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\nimportance that we should attach
\nto the portions of Luke’s <\/p>\n
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\nnarrative by reference to the
\nplace he gives to them in space <\/p>\n
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\nand repetition.
\nAnd since he gives so much space<\/p>\n
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\nto the various speeches, it is
\nquite evident that Luke would <\/p>\n
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\nhave us understand something
\nconcerning the thinking of the <\/p>\n
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\nearly Christians, something
\nconcerning the message that was <\/p>\n
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\ngiven to them, something
\nconcerning God’s message which <\/p>\n
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\nwas communicated through them as
\nwitnesses. <\/p>\n
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\nWe are back at the very
\nbeginning of Christian teaching.<\/p>\n
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\nWe are going to consider the
\nfirst address that was given. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t address, however, with
\na background, for there had been<\/p>\n
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\nsome preparation of the men who
\nwere to give it. <\/p>\n
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\nWe all know how dismayed they
\nwere when Jesus was crucified <\/p>\n
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\nand how it seemed as though all
\ntheir expectations had failed. <\/p>\n
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\nWe all know how changed it was
\nwhen after the first day Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nhad appeared unto them.
\nWe are told that Jesus met them <\/p>\n
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\nand expounded to them from the
\nscriptures. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think we’re quite right in
\nattaching some words that Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nspake, which are in his in the
\nfirst book of Luke, in the <\/p>\n
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\nGospel, concerning what Jesus
\ntold them after he was raised <\/p>\n
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\nfrom the dead.
\nHe met 2 on the way to Emmaus. <\/p>\n
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\nThey thought he was a stranger.
\nAnd he said, what is this that <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re discussing among
\nyourselves? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as we read it, we can catch
\nfirst one speaking and then the <\/p>\n
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\nother as they answer him, as
\ntheir words fall over each <\/p>\n
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\nother, as they talk to him.
\nIf we go back just to catch that<\/p>\n
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\nup, The 21st verse, we trusted
\nthat it had been He which should<\/p>\n
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\nhave redeemed Israel.
\nAnd beside all this, today is <\/p>\n
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\nthe third day since these things
\nwere done. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you catch the voice of the
\nother interposing. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah.
\nAnd certain women also of our <\/p>\n
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\ncompany made us astonished,
\nwhich were early at the <\/p>\n
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\nsepulchre.
\nAnd when they found not his <\/p>\n
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\nbody, they came, saying that
\nthey had seen also a vision of <\/p>\n
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\nangels.
\nAnd thus they tossed their words<\/p>\n
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\nof the word Luke used by Luke
\nindicates. <\/p>\n
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\nThey tossed their words one to
\nthe other, as they fall over <\/p>\n
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\neach other, almost in their
\neagerness to communicate to this<\/p>\n
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\nstranger.
\nAnd then he said to them, all <\/p>\n
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\nfoolish ones, and slow of heart,
\nto believe all that the prophets<\/p>\n
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\nhave spoken.
\nOught not Christ to have <\/p>\n
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\nsuffered these things, and to
\nenter into his glory? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd beginning at Moses and all
\nthe prophets, he expounded unto <\/p>\n
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\nthem in all the Scriptures the
\nthings concerning Himself. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then when He was revealed to
\nthem at the breaking of bread, <\/p>\n
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\nthey thought nothing of the
\njourney back to Jerusalem to say<\/p>\n
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\nthat the Lord was risen.
\nBut they said one to another did<\/p>\n
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\nnot our heartburn within us
\nwhile He talked with us, by the <\/p>\n
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\nway, and while He opened up to
\nus the Scriptures. <\/p>\n
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\nNow there’s the divine example.
\nHe opened up the Scriptures, and<\/p>\n
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\nthe opening up of the scriptures
\nby this master teacher had the <\/p>\n
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\neffect of making their hearts
\nglow and burn within them. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that is what we will try to
\ndo as far as lies in the power <\/p>\n
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\nof all of us as we study
\ntogether these words of <\/p>\n
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\ninspiration through the
\napostles. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Jesus had to complete the
\npreparation, and He met the <\/p>\n
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\napostles, as Luke tells us in a
\nlater verse. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he said unto them, We’re
\nquoting verse 44. <\/p>\n
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\nThese are the words which I
\nspake unto you, while I was yet <\/p>\n
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\nwith you, that all things must
\nbe fulfilled, which were written<\/p>\n
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\nin the law of Moses, and in the
\nprophets, and in the Psalms <\/p>\n
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\nconcerning me.
\nThen opened He their <\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding, that they might
\nunderstand the Scriptures, So <\/p>\n
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\nthat insight which was His
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\nScripture was given to them.
\nHe opened up their standing, and<\/p>\n
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\nexpounded to them what had been
\nwritten. <\/p>\n
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\nThus it is written, and thus it
\nbehoves Christ to suffer and to <\/p>\n
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\nrise from the dead the third
\nday. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the repentance and remission
\nof sin should be preached in His<\/p>\n
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\nname among all nations,
\nbeginning at Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd ye are witnesses.
\nAnd I think we will be right in <\/p>\n
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\nsaying that that divine pattern
\nin the words of Jesus, as He <\/p>\n
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\nexpounded to them the Scriptures
\nconcerning Himself, was that <\/p>\n
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\nwhich gave shape to their own
\naddresses. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was that mould in which their
\nthought was cast as they went <\/p>\n
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\nout to witness to this truth.
\nThey had to testify to Jews that<\/p>\n
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\nJesus whom they had crucified,
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\nAnd not only had to they to
\nwitness to the fact, as a matter<\/p>\n
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\nof experience in their own
\nlives, that Jesus had risen from<\/p>\n
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\nthe dead, but they had to put
\nthat fact of the resurrection of<\/p>\n
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\nJesus into the framework of the
\nOld Testament revelation. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd therefore it was necessary
\nthat they should understand and <\/p>\n
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\nbe empowered to open up the
\nsignificance of the Old <\/p>\n
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\nTestament Scriptures in order
\nthat it might be shown that what<\/p>\n
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\nhad happened in Jerusalem in
\nconnection with Jesus was <\/p>\n
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\naccording to the divine plan
\nthat had been revealed in the <\/p>\n
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\nOld Testament writings.
\nAnd as we study these speeches <\/p>\n
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\nin Acts, we shall find the
\nresemblance between them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd again, I think it would be
\nright to say that before many <\/p>\n
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\ndays had passed in connection
\nwith the work of preaching the <\/p>\n
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\nGospel, they had a group of
\ntexts on the different headings,<\/p>\n
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\nwhich was common property of all
\nthe teachers, and all turned to <\/p>\n
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\nit for guidance and used it as
\nthe pattern upon which could be <\/p>\n
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\npresented.
\nThis doctrine we have a <\/p>\n
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\nAll of you will be familiar with<\/p>\n
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\nAnd that that was something like<\/p>\n
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\nThey were bodies of testimonies,<\/p>\n
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\na corpus of quotations
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\ndoctrines, and therefore it is
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\nof passages in one and another
\naddress. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in the Epistles these
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\ngrouped together as witnessing
\nto certain facts in connection <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Lord Himself had set <\/p>\n
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\nthem the example in His own
\nexposition of the Scripture <\/p>\n
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\nduring His ministry, in how He
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\nScriptures to build up His
\ntestimony and give the message <\/p>\n
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\nthat was entrusted to Him by the
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\nRuskin has said in one of his
\nbooks that we should go to a <\/p>\n
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\nbook not to find there what we
\nthink, but so to read and so to <\/p>\n
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\nreread and study the author,
\nthat we come to know what he <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to look at these
\nspeeches and see what Luke <\/p>\n
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\nintended that we should know
\nfrom them, or what God intended <\/p>\n
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\nin the writing through Luke.
