Peter's Sermon Part 2: The Story of Jesus | Frank Brancato

We're continuing our series on the Day the Kingdom Came, and

this morning's sermon is entitled.

Actually, it's Peter's Sermon Part 2.

But it's the story of Jesus and how fitting and appropriate it

is that we just sang that song, Victory in Jesus, because it's

all about what Jesus did. And in Peter's masterful sermon,

divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, preached another

masterpiece. In this section of that sermon

as an introductory text, I direct your attention to Acts

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chapter 2, beginning in verse 22.

Peter says men of Israel hear these words.

Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you by

miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did through him in

your midst, as you yourselves also know him, being delivered

by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have

taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death whom

God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was

not possible that he should be held by it.

As an introduction, I'm going to be very brief summarizing what

we've studied. Jesus told the apostles to wait

in Jerusalem till they got endued with power from on high.

That's Acts 1. Acts chapter 2.

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Power came in the form of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

It came to 12 men, it came to 12 apostles and it caused them to

be able to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

We studied in great detail last time.

These tongues were not gibberish.

It was not ecstatic Babble. It was actually normative

languages. You remember what they said?

What meaneth this? As the King James says, these

men are from Galilee and yet we hear them speak in our their own

language, the wonderful works of God.

What else? In our own language that we were

born and that word means dialects.

So they understood. But when they did that, there

was an interesting response. Their reaction was they were

perplexed as what could this mean?

And others said, oh, wait a minute, these guys are drunk.

And then Peter's response is twofold. 1 He appeals to their

logic. And #2 he appeals to prophecy

first. He appeals to logic.

He said these guys aren't drunk like you say they are.

It's only 9:00 in the morning, the third hour of the day.

And as we noticed, it's even customary for even in Scripture

for people to understand that those that get drunk get drunk

in the night. So it appeals to their logic.

And that kind of got their attention.

But then he says what you're seeing is the words of the

fulfillment of the prophet Joel. And that was last time.

That was our last sermon. Now we come to this one.

Beginning in verse 22, Peter now comes to the real theme of the

message, and that is the story of Jesus Christ.

It is the greatest story ever told.

It is the story about Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah that the

Jews rejected. And the first thing that Peter

calls him is Jesus of Nazareth. You know, we understand because

we are believers in God. We are believers in Jesus

Christ, and we know all about what the Scripture says

regarding who Jesus is. He's our Lord, He's our savior,

He's our mediator, He's our Redeemer.

He's our propitiation, fancy word meaning he paid our fine.

He's all that stuff. He's our king and we serve him.

We know that. So why the words Jesus of

Nazareth? He's so much more than that.

Interestingly, the phrase Jesus of Nazareth, he's called a

Nazarene because he was from Nazareth.

Do you remember? Even in the Garden of

Gethsemane, Jesus prays to his Father.

Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.

Not my will, but your will be done.

Then with a determined resolve, he goes forward.

And here is this band of men. Here's these Roman soldiers.

Scholars tell us about 600 of them along with the temple

police and the mob. Right.

And out in front is the awful betrayer, that vile betrayer,

Judas. Jesus goes forward and Jesus

says first, who you're looking for?

I'm not getting into the story. We all know the story.

Just saying one thing. Who you looking for?

What did they say? We are looking for Jesus of

Nazareth. The reason they phrased it as

such is they didn't recognize Jesus from whom we recognize who

Jesus is. They were looking for a Galilean

Carpenter and his friends and they called him Jesus of

Nazareth because that's where he was from.

How about on the superscription? What about the title above the

head of Jesus that Pilate wrote? And by the way, it was written

in the three ancient languages of the time, Hebrew, Greek and

and Latin. You know why?

So everybody that walked by would look up and not only see

it, but they could read it and they could understand it.

Three ancient languages. What were the words?

Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross, and the writing

was Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.

But you know that name will be declared as a source of power

and a source of authority from this point forward all the way

through history and even now. Here's the sermon.

Men of Israel hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth.

