October 7, 2010

This is the Story You Must Know and Be Able to Tell
Acts 2:22-33 (MSG)

"listen carefully to these words. . . .

This Jesus, following the deliberate and well-thought-out plan of God, was betrayed by men who took the law into their own hands, and was handed over to you. And you pinned him to a cross and killed him. 24 But God untied the death ropes and raised him up. Death was no match for him.

“This Jesus, God raised up. And every one of us here is a witness to it. 33 Then, raised to the heights at the right hand of God and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out the Spirit he had just received. That is what you see and hear. Acts 2: 22-24, 32-33 (MSG)

Pastor’s Blog

Are you able in your own words to tell someone why the Gospel story is good news?
Today’s passage is worth learning to the point where you can explain it to someone else.

God loves the world and everything and everyone in it. So much so that He planned from the beginning to send his Son to confront and defeat all sin, evil and even death itself on the cross. He took evil’s best shot, died, but then just got up again. He just got up again.

And now he rules the world and gives His Spirit to all believers, all believers, none left out. It is this Spirit of God in you which works within to grow you into Christlikeness.

These are the facts. Tomorrow’s scripture and reflection explains how to get in on it.

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