You will make me full of joy in your presence.
Again. It's a direct quote from Psalm
16, verses 8 through 11. OK, here's the point.
David's speaking in first person, but he's not talking
about himself. Peter's going to show that the
Holy One who will not see corruption, I mean corruption
meaning the body decaying, right?
It can't be David. He's going to make that point
again. The whole story is about Jesus.
The thrust is to reveal Jesus and no one else as the promised
Messiah. OK, so he begins this in verse
29. He says men and brethren.
First of all, this is talking about kinship, brethren, meaning
Jewish brethren, not Christian brethren.
They weren't Christians yet. So he says men and brethren, we
know there was men there. I already said that about men
out of every nation under heaven.
Jews, OK, but he calls them brethren, showing a kinship with
them. And you know what?
Tell you something. I know the whole sermon is
divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, but this is brilliant.
Anytime you've got to make some real stern or serious points, it
is always wonderful to make a connection of some sort in some
way. But it's also the same kind of
phraseology when a coach would go to a player and try to
establish something positive. What he's doing here is he's
establishing kinship. In other words, he changed and
he's Jewish also. He says, men and brethren, what?
Let me speak freely to you. What does that phrase actually
mean? Well, Vincent says it means this
speaking everything and therefore without reserve.
In other words, Peter's saying, I'm going to give it all to you.
And the first subject, or the subject in particular, is about
the patriarch David. That's a very important subject.
David is a very important subject to a Jewish person.
Do you know why? Because King David was the
greatest king Israel ever knew in the Old Testament.
That's number one. Number two, the Jews also
understood. OK.
They also understood that it would be through the lineage of
David that somebody was going to rise and sit on David's throne
and rule Israel. That promise was given in the
Old Testament in Psalm 132 and 11.
The Lord has sworn in truth to David.
He will not turn from it. I will set upon your throne the
fruit of your body. They understood that.
Here's where they messed up, and here's where they had trouble.
They thought the Jews, they thought it was going to be an
earthly king. They thought it was going to be
a Kingdom of this world. They thought it was going to be
a messianic king Kingdom that was part of this world.
They all longed for that, to possibly even remove the
oppressive thumb of Rome. They missed the point.
The Kingdom of Jesus Christ, though, is what we're talking
about, and it is a spiritual Kingdom.
It is not of this world. Jesus even said himself, My
Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this
world, my servants would fight. Like Brent talked about the
other day. He talked about the very idea
when he was waiting on the table before the communion, and he
said that he could have called more than 12 legions of angels
and put a stop to the whole matter.
You know why? Because he had the authority to
do that. But he didn't do that because
his Kingdom was not of this world.
And you know, that very thought became a very major stumbling
block to the Jews. Then he says, Speaking of the
patriarch David, very specific here.
He's both dead and buried. And his tomb is with us to this
day. Here's an undeniable truth that
David cannot be the Holy 1. He cannot be the one that did
not see corruption. You know why?
Because David is dead. David is buried and the tomb is
still there. And by the way, I don't know how
many years before this David was dead and buried, but many, many
years. These words were written in AD
33, and I understand about the adjusted calendar of 8030 or 33.
I do believe it's 8033. That's a sermon for another
time. But let's just suffice it to say
this was written a whole lot of years later, right?
And Peter says the promised 1 of Psalms that did not see
corruption can't be David. Why?
Because David is dead, David is buried, and David's tomb is
still with us this day, 8033. We live in in 2025 and if the
Lord wills, we're going to see 26 in a few days if the Lord
wills, right? Do you know what when that
happens, David will still be dead, David will still be
buried, and David's tomb is somewhere so he can't be the one
that didn't see corruption. You get in the point.
The attention of the Jews now in this sermon should be off of
David and toward the correct Holy One in the book of Psalms.
Then in verse 30 he said, therefore, being a prophet, he's
talking about David. David being a prophet, he just
prophesied back in Psalm 132 and 11 about this very thing.
David the prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath
to him. The promise is that through the
fleshly lineage of David, Jesus would come.
You know, over a dozen times in the New Testament, Jesus is
referred to as the Son of David. Here's just three, Matthew 1 and
verse one, Matthew 12 and verse 23, Luke 18 and 20 and 38.
It was prophesied that from the fruit of his body, according to
the flesh would come the Savior would come, the Messiah.
Paul said the following two by the way, in Romans chapter 1 and
verse three he said concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord,
who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh.
Again, not trying to be redundant.
These verses are proving his point.
It's about Jesus now. Peter laid this foundation.
The main point of the entire discourse is the Holy 1 is not
David. Then who is it?
It has to be Jesus to reign in this new Kingdom and that comes
in verse 31 He would raise up or verse 30 he would raise up
Christ to sit on that throne. He's the one.
Verse 31, he foreseeing this spoke concerning the
resurrection of Christ. Now obviously David is speaking
by direct inspiration from God. He knew David knew the reference
was not to himself, but it was to the Christ that would come.
And I want to notice this right here.
This is very important. Remember where's David?
He's dead. He was buried and his sepulchre,
his tomb, his grave is still there.
