There is so much said in this
chapter and I am beyond convincing that the Lord never added one
new thing when he had the book of Acts chapter 2 or the rest
of the book written. These are words that were expressed
to God's people in the Old Testament just as well. We're not going
to run into something new. Now, there's only one thing that
we find the saints of the Old Testament did not have, which
God commanded us to have. Once we've been born again, the
Lord has saved us by His grace. We know Him. not as Jesus of
Nazareth, not as the son of Mary and Joseph, but we know him as
the Almighty God, the Savior, who came to save his people from
their sins. He has commanded those to endure,
to go through baptism. That is scriptural. We don't
find that in the Old Testament, and it doesn't make you saved
or unsaved. The thief on the cross shares
that with us. Jesus told him, This day you will be with me
in paradise. And you know what? Jesus was
right in saying that because He had the power to do that.
Well, here in the book of Acts chapter 2, we find that wonderful
message of the apostle Peter was preached, and he's preaching
the Old Testament. He preached some of them from
Joel. He preached some from the Psalms. He's using the Old Testament
in his text. And really, that's what we do
if we're going to go to the Old Testament. We don't read something
in the New Testament and go to the Old Testament to prove it.
We read something in the Old Testament, we come to the New
Testament and find what it means in a clear statement. And here
it tells us that when Peter preached that message, and verse 36 is
where I'd like to start, therefore, Let all the House of Israel know
assuredly, know this beyond a doubt, there is no room for movement
on this point. You know, when we studied the
book of Ezra and they were rebuilding the temple, God told those people
to put that certain altar exactly where it was in its original
state. Don't move it an inch. It goes right here. That's where
that altar is going to go. And so we find the Lord does
not change over time, and He's not bringing out something new
here. We find, know this assuredly, that God hath made that same
Jesus. Now, earlier in this chapter,
we read Jesus of Nazareth. He wanted these folks that are
hearing His Word, these Jews, that are assembled before Him,
to know beyond a shadow of a doubt, as He preached the Gospel to
them, that He is speaking about Jesus of Nazareth, and it tells
us here, Whom ye crucified, God hath made Him both Lord and Christ. He is the Almighty God. He is
the I Am. He is the Savior. He is the Salvation. It is also declared here that
He is the promised Messiah. That God had promised someone
to take care of the problem that developed in the Garden of Eden.
When Adam and Eve fell, someone was coming to take care of that
problem. And all through the Old Testament,
years and years and years and years of preaching by the prophets,
they were pointing ahead to someone that is going to come. Isaiah
brings out some wonderful verses of Scripture. that shares with
us, behold the Son is given, a child is born. We're going
to have the God-man among you. We're going to have Him who represents
the covenant of grace among you, and this is His name, Jesus. You knew Him as Jesus of Nazareth,
and if all you know Him as Jesus of Nazareth today is, you don't
know Christ. He hasn't been revealed to you,
because He is so much more than that. He is Lord and Christ. The scriptures are so clear,
and then it tells us in here, now when they heard this, you
know the miracle of that is that little word heard. So many of
these people have already heard some things and they paid no
attention to it. They heard the words of Jesus. They heard him declare that he
is the king. They heard him declare that he
is the son of God. They heard him say the I am's
seven or eight times in the book of John alone. He said, I am.
And if they knew anything about the book of Exodus, their mind
went right back there. He said, oh, we can't have this
man because he isn't him. Well, when we come down to it,
the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed to His people as the I Am, the
self-existent One, the Savior of His people. And it tells us
that they heard this. There's a verse over here in
the book of Jeremiah. If you'd turn with me to the
book of Jeremiah, chapter 23 for just a moment, one verse
of scripture there, as we find that they were pricked in their
heart, they heard these things. In the book of Jeremiah, we read
this word about the power of the word of God. Never underestimate
the power of God. It is not just word only. We may think that at times. It's
just Word only. But oh my goodness, when the
Spirit of God delivers that Word, it is a powerful instrument that
God has devised in His great plan of salvation, in His great
purpose of grace. He has given the Word. He said,
Preach the Word and I'll take care of it. But the power that
is there is because of the Spirit of God and because of the purpose
of grace. In the book of Jeremiah chapter
23, we read here in verse 29, Jeremiah chapter 23 and verse
29, is not my word, and he uses two metaphors to help us understand
what his word is like. Is not my word as a fire, saith the
Lord. Is not my a consuming fire a
fire that we're going to see these people they were pricked
in their hearts God came upon them in power the holy spirit
brought to them the attention of the godhead And like a hammer
that breaketh a rock in pieces. This is the power of God's Word
when the Holy Spirit comes. And we read that over in the
book of 1 Thessalonians. Came not in word only, but in
power. And that's the reason he was
able to call them saints. Many had heard the word, but
it was so ineffectual, it was just on them like water on a
duck's back, we say. It just poured off, they never
paid any attention to it. Oh, we're keeping the commandments.
