because He nailed our sins to
the cross, not in part, but the whole. Not in part, but the whole. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Oh, my soul. That's the only
way it can be well with you, soul. Christ will bear your sin. If He bore it, you won't have
to face it. If He didn't, you will. And that's why it's well
with our soul, because He nailed our sins to His cross, and we
bear them no more. Amen. Acts chapter 2. Acts chapter
2. While you're turning, I mentioned
Shirley's brother-in-law Wednesday evening. He had surgery Friday.
Very, very long surgery. He had cancer on both sides of
his neck and they took out his thyroid. It was about a six-hour
surgery and the cancer was wrapped around his vocal cords and they
had to take it away from there. They said they believe they got
it all. But they also found out that he had moved and domesticized
to his lungs. So he's got to get over this
before they can. So yeah, I appreciate you all
remember him in prayer and it's a day facing some tough situations.
But you know, we pray, we pray for him and Lord uphold him,
give him grace. We certainly will. And some of
you ladies that's for our Get together on Friday evening the
15th. You need to meet after the service
if you can for a few minutes to talk about some things. 1st
Peter, excuse me, I'm going to read from 2nd Peter, Acts chapter
2 starting at verse 14. This is the day of Pentecost.
The Holy Ghost fell on them. They were filled with tongues
and And fire, the fire of God fell on them. And when he talks
about the fire here, he's talking about the Holy Ghost coming on
them, the Holy Spirit coming on them and setting them on fire
with the gospel. But here is a message. Well,
but Peter, standing up with the 11, lifted up his voice and said
unto them, you men of Judea and all you that dwell at Jerusalem,
be this known unto you and hearken to my words. because they thought
these fellows were all drunk because they spake in different
tongues. But these are not drunken as you suppose, but this is that
which was spoken by the prophet Joel. And this shall come to
pass in the last days, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young
men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, and
on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days
of my spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders
in heaven above, signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire,
and vaporous smoke. The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood before the great and notable
day of the Lord God. And it shall come to pass that
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
You men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs
which God did by Him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also
know. Him, being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked
hands have crucified and slain. whom God hath raised up, having
loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should
beholden of it. For David speaketh concerning
him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face. For he is on
my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore doeth
my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh
shall rest in hope. Because thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to seek
corruption. Thou hast made known to me the
ways of life, thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Men and brethren, let me freely
speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and
buried, and his sepulcher, or his grave, is with us unto this
day. Therefore, David being a prophet,
and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of
the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise
up Christ to sit on his throne, He seeing this before spake of the resurrection
of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his
flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we are all witnesses. Therefore, being by the right
hand of God exalted, And having received of the Father the promise
of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now see and
hear. For David is not ascending to the heavens, but he saith
himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
until I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore, let all the house
of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus,
whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now, when they
had heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto
Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what
shall we do? Then 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 to all that are far off, even as
many, as the Lord our God shall call." And with many other words
did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward
generation. Then they gladly received his
word, were baptized, and the same day, there were added unto
them about 3,000 souls. Will, look with me back here
in Acts chapter 2. I read a lot of scriptures this
morning, but it's necessary for me to 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 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. Didn't say 3,000 people, said
3,000 souls. God, every man's viewed as a
soul. That eternal part, that eternal thing that lives on forever. But here 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, he had, 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'd come to America and preach 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 of 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 them speak, I
was all these people around there and they heard them 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 from all over and it
told who they were. Somehow all I hear is the baptism
of the Holy Ghost and 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 sin. 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 a 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,
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 the 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, then Moses and the
law and the prophets and the psalm, 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 in 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 thy love. 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 could, and may God, open thou mine eyes that I may behold
wondrous. And that's what Simon Peter's
doing 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. He used the prophet Joel. Joel
had been preaching on judgment, judgment, judgment, but then
he turned around and say, but you know what God's going to
do in the last days? And the last day started when
Christ came to this earth. That was the last days. People
talk about we're in the last days. The last day started when
Christ came to this world. That's when the last day started.
And he said on the last days, I'll pour out my spirit on all
flesh. That hadn't happened before.
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 and about.
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 all, listen, he said, you
know, and listen, and I tell you, they're going to, 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 and 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 side 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 is 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'd have
said to Simon Peter that day, boy, you brought an awful good
sermon today, you know what he would have said? Is that 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 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
verse 22. you men of Israel, and this is
the first thing he said, hear these words. I got to say something
to you. I got something to say. I 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
of Nazareth, that's the first thing he said, Jesus of 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 of Nazareth, 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 tell you, approved of God,
He was sin 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
in 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 all these different gods and
different religions, but he says God's got one person that he
spoke 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's 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, oh, 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 why he says that
Joel saw my day. David foresaw my day. And I tell
you, it said, there ain't gonna be another word from God till
the day of judgment. No, don't look for another, 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. 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. Multitudes of 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 so 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 that I'm the
one that God's approved of and that I do miracles. So that's
my witness 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 of Nazareth. I got a witness. I'm a witness
to who he is. And he said, who is it? You sinned
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've 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, and the Father himself,
which hath sent me, hath 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 tell
us bear witness to our Lord in his ministry, but he also bore
witness to his death. Look in verse 23 here, Jack's
chapter two. 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, 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. He says here, him
being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God. He was the lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. God himself, it says here, pleased
the Lord to bruise him. The Lord made his soul an offering
for sin. And our Lord Jesus Christ He,
He, He, He, He willed, yielded Himself up. And you know God
delivered Him up. God sent His Son. God delivered
Him up. God made Him to be sent. 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, and you know He
told, 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 sent 500 people out
to take one man. And they said, he stepped up,
and there was all of them around him. He said, he stepped up and
said, who are you looking for, Jesus or Nazareth? He said, I
am. Oh, my goodness, people don't
just own up to who they are. Yes, they do if they're who he
is. And oh, my, they got up again.
