Reading
SAA Notes
3,000 people were baptised that day – the number in itself tells you that the mode of baptism could not be immersion, without considering the situation in Jerusalem itself. The promise is a covenant promise – to you and to your children! Faith is corporate as well as individual.
SJA Notes
* Dear God in Heaven, point us to Jesus today from Your word.
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Here is a sermon!
The apostle Peter takes the great King David and points to the superiority of Jesus over David.
Peter calls the people out,
“… This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.”
Right between the eyes.
And here we see the only health response to the preaching of God’s word,
“Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, …”
And,
“So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.”
The message of the gospel is good news, even for those who crucified our Lord.
Because, that means, even for us!
We are foolish to think we would do better, and more, it is our sin that Jesus went to the cross for, we who were once God’s enemies!
The good news is all about Jesus.
Hallelujah, what a Saviour!
* Great Father,
Your word is simple and complex, deep and wide, bringing benefit with a single verse in a single moment and across the passage of years as we read each day.
Thank You for the preaching of Your word.
May our hearts respond in repentance and belief, and may those around us who do not know You be saved!
Amen.