Remember that rich young ruler? Jesus brought to his attention,
what was his answer? I've kept that from my youth
up. You know, if the Lord ever saved
him, he's gonna say, that was dumb. I have not kept them from my
youth. I have been disobedient every
day of my life. I am a sinner before God, if
God ever saved him. So is not my word like a fire,
saith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh a rock in pieces?
Well, we're seeing that demonstrated right here in Acts chapter two,
when Peter brought that message about Jesus Christ as the Son
of God, as the Lord, as the Messiah, and they knew him only as Jesus
of Nazareth. Now, going back to the book of
Acts, would you join me there? Going back to the book of Acts, chapter 2. In the book of Acts, chapter
2, verse 37. Now, when they heard this, they
were pricked in their hearts. they had been pierced by his
word." They saw themselves guilty of a crime. Now it's going to
take God to take them beyond that point. They were guilty
of a crime. They were guilty of taking a
man's life who was innocent. They were guilty of crying in
the street, crucify him, crucify him. They were guilty before
God, but they were realizing that they had committed a great
crime. And it goes on to share with
us, they cried, it says there, they were pricked in their hearts
and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, men and
brethren, what shall we do? You know, if a person is ignorant
of the gospel, and ignorant of grace, and ignorant of God, and
ignorant of his son, they will hear those words and their soul-winning
tactics take over. When someone says, what must
I do? They take it as a key that they're
ready to be saved. My friend, those words are nothing
more than what natural man will say. And God is not going to
save anybody by what they can do. Men and brethren, what shall
we do? Well, we're going to find the
apostle Peter instantly says, repent. We'll mention that in
just a moment. But we find that this phrase
is common in the scriptures about when people hear something, hear
the gospel, what shall we do? It is common to want to do something. You know what? We have many professors
of Christianity and all they're interested in is doing. Do this,
do that, I'm doing this. I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm
doing it. You know, with Christ, all things
are done. There is no doing. He's taken
that out of the equation. We don't have to be mathematicians
there when you're dealing with zero. How much do you have to
have? Zero. We have him who is our
savior. Well, turn with me as we think
about this for just a moment. We mentioned last week that that
rich young ruler came and he said, what must I do to inherit
eternal life? Well, the Lord took him down
a line there and you know what? He was not interested at all
in eternal life to begin with. He was just wanting to show off
that he'd been keeping the law and doing good things. And he
went away very sad because he was very rich. Well, I'm thankful
in one of the gospels that says that the Lord loved him. Many people that think that that
might have been Saul of Tarsus. It doesn't make any difference.
If God loved him, he's going to meet the Lord someday. All
right. But turn with me, if you would,
to the book of Acts chapter 16. Acts chapter 16. In Acts chapter 16 is that familiar
passage of scripture about the Philippian jailer. all he saw
and all that he heard. It tells us in Acts chapter 16,
and there in verse 30, he brings up the same thing. Now, as with
this whole host of people that said to Peter, what must we do?
The message does not stop there. That's why I had Lauren go ahead
and read down through that passage of scripture. He is going to
speak a whole lot more. We don't have the parts of that
message, but he's gonna continue preaching to them. He's gonna
bring up the Old Testament scriptures again. He's gonna bring up Christ
again. He's gonna be preaching Christ and Him crucified. And
then we find out as we do in Acts 13, 48, those that were
ordained to eternal life believed and no one else. All right, here
in the book of Acts, Chapter 16 and verse 30, they brought
this Philippian jailer, brought Paul and Silas out of prison.
