I want you to turn with me to the book of Acts today. We are going to continue to deal with the message that we began with last week in Acts chapter 2. And the message had to do with the first time that the Holy Spirit of God came to indwell, and not only believers to indwell in them, but also to unite believers together in the body of Messiah, the body of Mashiach. And we have read, if you remember, in Acts chapter 2, and we dealt with the first 13 verses in Acts chapter 2. Today, I would like to continue to continue in Acts chapter 2 and to kind of develop what we have had already before us in our last ministry meeting.

And from verse 14 to verse 36, we have there the first message that the assembly, that the ecclesia, that the church had proclaimed outside after the church was born, after the assembly was born. And so here we have, in Acts chapter 2, beginning from verse 14, the first proclamation that the believers, namely Peter, have proclaimed to the Jewish people in the city of Jerusalem. This is the first message that the church proclaimed. This is the first message that the church proclaimed. And Peter is the one that the Lord have used to present the first message. Notice that. Let me read that. In verse 14. In verse 14, we read. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice.

And he said unto them ye men of Judah, and all ye that dwelled in Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words. For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Yoel, and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God. I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And all my servants, and all my handmaids, I will pour out in those days of my spirit, and they shall prophesy.

And I will show wonders in heaven, heaven above, and signs on earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And now he continues in verse 22. Ye men of Israel, hear these words. Yeshua of Natseret, a man approved of God among you, by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, As ye yourself also know, him being delivered by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain, whom God has raised up, having loosed the pain of death.

For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope, because thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol, and neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to seek corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loyens according to the flesh, he would raise up Messiah, Mashiach, to sit on his throne. He, seen this before, spake of the resurrection of Messiah, that his soul was not left in Sheol, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Yeshua has got raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore, being by the right hand of God, exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has shed forth this which ye now see and heal. For David is not ascended into the heavens, but he saith of himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool.

Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made this same Yeshua, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Messiah, both Adon and Mashiach. And I'm stopping here with the reading of these verses, verses 14 to 36. We have here the message of Simon Peter, the message that he proclaimed. This is actually, brothers and sisters, is the first message that the church as a church, that the assembly as the assembly, have proclaimed. Now, it is very interesting that Peter was the one that proclaimed this first message. As we are speaking now about Peter, I would like you please for a moment to turn back to the Gospel of Matthew.

And I want to read just a couple of verses there in Matthew chapter 16. Please turn to Matthew, and look what we read in Matthew chapter 16, beginning from verse 13. I want to make the connection here, because there is a connection between what happened here in Acts chapter 2, to what the Lord Yeshua the Messiah said to Peter long before Yeshua died on the Roman cross. And so, Matthew chapter 16, we read in Matthew chapter 16, when Yeshua came into the coast of Gessariah Philippi. And he asked the disciples, and he said, "Whom do men say that I, the son of man, am?" And they said, "Some say that you are Yohanan Amatbil, others say that you are Eliyahu, and others say that you are Yirmiyahu, or one of the prophets." But he said unto them, "By whom do you say that I, the son of man, am?" And Shimon, Peter answered, and he said, "You are the Messiah, the son of the living God." Now, notice what Yeshua is saying to Peter now in the next verse, verses 17 and 18, and also verse 19.

Listen to this. And Yeshua answered, and he said unto him, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." And I said unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock, meaning the confession that Peter said, upon the confession, I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And he doesn't stop there. And he said to Peter one important thing here in verse 19. He said, "I will give unto you, Peter, the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." Now, this verse 19, we often neglect to read.

We often read the confession that Peter had made concerning Yeshua being the Messiah, the son of the living God, and concerning the statement that Yeshua had said to Peter that he is blessed. And upon Peter's confession, he is going to build the church, the assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. And it's true, because the gates of Hades are not going to prevail against the truth that Yeshua is the Messiah, the son of the living God, and that he built the assembly upon Peter's confession. But you notice what he said in verse 19. He said to Peter, "I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven." Now, what is a key?

Why do you need a key? We need keys in order to enter into or through a door, in order to open a door, in order to open something. That's why we need a key. And the Lord Yeshua the Messiah had given to Peter the keys, according to verse 19 in Matthew chapter 16, the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Peter was called by Yeshua the Messiah to open the door to both the Jewish people in Acts chapter 2, the Samaritans in Acts chapter 8, the Gentiles in Acts chapter 10, to enter into the kingdom of God. It was Peter, Shimon Petos, that Yeshua the Messiah used to give him the privilege of ministering the gospel message, first of all to the Jewish people, to his own brethren, secondly to the Samaritan in Samaria, we'll get to it in chapter 8, and thirdly to the Gentile nations of the world, beginning with Cornelius in Acts chapter 10.

