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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 222-36 Peter Preaches about Jesus

• Acts 222-24 Men of Israel, hear these words
  Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you
  by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did
  through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also
  knowHim, being delivered by the determined
  purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken
  by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to
  death whom God raised up, having loosed the
  pains of death, because it was not possible that
  He should be held by it.
• Notice the audience men of Israel
• From whence did Jesus come and was this what the
  Jews expected?
• His credibility as a man by miracles, wonders
  (inexplicable) and signs is noted what the Jews
  needed but questioned the source (Mark 322)
• which God did through Him in their midst all
  around them
• which they know eido (factual knowledge)

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 222-36 Peter Preaches about Jesus

• Him (this one man, emphatic pronoun), being
  delivered perfect passive
• by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of
  God
• Rom 14 - and declared (determined) to be the Son
  of God with power according to the Spirit of
  holiness, by the resurrection from the dead
• Rev 138 - All who dwell on the earth will
  worship him, whose names have not been written in
  the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the
  foundation of the world.
• foreknowledge prognosis (Isa 531-12)
• And Peter appears to be attributing His
  crucifixion to the men of Israel (ye - plural),
  but some texts omit ye have taken.
• and by lawless hands outside of the Law of
  Moses wicked
• But each one of us can personalize this too cant
  we Rom 58 I Pet 318
• But then it was in Gods hands
• raised up and loosed the pains of death
• Describe the pains of death

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 222-36 Peter Preaches about Jesus

• impossible for Him to be bound like the rest of
  men
• Then how do we interpret John 1018 - No one
  takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I
  have power to lay it down, and I have power to
  take it again. This command I have received from
  My Father.
• Acts 225-28 - For David says concerning HimI
  foresaw the Lord always before my face,For He is
  at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.
  Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was
  glad Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.
  or You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will
  You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. You
  have made known to me the ways of life You will
  make me full of joy in Your presence.
• This is Psalm 168-11 in the Septuagint.
• The Greek translation of the Hebrew in the 3rd
  century B.C.

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 222-36 Peter Preaches about Jesus

• In this Psalm David spoke of God as being at his
  right hand, a figure for close association and
  powerful assistance. Peter saw Jesus' presence in
  heaven at God's right hand as an extension of
  what David had written. Constable
• Notice the hope and joy of both David and Peter.
• Heart rejoiced and tongue was glad
• Spared from Hades, the place of departed spirits
  (O.T. Sheol).
• In the Greek Hades is tbe absence of light
• The statement that the body would not suffer
  decay expressed the belief that God would keep
  him (us) from ultimate humiliation.
• Rev 3013 - The sea gave up the dead who were in
  it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who
  were in them. And they were judged, each one
  according to his works.
• The right hand was a place of dignity and honor.
• Matt 2021 - And He said to her, What do you
  wish? She said to Him, Grant that these two
  sons of mine may sit, one on Your right hand and
  

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 222-36 Peter Preaches about Jesus

• the other on the left, in Your kingdom.
• that I might not be shaken (moved) Psalm 622,6
• Overall these verses point to Christ's
  resurrection and enthronement.
• You have made known to me the ways of life You
  will make me full of joy in Your presence.
• The resurrection life
• Phil 41 - Therefore, my beloved and longed-for
  brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the
  Lord, beloved.
• Acts 2 29-32 - Men and brethren, let me speak
  freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is
  both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to
  this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing
  that God had sworn with an oath to him that of
  the fruit of his body, according to

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 222-36 Peter Preaches about Jesus

• the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on
  his throne, He, foreseeing this, spoke concerning
  the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was
  not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see
  corruption. This Jesus God has raised up, of
  which we are all witnesses.
• Notice that Peter is speaking freely!
• The patriarch (a pedigree, head of the fathers),
  and Davids tomb is on Mt. Zion I Kings 210,
  Neh 316
• And unlike Jesus, David is not resurrected.
• But the promise through the prophet David of the
  Lord Jesus Christ and His resurrection is quoted
  here by Peter
• Psalm 13211 - The Lord has sworn in truth to
  David He will not turn from it I will set upon
  your throne the fruit of your body
• Psalm 893,4 - I have made a covenant with My
  chosen,I have sworn to My servant David Your
  seed I will establish forever,

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 222-36 Peter Preaches about Jesus

• and build up your throne to all generations.?
• How much more evidence does the skeptic need?
• And note, not stated is that Jesus is sitting on
  Davids throne, an earthly not heavenly place.
• Two different thrones II Sam 711-16
• This in verse 32 refers back to this one man in
  verse 22.
• And we, men of Israel, are the witnesses (Acts
  18 also)!
• Acts 233-36 - Therefore being exalted to the
  right hand of God, and having received from the
  Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured
  out this which you now see and hear. For David
  did not ascend into the heavens, but He says
  HimselfThe Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My
  right hand, till I make Your enemies Your
  footstool? Therefore let all the house of Israel
  know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom
  you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 222-36 Peter Preaches about Jesus

• Therefore whats it there for?
• David is in the tomb and the Lord Jesus Christ is
  exalted
• The Holy Spirit has been given which they could
  see and hear
• The Lord Jesus Christ has been triumphant over
  death and positioned at the right hand (Psalm
  1101 Heb 13)
• For Israel He is both Lord (Kyrios) and the
  Christ (Christos)
• Kyrios Messiah with power, master, sovereign
• John 172 - You have given Him authority over
  all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as
  many as You have given Him.
• Eph 120-22 - which He worked in Christ when He
  raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His
  right hand in the heavenly places, far above all
  principality and power and might and dominion,
  and every name that is named, not only in this
  age but also in that which is to come. And He put
  all things under His feet, and gave Him to be
  head over all things to the church,
• Christos Messiah, the anointed one
• And the house of Israel is responsible for all
  they know and have experienced.
• As we are too Rom 323!

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