He is the author of life from him, together with God the Father, all life has come.

He has written every life, every physical life, and every spiritual life comes from the

Lord Jesus.

He's the fountain of life, all life begins with him.

You had life, you got it from Jesus.

So what happens when the author of life steps into our hopelessness?

John Piper takes us to Acts 3-1-16 to answer that question in this episode of Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on December 9, 1990.

There's a wonder and there's a word, a miracle and a sermon in this text.

And what I want to do in the few minutes we have left now is to do three things.

Look at the content of the word, the content of the wonder, and the relationship between

the two.

So let's go at it.

First the content of the word.

Now, this is not the whole sermon, we'll be on it for several weeks to come.

It ends at the end of the chapter, but this section of it beginning in verse 13 is very

powerful and we want to see what's in there.

The crowd gathers together because of this wonder in verse 12, Peter begins by explaining

what the wonder does not mean, and then he launches in to his message which is basically

and most essentially the exaltation of Jesus Christ, just like it was in chapter 2.

And then subordinately an indictment of his listeners, five exaltations for horrible

indictments.

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