And then he says, a man attested by God to you by miracles,

wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as

you yourselves also know. You know what's amazing Here

Peter begins to speak undeniable facts about Jesus.

You know one scholar put it this way, undeniable facts about the

hated Nazarene. But you know what?

These are the same facts that are going to cause some about

3000 to be cut to the heart. You know, I got to thinking

about that. The Bible is filled with

undeniable facts about Jesus. And did you know that because I

believe in it and I do with all my heart and I am I, I am

absolutely certain I'm speaking to an audience of people that

believe it like I do. You believe in Jesus, The

undeniable facts about Jesus, right?

We get it. But did you know that because we

believe it doesn't make it true. If somebody doesn't believe it,

it doesn't make it not true. He's presenting undeniable

facts. What happened?

Some were cut to the heart and said later on, we're going to

get to in the next sermon, men and brethren, what shall we do?

And then the solution came, right?

But there was 3000 that did that.

And we look at that and say, man, 3000 souls, what an amazing

sermon. What an amazing gospel meeting.

I say this, scholars tell us there was over maybe a million

people there that day. So only 3000, OK, undeniable

facts 3000 were cut to the heart.

The majority was not. But it didn't change the truth.

It didn't change the truth. JW Mcgarvey says this, though in

one breath they're reminded of the wondrous miracles and signs

that Jesus wrought among them. They are charged with knowing

this is true. In other words, he says, man of

Israel hear these words about Jesus of Nazareth, all the

things it was facts and you know that it's true.

You know that it is. And then he continues on in the

next verse, his statement here, him being delivered by the

determined purpose and foreknowledge of God.

I got to stop and make a little point here.

OK, When the Jews delivered Jesus to the Romans to be

crucified, it was by the determined purpose and

foreknowledge of God. I'm going to get to the Jews

role in just a moment, but I want to make a point because I

was driving down the road and I was listening on the radio.

Sometimes I TuneIn this stuff and there was a big debate going

back and forth on who was responsible for crucifying Jesus

and somebody says, well, the Jews crucified Jesus and this

guy got on there. He called in, he was infuriated.

He was saying why blame it on the Jews?

I'm tired of people blaming it on the Jews.

It was the Romans that crucified Jesus.

Hold that thought. I'm going to make my point again

though. When the Jews delivered Jesus to

the Romans, it was by the determined purpose and

foreknowledge of God. It's according to the definite

plan that was orchestrated by God himself from the foundation

of the world, that Jesus would be God's Lamb.

John 316. We know that passage.

Everybody knows that passage. Sporting events hold up that

passage. For God so loved the world that

he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him

should not perish, but have everlasting life.

So it was all by the determined purpose and for knowledge of

God. OK, let's get to the next

statement. I'm going to prove my point.

You have taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death.

OK, who's you? Who's he talking to earlier on?

It says in Jerusalem there that day, on the day of Pentecost,

there were Jews, devout men gathered there out of every

nation under heaven. So who's the you?

The you was the Jews. Little side point here.

Why did the Jews take Jesus to Pilate?

You might remember from a previous lesson, they did so

because they had to the right of the sword belonged only to Rome.

So the only way that you can lawfully execute somebody was to

go to Rome. They had to do it.

And by the way, incidentally, it also had to do that to fulfill

prophecy that Jesus would be lifted up on a cross and fulfill

what the Old Testament said and not a Jewish Stony.

We know all that. So why this then?

Why does it say you Jews have been taken by lawless hands?

What does that mean? Well, Bruce says it this way.

While the hands that carried out the grisly work of the

crucifixion were the hands of lawless men, that is to say the

Romans, why were they called lawless men?

Because they were outside the range of the law received by

Israel. They were outside of Jewish law.

The Jews were God's people. The Jews took Jesus to those

that were outside of God's people, and they were called

lawless men. Notice he further says.

Yet the instigators of the ACT were the Jews.

It was the chief priestly leaders of the people who

engineered his death. It was the Jerusalem mob, egged

on by those leaders who yelled crucify him.

