Be Saved Acts 2:1440

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Be Saved!
Acts 214-40
Taking our part in Gods worldwide Kingdom
movement
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Acts A Thematic Look

• 1. The Plan of Gods Kingdom
• 2. The Power of Gods Kingdom
• 3. The Proclamation of Gods Kingdom
• 4. The People of Gods Kingdom
• 5. The Penetration of Gods Kingdom

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Acts 2 - What is happening?

• What is going on?
• Listening to strangers speak in your own
  language!
• Trying to understand what your own people are
  saying
• Hearing people speak about Jesus being alive

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Be Saved! (Acts 214-40)

• A. The Explanation of Pentecost (214-21)
• B. The Focus on Jesus Christ ( 222-36)
• C. The Exhortation to the People (237-40)

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What were they all doing there?
A. The Explanation (214-21)
Day of Firstfruits
Feast of Weeks
You shall count seven weeks for yourself you
shall begin to count seven weeks from the time
you begin to put the sickle to the standing
grain. Then you shall celebrate the Feast of
Weeks to the LORD your God... (Deut 169).
7 X 7 49
Pentecost 50
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A. The Explanation (214-21)
The Significance
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What about the foreign languages?
A. The Explanation (214-21)
But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven,
raised his voice and declared to them Men of
Judea, and all you who live in Jerusalem, let
this be known to you, and give heed to my words.
For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for
it is only the third hour of the day but this is
what was spoken of through the prophet Joel
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A. The Explanation (214-21)
AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS, God says,
THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT UPON ALL
MANKIND AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL
PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS,
AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS EVEN UPON MY
BONDSLAVES, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSE
DAYS POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT And they shall
prophesy. AND I WILL GRANT WONDERS IN THE SKY
ABOVE, AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BENEATH, BLOOD, AND
FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE. THE SUN SHALL BE
TURNED INTO DARKNESS, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD,
BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD
SHALL COME. AND IT SHALL BE, THAT EVERYONE WHO
CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.
Acts 214-21, NASB.
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Signs of a New Era (216-18)
A. The Explanation (214-21)

• And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
• Your old men will dream dreams,
• Your young men will see visions.
• And even on the male and female servants I will
  pour out My Spirit in those days.

1. Foreign languages evidence of Spirits work 2.
Working in all kinds of people 3. Reaching the
nations (all mankind) 4. Significantly impact
their hearts (pour out)
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Signs of a Old Era Acts 219-20
A. The Explanation (214-21)
19 And I will grant ...

• Wonders in the sky aboveSigns on the earth
  beneath, blood, and fire and vapor of smokeSun
  shall be turned into darkness Moon into blood

1. Poetic prophecy is hard to rightly
interpret 2. Not many days since last in
Jerusalem 3. Signs during Jesus time 4. Signs of
Jerusalems destruction
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Signs of a Old Era (Acts 219-20)
A. The Explanation (214-21)
3. Signs during Jesus time
Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all
the land until the ninth hour. (Matthew 2745).
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and
yielded up His spirit. And behold, the veil of
the temple was torn in two from top to bottom,
and the earth shook and the rocks were split,
and the tombs were opened and many bodies of the
saints who had fallen asleep were raised
(Matthew 2750-52).
4. Signs of Jerusalems destruction
And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and
will be led captive into all the nations and
Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the
Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled. And there will be signs in sun and
moon and stars, and upon the earth dismay among
nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea
and the waves, (Luke 2124-25).
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Examining Our Hearts
A. The Explanation (214-21)
But this is what was spoken of through the
prophet Joel (Acts 216).
This what was spoken
Pentecost prophecy fulfilled
1. Accept the old era (Old Covenant) is past 2.
Anticipate the Spirits work in new era (New
Covenant) 3. Not accept mere religiosity, mans
efforts 4. Live by the power of the Spirit
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B. The Focus on Jesus Christ ( 222-36)
1. Jesus, the Suffering Messiah (222-23)
Men of Israel, listen to these words Jesus the
Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with
miracles and wonders and signs which God
performed through Him in your midst, just as you
yourselves know-- this Man, delivered up by the
predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you
nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and
put Him to death. (Acts 222-23).
(a) Jesus miracles, wonders and signs on earth
attest to His deity (222) (b) Not a mistake but
planned (e.g. feasts) (223)
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B. The Focus on Jesus Christ ( 222-36)
1. Jesus, the Suffering Messiah (222-23) 2.
Jesus, the Risen Messiah (224-32) 3. Jesus, the
Ascended Lord (233-36)
ReflectIons
And God raised Him up again, putting an end to
the agony of death, since it was impossible for
Him to be held in its power. (Acts 224).

• God raised Him up (224)
• End to agony of death (224)
• Impossible to be held by death (224)
• Davids witness (225-32)

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3. Jesus, the Ascended Lord (233-36)
B. The Focus on Jesus Christ ( 222-36)
33 Therefore having been exalted to the right
hand of God, and having received from the Father
the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured
forth this which you both see and hear. 34 For
it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he
himself says THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, SIT AT
MY RIGHT HAND, 35 UNTIL I MAKE THINE ENEMIES A
FOOTSTOOL FOR THY FEET. 36 Therefore let all
the house of Israel know for certain that God has
made Him both Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom
you crucified.
1. Jesus Ascension (Spirits gift) 2. Thoughts
on the Trinity (233) 3. Jesus is Lord (Key
phrase 221, 34-36)
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C. The Exhortation (Acts 237-40)
37 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to
the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the
apostles, Brethren, what shall we do? 38 And
Peter said to them, Repent, and let each of you
be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sins and you shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise
is for you and your children, and for all who are
far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call
to Himself. 40 And with many other words he
solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them,
saying, Be saved from this perverse
generation! (Acts 237-40).

• Convicted hearts (237)
• Response of the Apostles (238-40)

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Conclusion

• Do not say that God has not called you. God has
  commanded all everywhere to repent.
• Do not think that Jesus was only a good man.
  Jesus is alive and Lord over all.
• Do not think that being a good Christian is
  good enough. Live by the power of the Holy
  Spirit.
• Do not think that one does not need to repent.
  Repent and be saved!
• Do not think the resurrection is unimportant.
  Without Jesus raised from the dead, no salvation.
• Do not think your infant baptism is enough. It
  says, Repent and be baptized!

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Be Saved!
Acts 214-40
Taking our part in Gods worldwide Kingdom
movement