Can you turn with me to Acts chapter 3, and beginning from verse 11, we are going to continue to speak about this man that was healed in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah by the gate that is called the beautiful gate in the temple in Jerusalem. Beautiful passage we had in our last ministry meeting in the first 10 verses we talked about the fact that this man was sitting at the beautiful gate the entrance into the temple and there the Lord met his need through his servants Peter petros Shimon petros and John Yohanan i want to read from verse 11 today. We'll read to verse 18, only those verses for this ministry meeting today.

And follow me, please, because I begin in verse 11. We're going to deal with the results and what's happening here after the healing of this man. It says in verse 11, And as the lame men, which was healed, held Peter and John, all the people went together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon, greatly wondering. And when Peter saw it. He answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so earnestly on us as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the God of our fathers has glorified his son Yeshua whom he delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go, but he denied the Holy One and the just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God had raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

And in his name, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know. Yea, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers, but those things which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that the Messiah should suffer, he had so fulfilled. Let me repeat verse 18 once again this is a very important verse it says there but those things which God before had shown by the mouth of all his prophets that Christ Christos Mashiach Messiah should suffer he had so fulfilled let's stop here with this reading of this portion now mind you brothers and sisters what we see here in this passage is that the beginning of the second message of the assembly the church the ecclesia to the people around in this case of course just like it was in the first case it is the message that was directed by the apostle Petrus Peter to his own brethren, to the nation of Israel.

This is the second message, actually, of the proclamation of the gospel of our Lord Jesus the Messiah to the church, to the assembly. And of course, the Lord is using Peter here in this second time, in chapter 3 of the book of Acts. Now, if you look back, if you remember what happened as we have been looking into these first 10 verses of chapter 3, if you remember, a miracle had happened. The miracle was that at the hour of prayer, when the believers were going to the city of Jerusalem, to the temple, to pray in a certain section of the temple, there were Jewish believers there coming together to pray to Yeshua the Messiah, to pray to God the Father, to acknowledge the Messiahship of Yeshua.

On their way into this time of worship, into the place of worship, they have met that man. We don't read of his name, we only read about a certain man, which was, as it says here in verse 2 of Acts 3, he was laying from his mother's womb, and we looked later on in chapter 4 and verse 22, we find out that this man was for 40 years already in this condition. And what we found out, that as he was sitting there expecting to receive some elms, some money from everyone that was passing by, Peter and John were looking to him, and one of the most beautiful statements, Peter said to him, silver and gold have I none, but in the name of Yeshua the Messiah, rise up and walk.

Peter said to this man, listen, I cannot give you money. I'm not going to give you money, but what I do have in the name of Yeshua, the Messiah, get up and walk. And a miracle happened. This man that was lame for 40 years, all of a sudden his ankle was strengthened. He was able to get up and walk and we find out that he was walking and leaping and praising God. He was praising God because of what happened to him. Can you imagine 40 years to sit in one place not able to walk can you imagine what it meant for this man it's amazing and we have made the spiritual implication for you and i because you and i are being characterized here by this man unable to walk unable to stand unable to walk right with God to enter into the presence of God and here we see a man in such a condition and a change happen not only a physical change but also a spiritual change what a wonderful story an event that have occurred and as we have noticed that it was in the name of Yeshua there is power in the name of our blessed Lord Jesus the Messiah so now look what happened after the healing of this man in the next verses not only that we have power in the name of Jesus of Yeshua we also see that there is a preaching that we see here about the name of Yeshua the Messiah there is power but.

There is preaching here we see Peter now begin to preach about what can happen through the name of Yeshua in one's life and so the first verse that we have read in verse 11 we notice what happened is that the multitude of people ran to Peter and John when these events have occurred you see it says in verse 11 and as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Shlomo Solomon's porch you see people have been affected by that now if you would be sitting here in the city or walking by the city and you're walking by and you see a person that was begging for money all year round and then you're coming one day and you see the very same man is no longer sitting at the corner of the street or the corner someplace in downtown and all of a sudden you see this man that a change happened to him he's walking.