What about the Holy 1 though that would not see corruption.
He David foreseeing bespoke concerned the resurrection of
Christ, that his Jesus soul was not left in Hades, nor did his
flesh see corruption. OK Hades.
Hades is defined by fear as the common receptacle of disembodied
spirits in the New Testament. It's also called paradise.
It's a place where Jesus went when he died.
It's a place where he took that dying thief, the dying thief
that said to Jesus, and by the way, please get this, this is
very important. Where do you go when you die?
Stay with me, Jesus said to this dying thief who said the
question or said the words, Lord, Remember Me when you come
into your Kingdom. Jesus says today you will be
with me in paradise. Paradise is where the save go
when they die. That's where Jesus went.
It's the same word as Hades. Let me ask you a question.
Where's David? Well, he's dead.
He was buried. His grave still here.
Where's David? David is in Hades or paradise,
where dead people go when they're saved.
By the way, can I just suggest something here too?
Sometimes the word paradise can refer to heaven.
But in this case, when Jesus said paradise, Luke 16 with the
rich man of Lazarus, it's talking about paradise.
That word is heydays. It's talking about the place
that you go when you're saved, awaiting the resurrection.
It is not heaven. So where's David?
David's still in paradise. What about Jesus though?
His soul was not left in Hades. So in other words, the physical
body goes to the ground. The Bible says the spirit, the
life force, goes back to God who gave it when you die.
But what else then? The soul goes somewhere.
The soul never dies. The saved go to paradise.
OK, David's still there in paradise.
Lazarus is still there in paradise.
All those that have died are still there in paradise that are
saved. Abraham is in paradise.
All those that are saved are redeemed.
Christians that are redeemed are in paradise.
Now here's my question. He was not left in Hades.
And the second thing, he didn't see his flesh, did not see
corruption. So I want to ask you a question.
Have you ever wondered about the significance of three days?
OK, we know about three days. What is the significance
scripturally about 3 days? When they came to Jesus in
Matthew chapter 12 and verse 40 and they wanted to know, they
said give us a sign, show us some kind of a magic trick that
you are who you are and all that stuff.
You know what he said? An evil and adulterous
generation seeks after a sign. Then he said, And the only sign
you're going to get is the sign of the prophet Jonah.
For as Jonah was 3 days and three nights in the belly of the
great fish, so also shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.
Significant. Jesus told his disciples, I'm
going to die, and three days after that I'm going to rise.
What is the significance of three days beyond scriptural
proof? What about the practicality of
that? We'll notice please, when a man
dies, his soul or inner man goes to the unseen or intermediate
realm and that's called Hades that we just noticed.
His body remains on the earth, but after three days it will
begin to decompose or see corruption.
This fact explains the words of Martha in John Chapter 11 and
verse 39. Remember, Jesus is going to
raise Lazarus from the dead. He goes there and he says take
away the stone. And Lazarus's sister Martha
says, oh, wait a minute, Lord, it's been 4 days and he's
already, there's already a stench.
That's what the new King James says.
The old King James says he already stinketh.
He's decomposing. Why it's been 4 days?
Because in three days that's exactly what happens.
Notice but this noted passage, Acts 231 means that the soul of
Jesus was not to remain in Hades long enough for his body that
had been placed in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea to start
decaying. This is why it was necessary for
Jesus to be raised from the dead after three days according to EM
Zur. OK then he says this.
In summary, he says this Jesus God raised up, of which we are
all witnesses. Jesus, a descendant of David,
now has been raised to be ruler over God's people.
I'm going to give you 2 Old Testament passages, Psalm 89.3
and four. I've made a covenant with my
chosen. I've sworn to my servant David
your seed. I will establish forever and
build up your throne to all generations.
One more passage, Second Samuel 712 and 13.
When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your Father's, I
will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body,
and I will establish His Kingdom.
He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the
throne of His Kingdom forever. Notice, in spite of this record,
there's a lot of people today that are still looking for Jesus
to come and establish a Kingdom. That's really sad.
Three things. Irrefutable facts about the
Kingdom. OK, the Kingdom was established
during the lifetime of the apostles promised in Mark
Chapter 9 and verse one fulfilled in Acts chapter 2 #2
What's the Kingdom? The Kingdom of Jesus on the
earth is His church that He promised to build in Matthew
1617 and 18. OK, who are those?
Who does that make up? Some club?
No, not a club you join up. What is the club?
No club. The church is made-up of those
who've been baptized for the remission of sins.
Acts 238 Baptized believers in Jesus Christ are members of the
Kingdom or the church that Jesus said that he would build.
OK, what else about Jesus? Verse 33.
Therefore, being exalted by the right hand of God.
Now Peter is answering not only an anticipated question about
where Jesus is, but by the phrase the right hand of God.
He's not just talking about a location.
In other words, this phrase means God raised Jesus and has
given him power and authority. OK, He's given him power and
authority to do what? Having received from the Father
the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this which you now
see and hear. So he's summing up the events on
Pentecost. They just witnessed it, the
great multitude. Here's the results.
It's the promise of what Jesus made to the apostles.
