Welcome. Welcome to Truth for Life weekend.

As we are looking forward to celebrating Easter next month,

we're examining the significance of the crucifixion,

and today we'll consider what Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross

signified to God the Father, to humanity, and even to Jesus himself.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the Book of Acts. We're looking at chapters two and four.

Now, at this point, as Peter preaches on the day of Pentecost, clearly Saul of Tarsus is still Saul of Tarsus.

He's not Paul the Apostle.

We don't have his theological treatise in the book of Romans.

Therefore, we have yet to await a more unfolded,

extrapolated, explained doctrine of the atonement. We're not at the point where, as Paul says in Romans chapter 4, that he was delivered up for our trespasses

and raised for our justification. Remember that in the Gospels, Jesus is revealed in the acts he

is preached, in the epistles he's explained so that by the time you get to

the epistles you have the explanation of that which is described for us in the Gospels and which

is preached in Acts so Peter is preaching here in Acts and he says that this this event that

has taken place here in the death of Jesus is in account of

the fact that God delivered him up. And the terminology there is worthy of your further consideration.

I leave it to you. In other words, there is already, on the part of Peter, as a result of the instruction of Jesus and the inspiration of the

Holy Spirit and understanding that through the death of Jesus, the purpose of God was being worked out.

A purpose that is rooted in eternity, a purpose that was unfolding throughout the pages of the Old Testament.

And when you ponder that, and you think in terms of Jesus giving this study to those who

were listening, you have to wonder whether, as it says, as Luke says, he explained to them all the things in the Bible

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