Acts chapter 2. My friend had said before to
a Jehovah's Witness, he said, you're not a Jehovah's Witness.
He said, I'm Jehovah's Witness. And I want to get your attention
hopefully up front. I should say halfway through
in case it gets kind of warm in here or something. Long day.
I know everybody's up early and they worked hard all day as unto
the Lord. You gave it all you got. And
now you're here and it's a late evening. I'm gonna do my best
to be a Pentecostal preacher tonight. Stay with me. Stay with me. We'll see. I'll give you the
title of this. Amazed, Mocking, and Converted. That's the response to true Pentecostal
preaching. I don't know how prevalent it
is here. I don't care. I know what it was where I grew up.
I know because the people I grew up with. It's very prevalent
where I was raised was the denomination of Pentecostals. And boy, we
get mad at those, don't we? One of them's mad, worse than
the other. We find a denomination that we think is more heinous than another one. Don't
we? Isn't that shame? That's shame,
isn't it? There's a truth and there's a lie. That's it. Well,
this is a bigger lie. It's a lie. Well, this is more
poison. It's deadly. Isn't that true? That's so Whitman. For true Pentecostal
preaching, for what Peter preached here, and it's real short. We're gonna look at 41 verses
tonight. I'll do my best to make it go quick. But there's only
two verses of what we would call good gospel preaching. Should
we throw away the other 39? So should we critique Peter?
Get a hold of him after. Say, Peter, now come here, I
want to talk to you, son. You know, I think you've been teaching
us too much, and you need to harp on these things more, and
have more of these kind of messages. Would we be so bold as to correct
one of God's apostles? If there's true Pentecostal preaching,
there's four responses to it. There's four responses. People
are amazed. That's nifty. You'll see what
I mean here in a minute. They're amazed at it. But they don't
have understanding. They mock it. They make fun of
it. And that may not be as what we
think. Well, like so-and-so better.
That's mocking the one that just spoke. They're indifferent. Sleep through it or go, hmm,
that gives me really something to consider when I go home. It ain't important to them. All three of those are in one
category. And then there's people that are converted. They're turned. They are repented. God gets a
hold of them and he turns them from themselves and their understanding
and their knowledge and their experience and all the things
they went through in their whole life. And you know, I know what
I'm talking about. God be merciful to me, a sinner. Mercy. I pray everybody in this room's
a mercy beggar tonight, and I pray you're not indifferent. I pray
you don't mock this, and I pray you're not just simply amazed
at what's going on. Wow, that was neat, that happened.
I pray the Lord be with us, I do. Look here in Acts chapter two,
verse one. It says, in the day, and when
the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one
accord in one place. We're all in one place right
now. I pray we're of one accord. Why are we here? I need to be
fulfilled. No, I don't. God's name needs
glorified. If he's glorified, we'll be fulfilled,
won't we? Is that why we're here? They
were in one place of one accord and it was Pentecost. Pentecost
was fully come. I sent y'all a message from my
pastor from a long time ago, 40 years ago. You can listen
to it when you get home or tomorrow, when you have time, you can sit
down and pay attention to it. But there's some things he says in
that, if you pay real close attention, that's what I'm gonna say. And
you know why? Because the scriptures are the
scripture. It means what it means. And when
Peter quotes Joel, that's what Joel said. That's what it means
in that order. What is Pentecost? Well, this
day that come, this was something that the Lord gave back in Leviticus. And there was a setting apart
of the lamb for the Passover. And you had to watch every spot,
blemish, had to be without blemish at a certain age, and all these
things. And there was a lamb you picked, and you had this
lamb ready. And then that day of preparation
came. That was on Friday. He pulled that lamb over to the
side and he slew it and he prepared it, didn't he? And then he had
it ready. He had the Passover meal ready.
Well, then Saturday came about. That's the Sabbath for the Jews,
wasn't it? And that's when that Passover lamb was consumed. That's
when they ate it in haste with the lorns girded, ready to run.