And here you see, brothers and sisters in Acts chapter 10. And here you see, brothers and sisters, in the chapter in which we are studying today, in Acts chapter 2, how Peter, in obedience to the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, using the keys that the Lord has called him to use, to open before. Number one, number one, number one, number one, the Jewish people, his own brother in Acts chapter 2, the entrance, the privilege to enter into the kingdom of heaven, to be part of the church, of the assembly of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. So, here we find out, brothers and sisters, that Yeshua using Peter, in the power of the Holy Spirit of God, to be the first one that proclaims the message of the gospel to his own brethren, the Jewish people.

The first one, the first one, the first one in the church, the first one in the church. I'm sure Peter has spoken to many about the Messiah before Yeshua died. In his life, he must have been speaking to others before Yeshua the Messiah died, before he had been taken to heaven, before the Spirit of God came to form the body of Messiah, he must have been speaking to others. But here, we see him opening, using the key by proclamation of the gospel, and telling his own brethren the message concerning Yeshua the Messiah. Look at this how interesting it is here in this chapter, that it is strictly a Jewish man, a Hebrew man, an Israeli man speaking to the nation of Israel, to his Hebrew brethren, to his Jewish people.

Look, it says in verse 14, ye men of Judah. It says in verse 22, ye men of Israel. It says in verse 29, men and brethren. And brethren. It says in verse 36, house of Israel. He is speaking to his own brethren, the people of Israel. Remember, we are here in the feast of Shavuot, the feast of Pentecost. Here is where the Jewish people gathered from all the nations of the world. They came to the city of Yerushalayim. They were gathering around the temple. They were celebrating this important feast, important celebration that God has called the nation of Israel to celebrate. The feast of weeks. Where they will bring in the early labor, the fruit of their labor to the Lord.

And they will bring it, and they will celebrate before God. And they will give thanks to God for providing for them. So you see the city of Jerusalem, who usually at that time, some suggest that maybe had 200,000, 300,000 Jewish people there. But at the time where the church was born, on the feast of Pentecost, the feast of Shavuot, there may have been some suggest up to over a million, million and a half Jewish people who came from all the nations of the world to celebrate the feast of Shavuot. And so here he began three things he's telling them in this proclamation. The first thing he's telling them what happened.

The second thing he's going to tell them how did it happen. And the third thing that he's going to tell them is why whatever happened, have happened. So he's going to share with them what have happened, because they were all amazed. What is going on? What have happened there? Notice back to Acts chapter 2. And if you remember in verse 6, it says, "Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and they were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own dialect." Those Jewish people, Israelis, Hebrews, who were gathering from all over the world in the city of Jerusalem, when they have heard that noise, of what have occurred there when the Spirit of God came and formed the body of Messiah, who were there in the upper room, when they heard this rushing mighty wind, that noise of the Spirit of God coming, everybody came forward.

They were coming and they were astonished. What is going on? What have happened? So Peter, in verses 14 to 21, had to tell them what had actually happened. And you know, brothers and sisters, even today, if you want to talk to a Jewish person about Yeshua the Messiah, and share with them the Gospel message, you have to do a lot of explanation. You cannot just say, "Well, that's the thing that we always did, or we are now at church age, 2,000 years." You know, you cannot just tell them, "Jesus is the Christ, he died on the Roman cross, and he died for your sins, and you've got to be saved." You cannot just do it like this, even today.

And Peter, being a Hebrew, being an Israeli, being a Jewish man, understood that when he reaches his people, with the message of the Gospel, he has to do a lot of explanation. It takes a lot of time, you've got to bring concrete passages from the Word of God, to prove from God's Word, that truly Yeshua is the Messiah. And so look what he does. Verse 14 to 21, he began to tell them what had actually happened. So look, in verse 14, we read of him, "Peter," notice it says, "But Peter." It takes us back to what had already occurred earlier, because everybody came, have heard the noise, have seen the cloven tongues, they heard the languages that those Jewish people who believe in the Messiah spoke, so they were amazed, they were astonished.

And then Peter began in verse 14, and he stood up with the eleven, notice it says, "with the eleven." That teaches us already that Matthias, who was chosen by the apostles earlier in chapter one, was already accepted as one of the apostles. Now we are back to twelve apostles, Peter and the other eleven apostles. Peter is standing up, and he lifted up his voice, and I can tell you, he spoke in the Hebrew tongue, in the Hebrew language. There was no need for him to speak in all these other languages, because he was speaking clearly to the men of Judah, to the men of Israel, to the brethren, to the house of Israel.

He was speaking to his own people in their Hebrew tongue. Some suggest Aramit, but Aramit and Hebrew are very similar, very close, the same alphabet, and a very similar language. And I can assure you that this Hebrew language was part of the, and parcel of the language of the day. And so he was speaking with the men of Judah. Look what he said to them. He lifted up his voice, verse 14, and he said unto them, "Ye men of Judah, and all ye that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken unto my words." Listen to me, he is telling them. Because I am going to tell you the reason what has really happened here.