But all who took part either directly or indirectly and

putting him to death were unconsciously fulfilling the

determined purpose and foreknowledge of of God.

Amazing God's plan. By the way.

Can I just slip this in? Doesn't that make you feel a

greater desire to serve God and follow Jesus when you realize

that the terrible acts that were done to him that God allowed,

not only did God allow it, it was by His divine purpose, His

foreknowledge, and He set it into motion.

How about that kind of makes you want to serve Him more?

But notice continues the thought in verse 24, whom God raised up,

having loosed the pains of death.

Now there's a sharp contrast between what man did to Jesus

and what God did for him. Now I want to notice, please,

there's a literal application and there is a spiritual

application. So notice this.

First of all, Zur brings up the physical aspect or the literal

application. He said this.

This statement here in this passage means that God released

his son who had been bound in a death that had been accompanied

by pain. That was literal, that was

actual, that was physical. Jesus died, but God loosed the

pains of death. Now remember, there's also a

spiritual application. But notice this phrase right

here. Because it was not possible that

he should be held by it. That doesn't mean any

impossibility on God's part, on Jesus's part.

The impossibility is on death's part.

Remember that song leads to saying death could not keep his

prey. Jesus my Savior, He tore the

bars away. You know why?

Because God was going to raise him up and loose the pains of

death and he did. So.

A big contrast between what man did to Jesus and what God did

for him, and not only for him, but all of mankind.

That's the literal application. What is the spiritual

application here? First of all, know this, when

Satan caused Jesus to be put to death, he sealed his fate.

Do you remember when Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper?

Do you remember when Jesus has that private conversation with

Judas Iscariot and Jesus says to him, after he said, one of you

will betray me? And then Jesus says, whatever

you're going to do, do it quickly.

Go do it. Go do it quickly, right?

And then it says Satan entered Judas.

It didn't mean he was demonically possessed.

It means he was listening to Satan.

So when Satan LED those men to not only betray Jesus, but to

crucify Jesus, the spiritual application of this passage is

this. It sealed the devil's fate.

Oh, but the very same act. It unleashed the power of God to

salvation. In other words, man crucified

Jesus, but then God used the pains of death.

And it was all by the determined purpose and for knowledge of

God. Twofold application, both

literally for Jesus and spiritually for all mankind.

And I'm so thankful. And by the way, that's the

reason. OK, may I just say something a

little comforting here? That's why we have hope.

Death has no more sting to the child of God.

To those that are in Christ, death has no more sting.

Why? Because of what Jesus did.

God raised him and loosed the pains of death.

It's truly the great mystery of all the ages, the hidden wisdom

of God. In all my life I've heard people

say when something bad happens to a good person, they say, why

in the world did God allow it? What is God's thought on that?

Blaming God, questioning God, all the stuff that I've heard

all my life well, you know what? If you want to question

something, why don't you question this?

You know why nobody questions this?

Because we get a great benefit from it.

We don't usually question stuff that we are the recipient or

beneficiary of something good. We just question when it's bad.

I got news for us all. As you know, it's still the same

God who's still in control. And look at what God did for all

mankind. Notice 1st Corinthians 2

beginning in verse 7. But we speak the wisdom of God

in a mystery. Interesting word, mystery.

Sometimes I've heard it interpreted well.

Mystery means plan. No, it doesn't.

It's talking about the plan of God.

It was always the plan of God. But the mystery, the word

mystery doesn't mean plan. The word mystery means mystery.

It means something that existed in the mind of God.

I know it's just semantics, but I want to say it.

It's something that existed in the mind of God but was not yet

revealed. It was God's plan.

What was God's plan? Notice the hidden wisdom of God

ordained before the ages of glory for our glory, which none

of the rulers of this age knew, for had they known, they would

have not crucified the Lord of glory.

It was always God's plan. It was the great mystery of the

world that was not made known yet.

