preach this message. But down
here in verse 37, chapter 2, it says, now when they heard,
heard this message, heard the gospel, heard about the Lord
Jesus Christ, they were pricked in their heart and said unto
Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what
shall we do? What shall we do? That happened
to the Ethiopian eunuch, that happened to the Philippian jailer,
what shall we do? What shall we do? Being pricked
in the heart, and then this This first message after the death
and burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, the day
of Pentecost, 50 days after the Passover, there were, through
one message, one message, 3,000 souls were added, added to the
church. 3,000 souls 3,000. It didn't say 3,000 people, it
said 3,000 souls. God, every man is viewed as a
soul. That eternal part, that eternal thing that lives on forever. But hear this message, so blessed
of God. 3,000 were converted and added
to the church. Have you ever heard such a message?
Where so many souls were saved? George Whitefield, God used him to create one of
the greatest revivals in history. And there would be thousands
upon thousands. He preached publicly. And his
voice was so powerful that 15, 16, 18, 20,000 people could hear his voice.
And he come to America and preached many times. And had lots and
lots and lots of converts. Lots of them. And Mr. Spurgeon, He had a congregation
of 7,000 people. And in the evening you'd get
tickets to come in there so you could hear Mr. Spurgeon. Lots
and multitudes and multitudes and multitudes of people were
converted under Mr. Spurgeon. But never, never thousands
at a time. Never hundreds at a time. A few
here and a few there at a time. But Peter, Peter, our Lord says,
you shall become witnesses unto me. Here Simon Peter really became
a witness of our Lord Jesus Christ. And when some read the book,
read Acts chapter 2, you know all they see is the tongues.
They see tongues. They talk about tongues, got
to have the evidence of the Holy Ghost is speaking in tongues,
speaking in another language. But these fellas just didn't
speak in tongues. When they heard him speak, I
was all these people around there and they heard him preaching
in their own language. in their own language. And so
that's why they said, these fellows are drunk. I hear every man speaking
in my own language. It's Jews after them all over.
And it told who they were. Some, all I hear is the baptism
of the Holy Ghost is speaking in tongues. And others see nothing
but baptismal regeneration, like down in verse 38. Repent and
be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus, for the
remission of your sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost.
Some see nothing but baptismal regeneration, that if you get
baptized, that fixes you up for eternity, and that salvation's
in the pool. But let's look together, God
helping us, let's look at this message that Peter preached on
the day of Pentecost, that was so blessed of the God, Let's
see what was said that pricked these men in their hearts. First
thing I want us to look at is the biblical message. It's a
biblical message. You know, Simon Peter, all he
had was the Old Testament. They didn't have the New Testament
at this time. The New Testament wasn't written for long, long,
hundreds, you know, long time after. They got the scriptures
together and made them the New Testament. But anyway, that's
all they had was the Old Testament. That's all Paul had was the Old
Testament. That's all Peter had was the
Old Testament. But he knew this Old Testament. He knew what it
says. When our Lord Jesus Christ took
them on the Emmaus road, And the scripture says that he opened
their understanding that how Christ must suffer and how that
Christ must die and that he must rise again and all the Psalms
and the prophets and all the scriptures testified this and
bear witness of this. And he said to Moses and the
Lord and the prophets and the psalms, these things were written
about me. I'm telling you. And he opened
their understanding and used those scriptures to tell them
about himself. About himself. And so Simon Peter
knew the Old Testament. It was in his heart. It was in
his mind. You keep Acts 2 and look at Psalm 119 and verse 18. May God cause this to be us.
Psalm 119 and verse 18. Oh, may this be us. You know,
He knew the Old Testament. It was in His heart. It was in
His mind. And that's what, you know, there's as much gospel
in Genesis as there is in the New Testament. There's as much
gospel in Exodus. Oh, how many gospel messages
are in Exodus. And they knew that, they understood
that. And look what he said here in Psalm 119, verse 18. Oh, may
this be us. Open thou mine eyes, that I may
behold wondrous things out of thou. And when he talks about
his law, he's talking about his word. Open my eyes. He opened
their understanding that means he opened what they so they can
and make God open down mine eyes that I may behold Wondrous, and
that's what Simon Peter's to do it today. He's preaching wondrous
things out of the scriptures, and he used three Old Testament
Scriptures he used three Old Testament passages and the first
one was the Prophet Joel there in verse 16 and He used the prophet
Joel. Joel had been preaching on judgment,
judgment, judgment. But then he turned around and
said, but you know what God's going to do? In the last days.