I am going to share with you what has really happened here in the upper room. What has happened here by the temple area, by the house there. The fact that something unique has happened. And so in verses 15 and 16, Peter is telling that what happened there is something that is similar to what Joel, the prophet, had prophesied already long before. He says in verse 15 and 16, "For these are not drunken, as ye suppose been, it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Yoel." You see, when they heard these Jewish people speak in various languages, some of them were mocking them in verse 13 and they said, "Well, these people are full of wine." You see, they were drinking and because they were drinking, they got drunk.

They were influenced by alcohol and therefore they are speaking all kinds of languages. Peter had to clear it up right from the beginning. "Listen," he said to them, "These people are not drunken. They haven't been influenced by alcohol. It is early in the morning." As he says here in verse 15, "It is really the third hour of the day." "It is nine o'clock in the morning." "Who is being influenced with an alcohol at that early morning?" And he's telling them, "Listen, they are not influenced. They are not drunken, these men that you see them or these individuals that speak." He says, "Not at all men of Judah." "He is speaking in Italian." "Not at all.

This is not why they are doing what they are doing. They were not influenced by alcohol. They are not being drunken. It is early in the morning." But he's telling them in verse 16, "But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Yoel." Now we need to be very careful here, beloved brothers and sisters, because over the years, for myself as a Jewish believer, I've heard that we even live in a time of Joel. Because many people claim all kinds of claims today that are amazing. They said, "Well, we live in a period of time of Joel." Now, Peter, as a Jewish man, speaking to his Jewish brethren about the Jewish prophet that spoke concerning the future of the Jewish nation.

He was not speaking yet about the church because Joel never knew anything concerning the church age. Joel was speaking concerning the period of time where Israel as a nation is going to be restored and recovered and being brought back to God that the Spirit of God will have a manifestation among the nation of Israel in coming days. And so he's telling them. He says, "Brethren," he's saying to them, "Listen, they are not drunken, but what you see here is that which was spoken by the prophet Yoel." In other words, now, when we take the word "that," it looks like it is actually what Joel said that that will happen.

And you will see that it's not what happened, what Joel said, but it really should be taken this way. It is similar work of the Holy Spirit of God that will happen in a future day to the nation as a nation. But right now, it happened in this present day to us. It is the manifestation. It is the work of the Spirit of God in a present day, in a present time. It's going to be similar to what will happen in a future day when Joel's prophecy is going to be fully fulfilled. Notice, he doesn't say, "This is the fulfillment of Joel's prophecy." He doesn't say there, but he said, "This is that which was spoken by the prophet Yoel." And now he began to quote Joel 2:28-32.

And notice now exactly what Joel said. He said, "And it shall come to pass in the last days." The last days. Notice that. The last days. Now, here in Acts chapter 2, we have the first days of the church age. What Joel was speaking concerning the future, it is in the last days of the restoration of the nation of Israel. And then he said, "In the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh." Notice, not some flesh, but all flesh. "And your sons," this is Israel's sons, "and your daughters," this is Israel's daughters, "shall prophesy, and your young men," Israel's young men, "shall see vision, and your old men," Israel's old men, "shall dream dreams." "And all my servants, and all my handmaids, I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy." "And I will show wonders in heaven above, signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapors of smoke." "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood," "before that great and notable day of the Lord come." "And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Now, brothers and sisters, it is important for us to rightly divide the word of truth.

It is very important. I tell you why. Because unless we are sticking to the word of God without being influenced from men's opinion and people's view, unless we are sticking to what Scripture says, we are never going to be able to understand clearly the Scripture. Now look, it is interesting that in Acts chapter 2, they were speaking in various tongues, in various languages. But you don't read in Joel any of these expressions about tongues at all. Here in Joel, he's speaking about that your sons and your daughters, they will see visions, and he's telling them that they will prophesy and so on. But here in Acts chapter 2, they were speaking in various languages.

Secondly, in Joel, you find out that the wonders will happen in heavens above. There will be the signs and in earth beneath there will be blood and fire and vapor or smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood. Where did this happen? In Acts chapter 2. It didn't happen. He doesn't say to them that this is exactly the fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel. No, Peter is saying to them, this is similar. The work of the Holy Spirit of God that will happen in a time of the end of the day. As Joel has spoken, it is also similar to it happened right here and now.

And that is important because in Joel, by the way, it is in the last days. In fact, it is called here, the day of the Lord in Joel chapter 2. The day of the Lord speaks of the tribulation period, the time of sorrow, the time of judgment, the time where God is going to deal with his own people to refine the nation of Israel in order to restore them and to judge the world in righteousness because of the rejection of the Messiahship of Yeshua. It is called here, the day of the Lord. It is called here, the day of the Lord, verse 20, before the great and notable day of the Lord.

