Building His Kingdom

20220721 Act 2:22-32 Resurrection Power!


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Christ as Lord
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Act 2:22 (ESV) “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—
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Act 2:23 (ESV) this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
Act 2:24 (ESV) God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Remember what Jesus said to Martha on the way to Lazarus‘s tomb…
Joh 11:25-26 (ESV)
Heb 2:14-15 (ESV)
Jesus is NOT just a great “spiritual warrior” in conflict with Satan. Jesus is the Creator God in the flesh!!
Joh 1:1-4 (ESV)
Look how it all ends…
Rev 19:19-21 (ESV)
Rev 20:1-3 (ESV)
Rev 20:7-10 (ESV)
This is the Christ who offered himself up to be crucified! No mere man – Almighty God in the flesh!
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It is no wonder then that all of the apostles focus on the resurrection – the clear illustration of the power of God over the thing mankind sees as the ultimate end and most often fears most: DEATH.
David was given prophetic insight…
Act 2:31 (ESV) he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Act 2:32 (ESV) This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
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Peter’s next sermon…
Act 3:15 (ESV)
15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
Peter’s closing statement…
Act 3:26 (ESV)
26 God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
Peter’s declaration before the Sanhedrin…
Act 4:10 (ESV)
10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.
Apostles before the Council
Act 5:30
Peter to Cornelius
Act 10:40
Paul and Barnabas at Antioch
Act 13:30
Act 13:33–34
Act 13:37
Paul before the Areopagus
Act 17:31 (ESV)
31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Jesus is NOT just a great spiritual leader. He is the Creator God in the flesh!!
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Building His KingdomBy Darryl Byle