This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
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… to your children's children, to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. So Peter had this boldness and we should have this boldness as well. You know, for many to share their faith is a duty, it's a drudgery, it shouldn't be. Be like Peter and see the opportunities. Number two, if you've been with Jesus, you'll be a person that knows scripture. People will know you have been with Jesus when you love to read and study the Bible because Jesus said, lo, in the volume of the book, I have come. He'll come to you in the volume of the book. Here's another point about being with Jesus or walking with Jesus. You may not like, but it's true. a person who has been with Jesus will be persecuted. You'll be persecuted. The authorities told the apostles to stop what they were doing. No reason was given. They said, just stop. Don't do it anymore, Acts 4, 17. But to keep them from spreading their message any further, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in Jesus' name again. …
… to your children's children, to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. So Peter had this boldness and we should have this boldness as well. You know, for many to share their faith is a duty, it's a drudgery, it shouldn't be. Be like Peter and see the opportunities. Here's another point. If you've been with Jesus, you'll be a person that knows Scripture. As it was pointed out, Peter had not been professionally trained. He was not a theologian. By the way, they didn't have Bibles in those days. They read scrolls and they memorized them. And you didn't have your own scrolls that you carried around with you everywhere. You would go and hear the reading of the Scripture in Temple. That means that Peter committed large portion of scriptures to memory and he was able to quote them. I think being inspired by the Holy Spirit. We don't read that he had a teleprompter or that he was reading off his iPad. …
… is to you, it's to your children, it's to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. We really enjoy hearing when people appreciate Pastor Greg's messages. I just wanted to let Greg know that he has inspired my life. I feel like he's an older brother and he's given me so much hope and love through the Word of Christ. I just retired as a law enforcement after 41 years. And thank you for everything you do in bringing the word of Christ to the lost and to the needy. Take care. It's a blessing to know that listeners are hearing these messages and God is using his word to touch hearts. How have Pastor Greg's studies impacted your life? Would you let him know? Send an email to greg at harvest.org. Well, Pastor Greg is about to lead us into an exciting part of our text today in Acts chapter 2. He continues. So let's find out what happened, because after this outpouring of the Spirit took place, Simon Peter got up and preached a sermon, and 3,000 people believed. …
… They had all believed on Christ for the forgiveness of their sins. in Acts chapter 2 verse 38 through 41 and what follows after that it was their faith in Christ that united them together now when we see they had everything in common we immediately start to think in the physical realm and the possessions and that's exactly what this passage goes on to talk about but what we've got to realize is these guys had a lot more in common than just sharing their possessions I want you to see two truths here number one I want you to see that they belonged to each other in Christ. These early believers believed that they belonged to each other in Christ. And it's evidenced by the way we see this word fellowship, koinonia, come up over and over again in the New Testament. Let me take you on a little tour. Turn to the right, and I want you to go to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. You'll go to Romans and then come to 1 Corinthians. I want you to look at 1 Corinthians chapter 10. And I'm going to show you some different places where we see this New Testament word koinonia. Sometimes it's translated fellowship, other times it's translated different things. And so I want you to maybe even circle it in your Bible and put a line out to the side that says koinonia. This is what they had in common. …