REPENT

³⁸And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit

Here is the good news in one verse. But I want to look at a few things and the first one is repent. To repent it important to get forgiven and saved by Jesus. Repent is to changev your mine about so,ething. It is to go another way. To change your mind about the Lord. We are going to one way then we change and go another way. This is a IMPORTANT thing because without your sins forgiven you do not get in and the bible said you got to repent. So TO BE IN LINE WITH JESUS YOU MUST do this. So we given repent to be forgiven.

We are to be baptized. No this is not dunked but it is. Repent then you need to be dunked. If you were a baby and you got baptized I think you need to get dunked after you took Jesus and repented of your sin. It is not to forgiven but it is a part of the process of obeing Jesus. Have you repented then get to your local church and be baptized. Local church is a place you do this and if your church does not dunk find one that does.

. ³⁹For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” ⁴⁰And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” ⁴¹So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

sermon of peter acts

4 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams
8 And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’[b]
When the bible says last days it means anytime after the cross. So Peter is going to preach the truth in the first sermon ever preached. Note that the Spirit is going to come to all flesh. This is a new thing. In the old the Spirit does not come to all flesh and God is not dwelling with all the people but there was a certain few that got to go before God in the temple. If the common person wanted to know God they went to the priest who went before God one time a year. But after the cross the gift of God is the Spirit and the fact that now God no longer is just for a few Jesus died and anyone who wills is able to come to God. Last time I thought that this Spirtirt thing is brand new so the things the people are seeing. Some of this is filled then and some is not going to be until the time when Jesus is back on earth. We see lots of signs and wonders. I think this is for a brief time on the day when the 12 are there then the bible is what we share to bring people to the truth.
Point one the Lord is into a new time.



i22 “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— 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken[c] by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. 25 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.
26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;
Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.
27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’[d]
Peter is giving the truth to the Jews who killed this Man Jesus. They did not do this on their own because Jesus gave his life for us. Peter is drawing the Jews to Jesus and giving them the chance to get saved. He used Psalms 16 as a text. In this text he said For you will not leave me in Hades (means the place of the dead) but bring me to the right hand in Joy. Jesus is here dead but he is going to raise Jesus from the dead. Peter said below.



29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,[e] 31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.