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<div class="SSN_title">"WHAT MEANETH THIS?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE QUESTION IN THE MINDS OF THE JEWS WHO HAD GATHERED TO OBSERVE THE HOLY SPIRIT COMING ON THE CHURCH WAS "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Peter finally answered their question with the statement, "God has made this same Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jesus is Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus is the Messiah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Paul wrote to the Philippians that God has given Him a name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, in the whole universe and every tongue will confess that Jesus the Messiah is Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. This was the first message preached by the church anointed by the Holy Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It was an exposition of the scriptures.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It was centered on the person of Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE EFFECT OF THE MESSAGE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It brought great conviction. "Their hearts were pierced."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The great need in the church today is preaching that pierces the heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There is a notion that we should water down the gospel to make it more palatable to everyone.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The whole new movement in the church today is to develop a seeker-friendly church.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. No feeling of conviction for sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Messages that entertain, laced with humor and pop psychology.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Paul exhorted Timothy:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ti',4,2);">2TI 4:2</a> Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ti',4,3);">2TI 4:3</a> For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ti',4,4);">2TI 4:4</a> And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. It brought them to an awareness of their need. "What shall we do?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE STEPS TO SALVATION AND FORGIVENESS OF SIN.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Repent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is more than just saying, "I'm sorry." Godly sorrow often leads to repentance, but sorrow alone is not repentance.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Someone has suggested that true repentance is being so sorry that you never do it again.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. This was the message of John the Baptist. Repent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. This was the message of Jesus. Repent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Paul told the Greek philosophers on Mars Hill that the God who was unknown to them had created them, and in Him they lived and moved and had their existence. And that He had commanded all men every where to repent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. This must mean that the world is in a need of change, and I would concur with that.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. The God who has created us is holy, righteous, just, pure. He demands that of his creation, if they are to fellowship with Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Hbr',12,14);">HEB 12:14</a> Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Mat',5,8);">MAT 5:8</a> Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Peter is not here giving a new baptismal formula as some maintain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus gave the baptismal formula in <a onClick="return mV('Mat',28,19);">Matthew 28:19</a>; Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. In the Greek, Peter is literally saying that they were to be baptized (epi) upon the name of Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Baptism signified a change of lifestyle. The death of the old ways and the birth of a new lifestyle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. One of the rituals in proselytizing into Judaism was baptism. No longer a Gentile, now a Jew.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. John's baptism was the repentance from sin by the Jews, and to live a life of dedication to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The baptism unto Jesus was the acknowledgement of the change in the mind concerning Jesus Christ. In that you now acknowledge Him as the Messiah, and that you will seek not to live controlled by your flesh, but by the Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. For us it is the death to the old life after the flesh and a new life governed by the Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. THE RESULT, "YOU WILL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This is the general progression into the Christian life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It begins with repentance and baptism.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There is then the receiving of the Holy Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In the house of Cornelius the order was changed, there was first of all a repentance, they received the gift of the Holy Spirit, then they were baptized.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C."For this promise."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. What promise?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Peter is no doubt thinking back to the promise of Jesus to the disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they had received the promise of the Father which I have told you about. For John baptized with water unto repentance, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit in a few days.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. To whom is the promise made? "For this promise is unto you and to your children, and to those who are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This should silence all of those who say that the gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased with the death of the last of the Apostles.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Again the promise of the Holy Spirit being poured out on all flesh was a promise of the last days, days that would continue to the days of the Great Tribulation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Days until that which is perfect has come. [But when that which is perfect is come] Does come; or shall come. This proposition is couched in a general form. It means that when anything which is perfect is seen or enjoyed, then that which is imperfect is forgotten, laid aside, or vanishes. Thus, in the full and perfect light of day, the imperfect and feeble light of the stars vanishes. The sense here is, that "in heaven" - a state of absolute perfection - that which is "in part," or which is imperfect, shall be lost in superior brightness. All imperfection will vanish. And all that we here possess that is obscure shall be lost in the superior and perfect glory of that eternal world. All our present unsatisfactory modes of obtaining knowledge shall be unknown. All shall be clear, bright, and eternal (from Barnes' Notes).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Adam Clark Commentary: [But when that which is perfect] The state of eternal blessedness; then that which is in part - that which is imperfect, shall be done away; the imperfect as well as the probationary state shall cease for ever.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Zodhiates: To Teleion, perfect, in the neuter means the complete one in contrast with that which is in part. To Teleion therefore indicates the ultimate goal of heavenly perfection as contrasted with the immediate and merely partial experience of saints on earth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Thayer The perfect state of all things, to be ushered in by the return of Christ from heaven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. Alford Unquestionably the time alluded to is the time of the coming of the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. There are many today who try to twist the text to mean that "That which is perfect is a reference to the full canon of scripture." They take this position for they desire to deny the validity of the gifts of the Spirit for today. They talk about the Greek language and to teleion being neuter. Thus, they say that it cannot refer to Jesus. It refers to the perfected state we will experience when Jesus will come again. With this, every truly great Greek scholar I have read agrees.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. This means that the promised gift of the Holy Spirit is for us today who have been called by God.</div>
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