Power to change
Posted by Ps. Jenny | | Posted On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 11:20 AM
READ
Acts 2: 25-28
Problem
David wrote "You will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave" (v. 27). But David died and his grave was there in Jerusalem at the time Peter preached.
Answer
David wasn't writing about himself.
READ
Acts 2: 29-36
Although David was a king, not a prophet like Joel, the Holy Spirit enabled David to prophesy that one of his descendants would be the "Messiah" - God's chosen one, Jesus. And it was Jesus, not David, who was raised from the dead.
Peter didn't have time to sit down and read what the experts said about the Old Testament. The Holy Spirit helped him to understand how the words written hundreds of years before had been fulfilled in Jesus.
THINK
Peter used the Old Testament because it was the sort of evidence that would convince his listeners. What sort of evidence will convince your friends that Jesus is really God?
Acts 2: 25-28
Problem
David wrote "You will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave" (v. 27). But David died and his grave was there in Jerusalem at the time Peter preached.
Answer
David wasn't writing about himself.
READ
Acts 2: 29-36
Although David was a king, not a prophet like Joel, the Holy Spirit enabled David to prophesy that one of his descendants would be the "Messiah" - God's chosen one, Jesus. And it was Jesus, not David, who was raised from the dead.
Peter didn't have time to sit down and read what the experts said about the Old Testament. The Holy Spirit helped him to understand how the words written hundreds of years before had been fulfilled in Jesus.
THINK
Peter used the Old Testament because it was the sort of evidence that would convince his listeners. What sort of evidence will convince your friends that Jesus is really God?
Knowing All Of God.....
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit..... Be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God as you commune with each member of the Trinity.
It's a glorious way to experience a full communion with the Lord, and thereby discover how wide, long, high, and deep is the love of Christ.