John Carter – The Speeches in the Acts – Class 2 – Peter’s Speech (Acts 2v22-37)

1
00:00:00,680 –> 00:00:08,760
Dear all of you, we were
speaking yesterday about the

2
00:00:08,760 –> 00:00:14,480
importance that we should attach
to the portions of Luke’s

3
00:00:14,480 –> 00:00:20,200
narrative by reference to the
place he gives to them in space

4
00:00:20,200 –> 00:00:26,240
and repetition.
And since he gives so much space

5
00:00:26,240 –> 00:00:30,240
to the various speeches, it is
quite evident that Luke would

6
00:00:30,240 –> 00:00:34,040
have us understand something
concerning the thinking of the

7
00:00:34,080 –> 00:00:38,000
early Christians, something
concerning the message that was

8
00:00:38,000 –> 00:00:43,200
given to them, something
concerning God’s message which

9
00:00:43,200 –> 00:00:45,840
was communicated through them as
witnesses.

10
00:00:48,240 –> 00:00:53,320
We are back at the very
beginning of Christian teaching.

11
00:00:54,920 –> 00:00:59,600
We are going to consider the
first address that was given.

12
00:01:00,960 –> 00:01:05,160
It wasn’t address, however, with
a background, for there had been

13
00:01:05,160 –> 00:01:08,080
some preparation of the men who
were to give it.

14
00:01:09,680 –> 00:01:15,200
We all know how dismayed they
were when Jesus was crucified

15
00:01:16,080 –> 00:01:19,560
and how it seemed as though all
their expectations had failed.

16
00:01:20,720 –> 00:01:26,960
We all know how changed it was
when after the first day Jesus

17
00:01:26,960 –> 00:01:32,840
had appeared unto them.
We are told that Jesus met them

18
00:01:32,840 –> 00:01:36,000
and expounded to them from the
scriptures.

19
00:01:36,920 –> 00:01:41,160
And I think we’re quite right in
attaching some words that Jesus

20
00:01:41,160 –> 00:01:45,480
spake, which are in his in the
first book of Luke, in the

21
00:01:45,480 –> 00:01:50,600
Gospel, concerning what Jesus
told them after he was raised

22
00:01:50,600 –> 00:01:55,640
from the dead.
He met 2 on the way to Emmaus.

23
00:01:57,120 –> 00:02:02,920
They thought he was a stranger.
And he said, what is this that

24
00:02:02,920 –> 00:02:04,960
you’re discussing among
yourselves?

25
00:02:05,960 –> 00:02:10,320
And as we read it, we can catch
first one speaking and then the

26
00:02:10,320 –> 00:02:14,800
other as they answer him, as
their words fall over each

27
00:02:14,800 –> 00:02:22,720
other, as they talk to him.
If we go back just to catch that

28
00:02:22,720 –> 00:02:26,920
up, The 21st verse, we trusted
that it had been He which should

29
00:02:26,920 –> 00:02:30,480
have redeemed Israel.
And beside all this, today is

30
00:02:30,480 –> 00:02:32,760
the third day since these things
were done.

31
00:02:33,560 –> 00:02:35,800
And you catch the voice of the
other interposing.

32
00:02:35,960 –> 00:02:38,280
Yeah.
And certain women also of our

33
00:02:38,280 –> 00:02:41,120
company made us astonished,
which were early at the

34
00:02:41,120 –> 00:02:44,040
sepulchre.
And when they found not his

35
00:02:44,040 –> 00:02:47,200
body, they came, saying that
they had seen also a vision of

36
00:02:47,200 –> 00:02:50,120
angels.
And thus they tossed their words

37
00:02:50,120 –> 00:02:52,880
of the word Luke used by Luke
indicates.

38
00:02:52,880 –> 00:02:56,600
They tossed their words one to
the other, as they fall over

39
00:02:56,600 –> 00:02:59,880
each other, almost in their
eagerness to communicate to this

40
00:02:59,880 –> 00:03:04,360
stranger.
And then he said to them, all

41
00:03:04,360 –> 00:03:07,600
foolish ones, and slow of heart,
to believe all that the prophets

42
00:03:07,600 –> 00:03:09,920
have spoken.
Ought not Christ to have

43
00:03:09,920 –> 00:03:12,560
suffered these things, and to
enter into his glory?

44
00:03:13,320 –> 00:03:16,480
And beginning at Moses and all
the prophets, he expounded unto

45
00:03:16,480 –> 00:03:19,640
them in all the Scriptures the
things concerning Himself.

46
00:03:20,800 –> 00:03:23,760
And then when He was revealed to
them at the breaking of bread,

47
00:03:24,280 –> 00:03:27,680
they thought nothing of the
journey back to Jerusalem to say

48
00:03:27,680 –> 00:03:32,320
that the Lord was risen.
But they said one to another did

49
00:03:32,320 –> 00:03:36,720
not our heartburn within us
while He talked with us, by the

50
00:03:36,720 –> 00:03:40,360
way, and while He opened up to
us the Scriptures.

51
00:03:41,120 –> 00:03:48,400
Now there’s the divine example.
He opened up the Scriptures, and

52
00:03:48,400 –> 00:03:53,080
the opening up of the scriptures
by this master teacher had the

53
00:03:53,080 –> 00:03:58,320
effect of making their hearts
glow and burn within them.

54
00:03:59,600 –> 00:04:04,560
Now that is what we will try to
do as far as lies in the power

55
00:04:04,560 –> 00:04:09,080
of all of us as we study
together these words of

56
00:04:09,080 –> 00:04:11,920
inspiration through the
apostles.

57
00:04:13,360 –> 00:04:18,720
But Jesus had to complete the
preparation, and He met the

58
00:04:18,720 –> 00:04:21,880
apostles, as Luke tells us in a
later verse.

59
00:04:23,160 –> 00:04:25,840
And he said unto them, We’re
quoting verse 44.

60
00:04:26,240 –> 00:04:29,240
These are the words which I
spake unto you, while I was yet

61
00:04:29,240 –> 00:04:32,920
with you, that all things must
be fulfilled, which were written

62
00:04:32,920 –> 00:04:35,720
in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the Psalms

63
00:04:35,720 –> 00:04:40,680
concerning me.
Then opened He their

64
00:04:40,680 –> 00:04:46,800
understanding, that they might
understand the Scriptures, So

65
00:04:46,800 –> 00:04:51,360
that insight which was His
concerning the meaning of

66
00:04:51,360 –> 00:04:58,160
Scripture was given to them.
He opened up their standing, and

67
00:04:58,480 –> 00:05:01,440
expounded to them what had been
written.

68
00:05:01,680 –> 00:05:05,240
Thus it is written, and thus it
behoves Christ to suffer and to

69
00:05:05,240 –> 00:05:07,000
rise from the dead the third
day.

70
00:05:07,000 –> 00:05:10,440
And the repentance and remission
of sin should be preached in His

71
00:05:10,440 –> 00:05:13,560
name among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem.

72
00:05:13,560 –> 00:05:18,720
And ye are witnesses.
And I think we will be right in

73
00:05:18,720 –> 00:05:24,920
saying that that divine pattern
in the words of Jesus, as He

74
00:05:24,920 –> 00:05:30,680
expounded to them the Scriptures
concerning Himself, was that

75
00:05:30,680 –> 00:05:34,480
which gave shape to their own
addresses.

76
00:05:35,720 –> 00:05:40,800
It was that mould in which their
thought was cast as they went

77
00:05:40,800 –> 00:05:46,200
out to witness to this truth.
They had to testify to Jews that

78
00:05:46,200 –> 00:05:50,760
Jesus whom they had crucified,
was really the Messiah.

79
00:05:51,920 –> 00:05:56,000
And not only had to they to
witness to the fact, as a matter

80
00:05:56,000 –> 00:05:59,360
of experience in their own
lives, that Jesus had risen from

81
00:05:59,360 –> 00:06:03,560
the dead, but they had to put
that fact of the resurrection of

82
00:06:03,640 –> 00:06:08,040
Jesus into the framework of the
Old Testament revelation.