And the last days started when Christ came to this earth. That
was the last days. People talk about we're in the
last days. The last days started when Christ came to this world.
That's when the last days started. And he said, on the last days,
I'll pour out my Spirit on all flesh. It fell on a prophet over here,
and it fell on a prophet over there, and it fell on Elijah,
it fell on Elisha, it fell on Moses, it fell on Aaron, it fell
on just one here yonder in the back. And then he would come,
then he would leave. But God said, I don't care where
you are on the face of this earth, I don't care what generation
you're in, I don't care how old you are, man, woman, boy or child. He said, I'm going to pour out
my spirit on all flesh, all flesh. And oh, listen, he said, listen,
and I tell you, they're going to prophesy. They're going to
witness. They're going to gossip Christ.
That's what that word means, gossip Christ. And then he used
Psalm 16. use Psalm 16 and verses 8 through
11 when he told David that when he preached David down in verse
25 he said for David speaketh concerning him I foresaw the
Lord always down in verse 25 for the Lord is on my right hand
I shall not be moved and he said my heart rejoiced so he used
Psalm 16 And then he went to Psalm 110, where David said,
I saw the Lord. I saw my Lord sitting on the
right hand of my Lord and telling him to sit here. You stay right
here until I make every one of your enemies your footstool.
David saw that. And when David said that, he
said, I saw my Lord at the right hand of my Lord. I saw my Savior,
my Redeemer, sitting at the right hand of God. That's what He's
talking about. And oh beloved, He used all these
and says, now brethren, I want you to understand that I'm telling
you about Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I'm telling you that these scriptures
that I'm preaching to you, and that I'm using to you, they're
telling us about Christ, they're telling us about His coming,
they're telling us about His death, they're telling us about
His resurrection, they're telling us about His ascension, they're
telling us that Christ Jesus sits at the right hand of God,
and He used just three verses, three passages of scripture,
and He just used those and preached Christ. This is a biblical message. I see some of these signs around
some of these churches and I just absolutely wonder what in the
world somebody's thinking. Everything but Christ. You got
a whole Bible to put on the sign. And they use something absolutely,
utterly ridiculous. But oh my, not only was it a
scriptural message, a biblical message, but let me show you
something else it was. It was a Christ-centered message.
It was a Christ-centered message. Now if a message If a sermon
is a biblical one, call it a message, call it a sermon. I prefer calling
it a message. Some people say, I hope you got
a good sermon today, or I enjoyed your sermon today, but I prefer
message, because that's what it is. It's a message from God
to us. That's what it is. It's a message
from God that's God speaking to us. You know, if you would
have said to Simon Peter that day, boy, you brought an awful
good sermon today. You know what he would have said?
If that's all you understood that happened today, you didn't
hear from God? And so here he went. And I tell
you, this sermon is a biblical one because the Bible is about
the Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord. And so a biblical message should
be a Christ-centered one. I remember one time asking Henry,
we was in a meeting and I sat beside him and I said, boy, Henry,
I certainly hope you got a good one today. He said, I got a lot
of outlines, but I certainly hope God gives me a message today.
That's what he said. I got a lot of outlines, but
I hope God gives me a message. And that's the way it is, Aunt
Gary. Oh, God gives us lots of outlines. But oh, every once
in a while, He'll give us a message. Give us a message. And so here's
the first thing He said about the Lord Jesus Christ. Look down
at verse 22. You men of Esther. And this is
the first thing He said. Hear these words. I've got to say something to
you. I've got something to say. I've got some words. The gospel
comes to us in words, but also in the Holy Ghost and in power.
He said, I've got some words to say. And Christ, He was the
Word of God. God communicated to us through
Christ. And He said, listen, men in Israel,
hear these words. And you know what He said? Jesus
and Nazareth. That's the first thing He said.