\nAnd if we speak of Luke, you’ll <\/p>\n
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\nremember that always we have in
\nreserve that point of view that <\/p>\n
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\nit was got through Luke.
\nAnd just as we saw yesterday how<\/p>\n
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\nwonderfully accurate Luke was in
\nhis writing of history, so we <\/p>\n
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\nare going to observe today how
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\nsummary of the address we have
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\nWhat can it be?
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\nwhat was said, but just as a
\nlong article might be <\/p>\n
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\nsummarised, and indeed it is a
\ntest in literature exams, or <\/p>\n
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\nused to be, that an article of
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\nsummarised.
\nThat there must be a bringing <\/p>\n
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\nout of the essential features
\nand a reduction in words, but <\/p>\n
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\nstill a preservation of the
\nessential content of what the <\/p>\n
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\nlonger article contains.
\nSo if in these speeches recorded<\/p>\n
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\nin Acts, we have the same skill
\nin summarizing, in writing the <\/p>\n
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\npressie that Luke has manifested
\nin writing the history, we shall<\/p>\n
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\nbe able to expand the speech and
\nobserving Luke’s methods, <\/p>\n
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\nacquire a fuller view of what
\nwas said then the summary would <\/p>\n
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\ngive us if we just read it
\nquickly. <\/p>\n
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\nI was going to notice how many
\nminutes it took the reading of <\/p>\n
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\nthis speech.
\nI don’t suppose it took more <\/p>\n
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\nthan 3 or 4 minutes.
\nBut you don’t think for a minute<\/p>\n
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\nthat Peter stood up in Jerusalem
\nand spake for 5 minutes? <\/p>\n
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\nHow long would Peter be
\naddressing this multitude of <\/p>\n
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\npeople who were there on the day
\nof Pentecost from the different <\/p>\n
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\nparts of scattered jewellery?
\nWould it be anything less than <\/p>\n
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\nan hour?
\nMight we not presume that with <\/p>\n
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\nthe giving of such a message it
\nmight be of two hours duration, <\/p>\n
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\nand yet Luke has compressed,
\nshall we say, an hour and a half<\/p>\n
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\naddress in the compass of what
\nit takes us 4 minutes to read? <\/p>\n
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\nNow can we ascertain with what
\nskill an address of such length <\/p>\n
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\nhas been summarized?
\nI think we can and we want to <\/p>\n
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\ntrace out Luke’s method and
\nfollow catching hold of his <\/p>\n
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\nmethod, do a little expansion.
\nThe expansion that is intended <\/p>\n
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\nwe should make for ourselves so
\nthat we get a larger view of the<\/p>\n
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\naddress that Peter gave.
\nNow we said yesterday that one <\/p>\n
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\nchurch historian has said that
\none of the reasons why <\/p>\n
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\nChristianity spread so
\nremarkably during the 1st <\/p>\n
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\ncentury was that the Christians
\nout thought the pagans. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as we follow the argument of
\nPeter and the other arguments in<\/p>\n
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\nthe other addresses, we shall
\nfind that they’re all marked by <\/p>\n
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\na close knit reasoning.
\nYou won’t have to nod. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you do, you’ll miss something
\nof his address. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s closely woven together and
\nthere’s a close knit texture <\/p>\n
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\nabout it.
\nThere’s power and cogency in the<\/p>\n
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\npresentation of the argument,
\nand that we shall try to see as <\/p>\n
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\nwe go through it.
\nNow there isn’t time for any <\/p>\n
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\nmore words.
\nBy way of a preamble, let us <\/p>\n
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\nturn to our Bibles and follow
\nthrough this address. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ve heard it read as a whole.
\nNow we’re going to look at it <\/p>\n
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\npiece by piece.
\nThe miracle of the bestowal of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Spirit and the speaking with
\ntongues had been performed, and <\/p>\n
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\nthe crowd was gathered together,
\nprobably in one of the Temple <\/p>\n
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\ncourts.
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\nmillion Jews assembled in
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\nNot so many attended the Feast
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\nbefore, along all the narrow
\nalleyways of the old city, men <\/p>\n
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\nwere hurrying to the temple
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\nAnd they noticed the unusualness
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\nAnd as men are always ready to
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\nFirstly, it’s only 9:00 in the
\nmorning and it is forbidden for <\/p>\n
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\nSo therefore, as good Jews, it
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\nJoel, and besides the prophecy
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\nhis Spirit upon old and young,
\nof God’s servants and <\/p>\n
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\nhandmaidens, who should
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\nlooking at this citation. <\/p>\n
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\nBut there’s another way of
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\nthat have to be determined
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\nPeter says this is that which
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\ndoes he mean by this?
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\nhappening is that which was
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\nNow if we take the first these
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\nyou, this citation is that which
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\nThen Peter is giving them a
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\nto argue by analogy, that when
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\nto pass as you believe the Old
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\nthen say that these men are
\ndrunk? <\/p>\n
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\nOr will you see that there’s
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\nyou by the outpouring of His
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\npass, you will say that this
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\ntestimony, then why not now
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\nwhether there hasn’t been
\nsomething happening now before <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, observe what God has <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we want you to look at verse
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\nThe sun shall be turned Into
\nDarkness, and the moon into <\/p>\n
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\nblood before that great and
\nnotable day of the Lord come. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it shall come to pass that
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\nof the Lord shall be saved.
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\nplace in Acts, and turn back to
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\nAnd as we read the prophecy of
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\nPeter stops short at the
\nquotation, verse 31. <\/p>\n
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\nThe sun shall be turned Into
\nDarkness, and the moon into <\/p>\n
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\nblood, before the great and
\nterrible day of the Lord come. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it shall come to pass that
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\nof the Lord shall be delivered.
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\nstatement, which reads For in
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\nshall be deliverance, as the
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\nthe remnant whom the Lord shall
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\nNow that should make us pause.
\nIt wasn’t. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t that Luke was so short
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\nquotation that he must cut those
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\nhe’s quoted at such length the
\nprevious verses. <\/p>\n
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\nBut now notice this, that the
\nvery last words and the remnant <\/p>\n
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\nwhom the Lord shall call are in
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\nNow I want you to notice this
\nverse 39. <\/p>\n
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\nThe promise is unto you and to
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\nare afar off.
\nAnd now comes the quotation from<\/p>\n
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\nJoel, even as many.
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\nNow we suggest from this method
\nof loops of thus breaking off <\/p>\n
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\nthat quotation and then
\nintroducing it afterwards that <\/p>\n
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\nthis in fact is what happened.
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\na Christian Delphian platform.
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\nsays, now we’ll stop there and
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\nNow Luke doesn’t tell us he’s <\/p>\n
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\ndoing that, but by his very
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\ndone.
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\nwe’ll talk about this and I’ll
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\nis surely clear evidence that <\/p>\n
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\nIt shall come to pass that
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\nof the Lord shall be saved.
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\nthe letter to the Romans, and he
\ntakes up each word in turn in <\/p>\n
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\nthe 10th chapter of the letter.
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\nout, but we want you to notice
\nthat this verse was a verse that<\/p>\n
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\nwas used in the setting forth of
\nthe gospel in the 1st century, <\/p>\n
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\nnot by one, but by others.
