If you would remain standing, I'm going to read our teaching text, which is from Acts

Chapter 2, verses 14 to 41. Then Peter stood up with the 11, raised his voice, and addressed the crowd.

Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you. Listen carefully to what I say.

These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only nine in the morning. No, this is what was

spoken to you by the prophet Joel. In the last days,

God says, I will pour out my spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy.

Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and

women, I will pour out my spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and

billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the

great and glorious day of the Lord, and everyone who calls on the name of the Lord

will be saved. Fellow Israelites, listen to this. Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God

to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.

This man was handed over to you by God's deliberate plan and foreknowledge,

and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. But God

raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death because it was impossible for death

to keep its hold on him. David said about him, I saw the Lord always before me

because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices.

My body also will rest in hope because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead. You will not

let your holy one see decay. You have made known to me the of the dead. You will not let your holy one see decay.

You have made known to me the paths of life.

You will fill me with joy in your presence.

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