Acts 2:22-36 Do You Know For Certain?

V.22- Jesus the Nazarene V.22- Attested to you by God with Miracles- supernatural power Wonders- to marvel Signs- to point to

John 8:48 (Religious leaders) The Jews answered and said to Him, "Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?" Luke 11:18-20 "If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. 19 "And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? So they will be your judges. 20 "But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. John 10:33 The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

V.22- Attested to you by God with Miracles- supernatural power Wonders- to marvel Signs- to point to V.36- God has made Him both Lord and Christ

V.23- delivered over Betrayed or surrendered to an enemy

Luke 4:29-30 and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff. 30 But passing through their midst, He went His way. John 5:18 For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. John 7:30 So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

V.23- delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God Predetermined (horizo)- mark with a boundary Plan- Will and/or design (Purpose) Galatians 4:4-6 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. V.23- you nailed to a cross V.23- by the hand of godless men and put Him to death

V.23- God raised Him up again – Putting an end to the agony of death – It was impossible for Him to be held in its (death’s) power V.32- This Jesus God raised up again – To which we are all witnesses Romans 5:8-10 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

V.37- they were pierced to the heart Pierced (stabbed)- sudden and unexpected Intense, heart felt conviction What must we do? V.38- Repent- “Total change of purpose” V.38- Be Baptized, for (because of) the forgiveness of your sins V.38- Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit

Acts 4:23-31 V.28- to do whatever your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur. V.24- The sovereign creator Vs Declared it through David V.27- Executed it through those He ordained Jesus Herod Pilate Gentiles Israel

V.24- they lifted their voices V.31- and when they had prayed V.29- And now (in the face of certain persecution) V.29 Bond-servants V.29- Enable us to proclaim Your Word boldly V.30- Affirm Your message with signs and wonders