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\ncommon stock of quotation that
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\nus as speakers in presenting the<\/p>\n
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\nIf any of us wanted to refer to <\/p>\n
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\nthe teaching of Jesus on the
\nKingdom of God, the vast <\/p>\n
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\nmajority would include in a
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\nin the regeneration, when the
\nSon of man shall sit upon the <\/p>\n
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\nthrone of His glory, E12 shall
\nsit upon 12 Thrones. <\/p>\n
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\nIf a lecture were being given on
\nthe nature of man, there would <\/p>\n
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\nbe a certain reference to
\nGenesis, which says, Dost thou <\/p>\n
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\nart, and unto dust shalt thou
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\nAnd so in setting forth a divine
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\nThis passage, similarly in Joy
\nwas used by them, and Paul in <\/p>\n
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\nhis argument stresses first of
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\nstarting point of an exposition
\nof how there has been exhibited <\/p>\n
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\nin the midst of them a means for
\ntheir salvation by a divine <\/p>\n
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\nintervention in their midst.
\nGod would reveal Himself by this<\/p>\n
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\noutpouring of the Spirit, and
\nthey would be exhibited a way of<\/p>\n
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\nsalvation upon which men might
\ncall in order that they might be<\/p>\n
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\nsaved.
\nIt was a salvation manifested, <\/p>\n
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\nbound up with a name of the
\nLord, upon which men shall call.<\/p>\n
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\nNow, tomorrow we shall follow
\nout what is involved in that <\/p>\n
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\nname of the Lord, because it is
\nthe subject of particular <\/p>\n
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\nreference in Peter’s speech, the
\nsecond speech recorded in that. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the word salvation is the
\nconnecting thought between the <\/p>\n
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\nspeech of Joel and what Peter
\nhas next to say. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says to them, what is this
\nsalvation? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what has been done to make
\neffective a salvation? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is it that God has provided
\nas a way of salvation? <\/p>\n
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\nNow he says, we’ll tell you.
\nHe says you know about Jesus of <\/p>\n
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\nNazareth.
\nHe says, listen to this you men <\/p>\n
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\nof Israel, verse 22 Jesus of
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\nHe was a man approved among you
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\nsigns, which God did by him.
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\ndelivered by the determinate
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\nGod, ye have taken, and by
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\nslain.
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\nnot possible that he should be
\nold and of it. <\/p>\n
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\ncommon feature to those 3 verses<\/p>\n
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\nis, that there was divine action
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\nFirst, Jesus was raised up and
\nattested by God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was approved of God among
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\nSecondly, that even their
\ndelivering up of Jesus fulfilled<\/p>\n
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\na divine purpose.
\nThey did it ignorantly, in <\/p>\n
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\nwhich had been revealed before.
\nIt was according to the <\/p>\n
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\ndeterminate counsel and for
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\nup Jesus, so the events <\/p>\n
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\nconnected with Jesus were all
\npart of a divine activity for <\/p>\n
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\nmen’s salvation.
\nBut you don’t think, brethren <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters, for a minute that
\nPeter just said that Jesus of <\/p>\n
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\nNazareth was approved of God
\namong you by miracles and <\/p>\n
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\nwonders and signs, which God did
\nby him. <\/p>\n
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\nWithout passing in review some
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\n00:26:47,200 –> 00:26:52,400
\ndone, He classifieds them as
\nmiracles, wonders, and signs. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:26:52,920 –> 00:26:57,840
\nDoesn’t that suggest to us that
\nPeter surveyed the varied range <\/p>\n
341
\n00:26:57,840 –> 00:27:03,000
\nof miracles that Jesus did?
\nHe would say to them, now this <\/p>\n
342
\n00:27:03,000 –> 00:27:07,960
\nman has done miracles among you,
\nYou all know that he’s healed <\/p>\n
343
\n00:27:07,960 –> 00:27:10,920
\nthe sick.
\nDon’t you remember such a case? <\/p>\n
344
\n00:27:11,720 –> 00:27:16,600
\nAnd is given sight to the blind.
\nAnd they’d be among those who <\/p>\n
345
\n00:27:16,600 –> 00:27:21,000
\nwere there, some who had
\nthemselves either been the <\/p>\n
346
\n00:27:21,000 –> 00:27:26,160
\nsubject of the healing power of
\nJesus, or who had friends or <\/p>\n
347
\n00:27:26,160 –> 00:27:29,960
\nrelatives who had.
\nAnd so it was an appeal to a <\/p>\n
348
\n00:27:29,960 –> 00:27:33,400
\nbody of common knowledge in
\ntheir midst. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:27:34,280 –> 00:27:38,040
\nBut he couldn’t be made by outer
\ncertain recapitulation of <\/p>\n
350
\n00:27:38,040 –> 00:27:42,120
\ncertain miracles.
\nAnd so when he said that he was <\/p>\n
351
\n00:27:42,120 –> 00:27:45,240
\ndelivered by the determinate
\ncounsel and for knowledge of <\/p>\n
352
\n00:27:45,240 –> 00:27:50,640
\nGod, such a bold statement would
\nnever for a minute be itself <\/p>\n
353
\n00:27:50,640 –> 00:27:54,600
\nconvincing.
\nHe’d have to show that it was <\/p>\n
354
\n00:27:54,600 –> 00:28:01,880
\nthe determinate counsel of God
\nthat Jesus should be crucified <\/p>\n
355
\n00:28:02,920 –> 00:28:06,120
\nand slain.
\nAnd we shall observe as we go <\/p>\n
356
\n00:28:06,120 –> 00:28:09,520
\nthrough these speeches that an
\nemphasis is given to the fact <\/p>\n
357
\n00:28:10,120 –> 00:28:13,840
\nthat Jesus was crucified.
\nAnd he would have therefore, to <\/p>\n
358
\n00:28:13,840 –> 00:28:18,320
\ngather up from the Old Testament
\nthose passages which showed that<\/p>\n
359
\n00:28:18,320 –> 00:28:23,400
\nGod had decreed that this should
\nbe necessary for men’s <\/p>\n
360
\n00:28:23,400 –> 00:28:25,560
\nsalvation.
\nAnd there would be an opening <\/p>\n
361
\n00:28:25,560 –> 00:28:29,440
\nup, say, of those servant
\npassages in Isaiah which begin <\/p>\n
362
\n00:28:29,440 –> 00:28:34,320
\nat the 42nd chapter and go on to
\nthe end of the 53rd, in which <\/p>\n
363
\n00:28:34,320 –> 00:28:38,880
\nGod speaks of His servant, whom
\nHe would uphold, of that servant<\/p>\n
364
\n00:28:38,880 –> 00:28:42,120
\nof the Lord who would be
\ndespised and rejected, who would<\/p>\n
365
\n00:28:42,120 –> 00:28:46,320
\nprolong His days, by whose
\nstripes men would be healed, who<\/p>\n
366
\n00:28:46,320 –> 00:28:50,280
\nwould bear their iniquities, who
\nwould see His seed, and in whose<\/p>\n
367
\n00:28:50,280 –> 00:28:53,480
\nhands the pleasure of the Lord
\nwould yet prosper. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:28:54,040 –> 00:28:58,240
\nIt would only be by a surveyor
\npassages like that, that Peter <\/p>\n
369
\n00:28:58,240 –> 00:29:01,400
\nwould be able to say that it was
\naccording to the determinate <\/p>\n
370
\n00:29:01,400 –> 00:29:03,240
\ncounsel and poor knowledge of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:29:04,160 –> 00:29:07,480
\nBut when he comes to the Third
\nPoint, that whom God hath raised<\/p>\n
372
\n00:29:07,480 –> 00:29:14,080
\nup, that that was something
\noutside the common experience of<\/p>\n
373
\n00:29:14,080 –> 00:29:17,280
\nall of them.
\nThe witnesses had seen Jesus, <\/p>\n
374
\n00:29:17,400 –> 00:29:20,160
\nbut they all had the Scriptures
\nand now Peter. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:29:21,280 –> 00:29:27,640
\nThat that was something outside
\nthe common experience of all of <\/p>\n
376
\n00:29:27,640 –> 00:29:30,400
\nthem.