83
00:06:08,920 –> 00:06:12,400
And therefore it was necessary
that they should understand and

84
00:06:12,400 –> 00:06:16,760
be empowered to open up the
significance of the Old

85
00:06:16,760 –> 00:06:20,160
Testament Scriptures in order
that it might be shown that what

86
00:06:20,160 –> 00:06:24,120
had happened in Jerusalem in
connection with Jesus was

87
00:06:24,120 –> 00:06:27,240
according to the divine plan
that had been revealed in the

88
00:06:27,240 –> 00:06:32,600
Old Testament writings.
And as we study these speeches

89
00:06:32,600 –> 00:06:35,960
in Acts, we shall find the
resemblance between them.

90
00:06:37,160 –> 00:06:43,000
And again, I think it would be
right to say that before many

91
00:06:43,000 –> 00:06:46,960
days had passed in connection
with the work of preaching the

92
00:06:46,960 –> 00:06:53,640
Gospel, they had a group of
texts on the different headings,

93
00:06:54,640 –> 00:07:02,160
which was common property of all
the teachers, and all turned to

94
00:07:02,160 –> 00:07:07,200
it for guidance and used it as
the pattern upon which could be

95
00:07:07,200 –> 00:07:12,080
presented.
This doctrine we have a

96
00:07:12,080 –> 00:07:15,560
declaration.
All of you will be familiar with

97
00:07:15,560 –> 00:07:17,960
it.
It consists of a number of

98
00:07:17,960 –> 00:07:24,280
propositions and a display of
proof texts in support of the

99
00:07:24,280 –> 00:07:30,760
propositions.
And that that was something like

100
00:07:30,760 –> 00:07:35,880
what the early believers had
probably before ever a gospel

101
00:07:35,880 –> 00:07:40,840
was written.
They were bodies of testimonies,

102
00:07:40,840 –> 00:07:46,080
a corpus of quotations
testifying to certain particular

103
00:07:46,080 –> 00:07:49,640
doctrines, and therefore it is
that we find a similar grouping

104
00:07:49,640 –> 00:07:53,000
of passages in one and another
address.

105
00:07:53,000 –> 00:07:59,480
And in the Epistles these
various passages came to be

106
00:07:59,480 –> 00:08:03,880
grouped together as witnessing
to certain facts in connection

107
00:08:03,880 –> 00:08:07,560
with Jesus.
And the Lord Himself had set

108
00:08:07,560 –> 00:08:11,640
them the example in His own
exposition of the Scripture

109
00:08:11,640 –> 00:08:16,520
during His ministry, in how He
had gathered together various

110
00:08:16,520 –> 00:08:22,000
Scriptures to build up His
testimony and give the message

111
00:08:22,440 –> 00:08:26,400
that was entrusted to Him by the
Father.

112
00:08:29,360 –> 00:08:33,400
Ruskin has said in one of his
books that we should go to a

113
00:08:33,400 –> 00:08:39,600
book not to find there what we
think, but so to read and so to

114
00:08:39,600 –> 00:08:45,840
reread and study the author,
that we come to know what he

115
00:08:45,840 –> 00:08:50,840
intended to say.
And that is good counsel.

116
00:08:51,400 –> 00:08:56,400
We’re going to look at these
speeches and see what Luke

117
00:08:56,400 –> 00:09:01,520
intended that we should know
from them, or what God intended

118
00:09:01,520 –> 00:09:04,920
in the writing through Luke.
And if we speak of Luke, you’ll

119
00:09:04,920 –> 00:09:11,280
remember that always we have in
reserve that point of view that

120
00:09:11,280 –> 00:09:17,160
it was got through Luke.
And just as we saw yesterday how

121
00:09:17,280 –> 00:09:24,840
wonderfully accurate Luke was in
his writing of history, so we

122
00:09:24,840 –> 00:09:32,120
are going to observe today how
wonderfully he gives us a

123
00:09:32,120 –> 00:09:36,720
summary of the address we have
in these addresses.

124
00:09:36,720 –> 00:09:40,560
What can it be?
Anything more than a pressie of

125
00:09:40,560 –> 00:09:45,120
what was said, but just as a
long article might be

126
00:09:45,120 –> 00:09:48,800
summarised, and indeed it is a
test in literature exams, or

127
00:09:48,800 –> 00:09:52,480
used to be, that an article of
some length should be

128
00:09:52,480 –> 00:09:55,920
summarised.
That there must be a bringing

129
00:09:55,920 –> 00:10:01,440
out of the essential features
and a reduction in words, but

130
00:10:01,440 –> 00:10:05,600
still a preservation of the
essential content of what the

131
00:10:05,600 –> 00:10:11,080
longer article contains.
So if in these speeches recorded

132
00:10:11,080 –> 00:10:17,360
in Acts, we have the same skill
in summarizing, in writing the

133
00:10:17,360 –> 00:10:22,480
pressie that Luke has manifested
in writing the history, we shall

134
00:10:22,480 –> 00:10:28,760
be able to expand the speech and
observing Luke’s methods,

135
00:10:29,960 –> 00:10:38,360
acquire a fuller view of what
was said then the summary would

136
00:10:38,360 –> 00:10:41,680
give us if we just read it
quickly.

137
00:10:42,760 –> 00:10:46,480
I was going to notice how many
minutes it took the reading of

138
00:10:46,480 –> 00:10:49,480
this speech.
I don’t suppose it took more

139
00:10:49,480 –> 00:10:53,400
than 3 or 4 minutes.
But you don’t think for a minute

140
00:10:53,400 –> 00:10:56,840
that Peter stood up in Jerusalem
and spake for 5 minutes?

141
00:10:57,560 –> 00:11:01,160
How long would Peter be
addressing this multitude of

142
00:11:01,160 –> 00:11:05,040
people who were there on the day
of Pentecost from the different

143
00:11:05,880 –> 00:11:10,600
parts of scattered jewellery?
Would it be anything less than

144
00:11:10,600 –> 00:11:13,640
an hour?
Might we not presume that with

145
00:11:13,640 –> 00:11:18,880
the giving of such a message it
might be of two hours duration,

146
00:11:19,760 –> 00:11:23,720
and yet Luke has compressed,
shall we say, an hour and a half

147
00:11:23,720 –> 00:11:28,360
address in the compass of what
it takes us 4 minutes to read?

148
00:11:29,680 –> 00:11:34,280
Now can we ascertain with what
skill an address of such length

149
00:11:34,280 –> 00:11:40,000
has been summarized?
I think we can and we want to

150
00:11:40,000 –> 00:11:45,600
trace out Luke’s method and
follow catching hold of his

151
00:11:45,600 –> 00:11:51,320
method, do a little expansion.
The expansion that is intended

152
00:11:51,320 –> 00:11:57,640
we should make for ourselves so
that we get a larger view of the

153
00:11:57,640 –> 00:12:03,960
address that Peter gave.
Now we said yesterday that one

154
00:12:03,960 –> 00:12:07,680
church historian has said that
one of the reasons why

155
00:12:07,680 –> 00:12:11,320
Christianity spread so
remarkably during the 1st

156
00:12:11,320 –> 00:12:17,040
century was that the Christians
out thought the pagans.

157
00:12:18,240 –> 00:12:25,320
And as we follow the argument of
Peter and the other arguments in

158
00:12:25,320 –> 00:12:29,880
the other addresses, we shall
find that they’re all marked by

159
00:12:30,840 –> 00:12:35,280
a close knit reasoning.
You won’t have to nod.

160
00:12:36,040 –> 00:12:38,920
If you do, you’ll miss something
of his address.

161
00:12:39,640 –> 00:12:44,320
It’s closely woven together and
there’s a close knit texture

162
00:12:44,320 –> 00:12:50,520
about it.
There’s power and cogency in the

163
00:12:50,520 –> 00:12:56,280
presentation of the argument,
and that we shall try to see as

164
00:12:56,280 –> 00:13:00,320
we go through it.
Now there isn’t time for any

165
00:13:00,320 –> 00:13:04,240
more words.
By way of a preamble, let us

166
00:13:04,680 –> 00:13:08,320
turn to our Bibles and follow
through this address.

167
00:13:08,320 –> 00:13:11,960
You’ve heard it read as a whole.
Now we’re going to look at it

168
00:13:12,440 –> 00:13:22,800
piece by piece.
The miracle of the bestowal of

169
00:13:22,800 –> 00:13:30,560
the Spirit and the speaking with
tongues had been performed, and

170
00:13:30,560 –> 00:13:33,960
the crowd was gathered together,
probably in one of the Temple

171
00:13:33,960 –> 00:13:36,480
courts.
It was not unusual for a sect,

172
00:13:37,040 –> 00:13:42,120
one of the many sects of Israel,
to use the temple courts and

173
00:13:42,120 –> 00:13:44,880
give their addresses and
speeches there.