Jesus and Nazareth. He identified Him as a man. He identified where He was raised. He identified Him like they knew
Him when He was on this earth. He had only been risen from the
dead 50 days ago and ascended back to glory 10 days before
this message was preached. And so, He says Jesus and Nazareth,
everybody in this place knows who Jesus and Nazareth is. You
saw him, you heard him, you seen him move about town, you heard
his preaching, and you saw him hated, and you saw him despised,
and you saw him rejected, and you saw some that followed him,
and some that worshipped him. But he said, look what else about
him. This Jesus Christ, a man, Jesus announces a man. That's
what he's talking about, a man. But listen to him. This man was
approved of God. You'll never find that said about
anybody else in the Bible. You'll never find that God approved
anybody other than Him. Now God blessed some men, and
He used some men, but He never ever said, I approve of him,
or I approve of this one, or I approve of that one. He said
His approval on His Son. He said His approval on this
man, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And I say approved of God, he
was sent of God. And I'll tell you something,
he's the last word from God. The last word that God will ever
speak to this world was when Jesus Christ came into this world
and spoke. God communicated to this world
through his blessed son, and he's the last word from God till
the judgment. That's what Hebrews 1 says. Look
at Hebrews 1 with me. I'll show you this. I'll show
you this. Oh, listen to what he says. Oh, listen. God, that's what
people go on about Buddha and Mohammed and And all these different gods
and different religions. But he says God got one person
that he spoke by. And look what he said here. God
who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets. He spoke, everybody, to the prophets. But hath in these last days,
I told you it was the last days when Christ came, spoken unto
us by His Son, spoken in the Son, whom He hath appointed heir
of all things, including the Word. So listen, the last word
from God. God didn't speak for 400 years
between Malachi and John the Baptist. And when Christ came,
God said, this is my final word. And that's why He said, you know,
if you don't hear Moses, you won't hear me. But Moses
spoke of me. Abraham rejoiced to see my day
and saw it. And that's what he says that
Joel saw my day. David saw my day. And I tell
you, there ain't going to be another word from God till the
Day of Judgment. Don't look for another Savior
to come. Don't look for nobody else to
come. And then look what he says. This man approved of God. And
listen to what he said. Among you. He was among you. by miracles and wonders and signs
which God did by Him in the middle of you, in the midst of you.
You all saw these miracles. You saw Him give the deaf hearing. You saw Him cause the dumb to
speak. You saw Him raise the dead. You
saw Him give sight to a man that was born blind. You know this. You saw Him raise Lazarus from
the dead. multitude to you standing here
and hearing me today, you know, you saw the miracles of Christ,
you saw the signs of Christ, you saw the wonders of Christ.
And I tell you what, the greatest miracle, and I've told you this
before, the greatest miracle that God ever did was save a
sinner from his sin and make him righteous. to take dead, alien sinners like
ourselves without any hope, without God,
without Christ in this world, born rebels, born God-haters And in spite of 10,000 things
wrong with us, dead, darkness, sinfulness, wretchedness, God
comes and performs a miracle and gives us life from the dead,
sight for our blinded eyes, hearing for our deaf ears. Huh? And takes out that tongue that
was sore against Him and uses it to praise Him now. So I tell
you, thank God. And God did all these things
among them by His Son, through His Son. Ain't that what it says? And He said, and look what He
says. And you know, and you yourselves know this thing. I want you to
look at a couple of verses with me about witnessing, about the
witness of Christ. John 5. John 5.31. You know, approved of God. sin of God, last word from God. Miracles, wonders, signs. God
did all these things through His Son and He did it among them,
among them. And oh, look what He said here
in verse 31, talking about witnessing, witnessing. bearing witness to
himself. Our Lord said, if I bear witness
of myself, my witness is not true. If I tell you that I'm
the Christ, if I tell you I'm sin of God, if I tell you that
I'm the one that God's approved of and that I do miracles, my
witness is not true. But there's another, somebody
else that bears witness of me. Who is it? And I know that the
witness that which he witnesses of me is true. I witnessed that
Jesus and Nazareth. I got a witness. I'm a witness
to who he is. And he said, who is he? You sin
under John. He bore witness unto the truth.
But I don't receive testimony from man. But these things I
say unto you that you might be saved. Because I got witnesses
to tell you who I am. He was a burning and a shining
light, and you were willing for a season to rejoice in His day.