\nThe witnesses had seen Jesus, <\/p>\n
377
\n00:29:30,720 –> 00:29:36,080
\nbut they all had the Scriptures,
\nand now Peter in particular <\/p>\n
378
\n00:29:36,320 –> 00:29:39,640
\nelaborates the prophetic
\ntestimony concerning the <\/p>\n
379
\n00:29:39,640 –> 00:29:43,440
\nresurrection of Jesus.
\nNow that was fitting, was it <\/p>\n
380
\n00:29:43,440 –> 00:29:46,040
\nnot?
\nIn the first point, he can <\/p>\n
381
\n00:29:46,040 –> 00:29:48,880
\nappeal to their common
\nexperience and their knowledge <\/p>\n
382
\n00:29:48,880 –> 00:29:52,280
\nof the wind, of the wonders and
\nsigns that Jesus had done. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:29:53,040 –> 00:29:56,320
\nWith regard to the second, it
\nbeing the determinate council, <\/p>\n
384
\n00:29:56,720 –> 00:29:58,680
\nhe will pass in review
\nScriptures. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:29:59,520 –> 00:30:04,440
\nBut the essential point of their
\ntestimony, and the one which <\/p>\n
386
\n00:30:04,640 –> 00:30:10,520
\nwould clinch the whole argument,
\nconsisted of the evidence of the<\/p>\n
387
\n00:30:10,520 –> 00:30:14,360
\nresurrection of Jesus.
\nFor if God had raised him up <\/p>\n
388
\n00:30:14,600 –> 00:30:21,240
\nfrom death when they had slain
\nhim and crucified him, why then <\/p>\n
389
\n00:30:21,400 –> 00:30:25,640
\nit proved beyond all per
\nadventure that Jesus must be the<\/p>\n
390
\n00:30:25,640 –> 00:30:31,120
\none about whom those testimonies
\nthat had been cited was <\/p>\n
391
\n00:30:31,120 –> 00:30:37,240
\nconcerned.
\nAnd so he discusses a passage of<\/p>\n
392
\n00:30:37,240 –> 00:30:41,000
\nscripture concerning the
\nresurrection of Jesus. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:30:41,120 –> 00:30:46,920
\nHe boldly affirms 2 things.
\nFirstly, First that it was by <\/p>\n
394
\n00:30:46,920 –> 00:30:51,080
\nDavid and that he was speaking
\nconcerning Jesus. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:30:52,200 –> 00:30:57,960
\nThe 25th verse for David
\nspeaketh concerning him. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:30:58,480 –> 00:31:03,000
\nAnd they might have said well
\nhow do you know David was <\/p>\n
397
\n00:31:03,000 –> 00:31:05,760
\nspeaking?
\nAnd the answer is, firstly, that<\/p>\n
398
\n00:31:05,760 –> 00:31:09,960
\nmodern higher criticism hadn’t
\ncast doubt upon the authorship <\/p>\n
399
\n00:31:09,960 –> 00:31:15,880
\nof the 16th Psalm, and all
\nOrthodox Jews accepted the <\/p>\n
400
\n00:31:16,040 –> 00:31:20,000
\nliterary Ed heading of the Psalm
\nthat it was by David. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:31:21,440 –> 00:31:26,400
\nBut speaking concerning him must
\nneeds be the subject of some <\/p>\n
402
\n00:31:26,400 –> 00:31:31,280
\ntestimony, some reasoning.
\nAnd so Peter must quote at <\/p>\n
403
\n00:31:31,280 –> 00:31:35,320
\nlength at some length from the
\n16th Psalm. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:31:36,000 –> 00:31:40,920
\nBut the very fact that it is
\nquoted by Luke at some length <\/p>\n
405
\n00:31:42,320 –> 00:31:47,920
\nshows that it was the subject of
\nconsiderable elaboration by <\/p>\n
406
\n00:31:47,920 –> 00:31:52,960
\nDavid, And Luke tells us in what
\nway it was elaborated. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:31:53,760 –> 00:31:57,400
\nFirst, the affirmation that
\nDavid was speaking concerning <\/p>\n
408
\n00:31:57,400 –> 00:31:59,760
\nJesus.
\nThen the citation of the <\/p>\n
409
\n00:31:59,760 –> 00:32:03,200
\npassage.
\nI foresaw the Lord always before<\/p>\n
410
\n00:32:03,200 –> 00:32:06,320
\nmy feast.
\nHe is on my right hand that I <\/p>\n
411
\n00:32:06,320 –> 00:32:09,720
\nshould not be moved.
\nTherefore did my heart rejoice, <\/p>\n
412
\n00:32:09,720 –> 00:32:13,600
\nand my tongue was glad.
\nMoreover also my flesh shall <\/p>\n
413
\n00:32:13,600 –> 00:32:17,000
\nrest in hope, because thou will
\nnot leave my soul in hell, <\/p>\n
414
\n00:32:17,480 –> 00:32:20,440
\nneither wilt thou suffer thine
\nholy ones to see corruption. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:32:21,240 –> 00:32:23,520
\nThou hast made known to me the
\nways of life. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:32:24,280 –> 00:32:27,640
\nThou shalt make me full of joy
\nwith thy countenance. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:32:28,280 –> 00:32:35,080
\nAnd we go back to the 16th
\nPsalm, and we observe that here <\/p>\n
418
\n00:32:35,080 –> 00:32:40,640
\nagain Luke has only given us
\npart of the quotation, the 10th <\/p>\n
419
\n00:32:40,640 –> 00:32:44,680
\nverse of the 16th Psalm.
\nThou wilt not leave my soul in <\/p>\n
420
\n00:32:44,680 –> 00:32:48,160
\nhell, neither wilt Thou suffer
\nthine Holy One, to see <\/p>\n
421
\n00:32:48,160 –> 00:32:51,160
\ncorruption.
\nThou wilt show me the path of <\/p>\n
422
\n00:32:51,160 –> 00:32:53,960
\nlife in Thy presence, His
\nfullness of joy. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:32:54,360 –> 00:32:58,120
\nAnd He leaves unquoted for the
\nmoment at Thy right hand. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:32:58,120 –> 00:33:02,560
\nThere are pleasures forevermore.
\nBut He does come back to it <\/p>\n
425
\n00:33:02,560 –> 00:33:06,120
\nlater in the address, which
\nagain teaches us and shows us <\/p>\n
426
\n00:33:06,120 –> 00:33:10,600
\nthat we are rightly interpreting
\nLuke’s method of summarizing <\/p>\n
427
\n00:33:11,120 –> 00:33:16,240
\nwhen we suggest that Peter said,
\nat this point, now I’m only <\/p>\n
428
\n00:33:16,240 –> 00:33:18,960
\ngoing to quote so far for a
\nmoment, We’ll come back to the <\/p>\n
429
\n00:33:18,960 –> 00:33:22,600
\nimplication of that phrase at
\nthy right hand of pleasures <\/p>\n
430
\n00:33:22,600 –> 00:33:27,000
\nforevermore in a moment or two.
\nBut let us talk about this fact,<\/p>\n
431
\n00:33:27,000 –> 00:33:33,200
\nsays Peter, that here David is
\ntestifying concerning somebody <\/p>\n
432
\n00:33:33,200 –> 00:33:37,920
\nwhose ways were pleasing to God,
\nwho always walked in the light <\/p>\n
433
\n00:33:37,920 –> 00:33:41,480
\nof God’s countenance, whose
\nflesh would rest in hope because<\/p>\n
434
\n00:33:41,720 –> 00:33:45,720
\nhis body wouldn’t be left there.
