Do you reject God's endorsement of Jesus as the worker of wonders as the one who

dies spotless for sinners as the Messiah raised from the dead as the Lord of

glory and King of kings seated at the right hand of the Father? Do you reject

that endorsement of Jesus and say it's irrelevant to my life or do you embrace

that endorsement of Jesus and say if God feels that way about Jesus I feel

that way about Jesus. Do we accept the Father's endorsement of Jesus? John

Piper addresses that all important question from Acts 2 22 to 36 in this

episode of light and truth. This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist

Church on November 11th 1990. I want to begin again with a question this morning

like I did last week only this one's harder it's more personal it's more

pointed it's more offensive and I don't want you to answer it immediately I want

you to hear the message and then answer it at the end some of you will be

resistant to it others of you will have a stock answer ready from your

tradition but I want you to hear the question interpreted in the answer

given by the Holy Spirit and then answer it at the end the answer and the

question is did you kill Jesus? Did you crucify the Lord and if you're like me

then inside of you you would feel denial and maybe rising a resentment how could

you even ask a question that something so distant and far away could begin to

be laid at my feet the reason I asked the question in spite of the

unlikeliness of it is because I think that emotional reaction was very likely

to be felt by some in Peter's audience when he looked out over that vast

crowd and said you crucified Jesus now why do I think that you remember how many

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