174
00:13:45,640 –> 00:13:48,200
And so it was in keeping with
such a practice that the

175
00:13:48,200 –> 00:13:53,120
Christians for a considerable
time in Jerusalem, met in one of

176
00:13:53,120 –> 00:13:56,600
the cloisters and gave their
addresses there.

177
00:13:58,160 –> 00:14:05,640
And so there was a large company
of Jews closely packed together,

178
00:14:05,640 –> 00:14:10,160
standing in the court when Peter
stood up and spoke.

179
00:14:11,800 –> 00:14:15,640
It has been estimated upon good
grounds that there would be 2

180
00:14:15,640 –> 00:14:20,960
million Jews assembled in
Jerusalem for every Passover.

181
00:14:22,080 –> 00:14:27,360
Not so many attended the Feast
of Pentecost, but if we just

182
00:14:27,360 –> 00:14:31,280
remember that 2 million could
assemble for the Feast of

183
00:14:31,280 –> 00:14:36,040
Passover, and we were to cut
that in half as an estimate of

184
00:14:36,040 –> 00:14:40,800
the attendance at Pentecost, we
can understand what a vast

185
00:14:40,800 –> 00:14:45,640
company of Jews were there
making a potential audience

186
00:14:46,360 –> 00:14:52,160
under circumstances like this.
The news fled like wildfire

187
00:14:52,160 –> 00:14:55,000
throughout the city.
Something has happened,

188
00:14:56,480 –> 00:15:00,920
something has happened, and
these men are speaking in the

189
00:15:00,920 –> 00:15:04,160
temple courts.
And it wouldn’t be very long

190
00:15:04,160 –> 00:15:09,480
before, along all the narrow
alleyways of the old city, men

191
00:15:09,480 –> 00:15:13,680
were hurrying to the temple
courts to see what had happened.

192
00:15:15,480 –> 00:15:20,200
And they noticed the unusualness
of this phenomenon.

193
00:15:21,240 –> 00:15:26,000
And as men are always ready to
do some mock, they said they’re

194
00:15:26,000 –> 00:15:29,320
only drunk, to which Peter
rejoined.

195
00:15:29,320 –> 00:15:35,280
Firstly, it’s only 9:00 in the
morning and it is forbidden for

196
00:15:35,280 –> 00:15:38,720
Jews to partake of intoxicants
before that time.

197
00:15:39,680 –> 00:15:44,200
So therefore, as good Jews, it
can’t be a right explanation

198
00:15:44,720 –> 00:15:49,560
that we are drunk.
But there’s another explanation,

199
00:15:49,560 –> 00:15:52,920
says Peter.
You remember the prophecy of

200
00:15:52,920 –> 00:15:57,840
Joel, and besides the prophecy
of Joel, of God pouring out of

201
00:15:57,840 –> 00:16:03,320
his Spirit upon old and young,
of God’s servants and

202
00:16:03,320 –> 00:16:06,160
handmaidens, who should
prophecy?

203
00:16:08,040 –> 00:16:11,240
Now there are two ways of
looking at this citation.

204
00:16:12,760 –> 00:16:17,640
It is possible to regard it as a
fulfilment of the words of Joel,

205
00:16:18,520 –> 00:16:23,680
but as we look at the context,
we must conclude that it cannot

206
00:16:23,680 –> 00:16:28,280
be a full fulfillment.
It can only be a partial

207
00:16:28,280 –> 00:16:30,920
fulfillment of the prophecy of
Joel.

208
00:16:31,920 –> 00:16:36,440
But there’s another way of
interpreting the words this and

209
00:16:36,440 –> 00:16:41,040
that have to be determined
concerning their relatives.

210
00:16:41,720 –> 00:16:46,200
Peter says this is that which
was spoken by Joel, but what

211
00:16:46,200 –> 00:16:48,840
does he mean by this?
And what does he mean by that?

212
00:16:49,920 –> 00:16:55,160
This statement is that which was
spoken by Joel, or this which is

213
00:16:55,160 –> 00:16:57,960
happening is that which was
foretold by Joel.

214
00:16:58,800 –> 00:17:02,400
Now if we take the first these
words that I’m speaking unto

215
00:17:02,400 –> 00:17:06,440
you, this citation is that which
was spoken by Joel.

216
00:17:06,800 –> 00:17:13,480
Then Peter is giving them a
testimony upon which he’s going

217
00:17:13,480 –> 00:17:18,520
to argue by analogy, that when
this which you believe will come

218
00:17:18,520 –> 00:17:23,280
to pass as you believe the Old
Testament Scriptures, will you

219
00:17:23,280 –> 00:17:26,480
then say that these men are
drunk?

220
00:17:27,359 –> 00:17:30,440
Or will you see that there’s
been a divine intervention among

221
00:17:30,440 –> 00:17:34,040
you by the outpouring of His
Spirit upon some of His

222
00:17:34,040 –> 00:17:37,920
servants?
If, when this then does come to

223
00:17:37,960 –> 00:17:43,120
pass, you will say that this
word has been fulfilled, and you

224
00:17:43,120 –> 00:17:46,560
must admit its possibility in
the light of the divine

225
00:17:46,560 –> 00:17:51,840
testimony, then why not now
examine the matter and see

226
00:17:51,840 –> 00:17:54,880
whether there hasn’t been
something happening now before

227
00:17:54,880 –> 00:17:57,160
your eyes which corresponds to
it.

228
00:17:58,360 –> 00:18:02,720
But He said something more.
He says, observe what God has

229
00:18:02,720 –> 00:18:06,800
said in connection with an
outpouring of His Spirit.

230
00:18:06,800 –> 00:18:12,720
And we want you to look at verse
20 of Acts 2.

231
00:18:14,160 –> 00:18:17,440
The sun shall be turned Into
Darkness, and the moon into

232
00:18:17,440 –> 00:18:22,040
blood before that great and
notable day of the Lord come.

233
00:18:23,120 –> 00:18:26,160
And it shall come to pass that
whosoever shall call on the name

234
00:18:26,160 –> 00:18:30,160
of the Lord shall be saved.
Now keep your fingers in that

235
00:18:30,160 –> 00:18:33,520
place in Acts, and turn back to
Joel.

236
00:18:47,560 –> 00:18:56,320
And as we read the prophecy of
Joel carefully, we notice that

237
00:18:56,320 –> 00:19:02,280
Peter stops short at the
quotation, verse 31.

238
00:19:03,000 –> 00:19:06,240
The sun shall be turned Into
Darkness, and the moon into

239
00:19:06,240 –> 00:19:09,680
blood, before the great and
terrible day of the Lord come.

240
00:19:10,880 –> 00:19:13,960
And it shall come to pass that
whosoever shall call on the name

241
00:19:13,960 –> 00:19:18,240
of the Lord shall be delivered.
But the rest of Joel’s

242
00:19:18,240 –> 00:19:22,880
statement, which reads For in
Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

243
00:19:22,880 –> 00:19:26,600
shall be deliverance, as the
Lord our God has said, and in

244
00:19:26,600 –> 00:19:31,440
the remnant whom the Lord shall
call, is not quoted in Acts.

245
00:19:32,640 –> 00:19:35,440
Now that should make us pause.
It wasn’t.

246
00:19:36,120 –> 00:19:42,720
It wasn’t that Luke was so short
of space with regard to this

247
00:19:42,720 –> 00:19:47,960
quotation that he must cut those
words in view of the fact that

248
00:19:47,960 –> 00:19:50,920
he’s quoted at such length the
previous verses.

249
00:19:51,720 –> 00:19:57,760
But now notice this, that the
very last words and the remnant

250
00:19:57,920 –> 00:20:04,160
whom the Lord shall call are in
fact quoted later in the speech.

251
00:20:04,800 –> 00:20:11,280
Now I want you to notice this
verse 39.

252
00:20:11,920 –> 00:20:16,000
The promise is unto you and to
your children, and to all that

253
00:20:16,000 –> 00:20:19,880
are afar off.
And now comes the quotation from

254
00:20:19,880 –> 00:20:25,640
Joel, even as many.
As the Lord our God shall call.