And that's what happened. Now, the last two verses of this
sermon for David did not ascend to the heavens.
Can I pause there, please? Did you see that?
And when I said David's not in heaven yet, I wasn't talking out
of school, folks. But trust me, if you stay with
me, it's going to get real good at the end, OK?
Just don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
It says David did not ascend into the heavens.
It's not there yet, but it's about Jesus.
And he says of himself, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right
hand till I make your enemies your footstool.
Now Sir says it this way. Coming back to David, Peter
reminds them again that the prophet had not ascended to
heaven and was therefore not at God's right hand.
That would explain that another noted prophecy could have not
meant David, for it says the Lord who was Christ was to sit
on the right hand of God until Christ had become a universal
conqueror. And this prediction is in Psalm
110 and verse one. That's the quote that we just
read in the previous verse. So how long is Jesus going to
reign as king on the throne at the right hand of God with all
authority and all power? How long is Jesus going to
reign? First Corinthians 15 beginning
in verse 24. Then comes the end when he
delivers the Kingdom to God the Father, when he puts an end to
all rule and authority and power.
For he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet,
and the last enemy that we should be destroyed is death.
OK. So are men still dying today?
Yeah, unfortunately, yeah. So as long as men are still
dying, Jesus is still reigning over the Kingdom.
I said David did not ascend to heaven.
So when will David finally get to go to heaven?
It didn't say when saved, didn't say he's paying a price in
purgatory. That's unscriptural.
I didn't say any of that. He's the place where the saved
go, awaiting something. When will David finally get to
heaven and when will the saved get to heaven?
Let's answer it with the Bible first Thessalonians 4, beginning
in verse 15. For this we say to you by the
word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are
asleep, and that means that have died, OK.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the Archangel, with the trumpet of
God, And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
OK? If people die and go straight to
heaven, why would he come back to bring us home?
Sister Sue don't want to embarrass Sister Sue.
She said something beautiful last Sunday.
We were talking and she said, you know, one day we're going to
all be there together. Amen and Amen.
I'm going to add something to it.
Not only are we going to all go and be together, we're going to
all go together. We're going to all go together.
When I didn't make this up when give you bobble on that for as
Adam all die Even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
That's talking about spiritually alive, but each one in his own
order. Christ the first fruits.
In other words, Jesus Christ is the first fruits, meaning he's
the first one to ever die raised from the dead, never to die
again. That's how he's the first
fruits. He's first.
What about the rest of us, but afterward, those who are Christ
when at his coming, I'm going to tell you something we talk about
and I don't know how it's going to be.
I don't I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know how it's going to be, but I do know this.
We talk about a great reunion and him listen, we get to take
the trip together. My son-in-law, 11 time we were
going skiing and my son-in-law loves all the prep to get ready
to go on a trip, you know, getting the truck ready, getting
this ready. He said, man, this is the this
is the best part, best part. And I was thinking to myself
when he said that before he left my second man, if he thinks this
is the best part, he's going to be blown away by the ski trip.
Can you imagine the road trip together?
We're not only going to be together, we're going to go
together. So last Sunday when Chris LED
that song about what we're going to see, you know what the beauty
of that is? It's true.
But we're all going to see it together at his coming.
OK, That's Peter's sermon. What's next?
The results and the blessings that's coming next.
Stay tuned on that. We never know the hearts and
minds of those that are present. I don't know how it is with you
today. I talked about how important it
is for a Christian because death has no more sting to a
Christian. And it's all because God removed
or released Jesus from the pains of death when he raised him from
the dead. The spiritual application is it
opened the floodgates for man's salvation.
So if a person wants to go to heaven, they can.
Jesus says whoever will. In other words, if you'll come
to Jesus, you get to go. Isn't that great?
If you want to, and you will, you can.
Period. But this is what you got to do.
You got to hear the word of God. These are the steps to become a
child of God. Romans 10/17.
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
After you hear the word of God, you got a choice.
You got to believe with all your heart.
Hebrews 11 and 6. Without faith it's impossible to
please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and
that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Do you believe in Jesus? Surely you do, Surely you do.
Then you're willing to just make a little change in your life in
your mind. First you got a repent of your
sins. I'm going in this direction.
I'm going to follow Jesus and go in that direction.
Acts 1730. Truly these times of ignorance
God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.
Then what? I got to confess Jesus as the
Son of God. Acts 837 Then Philip said, if
you believe with all your heart you may.
And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the
Son of God. These points lead to salvation,
but the point of salvation is being baptized for the remission
of sins. Acts 238 Mark 16/16.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does
not believe will be condemned. And finally, first Peter 321
from the old King James. I like the way the old King
James renders this verse the light figure wherein the even
baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away the filth
of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God by
the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
If you've never become a Christian, we would love to
assist you in that. And these are the steps to
become one. Contact the blood of Jesus, rise
to walk in newness of life and be saved today.
Maybe you've taken these steps. Just maybe there's some
correction you need to make in your life, something of a public
nature. Maybe we can pray with you and
for you. Whatever be the case, let your
request be made known while we stand and while we see.