And then there was the Feast of the Waving of the Sheaf or
the Feast of the Firstfruits was that Sunday. They'd bring
all the first fruits for the harvest. You get your first tomatoes,
and your first corn, and you bring it to God's house. And
what was that saying? Lord, everything comes from you.
Everything we have, the clothes I'm wearing, me, everything come
out of this world, come out of this dirt. We're gonna go back
to dirt, if you own it long enough. We're around long enough. We're
gonna see everything go back to dust. But Lord, you give everything. But what was that picturing?
It wasn't just like, well, we thank you. We owe you 10%. No! Christ was the first fruit. He's
our forerunner. He's the first fruit of the brethren.
That's what, do you see what happened now? It was a Friday
night. They hung him on a cross. They hurried up and buried him
so they didn't defile the Passover. He's the Passover lamb. He was
there all day on the Sabbath. And Sunday morning, what happened?
He rose. The first fruits. First fruits
from the grave, wasn't it? First one. There were some other
ones that were translated. He's the first one that ascended. That's him. And then, after that,
there were seven Sabbath days observed. Our Lord walked this
earth for 40 days after He arose, didn't He? But there were seven
Sabbath days observed, and then plus one day. They said the day
after that, that's the 50th day. You're gonna have another feast.
That's the feast of the harvest is done. They started bringing
in a harvest. They had the first fruits. They gave that to the Lord's
house. They said, but my house won't be without meat. First
fruit given. I hope we get that someday. It's
all his. But we bring that because we
just harvested. That's all that was on the tree that was ripe.
Well, now 50 days later, the whole harvest is done. And now
we have a feast and we thank him for the whole thing. Don't
we? There's joy. We'll see this at
the end. It's the 50th. That word Pentecost
means 50th. 50th, it's the 50th day. If we say, oh, it's seven, seven
times seven and seven, and this is what seven, I remember seven
there. You ain't happy yet. You ain't got to the joy. Oh,
40, 40. Now I remember, remember when I said 40 over here and
40 over there? And that's good. The Lord's God of order. He's
good at math. He invented it. If we don't get
to 50, we missed it. Pentecost. It means 50th. That's what the word means. Okay.
Now that's what it means. What do people think about Pentecost?
What is significant about it? What's the most important thing
about Pentecost? What do you think? What do I
think? What do people walking down the street think if you
bring up Pentecost? Well, some say it's the Holy
Ghost, isn't it? Well, that's when the Holy Ghost comes and
people have the Holy Ghost. Well, that's part of it. It sure
is, look here in verse two, Acts 2.2. And suddenly there came
a sound from heaven as a rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled
the house where they were sitting. It didn't say there is a mighty
wind, it said there was a sound, and it was like a rushing mighty
wind. What did the Lord tell Nicodemus? That spirit blows
where it lists us. Just like a wind blows, you can't
tell where it's coming from, you can't tell where it's going,
you can't stop it, you can't make it blow. He said, that's
the spirit. Here's the spirit coming to him.
And it rushed in there like a mighty wind, and it filled the house
where they were sitting. For true Pentecostal preaching,
well, it's another way of wording that, because I know that scares
a lot of people. For true gospel preaching, the spirit must be
there. Must be there. And we need to
be there when he's there. If not, the Spirit ain't there.
Maybe the Spirit used to be there, but the Spirit ain't there. I've
listened to some conference messages. They were blessed, and I talked
to some people who were there, and they said, boy, you should have been there. And
it's different. If you hear a message, and they
don't have to be a conference, but to be there, it's different
because the Spirit's there. True gospel preaching, the Spirit
must be with us. And that's what the scriptures
say too. If someone refuses me, they're not refusing me. It says
they've withstood the Spirit. He withstood the Spirit. That's
who's speaking, that's who's doing the work, isn't it? That's
amazing, isn't it? Isn't that amazing? The Lord would send His Spirit
as He promised He would. He said, if I go, I'll send the
comforter. And he said, y'all go down to Jerusalem, wait, I'll
send my spirit to you, and I'll send you in the whole world.