And he is so sorry that he beat those guys to a pulp. He's sorry for getting caught
in that crime that he committed against Roman citizens. Then this man comes out with
that whole bit of guilt on his heart He says he brought them
out and said sirs. What must I do to be saved? And they said, believe. Well,
as we go on to find out, there's an impossibility on our part
to do what they commanded them to do. And that is to simply
believe. That belief of loving God with
all our heart is a gift that comes from God. It's not something
that we normally or naturally come up with on our own. We will
not believe God until he reveals himself to us, and then we have
someone to believe. The rest is just trusting Jesus
of Nazareth. But we need Jesus who is Lord
and Christ. That's who God reveals to us. Well, one more time, there in
the book of John, if you turn there with me to the book of
John chapter 6. John chapter 6, we have the same condition
that Jesus dealt with, the apostles dealt with, No doubt the prophets
have all dealt with this is the thing. When people get a little
feeling guilty about the crimes that they have committed, what
must I do to be saved? And you know, that's just a normal
reaction that we come up with, and it takes the grace of God
to overcome our desire to do something in order to be saved.
We find out we are empty vessels and must be filled. We're dead
in trespasses and sin and must be raised. We have this before
us, and that's an impossibility on our part to do any of those
things. All right, here in the book of
John chapter six, John chapter six, and there in verse 28, John
chapter six and verse 28, we read this. Then said they unto
him, what shall we do? that we might work the works
of God." Well, isn't that an interesting statement? When you
consider the God of creation, the God of grace, the God of
mercy, the God of all power, sovereign God, what must we do
that we might work the works of God? Well, if you think about
it for just a moment, we as believers might say, you know, that's an
impossibility. But Jesus goes on and says in verse 29, then
Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God. Now, it's His work. It's not
your work. This is the work of God. You
cannot do the work of God. You can't create a seed. You
can't create air. You can't create anything. You
can't create life. You need someone that can create
life. You need someone to raise you
from the dead, and you can't do that. By nature, we're all
servants of Baal. You know, there was a fraternity
that I grew up around. Many people in the church I was
in was in that fraternity. And I had other preachers say,
well, they're just Baal worshipers. They're just Baal worshipers.
That's the Masonic Lodge. Well, I was prevented from going
into that. My dad said it's probably not
a good idea, so I listened to it. But a whole bunch of people
do. They're still going into it. And they said it's just male
worship. I'll tell you what, anything you're depending upon
for life. is Baal worship, because Baal
means he's a fertility god, and those people were depending upon
him for their life. A stone, a piece of rock, a piece
of gold, depending upon that for our life when God said, I
am life. I am the living God. Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the living God. So we must have that imparted
to us. We must have that given to us.
So they asked that, and Jesus said, this is the work of God,
that you believe on him whom he has sent. Well, that's more
than Jesus of Nazareth. That's more than Joseph's adopted
son or stepson. It's more than all of that that
they'd all thought about. It's more than him just being
born in Bethlehem, growing up, being a good teacher, being a
good preacher, and he was taken out and crucified. It must be
a revelation that he is God, that he is the only God. So they
cried unto him, what must we do to be saved? They brought
up the, what must we do? Now turn with me over to the
book of Lamentations, if you would. One verse of scripture
in the book of Lamentations, chapter three. Lamentations chapter
three, verse 26. We have this written down for
our benefit out of the most mournful The most mournful book. Can you
imagine writing a book and call it Lamentations? You?re lamenting the problems
you?re in? You?re lamenting the problems
of the country? Well, that?s what Jeremiah was
led to do. He had this book written because he was lamenting, crying
over Israel. And he?s like Daniel. He?s not
blaming it on Israel. He?s right in the middle of it.
