Acts chapter 2. I want you to notice
first in verse 1, it says, On the day of Pentecost was fully
come, they were all with one accord in one place. One heart, one mind, one purpose,
one desire. to worship God. The apostles,
the believers, they were together. That's why they met. No other
reason. Then the next to last verse,
verse 46, says they continued. There are a lot more people now.
But they continued daily with one accord. They were together. They were together. One mind, one heart. one spirit,
love for Christ and each other, worshiping God. And I thought,
if we meet together with this same attitude and with one accord,
the Spirit of God will come upon us too. Yes, He will. Now, here's our text, verses
37 and 38. After Peter preached, it says,
when the people heard his message, they were pricked in their heart,
convicted, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles,
Men and brethren, what shall we do? And Peter said unto them, Repent
and 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, for the promise is unto you and to your children
and 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. I remember my pastor preached
a message years ago on what can a sinner do. You remember preaching
that? What can a sinner do? We preach salvations of the Lord,
don't we? But we're passive in salvation. It's true. He does it all. He
makes us repent. He gives us a new heart. He regenerates. He gives life. He gives faith.
He causes us to call on Him. He causes us to come to Christ. He gives us faith to believe
the gospel. He works in us to will and do His good pleasure.
It's true. But the Lord said, believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Believe. He said, except ye repent. Christ
said this to His disciples. Except you repent. Weren't they
already saved? Well, yes and no. They weren't in heaven yet, were
they? Except you repent, you'll perish. The Lord said, ask, seek,
didn't it? Knock, didn't it? Whosoever shall
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. If they don't,
they won't. Is that right? That's what the
Lord said. The Lord said to his disciples,
go into all the world and preach the gospel. And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. If they don't believe, they won't
be saved. If they don't confess Christ,
they won't be saved. Isn't that what he said? So here
he says to Peter, after the message, says to every one of them, and
he says it to every one of us, every one of you, repent and
be baptized. Every one of you, in the name
of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sin. Your sin is to be pardoned,
and you will receive the Holy Ghost, he said. Now, verse 14,
go back there. Peter and eleven apostles were
preaching. Not at the same time, but there
were a lot of people here. This went on a long time, several
days. And all of them preached. Remember,
it says, all of them heard them preach the wonderful works of
God in their own tongue. Bartholomew preached in Persian
or whatever their languages were. They preached in these different
languages. But Peter was a chief apostle, and he stood up with
the eleven, and he said in verse 14, You men of Judea and all
that dwell at Jerusalem, hearken to my words. Listen to me. Now, faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the Word of God. And I know you all have heard
me many times, you and your children, and I'm sorry that it's me, but
I've been put in this position, and this is my job, so I'm doing
it. But faith cometh by hearing. How shall they hear without a
preacher? The foolishness the world calls preaching. This is
what God uses. He says, hearken unto me, and
you all have heard me preach many times, and your children
have heard me, and you've heard many other men, at least eleven
more, haven't you? And we're all preaching the same
thing. Preach Christ. Preach what Peter preached. Who?
All right? Verses 19 and 20, and he said,
well, he said, He said, these men aren't drunk. You know, you've
heard preachers, you've heard me get carried away. And we have,
haven't we? Get excited, raise our voices
and get carried away. Brother Don Bell, in particular,
and other men get excited. Preachers, when I was a kid,
man, as Donnie would say, they set the woods on fire. Well,
they set hearts on fire, too. And the Lord used that. But they're not drunk. They're
not like this Pentecostalism holding this stuff that goes
on today, rolling around on the floor. All they were doing was
just preaching the Word with authority, with zeal, with enthusiasm,
with conviction, you know, as the oracles of God. Adamant. This is it. Believe it. And they're not drunk. And these are the last days,
Peter said. These are the last days. The message is not new. It's old-fashioned. It's out
of date, but it's still the same message, isn't it? These are
the last days. And people aren't talking about
that anymore. But these are the last days ever
since Christ came. This is the very last day. And
Christ is at the door. The door of the ark is just about
to close. And that's why this is so serious. And he talked about, well, Joel
is the one who the Lord used to write about the handmaidens
and young men seeing visions and prophesying and dreams and
so forth. And what does that mean? What
does all that mean? Well, it's the same thing happens today. Young men are converting to hear
the gospel, and the Lord raises them up to preach the gospel. You're looking at one, a wild
ass's coat, whom the Lord used, a prodigal son whom the Lord
convicted of his sin and raised him up to preach the gospel.
