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27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see acorruption. 
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’
29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you aof the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.  
30 Therefore, being a prophet, aand knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body,1 according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,  
31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, athat His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.  
32 aThis Jesus God has raised up, bof which we are all witnesses.  
33 Therefore abeing exalted to bthe right hand of God, and chaving received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He dpoured out this which you now see and hear.  
34 “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself:
a‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand, 
35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’
36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
37 Now when they heard this, athey were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”  
38 Then Peter said to them, a“Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the1 remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  
39 For the promise is to you and ato your children, and bto all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”  

A Vital Church Grows

40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this1 perverse generation.”  
41 Then those who1 gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.  
Commentaries:


No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Acts 2:29.

Acts 2:29-39

Now 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.

Excerpted from Jesus in the Feasts (Part Two): Firstfruits



Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Acts 2:29:

Luke 1:26-30
Luke 1:41-42
Hebrews 11:5-6
Hebrews 11:32


 
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