and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
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… his disciples with power from on high. Acts chapter 1, you're going to receive power when the Spirit comes upon you. And the same plan is outlined there in Luke 24. 47 through 49 verses right there, they talk about how repentance, forgiveness of sins is going to be preached in all the world. That's exactly what's going on right here. And so we see an overlap, a continuation here from the book of Luke. And we need to get a hold of what's going on here in the mind of Luke. And I think we see that in the very first verse. I want to invite you to circle a word in verse 1. Don't circle it if it's not your Bible, but if it's your Bible, I want you to circle. In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus, and here's the word, began to do and to teach. The word began right there. Now, what Luke is saying is, I've written this gospel of Luke, this story about all that Jesus began. …
… Repentance is always the issue. Back to the gospel of Luke, chapter 24, verse 47, the Great Commission. people to repent for the forgiveness of sins. They won't have anybody to blame but themselves for their lack of repentance. It gets worse under the bowl judgments. If you go over to chapter 16, the final judgment of all the judgments, the final bowl judgment, The seventh judgment of the three categories. Huge hailstones, a hundred pounds, come down from heaven upon men, and men blaspheme God. They still don't repent as judgment escalates and mounts. What do they cling to? Why wouldn't they repent? Well, we're told they wouldn't repent. Go back to verse 20, they did not repent of the works of their hands. That's a phrase used often in the Old Testament to describe idols, because idols were made by men's hands. There are five sins representative of these defiant sinners. They choose hell, they choose demons, they choose death, they choose Satan, they choose sin, they are worshipers of Satan, they have the mark of the beast, they worship the Antichrist, They worship the dragon. …
THIS was part of the answer of Peter and the other Apostles to the question and declaration of the high priest— "Did not we command you that you should not teach in this name? And, behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your Doctrine and intend to bring this Man's blood upon us." Then Peter and the other Apostles replied, "We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree." And, in the verse following our text, they claimed to be witness-bearers for the risen and reigning Prince and Savior. And, more than that, they declared that they were co-witnesses with "the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to them that obey Him." These Apostles were the representatives of Messiah, the Prince, acting under His authority and, as far as they could, filling up the gap caused by His absence. They asserted that their preaching and teaching had been done by Divine Command which could not be set aside by any human authority—imperial or ecclesiastical—and that the true Prince of Israel, the Son of David, alone, had the power and the right to issue commissions to those who owned allegiance to Jehovah. They declared that Jesus, whom the chief priests had crucified, was still alive reigning in Glory, enthroned at the right hand of God and that they were only fulfilling His royal commands when they were "standing in the Temple and teaching the people." Moreover, when the Apostles stated that in addition to being a Prince, Jesus was also a Savior, and that He had been exalted with His Father's right hand in order that He might "give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins," they gave the very best reason in the world for their preaching—for they were all engaged in preaching that sinners should repent—and in assuring those who didrepent that their sins were forgiven for Christ's sake! I cannot conceive of any better argument than this which the Apostles used when answering the high priest—"You command us not to teach in Christ's name, but the command of the Son of God, our Prince and Savior, is 'that repentance and remission of sins [See …
"And that repentance and remission of sins should bepreached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." Luke 24:47. [Another Sermon by Mr. Spurgeon upon the same text is #1729, Volume 29—BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM.] THIS verse is among our Lord's last words to His disciples just before He left them to return to Heaven. He wished to impress upon them the Truth of God that it was His purpose and desire that their lives should be devoted to the preaching of His Gospel among all nations upon the face of the earth. In Christ's own words and throughout the New Testament, we find the greatest stress laid upon preaching. Preaching is the great battering ram that is to shake the gates of Hell! Preaching is God's chief method of winning souls unto Himself—"for after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." We cannot too often remind this age in which we live of this Truth, for this is a time in which it is supposed that rites and ceremonies, human learning and literature and I know not what else, may very properly be allowed to supplant the preaching of the Word! Yet our Lord has given no intimation of any change in His purpose and plan—on the contrary, His great commission is evidently intended to cover the whole of this present dispensation—"Go you, therefore, and teach (that is, make disciples of) all nations, baptizing them (that is, those who have been made disciples) in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world (or, more properly, unto the end of the age). Amen." So, until this dispensation is brought to a close by the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ, "repentance and remission of sins" are to "be preached in His name among all nations." Blessed, indeed, are those who, in this land or anywhere else, have heard their Lord and Master say to them as He said to His disciples before He left them, "and you are witnesses of these things." …