Nobody would have ever believed it. See visions? Yeah, Christ. See
Him clearly like no less than Stephen who said, I see the Son
of God standing at the right hand of God. You're seeing things, young man.
No, I see clearly. You're not seeing clearly. And
your daughters prophesy? Do our daughters preach in the
pulpit? No, that's forbidden, isn't it? Scripture plainly says
that. But do our women grow up to be good witnesses and prophesy? I mean, just declare. Declare
things. And every one of you women are
preaching and talking and witnessing to everybody you come into contact
with. Like Anna, the prophetess, she
was around the temple all the time. Was she up in the pulpit
preaching? No. That's forbidden. What was she
doing? Anybody who wanted to hear the
gospel, she was talking to them about it. on the side. God raised up men to do that.
You know that, sir. Everybody who's heard the truth,
heard the gospel, fall in love with Christ, they're zealous
for the truth and zealous for others to hear it. Men and women,
young men and young girls fall in love with the Lord Jesus Christ.
They're like a young girl talking about her husband. But the wife, the bride of Christ,
talks about Christ. That's how you know Him. And He talked about all these
signs in the heavens. Well, the heavens declare His
glory, don't they? The firmament showeth His handiwork.
Day unto day others' speech. Don't men see this? The wrath
of God revealed from heaven. Earthquake. God dumped a ton
of snow on a place. Why? God did that. Open up the
earth and swallow them up like they did so many before. Who
did that? God did that. Plagues. Stink bugs. The Egyptians and all these flies
in their house. Oh sure, it was a bad year for
flies. God did that. Oh, you don't believe that, do
you? The Egyptians didn't. They're too smart. They're too
educated. They don't even believe there
is a God. Every Jew did, and they knew
who did this. They knew why these things were
happening. God's doing this. Can't you see? No. They're blind. But God opens the eyes of his
people to see. Fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. Our Creator, we sinned against him. And the wrath of
God is revealed from heaven. What are we going to do? And Peter quoted Joel, who said,
Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. And he went on to quote the rest
of it. Truth preachers quote it all, don't they, John? Who?
As many as the Lord our God shall call. That's who's going to call.
But he did say call, didn't he? Peter stood up and said, Call.
If you don't call, you won't be saved. What does that mean?
What do you mean, what does that mean? You know what that means.
If you're out in a an ocean, you're drowning, what are you
going to do? Somebody has to say, now, repeat
after me. Lord, help me. Have you called? Do you call? This is not a one-time
thing. This is a constant thing. God's
people are going to be calling till the day they die. They're
going to be repenting till the day they die. Repent. is an ongoing thing. He didn't
say, have you repented? He said, repent. Whosoever shall
call, God, be merciful to me, the sinner. Have you called?
Do you call? Lord, save me or I perish. Lord,
save me from wrath. Lord, save me from my sin. Lord,
save me from this world. Lord, save me from the God of
this world who has me captive. Lord, save me. There's only one
that can save. Lord, save me. Shortest prayer
in the Bible, Lord, save me. Many in here have, many in here
do, many in here continue to do, but whosoever shall call,
and here's a good news, shall be saved, not might be, not hope
to be, shall be saved. The Lord doesn't, He heareth
them that call. He said before they call, I'll
hear them. And that seat down in verse 40,
he says, save yourselves from this untoward generation. What
does that mean? Call. Lord, this world has hold
of me. Save me. My sins, I can't get
rid of. Save me. Help me. Like Bartimaeus. And we sang
that song. Pass me not. Like Bartimaeus,
he heard the Lord was passing by. What did he do? Wait for
the Lord to come to him? If he'd have waited, he'd be
blind to the day he died, wouldn't he? Bartimaeus, he heard the
Lord was passing by. What did he do? Jesus, thou son
of David, have mercy on me. What did the Lord do? Stop. He said, bring him to me. He brought him here. He wouldn't have been saved if
he didn't call. Verse 22, you men of Israel hear
these words, Jesus of Nazareth, the man approved of God among
you by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him in
the midst of you, as you yourselves also know. There's not a person
in here, young or old, who has not heard of Jesus Christ. There's
not a person on this planet who has not heard of Jesus Christ.