These events will occur where blood and fire and sun, the sun will turn into darkness, the moon into blood. Now, you can read that actually in the book of Revelation between chapter 6 to chapter 19, where there will be those events that will occur here on earth during the tribulation period. Peter does not talk about the fulfillment of Joel prophecy, but what he really says, that just like the prophet Joel has spoken concerning the Spirit of God's involvement in the coming day, here is the similar work of the Holy Spirit of God coming to this earth. And this unique experience of believers that happened there, the cloven tongues upon the believers, the sound of a mighty Russian wind, and the languages that they have spoken, everyone could hear them in their own dialect, in their own tongues.

Then that's what Peter is proclaiming to his own brother in this chapter. So, he is very beautifully how he explained this to them. Verse 14, he is speaking to his own brethren. Verse 15 and 16, he is telling them what really happened. It's something similar. And verse 17 to 21, he is quoting the scripture. And you know how nice it is? Because, I don't know, he could have just quoted without to read it from the text. But I can imagine, remember, these are Jewish people in Jerusalem. They must have had the text, the scripture in their hand. And they were reading, he must have said, listen, ladies and gentlemen, dear brethren.

And he began to read to them from the Hebrew text. And oh, he memorized that, that he was able to quote that verse, word by word, what Joel has said. He quoted and he spoke this to his own brethren. And how wonderful. You notice that? Always the Bible is being brought to the surface. He always brings out the scripture. When you proclaim any message to anybody today, if you don't give them the scripture, you are missing something. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. We need to have the Bible with us. And if we don't have it with us, it's good to memorize the scripture.

So we will be able to give to a person the scripture for what God says. Not what we say, but what God says in his word. And that's wonderful. So in verses 14 to 21, he is telling them of this event that the Spirit of God, Ruach HaKodesh, have done a ministry here, a work of the Holy Spirit of God. And he presented it before his brother. He men of Judah. Later on, he men of Israel. Later on, men and brethren. Later on, the house of Israel. He is speaking unto his own brethren. And he's actually using the key that Yeshua had given to him. And he opened the door to the kingdom of heaven to his own brethren, the Jewish people.

So now, he didn't only tell them what happened. He's also telling them why what happened have happened. And that is the next verses, verses 22 to 36 that we have also read in this ministry meeting. Why this thing, what happened? And now how did this happen? What was the reason that the Holy Spirit of God descended and formed the body of Messiah? So how, he's telling them in verse 22 to verse 36. And he's telling them, the reason that the Holy Spirit could come down to this earth and do something such as this, is because the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, was raised and glorified and have gone to heaven.

And he's speaking now to them in verse 22 to 36. And he's telling them how that the Spirit of God could come to this world. So notice, verse 22, 23 and 24. Peter tells the man of Israel of the life, the death and the resurrection of Yeshua, the Messiah. The life, the death and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. This is important when we proclaim the gospel. You know, if you proclaim and I proclaim the gospel to anyone here, wherever we speak to someone, we must present to this person this truth concerning the death and the resurrection. The life and the death of the resurrection of Yeshua, the Messiah.

This is the full gospel. And so he began with the life. In verse 22, he says, Ye men of Israel, hear these words. Yeshua from Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourself also know. You see, he began to speak to them about Yeshua, about Jesus, the man from Nazareth. By the time that Peter was preaching to the first gospel preaching that we have of the church, of the assembly, everybody in Israel heard already about the man from Nazareth. Everybody has already heard about the miracle man, the unique man that lived his life here on earth in Nazareth.

And then ultimately died on a Roman cross. And look, he present the humanity of Yeshua, the Messiah. Yeshua, notice he said Yeshua of Nazareth. He said he was a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders. See what he's telling them. Look, I'm telling you about this man that you have heard about. You must have heard about him throughout the time that you have been living there, whether you came from Galilee or whether you were dwelling in Jerusalem and so on. And you must have heard about him in many other locations. He says, listen, I'm going to tell you about Yeshua from Nazareth.

He was a man that was approved of God. A man that gave pleasure to God. A man that God was satisfied with him. That's the man I want to tell you about, he's saying to them. He could have talked about Moses. He could have talked about Abraham. He could have talked about many others, but he's speaking about the one that was approved of God. Brothers and sisters, think about that for a moment with me. How God must have been pleased with Yeshua from Nazareth. How God, as it says here, he was approved of God. In every footstep he took, he gave glory to God. Every word that he took out of his mouth, he gave glory to God.