255
00:20:27,160 –> 00:20:33,760
Now we suggest from this method
of loops of thus breaking off

256
00:20:34,040 –> 00:20:38,960
that quotation and then
introducing it afterwards that

257
00:20:38,960 –> 00:20:44,880
this in fact is what happened.
And it’s happened many a time on

258
00:20:44,880 –> 00:20:48,880
a Christian Delphian platform.
A brother quotes so far and he

259
00:20:48,880 –> 00:20:51,560
says, now we’ll stop there and
talk about that and we’ll come

260
00:20:51,560 –> 00:20:55,840
back to the rest afterwards.
Now Luke doesn’t tell us he’s

261
00:20:55,840 –> 00:21:00,120
doing that, but by his very
summary he shows that it was

262
00:21:00,120 –> 00:21:04,120
done.
And Peter quoted so far in the

263
00:21:04,120 –> 00:21:08,560
statement of Joel, and he says,
now I’m going to stop there and

264
00:21:08,560 –> 00:21:12,360
we’ll talk about this and I’ll
come back to the rest of the

265
00:21:12,360 –> 00:21:17,280
quotation later.
Now, that which we observe in

266
00:21:17,280 –> 00:21:21,880
connection with Joel’s prophecy
may be noticed in other

267
00:21:21,880 –> 00:21:28,080
quotations that Luke gives,
which Luke reports in this

268
00:21:28,080 –> 00:21:31,440
speech.
And the fact that Luke does it

269
00:21:31,440 –> 00:21:36,400
more than once in his reporting
is surely clear evidence that

270
00:21:36,400 –> 00:21:40,920
we’re expected to see that Peter
stopped at that point and took

271
00:21:40,920 –> 00:21:45,160
up the thought of that point and
carried it on, and then came

272
00:21:45,160 –> 00:21:48,800
back later to take up the
remainder of the verse and

273
00:21:48,800 –> 00:21:52,760
explain it.
Now you’ll see how that actually

274
00:21:52,760 –> 00:21:57,520
happened as we continue the
thought through this address.

275
00:21:58,880 –> 00:22:01,320
So we come back again to verse
21.

276
00:22:02,440 –> 00:22:05,760
It shall come to pass that
whosoever shall call on the name

277
00:22:05,760 –> 00:22:12,680
of the Lord shall be saved.
This passage is used by Paul in

278
00:22:12,680 –> 00:22:19,600
the letter to the Romans, and he
takes up each word in turn in

279
00:22:19,600 –> 00:22:22,320
the 10th chapter of the letter.
We’re not going to follow it

280
00:22:22,320 –> 00:22:26,880
out, but we want you to notice
that this verse was a verse that

281
00:22:26,880 –> 00:22:32,040
was used in the setting forth of
the gospel in the 1st century,

282
00:22:32,200 –> 00:22:35,960
not by one, but by others.
That is, it was part of the

283
00:22:35,960 –> 00:22:41,520
common stock of quotation that
was given, just as we’ve a stock

284
00:22:41,520 –> 00:22:46,360
of quotations common to all of
us as speakers in presenting the

285
00:22:46,360 –> 00:22:51,480
first principles of the truth.
If any of us wanted to refer to

286
00:22:51,480 –> 00:22:55,840
the teaching of Jesus on the
Kingdom of God, the vast

287
00:22:55,840 –> 00:22:59,120
majority would include in a
lecture the fact that Jesus said

288
00:22:59,120 –> 00:23:01,960
in the regeneration, when the
Son of man shall sit upon the

289
00:23:01,960 –> 00:23:06,440
throne of His glory, E12 shall
sit upon 12 Thrones.

290
00:23:07,120 –> 00:23:09,960
If a lecture were being given on
the nature of man, there would

291
00:23:09,960 –> 00:23:14,520
be a certain reference to
Genesis, which says, Dost thou

292
00:23:14,520 –> 00:23:16,560
art, and unto dust shalt thou
return.

293
00:23:17,240 –> 00:23:20,240
And so in setting forth a divine
purpose.

294
00:23:20,640 –> 00:23:26,720
This passage, similarly in Joy
was used by them, and Paul in

295
00:23:26,720 –> 00:23:32,720
his argument stresses first of
all whosoever he stresses call,

296
00:23:33,320 –> 00:23:40,120
and he stresses name in turn.
But Peter uses it as the

297
00:23:40,120 –> 00:23:46,000
starting point of an exposition
of how there has been exhibited

298
00:23:46,000 –> 00:23:53,400
in the midst of them a means for
their salvation by a divine

299
00:23:53,400 –> 00:23:59,200
intervention in their midst.
God would reveal Himself by this

300
00:23:59,200 –> 00:24:04,320
outpouring of the Spirit, and
they would be exhibited a way of

301
00:24:04,320 –> 00:24:10,320
salvation upon which men might
call in order that they might be

302
00:24:10,320 –> 00:24:13,960
saved.
It was a salvation manifested,

303
00:24:14,400 –> 00:24:18,680
bound up with a name of the
Lord, upon which men shall call.

304
00:24:19,280 –> 00:24:23,120
Now, tomorrow we shall follow
out what is involved in that

305
00:24:23,120 –> 00:24:26,200
name of the Lord, because it is
the subject of particular

306
00:24:26,200 –> 00:24:31,400
reference in Peter’s speech, the
second speech recorded in that.

307
00:24:32,120 –> 00:24:37,760
But the word salvation is the
connecting thought between the

308
00:24:37,760 –> 00:24:42,960
speech of Joel and what Peter
has next to say.

309
00:24:43,920 –> 00:24:47,720
He says to them, what is this
salvation?

310
00:24:48,480 –> 00:24:51,920
And what has been done to make
effective a salvation?

311
00:24:52,760 –> 00:24:56,960
What is it that God has provided
as a way of salvation?

312
00:24:57,520 –> 00:25:02,080
Now he says, we’ll tell you.
He says you know about Jesus of

313
00:25:02,080 –> 00:25:05,920
Nazareth.
He says, listen to this you men

314
00:25:05,920 –> 00:25:09,720
of Israel, verse 22 Jesus of
Nazareth.

315
00:25:10,640 –> 00:25:13,080
And then he affirms 3 things of
him.

316
00:25:14,000 –> 00:25:17,280
He was a man approved among you
by miracles and wonders and

317
00:25:17,280 –> 00:25:23,000
signs, which God did by him.
Then secondly, him being

318
00:25:23,000 –> 00:25:26,720
delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of

319
00:25:26,720 –> 00:25:30,080
God, ye have taken, and by
wicked hands of crucified and

320
00:25:30,160 –> 00:25:34,600
slain.
And then, thirdly, whom God hath

321
00:25:34,600 –> 00:25:37,480
raised up, having loosed the
pains of death, because it was

322
00:25:37,480 –> 00:25:39,560
not possible that he should be
old and of it.

323
00:25:40,240 –> 00:25:43,640
And you’ll notice that the
common feature to those 3 verses

324
00:25:44,160 –> 00:25:47,520
is, that there was divine action
in their midst.

325
00:25:47,960 –> 00:25:52,760
First, Jesus was raised up and
attested by God.

326
00:25:52,760 –> 00:25:54,920
He was approved of God among
them.

327
00:25:55,400 –> 00:26:00,400
Secondly, that even their
delivering up of Jesus fulfilled

328
00:26:00,400 –> 00:26:04,200
a divine purpose.
They did it ignorantly, in

329
00:26:04,200 –> 00:26:07,960
unbelief, but nevertheless they
were fulfilling a divine purpose

330
00:26:07,960 –> 00:26:11,240
which had been revealed before.
It was according to the

331
00:26:11,240 –> 00:26:13,880
determinate counsel and for
knowledge of God.

332
00:26:14,680 –> 00:26:20,360
And then thirdly, God had raised
up Jesus, so the events

333
00:26:20,360 –> 00:26:26,800
connected with Jesus were all
part of a divine activity for

334
00:26:26,800 –> 00:26:30,880
men’s salvation.
But you don’t think, brethren

335
00:26:30,880 –> 00:26:35,080
and sisters, for a minute that
Peter just said that Jesus of

336
00:26:35,080 –> 00:26:38,200
Nazareth was approved of God
among you by miracles and

337
00:26:38,200 –> 00:26:40,320
wonders and signs, which God did
by him.

