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Talking of the crucifixion of Jesus, he said, "I know that in ignorance you did it." Acts: An Exegetical Commentary : Volume 3: 15:1-23:35 Why, then, boast of it so much? Pentecost: The Medium, the Message, and the Manifestations (9Acts 2:1-47) 128: A. 17 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to g Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

It remains, therefore, that you should repent of it, and seek for pardon. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour ( Acts 3:1 ). They must repent, must bethink themselves of what they have done amiss, must return to their right mind, admit a second thought, and submit to the convictions of it; they must begin anew.

BIG IDEA: RECEIVING THE PROMISED BLESSING OF CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM HINGES ON REPENTANCE.

Their words, etc., bore no polish of the schools; and truth spurns, as it needs not, dialectic subtlety. If they repent, God will be faithful to forgive them. That which bears him out in it is that he has the example of his Master's praying for his crucifiers, and pleading in their behalf that they knew not what they did.

Found insideDSD 6 (2, 1999): 184–91. Baumgarten and Mansoor, “Hodayot.” Baumgarten, Joseph M., and Menahem Mansoor. “Studies in the New Hodayot (Thanksgiving Hymns)—II.” JBL 74 (3, 1955): 188–95. Bayer, “Eschatology in Acts 3:17–26.

Whatever he saith to you, though ever so displeasing to flesh and blood, bid it welcome." The most comfortable fruit of the forgiveness of our sins will be when the times of refreshing shall come; if our sins be forgiven us, we have now reason to be of good cheer; but the comfort will be complete when the pardon shall be allowed in open court, and our justification published before angels and men--when whom he has justified, them he glorifies,Romans 8:30.

", Then we find the Lord accomplishing His word: greater works were to be done by them than even He Himself had wrought: never do we hear of the Lord's shadow curing the sick. Found inside – Page 304One other passage, Acts 3:17–26, could provide indications of how popular beliefs in a risen eschatological prophetic figure ... 208 Fleddermann, Q: A Reconstruction and Commentary, 377 has argued about Q 7:22 that “all six clauses that ...

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[1.] Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. You denied the Holy One and the Just One, and you desired a murderer to be granted unto you; and you killed the Prince of life ( Acts 3:14-15 ).

There is now a far more serious and searching and thorough standard. Their minds had been prejudiced.

He at least seems to have realised the bearing of all, and so he deals with the sin of Ananias as one who had lied to the Holy Ghost.

Student Class Handout. thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. He is the One that refreshes us. That they should have the comfort of Christ's coming (Acts 3:20; Acts 3:21): "He shall send Jesus Christ, the same Jesus, the very same that before was preached unto you; for you must not expect another dispensation, another gospel, but the continuance and completion of this; you must not expect another prophet like unto Jesus, as Moses bade you expect another like unto him; for, though the heavens must receive him till the times of the restitution of all things; yet, if you repent and be converted, you shall find no want of him; some way or other he shall be seen of you." On the other hand, His name, through faith in His name, (and they were witnesses of its power,) had made this man strong, whom they saw and knew: "Yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

In his preaching he started out at the level that the people understood where they were at.

Yet knowing the joy and the peace that I have as a person, what do you feel that I have lost by believing what I believe?" How far Stephen entered intelligently into the bearing of these types it is not for one to say; but we can easily see the wisdom of God; we can see the power of the Holy Ghost with which he spake. "Why look on us as though we through our own power or holiness have done this thing?"

And how did he fare? The Hope of Israel: The Resurrection of Christ in the Acts ... "It seems strange, at first glance, that in his narrative Luke would place two such similar sermons of Peter so close together. John wasn't a doer; he was a dreamer. And I happened to notice one of your altars and inscribed above it was, 'To the Unknown God.'

The beginning of chapter 3 illustrates these statements beautifully. Of course we know that they were saved; but this is not what the word in itself means.

Johnson, 1891.