We'll give y'all something to do. Go out and spread my gospel. But I'll be with you, I'll send
my spirit with you. That's amazing, isn't it? But
that's not the main emphasis. That's not the main emphasis.
Some people think of Pentecostal preaching and Pentecost, and
they think of miracles and speaking in tongues. And those things
happened back then. Look here in verse three. And
there appeared unto them cloven tongues, that means divided tongues,
that means more than one, like as a fire. That didn't mean they
breathed fire. It was like a flame. And it sat
upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost
and began to speak with other tongues." That doesn't mean some
language nobody can understand and they jibber-jabber. This
is languages. We'll see this in verse 9 through
11. Languages represented there. They spoke, just like I'm speaking
to you, and if somebody only spoke Spanish, they would sit
there and they would hear every word in Spanish. If someone only
spoke French, I don't speak a lick of French at all. Not a word. They would hear in French. That's
what physically took place with this miracle, because they needed
signs and wonders in those times. The Lord gave them that, as the
Spirit gave them utterance. This was a miracle. These brethren
spoke, they witnessed, they told what good things the Lord had
done for them. They don't talk about their experiences solely,
and this is what we did, and we used to do this, and we used
to do that. We had this happen and we know so and so. They said,
we know God. He revealed himself to us. And
people in Hungarian or whatever, it was sitting there, they heard
it in their language. People of different languages understood
them. That's what happened then. And those apostolic gifts, they
were with the apostles. What happens nowadays? People,
this is a grace that's still given. There's people that speak
more than one language. If I go to another country to
preach and someone that speaks English and that language, they
stand up, I talk a few sentences and then they tell them people
in that language what it was they interpret. That's a gift of tongue, that's
a gift of languages. That's something the Lord does
now. This mockery of rolling around
and flailing around and jibber jabber, that's blasphemy and
it's a mockery towards God and it's not so. It's not significant. It's not
to be looked at. We now have those people that
can speak more than one language, and they'll interpret the gospel
messages, and they have the heart to do so. There's a lady who
had Brother Henry as her pastor, and her husband was a diplomat
to China, and she had to move to China. And she thought, you
know what? I want these people, she had
a heart for those people in China. And she goes, I want these people
to hear my pastor preach. I want them to hear him. And
so she translated some of Henry's messages to Chinese. And if you
ever go on Sermon Audio and you see a little red square with
yellow stars in it, that means it's in Chinese because somebody
translated it. They wanted them to hear their
pastor preach. They want to hear them. They
wanted them to hear Christ the same as they had heard Christ,
the same trumpet, the same jawbone. And so they did it. They translated
that. That's amazing, isn't it? That
was amazing then that the Lord gave that miracle. And that,
to me, that's amazing now. We don't have nobody here that
speaks Spanish. Why don't you learn? Why don't I learn? We ain't got
a piano player. Take lessons. We want a piano
player. Learn. Lord puts it in our heart
to do that, we will, won't we? I think that's amazing. But that's
not the main emphasis. It's amazing, but it's not the
main emphasis. Some think Pentecostal preaching is revival and the
saving of many. And boy, we want that to happen. And that did happen here down
in verse 41, 3,000 were saved. What do you think about Pentecost?
Well, that's the day that Peter preached and 3,000 people were
saved. And they baptized. And I thought, man, his left
arm must have Been wore out, right, he might be, maybe his
left hand is. That took some strength too, didn't it? To physically
do it. That's amazing. 3,000 people. I feel overwhelmed when I preached
to 30. And that's how many people that were converted. That wasn't
how many we preached to. We don't know how many was there. That's
amazing. But that's not the emphasis.