He's singing he's praising you will immediately wonder how did it happen you might ask him what kind of medication you have taken where did you go to get into this situation but of course these people in Yerushalayim in Jerusalem at the temple they did not ask him what doctor you have gone to but they realized it's a miracle have happened this man that for so long time was sitting begging for money now he's running now he's praising now he's leaping so they came and they notice it says the man which was healed held Peter and John now this man holding Peter and John and you can just imagine walking together into the temple to worship the Lord so what happened all these men all the people ran together unto them and you know this way it happened it happened in the porch that is called Solomon's porch the porch is some of the extension of the temple mount in the temple area and various porches that existed in the temple mount and one of these places called.

Here in this verse the porch that is called Solomon's porch this expression by the way is mentioned elsewhere also in the gospel of John turn to John chapter 10 and you notice this expression John 10 and verse 23 and it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication and it was winter and Yeshua walked in the temple in Solomon's porch you see that porch that location area here there there was a location that is called Solomon's porch Yeshua the Messiah himself when he was alive before his crucifixion he was walking in this area the disciples came to study with him in this area at the temple it was a place when believers were gathering together in that area which is called Solomon porch we find Yeshua the Messiah in the feast of dedication there in the feast of hanukkah we find him there at Solomon porch so you see what happened that here in our chapter act chapter 3 in verse 11 all of the people came together why because when they.

Enter into the temple through the beautiful gate the porch that is called Solomon's porch was there and the people went to them it was like a little corridor where believers came to worship maybe it was a place that only the believers in Yeshua went to worship there while others have been in other porches and other corridors on the temple mount this porch or this Solomon porch is mentioned also if you turn quickly to act chapter 5 and verse 12 you will notice that there it also says that by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrote among the people and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch you see that porch that corridor first were occupied by Yeshua the Messiah and the disciples in his life but the believers continue to visit this porch and many signs and wonders happening here in this location in Solomon's porch and this man now been walking with Peter and John into Solomon's porch and all the people.

Were gathering there together they ran together unto them in that porch now they must have been amazed they're running after Peter and John well they were looking at them perhaps as miracle workers they were expecting well if this man could be healed maybe something can happen to me in my life and you know how it is even in the present day situation where we find out when we hear a lot of things when a preacher came to town and many people were talking about healing and wondering that happened everybody's going after everybody's going there to get some kind of a proclamation some kind of healing for themselves.

But notice what Peter does. Peter does not point to the healing, but he's pointing to the healer. Peter is not pointing to the experiential issue here, but he's pointing to the person of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. And brothers and sisters, that's what people need today. Number one, it is not, even though we all would love to have healing in our bodies, But the needs that we all have, that man has, is healing for the soul, is healing in the right relationship with God. Men need to be right with God because if a man is not right with God, he or she will be eternally separated from God because they did not come to know the Lord Jesus, the Lord Yeshua, as their Lord and Savior.

And here Peter began his second preaching, proclamation of the person of the Lord from the time that the assembly, that the church, that the ecclesia had begun. And so we see Peter direct his message to his own brethren, the people of Israel, concerning the name and the person of Yeshua the Messiah. I tell you, brothers and sisters, if there is anything that we need to say to our own people, the Jewish people, the people of Israel, is to direct the message to the person of the Lord and to present the truth of the gospel to the nation of Israel. And look what Peter does. Look at the boldness that we see in him.

While in other chapters, at the end of the Gospel of John, we see him hiding and not telling his association with Yeshua. Look what happened here. Here is totally different. Here you see that Peter, with boldness, with the strength of the Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, preaching the message of the Gospel to his own brethren. Concerning the finished work of Yeshua the Messiah so look what he began in verse 12 Peter pointing out that it is not by his own power that gave healing to this man look it says in verse 12 and when Peter saw it he answered unto the people and look what he says ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this?

Or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or by our own holiness or godliness we have made these men walk? You know, the first thing that Peter wanted to set straight is that it is not him who made Abel the man that was sick to be healed he needed to straighten this out and that's why he said to them and he called them and I love this expression because he says ye men of Israel if you look in chapter 2 and verse 14 he says ye men of Yehudah, of Judah. And here he go beyond just the name of Judah but he's looking at the whole nation.

He says, ye men, M-E-N of Israel, of Israel, of the whole nation. And he's saying to them, look, twice he used the word why in this verse. Why are you marveling at this? Why are you so surprised? Why are you in such an array? Why are you running after us? He says why you are doing it second why he says why you look so earnestly on us two times he used the word why he's asking them questions he says why are you so surprised secondly why you look at us as if we have done what happened to this man in our own power in our own strength why do you look at us it reminds me of what John the baptizer that Yohanan Amadbil have done when the leaders of Judea came down to him from Judea to the Jordan and they were asking him all kinds of questions.