Who was he? They can't deny his works. They cannot deny his words. They
cannot do away with. They're everywhere. God will
not allow his words to perish. Not one of his words will perish. Men are still, 2,000 years later
after that man lived and died, they're still preaching him.
But you must believe this man. They're preaching him. His works, his words, who is
this? Why can't we get rid of this
man? Why are preachers so adamant that if you don't believe and
trust this man, don't call on this man, you'll perish forever?
Why? Because he's not just a man. God was manifest in the flesh.
The One who created this planet, the One who right now has your
breath in His hands and determines whether or not you're going to
breathe the next time. Why are you getting excited,
preacher? Because this is so. It's that
urgent. Whose service shall call? And
there's no promise of tomorrow. Well, I'll call tomorrow when
I get ready. Oh, no, you won't. If I didn't preach with urgency, get you another preacher. You reckon Noah? Noah didn't
know when the rain was going to fall, did he? He had no idea. God didn't tell him on such and
such day the door was going to close. He didn't know, did he?
So every day, Shem, Ham, Japheth. And I preached to the same people.
Noah pretty much preached to the same people, his family.
He wanted them in the ark. I want your sons and daughters
in the ark, in Christ. If they don't repent, they'll
perish. They don't call on the name of the Lord, they'll perish.
And we can't do it for them. And Peter says, save yourself,
call. He said, you know, you've heard, you've heard about him.
And God did prove who he was. God proved who he was. He was
declared to be the Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness
and by the resurrection of the dead. No matter how men try to
disprove this or ignore it, they can't ignore it that the whole
people all over the world are saying that that man walked out
of the grave. Would you believe someone if
they rose from the dead? No. Our Lord said they wouldn't. But you will if the Lord reveals
himself to you. It's all Saul. It's me. Oh, and that's what I pray for.
We can't ignore him, though. Can't ignore him. And down in
verse 23, he says he was delivered, he was sent by God, a determinate
counsel, a covenant before the world began. God, his elect,
Christ, his elect, sent him into this world. Oh, I'm going to
quote it. This is a faithful saying. Christ
came into the world to save sinners. Well, you know, that's of everybody,
but everybody doesn't know it. He's going to show us all these
people that they are. Christ came for his own. I hope
you're one of them. I hope I'm one of them. You'll
call. You'll find out. Isn't that what
he said? Call and you'll find out. It's
the only way you'll know is if you call, if he hears you. Him being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God. God delivered Him up for
us all, His people, all His people. Spared not His own Son, but delivered
Him up as a sin-bearer, as a sin-offering, as a burn-offering, as a Lamb
of God. Behold, the Lamb of God. By the
foreknowledge of God, and He said in verse 23, Preach, you
have taken wicked hands and crucified and slain Him. How does this apply to us? You
and me? Well, to ignore somebody is to pretty much to crucify. To ignore somebody and not have
anything to do with somebody, especially if it's somebody that's
good to you, kind to you, that does everything for you. And our Lord said, I've fed you,
I've clothed you, I've done all these things, though you didn't
know me. Like Gomer, you know, she thought her lovers did it.
God gave her all this thing. Oh, no. And our God has done all these
things for us. I, as a young man, pay no attention
to Jesus Christ. And to ignore Him is to say in
so many words, I don't care if he lived or died. I don't care. Don't acknowledge him. The God
in whose hands our breath is. Think about that. The God in
whose hands our breath is. We stop our life the next minute.
The God who gives us all things, life, bread, food, so kind to
us, so merciful, protects us. If he would open the heavens
and show us every point in our life how He spared us, kept us from being destroyed. If we leave this world without
repenting and confessing Christ, we'll be destroyed. And all these
times He spared me. He spared me. I look back and
at times I've tried to kill myself, not literally, but And all these things I got into,
the Lord spared me. And I didn't give Him a thought. I didn't give Him a thought.
Didn't care. Never thanked Him. Never thanked
Him. And now I find it hard to go
a day without thanking Him. And I get ashamed if I go six
hours without thanking Him. And I feel shame if I start complaining. We crucified Him alright. I crucified
Him. Yes, I did. Oh my, you with wicked
hands, ungrateful, have crucified the Lord of glory and slain Him.