Wow. OK, now we're going to fly

through the next few verses because you're going to refer to

Psalm 16, verses 8 through 11, and it's verses 25 through 28.

Psalms 16:8–11

We'll just read this and we're going to move on.

For David says concerning him I foresaw the Lord always before

my face, for he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.

Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad.

Moreover, my flesh also will rest in hope.

For you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will you allow

your Holy One to see corruption. You have made known to me my

way, the ways of my, to me the ways of life.

You will make me full of joy in your presence.

Again. It's a direct quote from Psalm

Psalms 16:8–11

16, verses 8 through 11. OK, here's the point.

David's speaking in first person, but he's not talking

about himself. Peter's going to show that the

Holy One who will not see corruption, I mean corruption

meaning the body decaying, right?

It can't be David. He's going to make that point

again. The whole story is about Jesus.

The thrust is to reveal Jesus and no one else as the promised

Messiah. OK, so he begins this in verse

29. He says men and brethren.

First of all, this is talking about kinship, brethren, meaning

Jewish brethren, not Christian brethren.

They weren't Christians yet. So he says men and brethren, we

know there was men there. I already said that about men

out of every nation under heaven.

Jews, OK, but he calls them brethren, showing a kinship with

them. And you know what?

Tell you something. I know the whole sermon is

divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, but this is brilliant.

Anytime you've got to make some real stern or serious points, it

is always wonderful to make a connection of some sort in some

way. But it's also the same kind of

phraseology when a coach would go to a player and try to

establish something positive. What he's doing here is he's

establishing kinship. In other words, he changed and

he's Jewish also. He says, men and brethren, what?

Let me speak freely to you. What does that phrase actually

mean? Well, Vincent says it means this

speaking everything and therefore without reserve.

In other words, Peter's saying, I'm going to give it all to you.

And the first subject, or the subject in particular, is about

the patriarch David. That's a very important subject.

David is a very important subject to a Jewish person.

Do you know why? Because King David was the

greatest king Israel ever knew in the Old Testament.

That's number one. Number two, the Jews also

understood. OK.

They also understood that it would be through the lineage of

David that somebody was going to rise and sit on David's throne

and rule Israel. That promise was given in the

Old Testament in Psalm 132 and 11.

The Lord has sworn in truth to David.

He will not turn from it. I will set upon your throne the

fruit of your body. They understood that.

Here's where they messed up, and here's where they had trouble.

They thought the Jews, they thought it was going to be an

earthly king. They thought it was going to be

a Kingdom of this world. They thought it was going to be

a messianic king Kingdom that was part of this world.

They all longed for that, to possibly even remove the

oppressive thumb of Rome. They missed the point.

The Kingdom of Jesus Christ, though, is what we're talking

about, and it is a spiritual Kingdom.

It is not of this world. Jesus even said himself, My

Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this

world, my servants would fight. Like Brent talked about the

other day. He talked about the very idea

when he was waiting on the table before the communion, and he

said that he could have called more than 12 legions of angels

and put a stop to the whole matter.

You know why? Because he had the authority to

do that. But he didn't do that because

his Kingdom was not of this world.

And you know, that very thought became a very major stumbling

block to the Jews. Then he says, Speaking of the

patriarch David, very specific here.

He's both dead and buried. And his tomb is with us to this

day. Here's an undeniable truth that

David cannot be the Holy 1. He cannot be the one that did

not see corruption. You know why?

Because David is dead. David is buried and the tomb is

still there. And by the way, I don't know how

many years before this David was dead and buried, but many, many

years. These words were written in AD

33, and I understand about the adjusted calendar of 8030 or 33.

I do believe it's 8033. That's a sermon for another

time. But let's just suffice it to say

this was written a whole lot of years later, right?

And Peter says the promised 1 of Psalms that did not see

corruption can't be David. Why?

Because David is dead, David is buried, and David's tomb is

still with us this day, 8033. We live in in 2025 and if the

Lord wills, we're going to see 26 in a few days if the Lord

wills, right? Do you know what when that

happens, David will still be dead, David will still be

buried, and David's tomb is somewhere so he can't be the one

that didn't see corruption. You get in the point.

