| “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.” – Acts 5:30 |
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| Jesus is ALIVE! The Apostle Peter as well as other apostles are being questioned about preaching Christ and filling the city of Jerusalem with this NEW teaching. Peter responds to the council that is headed by the Chief Priest that even though the Chief Priest and the Jewish leaders had murdered Jesus by calling for Him to be crucified GOD – their GOD – had RAISED JESUS UP – raising Him up from the dead!! Pause to consider this scene. Picture it. Peter and the Apostles are being questioned about preaching the gospel. Can you see Peter? He does not back up or back down but proclaims clearly that JESUS CHRIST IS ALIVE! Peter proclaimed the RESURRECTION of Jesus! From Acts 5:30 let us be reminded that the message of the GOSPEL is the DEATH (CRUCIFIXION) in which Christ died for our sins as our substitute. He tasted what every person must taste in tasting death. He was BURIED (BURIAL). And He was RESURRECTED as God raised Him up (RESURRECTION). The gospel is the DEATH, BURIAL, and RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:1,3-4 “I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,) Now CHRIST is EXALTED to the right hand of God and He offers salvation to anyone who believes the gospel and will call upon Him. (Romans 10:9-10, 13 “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”). I trust you have called on Jesus Christ for salvation! I trust if you have called on Jesus Christ for salvation you are telling others! Verse to DATE the Word on May 30 (5/30) is Acts 5:30. It says, “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.” Without the resurrection, we do not have a gospel message! Continue Strong proclaiming the resurrection of Jesus, And remember to DATE the Word |