And God raised Him up. He went on to say that God raised
Him up. Go down in verse 32. This Jesus
that God raised up, we're all witnesses. He's by the right
hand of God, exalted, reigning and ruling. I don't see Him,
preacher. It doesn't matter, really, what you think. It matters to you. It matters
to your salvation. It matters concerning you. But it doesn't change the fact
that though you can't see Him, He's there. He's there. Right
now. Right now. It doesn't matter
if this whole world says, it ain't nothing to it. Christ reveals
Himself to His people. Oh yes, I am. I am. Not I was. I am. I am. And He's exalted. He's Lord. He's Christ. He's
over us. Every one of us. He's our Lord. You don't make
Him Lord. He is our Lord. You don't let Him be Lord. He
is your Lord. Maybe. Hopefully. He'll let us
know it. And cause our knee to bow and
our tongue to confess. Because everyone will. Oh my. And I hope I'm not preaching.
I hope I'm preaching the truth in love. I am. I believe I am. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't
preach this. I'd tell you what you want to
hear. I'd tickle your ears and scratch your back. It wouldn't
cause any waves. He's at the right hand of God,
exalted. And Peter went on to say, let
all the house of Israel, verse 36, let everybody know assuredly,
there's no doubt about this, God hath made this same Jesus
whom you crucified, whom you rejected and despised. He's Lord
and He's Christ. He's reigning and ruling over
all, over you, over me, over everything. Everything's in His
hands. Your future, your soul, your heart, your mind, your whoever,
your husband, your wife, your future husband, your future wife,
your children, everything about you, everything in this world
and worlds to come, He holds it in His hands. And He's the only Christ. He's
the only hope. He's the only help. He's the
only way to escape destruction. No one preached the destruction
of this world more than Jesus Christ. The only way to escape, the only
way to God, God is. Yes, God is love. But outside
of Christ, He's a consuming fire. If you don't love Christ, God
doesn't love you. The only truth, everything else
is a lie. All other religions are lies.
All this religion that's telling you, God wants you and loves
you and needs you and accepts His Son, He's made for you, that's
a lie. That's a lie. Or else He wouldn't
tell us to repent. You don't hear preachers telling
people to repent, do you? Why should you? God loves you.
You just need to forgive yourself, they say. Oh, no. Oh, no. That's not God. And that's a
lie. The only truth, all else is a
lie, only life. He that hath the Son hath life.
We can go all our lives and accumulate all this and have all things
that this life has to offer, and if we miss Christ, we'll
die in our sins and lose everything. But he that hath the Son hath
life. He that hath Christ can lose
everything. Brother Charles laid in the bed
for two years. He had life. He lost all the enjoyments and
happiness that things we think make us happy, but he laid in
that bed with a smile on his face. You think you could do
that? Not if Christ is not in you, you can't. But if Christ
is in you, you will. Mark the perfect man. Into that
man is peace. He can lay on his deathbed. He doesn't want to leave his
family. He doesn't want to leave people he loves. They don't want
him to leave. But he can lay on his deathbed facing death,
facing eternity and say, if I go or if I stay, it'll be all right,
won't it? I'm standing on the rock. If
I stay, it's for you. If I go, it's gain. Lord, take
me. Lord, just leave me. It doesn't
matter. I have Christ. Can you say that? He that hath son, hath life. Marriage. He that hath son, hath
life. Ask him, Lord, marry me. I'm
not in love with you. I hope you're in love with me.
Marry me. To that the servant shall call. Well, they all were pricked in
their hearts. I'd like to see one. We don't
need 3,000. I'd like to see one. Pricked
in their heart. Men, women, and children. The
church in Orlando has been going through the blessings of the
Lord. And some others, too. You know
the Dunbar family, don't you? Bert and Jennifer Dunbar have
been here many times. Long-time members of the church
down there. They have two sons and two daughters. Logan who married Emily way she
and just a wonderful couple or say Logan and Emily Logan during
the Marine Corps member he's out. Well Lord the other day
the Lord before that saved Rachel and starts a Leah Rachel and
Olivia their other their two daughters say both of them they
confess Christ In baptism with just the other day, Noah, their
only lost son, confessed Christ and believed in baptism. You
reckon that family's happy? The Lord doesn't have to save
us. He doesn't. Why should he? Who am I? What
is my house? But I'll tell you this, and he
said it. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved." Whoever. And Peter stood up and
said to every one of them, repent and be ye baptized. Every one
of you. Every person in this room. What does it mean to repent? You know
what it means to repent. I don't have to give a message
on repentance. We know what it means to repent, don't we? I'm
sorry. Forgive me. If your brother trespassed
against you seven times in a day and repent, I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Lord, I'm
sorry. Would you have mercy on me? I'm
sorry. I've lived all this time and haven't given you a thought.
