1. The early Christians

2. The early Christians
Murderers of the Messiah

3. Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know –
Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death.
Acts 2:22-23

4. The early Christians Murderers of the Messiah
Willing to listen to, receive truth

5. Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
Acts 2:37

6. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved…
…that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thess 2:9-10, 12

7. The early Christians Murderers of the Messiah
Willing to listen to, receive truth
Obedient to the gospel plan of salvation

8. Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added.
Acts 2:38, 40-41

9. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever…
Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
1 Pet. 1:22-23, 25b

10. The early Christians Murderers of the Messiah
Willing to listen to, receive truth
Obedient to the gospel plan of salvation
Faithful worshipers

11. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Acts 2:42

12. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Heb. 10:24-25

13. The early Christians Murderers of the Messiah
Willing to listen to, receive truth
Obedient to the gospel plan of salvation
Faithful worshipers
Mindful of each others’ needs

14. Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.
Acts 2:44-45

15. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
1 Jn. 3:17-18

16. The early Christians
We can become what they were… (simple N.T. Christians)
…when we do what they did
(obey the gospel, live faithfully to God)

17. Let us worship God as they did.
The early Christians
Let us worship God as they did.