But he said, I have a greater witness than that of John. Now
listen to it. For the works which I do, for the works which your Father
hath given me to finish, The same works that I do bear witness
of me that the Father approved me, the Father sent me. And oh,
the Father himself which has sent me has borne witness of
me. You have neither heard his voice
or seen his shape at any time. And that's what Peter's telling
them about here. God bore witness to his blessed son. Now look,
not only did he bear witness to our Lord in his ministry,
but he also bore witness to his death. Look in verse 23 here,
Acts chapter 2. Oh, I'll tell you about Christ
and all that he did, who he was, what a ministry he had. Oh, so
used of God, approved of God. Him, Him, this Jesus of Nazareth,
being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. Not only did he preach who he
was, but he preached that he died. And there's two involved
in the death of Christ right here. And this is the two that
everywhere you look in the scriptures that's involved in the death
of Christ. The first one involved in the death of Christ is God
himself. God Himself. It says here, Him
being delivered by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of
God. He was the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. God Himself. It says, He had
pleased the Lord to bruise Him. The Lord made His soul an offering
for sin. And our Lord Jesus Christ He yielded himself up. And you know God delivered him
up. God sent his son. God delivered him up. God made
him to be saved. God's wrath poured out upon him. God's justice was inflicted upon
him. God's power sent him to the cross. And our Lord, you know, He told
when He was sitting at the Last Supper with His disciples, He
said this, He says, the Son of Man goes as it's determined of
Him to go, but woe unto that man that betrays Me. And I tell
you, our Lord Jesus Christ came into this world knowing exactly. He sent His face like a flint
to Jerusalem. He sent His face. When they come
out to get Him that night, 500 people come out to get one man. He wasn't a dangerous man. He
wasn't a mean man. He wasn't a violent man. But
they said 500 people. I was going to take one man.
And they said, he stepped up. And
I was all up around him. And he said, he stepped up and
said, who are you looking for? Jesus or God? He said, I am. Oh my goodness. People don't
just own up to who they are. Yes they do, it depends who he
is. And oh my, they got up again
and said, who are you looking for? And they said, Jesus of
Nazareth. I mean, if you want me, take me. But all these got
to go free. And that's the way it is. He was taken so we could go free. Ah, if you're going to get me,
these sheep got to go free. And all beloved, God delivered
him up. His coming, his doing, his dying
was told from Genesis all the way to Malachi. Oh my. And here's what men thought,
and look what it says now. God delivered him by his foreknowledge
and counsel. Look in Acts chapter 4, I want
you to see this, and then I'll move on. I hope I'm not preaching
too long. Look what he says here. Now Peter
and them are praying. They've just been let out of,
you know, these fellows beat them and sent them out and the
Pharisees and them did. He said in verse 25, 425, Who
by the mouth of thy servant David hath said, Why did the heathen
rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the
earth, there he is using the Old Testament again, stood up
and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, the
Lord Jehovah, God Himself, and against His Christ. For of a
truth against thy holy child, Jesus, whom thou hast anointed,
both Herod, Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people
of Israel were gathered together. Now listen to this, for to do
whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done."
They done just exactly what you meant for them to do. I delivered
them into his hands. But then man's part was saying,
we're going to destroy God's purpose. We're going to stop
God ratting his tracks. They going to stop God. But he
used them to do his will and they done exactly what they will
to do. God's will was being done. God's
counsel was being done. God's foreknowledge, God's determination,
will determined before what was going to be done. But here's
the fellas I'm going to use to do it with. He said, I'll make
the wrath of man, the wrath that they've got against me, the wrath
they've got against my son, were they raised against my son. He
said, I'm going to make that wrath. Praise me. They're going
to think they're going to do something against me. But what
they do against me is going to be a great blessing to all the
nations. Oh, bless His holy name. And
then look what he says now. And he says, verse 23, delivered
by the counsel and foreknowledge of God. You took it. You took
it. and by wicked hands your hands
were wicked and hath slain him hath slain him and that's what
he told them in verse 36 look what it says down in verse 36
therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God
hath made that same Jesus now look what he does here now whom
you crucified you know who you crucified Do you know who it
was that you got your hands on? Do you know who it was you treated
so wickedly? Do you know who it was you spit
on? Do you know who it was you slapped? Do you know who it was
you took that period aside? Do you know who it was that you
nailed him to a cross? Do you know who it was that you
wagged on and railed on and cursed and derided? Do you know who
that was? that that same Jesus whom you
crucified God made Lord and Christ. Now look at his burial. Look
at his burial. Look at his burial now. There's
his ministry. There's his death. Here's his
burial. David says in verse 25 David
speaketh concerning him. See what the scripture says?
