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Moralistic therapeutic deism
Youth group.
What is the gospel?
No one could answer.
Studies show that most “Christian” kids entering college do not actually hold a Christian worldview.
Instead, they hold to something called “moralistic therapeutic deism”.
There is a God.
He wants you to do “good” things and not “bad” things (moralism).
Be “good”, be “nice” to each-other.
God maybe helps you to be a “bit better”.
The goal of life is to be happy and feel good about yourself and good people go to heaven when they die.
Something is really missing from that picture!
That is the deal.
Kids get to college with this aching sense:
There must be something more.
and if our kids can’t articulate the gospel, and “most” Christian kids are getting to and through college missing the gospel… I bet there are at least a few in this room who maybe are missing that piece as well.
Asking that question: Isn’t there something more?
Moralistic Therapeutic Deists in Jerusalem
How many there at Pentecost had that question?
How many were moralistic therapeutic deists?
Crowd of possibly 100,000+ in Jerusalem.
Maybe 2-300,000?
We know these are religious devout.
Men and women who traveled from Europe, up from Africa, over from the Middle East Asia.
Traveling far in a time when travel wasn’t all that easy - weeks or months of travel because that is what God commanded them to do.
These are believers in God (at least theists or deists).
These have a powerful sense of a moral code.
Right and wrong.
And they are choosing to do the right things...
But do you think they had this question in the back of their minds?
There must be something more.
Old Testament - There Must be Something More
David knew this.
Psalm 16.
There must be more life, life beyond this.
It’s got to mean more, be more.
Maybe this would be through his children, but ultimately it is a desire for immortality, for resurrection.
Not just the desire for life, but the desire for justice!
“Make your enemies my footstool.”
Let their be justice at last for the wicked.
We see this theme especially in the prophets.
The prophet Joel looking at the empty religiosity around the nation of Judah in his day.
Empty motions of religion.
Lip service and outward action.
But no heart, no Spirit.
He longs for and looks forward to a day when that would change at last.
When sons and daughters would be filled with the Holy Spirit.
The “Day of the Lord”, the last days.
And everyone who calls on Yahweh shall be saved.
Peter - This is That - Jesus
Peter says to all of these “THIS IS THAT DAY!”
Peter preaches expositionally, expository preaching.
That is, he dives into the Old Testament and applies what he reads there to what is happening now.
“This” is “that”.
This is the Day of the Lord the prophet Joel looked forward to.
This is the life and resurrection David anticipated.
This is the descendant of David who would be elevated to the right hand of the Father.
This Jesus.
Joel looks forward to this day: Spirit and Judgment both:
Are these last days?
Yup, Peter said so.
From that day through this day, these are those “last days”.
How many last days are there?
We don’t know.
But on those last days, this is what it looks like:
And what does he say about Jesus?
He preaches from evidence.
Before death and resurrection, the life of Jesus was lived with purpose on purpose.
His divinity, his power was revealed and proven before his death.
A man “attested to you by God”.
Miracles, works, wonders and signs.
He provided the sure evidence, in front of hundreds, sometimes thousands of witnesses.
This was not a shadowy, secret endeavor but writ large across Judea.
Miracles by nature, wonders by their appearance, signs by their intention - to reveal that Jesus is the Son of God, the Messiah.
The definite (or predetermined) plan.
When did God make this plan?
Before hand.
Before what?
Peter tells us in 1 Peter that it was “before the creation of the world” and that Jesus’ name was written on the foundation of the world.
This heads up a potential criticism.
How can Jesus be the Messiah if he got arrested and condemned and executed?
It wasn’t a spur of the moment thing, a response, making the best out of a bad situation.
“Delivering up” Jesus was the plan THE WHOLE TIME.
Then Peter turns it home.
Who crucified and killed Jesus?
You.
It wasn’t by your hands, it was those of “lawless men”.
But who was responsible?
It was you.
Not “you Jews”, there are men and women from every country there.
The vast majority are probably Jewish… but many Gentiles as well as we see in those who respond to the sermon.
So not “you Jews” but “you humans!”
There is guilt there (or better word: conviction).
You crucified and killed him, the hands that actually did were just representative of all of humanity.
But...
Death is pictured both as bondage, a prison,
Labor pains - agony - the throes of child birth.
But it was “not possible” for Jesus to be held by it.
He entered death: everything that human death is and was… but because Jesus was also God it was “impossible” for death to hold him.
This is what David prophetically foresaw when he sensed that death was not right.
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