The King's Witnesses
Saved into the Fellowship (Acts 2:41-47)
Luke lists out four objects of their devotion: the apostle’s teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer. These four practices mark the faithful Christian community, conducting their lives accordingly. The apostle’s teaching exalted the person and work of Christ, from his baptism to his ascension, and prophetically confirmed Jesus of Nazareth, Lord and Christ, as…
Responding Rightly to Jesus the Lord (Acts 2:36-40)
Peter urged the men of Israel who participated in the crucifixion of Jesus to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus. Responding rightly to Jesus as Lord and Christ means repenting and being baptized in his name for the forgiveness of sins, effectively orienting one’s life to God through…
Jesus the Nazarene, Lord of Salvation (Acts 2:14-36)
Under the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, Peter declared to the gathered crowds, and all the residents of Jerusalem, that the arrival of the Spirit portended the Messianic Age of salvation, and that they murdered God’s Messiah, Jesus the Nazarene. The Spirit continues to this day, testifying to the…
Empowered by the Indwelling Spirit (Acts 2:1-13)
The Spirit arrived. As promised. And he brought the full presence and power of God to each individual disciple, and empowered them to speak in the languages of the gathered peoples on Pentecost. To this very day, the Holy Spirit continues to descend upon every disciple, filling us with the presence…
Witnesses of the Resurrection (Acts 1:15-26)
With Christianity, the doctrinal foundations, the testimony to the baptism, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, Son of God, are testified to by 12 authentic witnesses, who themselves are testified to by at least 120 other witnesses. When a person considers the way of life initiated by the resurrected Jesus, they find an attested, reliable, verified,…
Commissioned by the Resurrected King (Acts 1:1-14)
The risen Jesus installed his disciples as witnesses of his Kingdom, as seen through his word and work, in order to send them to the very ends of the earth. In our own day, the risen Jesus continues to install all disciples as witnesses of his Kingdom, sent to the very ends of the earth. All…