It's not the main emphasis. Look here in verse five. and
there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad,
the multitude came together, and were confounded, because
that every man heard them speak in his own language, and they
were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold,
are not all these which speak Galileans? And how here every
man in our own tongue, where we were born, our native tongue,
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and the dwellers of Mesopotamia and
Judah, Cappadocia, Pontius, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, and Egypt,
and the parts of Libya and Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, and Jews,
and proselytes, and Cretes, and Arabians. We do hear them speak
in our tongues." What was heard? How many people they had attended
and what things used to be like? The wonderful works of God. They were amazed and they marveled
that they heard what God had said and what he had done. They
ain't used to that. Did any of y'all ever go to a
church and hear somebody preach that talked about the wonderful
works of man? and the wonderful work of apostles, and the wonderful
work of people and things, and so-and-so's here with us today.
Boy, let me tell you what happened to them. They ain't never heard
nobody talk like this. They're telling what God did.
That's amazing, isn't it? Verse 12, and they were all amazed. Some are amazed. I've had this
happen to me. Some are amazed, and they marvel. that preachers can go through
the Old Testament and preach the gospel. Some are amazed and some marvel
that preachers can pick up this book and according to a systematic
theology, apply it to Old Testament. And I said, wow. He said what
that creed said, but he said it out of Jonah or pick one. I don't know. Some Old Testament.
Oh, he went through Genesis and did that. That's amazing that
he preached those things. There's a big difference between
being amazed at the wonderful works of God that are proclaimed
with ability and finding the works of God amazing. There's
a big difference. He tells us what God did, and
that's what it says here, and that's what it says there. That's amazing.
I talked to a believer the other day, and they said, you know,
whenever I first started coming in contact with the gospel, I
was like, wow, that is what that says. This fellow must know a
whole bunch. That's what that says. How did
he know it was here and over there? And in the Psalms, and
in Joel, and in Genesis, that's what it says. How many people
talk like that? How do you know? You know some
things, don't you? We're gonna look at it next week. Moses said,
Lord, I stutter. He said, who made the mouth?
He made the mouth. I can't speak Spanish. God made
Spanish. If he's pleased to make me speak
Spanish, I'll speak it right now. That's the wonderful works of
God. Now, do we find him amazing that does these works? That's
the thing. The Lord created the earth. There's
a whole mess people believe the Lord created the earth. They don't know him though. All
these things are amazing, but that's not the emphasis. Look
here in verse 12. And they were all amazed and
were in doubt, saying one to another, what meaneth this? I
see what's happening. I understand that they're talking
and I'm understanding it, but we don't know what this means.
They had some knowledge of what was going on, but they didn't
have understanding. They knew what was taking place,
but they didn't know why. They didn't know what this meant.
Many were there that were just awestruck at the miracles. Many
were there that were amazed and marveled at all these things
and the ability to preach and that it was happening and that
this was what the scriptures had said. I've encountered all these things.
Somebody told my wife one time, they said, I ain't going to your
church no more, because the Holy Ghost ain't there. She said,
OK. And they said, will you give
me a ride somewhere? She said, I'm busy. I got busy, too. That's
a horrendous insult. They don't even know what they're
saying. I've been told, too, that somebody told me, they said,
you're real strong in the scriptures. I mean, that's what it says. Write it down. Lord taught me
some things, but and then they won't hear anything else I have
to say. I'm amazed at some of those things.
These people had no understanding. They didn't know what it means.
Others saw these things. They had the same knowledge,
but they were not so amused. They were not so amazed. Look
here in verse 13. Others mocked. said, others mocking,
said, these men are full of new wine. They're just happy. They're
a little tipsy, that's all it is. They're drunk and they're
talking in another language. They probably used to date a
girl that spoke that language, that's why they're talking like that.
Did you know if you consume a lot of alcoholic beverages consistently
and learn how to play pool, you can't play pool when you're sober?