They were the children, that is, the heirs, of the covenant which God made with our Fathers, as children in the family. 22:17), and all Roman citizens had the right of appeal to him (Acts 25:11). In the sermon. At the end of the chapter before we had the second witness of it, after the foundation laid, and first witness given, in chapter 2. Along with it was joined this new element breaking bread at home; not "from house to house," as if it were a migratory service. Compare John 7:50-53. It is thus evident that his indication of the Christian place of blessing in the chapter before (Acts 2:1-47) does not hinder him from setting before the men of Israel (for so he addressed them here), first, their awful position by the rejection of Jesus, and, next, the terms that God in His grace sets before them in answer to the intercession of Christ.

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers ( Acts 3:17 ). After they had done their worst, and He had suffered His worst, God owned Him thus according to His own word at His own right hand.

Acts 3. Nothing could more falsify the fruit of the Spirit of God here than converting it into a tacit rule: there was no compulsion whatever in the case. 78-80. This magnified, therefore, the power of God so much the more, as man's skill was null.

They were called of God to act, and so they do. They would not have been averse to accepting the idea of a genuine miracle, nor were they unfamiliar with Jesus’ reputation as a miracle worker. I have no qualms, no worries. The Word Became Flesh .

17 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. Christian Development Lessons - IPOWER And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. And he walked and entered with them into the temple walking and leaping and praising God. Thus the link with the expectations of the earthly people, though broken by death, is reset for ever in resurrection. You're aware of the spirit realm.

The field was about to be enlarged; and although it was but a poor root of man's complaints which led to this fresh line of action, God was moving over all, could use these seven, and would give some of them a good degree, as we find in Stephen soon and in Philip later. * It appears to me that ἀσμένως , "gladly," was inserted in the commonly received text against the best testimony, as well as internal reasons. Author: The book of Acts, also called Acts of the Apostles, does not specifically identify its author.

Luke writes: When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. Behold, the Judge standeth before the door.

Peter calls 120 disciples to choose a successor to Judas. Thus these two features were seen to meet together in the Pentecostal church the retaining of Jewish religious habits in going up to the temple for prayer, and at the same time the observance of that which was properly Christian the breaking of bread at home. This chapter records the healing of a disabled person by the apostles Peter and John, and Peter's preaching at Solomon's Portico in the Temple.

This is as sure as it is important to assert and to insist on, as well as to believe. Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Your husband is a neurosurgeon, isn't he?" Their government was constituted by prophecy, that is, by divine revelation; and by it their affairs were for many ages very much managed.

And unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you of his iniquities ( Acts 3:22-26 ). In this sermon, he had to refute the notion that he and John had healed the man by their own power [cf. This was the first and great argument, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (26-33) The advice of Gamaliel, The council let the apostles go.

So, the student must compare all spiritual teaching to the truth of God’s word (Acts 17:11). So Peter gets to this favorite theme, "God has raised Him from the dead whereof we are witnesses." As Israelites, they had the monopoly of the grace of the Old Testament; they were, above any other, God's favourite nation, and the favours God bestowed upon them were such as had a reference to the Messiah, and his kingdom: You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant. Now, during this time God dealing with the nation of Israel, they will begin to weep over their blindness as a woman who weeps over the loss of her only son. Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord ( Acts 3:19 ); So his call unto the people for repentance, for conversion, that they might receive forgiveness for their sins and that glorious work of God's Spirit in the times of refreshing. Others mocking said, These men are full of new the (or sweet) wine. It is certain that the leading scribes and Pharisees were urged on by the most ungovernable fury and rage to put Jesus to death, even when they had abundant opportunity to know his true character. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Acts 3:17-26. 21 But heaven must receive him until the times of restoration of all things. So the patient comes into the office and he picks up the scalpel and says, 'Oh you're such a marvelous scalpel. Denomination: But only seek to proclaim that Jesus Christ is indeed the Messiah that God had promised.With Peter and John you have contrasting personalities: Peter the doer, and John the dreamer. He professed to be an atheist. We must so temper our sermons that they may profit the hearers, for unless there be some hope of pardon left, the terror and fear of punishment doth harden men’s hearts with stubbornness; for that of David is true, That we fear the Lord when we perceive that he is unto us favorable, and easy to be pacified, (Psalms 130:4.) Yet they did not do it by any power or holiness of their own.