338
00:26:40,920 –> 00:26:47,200
Without passing in review some
of the miracles that Jesus had

339
00:26:47,200 –> 00:26:52,400
done, He classifieds them as
miracles, wonders, and signs.

340
00:26:52,920 –> 00:26:57,840
Doesn’t that suggest to us that
Peter surveyed the varied range

341
00:26:57,840 –> 00:27:03,000
of miracles that Jesus did?
He would say to them, now this

342
00:27:03,000 –> 00:27:07,960
man has done miracles among you,
You all know that he’s healed

343
00:27:07,960 –> 00:27:10,920
the sick.
Don’t you remember such a case?

344
00:27:11,720 –> 00:27:16,600
And is given sight to the blind.
And they’d be among those who

345
00:27:16,600 –> 00:27:21,000
were there, some who had
themselves either been the

346
00:27:21,000 –> 00:27:26,160
subject of the healing power of
Jesus, or who had friends or

347
00:27:26,160 –> 00:27:29,960
relatives who had.
And so it was an appeal to a

348
00:27:29,960 –> 00:27:33,400
body of common knowledge in
their midst.

349
00:27:34,280 –> 00:27:38,040
But he couldn’t be made by outer
certain recapitulation of

350
00:27:38,040 –> 00:27:42,120
certain miracles.
And so when he said that he was

351
00:27:42,120 –> 00:27:45,240
delivered by the determinate
counsel and for knowledge of

352
00:27:45,240 –> 00:27:50,640
God, such a bold statement would
never for a minute be itself

353
00:27:50,640 –> 00:27:54,600
convincing.
He’d have to show that it was

354
00:27:54,600 –> 00:28:01,880
the determinate counsel of God
that Jesus should be crucified

355
00:28:02,920 –> 00:28:06,120
and slain.
And we shall observe as we go

356
00:28:06,120 –> 00:28:09,520
through these speeches that an
emphasis is given to the fact

357
00:28:10,120 –> 00:28:13,840
that Jesus was crucified.
And he would have therefore, to

358
00:28:13,840 –> 00:28:18,320
gather up from the Old Testament
those passages which showed that

359
00:28:18,320 –> 00:28:23,400
God had decreed that this should
be necessary for men’s

360
00:28:23,400 –> 00:28:25,560
salvation.
And there would be an opening

361
00:28:25,560 –> 00:28:29,440
up, say, of those servant
passages in Isaiah which begin

362
00:28:29,440 –> 00:28:34,320
at the 42nd chapter and go on to
the end of the 53rd, in which

363
00:28:34,320 –> 00:28:38,880
God speaks of His servant, whom
He would uphold, of that servant

364
00:28:38,880 –> 00:28:42,120
of the Lord who would be
despised and rejected, who would

365
00:28:42,120 –> 00:28:46,320
prolong His days, by whose
stripes men would be healed, who

366
00:28:46,320 –> 00:28:50,280
would bear their iniquities, who
would see His seed, and in whose

367
00:28:50,280 –> 00:28:53,480
hands the pleasure of the Lord
would yet prosper.

368
00:28:54,040 –> 00:28:58,240
It would only be by a surveyor
passages like that, that Peter

369
00:28:58,240 –> 00:29:01,400
would be able to say that it was
according to the determinate

370
00:29:01,400 –> 00:29:03,240
counsel and poor knowledge of
God.

371
00:29:04,160 –> 00:29:07,480
But when he comes to the Third
Point, that whom God hath raised

372
00:29:07,480 –> 00:29:14,080
up, that that was something
outside the common experience of

373
00:29:14,080 –> 00:29:17,280
all of them.
The witnesses had seen Jesus,

374
00:29:17,400 –> 00:29:20,160
but they all had the Scriptures
and now Peter.

375
00:29:21,280 –> 00:29:27,640
That that was something outside
the common experience of all of

376
00:29:27,640 –> 00:29:30,400
them.
The witnesses had seen Jesus,

377
00:29:30,720 –> 00:29:36,080
but they all had the Scriptures,
and now Peter in particular

378
00:29:36,320 –> 00:29:39,640
elaborates the prophetic
testimony concerning the

379
00:29:39,640 –> 00:29:43,440
resurrection of Jesus.
Now that was fitting, was it

380
00:29:43,440 –> 00:29:46,040
not?
In the first point, he can

381
00:29:46,040 –> 00:29:48,880
appeal to their common
experience and their knowledge

382
00:29:48,880 –> 00:29:52,280
of the wind, of the wonders and
signs that Jesus had done.

383
00:29:53,040 –> 00:29:56,320
With regard to the second, it
being the determinate council,

384
00:29:56,720 –> 00:29:58,680
he will pass in review
Scriptures.

385
00:29:59,520 –> 00:30:04,440
But the essential point of their
testimony, and the one which

386
00:30:04,640 –> 00:30:10,520
would clinch the whole argument,
consisted of the evidence of the

387
00:30:10,520 –> 00:30:14,360
resurrection of Jesus.
For if God had raised him up

388
00:30:14,600 –> 00:30:21,240
from death when they had slain
him and crucified him, why then

389
00:30:21,400 –> 00:30:25,640
it proved beyond all per
adventure that Jesus must be the

390
00:30:25,640 –> 00:30:31,120
one about whom those testimonies
that had been cited was

391
00:30:31,120 –> 00:30:37,240
concerned.
And so he discusses a passage of

392
00:30:37,240 –> 00:30:41,000
scripture concerning the
resurrection of Jesus.

393
00:30:41,120 –> 00:30:46,920
He boldly affirms 2 things.
Firstly, First that it was by

394
00:30:46,920 –> 00:30:51,080
David and that he was speaking
concerning Jesus.

395
00:30:52,200 –> 00:30:57,960
The 25th verse for David
speaketh concerning him.

396
00:30:58,480 –> 00:31:03,000
And they might have said well
how do you know David was

397
00:31:03,000 –> 00:31:05,760
speaking?
And the answer is, firstly, that

398
00:31:05,760 –> 00:31:09,960
modern higher criticism hadn’t
cast doubt upon the authorship

399
00:31:09,960 –> 00:31:15,880
of the 16th Psalm, and all
Orthodox Jews accepted the

400
00:31:16,040 –> 00:31:20,000
literary Ed heading of the Psalm
that it was by David.

401
00:31:21,440 –> 00:31:26,400
But speaking concerning him must
needs be the subject of some

402
00:31:26,400 –> 00:31:31,280
testimony, some reasoning.
And so Peter must quote at

403
00:31:31,280 –> 00:31:35,320
length at some length from the
16th Psalm.

404
00:31:36,000 –> 00:31:40,920
But the very fact that it is
quoted by Luke at some length

405
00:31:42,320 –> 00:31:47,920
shows that it was the subject of
considerable elaboration by

406
00:31:47,920 –> 00:31:52,960
David, And Luke tells us in what
way it was elaborated.

407
00:31:53,760 –> 00:31:57,400
First, the affirmation that
David was speaking concerning

408
00:31:57,400 –> 00:31:59,760
Jesus.
Then the citation of the

409
00:31:59,760 –> 00:32:03,200
passage.
I foresaw the Lord always before

410
00:32:03,200 –> 00:32:06,320
my feast.
He is on my right hand that I

411
00:32:06,320 –> 00:32:09,720
should not be moved.
Therefore did my heart rejoice,

412
00:32:09,720 –> 00:32:13,600
and my tongue was glad.
Moreover also my flesh shall

413
00:32:13,600 –> 00:32:17,000
rest in hope, because thou will
not leave my soul in hell,

414
00:32:17,480 –> 00:32:20,440
neither wilt thou suffer thine
holy ones to see corruption.

415
00:32:21,240 –> 00:32:23,520
Thou hast made known to me the
ways of life.

416
00:32:24,280 –> 00:32:27,640
Thou shalt make me full of joy
with thy countenance.

417
00:32:28,280 –> 00:32:35,080
And we go back to the 16th
Psalm, and we observe that here

418
00:32:35,080 –> 00:32:40,640
again Luke has only given us
part of the quotation, the 10th

419
00:32:40,640 –> 00:32:44,680
verse of the 16th Psalm.
Thou wilt not leave my soul in

420
00:32:44,680 –> 00:32:48,160
hell, neither wilt Thou suffer
thine Holy One, to see

421
00:32:48,160 –> 00:32:51,160
corruption.
Thou wilt show me the path of

422
00:32:51,160 –> 00:32:53,960
life in Thy presence, His
fullness of joy.