David was talking about Christ. I foresaw the Lord always before
my face. You want to read this yourself?
Read Psalm 16. I foresaw the Lord always before
my face. He's on my right hand. That I
should not be moved. Oh, listen. Now look what he
said. I saw the Lord. That's what he's talking about.
I saw the Lord. I saw him. What happened? My heart did rejoice. I began to rejoice when I saw
the Lord. My tongue was glad. Oh my goodness,
my tongue was glad. I praised him and I blessed him
and I thanked him and I blessed his holy name. And then he says,
not only that, because I saw him, my flesh is going to rest
in hope. I'm in this body, I'm in this
flesh, but I tell you what, my flesh is going to rest in hope. because look what he says in
verse 27 because David speaking now, David preaching because
thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer
thine holy one to see corruption oh he's talking about Christ
I saw the Lord this is what I saw about him I saw him dying I saw
him being buried and I seen that he was not God wasn't going to
let him see corruption. He got to be like us. We're dead
and in three days, three or four days, we're so corrupt that our
bodies still rot. If you put a person in the ground
without being embalmed, you go back in three months and open
them up and you'll see one of the awfulest things you've ever
seen in your life. An old rotten dead body. Corrupt
bodies. There's nothing like it. I tell
you, when I was in Vietnam, we went up there to Khe Sanh to
release them, to get them folks out of there. Bodies laying everywhere. Swelled up, black, stinking. God said, my son, now go see
that. Why not he gonna say that? You got to be sinful to have
corruption. He's not sinful. He's not sinful. Death ain't
gonna corrupt him. Death is just something he did
to honor God and to save us and to put away our sins. God said,
I'm not gonna leave you in hell. I'm not gonna forsake you. No,
no. And oh, look what David says.
And he says, and oh, this is our Lord. He's speaking about
Christ. Thou hast made me know the ways of life. The way that
saves people is gonna have to be saved. And you're gonna make
me full of the joy of thy countenance. I'm gonna rejoice in you. And
then look what he says. Now David, in verse 29. David,
it says, men and brethren, David is dead and buried and his grave
is right where we go to it. So who's David talking about?
He said in verse 30, David therefore being a prophet. He's a prophet. And look what it says here. And
knowing that God Remember when I preached a message here recently
on David sat down before the Lord? That's when God swore to
him that he'd raise up someone out of his seed to sit on his
throne forever. Solomon didn't sit forever. Hezekiah
didn't sit forever. So who's going to sit on that
throne forever? The seed of David. Christ made after the seed of
David according to the flesh. This is the King. This is David's
son. And oh, he said, listen to him.
And he knowing that God swore with an oath to him of the fruit
of his loins according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ
to sit on his throne. I remember years ago, dealing
with pre-millennials to that. They go over to Acts chapter
5 or 6, I think it was, says that he'd raise up the tabernacle
of David, that that's what's going to be done in a thousand-year
reign. And I'd go over here and say,
well, what about what happened right here? Who's he talking about
there? If that's not David talking about
it, if Christ is not the tabernacle of David, if Christ is not the
tabernacle of God that came into this world, who is? Oh, listen. Look what he goes
on to say now. And look what he says, knowing
that God from him would raise up somebody to sit on the cross,
sit on his throne. And look what he says there in
verse 30. This seeing before, he saw something now. He seeing
this before, he saw this. When he saw Christ, raised from
the dead when he saw Christ sitting on his throne he seeing this
before spake in verse 31 of the resurrection of Christ that his
soul was not left in hell neither his flesh did see corruption
oh now look back down here in verse 24 God raised him for the
dead look what he says here in verse 24 whom God raised up That's
just Jesus as God raised up. We're all witnessing. He said,
whom God has raised up. Now listen to this. Having loosed
the pains of death. I thought about that. Pains of
death. Pains of death. You know, I know that we may
go through a lot of pain before we die, but there'll be no pain
in our death. If we're believers. David just
said, my flesh shall rest in hope. I'll be satisfied when
I awaken his likeness. So when he talks about the pains
of death, Christ knew the pains of death. Now what do I mean by the pains
of death? Well, it says it was not possible
that he should be holding of death. What kind of pain did
our Lord Jesus Christ go through? There was the pain of the separation
of his father. He said, Father, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me. Ah, the separation of God when
he cried out from the cross, my God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? That pain, that pain of being
separated from God. That pain that that war knows
was with God from all eternity. That pain, he said, Oh, that
pain of being separated from God. We'll never know that pain.