And you remember what Yohanan says, John the baptizer said? He said, I'm a servant. He said, I am not the Messiah. He said, I'm a voice crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord. John, Yohanan, could have attracted everybody to himself and said, look at me. Look at me, I am that promised one. But John did not do it. John directed the attention from himself to the person of Yeshua the Messiah. That's what every person, every servant needs to do. It is so essential for us not to direct the attention to ourselves, but to direct the attention to the Lord Jesus the Messiah.

Because after all, who we are. Who we are, we are nothing but servants. And so Peter did it in a nice way. He answered the people, he said, ye men of Israel. And you know, when he was talking to the men of Israel, he was himself a man of Israel. John was himself a man of Israel. The lame man was himself a man of Israel. It is a brother talking to his brother. It is a countryman Israeli talking to his countryman. It is a person that belonged to the nation who is talking to his own nation. He was speaking his heart out to his own brethren.

And he's saying to them, Ye men of Israel, why are you marveling at this? Why are you surprised? And why you look so earnestly on us? You know, this expression, earnestly suggests that they looked at them like they were some kind of people who came from the moon or somewhere. Some people that, miracle workers, they looked at them as if they said, you are my answer. Peter said, I'm not your answer. Your answer is another. Your answer is Yeshua, is Jesus, the Messiah. And he's going to point to it in a moment. But the thought that we have here in these verses, it is in Peter's second message here.

And he's saying to them, listen, don't look at us. Don't be surprised. We are not the one that have caused these men to walk in our own power. It is not us. I'm amazed and rather sudden when someone think that he is the source of all the power to make people, to enable them to do certain things. Beloved brothers and sisters, there is no man on the face of this earth that is the one that does things in his own strength. All our attention had to ultimately set aside for myself and focus on the person of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. This word holiness in verse 12 can be also used the word for godliness where he says why look ye so earnestly on us as though by our own power or holiness or godliness we had made this man to walk don't look at us he was saying to the men and people that came from the nation of Israel that ran towards them and that's what he was saying to them here in verse 12 now in the next verses verses 13 14 and 15a Peter is pointing out to the denial of Yeshua by his own brethren the nation of Israel.

Of course, he did it from his heart. Sometimes I hear people preach about Israel's rejection of the Messiah, but it seemed to be so heartless, so careless, in fact, so pointing the finger and to say, you have the guilty. But Peter, if you can feel his heart here as he's preaching the message to his own brethren, and he including himself by calling them. Notice in the next verses. First of all, verse 13, Peter says, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his son Yeshua, whom he delivered up, and here's this expression, and denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go.

Now in verse 13, he's mentioning this wonderful statement, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. This first time mentioned in the Bible, in the book of Exodus chapter 3, when Moses was told by God to go to bring the nation of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses asked God, when I'm going to go and to tell them that you sent me, what am I going to tell them? Who sent me? And God himself used this expression to Moses. You go to tell them that the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, The God of your fathers have sent me unto you. This statement, by the way, is known today and recognized and spoken of by Jewish people all over the world.

When we talk about the God of Israel, the God of the Bible, we always have a reference to the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Abraham is the one that God has called, first of all, out of Ur the Kasdim. He called him out. And it is Abraham's son Isaac that was the promised son. And Jacob is the father of the nation. Notice, it's not the God who used to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But he's the God of the living. He's the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And so he's expressing to the nation and he's saying to them, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And then he is including himself when he says, the God of our fathers. You see, Peter, even though he became a believer in Yeshua, the Messiah, he recognized that the nation of Israel, the Jewish people, who did not come yet to believe in Yeshua, they were part of the promises of God. And Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was their father just as much as Peter's father. John's father, the lame man who was healed, his father. He recognized this and he's preaching to his own brethren and he's saying to them, Listen, ye men of Israel, he says, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.