He's part of the source of it. He's a sinner, sinner saved by
grace. But here in the book of Lamentations,
chapter three, verse 25, the Lord, let me see, verse 26. It is good that a man should
both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Now, if someone comes to you
and says, what must I do to be saved? What will you do? What
will you say? How will you deal with it? You
know, I've been visiting with a couple of preachers and boy,
they're all, both of them are angry at me for not going ahead
and getting people saved. I can't get there from here. There is no possibility in the
world of me convincing you of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. There is a blank wall here. It is beyond me. I must have
someone who is the creator deal with that issue. So I commend
it to God, Lord take care of this. And I advise you, you seeker,
that you go visit with God, go plead with God, go cry out to
God, go be with God. And then I encourage you to be
under the sound of the gospel, because it is the gospel that
God uses. It's the power of God into salvation. Don't neglect the gospel. If
you have any interest at all in eternal life, don't neglect
the gospel. Be under the sound of it, but
get alone with God. Jesus Christ got alone with people
that had crowds around him. He dealt with people alone, and
he had hundreds of people around him. They knew that he was dealing
with them and them alone. He healed a man at the pool of
Bethesda and left hundreds unhealed. He dealt with him alone. And
we thank God for him dealing with one at the pool of Bethesda. So it is good that a man should
both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Now
going back to the book of Acts, chapter 2, Peter brings up this. They come
to him and they say, what shall we do? And Peter said unto them, repent. I hate to say this, but our translators,
When they take a half a dozen or two different words in a foreign
language and translate them the same word, they do us an injustice. It's good that we have, sometimes
we can look up and see, what does that word really mean? Because
we're gonna find that there is a repent, as Peter said here,
and then we can read about a guy that repented, and he doesn't
know the first thing about God. There's a great difference between
natural, worldly repentance, because we repent when we get
caught. Oh my, I'm so sorry, Dad. I'm so sorry, Mom. I'll never
ever do that again. What are we saying? I'm sorry
I got caught, but more than likely I'll be doing it again. It's
just the normal thing to do. If we do not have Christ, it's
the normal thing to do. And we have proof of this in
the scriptures when we read about Judas, Judas Iscariot. Before we deal with this, repent
in this passage of scripture, would you join me with me in
the book of Matthew chapter 27? In the book of Matthew chapter
27, it took me some time to find a verse of scripture like this.
You know, you just read, have you ever read and saw nothing?
Just reading words. Reading words, reading words.
That's the way Leviticus used to be to me. Just read it, get
through it as quickly as you can. Well, I've done that a whole
lot with the book of Acts in the past too. There are some
really interesting stories. And some of it, let's read quickly
over, and I've missed so much that's contained here in the
second chapter of the book of Acts. But if you'll turn with
me here to the book of Matthew chapter 27. Matthew chapter 27
tells us of a person that the Lord knew full well as one of
his disciples, one of his apostles. He chose him. He knew full well
what was written in the Old Testament and the Psalms about this man,
and he knew full well in the covenant of grace, ordained and
written and passed on and however we want to describe it before
the foundation of the world, this man's name was in it. because
he was chosen for one task, and he was chosen to betray the Christ. God chose him for that purpose.
Be at peace. But here in the book of Matthew,
chapter 27, we find that Judas says this, chapter 27, verse
3, Then Judas, which had betrayed him, When he saw that he was
condemned, I wonder what he really thought. Have you ever thought
that? What did he really think when
he went, he says, I'll take 30 pieces of silver and I'll identify
them for your soldiers. What was he thinking if he didn't
think that he was going to be condemned? They were not happy
with Jesus. They were looking for a way to
get rid of Him. They wanted Him out of the way.
He was an interference to their jobs, their lifestyle, and their
religion. He kept bucking all that they
thought. They were high priests down to
priests, down to Levites, down to other religious leaders. He
kept bucking every one of them because they said in order to
be saved you must be circumcised and follow the law and Jesus
came right up against up just like his prophets did in the
Old Testament and just like the disciples are going to do through
the rest of the New Testament They bucked those things by preaching
the gospel and they could not handle it. Well, anyway, it says
he repented himself and He repented himself. You know, I've read
some commentaries that Judas was finally saved. Some people will get anybody
in heaven. He repented himself and brought again the 30 pieces
of silver to the chief priests and elders, and boy, are they
excited. saying, I have sinned, I betrayed
the innocent blood. And they said, what is that to
us? See thou to that. We're not even
going to be troubled. We got what we want out of this
bargain. We have him arrested. He's on
trial. And they're going to crucify
him according to God's eternal and everlasting purpose. But
Judas, it says, he repented himself. There in the book of verse three
of this passage of scripture, repented himself. You know, it's
the same word in English as we find over here in the book of
Acts. Over there, Peter says, repent.
Here, he said he repented himself. But in the original language,
we have two different words. And one of them does not mean
that God dealt with him in repentance. One of them means, I am sorry
I got caught. And that's what we do by nature. When we repent by nature, natural
repentance is, I'm sorry I got caught. But that means nothing.
because it doesn't change our nature. We don't have a new heart
given to us because we repented like that. We have no new view
of God. We don't think about God in any
difference. We think of him as ourself. Who will you compare
me to? I love what David was asked.