423
00:32:54,360 –> 00:32:58,120
And He leaves unquoted for the
moment at Thy right hand.

424
00:32:58,120 –> 00:33:02,560
There are pleasures forevermore.
But He does come back to it

425
00:33:02,560 –> 00:33:06,120
later in the address, which
again teaches us and shows us

426
00:33:06,120 –> 00:33:10,600
that we are rightly interpreting
Luke’s method of summarizing

427
00:33:11,120 –> 00:33:16,240
when we suggest that Peter said,
at this point, now I’m only

428
00:33:16,240 –> 00:33:18,960
going to quote so far for a
moment, We’ll come back to the

429
00:33:18,960 –> 00:33:22,600
implication of that phrase at
thy right hand of pleasures

430
00:33:22,600 –> 00:33:27,000
forevermore in a moment or two.
But let us talk about this fact,

431
00:33:27,000 –> 00:33:33,200
says Peter, that here David is
testifying concerning somebody

432
00:33:33,200 –> 00:33:37,920
whose ways were pleasing to God,
who always walked in the light

433
00:33:37,920 –> 00:33:41,480
of God’s countenance, whose
flesh would rest in hope because

434
00:33:41,720 –> 00:33:45,720
his body wouldn’t be left there.
Nay, not only would it not be

435
00:33:45,720 –> 00:33:50,120
left in the grave, but the
resurrection would come so soon

436
00:33:50,120 –> 00:33:55,120
after his death that it was
before corruption that set in an

437
00:33:55,120 –> 00:33:58,360
important point.
Thou will not suffer, Thy Holy

438
00:33:58,360 –> 00:34:01,880
One to see corruption.
Therefore resurrection must

439
00:34:01,920 –> 00:34:09,800
follow so soon after the burial
that corruption of the body had

440
00:34:09,800 –> 00:34:14,280
not taken place.
But what Peter has to say has

441
00:34:14,280 –> 00:34:18,360
the appearance, slight
appearance, of a little

442
00:34:18,360 –> 00:34:22,600
disparagement of David.
He says, now David isn’t

443
00:34:22,600 –> 00:34:26,040
speaking about himself.
And you’ll catch that apologetic

444
00:34:26,040 –> 00:34:31,120
tone in the 29th verse when he
says, men and brethren, let me

445
00:34:31,120 –> 00:34:35,920
freely speak unto you of the
patriarch David.

446
00:34:36,760 –> 00:34:39,480
We all honour him and respect
him.

447
00:34:40,320 –> 00:34:43,159
And it isn’t any disparagement
when we say that the Psalm

448
00:34:43,159 –> 00:34:47,239
doesn’t apply to him now.
In fact, he says it cannot apply

449
00:34:47,239 –> 00:34:51,440
to him.
He is dead and buried, and his

450
00:34:51,440 –> 00:34:55,880
sepulchre is with us to this
day.

451
00:34:56,960 –> 00:35:00,400
And as he stood in the temple
court, he could have said, you

452
00:35:00,400 –> 00:35:05,600
know where his sepulchre is.
It isn’t far from the temple

453
00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:10,080
walls, just over there in the
city of David.

454
00:35:10,440 –> 00:35:13,760
If I were to ask anyone of you,
he says, where David’s sepulchre

455
00:35:13,760 –> 00:35:16,400
is, you’d say, why don’t you
know, Peter, come along and

456
00:35:16,400 –> 00:35:19,440
we’ll show you.
And so we all agree that that is

457
00:35:19,440 –> 00:35:23,200
David’s sepulchre.
It’s his sepulchre because his

458
00:35:23,200 –> 00:35:26,640
body was buried there, and it
has remained there.

459
00:35:27,440 –> 00:35:32,320
So David wasn’t raised up, but
the Psalm speaks of a man whom

460
00:35:32,320 –> 00:35:36,360
God raised up, and therefore he
couldn’t apply to David.

461
00:35:36,720 –> 00:35:40,680
But to whom did it apply?
Now follow on then his argument.

462
00:35:40,960 –> 00:35:44,360
Men and brethren, let me freely
speak unto you, the pitriarch

463
00:35:44,360 –> 00:35:48,560
David, that he is both dead and
buried, and his sepulchre is

464
00:35:48,560 –> 00:35:52,800
with us unto this day.
Therefore, since it couldn’t

465
00:35:52,800 –> 00:35:56,400
apply to him, it must apply to
someone else, could it?

466
00:35:56,440 –> 00:36:00,880
Yes, it could, because David was
a prophet, and David had

467
00:36:00,880 –> 00:36:05,120
promises given unto him, and
therefore his prophecy concerns

468
00:36:05,120 –> 00:36:09,880
the one promised to him.
Therefore, being a prophet, and

469
00:36:09,880 –> 00:36:13,000
knowing that God had sworn with
an oath to him that of the fruit

470
00:36:13,000 –> 00:36:17,040
of his loins according to the
flesh, he would raise up Christ

471
00:36:17,560 –> 00:36:22,200
to sit on his throne.
And could Peter say that without

472
00:36:22,560 –> 00:36:27,480
quoting them the 7th chapter of
the second book of Samuel and

473
00:36:27,480 –> 00:36:30,720
elaborating a little, the
covenant made with David, of

474
00:36:30,720 –> 00:36:34,920
course he would do that.
Now it’s a David had these

475
00:36:34,920 –> 00:36:39,160
promises made to him that one of
his descendants should sit upon

476
00:36:39,160 –> 00:36:43,040
his throne.
The horizon of his salvation was

477
00:36:43,040 –> 00:36:47,280
bound up with that man whom God
was going to raise up in his

478
00:36:47,280 –> 00:36:50,680
line, and his prophecy concerned
him.

479
00:36:51,520 –> 00:36:57,080
So Peter concludes verse 31.
He’s seeing this before spake of

480
00:36:57,080 –> 00:37:01,600
the resurrection of the Christ.
The Revised Version rightly

481
00:37:02,160 –> 00:37:06,120
includes the definite article.
And when Peter says the Christ,

482
00:37:06,120 –> 00:37:09,400
he doesn’t say Jesus.
And perhaps if we translated

483
00:37:09,400 –> 00:37:13,240
Christ into Messiah, we would
see that he was not thinking

484
00:37:13,240 –> 00:37:18,560
then of the person Jesus, but
was arguing purely from the text

485
00:37:18,840 –> 00:37:24,320
that whoever the Messiah is, the
Messiah must be a resurrected

486
00:37:24,320 –> 00:37:26,640
man.
That’s Peter’s argument.

487
00:37:27,160 –> 00:37:31,840
The prophecy says here is.
And David speaking by prophecy

488
00:37:31,840 –> 00:37:34,560
tells of one who will be raised
from the dead.

489
00:37:35,440 –> 00:37:39,000
He was Speaking of the one
promised to him, says Peter, in

490
00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:43,600
the covenant made with him.
That being so, the Messiah of

491
00:37:43,600 –> 00:37:49,040
necessity for the Scripture
requires, it must be a man

492
00:37:49,400 –> 00:37:53,680
raised from the dead.
He spake of the resurrection of

493
00:37:53,680 –> 00:37:59,280
the Messiah, that his soul was
not left in hell, neither his

494
00:37:59,280 –> 00:38:03,040
flesh did see corruption.
I think we’ll all admit the

495
00:38:03,040 –> 00:38:06,960
force of the argument, but just
think, brethren and sisters, of

496
00:38:06,960 –> 00:38:10,960
the circumstances under which
that argument was put forward.

497
00:38:11,160 –> 00:38:15,320
Peter said the gesture of his
hand, probably you know where

498
00:38:15,320 –> 00:38:19,440
David’s sepulchre is, and it’s
his sepulchre because his dust

499
00:38:19,440 –> 00:38:23,560
is there.
But God has raised up Jesus and

500
00:38:23,560 –> 00:38:26,120
that has fulfilled this
prophecy.