And then he's telling them what he has done. He's saying to them, he had glorified his son, Jesus, Yeshua. You remember that in the first 10 verses of this chapter, Peter was saying to this man who needed to be healed, he said, in the name of Jesus. Now he's saying to the people who were coming to him to see what had happened, he's saying to them, God have glorified his son, Jesus, Yeshua. He's speaking about the same man, the same name. And in this case is a reference to the humanity of Yeshua. You see he had glorified Yeshua who is the son of God the son of the father God had glorified him God had been satisfied with his work and he glorified him not only that he died and was buried and he rose but he had glorified him that's what he's really focusing here on the fact that God glorified you know this is exactly what happened man crucified God glorified men rejected God's son God the father elevated God's son men hated him and despised him God loved him and found pleasure in him you see the difference and now Peter is directing what he's saying to the people to their conscience and to their hearts you know many times we hear some say you know don't speak to the conscience and the heart don't make people feel guilty but you know with what Peter does here he wants them to sense to feel it in their hearts and the conscience the guilt of the rejection of the Messiah you know you and I did the same thing when we have accepted the Messiah.

We realized that we were guilty a holy God found you and I guilty he found us wanting short of what he demand for men and because of the guilt that we have he needed to judge us but he judge another instead of us so we will be delivered from the judgment that we deserve to receive and so Peter is saying to them God have glorified his son Yeshua and now notice in the next verses verse 13 he is telling them look what happened you have denied him you have delivered him and you have killed him these are strong words from a Jewish believer to say to a Jewish person who is not yet come to faith in the Messiah look and i'm rereading this again verse 13b he said to them whom ye have delivered up this is number one then number two and you have denied him in the presence of pilot when he was determined to let him go in verse 14 and ye deny the holy one and.

The just and desired and murdered to be granted unto you in the first part of verse 15 and you have killed the prince of life. Now these are strong words coming out of the mouth of Peter to the people whom gathered around after the healing of this man. Now I want to point out something here that is very sad and yet very important. You notice that he says in this verse whom ye delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go. Now, if you turn with me for a moment to Matthew chapter 27, let me just point out to what had occurred there when Yeshua was on the way to the cross.

In Matthew chapter 27, it says in verse 15, Now at the feast, the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner whom they would. And they had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas. In Hebrew, by the way, it's Bar Abba. The word Bar means son, the word Abba means father. It's actually the meaning of the name of this man is son of the father. And then it says in verse 17, Therefore, when they had gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Bar Abba, or Yeshua, which is called the Messiah? For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

And he was sat down on the judgment seat, and his wife sent unto him, Have you nothing to do with this just man? For I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Bar Abba and destroy Yeshua. The governor answered and he said unto them, he said, whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Bar Abba. Pilate said unto them, what shall I do with Yeshua, which is called the Messiah? They all said unto him, let him be crucified. The governess says, why?

What evil has he done? But they cried out more and they said, let him be crucified. And Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but rather a tumult was made. He took water and he washed his hand before the multitude saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person, see you to it. Then answered all the people, and they said, his blood be on us and on our children. Now this is so sad when you read this occasion when Yeshua was before Pilate in the judgment hall. And you can see how influenced people have been by their leaders. You know, we are often influenced by those who lead us.

We can be influenced to good, and we can be influenced to bad. In the case here of Matthew chapter 27, you can see that those multitudes, it was only a small area, you can only put maybe a few hundreds or so, maybe a thousand, I do not know. But those people that were there were influenced by the leaders as we have read in Matthew chapter 27 notice that the chief in verse 20 the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask bar abbas and destroy Yeshua the ordinary individuals who were following their leaders. They were influenced they were persuaded by the leaders to accept to ask for bar Abba to be release and to allow Yeshua to go to the tree and so you see what happened here and it is so amazing how man is by nature instead of accepting the true son of the father they have taken the one that his name also only is Bar Abba son of the father and they rejected the true and living Messiah of the nation of Israel.

Peter in Acts 3 make a point to the people directing it to their conscience and to their heart to show to them what has really happened here. Pointing to them you have denied him you have delivered him up and ultimately you kill him. Now you and I know very well that the Jewish people didn't kill Yeshua the Messiah Yeshua the Messiah did not die by the hand of the Jewish people the Jewish people don't put people on crosses it was a Roman way of execution the people of Israel, the Jewish people used to stone but there is an element of responsibility that Israel as a nation have by the very fact that as a nation they didn't accept their promised Messiah that's what God is saying we as a nation the nation of Israel were called by God and promised by the Scripture that the Messiah will come in the fullness of time and the nation of Israel need to accept the Messiah but the nation rejected headed up by the leadership of the nation the leadership of Israel and Peter empowered by the Holy Spirit of God he's saying to them and he's including himself as part of the nation saying that he is the God of our fathers he glorified Yeshua his son but you and now he's separating himself in that sense.

