Sermon Tone Analysis

Acts 2:14-41

What do we Need to do, brothers?

Seizing the moment in the midst of the crowd’s bewilderment and confusion, Peter addresses the people in Spirit-filled utterance (see 2:4).

He begins with a formal address, Fellow Jews, which will soften as he proceeds (men of Israel, 2:22; brothers, 2:29).

His message will explain the Pentecost event as God’s saving acts and show its crucial importance for his hearers and for us.

Though those drunk and those filled with the Spirit are “carried out of themselves into an abnormal sense of freedom and expressiveness,” the cause and the end results are entirely different Peter with good humor dismisses this empirical explanation with further empirical evidence: in a culture where the first meal is not taken until ten o’clock, nine o’clock in the morning is too early in the day to find people drunk

Acts (Apostolic Gospel at Pentecost: The Immediate Cause (2:22–36))

But how can a Messiah who suffers and dies also reign forever (Ps 22:15–16)?

It is possible only if that Messiah rises from the dead.

David was permitted to see ahead of time this vital stage in God’s process of redemption.

So he could speak confidently of Messiah’s resurrection when he said that Messiah was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay (Acts 2:31).

What a wise God to plan a path the Messiah would follow to effect salvation!

What a merciful God to reveal a portion of that path to prophets, so that now, as we look back after the fulfillment, it all makes sense

See First 1 Pet 1:10–12

The ultimate cause and significance of the Spirit’s empowerment is found in God and his saving purposes, as the prophet Joel foretold.

In the last days—the final days of this age, the time when the “age to come” is inaugurated—God promises to pour out his Spirit on all people.

Joel used the imagery of the vivifying impact of a Near Eastern torrential downpour on parched earth to picture the generosity, finality and universality of the Spirit’s coming.

And Peter declares that this is now happening before the very eyes and in the very hearing of his audience.

In contrast to the selective and occasional outpouring of the Spirit on king and prophet in the Old Testament time of promise (1 Sam 10:10; 16:14; Ezek 11:5), here the Spirit comes without regard to age, sex, social status or, as Acts 2:39 indicates, ethnic origin.

What the Spirit empowers people to do is prophesy.

Prophecy for Luke encompasses Spirit-filled speaking in other languages where dreams and visions guide the post-Pentecost church) and proclamatory witness .

As the Old Testament prophets made God’s will known by witnessing to his Word, so now, as Luther says, all Christians are Spirit-enabled to bear witness to “knowledge of God through Christ which the Holy Spirit kindles and makes to burn through the word of the gospel

Acts (Apologia for Pentecost: Ultimate Cause and Saving Significance (2:14–21))

Joel and Peter remind us of the decisiveness of these last days by pointing to cosmic signs on earth and in heaven.

The universe will reveal what a shambles sinful humankind makes of things by its constant assault on God’s moral order.

From this the human race should know that judgment must come at the day of the Lord (Is 13:6, 9; Ezek 30:3; Zeph 1:14–15).

The hope held out by Joel is thus vitally significant.

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved (Acts 2:21/Joel 2:32).

Today, living in a time of rapid social change, moral decay, environmental crisis and seemingly unmanageable economic and political problems, we can identify with the apostle’s and prophet’s sense of the end.

We are comforted that history is not out of control, for God is constantly at work.

We live in the time of the Spirit’s life-giving presence—and there is the challenge: will we call on the name of the Lord and be saved?

And So The Question Remains

“What do we need to do, brothers?

Point 1.

Call On The Name Of The Lord

Why

33 verse God exalted him to his right hand upon the throne of highest honor.

And God gave him authority to send the Promised Holy Spirit

which is being poured out upon us today.

This is what you seeing and hearing

There is an out-pour you want to be a part of

It Requires Relationship with the one who God has placed in the highest honor & Sits on the right hand of the Throne

Have you ever had to call someone you don’t have relationship with?

You can expect more out of a person you have a relationship with who carries authority to send the Promised Holy Spirit

Tell Somebody You betta Call on the name of the Lord

Point 2 Repent

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised (Repent)

Nu. 23:19: 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it?

or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

NEB also CHANGE ONE’S MIND, THINK BETTER, also TURN (BACK, AWAY), LEARN ONE’S LESSON, COME BACK also BE SORRY, CHANGE ONE’S MIND, BE SEIZED WITH REMORSE, etc.;

REPENTANCE; REPENTING [Gk.

metánoia]; NEB also CHANGE OF HEART.

“Repent” in contemporary English means either (1) to regret (a thought, attitude, or act), or, (2) much more frequently, to regret and change from one attitude or allegiance to another.

The Reason Why we have so many unsaved Christians is because they Never truly repented.

Point 3 Return To God

The Passion Translation: New Testament (Chapter 2)

37 When they heard this they were crushed and realized what they had done to Jesus.

Deeply moved

Do you realize your how much of a sinner you really are?

And that you deserve penalty of Death in Hell?

Look at your neighbor and tell them Such was Me & You!!

Final: Be baptize In The Name Of Jesus, the anointed one to have your sins removed & then you may take hold of the gift of the Holy Spirit