God is no respecter of persons. It suffices to say, that two candidates were brought forward, possessed, as far as either apostles or disciples could say, of adequate qualifications.

Repentance is the abandonment of self altogether, the judgment of what we are in the light of God. He comes down next to their temple; for this was an important point. The absence of the Lord occasions many of the securities of sinners and the distrusts of saints; but his presence is hastening on, which will for ever silence both. Their separation from God to a relationship with God. That his Christ should suffer, be thus fulfilled ... Peter's Address after Healing the Cripple. But the word actually means, "one who is first in a new order." Found insideWord Biblical Commentary 21. Waco, TX: Word, 1983. Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York: Basic, 1981. Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Library of Early Christianity. There is no title nor ground so secure for us. In cases like these, though crime might be mitigated, yet it was not taken entirely away. From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871). The troublers ought to have been not only satisfied but somewhat ashamed. Carefully remember that the meaning is not that they were saved then. You won't find this other doctrine, the restitution of all things, that is, all men are to be saved. "But when Pilate was determined to let Him go, you insisted on His death.". The margin is correct. This is more clearly and plainly revealed in the New Testament than it had been before, and all that receive the gospel have an expectation of it. Acts 3:3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. If they really believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, then that God should do such a thing should not cause them to wonder, because they would know that He is the God of miracles by reading the Old Testament. As did also your rulers - Compare 1 Corinthians 2:8, where the apostle says that none of the princes of this world knew the wisdom of the gospel, for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. IV. First, "You shall have his spiritual presence. What an awful position!

And it is said of the rulers that if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Nobody was asked to give anything. If Jesus Gave A Ted Talk Principle 7—cultivate Confidence (Mindset). The meaning is, "they gave lots for them." But the apostle lets them know that there is a judgment of self that goes far below any outburst of grief, any consciousness and hatred, even of the deepest act of evil, as undoubtedly the crucifying of Jesus was.

The cure is complete; it is a perfect soundness; you see the man walks and leaps, as one that has no remainder either of weakness or pain." We must not expect Christ's personal presence with us in this world; for the heavens, which received him out of the sight of the disciples, must retain him till the end of time. The Gospel was real, the death and resurrection of Jesus had taken place. They remained very Jewish. Jesus said, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

1 When they took the road through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they reached Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

We may apply it particularly to ministers' children, who, if they plead their parentage effectually with themselves, as an inducement to be faithful and forward in religion, may comfortably plead it with God, and hope that the children of God's servants shall continue. And thus, man has the tendency to exalt the instrument rather than God who has used the instrument. Secondly, "He shall send Jesus Christ to destroy Jerusalem, and the nation of unbelieving Jews, that are enemies to Christ and Christianity, and to deliver his ministers and people from them, and give them peace in the profession of the gospel, and that shall be a time of refreshing, in which you shall share." With this will come the times of refreshing (Acts 3:19; Acts 3:19), of consolation to the Lord's people, like a cool shade to those that have borne the burden and heat of the day. "You desired a murderer to be released, and Christ crucified; as if Barabbas had deserved better at your hands than the Lord Jesus, than which a greater affront could not be put upon him." When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

She had longer time to weigh what they were about; but in truth it was a conspiracy; not so much to injure others as to exalt themselves; but the end was as bad as the means were evil and odious in the sight of God. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. (2.)

"You denied him, and you disowned him, would not have him then to be your king, could not look upon him as the Messiah, because he came not in external pomp and power; you denied him in the presence of Pilate, renounced all the expectations of your church, in the presence of the Roman governor, who justly laughed at you for it; you denied him against the face of Pilate" (so Dr. Hammond), "in defiance of his reasonings with you" (Pilate had determined to let him go, but the people opposed it, and overruled him). Found inside—Acts 3:17–26 Once again, as in his first sermon, Peter faithfully draws the net. There is sensitive compassion in gracious acceptance of the people's ignorance. But that does not lessen the need for a response now.