He does not include himself there because he has accepted the Messiah and that's why he said to them you delivered him up verse 13b you have denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go and ultimately he said you have denied the holy and the just and you decide a murderer to be granted unto you. Now, this preaching we cannot do today to anybody here in town because Peter is directing it to the nation of Israel 2,000 years ago when the events of the Messiah events and him being there and he lived there and he walked there and he walked among his own people and he died outside of the city of Jerusalem.

Peter is speaking, this preaching is a direct ministry of a brother to his own brethren. In a proper time. Today, of course, we cannot in the same way speak to everybody else, yet we present the message of the gospel so the Spirit of God will convict individuals to recognize their denial of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. And so he's saying to them, you have delivered him, you have denied him, and ultimately you have killed him. And while they did not kill him by their hands, they have killed him by the rejection of the Messiah and handing them over to the Romans who literally have killed the person of the Lord on the Roman cross now look let us be careful and realize that while Peter speak here about the responsibility of the nation of Israel we know very well that the guilt of putting the prince of life to death is the responsibility and the guilt of all the human race we all have a responsibility in placing him on the cross on a tree it is for all of our sins that he had to go to the cross and die let me show you two verses that i want us to point to.

Paul also speaking about the death of the Messiah and in first corinthian 2 he says this verse 7 speaking to the Corinthians and he says to them but we speak of the wisdom of God a mystery even the hidden wisdom of God ordained before the world unto our glory and then verse 8 which none of the princes of this world knew for had they knew it they would have not crucified the Lord of Glory let me revise it if they knew this wisdom of God they would have not killed the Lord of Glory and who does he refer to the princess of this world see Paul is showing to us that all the princess the leadership of this world at that time of course he has a reference to the Roman leadership of this world he says look if they knew the mystery the hidden wisdom of God which God have ordained before the world unto his glory and to our glory he said none of these princes of this world knew because if they have known it they wouldn't have killed.

They wouldn't have crucified the Lord of Glory you see Peter is giving the accusation to the nation of Israel Paul is presenting the accusation to the leadership into the princess of the whole world in being guilty in the death of Yeshua the Messiah let me show you another point that i think is important also to put in here if you go back to Acts this time act chapter 4 look how the early believers prayed what understanding that they have had in Acts 4 in verse 26 and 27 the Kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his anointed for of a truth against thy holy child Yeshua whom you have anointed both Herod and And Pointless Pilate and the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together to do whatsoever your hand and your counsel had determined before to be done.

Here we see the guilt of the whole world. Herod, Pontius Pilate, the Gentile, the people of Israel, all gathered together against the Lord, against the Messiah to do what God had already planned and knew in the past, before the world was. And so, brothers and sisters, what we do see here, that Peter is directing the accusation to his own brethren, the nation of Israel, but we have to realize that the guilt of the death of the Messiah fall upon every person upon the face of this earth. It is for my sins that Yeshua died. It is my guilt that he had to go to the cross to die for me.

And you have to say it. He died for my sin and sins. And those hands of ours actually have placed him on the tree. You understand, he says, you have killed the prince of life. By the way, this expression, the prince of life, has to do with the author of life, the originator of life. You see, what happened when people don't realize that Yeshua, that was hanging on the tree there, is the author of life. He is the originator of life. Not only physical life, but also eternal life. He is the originator. He is the one who gave life to mankind. In chapter 17 of the book of Acts, we read in whom we live and move and have our beings.

Do you know that he is the one that gives to every individual the very fact that we can breathe today? By Him He is the originator of life. In fact, when the Bible says, and when God breathed into His nostrils and man became a living soul, it is this one, the one that became a man, the God-man, the one, the Son of God who became a man, He is the one, the source of life. You know, we are here in the meeting room today. How do you think we came here? How do you think we got up in the morning today? The very fact that we got up in the morning is because someone who is the source of life gave us life.

We are breathing today, right now, we are standing and sitting here in our meeting here today. We have, our lives have been given to us by the originator of life, but not only the physical life, but also the fact that He gave us eternal life. We read in John chapter 17, Yeshua Himself said, You have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as had you have given unto him. You know, Yeshua is not only the originator of the physical life that we have and we live here, but he is the originator and the giver of eternity, of everlasting life to mankind.