Everything he did, he gave pleasure to God. He was approved of God. It is the first time in the history of the human race where there was a man that never violated the word of God. And that totally pleased God to the fullest. That's Yeshua from the city that is called Nazareth. He was approved of God. God looked from heaven, if you remember in the gospel, and he said, this is my beloved son in whom I found all my delights. God found pleasure in Yeshua, the Messiah. And so he's saying to them, listen, he began with the life of Yeshua, the Messiah. He lived here a life that was pleasing to the Father.

That's why we have to learn from him. When we are occupied with him, we have to learn from him. When we look at each other, we find failure. When we look at each other, we find disappointments. When we look at ourselves, we find so much disappointment. But when we look at him, when we look at Yeshua, a man that had been approved of God among the nation of Israel. Miracles and wonders and signs. You know, you can take those three words, miracles and wonders and signs. All of them can be dissected. All of them can be divided and dissected. And you can just imagine in one aspect, there was the miracles.

In other aspect, there was the wonders. In other aspect, there was the signs of his person. Everything had been revealing who he was. The perfect man. The man of God's counsel. The man that was going to come to give life to this poor, wretched and miserable world. The Savior, the Messiah that was going to come. You see, it says here that he was a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you. And you know it, he said to them. See, he talks to his brethren. And he can talk to his brethren freely.

Because he was a Jew talking to the Jews. He was an Israeli talking to the Israelites. He was a Hebrew speaking to the Hebrews. And he can point to them and he can tell them directly what he knew very well. Because he was one of the nations. He himself have experienced failure in believing in Yeshua, the Messiah. And how the Lord had been so gracious to him and brought him to himself. So he says, you know it, brethren. He says, you know very well about this man that was a proof of God. The man from Nazareth. You know, up to today, many of our own people are wondering about this man from Nazareth.

They wonder. They ask, who is he? Who is he? What about this man from Nazareth that all these Christian world talking about? Who is he? Is he the Messiah? The man from Nazareth. What a man to be occupied. What a man. I mean, we can never cease to talk about this man who gave so much joy to a holy and a righteous God. We can see his purity. We can see his sinlessness. We can see his perfection. A man that was a proof of God. But now notice. He is moving from his life and pointing to his death. You see, you cannot avoid talking about the death of Yeshua, the Messiah.

He had to die. He had to give his life a ransom for many. He had to. He had to be judged the just for the unjust. You see, that's what Peter is telling the people of Israel, his own brother. And he says, listen, not only his life I'm going to talk to you about, but I want to talk to you about his death. I want to show you the importance of his death. So he's saying in verse 23, notice that him. Him. Him. He's talking about that one man, one person. Him being delivered by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God. You have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.

Now, beloved brothers and sisters, in verse 23, we have the two aspects of the death of the Messiah. On the one hand, he was delivered by God. God, in eternity past, in his plan for the redemption of this world, he knew the necessity of giving over his son, to give over the Messiah in order that there will be salvation to mankind. That's God's sovereignty. But he also pointing out here the man's responsibility. And he's saying here to his own brother, you have taken and by wicked hand have crucified and slain. Here in the context is the Jewish people are guilty in the death of the Messiah.

He's going to speak about the Gentiles in other passages that they are just as guilty in the death of the Messiah. But he's talking to his brethren. He's talking as a Jewish man to his own brethren, the Jewish people. And here in the context of Acts chapter 2, he is telling them, listen, God on the one hand delivered him with the foreknowledge of God. He delivered him to die, but also you are guilty in the death of the Messiah. You notice that, by the way, if you turn with me for a moment to 1 Peter chapter 1, I want you to see that it was not accident that Yeshua the Messiah died.

God knew that and planned it in eternity past that the Messiah will die in order to redeem people to himself. In 1 Peter chapter 1, he said in verse 18, 19, and 20. "For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Mashiach, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." And then verse 20, "Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you." See, Peter understood from God, with the help of the Holy Spirit, that Yeshua the Messiah was foreordained before the foundation of the world to be delivered unto death.

Long before Adam and Eve were created. Long before sin had entered into this world. Long before Satan had tempted Eve and Adam disobeyed the word of God. Long before the fall of man and the judgment of God in the flood. Long before God had called Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to be his people. In eternity past, before creation. God determined, because of his foreknowledge, he knew that the Messiah will die in order to redeem a fallen creation. We didn't catch him by surprise when sin came into this world. God did not all of a sudden say, "Oh, you know, aye, aye, aye, look what happened. Something had just happened and men fell into sin in the garden of Eden." We didn't catch God by surprise, according to Acts chapter 2, where Peter is speaking in verse 23.