No, we'll never know that pain. Cause Christ did. And oh, look
what else. And then there's the pain of
what caused his death. He had to go through the pain
of what caused his death. He says, Father, you gave me
a cup, shall I not drink it? That cup, what was that cup?
Death itself. How can one who is eternal die? I've got to die. I became a man.
You prepared me a body that I could die. And then what caused his
death? You know what pain he had to
go through? Because of sin. Can you imagine the awful humiliation
of Christ being made sin? That awful cup that He took,
just my sin alone. That's all I can do to bear it
sometimes in the wretchedness that I am, in the loathsome person
that I am. But to think that Christ bore
my sin. What pain it must have cost His
soul. What pain it must have cost His
heart. What pain it must have cost His
mind. To have to bear sin. And what
agony when he says that thy sword, O Lord, has been raised against
thy fellow! Lord, he smites the shepherd!
God smites the shepherd! And the pain of God's wrath,
God's wrath, unmitigated, powerful, all-consuming wrath fell on the
Son of God. Oh, the pain. And then there's
the pain and the sorrows of the cross. Where they would slap
him and put a blindfold on him and curse him and beat him until
blood poured from his body. The Scriptures cause it to prevail
of his soul. The pain of suffering on the
cross. He says, my soul is exceeding
sorrowful under death. Now is my soul troubled. But what shall I do? Shall I
not drink the cup? Never in his mind to do anything
else. Now he went through all of that.
You and I don't have to go through any of it. We don't have to go through that.
We don't have to go through that. No, no, we don't bend to the
cross. We don't bend for sake of God. We don't bend punished
for our sins. Bless His holy name. Bless His
holy name. My soul won't be sorry for death.
My soul ain't sorry for... I miss people that's gone. I
really truly do. But my soul ain't sorry for them.
My heart rejoices for what they're going through now. Somebody leaves
here and they start their first day with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because He suffered pain of death, we won't. Because He satisfied
justice, we don't have to. Oh, bless his name. Then let
me show you this quickly. Oh my, the proof of prophecy. It says that David in verse 29,
David freely, he was a prophet. Verse 30, being a prophet, knowing
God's earth, he's seeing before a speck of the resurrection,
that God raised him up. And then look what he says in
verse 32. This Jesus has God raised up. Now listen to this
now. And every one of us here are witnesses. I'm a witness
that I saw Christ after he was raised from the dead. You remember
the story over in Mark where Mary come to him. She said, you
go tell the brethren that I go before him into Galilee. And
then he said, also said this, and tell Peter, Tell Peter. And so when the Lord showed up
there, Peter was overwhelmed. I mean, he, you know, instead
of feeling guilt, you know what he did? He embraced the Lord
Jesus Christ. After all the sin I've committed,
where else am I going to go to? Who else can forgive me of such
an awful crime that I committed against you? Was it for crimes
that I had done? He grown up on that tree of amazing
pity, grace unknown, and love beyond degree. Oh my. And we're eyewitnesses. All of
us also are witnesses of Him being alive. And then He got
the proof of the Holy Spirit. Look what He said in verse 33.
Therefore, says God raised him up and we're
witnesses to this since the resurrection took place you crucified him
God raised him death couldn't hold him therefore being by the right
hand of God exalted and having received of the Father the promise
of the Holy Ghost He said, I'm going to pour out my spirit on
all flesh. And he said, my father will send the spirit. And here
he comes, the Holy Ghost comes descending on him. And what you're
looking at right now, hearing these men preach, hearing these
tongues, hearing these languages, that's proof that Christ was
raised from the dead and God sent forth the Holy Ghost here
that's what you're viewing right now is God sent the Holy Ghost
here right today in a mighty miraculous way and oh my it was
his promise then look at his ascension oh my look at his ascension
verse 33 therefore being by the right hand of God exalted Oh, you crucified Him. He was slain. Death. God raised
Him up. Well, what did God do with Him
after He raised Him up? Exalted Him. Exalted Him. He said, I told
you to sit right here until I make you enemies of your footstool.