He said, where is your God? My God's in the heavens. And
he doth whatever he pleases. Oh my goodness. Now that's a
revelation. My God is in the heavens, and
he doeth all that he pleases. All right. Well, this word here
that Judas uses, it has the meaning of changing one's mind or purpose
after having done something regrettable. He didn't change towards God. In fact, he went out and hanged
himself. You know, when we actually look at it, we find that there?s?and
I?ve shared this before?about this much difference between
what Judas did and what Peter did. Peter didn?t even pay 30
pieces of silver, but he denied the Lord three times. And you
know what the Lord told him after it was all over with? I'm not holding a grudge. I'm
not going to hold you accountable. I took care of that sin on the
cross when he visited with Peter after that. All right. Now, here
as we look at this word repentance that's mentioned in the book
of Acts chapter 2 there that the apostle Peter uses, Let's
look at a few verses there in the book of Acts that use that
same word, but give us some understanding about what it really means. True,
godly, given repentance. It must be God-given. I can command
you to repent, but I can't accomplish that. I can't get you to repent. And you can say, I repent, but
if it's not God-given, it's just, I'm sorry I got caught. Most
religious experiences that people have are as a result of doing
something really bad or really stupid. And someone gets a hold
of us and we feel so sorry about it that we go through some convulsions
and say, I've been saved. I can speak from experience. I didn't know the first thing
about godly repentance until after I heard the gospel, the
gospel, the truth of the gospel. And God worked a work of grace.
And it wasn't what I said, it's what he did. All right, here
in the book of Acts chapter five, Acts chapter five, if you'd look
at that with me, Acts chapter five, verse 29. Repentance, what
is it? We can command it, we can't perform
it. Did you know we're commanded
to believe the gospel, and yet we can't perform it? We're commanded
to repent, but we can't perform it. It's out of our league. It's
of God. He's gonna make sure that if
we glory, we're gonna glory in the Lord. We're not gonna glory
in our words, we're not gonna glory in our statement, we're
not gonna glory in our doings. We will glory in the Lord. He will be the most important
of our life. The book of Acts chapter 5 verse
29, Peter and the other apostles entered and said, we ought to
obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised
up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree. Peter once again,
and this is three chapters later. Down the road a year we may get
to this. But he said the same thing. He
preached Jesus unto them, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be prince and savior.
What did he tell that host of people on the day of Pentecost?
He had been made both Lord and Christ. Same God. For to give, now notice this,
for to give repentance to Israel and the forgiveness of sins.
Now that's God's gift, is to give repentance. Now that word
means having a change of mind. And it's given by God, to change
our mind about God. Now, if we don't have a mind
that's been changed by true repentance, given to us by God, we'll have
the same view that we went into this religious experience with.
We will not call him any higher. In fact, we are equal with him
now, because we've done what we think needs to be done. Then
we start calling Jesus is my co-pilot. We're friends He's
we we you know all the nonsense that you hear and probably have
said in the past that about Jesus Christ He is the sovereign ruler
of the universe and it's by his grace. He carries us along He's
not my co-pilot He's not the one that I'm walking beside in
the sand. There's two marks in the sand That is a croc margarine,
not butter. He's the one that does it all,
without exception. I heard a person one time say,
well, I am the exception. I was saved and I never heard
the gospel. You know what? That's just too exceptional.
Brother Rob Barnard overheard a lady say, I've been saved all
my life. His response to her was, that's
just too long. We're just not saved all our
life. If we say that, it means that we've never seen ourselves
as God sees us as sinners. All right, here it tells us,
for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. Keep
that thought in mind and just travel with me over to the 11th
chapter of the book of Acts. Acts chapter 11, there in verse
18. When they heard these things,
they held their peace and glorified God. saying, then hath God also
to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Oh my goodness, aren't
you thankful for that verse? That God has granted to the Gentiles,
granted repentance to the Gentiles unto life. My goodness, it fits
us all, Gentiles. God has granted repentance. And
then if you look with me over in the book of 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy
chapter 2, 2 Timothy chapter 2 we read these words, 2 Timothy
chapter 2 verse 25, the apostle Paul writing by inspiration,
it tells us here, in meekness, instructing those that oppose
themselves, 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 25, peradventure if God
peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth
that God would grant repentance and if he does there will be
an acknowledging of the truth God's people will not argue with
God about His Word and what He does. We may say, I do not understand
what He's doing, and that's acceptable because He's God and we're not.