He says, "God, him, he being delivered by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God." God knew that all along. You see, he's appealing to his brother. He's telling them, "Listen, God knew that the Messiah will be delivered, that he will die." But he also want them to feel it in their own hearts. And when he told them, "You have by wicked hands have crucified and slain." Now, you know, brothers and sisters, the Jewish people never crucified anyone. The means of crucifixion was a Roman means of death. Israel, the Jewish people, always stoned. If somebody was guilty, they would storm. But here you see that there is the accusation or the clear-cut saying that even though the Roman soldiers, the Romans actually crucified the Messiah, but their guilt upon the nation came because they have rejected the Messiahship of Yeshua.

They have rejected the men. And when I say they, it's not all Israel, but the leadership, the religious leaders. Many, in an earlier part, and you will see that later on, have acknowledged that Yeshua was the Messiah and received him. But the leading element of the nation of Israel rejected the Messiahship of Yeshua. In this text, as I mentioned before, it's the Jewish people. In other texts, you will find out that the Gentiles are just as guilty in the crucifixion of Yeshua the Messiah. You and I are guilty in the death of the Messiah because of our sin and our sins. And so, he spoke about his life, the perfect life of the Messiah.

He spoke about his death, the death of the Messiah, in verse 23. But now he is speaking about his resurrection. You see, we have a full gospel. The life, the death, the resurrection of the Messiah. And that's what he is speaking about in verse 24. And notice that, in verse 24, whom God had raised up, having loosed the pain of death, because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. You notice that? He was approved of God, verse 22. He was delivered by God, verse 23. He was raised by God, verse 24. It is of God, everything. God knew that, knew the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah.

And so, we read here in verse 24 that God had raised him up. Now, if the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, was not raised up, there was no gospel to proclaim. If he was not raised from among the dead, there would not be any gospel to proclaim, brothers and sisters. We have nothing to give to the world from God unless we have a presentation of the resurrected Messiah. He is no longer in the tomb. He is no longer on the tree. He had been taken, he died, he was buried, and God had raised him up, having loosed the pains of death. In other words, the tomb became a womb.

The tomb is where he was held, and in the pain of death, he was delivered like a woman who would bring forth a child into the new birth. The birth is a resurrection of the Messiah. And here he is telling us in verse 24 that he raised him from among the dead by loosing the pain of death, because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. Why it was not possible that the Messiah would be holden of the grave? Because it would not be just to put the Messiah and to leave him in the grave because he had no sin. The wages of sin is death, but there was no sin in Yeshua the Messiah.

So it was not possible to hold him there. God had raised him up from among the dead, because God was satisfied with the finished work of Yeshua the Messiah. Paul said this like this in Romans chapter 4, the last verse of Romans chapter 4, he said, "He was delivered for our offenses, but he was raised for our justification." Romans chapter 4 and verse 25. The resurrection of the Messiah was necessary to give justification to everyone that had accepted him as his or her Lord and Savior. So here we see verse 22, 23 and 24. People tell the people of Israel, Peter telling them of the life, death and resurrection of the Messiah.

Now he doesn't stop there. And now in the next verses, brothers and sisters, verse 25 to 28. He is quoting again a passage from the Bible. That's what I love to see that when the early believers in Yeshua, they always went back to the Bible. They always went back to the Hebrew scripture. And here he does the same thing in verses 25 to 28. What does he do? He is quoting the Psalm that we read today, Psalm 16. He is quoting Psalm 16 and he is specifically quoting the last portion of Psalm 16, verses 8 to 11. And let me read those verses to you. Verse 25. For David speaks concerning him. I foresaw the Lord always before my face.

For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall rest in home. Verse 26. Because thou will not leave my soul in Sheol or in hell or in Hades. Neither will thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Verse 28. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life and shall make me full of joy with thy countenance. He is quoting in those verses, verses 8 to 11 of Psalm 16. And he is mentioning David, David, the king of Israel, was a very important figure in the history of our nation. David was the man that was after God's own heart.

He was the sweet psalmist of Israel. He was the one that was the first king of Israel that was elected and chosen, not by man, but by God himself. And David, he spoke concerning the Messiah in the Psalms. And he says here, David, and he's quoting these verses in verses 25 to 28. And he's quoting the last portion of Psalm 16. And really the words that David spoke in Psalm 16 actually are the words concerning the Messiah of Israel, Yeshua himself. And Peter, what David wrote, he applied it to Yeshua the Messiah. And he said, I foresaw the Lord always before my face. And then he said, for he is on my right hand that I should not be moved.

Notice he says, I foresaw the Lord always before my face. You know, we cannot say that that's speaking of David, because David could say, I foresaw the Lord sometimes before my face. You and I can say, you know, I'm really looking to the Lord sometimes in my life, not all the time. Sometimes I deviate, sometimes I fail, sometimes I'm not looking to the Lord, not having him before my face. But there was only one man that it could be applied to. I foresaw the Lord all the time before my face. Yeshua said in John chapter 4, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.