And you know where Christ is at right now? Same place He went
when He ascended. For being exalted. Oh my, but
look what he said in verse 34, for David's not ascended to the
heavens, but he said, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on
my right hand. What's the right hand mean? Position
of power, honor, authority. Oh, it's God's right hand. And
oh, he ascended up to glory. And I tell you, until I make
you, enemies you footstool now listen to what happens now the
response and the reaction verse 36 Therefore Therefore he goes
through all this I've since I've said that therefore Therefore
when you want when you see a therefore go back see what's there for?
And that's what's happened. We go back and everything has
happened. Therefore since Christ is ascending. I since Christ
is the right hand of God, since Christ has been raised from the
dead, since you delivered Christ to death, since you crucified
the Son of God, God raised Him up, and I've proved it from the
Scriptures. Therefore, let all the house
of Israel know assuredly that God did this, that God hath made
that same Jesus, that man whom you crucified, listen to this,
both Lord, Sitting at the right hand of God and Christ Because
that's who you crucified. Oh my and I tell you when they
heard this and they heard this message and I just preached to
you when they heard what Simon Peter said When they heard how
he preached about the ministry of Christ, the death of Christ,
the resurrection of Christ, the ascension of Christ, the glory
of Christ, and all the things that God did, and how it was
all written about him. Look what he said. That same Jesus whom you have
crucified, God hath made him both Lord and Christ. Made him
so, highly exalted him. Now look what happens to him.
When they heard this message, when they heard this message,
they were pricked in their heart. And that word prick means to
be violently stabbed. It wasn't just a, you know, a
little pen prick. You know, it's not like when
you're trying to get a splinter or something out, you know. It's
not like that. He said they were pricked, violently
stabbed in their hearts. Boy, that's what God did to me.
You know what He did when He finally stabbed me in my heart?
Turned my whole world upside down. I died to the world. I died to myself. Died to my
ministry. I used to talk about having a
ministry. I ain't got a ministry anymore. It's Christ's ministry. It's
Christ's message. Everything's His. It's not my
Bible. It's His. and all when he violently stabbed
them in their heart they said, men
and brethren what in the world we gonna do? What shall we do
since we're so guilty of this? Since this is what God did with
Christ, what are we gonna do? Peter said unto them, repent.
You know what repentance means? I know I'm taking too long, let
me look here. You know what repentance means? It means change your mind. That's what repentance is. Change
your mind. And the only way you can change your mind is for God
to change it. And change your minds. They changed their minds
when they heard this message about Christ. That's the first
thing they changed. We crucified a man. We found out this is a
Christ. We found out this is God's man.
We found out he's approved of God. We found out God highly
exalted him. We found out God raised this
man from the dead that we crucified. And there were people there that
was at the cross. And they had a change of mind
about themselves. Oh my, what are we going to do
since we crucified the Son of God? What are we going to do?
How are we going to face God? And they changed their mind about
his death. They took their part in the death of Christ and said,
oh God, that had to change. And then he says, be baptized,
every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ. Now what in
the world does this mean? What it says is, you be baptized
in the name of this man you crucified. You wouldn't identify with him
when he was on the earth. Now you're gonna have to identify
with him. Now you're going to have to own
His authority. Now you're going to have to bow to Him. Now you're
going to have to say, my whole salvation rests in Him. And that's
why it says, be baptized every one of you in this very name
that you hate and despise. And that's what it is. That's
what baptism is. It's identifying with Jesus Christ. I own Him to be my all and end
all. And I'm going to walk before
Him. I'm going to live to His glory, live to His honor. And
it's not baptism that remits sins, it's Christ, in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. He said, preach Christ
for the remission of sins. Baptism, water never washed away
a sin, only Christ did. And oh, look what he says down
there in verse 41, and I'm done. Then they that gladly received
his word were baptized. Do you gladly receive the word?
Receive it with joy? And they gladly received his
word. They were baptized and the same
day there were 3,000 souls. All the gospel, nothing like
it, nothing like it.