That's an acquired skill under the influence. And these guys
have said, well, they just learned that language and they're just
drunk. And as soon as they sober up, they won't remember half
of what they said. Mocking it, they're excusing it away by their
thoughts and their understanding. Well, Peter's going to preach.
Verse 14. Acts 2 verse 14. But Peter, standing
up with the eleven, lifted his voice and said unto them, Ye
men of Judea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known
unto you and hearken unto my words. Now listen to me. That's offensive. No, it's not. That's what Peter said, and I'm
gonna say it too. My pastor said, now pay attention to me. If I've
lost you up till now, start paying attention now, okay? You hearken
to me. For these are not drunken, as you suppose, and it's the
third hour of the day. It's 9 a.m. They ain't drunk. But this is
that which is spoken by the prophet Joel. We read that as our scripts
reading, Joel 2, 28 through 32. And it shall come to pass in
the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all
flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men
shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And all
my servants and all my handmaidens, I'll pour out in those days my
spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in heaven
above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor
of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness,
the moon into blood before that great and notable day of the
Lord come. And it shall come to pass that
whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Everything
that's taken place, everybody here that's got the Holy Ghost
has come to empower and they've been given these abilities. This
is just what Joel said is going to happen. and standing up preaching
and telling you what the scriptures say. This is preaching. We give
a sense of the text behind a pulpit. Don't be amazed at those things.
This is the opening of the service. He's declaring what's happening
according to the word of God. He's saying, don't focus on all
these things going on. This is according to the word
of the Lord. There's a box in the back right there by the entry.
It's got a whole board in the top of it. You know why? Because
this book says there's a box at the entry of the temple with
a whole board on top of it. So that's what we do. And everything
else we do here, the principles that we make decisions with, it's according to this word.
People don't like that. But what about this? What about
nothing? God says, so now hush and do
it. That's what I want to do. Paul gave us that. He said, let
all things be done decently and in order. Our God's a God of
order. Do it orderly, not haphazard.
Well, we'll just start whenever we get a chance to. What if he
just saved you? Well, I'll just pay for them
sins when I get around to it. That's important to him, isn't
it? That's how we make our decisions.
My brother Don said that in a book of his. He said, a pastor may
make error in judgment, but not in principle. He's gonna make
some decisions that just ain't right, but the principle behind
that guiding is right. Now the preaching. He said, we
started this service, y'all see what's going on, and everybody's
talking about that. Stop that. I'm gonna preach to
you now. That's just getting us in, those
things have to take place, right? They had a prayer meeting before
this public service. That's what we looked at last week. Now they're
in front of more than 3,000. There's 3,000 that believed.
We don't know how many did not believe, but there's a mess of
people there. He starts preaching, verse 22. You men of Israel,
hear these words. Hear what I got to tell you.
Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles
and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of
you, as you yourself also know. This is amazing. This is amazing. He's not just telling about what
God did and God created the earth and it's not evolution. He's
not just telling it to God as providence of. Tsunamis and everything
else and that God controls the tongue. The languages and the
physical tongue and the ability to do so. He said a man. A man, this man. This man, the person that's God,
the person that's the creator, the person that's controller
of all providence, omnipotent, and the person that is our salvation. That's how it starts. This is
the main emphasis. This is Pentecostal preaching.
This is gospel preaching. They saw a bunch of things and
now they're hearing about a man. They're hearing about a man.
Verse 23. Him, being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked
hands have crucified and slain." Ain't nothing out of the hand
of a sovereign God. God does everything as he wants
to. Thank something you ain't happy
with. That's exactly how God wanted that to go, because that's
how it went. He's on his throne, he's completely sovereign. And
you talk about hard preachers, these are the folks that strung
the Lord up. Peter's standing right in front of them. People
say, you saying, you saying I ain't doing this? And you saying I
ain't doing that? No, that's way worse than that. I think
I tell people, you ought to dress right and show up on time to
God's worship service, shouldn't you? What's that? He said, your
wicked hands slew him. You killed God, you put him up
on that cross. You did it. Whoa. God came in human flesh and you
hated him so bad you said, kill him and give us Barabbas. Strong
message, isn't it? You've crucified and you've slain
him. Whom God hath raised up. That wasn't the end of it. God
came as a man. The Godhead was manifest in a
body on this earth, born of a woman, born of the law, just like me.