Souls that bowed to the word were attracted, multitudes both of men and women; and the enemy was awed, in some quarters alarmed, and irritated in others. It is impossible that a human authority could be entitled to set aside the direct command of the Lord Jesus. After his resurrection, he was to be preached indeed to all nations, but they must begin at Jerusalem,Luke 24:47. Found inside – Page 416V Acts 8. 3 ; 9 , 1 ; 1 Corinthians 15. 9 ; Phi . t Chap . 6. 16. -u1 Cor . 9. 17 ; Gal . 2. 7 ; Col. lippians 3. 6. — Luke 2. 34 ; Joha 9. 39 , 41 : i . 25 ; 1 Thess . 2. 4 ; chap .

The possessions were laid at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made to every one according as he had need.

Acts 3:17–26» View this passage in NIV (Bible Gateway) In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception “that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. As did also your rulers; the members of the sanhedrim, some of them; see 1 Corinthians 2:8 for others of them knew him to be the Messiah, to be sent of God, by the miracles he did, and yet blasphemously ascribed them to Satan; and so sinning against light and knowledge, in such a malicious manner, sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost, to which ignorance is here opposed; and which did not excuse from sin: nor was it itself without sin; nor is it opposed to any sin, but to this now mentioned. Peter had searched the wound to the bottom, and now he begins to think of healing it up, in order to which it is necessary to beget in them a good opinion of their physician; and could any thing be more winning than this? Their consciences could not fail to remind them how the Gentiles would have willingly let Him go, and how their voices and will had prevailed against even that hardened governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate. His prayer was answered on this day when Peter said to these people, "I know through ignorance you did it.". Nay, not only do they take it quietly these men about whom all the power of God was thus seen in action in one form or another; but they rejoice that they were counted worthy to suffer. In short, he shows that Israel had sinned against God in every ground of relationship. Acts 28. 18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as … The leaders of Israel knew that Christ was the long-expected Messiah, a holy and righteous man, and that he was the heir of the theocracy, and the rightful claimant of the throne of David - all this they most certainly knew; because, as Jesus said of them that they said among themselves, "This is the heir; come let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours" (Mark 12:7).

This draws out the opposition of the leaders of the Jews, who "were not able to resist the spirit and the wisdom with which he spake.

Just know how wonderful God is. Commentary on Acts 3:1-10. 1. As is often true in Acts, an event led to an explanation (cf.

Jesus, spite of all that they had done, had in nowise given up His title as the Christ; God had made Him such. But they know the traditions, and they know the dietary laws and all, the Sabbaths, but they're really blind to the true work of God. Indeed I doubt that any believer could have scanned this until there was a fair measure of intelligence in the revealed truth of God. I pray, God, that when He takes me that my name will be quickly forgotten. Klemmer ) ( ) ( ) [2 Corinthians 3:4-11/Matthew 5:17-19] -

But now, when the day of Pentecost was running its course, they were all with one accord together; for God put the disciples in waiting in the attitude of expectation and prayer and supplication before Him. The measures and the fit moments that had to do with earthly changes were in the sole control of Him to whom all belonged. We are not to be alarmed by the presence of evil, but rather to be sure that where God works Satan will follow, seeking to turn the very good in which the Spirit acts into a means for introducing his own counterfeit to the dishonour of the Lord.

And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, and set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.". (1-11) The power which accompanied the preaching of the gospel.

Now, blindness has happened to Israel in part, that is, for the most of them. Believing, they had of necessity a new nature they had life in Christ; but receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost is a privilege and power beyond; and in this case it was made to be attendant on one's being baptized as well as repenting, because in Jews it was of the utmost moment that they should give a public witness that all the rest and confidence of their souls lay in Jesus. If Peter’s charges against his hearers were harsh (Acts 3:13-15), his concession that they acted out of ignorance was tender.

"You thought the prince of life might be deprived of his life, as any other prince might be deprived of his dignity and dominion, but you found yourselves mistaken, for God raised him from the dead; so that in putting him to death you fought against God, and were baffled. Found inside – Page 146Deutero-Isaiah: A Commentary on Isaiah 40–55. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001. Barrett, Charles K. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. 2 vols. They are to be dispersed.

And Hosea and all of the prophets speak to this restoration of God's work and grace to the nation of Israel and that is what is referred to and not that God is going to restore all of the wicked, including Satan.