I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Would you have mercy on me? Repent. It means to turn. When Peter
said, Save yourselves from this generation, what he meant was
turn and run. Why will you die? Run. Why will
you perish? That was me. Wasn't it, Kelly? That was you. Stan, that's you.
Oh, you're chronic. John, a whole bunch of fellas. You get a bunch of teenage boys
together. Man, you get two together. You know, get three together.
You got trouble. You get a pack of them, and they're
like wild dogs. They try to outdo one another.
They try to outshine one another, out-sin one another, show how
mean one another is. I was right in the middle of
that. I was a ringleader. Headed just as fast as I can for destruction. But God, But God stopped my wild career. What
did I do? I heard the same message by that
man right there. Heard it for years. And finally
one day, I heard it. It pricked my heart. Look at you. Do you want to perish? Are those your friends? And I'm here to tell you, he
heard me, and I'm here to tell you, one senator to another,
repent. Repent means turn like the prodigal. Go home. Confess like the prodigal. I've sinned against heaven and
against thee. Admit. Confess. Ask for mercy. I don't deserve
it. Just give me a place in the barn.
Go home, and you know what you'll find? He'll abundantly pardon. If you fall on your face, He'll
fall on your neck and kiss you. Now, I'm not talking about once.
I'm talking about always. Repent. Lord, forgive me. Fall on your face. Forgive me. I'm still a sinner. Forgive me."
He's still a Savior. He's still showing mercy. You
fall on your face, he'll fall on your neck. And you call for
the robe. Bring this robe. This gospel
again. Cover him. He got naked again.
Out there running naked like the children of Israel. Dancing
around a calf. What's wrong with them? They're sinners all. But
God. You come home. You come home.
Come to the Father. Confess. What you are, He'll
call for the best robe. He'll call for the fatted calf. You come naked, He'll clothe
you. Ask for pardon and He'll forgive you. He'll show you the
calf that was crucified, the lamb that was crucified to put
away your sin. You keep coming. You keep calling.
You keep repenting. You keep asking the Lord until
He does and be baptized. Every one of you. In the name
of Christ. In the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Here's what it means in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Lord, you came to this filthy place. You came to this
vile, wicked place. And that's me. A vile, wretched,
wicked sinner. And you came, I believe, I hope,
you came for me. And you came here and you were
killed on my behalf, in my stead, crucified. God made you to be
sin for me. I hope. I believe that. I hope.
And I should have been killed. God should have killed me. God
should have made me a spectacle to everyone. God should have
hung me up naked before all and said, look at this wretched sinner.
God should have done that to me. But Lord, you did that for
me. And I need your righteousness
to cover me. I need your blood for remission
of my sin, I confess you. Baptism is not confessing yourself. It's confessing Christ. I deny me. I hate me. Lord, I
confess you. I think one of the old writers
said, once confession is made, sins are remitted. They're gone. It's that simple. sins are remitted,
for remission of sins. Now you and I know, we know,
the only reason you repent is the goodness of God's election.
He gets the glory for it. Now, the only reason you call
is because the Lord called you. We know that. But you don't know
that, do you? I didn't know that. I didn't
believe I was one of them. I knew the only elect would be
saved when I was a young fellow. I knew that. I believed that.
But when the Lord brought me under conviction of my own sin,
I didn't think it could possibly be for me. I believed the elect
would be saved. I did. I believed the only elect
would be saved. But boy, when I was convicted
of my sin, I needed mercy, and I felt there ain't no way I'm
one of them. I'm too bad. I've been the prodigal
too bad. He's going to make an example
of me. And you know what? That's exactly what he did. He
made an example of me, like Saul of Tarsus, an example of mercy,
an example of just how bad a fellow can be. And the Lord had mercy
on him. Lord, I'm sorry. I confess you. If you don't, he won't confess
you. That's as plain as I can get.
