Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Fri 11th September – Acts chapter 3:19-23:
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Fri 11th September Read Acts chapter 3:19-23:
V19-20: Peter now calls on them to repent of their sin – to “turn back” -the literal meaning of ” to be converted”, to change direction, to turn your life around, only possible by the grace of God, of course. Then their sins will be blotted out ( Isaiah 44:22.) Not “brushed aside”, but covered over – covered by the blood of Jesus.The “times of refreshing” are surely God’s promise of forgiveness and new life, given through the sin-bearing death of Jesus to all who believe on the long-promised Christ.
V21: Jesus is now risen and ascended, and heaven has received Him back until that last day, when He comes again and all will be restored as God has promised ( Ch 1:11; Isaiah 65:17; Romans 8:19-21.)
V22: Peter quotes further OT prophecy, the promise that God would send another like Moses ( Deuteronomy 18:15,18.) – like Moses, but so much greater, of course, the fulfillment of which Moses was only a type. This is Jesus, whose Word must be heeded. (Consider John 6:68-69.)
V23: Solemnly, to reject Jesus is to come under final condemnation ( see also John 3:18-19.) We must never fail to take seriously the full gospel, which speaks of the reality of judgement and condemnation – but praise God for the full salvation, which there is in Christ.