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Acts 2:29-39
Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Two): FirstfruitsNow Peter says a mouthful here. But what he is saying is that Jesus Christ died. He was crucified. And the Father raised Him to life again. And because He accepted Him at His throne, Jesus was given responsibility over the Holy Spirit. He, as the First of the firstfruits or as the Firstfruit, was given the Holy Spirit as His responsibility. He is the dispenser of the Holy Spirit as our High Priest. He is the one that is over our receiving of the Holy Spirit and our use of the Holy Spirit. So He was given an awesome responsibility, that God the Father said, "Son, all of these people I have given You, this, this, this, this, this. Start with these eleven, then these 120, and expand. And You are the One that is going to give the Spirit to each one."
He cannot give it willy-nilly. Peter says right here that Jesus would give it to those who repent and are baptized, have their sins forgiven. Let us not forget what he said at the end of verse 39, that these are only the ones that God the Father would call. So He had a limited list. And if they did the right things, being given a little bit of faith, given understanding, and they took this knowledge and they repented and they sought baptism, then Jesus would infuse them with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:29
Excerpted from: Acts (Part Four)So what he is doing is he is going to draw on prophecies from various places and remind them that this Jesus of Nazareth fit what those prophecies said, and so he begins with a resurrection. The Jews of that day would have recognized Psalm 16 as applying to the Messiah and applying to a resurrection of the Messiah. Now in verse 29 comes another part of the argument, because part of the argument might be, well, that psalm really did not apply to the Messiah, that psalm applied to David. Because he was generally seen to be the author of that psalm. And that maybe David was talking about himself. So he says,
His tomb was there. Now, how does that fit the context of Psalm 16? Well, it does not. He is implying, of course, that David went into the grave, into the tomb, and that David's body saw corruption. Therefore, he could not be the one being spoken about there. It had to be the Holy One of Israel. It had to be the Messiah that was being spoken of. So then David's tomb is proof that the psalmist was not writing about himself.
Acts 2:29-36
Excerpted from: Jesus Christ's AscensionNotice that Peter points out that what happened on Pentecost was a consequence of Jesus having been exalted to the right hand of God. Jesus received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, and He then gave gifts—especially that Spirit—to men. As it says, “He poured out this which you now see and hear.” So, the manifestation of the Spirit was evidence of Jesus sitting at the right hand of the Father, and of God having made Him “both Lord and Christ,” meaning, “the Anointed One.” The events of the day were proof of who Jesus was and the position He held at the Father’s right hand. Thus, Pentecost for the church follows on the heels of Christ’s ascension, exaltation, and sitting down.
Acts 2:29
Excerpted from: Peter's Pentecost SermonWhat did this tell the Jews? David's tomb still contained his body, and if that is the case, and Jesus' tomb is empty, and the great stone was rolled back and no one knows how that occurred, who then did this Psalm 16 refer to? It had to refer to David's greater Son - the Messiah, who was none other than Jesus of Nazareth, though a Galilean.
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