Everything in his life characterized the will of God. Everything he did in his life was totally in submissiveness to God. And so he was quoting this song. And now in the next verses, he's explaining what he just read to them in Psalm 16. Remember, they didn't have the book of Acts. They didn't even have the Gospels yet in their head, but they had the Tanakh, the Old Testament. So he's taking and reading to them from the Tanakh, from the Old Testament. And he's expounding to them. He's explaining to them what the Holy Spirit of God meant when he used the words of David in Psalm 16. And so he's explaining to them in the next verses, verses 29 to 33.

And so he's calling them again. Now the third time he's calling them brethren. See now, men and brethren, or verse 29, is not brethren in the faith as yet. Because they haven't yet come to acknowledge Yeshua as their Lord and Savior. Yet they will, many of them later on. But here he's calling them men and brethren. They were Achim, they were his brethren in the flesh. They were Jewish people. They were Hebrews. They were Israelis to whom he proclaimed the message of the Gospel. And he's telling them men and brethren. Achim, my brethren. He's saying to them. Let me freely speak in verse 29 of Acts chapter 2.

And to you of the patriarch David. That he is both dead and buried. And his sepulcher is still with us to this day. You know, the tomb of David actually existing even up to this day. If the Lord will enable you to come with us on one of the visits to Israel, you're going to see that up till today you have the tomb of David there in the city of Jerusalem. When Peter was speaking, David was still dead. And he was buried. And his sepulcher was still with them unto this day that Peter was preaching. David did not speak of himself, but David spoke of another.

In verse 30, he's saying, Therefore, being a prophet, knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loyens, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne. Now, you know why David could speak about the Messiah? Because David was not only a king, we often think of David being the king of Israel, and it's true, he was the king of Israel. But according to Peter, David was also a prophet. He received a prophetic word from the Lord to proclaim to the nation. And one of the prophetic words that he proclaimed concerning the Messiah was Psalm 16.

And in this psalm, he was not speaking of himself, but he was speaking about the one that was going to come to become the Messiah, the Messiah of the nation of Israel and the Redeemer, the Savior of this world. The deliverer that will pay the penalty for sin, that he will deal with the problem that the human race had. And so, David, listen, as he says in verse 30, being a prophet and knowing, notice that, he said, knowing that God had sworn with an oath unto him. You know, David knew that God promised him a promise. He swore unto David, that of the fruit of David's loins, according to the flesh, that he would raise up the Messiah to sit on David's throne.

And so, the promises of God. See, God promised Abraham. God promised Isaac. God promised Jacob. God promised Moses. But God also promised David. That the Messiah will come one day. That he will bear the sin of the nation of Israel and the sin of this world. God made an oath unto David. That out of his loins, out of his physical seed, out of his seed will come the Messiah who will reign, who will rule and will sit on the throne of David. And when God make a promise, he keeps his promises. All the way to the end. I want you to see where he promised to David.

I'm not going to read all the passages, but if you turn with me for a moment to Psalm 89. Just turn to Psalm 89. And I want to read the verses there. Psalm 89, beginning from verse 20. And so we read in verse 20 of Psalm 89. "I have found David my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him." God is saying. "With whom my hand shall be established. Mine arm also shall be strengthened him. The enemy shall not exec upon him, nor the son of the wicked afflict him. And I will beat down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him.

And in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry unto me. Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also I will make him my firstborn higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him forevermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure forever. And his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgment. If they break my statutes and keep not my covenants.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stride. But nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him. Nor suffer my faithfulness to faith. My covenant will I not break. Nor alter the things that is gone out of my lips. And now notice verse 35 and 36. Once I have sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure forever. And his throne as the sun before me. See God made an oath. God made a promise. I have once have sworn in my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure forever.

David knew that. Because God had made an oath with him. He promised him. And so when he was writing Psalm 16. He was actually applying it to the Messiah. That out of the fruit of his loin the Messiah will come. And will reign and rule. And will sit upon his throne. And so he is saying. My brother is speaking to the people of Israel. Israel. He is saying about David. He says. I want you to know that David. He is. The Patrick. He is dead. He is buried. And his sepulcher is with us unto this day. But he being a prophet. And he knows. God has sworn him with an oath that of the fruit of his loin according to the flesh.

He would raise up the Messiah to sit upon his throne. And so he is telling them here in this verse. In this verse. He's seen this beforehand. He spake of the resurrection of the Messiah. That his soul was not left in Sheol. Neither his flesh did see corruption. Now you notice the two aspects. You see. The soul. And the body. The soul in Sheol. In Hades. In the place of the departed spirit. The flesh is in the tomb. And now. His soul was not left in Sheol. And his body was not left in a grave. He was raised from among the dead. And as man.