And that's what he's saying to them. You have killed the originator the author of life you have placed him you have allowed him to be taken to the cross to the tree that's what he's saying to them and so what we really learn here in those verses those three points in verses 13 14 and 15a they delivered him they denied him and they killed him that's what really happened and that's what Peter is pointing out and we all have to realize and apply it to ourselves and recognize that we are all guilty for the death of Yeshua the Messiah but now you understand in the next verses verse 15b and 16 you see the other side while man is guilty in denying and rejecting and killing the Messiah?

We see the sovereignty of God, God's side. And look, and I'm reading, it says in verse 15b, Whom God had raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses. God raised him from the dead. Now look at the difference. Men kill him, God raised him. Men deny Him, God glorify Him. Men despise Him, God acknowledge Him and present Him before the world. Look at the difference. That's why when we ask somebody, what do you think about Jesus? What do you think about Yeshua? What is your opinion about Him? Well, all kind of opinions people have, but God in His Word has one opinion. Thou art my son, this is my beloved son, in whom I found all my delight, God is saying.

And so he raised him. Now, it is important, the resurrection, and you notice that in the preaching of the gospel, in the preaching, in the proclamation of the word of God, the resurrection of the Messiah is essential. The Bible is filled with truths concerning the resurrection of the Messiah. And that's why we read that God had raised him in verse 15b. God had raised him from the dead. He says, we are witnesses of his resurrection. You remember? Because in Acts chapter 1 and 2, those disciples have experienced speaking with him after his death and burial. They've gone to the tomb. And he says, he's not here, he's risen.

So they have experienced that we are witnesses. Listen, brethren, we have been there, we have seen him, we have handled him, we have touched him with our own hands, brethren, they are saying, really? We are witnesses of the resurrection of the Messiah. And then he's saying, in the next verse he said, And his name, through faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom ye see and know. Yea, the face which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. You see, Peter pointed in the fact that faith in the risen Messiah made this man where he is right now.

Faith in the risen Messiah gives you and I right standing and right relationship in the presence of God. The resurrection of the Messiah is essential. No resurrection, no hope. No resurrection, no glory. No resurrection, no salvation. That's what we have studied in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, where some people say, well, there is no resurrection of the dead. Well, Paul said to them, well, if the Messiah was not risen, you are still in your sins. Peter is saying, listen, we are witnesses of his resurrection. God have raised him from the dead, and we are witnesses to this. In chapter 2 and verse 32, he spoke before in the first preaching, he said, This Jesus, God, has raised him up.

We are all witnesses, chapter 2 and verse 32. We are witnesses of the resurrection. In chapter 5 and verse 30, he said, God of our fathers raised up Yeshua whom he slew and hung on a tree and God have exalted him at his right hand and so on he preached about the resurrection of the Messiah he was raised and you know I don't have to tell you dear brothers and sisters Peter and Paul did not have the book of Acts they were enacting the book of Acts when they were preaching. So what did they base the fact of the resurrection of the Messiah? They based it on the basis of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Tanakh, Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim, the law, the prophets, the writings.

And that's why we read, remember when we read Isaiah chapter 53, when it says, he shall see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied now how can you see of the travail of your soul and be satisfied in Isaiah chapter 53 you cannot see the travail of your soul and be satisfied if you are in a grave and Isaiah chapter 53 speaks about the suffering of the Messiah. And especially in verse 10, where it says, Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has put him to grief. When you shall make his soul an offer for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

You see yeshayahu the prophet of Israel 750 years before the Messiah Yeshua came have prophesied concerning the resurrection of the Messiah just as much as he prophesied concerning his suffering and the death of the Messiah he prophesied about the resurrection of the Messiah David says in Psalm 16 and verse 10 where he was speaking about the resurrection of the Messiah and he said there in verse 10 of Psalm chapter 16 David said these words he said for thou will not leave my soul in sheol neither will thou suffer thy only one to see corruption in other words my soul will not remain in sheol and my body will not remain in the grave to see corruption, but I will be resurrected from among the dead.