The attention of the Jews now in this sermon should be off of

David and toward the correct Holy One in the book of Psalms.

Then in verse 30 he said, therefore, being a prophet, he's

talking about David. David being a prophet, he just

prophesied back in Psalm 132 and 11 about this very thing.

David the prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath

to him. The promise is that through the

fleshly lineage of David, Jesus would come.

You know, over a dozen times in the New Testament, Jesus is

referred to as the Son of David. Here's just three, Matthew 1 and

verse one, Matthew 12 and verse 23, Luke 18 and 20 and 38.

It was prophesied that from the fruit of his body, according to

the flesh would come the Savior would come, the Messiah.

Paul said the following two by the way, in Romans chapter 1 and

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verse three he said concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord,

who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh.

Again, not trying to be redundant.

These verses are proving his point.

It's about Jesus now. Peter laid this foundation.

The main point of the entire discourse is the Holy 1 is not

David. Then who is it?

It has to be Jesus to reign in this new Kingdom and that comes

in verse 31 He would raise up or verse 30 he would raise up

Christ to sit on that throne. He's the one.

Verse 31, he foreseeing this spoke concerning the

resurrection of Christ. Now obviously David is speaking

by direct inspiration from God. He knew David knew the reference

was not to himself, but it was to the Christ that would come.

And I want to notice this right here.

This is very important. Remember where's David?

He's dead. He was buried and his sepulchre,

his tomb, his grave is still there.

What about the Holy 1 though that would not see corruption.

He David foreseeing bespoke concerned the resurrection of

Christ, that his Jesus soul was not left in Hades, nor did his

flesh see corruption. OK Hades.

Hades is defined by fear as the common receptacle of disembodied

spirits in the New Testament. It's also called paradise.

It's a place where Jesus went when he died.

It's a place where he took that dying thief, the dying thief

that said to Jesus, and by the way, please get this, this is

very important. Where do you go when you die?

Stay with me, Jesus said to this dying thief who said the

question or said the words, Lord, Remember Me when you come

into your Kingdom. Jesus says today you will be

with me in paradise. Paradise is where the save go

when they die. That's where Jesus went.

It's the same word as Hades. Let me ask you a question.

Where's David? Well, he's dead.

He was buried. His grave still here.

Where's David? David is in Hades or paradise,

where dead people go when they're saved.

By the way, can I just suggest something here too?

Sometimes the word paradise can refer to heaven.

But in this case, when Jesus said paradise, Luke 16 with the

rich man of Lazarus, it's talking about paradise.

That word is heydays. It's talking about the place

that you go when you're saved, awaiting the resurrection.

It is not heaven. So where's David?

David's still in paradise. What about Jesus though?

His soul was not left in Hades. So in other words, the physical

body goes to the ground. The Bible says the spirit, the

life force, goes back to God who gave it when you die.

But what else then? The soul goes somewhere.

The soul never dies. The saved go to paradise.

OK, David's still there in paradise.

Lazarus is still there in paradise.

All those that have died are still there in paradise that are

saved. Abraham is in paradise.

All those that are saved are redeemed.

Christians that are redeemed are in paradise.

Now here's my question. He was not left in Hades.

And the second thing, he didn't see his flesh, did not see

corruption. So I want to ask you a question.

Have you ever wondered about the significance of three days?

OK, we know about three days. What is the significance

scripturally about 3 days? When they came to Jesus in

Matthew chapter 12 and verse 40 and they wanted to know, they

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said give us a sign, show us some kind of a magic trick that

you are who you are and all that stuff.

You know what he said? An evil and adulterous

generation seeks after a sign. Then he said, And the only sign

you're going to get is the sign of the prophet Jonah.

For as Jonah was 3 days and three nights in the belly of the

great fish, so also shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three

nights in the heart of the earth.