He said, who are you looking for? And they said, Jesus or
Nazareth. I'm he. If you want me, take me. all these got to go free and
that's where it is he he they he was taken so we could go free
ah if you're gonna 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 Emma are praying.
They've just been led out of you know, these fellas 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.
Then man's part will say, we're going to destroy God's purpose.
We're going to stop God ratting his tracks. They're going to
stop God. But He used them to do His will,
and they've 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 determine 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, it's 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 about him verse 23 delivered
by the counsel and foreknowledge of god you took him you took
him and by wicked hands your hands were wicked and have slain
him have slain him and that's what he talked he told in verse
36 look what he says down 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? 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 stuck that spear in his side? 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? Oh, that that same Jesus whom
you crucified, God's made him Lord in Christ. Oh my, 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 did it, what happened? My
heart did rejoice. I began to rejoice when I saw
the Lord there in verse 26. 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 Because, look what he says in
verse 27. Because, David's 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 and this is what I saw about him. I saw him dying. I saw him being buried. I've seen that he was not, God
wasn't gonna let him see corruption. He's not gonna be like us. We're
dead and in three days, three or four days, we're so corrupt
and our bodies still rot. If they didn't, 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. 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, to get them folks out of there. Bodies laying everywhere,
swelled up, black, stinking. But God said, my son's not going
to see that. Why not he going to see that?
You got to be sinful to have corruption. He's not sinful. He's not sinful. Death ain't
going to corrupt him. Death is just something he did
to honor God and to save us and to put away our sins. Oh, God
said, I'm not going to leave you in hell. I'm not going to
forsake you. No, no. And oh, look what David says.
And he says, and oh, this is our Lord speaking about Christ.
Thou hast made me know the ways of life, the way that saves people
is going to have to be saved. And you're going to make me full
of the joy of thy countenance. I'm going to rejoice in you.
Huh? And then look what he says. Now,
David in verse 29, David is, he said, men and brethren, David
is dead and buried and his grave is right where we can 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 swore to
him. 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 gonna 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 it.
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'd go over to Acts chapter
5 or 6 I think it was says that he'd raise up the tabernacle
of David that said 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, 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 it 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 him. 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 knew
was worth with God from all eternity. That pain, he says, that, 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 caused
His soul! What pain it must have caused
His heart! What pain it must have caused
His mind! To have to bear sin! And what
agony when it 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. No, we done been to the cross.
We done been forsaken of God. We done been punished for our
sins. Bless his holy name. Bless his holy name. My soul
won't be sorrowful, dad. My soul ain't sorrowful. 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. Oh, 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 said
he was verse 30 being a prophet knowing God's earth. He's seeing
before spake of the resurrection that God raised him up and then
look what he says in verse 32 this Jesus have God raised up
now listen to this now and every one of us here are witnesses.
I'm a 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,
who else am I going to go to? Who else could forgive me of
such an awful crime that I committed against you? Was it for crimes
that I had done? He groaned upon that tree of
amazing pity, grace unknown, and love beyond degree. Oh my. And we're eyewitnesses. All of us all saw him, witnesses
of him being alive. And then he got the proof of
the Holy Spirit. Look what he said in verse 33.
Therefore, since God raised him up, and we're witnesses of this,
since the resurrections 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 gonna pour out my
spirit on all flesh. And he said, I'll not like, he said, I'm not,
he said, my Father will send the spirit 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 that's what you're
viewing right now is God sent the Holy Ghost here right today
in a mighty miraculous way huh 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. But what 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,
you footstool. And you know where Christ is at right now? Same
place he went when he ascended. Therefore 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, huh? And I tell you, until I
make you enemies, you're footstone. Now listen to what happens now,
the response and the reaction. Verse 36, therefore, Therefore, he goes through all
this. Since I said that, therefore. Therefore, when you see a therefore,
go back and see what it's there for. And that's what's happened.
We go back and everything has happened. Therefore, since Christ
is ascended, since Christ is the right hand of God, since
Christ's 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 And Christ because that's who you crucify. Oh my
And I tell you, when they heard this, and they heard this message
that 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 says. 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 them.
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 pin 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. It said they were pricked, violently stabbed in the heart.
Well, that's what God did to me. You know what He did when
He violently 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, 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 him, 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 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 they 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. wouldn't identify with him when
he's on the earth now you're going to 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 he says be baptized
every one of you in this very name that you hated and despised
and that's what it is that's what baptism is is 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 and 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. Our Father, in the blessed, blessed,
blessed name of Christ our Lord. Oh, Father, thank you for the
Holy Spirit today. He still comes. He still comes
in power. He still comes with words. He
still comes with the same message. And we thank you for it. We bless
you for it. And we pray that hearts would
be pricked, souls would be saved, sinners would be baptized, calling
on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. identify with him, own
him, and say, yes, I want to be identified with Christ and
his people. I do. I do. May it be so, and
may it be done according to your will and for Christ's sake and
to his glory. Amen and amen.