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THE FIRST “SERMON” PART SEVEN – THE NUMBER OF COMPLETION Acts 2:37-47

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Page 1: Acts 2:37-38 ~ Now What? Step 1: Repent!

THE FIRST “SERMON”PART SEVEN – THE NUMBER OF COMPLETION

Acts 2:37-47

Page 2: Acts 2:37-38 ~ Now What? Step 1: Repent!

Acts 2:14 (beginning)

“Men of Judah andall you residents of

Jerusalem, let me explain this to you

and pay attention to my

words…’

Acts 2:36 (conclusion)

“Therefore let all the house of Israel

know with certainty that…

“God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified,

both Lord and Messiah!”

LITERARY DEVICE: INCLUSIO

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BROTHERS, WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

•Repent

•Be Baptized• In the name of Jesus Christ (Jesus Messiah) *•For the forgiveness of your sins •And the gift of the Holy Spirit *

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REPENT• Change your mind and your life

• Turn right about and do it now

• Implies a complete change of heart and confession of sin

• A change of direction in a person’s life, not just a mental change of attitude or feeling of remorse

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REPENT• Peter believes that without change, his Jewish audience faced God’s judgment for their sins…

•Not just outsiders of Gentiles need to be saved, but insiders as well…

• Especially those involved in Jesus’ death.

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BE BAPTIZED• Submit to the humiliation of baptism

• Jews regarded baptism as necessary for GENTILE converts ONLY

• IN THE NAME OF the Messiah they had previously rejected

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BE BAPTIZED“IN THE NAME OF Jesus Christ (Jesus Messiah)”

• “On the basis of the name of”• “To the account of”• “With reference to”• “In the authority of”

“Jesus was probably namedas the baptizing was being done.”

(Witherington, 154)

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BE BAPTIZED“For the forgiveness of your sins”

• John the Baptist proclaimed a “baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Mk 1:4, Lk 3:3)

• Jesus preached repentance (Mt 4:17; Mk 1:15)

• Jesus & Disciples baptized (Jn 3:22, 26; 4:1-2)

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“Forgiveness, pardon, is not an act which takes place within the soul of the person who is guilty;

it takes place in the mind of the person who forgives,

and it cannot be known to the person forgiven except by some medium of communication…

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When it is God who forgives,

it is an act of the divine mind in reference to the sinner,

and not a change within the sinner himself.

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It is an act which from its very nature cannot take place

until there has already occurred within the sinner such a change of heart and purpose

as can make it proper in God, even on the ground of atonement in Christ, to extend pardon.

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In other words, the whole inward change which the sinner is required to undergo

must take place before the sin can be forgiven.”

McGarvey, pp. 44-45

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