Significant. Jesus told his disciples, I'm

going to die, and three days after that I'm going to rise.

What is the significance of three days beyond scriptural

proof? What about the practicality of

that? We'll notice please, when a man

dies, his soul or inner man goes to the unseen or intermediate

realm and that's called Hades that we just noticed.

His body remains on the earth, but after three days it will

begin to decompose or see corruption.

This fact explains the words of Martha in John Chapter 11 and

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verse 39. Remember, Jesus is going to

raise Lazarus from the dead. He goes there and he says take

away the stone. And Lazarus's sister Martha

says, oh, wait a minute, Lord, it's been 4 days and he's

already, there's already a stench.

That's what the new King James says.

The old King James says he already stinketh.

He's decomposing. Why it's been 4 days?

Because in three days that's exactly what happens.

Notice but this noted passage, Acts 231 means that the soul of

Jesus was not to remain in Hades long enough for his body that

had been placed in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea to start

decaying. This is why it was necessary for

Jesus to be raised from the dead after three days according to EM

Zur. OK then he says this.

In summary, he says this Jesus God raised up, of which we are

all witnesses. Jesus, a descendant of David,

now has been raised to be ruler over God's people.

I'm going to give you 2 Old Testament passages, Psalm 89.3

and four. I've made a covenant with my

chosen. I've sworn to my servant David

your seed. I will establish forever and

build up your throne to all generations.

One more passage, Second Samuel 712 and 13.

When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your Father's, I

will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body,

and I will establish His Kingdom.

He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the

throne of His Kingdom forever. Notice, in spite of this record,

there's a lot of people today that are still looking for Jesus

to come and establish a Kingdom. That's really sad.

Three things. Irrefutable facts about the

Kingdom. OK, the Kingdom was established

during the lifetime of the apostles promised in Mark

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Chapter 9 and verse one fulfilled in Acts chapter 2 #2

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What's the Kingdom? The Kingdom of Jesus on the

earth is His church that He promised to build in Matthew

1617 and 18. OK, who are those?

Who does that make up? Some club?

No, not a club you join up. What is the club?

No club. The church is made-up of those

who've been baptized for the remission of sins.

Acts 238 Baptized believers in Jesus Christ are members of the

Kingdom or the church that Jesus said that he would build.

OK, what else about Jesus? Verse 33.

Therefore, being exalted by the right hand of God.

Now Peter is answering not only an anticipated question about

where Jesus is, but by the phrase the right hand of God.

He's not just talking about a location.

In other words, this phrase means God raised Jesus and has

given him power and authority. OK, He's given him power and

authority to do what? Having received from the Father

the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this which you now

see and hear. So he's summing up the events on

Pentecost. They just witnessed it, the

great multitude. Here's the results.

It's the promise of what Jesus made to the apostles.

And that's what happened. Now, the last two verses of this

sermon for David did not ascend to the heavens.

Can I pause there, please? Did you see that?

And when I said David's not in heaven yet, I wasn't talking out

of school, folks. But trust me, if you stay with

me, it's going to get real good at the end, OK?

Just don't misunderstand what I'm saying.

It says David did not ascend into the heavens.

It's not there yet, but it's about Jesus.

And he says of himself, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right

hand till I make your enemies your footstool.

Now Sir says it this way. Coming back to David, Peter

reminds them again that the prophet had not ascended to

heaven and was therefore not at God's right hand.

That would explain that another noted prophecy could have not

meant David, for it says the Lord who was Christ was to sit

on the right hand of God until Christ had become a universal

conqueror. And this prediction is in Psalm

110 and verse one. That's the quote that we just

read in the previous verse. So how long is Jesus going to

reign as king on the throne at the right hand of God with all

authority and all power? How long is Jesus going to

reign? First Corinthians 15 beginning

in verse 24. Then comes the end when he

delivers the Kingdom to God the Father, when he puts an end to

all rule and authority and power.

For he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet,

and the last enemy that we should be destroyed is death.

OK. So are men still dying today?