But God's people will not argue and say, my God would never do
that. Your God may never do that, but the God of heaven is going
to do that. That's his promise. He will do
what he said he will do. Now, going back there to the
book of the chapter two of this Acts chapter two, Acts chapter 2 and verse 37. Now when they heard this, they
were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest
of the apostles, Man 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 remissions of sin, and ye shall receive
the gift of the Holy Ghost. Now we mentioned that when that
repentance comes, there is a change of mind. You know there's a need
for a change of mind? Our mind by nature is not the
mind that God's going to grant those blessings to. We must have
a change of mind. You know, the Bible tells us
after the flesh, those that are after the flesh do mind the things
of the flesh. And he also tells us that the
carnal mind is enmity against God. So we are in desperate need
of a change of mind. And that has to be granted by
God because our natural mind is alienated from God. Jesus
told a group of people one time, thou shall love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind,
and the Old Testament says with all thy strength. Now I'm not
gonna ask you to raise your hands, how many of you done that? Love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, all thy mind, all thy strength, all thy soul. There's
one person that ever walked the face of this earth that loved
God, the Father, loved God with all his heart, with all of his
mind, with all of his strength, with all of his soul. And you
know, in salvation, God has so purposed that when He saves us
by His grace and He gives us a new heart, That whole work
of Him loving with all His heart, all His mind, all His soul is
given to us. And so when God looks at us,
He's looking at someone that has loved Him with all their
heart, with all their soul, with all their mind, and all their
strength, because Jesus Christ did it on their behalf. So now
we're clean before God. He has taken all our sin and
put it as far as the east is from the west. He has taken care
of the sin issue and he's taken care of it so greatly that we
can love God. Whereas in times past, we hated
him. Change the mind. Oh, Peter did
not mean to say that because you repent and feel bad about
your sin, God's going to save you. He intended for them to
understand that whatever happens in this great transaction that
God has for his elect people in this world, if God should
grant you repentance, you will, and I guarantee it to you, I
guarantee you will have a different view of Jesus Christ. And I can
take Peter's words for this because Jesus asked him one time, whom
do you say that I am? Now, Peter was a Jew. He grew
up as a Jew. He was Jewish in faith. He was
Jewish in practice. You know, he and the Apostle
Paul could have been out of the same school. They had all the
same thoughts about God. Salvation is of the Jews and
the Jews only. All of those things that Paul
had, Peter could have had. And there we read that Peter
was brought to Jesus Christ by a brother and God worked a work
of grace in him. And when Jesus asked him, he
did not say, you're Jesus of Nazareth. You know what he did? He answered
correctly by revelation. Thou art the Christ, the son
of the living God. He didn't have that by nature.
Because the Lord Jesus in the next verse said, Blessed art
thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for you have been far away taken from
just Jesus of Nazareth, just a Jew born there in Bethlehem,
just a person going around here preaching and healing people.
You've been taken far, far from that point of view. Your mind
has been able to see me as Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living
God. Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona.
You know those few on the right-hand side that's going into the kingdom?
Blessed are you. Come and inherit. Blessed! Why?
Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood did not reveal
this unto you, but my Father which is in heaven. You can see
Jesus. The true Jesus, the Savior Jesus,
the Sovereign Jesus, the King Jesus, the one that has all power
and all authority, Jesus. The one who is the Lord God omnipotent,
Jesus. You get to see him, and that
comes by revelation. The rest, oh, I just love Jesus,
Jesus, Jesus. He's, oh, we're such good friends. Oh my goodness, the church is
in awe. Church is in reverence. The church
bows. The church comes with a humble
heart. The church comes to see Jesus
as their only Savior, the only dependent one, the one they depend
on totally and completely, His blood and His righteousness alone. Repent. They were, that as goes
on to tell us there, our time is about up, but he says there,
repent. Said unto them repent and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins We're not going to find anywhere in
the Bible Where baptism is connected to salvation It's not here. It's nowhere This is a favorite
passage for certain people As soon as you believe and baptize
you're okay Jesus said this Repent, he that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be
damned. Baptism is just something God's
people do after they've been born again. It is not connected
to their, it's believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and that belief
is supplied. Well, our time is up. Thank you
for your time this morning, Brother Mike.