as our representative, our head. And he lived this life for us,
honoring the Father in all things, fulfilling all that law. And
mankind came in contact with him and they said, we won't have
this man reign over us, kill him. The natural mind is war
against God. And they said, kill him. and
he willingly laid down his life. He gave up the ghost. We just
got through looking at that in John. He gave up the ghost. Man, that take his life. He laid
it down. Whom God hath raised up. He didn't
just die. All the other prophets that you
can list are in a grave somewhere. Muhammad's in that big square
box over there in the Middle East. Buddha's over there. in a really big grave over in
Asia. This one's risen. God raised
him because he was satisfied with the sacrifice. Having loosed
the pains of death because it was not possible that he should
be holding of it. He can't die. There's a sovereign
God, more than you've ever been told about. Well, God does some
things. We let him do this sometimes.
Nobody's ever heard nothing like this. the wickedness of being
born of Adam. That's all that runs through
our veins. And we might've been in a church
and we made our own Bibles, but we hated God and we wanted his
glory. Nobody's ever been told anything like that. He's risen. That means he's victorious. The
work is finished. There ain't nothing you're gonna
add to it. Well, we got to co-effort, we got to participate in sanctification.
His name is Jehovah M. Kadesh, the Lord that sanctifies
you. You gonna take his name from him? People ain't heard
stuff like that. He's a savior you've never heard
of. You're not saved by what you
believe and what you heard. You're saved by whom you've heard.
Turn over Romans 10. We can quote this, but I want
us to read it. Just a few pages over, Romans 10. I want to say this as plainly
as I can. Calvinism has never saved a sinner. Christ is the
one that saves sinners. A systematic theology has never
saved nobody. A creed has never saved nobody.
A preacher has never saved nobody. Christ is the one that saves
people. He's the one that saves sinners. Romans 10 verse 13. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now wait a second, that's
what Joel said. Wait a second, that's what Peter
said. That's what John said. Wait, hold on now. That's what
every God-sent preacher says. Whosoever, call upon the name
of the Lord, shall be safe. Come to Him. Verse 21, and it
shall, I'm sorry, we read that in Acts chapter 2, 21. It shall
come to pass, whosoever shall call on him shall be saved. Verse
14, Romans 10, 14. How then shall they call on him
and who they've not believed? And how shall they believe in
him of whom they have not heard? If no one ever stood up on their
hind two legs into your ears and told you about this God that's
sovereign like you ain't never seen, about man that sinned like
this, buddy, that's bad. This ain't, we got some sins.
I won't go hide underneath a rock. God's right to kill me. I didn't
believe on his son. I was at war with him. And whosoever
believes on his name, how can you believe on him if you ain't
never been preached to? If nobody said, listen to what I got to
tell you and you ain't heard in your ears, You can't believe
on somebody you ain't never heard of. How shall they believe on him
of whom they've not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? As
it's written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach
the gospel of peace and bring the glad tidings of good things. that they've not all obeyed the
gospel. Everybody there heard this, but not all of them believed.
They've not all believed the gospel. For Isaiah said, Lord,
who hath believed our report? That fellow went to Burma and
was a missionary and preached for seven years and didn't have
one convert. And they begged him. Oh, buddy,
come home. Nobody's listening to a word
you're saying. Nobody cares. They're indifferent or they mock
you. Or they said, wow, it's amazing, nifty. Maybe we'll see
you next week. And they said, go home. And he
said, God sent me here to plant. You'll hear it in that message.