\nNay, not only would it not be <\/p>\n
435
\n00:33:45,720 –> 00:33:50,120
\nleft in the grave, but the
\nresurrection would come so soon <\/p>\n
436
\n00:33:50,120 –> 00:33:55,120
\nafter his death that it was
\nbefore corruption that set in an<\/p>\n
437
\n00:33:55,120 –> 00:33:58,360
\nimportant point.
\nThou will not suffer, Thy Holy <\/p>\n
438
\n00:33:58,360 –> 00:34:01,880
\nOne to see corruption.
\nTherefore resurrection must <\/p>\n
439
\n00:34:01,920 –> 00:34:09,800
\nfollow so soon after the burial
\nthat corruption of the body had <\/p>\n
440
\n00:34:09,800 –> 00:34:14,280
\nnot taken place.
\nBut what Peter has to say has <\/p>\n
441
\n00:34:14,280 –> 00:34:18,360
\nthe appearance, slight
\nappearance, of a little <\/p>\n
442
\n00:34:18,360 –> 00:34:22,600
\ndisparagement of David.
\nHe says, now David isn’t <\/p>\n
443
\n00:34:22,600 –> 00:34:26,040
\nspeaking about himself.
\nAnd you’ll catch that apologetic<\/p>\n
444
\n00:34:26,040 –> 00:34:31,120
\ntone in the 29th verse when he
\nsays, men and brethren, let me <\/p>\n
445
\n00:34:31,120 –> 00:34:35,920
\nfreely speak unto you of the
\npatriarch David. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:34:36,760 –> 00:34:39,480
\nWe all honour him and respect
\nhim. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:34:40,320 –> 00:34:43,159
\nAnd it isn’t any disparagement
\nwhen we say that the Psalm <\/p>\n
448
\n00:34:43,159 –> 00:34:47,239
\ndoesn’t apply to him now.
\nIn fact, he says it cannot apply<\/p>\n
449
\n00:34:47,239 –> 00:34:51,440
\nto him.
\nHe is dead and buried, and his <\/p>\n
450
\n00:34:51,440 –> 00:34:55,880
\nsepulchre is with us to this
\nday. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:34:56,960 –> 00:35:00,400
\nAnd as he stood in the temple
\ncourt, he could have said, you <\/p>\n
452
\n00:35:00,400 –> 00:35:05,600
\nknow where his sepulchre is.
\nIt isn’t far from the temple <\/p>\n
453
\n00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:10,080
\nwalls, just over there in the
\ncity of David. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:35:10,440 –> 00:35:13,760
\nIf I were to ask anyone of you,
\nhe says, where David’s sepulchre<\/p>\n
455
\n00:35:13,760 –> 00:35:16,400
\nis, you’d say, why don’t you
\nknow, Peter, come along and <\/p>\n
456
\n00:35:16,400 –> 00:35:19,440
\nwe’ll show you.
\nAnd so we all agree that that is<\/p>\n
457
\n00:35:19,440 –> 00:35:23,200
\nDavid’s sepulchre.
\nIt’s his sepulchre because his <\/p>\n
458
\n00:35:23,200 –> 00:35:26,640
\nbody was buried there, and it
\nhas remained there. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:35:27,440 –> 00:35:32,320
\nSo David wasn’t raised up, but
\nthe Psalm speaks of a man whom <\/p>\n
460
\n00:35:32,320 –> 00:35:36,360
\nGod raised up, and therefore he
\ncouldn’t apply to David. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:35:36,720 –> 00:35:40,680
\nBut to whom did it apply?
\nNow follow on then his argument.<\/p>\n
462
\n00:35:40,960 –> 00:35:44,360
\nMen and brethren, let me freely
\nspeak unto you, the pitriarch <\/p>\n
463
\n00:35:44,360 –> 00:35:48,560
\nDavid, that he is both dead and
\nburied, and his sepulchre is <\/p>\n
464
\n00:35:48,560 –> 00:35:52,800
\nwith us unto this day.
\nTherefore, since it couldn’t <\/p>\n
465
\n00:35:52,800 –> 00:35:56,400
\napply to him, it must apply to
\nsomeone else, could it? <\/p>\n
466
\n00:35:56,440 –> 00:36:00,880
\nYes, it could, because David was
\na prophet, and David had <\/p>\n
467
\n00:36:00,880 –> 00:36:05,120
\npromises given unto him, and
\ntherefore his prophecy concerns <\/p>\n
468
\n00:36:05,120 –> 00:36:09,880
\nthe one promised to him.
\nTherefore, being a prophet, and <\/p>\n
469
\n00:36:09,880 –> 00:36:13,000
\nknowing that God had sworn with
\nan oath to him that of the fruit<\/p>\n
470
\n00:36:13,000 –> 00:36:17,040
\nof his loins according to the
\nflesh, he would raise up Christ <\/p>\n
471
\n00:36:17,560 –> 00:36:22,200
\nto sit on his throne.
\nAnd could Peter say that without<\/p>\n
472
\n00:36:22,560 –> 00:36:27,480
\nquoting them the 7th chapter of
\nthe second book of Samuel and <\/p>\n
473
\n00:36:27,480 –> 00:36:30,720
\nelaborating a little, the
\ncovenant made with David, of <\/p>\n
474
\n00:36:30,720 –> 00:36:34,920
\ncourse he would do that.
\nNow it’s a David had these <\/p>\n
475
\n00:36:34,920 –> 00:36:39,160
\npromises made to him that one of
\nhis descendants should sit upon <\/p>\n
476
\n00:36:39,160 –> 00:36:43,040
\nhis throne.
\nThe horizon of his salvation was<\/p>\n
477
\n00:36:43,040 –> 00:36:47,280
\nbound up with that man whom God
\nwas going to raise up in his <\/p>\n
478
\n00:36:47,280 –> 00:36:50,680
\nline, and his prophecy concerned
\nhim. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:36:51,520 –> 00:36:57,080
\nSo Peter concludes verse 31.
\nHe’s seeing this before spake of<\/p>\n
480
\n00:36:57,080 –> 00:37:01,600
\nthe resurrection of the Christ.
\nThe Revised Version rightly <\/p>\n
481
\n00:37:02,160 –> 00:37:06,120
\nincludes the definite article.
\nAnd when Peter says the Christ, <\/p>\n
482
\n00:37:06,120 –> 00:37:09,400
\nhe doesn’t say Jesus.
\nAnd perhaps if we translated <\/p>\n
483
\n00:37:09,400 –> 00:37:13,240
\nChrist into Messiah, we would
\nsee that he was not thinking <\/p>\n
484
\n00:37:13,240 –> 00:37:18,560
\nthen of the person Jesus, but
\nwas arguing purely from the text<\/p>\n
485
\n00:37:18,840 –> 00:37:24,320
\nthat whoever the Messiah is, the
\nMessiah must be a resurrected <\/p>\n
486
\n00:37:24,320 –> 00:37:26,640
\nman.
\nThat’s Peter’s argument. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:37:27,160 –> 00:37:31,840
\nThe prophecy says here is.
\nAnd David speaking by prophecy <\/p>\n
488
\n00:37:31,840 –> 00:37:34,560
\ntells of one who will be raised
\nfrom the dead. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:37:35,440 –> 00:37:39,000
\nHe was Speaking of the one
\npromised to him, says Peter, in <\/p>\n
490
\n00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:43,600
\nthe covenant made with him.
\nThat being so, the Messiah of <\/p>\n
491
\n00:37:43,600 –> 00:37:49,040
\nnecessity for the Scripture
\nrequires, it must be a man <\/p>\n
492
\n00:37:49,400 –> 00:37:53,680
\nraised from the dead.
\nHe spake of the resurrection of <\/p>\n
493
\n00:37:53,680 –> 00:37:59,280
\nthe Messiah, that his soul was
\nnot left in hell, neither his <\/p>\n
494
\n00:37:59,280 –> 00:38:03,040
\nflesh did see corruption.
