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