501
00:38:26,320 –> 00:38:30,840
And the place where Joseph and
Arimathea and Nicodemus put the

502
00:38:30,840 –> 00:38:35,240
body of Jesus isn’t his
sepulchre because he’s been

503
00:38:35,240 –> 00:38:39,080
raised from the dead.
And it was only less than a mile

504
00:38:39,080 –> 00:38:41,720
across the city.
And wasn’t there anybody there

505
00:38:41,720 –> 00:38:47,520
with sufficient to say, yes,
Peter, but the tomb of Joseph is

506
00:38:47,520 –> 00:38:51,840
the sepulchre of Jesus.
It was only seven weeks after

507
00:38:51,880 –> 00:38:56,200
Jesus was crucified.
And yet Peter is standing in the

508
00:38:56,200 –> 00:39:02,440
temple court in the very citadel
of Israel’s rulers and quoting

509
00:39:02,440 –> 00:39:06,320
this scripture that the Messiah
must be a resurrected man and

510
00:39:06,320 –> 00:39:09,920
saying the passage can’t apply
to David because his sepulchre

511
00:39:09,920 –> 00:39:12,640
is there.
It does apply to Jesus because

512
00:39:12,720 –> 00:39:16,480
that isn’t his sepulcher and
they didn’t take Peter around to

513
00:39:16,480 –> 00:39:20,520
show him that it was because
they knew the place where Jesus

514
00:39:20,520 –> 00:39:24,360
had lain was not his sepulcher.
They knew that their seals had

515
00:39:24,360 –> 00:39:27,640
been broken.
They knew the God had come

516
00:39:27,640 –> 00:39:30,840
around with a lame tale.
They knew that there was some

517
00:39:30,840 –> 00:39:35,080
mystery about it beyond their
explanation, but in which they’d

518
00:39:35,080 –> 00:39:39,040
been revealed divine power.
And the one thing that would

519
00:39:39,040 –> 00:39:43,040
have completely squashed right
at the beginning, the setting

520
00:39:43,040 –> 00:39:47,600
forth of this basic Christian
doctrine that Jesus was raised

521
00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:50,280
from the dead.
The one thing that would have

522
00:39:50,280 –> 00:39:53,440
squashed, it wasn’t done because
it couldn’t be done.

523
00:39:53,760 –> 00:39:57,360
But the challenge was made at
the ones right there.

524
00:39:57,680 –> 00:40:01,120
And the first address that was
made in the very citadel, the

525
00:40:01,120 –> 00:40:04,760
very strong old of Israel’s
rulers.

526
00:40:05,200 –> 00:40:09,080
It gives us a picture, doesn’t
it, brethren and sisters of the

527
00:40:09,080 –> 00:40:14,120
vigor and the forcefulness, the
logicalness, effective, cogent

528
00:40:14,120 –> 00:40:16,680
way in which they put forward
their keys.

529
00:40:16,840 –> 00:40:19,760
And so he sums it up in verse
32.

530
00:40:19,800 –> 00:40:23,840
This Jesus of God raised up
whereof we all are witnesses.

531
00:40:24,640 –> 00:40:29,120
And since Jesus is raised up,
and it isn’t a matter you can

532
00:40:29,120 –> 00:40:35,440
dispute, he must be the Messiah.
But he was the only one that God

533
00:40:35,440 –> 00:40:39,880
ever did raise up.
Others were raised as witnessing

534
00:40:40,520 –> 00:40:44,600
to the as attesting the truth of
the messages which God’s

535
00:40:44,600 –> 00:40:49,440
messengers gave.
But Jesus alone was the one whom

536
00:40:49,440 –> 00:40:54,720
God raised up, having loosed the
pains of death, and so he passes

537
00:40:54,720 –> 00:40:58,160
on to the next aspect of the
divine work.

538
00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:01,440
Well, if Jesus is raised, where
is he?

539
00:41:01,800 –> 00:41:07,120
And so he says Now Jesus is
ascended to God therefore, and

540
00:41:07,120 –> 00:41:10,880
he said, Now I want you to
remember the rest of the Psalm.

541
00:41:10,880 –> 00:41:15,240
Now at thy right hand there are
pleasures forevermore, and the

542
00:41:15,240 –> 00:41:18,360
resurrected man has gone to the
right hand of God.

543
00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:23,040
And by the reference to it, the
allusion to it, Luke would have

544
00:41:23,040 –> 00:41:27,600
us know that Peter is taking up
this second part and telling

545
00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:32,000
them, emphasizing to them that
just as the man must not see

546
00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:36,240
corruption, so he must ascend to
God’s right hand.

547
00:41:36,920 –> 00:41:40,280
But he’s going to bring together
a catina of quotations to show

548
00:41:40,280 –> 00:41:45,400
that that the Messiah, whoever
it may be, the Messiah, must not

549
00:41:45,400 –> 00:41:50,480
only be a resurrected man, but a
man who has a session, God’s

550
00:41:50,480 –> 00:41:54,120
right hand before he assumes the
office of Messiahship.

551
00:41:54,320 –> 00:41:59,000
Therefore, being by the right
hand of God exalted.

552
00:41:59,080 –> 00:42:04,880
And that word exalted is a word
that sends us off at once to the

553
00:42:04,880 –> 00:42:10,240
68th Psalm.
And the very use of a word which

554
00:42:10,240 –> 00:42:14,320
in modern printing method would
be putting quotation marks to

555
00:42:14,320 –> 00:42:20,400
show that it is a quotation is
by that very use of it, Luke’s

556
00:42:20,400 –> 00:42:25,320
method of telling us that Peter
cited the passage, the 68th

557
00:42:25,840 –> 00:42:30,360
Psalm, 18th verse.
Thou has to send it on high.

558
00:42:30,920 –> 00:42:34,760
Thou slate captivity captive,
that thou have received gifts

559
00:42:34,760 –> 00:42:38,520
for men, ye for the rebellious
also that the Lord God might

560
00:42:38,520 –> 00:42:41,840
dwell among us, thou hast
descended on high.

561
00:42:42,320 –> 00:42:47,320
And if thou hast descended.
And the background, of course,

562
00:42:47,320 –> 00:42:51,040
is the divine descent at the
Exodus for the deliverance of

563
00:42:51,040 –> 00:42:54,320
his people.
And it’s typical bearing

564
00:42:54,480 –> 00:42:58,440
concerning another deliverance.
If it could be said that God

565
00:42:58,440 –> 00:43:03,080
came down at the Exodus, it
could also be said that the

566
00:43:03,080 –> 00:43:07,240
deliverance affected God
ascended, He went back.

567
00:43:07,640 –> 00:43:12,240
And when then Peter ventures to
apply this, Thou hast ascended

568
00:43:12,240 –> 00:43:19,360
on high, he means not that Jesus
personally had descended, but he

569
00:43:19,360 –> 00:43:25,400
does mean that in Jesus there
had been a divine manifestation.

570
00:43:26,440 –> 00:43:30,960
And catching up the idiom of the
Old Testament, there had been a

571
00:43:30,960 –> 00:43:34,760
visitation of God.
Joseph said God will surely

572
00:43:34,760 –> 00:43:37,360
visit you.
How did God visit them?

573
00:43:37,640 –> 00:43:41,680
By the Angel of his presence as
the vehicle of divine

574
00:43:41,680 –> 00:43:45,840
manifestation, appearing in
their midst to lead them out.

575
00:43:46,720 –> 00:43:50,160
But how has God visited and
redeemed his people?

576
00:43:50,760 –> 00:43:54,680
As we read in Luke’s Gospel, in
those songs connected with the

577
00:43:54,680 –> 00:43:57,720
birth of Jesus?
Why by the day spring from on

578
00:43:57,720 –> 00:44:03,560
high having visited us?
So if in the birth of Jesus

579
00:44:04,000 –> 00:44:10,000
there was, in this sense of the
Bible idiom, God coming in the

580
00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:14,560
midst of his people, then that
one through whom God had

581
00:44:14,560 –> 00:44:17,800
manifested himself ascended on
high.

582
00:44:18,000 –> 00:44:22,920
But God never comes into human
life without accomplishing his

583
00:44:22,920 –> 00:44:26,120
purpose.
God came down at the Exodus not

584
00:44:26,120 –> 00:44:29,320
to leave the work unfinished,
and he wouldn’t ascend until the

585
00:44:29,320 –> 00:44:32,960
work was accomplished.
So here the fact of the

586
00:44:32,960 –> 00:44:39,360
ascension of Jesus is a witness
to the accomplishment of the

587
00:44:39,360 –> 00:44:45,960
means of salvation.
Now we are quite safe, brethren

588
00:44:45,960 –> 00:44:49,840
and sisters, in seeing that
Peter brought that out because

589
00:44:50,080 –> 00:44:53,920
Paul brings it out in the letter
to the Ephesians at some length.

