Acts 3:11-26 - Sermon of Sermons Series
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Context of the Passage / illustration
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The sermon was delivered right after the lame man was healed outside of the temple
The portico surrounding the temple’s Court of the Gentiles. This is where Jesus taught about the good shepherd in John 10:23
People are filled with awe and amazement at the sight of this man’s healing (they ran to the portico) and from there Peter begins his sermon. People are ready to listen and hearts are ready to respond
(FIGURE OUT ILLUSTRATION)
Denial Leads to Death
Denial Leads to Death
Acts 3:11-16 - READ
11-14 - walk through
Peter begins his Great address saying “Men of Israel” they knew the background of their scriptures and what had just taken place (cross)
Their natural condition of the heart lead them to believe “by their own power or piety made the man well to walk” = Peter addresses this issue head on, man cannot save, only God can save”
They intently stared at the disciples in awe and wonder
This alone should concern us all!! man’s heart is so depraved and sick that when it looks upon a miracle, immediately the credit goes to man and not God
Jeremiah 17:9
The contrast of 11-12 and 13-14
After asking the rhetorical question, he immediately accredits the power to the God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob and our fathers. They all glorified his servant Jesus
Denial does not just lead us to our death, it lead Christ’s to his death. They bore false witness and denied Christ in front of Pilate
“you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murder”
A dead heart asks for dead things. x2
The men of Israel wanted Barabbas , a murder, instead of Christ a savior
Here is the Irony of the Cross:
What was the court room setting really like?
Who was it that was on trial??
Was it Christ? or was it Man himself?
The court room case of the cross was really not a trial for Jesus, it was the trial for man where it’s true colors were revealed. The heart of man laid open and bare before God, cursing Christ in saying “crucify him, crucify him!” …
Christ was not found guilty before men … men was found guilty before Christ … Peter says:
15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
Again when man condemned Christ on the cross they were demonstrating the condition of their hearts. they were the ones who were condemned not Christ…
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Verse 16
The proof is in the passage “by faith in his name” has made this man you know strong … given him perfect health in the presence of you all
So the Jews preferred a son of death, a destroyer of life, to the Author and Procurer of life and immortality!
If Christ’s resurrection was not enough for people to believe in his name for salvation, then the perfect healing of the lame man would not be enough either
Verse 16 - The result leads to life, but more so everlasting life. (context of the man who was healed / outside of the gates non worshipping, and then a life changed to worshipping and going inside the gate)
they might have been led at this time to make request unto God to be enabled to work this miracle; and the faith they had in his unlimited power and unchangeable truth might have induced them to make this request. Or, the faith might have been that of the lame man; the apostles, in the time they desired him to look on them, might have taught him the necessity of believing in Christ in order to his healing;
However the faith may be understood, it was only the means to receive the blessing, which the apostles most positively attribute, not to their power or holiness, but to Jesus Christ alone. Faith always receives; never gives.
“faith always receives, it never gives” for what can we give to the author of life, if we are our own author of death? for by our wages we are lead to death.
Christ Fulfilled All in his Suffering
Christ Fulfilled All in his Suffering
Acts 3:17-21
You lived and acted in ignorance but turn away from your sins and believe “that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord”
The Purpose of this sermon: Repent and Believe that you may be healed
No longer will you be a beggar, but you shall be a King, a King of Holy Priests in Christ Jesus
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
No longer will we be begging the world for purpose and meaning … “give me purpose x2, Give me meaning x2” but we shall receive true meaning and purpose in Christ Jesus
All the Prophets Prophesied
All the Prophets Prophesied
Receive the blessing: turn from your sins and believe in Christ Jesus
For the Jews this was the pinnacle promise going all the way back to Abraham “and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed”
It does not matter how long you have been a christian, these are the sweet words to the lost soul, they are the honey that never goes bad, they are of good news.
Promises were made and promises were fulfilled
“honey has been called the only food that truly lasts forever” so are the sweet words of Christ’s Gospel
2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.