\nI think we’ll all admit the <\/p>\n
495
\n00:38:03,040 –> 00:38:06,960
\nforce of the argument, but just
\nthink, brethren and sisters, of <\/p>\n
496
\n00:38:06,960 –> 00:38:10,960
\nthe circumstances under which
\nthat argument was put forward. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:38:11,160 –> 00:38:15,320
\nPeter said the gesture of his
\nhand, probably you know where <\/p>\n
498
\n00:38:15,320 –> 00:38:19,440
\nDavid’s sepulchre is, and it’s
\nhis sepulchre because his dust <\/p>\n
499
\n00:38:19,440 –> 00:38:23,560
\nis there.
\nBut God has raised up Jesus and <\/p>\n
500
\n00:38:23,560 –> 00:38:26,120
\nthat has fulfilled this
\nprophecy. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:38:26,320 –> 00:38:30,840
\nAnd the place where Joseph and
\nArimathea and Nicodemus put the <\/p>\n
502
\n00:38:30,840 –> 00:38:35,240
\nbody of Jesus isn’t his
\nsepulchre because he’s been <\/p>\n
503
\n00:38:35,240 –> 00:38:39,080
\nraised from the dead.
\nAnd it was only less than a mile<\/p>\n
504
\n00:38:39,080 –> 00:38:41,720
\nacross the city.
\nAnd wasn’t there anybody there <\/p>\n
505
\n00:38:41,720 –> 00:38:47,520
\nwith sufficient to say, yes,
\nPeter, but the tomb of Joseph is<\/p>\n
506
\n00:38:47,520 –> 00:38:51,840
\nthe sepulchre of Jesus.
\nIt was only seven weeks after <\/p>\n
507
\n00:38:51,880 –> 00:38:56,200
\nJesus was crucified.
\nAnd yet Peter is standing in the<\/p>\n
508
\n00:38:56,200 –> 00:39:02,440
\ntemple court in the very citadel
\nof Israel’s rulers and quoting <\/p>\n
509
\n00:39:02,440 –> 00:39:06,320
\nthis scripture that the Messiah
\nmust be a resurrected man and <\/p>\n
510
\n00:39:06,320 –> 00:39:09,920
\nsaying the passage can’t apply
\nto David because his sepulchre <\/p>\n
511
\n00:39:09,920 –> 00:39:12,640
\nis there.
\nIt does apply to Jesus because <\/p>\n
512
\n00:39:12,720 –> 00:39:16,480
\nthat isn’t his sepulcher and
\nthey didn’t take Peter around to<\/p>\n
513
\n00:39:16,480 –> 00:39:20,520
\nshow him that it was because
\nthey knew the place where Jesus <\/p>\n
514
\n00:39:20,520 –> 00:39:24,360
\nhad lain was not his sepulcher.
\nThey knew that their seals had <\/p>\n
515
\n00:39:24,360 –> 00:39:27,640
\nbeen broken.
\nThey knew the God had come <\/p>\n
516
\n00:39:27,640 –> 00:39:30,840
\naround with a lame tale.
\nThey knew that there was some <\/p>\n
517
\n00:39:30,840 –> 00:39:35,080
\nmystery about it beyond their
\nexplanation, but in which they’d<\/p>\n
518
\n00:39:35,080 –> 00:39:39,040
\nbeen revealed divine power.
\nAnd the one thing that would <\/p>\n
519
\n00:39:39,040 –> 00:39:43,040
\nhave completely squashed right
\nat the beginning, the setting <\/p>\n
520
\n00:39:43,040 –> 00:39:47,600
\nforth of this basic Christian
\ndoctrine that Jesus was raised <\/p>\n
521
\n00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:50,280
\nfrom the dead.
\nThe one thing that would have <\/p>\n
522
\n00:39:50,280 –> 00:39:53,440
\nsquashed, it wasn’t done because
\nit couldn’t be done. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:39:53,760 –> 00:39:57,360
\nBut the challenge was made at
\nthe ones right there. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:39:57,680 –> 00:40:01,120
\nAnd the first address that was
\nmade in the very citadel, the <\/p>\n
525
\n00:40:01,120 –> 00:40:04,760
\nvery strong old of Israel’s
\nrulers. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:40:05,200 –> 00:40:09,080
\nIt gives us a picture, doesn’t
\nit, brethren and sisters of the <\/p>\n
527
\n00:40:09,080 –> 00:40:14,120
\nvigor and the forcefulness, the
\nlogicalness, effective, cogent <\/p>\n
528
\n00:40:14,120 –> 00:40:16,680
\nway in which they put forward
\ntheir keys. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:40:16,840 –> 00:40:19,760
\nAnd so he sums it up in verse
\n32. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:40:19,800 –> 00:40:23,840
\nThis Jesus of God raised up
\nwhereof we all are witnesses. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:40:24,640 –> 00:40:29,120
\nAnd since Jesus is raised up,
\nand it isn’t a matter you can <\/p>\n
532
\n00:40:29,120 –> 00:40:35,440
\ndispute, he must be the Messiah.
\nBut he was the only one that God<\/p>\n
533
\n00:40:35,440 –> 00:40:39,880
\never did raise up.
\nOthers were raised as witnessing<\/p>\n
534
\n00:40:40,520 –> 00:40:44,600
\nto the as attesting the truth of
\nthe messages which God’s <\/p>\n
535
\n00:40:44,600 –> 00:40:49,440
\nmessengers gave.
\nBut Jesus alone was the one whom<\/p>\n
536
\n00:40:49,440 –> 00:40:54,720
\nGod raised up, having loosed the
\npains of death, and so he passes<\/p>\n
537
\n00:40:54,720 –> 00:40:58,160
\non to the next aspect of the
\ndivine work. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:01,440
\nWell, if Jesus is raised, where
\nis he? <\/p>\n
539
\n00:41:01,800 –> 00:41:07,120
\nAnd so he says Now Jesus is
\nascended to God therefore, and <\/p>\n
540
\n00:41:07,120 –> 00:41:10,880
\nhe said, Now I want you to
\nremember the rest of the Psalm. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:41:10,880 –> 00:41:15,240
\nNow at thy right hand there are
\npleasures forevermore, and the <\/p>\n
542
\n00:41:15,240 –> 00:41:18,360
\nresurrected man has gone to the
\nright hand of God. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:23,040
\nAnd by the reference to it, the
\nallusion to it, Luke would have <\/p>\n
544
\n00:41:23,040 –> 00:41:27,600
\nus know that Peter is taking up
\nthis second part and telling <\/p>\n
545
\n00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:32,000
\nthem, emphasizing to them that
\njust as the man must not see <\/p>\n
546
\n00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:36,240
\ncorruption, so he must ascend to
\nGod’s right hand. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:41:36,920 –> 00:41:40,280
\nBut he’s going to bring together
\na catina of quotations to show <\/p>\n
548
\n00:41:40,280 –> 00:41:45,400
\nthat that the Messiah, whoever
\nit may be, the Messiah, must not<\/p>\n
549
\n00:41:45,400 –> 00:41:50,480
\nonly be a resurrected man, but a
\nman who has a session, God’s <\/p>\n
550
\n00:41:50,480 –> 00:41:54,120
\nright hand before he assumes the
\noffice of Messiahship. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:41:54,320 –> 00:41:59,000
\nTherefore, being by the right
\nhand of God exalted. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:41:59,080 –> 00:42:04,880
\nAnd that word exalted is a word
\nthat sends us off at once to the<\/p>\n
553
\n00:42:04,880 –> 00:42:10,240
\n68th Psalm.