I've heard it my whole life, 50 times. God sent me here to
plow and to plant and to water, harvesting his business. This
is for God's glory. The results don't matter. This
truth's going out, and if ain't a one heart broken here tonight,
it don't matter. It's the truth, and he's glorified
in it, and that's all that matters. But I don't like that, Kevin.
It doesn't matter if you like it. It matters if God approves
of it. I gotta give account to him,
not you. I pray you'll rejoice in it.
I do, I thought it was wonderful. So then faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God. He's got to speak it. But this
is the means he chose. That's foolish. That's what they
said. That's what they said. Back in our text, I'll do my
best to hurry. Verse 25, Acts 2 25. He brought
up Joel before they started. He said, everything that's going
on in this church service is just fine. Now you just pay attention
to the preaching. Now he's going to quote David. Acts 225, for
David speaketh concerning him, him who? The gospel, Christ,
our good news, whom I believed. I foresaw the Lord always before
my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
Therefore did my heart rejoice, my tongue was glad, moreover
also my flesh shall rest in hope, because thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life. Thou shalt make
me full of joy with thy countenance. That's what David said. Now Peter's
talking to him. He says, let me just speak to
you plainly. Men and brethren, let me tell you what this means.
Let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that
he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us in this
day. David was saying these things, but David's in a grave over there.
Our Lord's risen. Therefore, being a prophet, David
was prophesying. He was telling you what was going
to come to pass. And knowing that God had sworn with an oath
to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh,
he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. He seeing this
before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was
not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This
Jesus hath God raised up. Wherefore, we are all witnesses.
I don't think this. This ain't just a creed that
I chose to align myself with. I believe it because I saw it. We're witnesses. We can just
tell you what we saw. I can't tell you about the ocean
if I ain't never been to an ocean. I've been to an ocean. I can
tell you what it looks like. I've seen it. We've seen Him. He's revealed
Himself to us. Therefore, being by the right
hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise
of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth This, which ye now see
and hear." This is what David was talking about. For David's
not ascending to the heavens. But he saith himself, the Lord
said unto my Lord, saith thou in my right hand. Remember what
the Lord asked the Pharisees that? He said, what was David talking
about? If he's his offspring, how can he be his Lord? They
couldn't enter into that. They said, well, he's born a man,
but his is God. You get that. David got it. Lord revealed that to us. He
sent his spirit for us to understand those things. Ain't talking about
himself. He's talking about his Lord. You know what that means? We
know what that means. This is a man born of the house of David.
He's God. I'll tell you what, we'll either
be at his feet while we're in this earth or we'll be under
his feet and judgment. Be one of the two. He's waiting,
he's seated, because the work's done on his throne until thy
foes are made his footstool. They'll be underneath his feet.
Verse 36. Therefore let all the house of
Israel know assuredly, let all the Lord's people. Believer,
hear this, that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have
crucified both Lord and Christ. We crucified him. Why was he
on that cross? Because of me. I rightfully earned
to be on that cross. I rightfully earned to have God
turn his back on me and forsake me. And for me, that'd be eternity
because my blood ain't worth nothing. And because he wanted
to, because he loved me with an everlasting love, and he put
me in his son, I was on that cross, and I bore all the wrath,
and I've been made the righteousness of God in him because he bore
it. There'll be others that say,
I didn't do that. I ain't that bad. That's what Paul talks about
on that Lord's table. He said, that blood's on you.
That's what them people cried. Let his blood be on us. It will
be. Verse 37, now when they heard,
this is in italics. Who? The ones that had ears to
hear. How does that make you feel? Makes me feel like we're 36 minutes
in. Almost done. When they heard, how do we hear?
Break your heart? They were pricked in their heart.
And they said unto Peter and to the rest of Paul's myth and
brethren, what shall we do? It ain't just we broke the law. We didn't believe on God. He's
holy. He's going to punish sin. What's
our hope? What shall we do? That's conviction.
