The First Christian Sermon (Part 1 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The apostle Peter had amazing, personal experiences with the Lord Jesus. Yet when he preached his first sermon to the early church, his experiences weren’t even part of his message! So what was his main focus? Find out on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do The Apostle Peter had some amazing one-of-a-kind first-person experiences with Jesus. |
| 0:33.0 | Surprisingly though, when he preached his very first recorded sermon to the early church, |
| 0:38.0 | he didn't make those experiences a part of the message. |
| 0:42.0 | What was the focus of his powerful sermon? That's what |
| 0:46.5 | we'll hear today on Truth for Life as Alistairbegg continues our study of the |
| 0:51.4 | early church. the Acts of the Apostles and we pick up our study from last time. |
| 1:07.0 | Father, as we turn to the Bible together, we pray that the spirit of God will be our teacher. |
| 1:16.0 | We ask for wisdom and insight, for grace, for all the help that we so desperately need in order that we would rightly divide the word of truth. |
| 1:29.0 | And for this we humbly pray in Jesus name, amen. |
| 1:35.0 | Well here in Acts chapter 2, beginning at the 14th verse, what we're turning to is essentially the first Christian sermon. |
| 1:42.0 | If somebody said, what is the first Christian sermon. If somebody said what is the first Christian sermon |
| 1:45.2 | that we have at least recorded for us, then you will know to say, well that is |
| 1:49.5 | in Acts chapter 2, that was preached by Peter. It was preached on the day of Pentecost. |
| 1:55.9 | And if you're able to say that, then of course you will be absolutely correct. |
| 2:00.9 | As a result of the events in Jerusalem on that particular day, the people were marked, you could say, by uncertainty and they were uncertain about what was taking place and they were |
| 2:19.3 | curious many of them as to how all of this had unfolded. Of course there were some witty |
| 2:25.2 | people who suggested that it all had to do with the imbibing of wine, but |
| 2:30.4 | Peter is going to address that for them. |
| 2:33.0 | And what I'd like to do in working our way through this sermon |
| 2:36.0 | is to do so under three simple headings. |
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