And I want to tell you that Paul said in Romans chapter 4, the last verse of Romans chapter 4, Paul said he was delivered for our offenses and he was raised for our justification. You see, if he was not raised, we will not be. Justified. He was raised in order that you and I, the believer in Yeshua the Messiah, will be declared by God justified. That's what we learn here from these verses. So in our chapter, and I'm back to Acts chapter 3, here the apostle Peter is pointing out the fact that he was raised. God have raised him from among the dead God was so pleased with his son that he raised him from among the dead and then in verse 16 he says in his name through faith in his name he has made this man strong whom you see and know yet the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

You know, brothers and sisters, faith is essential. We never seen him. We never touched him. But faith, believing, trusting, accepting what God says in his word concerning the work of the Messiah is what God demand and expect from every man. And this person simply believed. When Peter said to him, in the name of Yeshua, the Messiah, rise up and walk, he believed. And when we learn that it was not merely something that Peter said, but there was a response from this man when he believed. Here is the verse where it says in verse 16, this man, yeah, he said, the face which by him has he given perfect soundness in the presence of you all, he simply believed.

Forty years sitting there at the beautiful gate, 14 years being lame, helpless and hopeless. The only hope that he had is accepting the message that Peter has said in believing in Yeshua the Messiah gave him soundness, gave him forgiveness, gave him salvation. Now finally, quickly, in the last two verses here, verse 17 and 18, Peter pointing out to Israel's ignorance, meaning that the people have done it not intentionally, but they were misinformed. And that's why he's calling that, in verse 17, he says, Now, brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. Notice he called them brethren. And interesting, these words for brethren, Achim in Hebrew, He doesn't call them brethren in Messiah, but it is brethren as part of the family of the nation of Israel.

They are physically brethren, physically descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You know, he puts them on the ground of the men slayer rather than on the ground of a murderer. That's beautiful. If you look in the Old Testament and you will notice that God gave Israel, If a person has killed unintentionally someone, God has provided cities of refuge that the manslayer will flee and be preserved there until the high priest died. So he will not be punished for something he did not do intentionally. You see what Peter does? You remember, he does something very similar to what Yeshua did on the tree. Yeshua said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Now listen, man knows what he does when he does evil and wrong. You know what you do when you do something wrong. I know what I do when I do something wrong. We do it anyway. So what God does here, he placed them on the ground of a man slayer rather than of a murderer. Instead of saying, you murderers, he said, you did not know what you are doing. You did not think what you're doing he put them on the ground of a manslayer he opened for them the city of refuge and the city of refuge is none other than the person of Yeshua the Messiah who become the city of refuge here for this individual he said to them brethren he said i know that through ignorant you and your rulers have done that and then he telling them listen but But those things which God beforehand showed by the mouth of all his prophets, what did he show?

That the Messiah should suffer has to be fulfilled. The sufferings of the Messiah was already proclaimed by the Hebrew prophets in the Tanakh in the Old Testament. Have declared this to the Hebrew prophet and he said to them listen the Messiah will come but before he is going to enter into his glory he is going to suffer and to die be rejected so he is saying to them the human side you denied him you rejected him you have killed him the divine side God have already knew that and he proclaimed it through the prophets of Israel long before the Messiah have come he says those things which God notice beforehand showed by the mouth of all his prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel if you read those prophets that glimpse of the fact that the Messiah would come and suffer and die and what we read today Isaiah chapter 53, clear chapter of the sufferings of the Messiah.

All we like sheep have gone astray, Isaiah said. We have turned everyone to our own way, but God laid upon him the iniquity of us all. Clear chapter that deal with the suffering of the Messiah. The Messiah should. Suffer, he had so fulfilled. Psalm 22, Psalm 69, I mean we can just go throughout the Scripture and we can read the proclamation of when a Messiah is going to come, he is going to suffer. Before he's going to enter his glory, he is going to suffer first. And God had to fulfill it. It is important to understand that a Messiah must suffer and die before he's going to be resurrected ascended and glorified he must come first to be rejected and he will come second to be accepted he come in the first time in humility he's going to come in the second coming in power and in authority but he had to fulfill what God had promised in the Scriptures and the last verse i'm reading is first Peter chapter 1 verses 10 and 11 where saint Peter said of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you and they searched what manner of time the spirit of the Messiah which was in them.

Did signify when he testified beforehand of the sufferings of the Messiah and the glory that should follow the Hebrew prophets prophesied concerning the sufferings of the Messiah and the glory that should follow. Well, we are thankful to the Lord that Peter preached such a message to his own brethren. When he's preaching, he's just speaking to us, and every one of us can say today, Lord, I am guilty of your death. The reason that you died, you died for my sins. But thank God for your willingness to come and to pay this penalty for my sins so I can be delivered and have hope beyond this world.

Praise God for the finished work of Christ, of the Messiah.