\nAnd the very use of a word which<\/p>\n
554
\n00:42:10,240 –> 00:42:14,320
\nin modern printing method would
\nbe putting quotation marks to <\/p>\n
555
\n00:42:14,320 –> 00:42:20,400
\nshow that it is a quotation is
\nby that very use of it, Luke’s <\/p>\n
556
\n00:42:20,400 –> 00:42:25,320
\nmethod of telling us that Peter
\ncited the passage, the 68th <\/p>\n
557
\n00:42:25,840 –> 00:42:30,360
\nPsalm, 18th verse.
\nThou has to send it on high. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:42:30,920 –> 00:42:34,760
\nThou slate captivity captive,
\nthat thou have received gifts <\/p>\n
559
\n00:42:34,760 –> 00:42:38,520
\nfor men, ye for the rebellious
\nalso that the Lord God might <\/p>\n
560
\n00:42:38,520 –> 00:42:41,840
\ndwell among us, thou hast
\ndescended on high. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:42:42,320 –> 00:42:47,320
\nAnd if thou hast descended.
\nAnd the background, of course, <\/p>\n
562
\n00:42:47,320 –> 00:42:51,040
\nis the divine descent at the
\nExodus for the deliverance of <\/p>\n
563
\n00:42:51,040 –> 00:42:54,320
\nhis people.
\nAnd it’s typical bearing <\/p>\n
564
\n00:42:54,480 –> 00:42:58,440
\nconcerning another deliverance.
\nIf it could be said that God <\/p>\n
565
\n00:42:58,440 –> 00:43:03,080
\ncame down at the Exodus, it
\ncould also be said that the <\/p>\n
566
\n00:43:03,080 –> 00:43:07,240
\ndeliverance affected God
\nascended, He went back. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:43:07,640 –> 00:43:12,240
\nAnd when then Peter ventures to
\napply this, Thou hast ascended <\/p>\n
568
\n00:43:12,240 –> 00:43:19,360
\non high, he means not that Jesus
\npersonally had descended, but he<\/p>\n
569
\n00:43:19,360 –> 00:43:25,400
\ndoes mean that in Jesus there
\nhad been a divine manifestation.<\/p>\n
570
\n00:43:26,440 –> 00:43:30,960
\nAnd catching up the idiom of the
\nOld Testament, there had been a <\/p>\n
571
\n00:43:30,960 –> 00:43:34,760
\nvisitation of God.
\nJoseph said God will surely <\/p>\n
572
\n00:43:34,760 –> 00:43:37,360
\nvisit you.
\nHow did God visit them? <\/p>\n
573
\n00:43:37,640 –> 00:43:41,680
\nBy the Angel of his presence as
\nthe vehicle of divine <\/p>\n
574
\n00:43:41,680 –> 00:43:45,840
\nmanifestation, appearing in
\ntheir midst to lead them out. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:43:46,720 –> 00:43:50,160
\nBut how has God visited and
\nredeemed his people? <\/p>\n
576
\n00:43:50,760 –> 00:43:54,680
\nAs we read in Luke’s Gospel, in
\nthose songs connected with the <\/p>\n
577
\n00:43:54,680 –> 00:43:57,720
\nbirth of Jesus?
\nWhy by the day spring from on <\/p>\n
578
\n00:43:57,720 –> 00:44:03,560
\nhigh having visited us?
\nSo if in the birth of Jesus <\/p>\n
579
\n00:44:04,000 –> 00:44:10,000
\nthere was, in this sense of the
\nBible idiom, God coming in the <\/p>\n
580
\n00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:14,560
\nmidst of his people, then that
\none through whom God had <\/p>\n
581
\n00:44:14,560 –> 00:44:17,800
\nmanifested himself ascended on
\nhigh. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:44:18,000 –> 00:44:22,920
\nBut God never comes into human
\nlife without accomplishing his <\/p>\n
583
\n00:44:22,920 –> 00:44:26,120
\npurpose.
\nGod came down at the Exodus not <\/p>\n
584
\n00:44:26,120 –> 00:44:29,320
\nto leave the work unfinished,
\nand he wouldn’t ascend until the<\/p>\n
585
\n00:44:29,320 –> 00:44:32,960
\nwork was accomplished.
\nSo here the fact of the <\/p>\n
586
\n00:44:32,960 –> 00:44:39,360
\nascension of Jesus is a witness
\nto the accomplishment of the <\/p>\n
587
\n00:44:39,360 –> 00:44:45,960
\nmeans of salvation.
\nNow we are quite safe, brethren <\/p>\n
588
\n00:44:45,960 –> 00:44:49,840
\nand sisters, in seeing that
\nPeter brought that out because <\/p>\n
589
\n00:44:50,080 –> 00:44:53,920
\nPaul brings it out in the letter
\nto the Ephesians at some length.<\/p>\n
590
\n00:44:54,240 –> 00:44:59,320
\nAnd so we’re quite sure that the
\nillusion by Luke would have us <\/p>\n
591
\n00:44:59,320 –> 00:45:03,400
\nturn back and see that Peter
\nmade all of that passage and <\/p>\n
592
\n00:45:03,400 –> 00:45:07,760
\nbrought out its implication.
\nSo you see, by the very use of a<\/p>\n
593
\n00:45:07,760 –> 00:45:12,720
\nword, Luke is wanting us to call
\nto mind the passage indicated <\/p>\n
594
\n00:45:13,040 –> 00:45:17,000
\nand understand that he’s giving
\nus this wonderful summary. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:45:17,840 –> 00:45:21,960
\nAnd he wants us to open it out
\nfor ourselves, and see the range<\/p>\n
596
\n00:45:21,960 –> 00:45:25,480
\nof thought, and the wealth of
\nmeaning, and the beauty of the <\/p>\n
597
\n00:45:25,480 –> 00:45:29,360
\nelaboration of the exposition of
\nthe Scriptures. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:45:29,520 –> 00:45:33,600
\nTherefore, being by the right
\nhand of God exalted, and having <\/p>\n
599
\n00:45:33,600 –> 00:45:36,440
\nreceived of the Father the
\npromise of the Holy Spirit. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:45:36,640 –> 00:45:41,560
\nAnd the reference in that 68th
\nPsalm is to gifts to men, which <\/p>\n
601
\n00:45:41,560 –> 00:45:45,880
\nPaul explains of these gifted
\nmen by the Spirit of God. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:45:46,160 –> 00:45:50,440
\nSo here he has shed forth this,
\nwhich you now see in here, and <\/p>\n
603
\n00:45:50,440 –> 00:45:52,960
\nyou’ll observe the perfect
\nparallel between Peter’s <\/p>\n
604
\n00:45:52,960 –> 00:45:56,640
\ncitation and its implications,
\nand what Paul brings out in the <\/p>\n
605
\n00:45:56,640 –> 00:46:00,040
\nletter to the Hebrews.
\nBut just as he must show that <\/p>\n
606
\n00:46:00,040 –> 00:46:03,960
\nthe passage in the Psalm
\ncouldn’t have referenced to <\/p>\n
607
\n00:46:03,960 –> 00:46:09,400
\nDavid because David Sepulchre
\nwas there, so the passage of the<\/p>\n
608
\n00:46:09,400 –> 00:46:15,880
\nascent couldn’t refer to David
\nbecause for the same reason the <\/p>\n
609
\n00:46:15,880 –> 00:46:19,360
\nsepulchre was there.
\nFor David is not ascended into <\/p>\n
610
\n00:46:19,360 –> 00:46:23,040
\nthe heavens.