590
00:44:54,240 –> 00:44:59,320
And so we’re quite sure that the
illusion by Luke would have us

591
00:44:59,320 –> 00:45:03,400
turn back and see that Peter
made all of that passage and

592
00:45:03,400 –> 00:45:07,760
brought out its implication.
So you see, by the very use of a

593
00:45:07,760 –> 00:45:12,720
word, Luke is wanting us to call
to mind the passage indicated

594
00:45:13,040 –> 00:45:17,000
and understand that he’s giving
us this wonderful summary.

595
00:45:17,840 –> 00:45:21,960
And he wants us to open it out
for ourselves, and see the range

596
00:45:21,960 –> 00:45:25,480
of thought, and the wealth of
meaning, and the beauty of the

597
00:45:25,480 –> 00:45:29,360
elaboration of the exposition of
the Scriptures.

598
00:45:29,520 –> 00:45:33,600
Therefore, being by the right
hand of God exalted, and having

599
00:45:33,600 –> 00:45:36,440
received of the Father the
promise of the Holy Spirit.

600
00:45:36,640 –> 00:45:41,560
And the reference in that 68th
Psalm is to gifts to men, which

601
00:45:41,560 –> 00:45:45,880
Paul explains of these gifted
men by the Spirit of God.

602
00:45:46,160 –> 00:45:50,440
So here he has shed forth this,
which you now see in here, and

603
00:45:50,440 –> 00:45:52,960
you’ll observe the perfect
parallel between Peter’s

604
00:45:52,960 –> 00:45:56,640
citation and its implications,
and what Paul brings out in the

605
00:45:56,640 –> 00:46:00,040
letter to the Hebrews.
But just as he must show that

606
00:46:00,040 –> 00:46:03,960
the passage in the Psalm
couldn’t have referenced to

607
00:46:03,960 –> 00:46:09,400
David because David Sepulchre
was there, so the passage of the

608
00:46:09,400 –> 00:46:15,880
ascent couldn’t refer to David
because for the same reason the

609
00:46:15,880 –> 00:46:19,360
sepulchre was there.
For David is not ascended into

610
00:46:19,360 –> 00:46:23,040
the heavens.
Did David know then that this

611
00:46:23,040 –> 00:46:25,440
word had reference to someone
else?

612
00:46:25,960 –> 00:46:29,040
He did know, said Peter, but he
said himself.

613
00:46:29,440 –> 00:46:32,080
You notice how the very
structure of the sentence

614
00:46:32,080 –> 00:46:34,080
requires you to expand it like
that.

615
00:46:35,080 –> 00:46:39,520
Did David know that this passage
of the ascent in the Psalm

616
00:46:39,520 –> 00:46:44,440
didn’t refer to himself?
He did know, for David himself

617
00:46:45,280 –> 00:46:50,160
said, The Lord said unto my
Lord, Sit thou on my right hand

618
00:46:50,160 –> 00:46:52,280
until I make thy force thy
footstool.

619
00:46:53,160 –> 00:46:59,840
And so he cites, he cites the
110th Psalm, the 110th Psalm,

620
00:46:59,840 –> 00:47:03,440
which begins The Lord said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right

621
00:47:03,440 –> 00:47:05,320
hand till I make thy force thy
footstool.

622
00:47:05,560 –> 00:47:08,480
The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of thine.

623
00:47:08,680 –> 00:47:10,920
Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies.

624
00:47:11,640 –> 00:47:14,000
In other words, it’s clearly a
messianic Psalm.

625
00:47:14,360 –> 00:47:18,640
Therefore the Messiah, whoever
he may be, must ascend to God’s

626
00:47:18,640 –> 00:47:24,360
right hand to remain there until
the time when God will establish

627
00:47:24,360 –> 00:47:28,680
His power.
And so Peter can now lead on to

628
00:47:28,680 –> 00:47:32,920
his conclusion, the 36th verse.
Therefore let all the House of

629
00:47:32,920 –> 00:47:36,800
Israel know assuredly that God
hath made, and now He can make

630
00:47:36,800 –> 00:47:41,480
the application, that same Jesus
whom He have crucified, both

631
00:47:41,480 –> 00:47:44,640
Lord and Christ.
And you’ll mark that he takes

632
00:47:44,640 –> 00:47:48,880
the word Christ from the 16th
Psalm, which speaks of him as

633
00:47:48,880 –> 00:47:53,440
the Messiah, and he takes the
word Lord up from the 110th

634
00:47:53,440 –> 00:47:55,520
Psalm.
He’s made him both Lord and

635
00:47:55,520 –> 00:47:57,320
Christ.
And it wasn’t just done as an

636
00:47:57,320 –> 00:47:59,640
assertion.
There was an elaboration of the

637
00:47:59,640 –> 00:48:02,440
meaning of the words and what
was dignified thereby.

638
00:48:02,760 –> 00:48:06,160
But Peter has already moved them
to such length that they said,

639
00:48:06,160 –> 00:48:08,000
men and brethren, what shall we
do?

640
00:48:08,160 –> 00:48:11,680
He said, you must be baptized,
everyone of you, in the name of

641
00:48:11,720 –> 00:48:14,400
Jesus Christ.
But the passage in Joel said,

642
00:48:14,400 –> 00:48:17,800
Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved.

643
00:48:17,920 –> 00:48:24,040
And now, just as Peter has given
the exposition from the 68th

644
00:48:24,040 –> 00:48:29,960
Psalm that there must be an
ascent after God had manifested

645
00:48:29,960 –> 00:48:36,040
and visited his people, so here
also the name of the Lord has

646
00:48:36,040 –> 00:48:40,480
been embodied in the
manifestation of God in His Son,

647
00:48:40,480 –> 00:48:44,040
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Repent and be baptized, everyone

648
00:48:44,040 –> 00:48:47,320
of you, in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of

649
00:48:47,320 –> 00:48:51,040
sins.
Corrie says this promise of

650
00:48:51,040 –> 00:48:55,280
salvation which we’re setting
before you go back, he says to

651
00:48:55,280 –> 00:48:59,040
what Joel says and just think of
the blessed privilege that is

652
00:48:59,040 –> 00:49:01,360
yours.
But Joel says as many as shall

653
00:49:01,360 –> 00:49:04,240
call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved, and you’re

654
00:49:04,240 –> 00:49:07,040
calling on him now.
But he says let the other part

655
00:49:07,040 –> 00:49:10,920
of the passage come true also.
Even as many as the Lord our God

656
00:49:10,960 –> 00:49:13,640
shall call.
This is a divine ministry.

657
00:49:13,640 –> 00:49:18,320
He says, this is the testimony
of God, and God by this message

658
00:49:18,320 –> 00:49:22,240
is calling you.
Unite your call with God’s call,

659
00:49:22,240 –> 00:49:25,880
and lay hold of this salvation
with many other words did he

660
00:49:25,880 –> 00:49:29,640
testify and exhort, saying, Save
yourself from this unto our

661
00:49:29,640 –> 00:49:33,000
generation.
Or he said, It is a remnant

662
00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:34,840
tomb.
The Lord shall call, as Joel

663
00:49:34,840 –> 00:49:38,000
testifies.
And so Luke adds it up by

664
00:49:38,000 –> 00:49:40,160
saying, the Lord added to the
church dearly.

665
00:49:40,160 –> 00:49:44,120
Such it should be said, for it
was a selective process.

666
00:49:45,160 –> 00:49:49,440
And again, Peter goes back to
look to the Joel passage, even

667
00:49:49,440 –> 00:49:52,520
the remnant, and he says make
sure you’re in the remnant.

668
00:49:52,840 –> 00:49:55,760
Well, it calls for application,
brothers and sisters, as we

669
00:49:55,760 –> 00:49:58,560
follow it through.
But if we’ll only gird up the

670
00:49:58,560 –> 00:50:02,480
loins of our minds, I think
we’ll perceive the strength of

671
00:50:02,480 –> 00:50:06,000
our position as we follow
Apostolic thought and see how

672
00:50:06,000 –> 00:50:07,600
well founded our faith is.