All the kindreds of the earth were blessed in having a church for Christ among them; and those that were the seed of Abraham according to the flesh stood fairest for this privilege. When we make it about anything or anyone else, we will not be effective. But it's always dealing with the nation of Israel. Having the sheep come up and say, "Oh, what do you think about reverend so and so, or brother so and so, you know."

Their hearts, spite of the blessing, had little realized the ways of God that were about to open for them. Clearly Peter is reinforcing the commonly held Jewish belief and not referring to a generic salvation (born again) theological idea. Acts 3:20-26 ¶“ 20 'And the Lord will send Jesus Christ, who was preordained for you.

Although we do not hear of faith in the passage, yet from the fact that the converted only were called on to repent, we know that they must have believed.


It seems to refer to this, for till then the heavens must receive him,Acts 3:21; Acts 3:21.

That the remission of sin is the blotting of it out, as a cloud is blotted out by the beams of the sun (Isaiah 44:22), as a debt is crossed and blotted out when it is remitted.
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all of these which speak Galilaeans? But, coming down later still, another man fills the history of the second book of the Bible, and indeed has to do with all the remaining books of the Pentateuch. He exhorts them all to turn Christians, and assures them it would be unspeakably for their advantage to do so; it would be the making of them for ever. "And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also. Going to the temple, worshiping in the temple, observing still; the feast, however, the feast now to them had an entirely new meaning. ACTS 17:26 So then Peter gets to the application. Acts 3:1-26 (17-21) April 1, 2012. It was the prophets’ revelations about the death of Messiah that the Jews in Peter’s day, including Jesus’ own disciples, had difficulty understanding. Peter says, "Of these men which have companioned with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be a witness with us of his resurrection.". They looked for a Messiah. They would then experience all those blessings of the messianic age that they longed for and that the prophets of Old Testament times had spoken of.

Remember the last question that he asked Jesus concerning John, "What shall this man do?" So says the Spirit of God. And as Paul is listing the manifestations of the Spirit in I Corinthians 12 , and to some there is this gift of faith that God imparts at certain times for certain conditions. I'm always leery when a person names buildings or universities or evangelistic associations after their own names. “that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus”.

Church of Christ Studies. And all the people saw him walking and praising God: and they knew that it was the man who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look at us. Here, (1.)

2. Since you judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, I'm going to the Gentiles."

Make sure you start out where people understand and bring them into the spiritual dimensions, but start out where they are at. Remember from last week, the man lame from birth who was healed as he exercised his God-given faith in Jesus Christ. Accordingly we see the disciples together, "continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication;" and in those days Peter stands up, and brings before them the gap made in the apostolic body by the apostasy and death of Judas. And when it was noised abroad that the Holy Ghost had thus been given to the congregated disciples "the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language.

It was Peter who said, “get up and walk” (3:6). And I said, "Hold on Edie. When they shall say "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of Jehovah," the Messiah will come in fulness of blessing. It isn't something that I just possess can exercise anytime I want. Acts 27. Then he went on to say, " Yes, the faith which is by Him has given him perfect soundness in the presence of you all. The kingdom in a mysterious form no doubt there is, and we are translated into it., and it is in the power of the Spirit.

It was no derogation from His glory; it was after all but His seal on the perfectness of the work of the Lord Jesus. Why, then, set such stress on that land? "Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear." And we planted seed.

", And then we have the beautiful picture that the Spirit of God gives us of the scene that was now formed by His own presence here below, "Then they that [gladly]* received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls." November 7, 2012 by Jeremy Myers 2 Comments.

In this booklet, Dr. R.C. Sproul looks at several people in the Bible and how they give us a model of repentance. Dr. Sproul explains that true repentance is not simply a religious ritual or the resolve to do better next time.

24:26; Lk. Therefore, Edie, exalt the Lord. It is plainly implied that if they had put him to death knowing that he was the Messiah, and as the Messiah, there would have been no forgiveness. What was one of their main concerns?

For God will work an answer to your prayer and respond to your call just as quick as to the Pope or anyone else.

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