Totally man. He lived in his resurrection here. And he gave instruction to the early Hebrew believers. Before he was ascended and have gone unto heaven. So. He is speaking of the prophet David. Of the king of Israel. David. Who prophesied concerning Yeshua the Messiah. And let me give you the conclusion here. To the first preaching. Of the church. Of the assembly. Of the Kehillah. To the Hebrew people. To the nation of Israel. In the city of Jerusalem. He concluded here. In verses 32. All the way to 36. When he was speaking. That this is Yeshua. What David was speaking about. It is this Yeshua. That was raised from the dead.

Who was the one. That is the promise. That is the promise. Of Messiah. In the next verse. Verse 32. He is saying. This Yeshua has God raised up. Whereof we are witnesses. Verse 33. Therefore being at the right hand of God. Exalted. And having received of the Father. The promise of the Holy Spirit. He has shed forth this. Which ye see now. And hear. See. Who is just telling them. Look. Oh. What I have told you up to now. What you have seen here. When you came. To see these individuals there. Speaking in various languages. Proclaiming the greatness of God. It is really a fulfillment. Of the coming of the Holy Spirit.

Because Yeshua the Messiah. The Messiah rose. And being ascended. There. Into heaven. What had happened. The Spirit of God came. How did it happen. That the Spirit of God came. The Messiah finished the work. And he was ascended. And he was taken to heaven. That's how. The Holy Spirit of God. Could come down. To this world. And to form. The body. Of Messiah. And I conclude. With these verses. It says. In verse 34. 35. And 36. For David is not ascended. Unto heavens. But he said. Of himself. The Lord said. Unto my Lord. Sit. Thou. On my right hand. Until I make. Thine enemies. Thine foots. See. David could not speak.

Of himself. He did not go. To heaven. He is still. In the tomb. He is still. In the grave. He is still. In the midst. Of the nation. Of Israel. In the grave. He did not speak. Of himself. He was not raised. From among the dead. But he is speaking. Of Yeshua HaMashiach. Jesus. Our Lord. And our Messiah. Who rose. From among the dead. And was seated. At the right hand. Of the majesty. On high. David of course. David wrote. Psalm 110 also. Which Peter. Quoting here. The Lord said unto my Lord. Sit down. On my right hand. Until I make. Thine enemies. My footstool. David is writing.

He says. The Lord said unto my Lord. Jehovah said unto Adonai. My Lord. My master. Sit down. On my right hand. On my right hand. David was writing. On my right hand. David was writing. Of the fact. That Jehovah. Said to Yeshua. Sit on my right hand. Until. I'm going. To make. Your enemies. Your footstool. And so. Truly. The Lord. Has not only raised. Yeshua. From among the dead. But he placed him. At the pinnacle. Of the universe. And he told him. Sit down there. Until he's going to make. His enemies. His footstool. And then he concludes. Now. In the last verse. Verse 36. Peter is calling.

To the house of Israel. To repent. And that's what you and I. Need to do. When we proclaim. The message of the gospel. We need to tell people. Listen. You need to repent. You need to turn your heart. To the Lord. You need a savior. You need a redeemer. And so. He said in verse 36. Therefore. Let all. The house of Israel. Know assuredly. That God. Has made. This same. Jesus. Whom. Ye have crucified. Both. Lord. And. Messiah. Let you all. House of Israel. Know assuredly. That this same. Jesus. And then again. Notice he mentioned. Which you. Have crucified. Now. We know. They didn't crucify the Lord.

It is the Roman soldiers. Who crucified the Lord. But the guilt. And the responsibility. Of accepting. The Messiah. Lying. In the hand. Of all Israel. Just as much. As in the hand. Of all. The Gentile world. We are all guilty. In the death. Of the Messiah. And he challenged them. He says. Let all. The house of Israel. Know. That this. Saint Jesus. Whom. Ye have crucified. God. Had made. He both. Lord. And Messiah. Christos. Mashiach. Messiah. He is your Lord. He should be your Lord. And he is also. The anointed one. The Messiah. The Messiah of Israel. And the Savior. Of. This world. So. Brothers.

And sisters. We talked about today. What happened. The Spirit came. How. It happened. Because. Yeshua. Finished the work. Yeshua died. Was buried. Was raised. And ascended. And now. The Spirit of God. Came. To. Form the body. Of Messiah. To enable. Jew. And Gentile. To be part. Of this. Assembly. The only thing. One need to do. To be part. Of this assembly. Is to acknowledge. The Lord. Jesus. The Messiah. As he. Or her. Lord. And Savior. May we do so. And I trust all of us. Here in this room. Have done so. But many more. From our own families. And our own friends. And others. Should.

Accept the Lord. Jesus. As the Lord. And Messiah. And be part. Of this family. Which we call today. The family of God. Ecclesia. The church. Amen to them. Amen. Amen.