Yeah, unfortunately, yeah. So as long as men are still

dying, Jesus is still reigning over the Kingdom.

I said David did not ascend to heaven.

So when will David finally get to go to heaven?

It didn't say when saved, didn't say he's paying a price in

purgatory. That's unscriptural.

I didn't say any of that. He's the place where the saved

go, awaiting something. When will David finally get to

heaven and when will the saved get to heaven?

Let's answer it with the Bible first Thessalonians 4, beginning

in verse 15. For this we say to you by the

word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the

coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are

asleep, and that means that have died, OK.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a

shout, with the voice of the Archangel, with the trumpet of

God, And the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with

them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

OK? If people die and go straight to

heaven, why would he come back to bring us home?

Sister Sue don't want to embarrass Sister Sue.

She said something beautiful last Sunday.

We were talking and she said, you know, one day we're going to

all be there together. Amen and Amen.

I'm going to add something to it.

Not only are we going to all go and be together, we're going to

all go together. We're going to all go together.

When I didn't make this up when give you bobble on that for as

Adam all die Even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

That's talking about spiritually alive, but each one in his own

order. Christ the first fruits.

In other words, Jesus Christ is the first fruits, meaning he's

the first one to ever die raised from the dead, never to die

again. That's how he's the first

fruits. He's first.

What about the rest of us, but afterward, those who are Christ

when at his coming, I'm going to tell you something we talk about

and I don't know how it's going to be.

I don't I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know how it's going to be, but I do know this.

We talk about a great reunion and him listen, we get to take

the trip together. My son-in-law, 11 time we were

going skiing and my son-in-law loves all the prep to get ready

to go on a trip, you know, getting the truck ready, getting

this ready. He said, man, this is the this

is the best part, best part. And I was thinking to myself

when he said that before he left my second man, if he thinks this

is the best part, he's going to be blown away by the ski trip.

Can you imagine the road trip together?

We're not only going to be together, we're going to go

together. So last Sunday when Chris LED

that song about what we're going to see, you know what the beauty

of that is? It's true.

But we're all going to see it together at his coming.

OK, That's Peter's sermon. What's next?

The results and the blessings that's coming next.

Stay tuned on that. We never know the hearts and

minds of those that are present. I don't know how it is with you

today. I talked about how important it

is for a Christian because death has no more sting to a

Christian. And it's all because God removed

or released Jesus from the pains of death when he raised him from

the dead. The spiritual application is it

opened the floodgates for man's salvation.

So if a person wants to go to heaven, they can.

Jesus says whoever will. In other words, if you'll come

to Jesus, you get to go. Isn't that great?

If you want to, and you will, you can.

Period. But this is what you got to do.

You got to hear the word of God. These are the steps to become a

child of God. Romans 10/17.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

After you hear the word of God, you got a choice.

You got to believe with all your heart.

Hebrews 11 and 6. Without faith it's impossible to

please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and

that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Do you believe in Jesus? Surely you do, Surely you do.

Then you're willing to just make a little change in your life in

your mind. First you got a repent of your

sins. I'm going in this direction.

I'm going to follow Jesus and go in that direction.

Acts 1730. Truly these times of ignorance

God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.

Then what? I got to confess Jesus as the

Son of God. Acts 837 Then Philip said, if

you believe with all your heart you may.

And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the

Son of God. These points lead to salvation,

but the point of salvation is being baptized for the remission

of sins. Acts 238 Mark 16/16.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does

not believe will be condemned. And finally, first Peter 321

from the old King James. I like the way the old King

James renders this verse the light figure wherein the even

baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away the filth

of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God by

the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If you've never become a Christian, we would love to

assist you in that. And these are the steps to

become one. Contact the blood of Jesus, rise

to walk in newness of life and be saved today.

Maybe you've taken these steps. Just maybe there's some

correction you need to make in your life, something of a public

nature. Maybe we can pray with you and

for you. Whatever be the case, let your

request be made known while we stand and while we see.