A pierced heart promise

Dale Gooding - Acts 2:37-42

https://youtu.be/WKf2eAgPBKY

I) The Divine Evangelistic Pattern - Acts 2:37a

    A) Uses The Primacy of Preaching
          1) Faith comes by hearing - Rom 10:17
          2) Focal point of preaching - Col 1:28

    B) Submission to the Lord’s Plan - 1 Cor 1:23

    C) Insists on Individual Responsibility

II) The Divine Evangelistic Power - Acts 2:37b

    A) Work of The Holy Spirit - Jn 3:5-8
          1) Cut to the heart = Not sarx (cut flesh)
          2) God’s Message has Power (Rom 1:16)

    B) This is an Unusual Event

III) The Divine Promised Product - Acts 2:38

    A) Forgiveness of sins - reach back to Gen 3:15
          1) Based on faith alone - Gal 3:8-9 

    B) Reception of God The Holy Spirit - Luke 3:16
          1) As promised by Jesus & John the Baptist

    C) Membership in The Church
          1) “Added” to what - present believers
          2) The beginning of the Church (Univ.)?

IV) Theological interests to be dealt with

       The Audience ...
             1) Heard
             2) pierced
             3) Responded (Acts 2:37)

       The Gospel ...
             1) is to be Proclaimed (Rom 10:14)
             2) is Powerful (Rom 1:16)
             3) demands a Response (Acts 2:38)

    A) Repent

    B) Be Baptized
          1) An act of Obedience = Jesus (Mk 16:16)
          2) Submission to Precedent (Matt 3:14-16)
          3) Illustrative of Death, Burial & Res.
          4) Associates us with Jesus (Rom 6:4)

    C) Anthropological Observations
          1) Peter’s Passion:
                a) Solemnly = to testify earnestly
                b) Exhort = to plead, strongly encourage

          2) People’s Collective Response:
                a) They Gathered (Acts 2:41)
                b) They were Discipled = to teaching
                c) They Communed together = eating
                d) They Prayed together = Worship