\nDid David know then that this <\/p>\n
611
\n00:46:23,040 –> 00:46:25,440
\nword had reference to someone
\nelse? <\/p>\n
612
\n00:46:25,960 –> 00:46:29,040
\nHe did know, said Peter, but he
\nsaid himself. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:46:29,440 –> 00:46:32,080
\nYou notice how the very
\nstructure of the sentence <\/p>\n
614
\n00:46:32,080 –> 00:46:34,080
\nrequires you to expand it like
\nthat. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:46:35,080 –> 00:46:39,520
\nDid David know that this passage
\nof the ascent in the Psalm <\/p>\n
616
\n00:46:39,520 –> 00:46:44,440
\ndidn’t refer to himself?
\nHe did know, for David himself <\/p>\n
617
\n00:46:45,280 –> 00:46:50,160
\nsaid, The Lord said unto my
\nLord, Sit thou on my right hand <\/p>\n
618
\n00:46:50,160 –> 00:46:52,280
\nuntil I make thy force thy
\nfootstool. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:46:53,160 –> 00:46:59,840
\nAnd so he cites, he cites the
\n110th Psalm, the 110th Psalm, <\/p>\n
620
\n00:46:59,840 –> 00:47:03,440
\nwhich begins The Lord said unto
\nmy Lord, Sit thou on my right <\/p>\n
621
\n00:47:03,440 –> 00:47:05,320
\nhand till I make thy force thy
\nfootstool. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:47:05,560 –> 00:47:08,480
\nThe Lord shall send the rod of
\nthy strength out of thine. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:47:08,680 –> 00:47:10,920
\nRule thou in the midst of thine
\nenemies. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:47:11,640 –> 00:47:14,000
\nIn other words, it’s clearly a
\nmessianic Psalm. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:47:14,360 –> 00:47:18,640
\nTherefore the Messiah, whoever
\nhe may be, must ascend to God’s <\/p>\n
626
\n00:47:18,640 –> 00:47:24,360
\nright hand to remain there until
\nthe time when God will establish<\/p>\n
627
\n00:47:24,360 –> 00:47:28,680
\nHis power.
\nAnd so Peter can now lead on to <\/p>\n
628
\n00:47:28,680 –> 00:47:32,920
\nhis conclusion, the 36th verse.
\nTherefore let all the House of <\/p>\n
629
\n00:47:32,920 –> 00:47:36,800
\nIsrael know assuredly that God
\nhath made, and now He can make <\/p>\n
630
\n00:47:36,800 –> 00:47:41,480
\nthe application, that same Jesus
\nwhom He have crucified, both <\/p>\n
631
\n00:47:41,480 –> 00:47:44,640
\nLord and Christ.
\nAnd you’ll mark that he takes <\/p>\n
632
\n00:47:44,640 –> 00:47:48,880
\nthe word Christ from the 16th
\nPsalm, which speaks of him as <\/p>\n
633
\n00:47:48,880 –> 00:47:53,440
\nthe Messiah, and he takes the
\nword Lord up from the 110th <\/p>\n
634
\n00:47:53,440 –> 00:47:55,520
\nPsalm.
\nHe’s made him both Lord and <\/p>\n
635
\n00:47:55,520 –> 00:47:57,320
\nChrist.
\nAnd it wasn’t just done as an <\/p>\n
636
\n00:47:57,320 –> 00:47:59,640
\nassertion.
\nThere was an elaboration of the <\/p>\n
637
\n00:47:59,640 –> 00:48:02,440
\nmeaning of the words and what
\nwas dignified thereby. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:48:02,760 –> 00:48:06,160
\nBut Peter has already moved them
\nto such length that they said, <\/p>\n
639
\n00:48:06,160 –> 00:48:08,000
\nmen and brethren, what shall we
\ndo? <\/p>\n
640
\n00:48:08,160 –> 00:48:11,680
\nHe said, you must be baptized,
\neveryone of you, in the name of <\/p>\n
641
\n00:48:11,720 –> 00:48:14,400
\nJesus Christ.
\nBut the passage in Joel said, <\/p>\n
642
\n00:48:14,400 –> 00:48:17,800
\nWhosoever shall call on the name
\nof the Lord shall be saved. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:48:17,920 –> 00:48:24,040
\nAnd now, just as Peter has given
\nthe exposition from the 68th <\/p>\n
644
\n00:48:24,040 –> 00:48:29,960
\nPsalm that there must be an
\nascent after God had manifested <\/p>\n
645
\n00:48:29,960 –> 00:48:36,040
\nand visited his people, so here
\nalso the name of the Lord has <\/p>\n
646
\n00:48:36,040 –> 00:48:40,480
\nbeen embodied in the
\nmanifestation of God in His Son,<\/p>\n
647
\n00:48:40,480 –> 00:48:44,040
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.
\nRepent and be baptized, everyone<\/p>\n
648
\n00:48:44,040 –> 00:48:47,320
\nof you, in the name of Jesus
\nChrist for the remission of <\/p>\n
649
\n00:48:47,320 –> 00:48:51,040
\nsins.
\nCorrie says this promise of <\/p>\n
650
\n00:48:51,040 –> 00:48:55,280
\nsalvation which we’re setting
\nbefore you go back, he says to <\/p>\n
651
\n00:48:55,280 –> 00:48:59,040
\nwhat Joel says and just think of
\nthe blessed privilege that is <\/p>\n
652
\n00:48:59,040 –> 00:49:01,360
\nyours.
\nBut Joel says as many as shall <\/p>\n
653
\n00:49:01,360 –> 00:49:04,240
\ncall upon the name of the Lord
\nshall be saved, and you’re <\/p>\n
654
\n00:49:04,240 –> 00:49:07,040
\ncalling on him now.
\nBut he says let the other part <\/p>\n
655
\n00:49:07,040 –> 00:49:10,920
\nof the passage come true also.
\nEven as many as the Lord our God<\/p>\n
656
\n00:49:10,960 –> 00:49:13,640
\nshall call.
\nThis is a divine ministry. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:49:13,640 –> 00:49:18,320
\nHe says, this is the testimony
\nof God, and God by this message <\/p>\n
658
\n00:49:18,320 –> 00:49:22,240
\nis calling you.
\nUnite your call with God’s call,<\/p>\n
659
\n00:49:22,240 –> 00:49:25,880
\nand lay hold of this salvation
\nwith many other words did he <\/p>\n
660
\n00:49:25,880 –> 00:49:29,640
\ntestify and exhort, saying, Save
\nyourself from this unto our <\/p>\n
661
\n00:49:29,640 –> 00:49:33,000
\ngeneration.
\nOr he said, It is a remnant <\/p>\n
662
\n00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:34,840
\ntomb.
\nThe Lord shall call, as Joel <\/p>\n
663
\n00:49:34,840 –> 00:49:38,000
\ntestifies.
\nAnd so Luke adds it up by <\/p>\n
664
\n00:49:38,000 –> 00:49:40,160
\nsaying, the Lord added to the
\nchurch dearly. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:49:40,160 –> 00:49:44,120
\nSuch it should be said, for it
\nwas a selective process. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:49:45,160 –> 00:49:49,440
\nAnd again, Peter goes back to
\nlook to the Joel passage, even <\/p>\n
667
\n00:49:49,440 –> 00:49:52,520
\nthe remnant, and he says make
\nsure you’re in the remnant. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:49:52,840 –> 00:49:55,760
\nWell, it calls for application,
\nbrothers and sisters, as we <\/p>\n
669
\n00:49:55,760 –> 00:49:58,560
\nfollow it through.
\nBut if we’ll only gird up the <\/p>\n
670
\n00:49:58,560 –> 00:50:02,480
\nloins of our minds, I think
\nwe’ll perceive the strength of <\/p>\n
671
\n00:50:02,480 –> 00:50:06,000
\nour position as we follow
\nApostolic thought and see how <\/p>\n
672
\n00:50:06,000 –> 00:50:07,600
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