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Neverending Glory
The first time Logan watched “Neverending Story” (one of the greatest movie sagas).
He… fell asleep halfway through.
How do you do that??? Falcor had lost Atreyu.
Falcor!!!
The Nothing was consuming Fantasia!
There was drama and danger and a luck dragon.
and my little dude fell asleep.
He is staring at one of the greatest stories ever told… and he is too tired or too bored to get it.
Now, in fairness, he was like five or six.
But don’t worry, I finished the movie while he slept and it was still great.
We approach the gospel, Peter’s second evangelical sermon.
We could just skip it, because, it is a LOT like his first evangelical sermon.
It is the gospel presented again.
We could just skip it… but we won’t.
This is the greatest story ever told, the true Neverending story, told on the stage of history.
How can we be tired of hearing the greatest story ever told?
May God retell it in us all over again.
Peter’s 2nd Sermon
Recap Healing of the Lame Beggar
Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give thee.
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
Walking and leaping and praising God
Text of Peter’s Sermon
Open into the sermon, picture this guy clinging to Peter.
I like to picture the whole body koala hug.
Peter rapidly transitions from this great intro (more about that in a second) to the pure gospel.
And it is very similar to his first (which is comforting).
Peter isn’t making up new stuff, he is diving into the Old Testament and seeing new connections to salvation history… but the gospel is the same.
Conviction of sin, Repentance, and Restoration to righteousness.
He very quickly turns from the miracle of the beggar with a “what are you looking at?” and launches into the gospel message.
He begins with conviction.
Conviction
He addresses the people of Israel as the people of Israel.
Rooting the gospel in history, in the forefathers, reaching back to the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
That God glorified Jesus… but you turned him over.
Remember how Pilate wanted to free him?
You didn’t.
You chose a murderer instead.
You… “killed the Author of life.”
The one who invented life, or it could mean the “very first to be alive”.
And God raised him from the dead… we saw it.
To further prove his power, it is in His name that the man has been healed.
Repentance
But Conviction is only a moment.
It is not God’s purpose, nor is it Peter’s purpose here to make people feel bad.
First, God knows that you didn’t really know what you were doing.
You acted in ignorance.
But even your ignorance God used for His glory.
It was foretold by the prophets (again rooting the gospel in Israel history and tradition).
Deep roots.
Then he turns and gives the beautiful offer of repentance.
“Blotted out”.
Wiped away, annihilated.
Gone forever.
There… and then made so it is simply not there any more.
What good news that is!
And repentance immediately leads into beautiful restoration:
Restoration
Or, I love this Message translation
Repentance leads straight into reconciliation and blessing.
And on into eternal life.
Reaching forward into the return of Christ, the eager expectation of his soon return, restoring all things.
and then again, he roots this beautiful gospel message in Israel’s history.
Moses foretold Christ as a “prophet like me”.
Aren’t you going to listen to Moses?
and all the prophets, from Samuel to after.
Reaching back to the covenant with Abraham in Genesis 12, Peter establishes Jesus and his gospel in covenant continuity all the way back.
I like to imagine that Peter just discovered that awesome connection in his study with the other apostles that morning.
Guys… I think Genesis 12 is about Jesus.
Guys!
The gospel is good news, and it is news, but it has been planned and prophesied, prepared for from all history.
Peter arrested while 5000 believed
Peter is still preaching when the religious leaders freak out and drag him off arrested.
Even as his being arrested, people are coming forward.
About five thousand men… so who know how many additional woman or children believed as well?
The gospel goes out, the name of Jesus is heard, and people are changed.
The lame are healed, hearts are changed, lives are saved.
Absolutely incredible.
Would you be excited if we did an outreach event and it started with a lame man walking and ended with 5000-10000 being transformed by the gospel, by the name of Jesus?
What are you looking at?
I want to jump back to the beginning.
How did Peter start?
Turns to the gospel
What are you looking at?
Because Peter is looking at the gospel, looking at Jesus.
He appears to be not tempted in the slightest to take the glory, he is so firmly fixed on something so much more glorious.
This could be a “cap” on the power allowed to you and I. What can I be trusted with?
What can I be entrusted with?
Likely what Peter did, if God did that through me I would be swept away by the glory of it!
I would want some of that.
I would soak in some of that.
I expect God will not do more glorious things through me than I can handle… because the glory would be absolutely toxic to me and my life unless it is immediately reflected back to him.
We see leaders and celebrities destroyed by glory all the time.
Glory is rightfully and rightly to God alone always.
Peter reflects it all, turns it all immediately to the gospel.
To the name of Jesus.
What are you looking at?
Instead… look at what I am looking at.
What you SHOULD be looking at!
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