Is that amazement? Wow, that's really neat. That's
interesting you said that. It gives me something to chew
on. Was that mocking? Ah, he's just fooling around. He's just
saying what them other fellas said. Is that being unmoved? Sleep through it. Sleep on, old
slugger. Or is that convicted? Is that
being pricked in the heart? Is that your heart? He sent forth
his word and he melted them. Don't that melt you? That's me. That's my savior. Don't you see? That's who he
is. He's revealed himself to us.
He didn't have to do that. He wanted to. What are we going to do? What
shall we do? Verse 38, Peter said to them, repent. Turn from
yourself and your ways and your experiences and all the things
you're used to doing and the way mommy and daddy did it. And
your thoughts about how everything is. And well, I think this, and
what's the other heresies? Turn from those things and your
idols. and be baptized. Turn to God. Be baptized every
one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins
and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. What's our
inheritance, our down payment? Because we see him. He testifies. If he comes, he'll testify of
me. That's what the Lord told. For the promise is unto you and
to your children and to all that are far off, even as many as
the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did
he testify and exhort, saying, save yourselves from this untoward
generation. Everything you're doing right
now is a bunch of hogwash. You don't see it, but I do. Turn
to Christ now, bow to him. Then, verse 41, everybody, I
know what it says, then they that gladly received His word
were baptized. And the same day, they were added
unto them about 3,000 souls. They received it. Like I told
you before, how does this glass receive water? Well, I put it
in there and it's there. It doesn't say, well, here's
a gift. You say, I don't want this gift. You take it back.
You got a return policy. Receive spankings. My dad said,
I'm going to spank you. I said, well, maybe next week.
I'll reschedule you. No, I received it. I got it.
Live, dry bones. As many as received it, they
were glad. They gladly received it. They're baptized. What'd
the Lord say? He wasn't messing around. He
said, if you won't confess me before men, I won't confess you
before my father. And so it, we're baptizing him 2,000 years
ago. There's water, be baptized. That's Pentecostal preaching.
A holy, sovereign God that won't sweep sin underneath the rug.
a depraved dunghill of a sinful people. Christ laying down his
life willingly for us, the noun, the feminine noun, sin. And that
was all our fault. And that proud, self-righteous,
intelligent people being turned to beg for mercy and finding
mercy. All that pride and all that uniforms
and medals and everything they've had and those generals. Get down
that river and go wash yourself seven times. I ain't doing that. Being stripped of everything
we think is us, begging for mercy and finding mercy. Pentecost. What'd I say the word meant?
50th. You can go read Leviticus 25 in your own time. That's the
year of Jubilee. the 50th year, instead of seven
days, seven days worth of Sabbaths, it was seven years worth of Sabbaths. And then what was Jubilee? The
horns were blowing. Freedom, happiness, joy unimaginable. All the debts gone, all the problems
are resolved. This is called good news. I don't think it's recorded that
ever took place. All the debts were wiped off. Well, we'll just
keep this other set of books. Jubilee. That's what that is,
a Pentecost. Are we simply amazed at those
things? That's neat. Hmm. Are we mocking of those
things? Are we indifferent of those things?
Or are we converted, restored and happy? I pray we're that
way. Let's go to him in prayer. Father, we ask you with our leaders
of this nation, leaders around this world, the kings and the
prime ministers and whatever title they have, that we live
a peaceable life and we can continue to meet our brethren around this
world as you see fit, Lord. But most of all, send your spirit.
Send your spirit, send a revival to this county, to this state,
to this nation. We'll call out your people. Raise
up laborers in the harvest. Give young men that's strong
and diligent and eager to serve to spread this gospel. Lord,
it's got tough backs to handle the work and to take the mocking
and to take the indifference. or call your people as you promised
you will. Those that shall be saved, so
that last one is, and we go home. We see our Redeemer coming. Lord,
till the day we're made like Him, forgive us and keep us as
you promised you will. And it's because of Christ. Amen.