That's as plain as he can get it. If you deny me, he said,
I'll deny you. If you confess me before men,
I'll confess you. I'll be with you. Like Stephen,
they'll stone you. You're about to die, and you'll
have peace. Why? Because I'm with you. If
not, you're going to die a scary death. The Holy Ghost says, didn't He
say this? Repent and be baptized, every
one of you, in the name of Christ for the remission of sin, and
you shall receive the Holy Ghost. After the fact. Now you and I
know that it's the Holy Ghost that leads us to repent. It's
the Holy Ghost that makes us call. It's the Holy Ghost that
convicts us of sin. When He comes, He'll convict
us of sin and righteousness and judgment. It's the Holy Ghost
that does that. Didn't he say this? You'll receive the Holy
Ghost. Not until. Not unless you confess
Him. Not unless you get in that pool
and confess Him. Now, what's the Holy Ghost do?
It's a comforter. He gives assurance. He gives assurance. He's earnest. The earnest mind. Here, this is proof that it's
all true. Baptism, I've said before, is
like marriage. It's a public confession of your
love and commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ. If anyone will
not get married to a person and they claim to love them, no,
they don't love them. That's not love. If somebody
claims to love you and they won't marry, won't commit, won't serve,
like Jacob served seven years, I'll do whatever it takes. They
are my life. That's marriage. No commitment. No avowal of love. If you won't
tell the whole world, this is the one I love. If you won't
do that, that husband, if you won't own
him before everybody, he's not going to own you. He's not going
to show you. He's not going to... You're not
going to have any assurance with it. Well, I'm not even going
to explain that. But if there's no munion and
no union, no communion, no promises from the husband, no assurances
of his love, it wasn't until the prodigal came home and said,
Father, I've sinned against heaven and I've sinned against you,
and I'm not worthy to be called a son. It wasn't until then the
father said, bring him up. It wasn't until then that the
Lord said, bring the rain. I'm going to show him how much
I love you. Abraham, because you've done this, now I know
you love me. Because before ever you get in that pool and say,
I believe that I'm a nothing. You told me to do this, Lord. Every believer in here, when
you see someone confess Christ, don't you want to get in there
with them? Every time. Every time. Don't wait for a feeling. Don't
wait till you're better. Or you'll keep waiting the rest
of your life. It's not about feelings. It's
about faith. It's about Christ. Do you believe? Do you need mercy? See Christ
as your only hope? Confess Him. And he said, you'll
be saved, every one of you, old, young, no difference. Same God
is rich in mercy to all that call on him. And look what happened.
They did. In verse 41, they that gladly
received his word were baptized. Every one of them. They heard
it. Oh, they heard what they, they
were, they received it gladly. It was good news to them. And
they were baptized. They were added, added to the
kingdom. Unbeknownst to them, they'd always
been in it. But now they know it. Now they feel it. Now they
feel like they're once far off. Now they're made nigh. They're
once strangers to the covenant. Now, fellow citizens, you have
something to say. Not because they're baptized, but nevertheless,
the Lord made them And they continued steadfastly in the apostles'
doctrine. They couldn't get enough of hearing
them. And fellowship and breaking of bread, eating together with
one another at the Lord's table, prayers, calling. They're still
calling. They're not going to quit calling now. Some of them
never called before, but they're never going to quit now. Fear. See, that fear came upon every
soul. They were afraid to not be there. They feared the Lord. They feared missing Christ. And
they were afraid to miss one message. Didn't want to miss
out. Many wonders and signs. They
all believed were together. Had all things common. Oh my, the whole message there.
We're nothing but a bunch of common, ordinary sinners. Saved by grace. They sold their
possessions. They didn't live in a commune.
That's not at all what that means. It says they sold and parted
them as every man had need. As every man had need. Because
in the next chapter they had houses, clearly. If there was
a need, somebody sold something and gave that money. And they
continued daily with one accord in the temple, breaking bread,
gladness, singleness of heart, praising God. For what? so great a salvation for putting
us in the kingdom, the greatest blessing of all, and having favor
with all the people. And the Lord added to the church
daily, such as should be saved. I hope you are one that should
be saved. I hope your children, your spouses heard somebody say about somebody
one time that I think the Lord saved him, he just doesn't know
it. Well, repent and be baptized, confess him, and you'll know
it. Say unto my soul, David said,
say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. You know what the Lord did? He
said it. When you said, seek my faith,
I saw it. Did he see his faith? He sure did. He sure did. All right. Let's sing a closing
hymn, Brother John. What's the number? I forget. 477. 477. At Calvary, isn't it? That's right. 477. Well, sing
the first three verses. First three verses. 477. It's
all the same. No, I'm sorry. Let's sing the
first, second, and last verses. First, second, and last verse.
Okay.