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Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’ Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”  (Acts 2:37-38)

To model the Model Church we find in Acts 2 we must be committed to Jesus’ Great Commission to be His witness to everyone, be filled with the Holy Spirit, believe in the Latter Day outpouring of the Spirit with signs following, and preach Jesus Christ and the gospel of His death, burial, resurrection, exaltation and consequent baptism with the Spirit. And the fact that the gospel demands a public response. Any church that is a Bible church must call for a response to the word preached. What is the proper God-ordained public response to the gospel? This is crucial. To be saved we must respond to the gospel in the way God says to respond.

The first response to the gospel is the cutting of the heart. When you really hear the gospel it will produce what the old-timers used to call conviction of sin. That’s exactly what is going on in this passage. They heard Peter preach the gospel and “they were cut to the heart” and wanted to know what they should do. Has the gospel ever cut you to the heart? Salvation is a matter of the heart. The gospel must penetrate your heart in order to provoke a response of unconditional surrender, such as is voiced in this question, “What shall we do?” You tell me and whatever it is, I will do it. That’s unconditional surrender to do whatever the preacher of the gospel calls for.

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This is the third message on the importance and power of our spoken words.

I want to begin this particular chapter reminding us of the purpose of human beings. Man was created and saved to be like God, to be the visible representative of God on the earth and to have dominion over this world (Gen.1:26-27; Rm.8:28-29). God showed us from the beginning that He gets things done (creation and salvation) by the spoken word. He spoke and things happened. Being in the image of God, we get our cue to how our dominion is exercised. It is by the spoken word. God did it and He created us to do it. Every healing Jesus did was by the spoken word (Mt.8:2-3, 5-10, 16-17). He spoke to demons and they left people’s bodies. He spoke to winds and waves, and they obeyed Him. He is not only our Savior; He is the model man into whose image God is making us. That’s why we are called Christians.

I closed the last chapter by looking at the fact that the devil listens to the words we speak. In Mt.17:14-20 we have the story of Jesus healing a sick demonized boy by speaking to the demon. When the disciples asked Jesus why they had not been able to do that, His answer surprises people. He said something totally unexpected. Most people think He should have said, “Because I am God and you are not.” He did not say that. Nobody likes what He did say. And I do mean nobody. “Why could we not cast it out?” So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief.” Nobody would dare to say that to someone today, but Jesus did! But He didn’t say it to the sick boy or his father. Never say such a thing to sick people. Jesus spoke this word of unbelief to His disciples. It’s why they couldn’t cure the boy. Workers need to get rid of all unbelief. Even Jesus didn’t do many miracles in Nazareth because of their unbelief.

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9/21/2025 Sunday evening

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“God has made this Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

The church modeled after Acts 2 must have the exaltation of Jesus as its main message and mission.

Some prophecies given by God through His prophets are universal, applying to every nation. “In the Last Days I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh” is one of those. But some prophecies are specific to Israel, though they have worldwide implications. God gave prophecies (we call them promises) to Abraham and David. To Abraham He said he would have a people and a place for those people. Those people are called the nation of Israel and that place is also called Israel. Those are God’s ancient promises, prophecies, and place.

After preaching about the universal promise of the outpouring of the Spirit in the Last Days, Peter zeroes in on the prophecy given by King David. God made a promise to David that one of his descendants would rule over the house of Israel and of his kingdom there would be no end, either chronologically and geographically.

In the context of Acts 2, Jesus had been raised from the dead, so Peter quotes the prophecy given to David (Acts 2:25-28), then proceeds to explain that this prophecy was not really about David but about his son and eternal heir to his throne. Here’s where we enter our text of Acts 2:29-37. David’s tomb was a tourist attraction when Peter was preaching. His bones were still in his grave. But what David was really prophesying about was the resurrection of Christ, the son of David. Jesus answers that prophecy of Psalm 16 in Acts 2:27,31.

