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do you do Welcome to Truth for Life where we are continuing a series called When the Church

was young. Today we're looking at the day of Pentecost when the

Apostle Peter preached his first sermon. This was the same man who denied knowing

Jesus when he was arrested just two months earlier. So what gave this once fearful

apostle the confidence to preach so boldly? We'll find out as Alistairbegg teaches

from Acts Chapter 2.

We have noticed that the preacher on this occasion was none other than Peter,

that he immediately turns to his Bible and seeks to let his listeners know

that what has taken place as Luke has described it is nothing

other than that which the Old Testament had predicted and having established the focus of the people, he then from verse 22 on begins to state the facts concerning Jesus.

He begins with the fact of Christ's life and the way that it was attested to by God in his miraculous signs,

which are recorded for us in the gospel, at least some of of them and then he proceeds in verse 23

to speak concerning the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and although he doesn't

work out the doctrine of the atonement the way it is worked out later on in the

Epistles. Nevertheless, we wanted to be clear that he did not sidestep, but rather he made much of the fact that the people who were listening to

him were actually culpable because they had been responsible with the help of

wicked men presumably a reference to the Romans,

his words being addressed primarily to the Jews, they were responsible for the death of the

Lord Jesus. They were responsible for this in a way that was

completely in confluence with God's foreordination because although they were acting according to their own desires

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