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September 17th at 6:30pm

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Sunday Evening 9/14/2025

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This godly man’s death on September 10, 2025, was a political assassination for sure. He was deeply involved in politics. The last thing he did before he was killed was to throw MAGA hats to the 3,000 students who had gathered for his Turning Point USA rally at a Utah university. He was known by world political leaders. Charlie was a patriot.  But the war he fought for the soul of America is not a political war; it’s a spiritual war. And our weapons are not bullets and bombs; they are words, words of truth and words of God, which Charlie was brilliant in using. But his death was more than a political assassination. He was martyred for his faith.

Above all the political savvy of this man, to the core of his being Charlie was a Christian, an evangelist for the Christian faith. For over a decade he preached Jesus Christ and he did it in the most hostile environments in America, at our state universities. He knew they were being inundated with WOKE and anti-American ideologies that would eventually destroy the U.S. and multitudes of souls. He was a modern day Stephen right out of Acts 7:54 - 8:4. The impact of his martyrdom is probably unequaled in American history. The assassinations of JFK and MLK, as horrible and important as they were, did not match the effect of Charlie’s death.

At the time of his death there were about 2,000 chapters of TPUSA in the country. Within days there were more than 36,000 requests from high schools and college campuses to begin chapters. In London, England, “upwards to a million people” took to the streets, carrying enormous pictures of Charlie, marching in solidarity with him and his message of free speech. In Seoul, Korea, hundreds of thousands marched in the streets singing, “We are Charlie Kirk” and carrying huge pictures of him over their heads. Through social media many world leaders expressed their sorrow for his passing. College and NFL football games showed pictures of him on their screens, asking for a moment of silence in honor of his passing. Same with MLB.

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   “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.” Therefore, your sin remains.”

According to Jesus, the sins of these people in John 9 remained unforgiven and alienated from God, because they said the wrong thing! They said they saw, but they didn’t. Their words condemned them.

I am basically a verse-by-verse teacher of the Bible. I’ve preached virtually through every book of the Bible like that. But I love to do doctrinal studies as I am going. That’s where I dive deep into one verse or topic in the book I’m teaching through and speak on a topic in a passage. It takes four or five skips through the water for the rock to finally sink into the pond. Doctrinal teaching is sinking down deep into the waters of Scripture. I once watched a hawk dive down into a lake trying to catch a fish. It took him seven tries before he came up with lunch. We are going to be like the hawk in our study of the power of the spoken word, our spoken words. We are going to dive and dive until we get something we can really chew on, some meat for the mature.

It took Donald Grey Barnhouse eleven years to preach through the book of Romans on the radio. Eleven years! He would take a verse and like putting the pyramid of the rest of Scripture on top of it, he would pour the rest of the Bible into that verse. I don’t think I’m going to take 11 years to teach through the book of John, but I’m well on my way to taking a very long time. This is my 45th chapter in it.

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Sunday Evening Speaker: Kim Trujillo "Stay in Your Lane"

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Sunday Sermon 9/7/2025 The Gospel According to Peter - Acts Chapter 2 

Peter didn’t write one of the four gospels in our Bible, but did write two epistles and he did speak the gospel in that precedent setting Acts Chapter Two. If today’s church is to model itself according to the Bible it must always include the gospel of Christ that Peter preached here in its simplest form ever. Only the gospel of Christ produces salvation for it is “the power of God unto salvation.” (Rm.1:16) This is the Good News in its purest form.

In Acts 2:17-21 Peter gives us an exposition of the Last Days. In the last chapter I gave an overview of the Last Days, which includes the Life of Jesus on the earth, the outpouring of the Spirit which produced the Church Age in which we are still living (v.17-18). It also includes the Great Tribulation (v.19-20) before the Second Coming of Jesus and His Millenium Kingdom on the earth. He finishes his quote from the Prophet Joel with the good news that “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (v.21)

The gospel always assumes that everyone is lost to God and needs to be rescued. Why is that? Because “All have sinned and the wages of sin is being dead to God.” If you realize you are “without Christ, having no hope and without God in the world” (Eph.2:12) you know you need to be saved from your sins. The good news is “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Who is the Lord he is talking about and what is His name? Peter tells us. This is the gospel by which we are saved. There is no other gospel of forgiveness by God with the power to forever change your life and eternal destiny. There is “no other name given to me by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

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