Proclaiming the Power of Christ's Resurrection

I call your attention to this sermon because it is most vital and important that we should do so here is the first sermon that was ever rarely preached under the offices of the Christian church as we know her until this point there had been these followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and these special people known as disciples or apostles. [00:60:36]

The World tendency today is to start with the men in the street the Modern Men the Modern Men of whom we are told that he's now of age he's grown up the modern secular men that's where they thought they say it's no use the judge going on preaching these old truths the people are not interested they've got a new mentality. [00:88:36]

I don't find any concern on the part of the Apostle Peter to say things that are going to please his audience I find rather boldness I find him attacking them I find him reprimanding them I find him speaking with Assurance with confidence and with an absolute certainty his position is not that if he carefully prepares his case and his argument. [00:80:72]

The Apostle Peter relied for the efficacy of his message not upon his ability to conform to his audience but upon this holy ghost that had entered into him that's his power That's the basis of his assurance what else do we notice well we notice at once the extraordinary content of this message and here is again something which is very striking. [00:87:59]

Peter instead of speculating about the nature and the being of God expounds the Old Testament and reports the facts with which you and I are familiar in the pages of the four gospels and the early chapters of the book of the acts that's what he does and he Blends them all together and he does it as I say with an extraordinary boldness. [00:101:16]

God the Everlasting inscrutable Eternal God has revealed himself to man he's done so through the Patriarchs to whom he spoke and manifested himself he did so in a very special manner to A Man Called Moses he'd done it previously to Abram and to Isaac and to Jacob and then very especially to this men Called Moses God not not only did that he created a nation for himself. [00:109:52]

God revealed this he revealed it in the Garden of Eden the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpent's head and he went on revealing it God formed this nation of the Jews he said to Abraham look here when Abraham was 99 and his wife Sarah was over 90 God said to them you're going to have a son and in him shall all the nations of the Earth be blessed. [00:129:31]

The Old Testament is just this it is a constant repetition of this great announcement that God is going to send a mighty deliverer who is going to rescue and redeem Fallen Mankind from the condemnation and the wrath of God and the power of the devil and evil and sin God's going to do it that's what he promises right through the Old Testament. [00:135:03]

The resurrection that finally proves that he is this long expected Messiah you see Peter does that in this way he takes that 16th Psalm listen he says David speaketh concerning him I forsaw the lord always before my my face he is on my right hand that I should not be moved therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh shall Rest In Hope. [00:186:77]

David did die and David did get buried in a grave and his soul did see corruption and his body corrupted in a grave his Seiler is still there what's it mean then oh he says therefore being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that out of the fruit of his limes according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. [00:193:19]

The Jesus Who Rose from the grave on that first Easter morning is the Lord of Heaven and Earth he is seated at the right hand of God waiting until his foes shall be made his foot stol this is Christianity my friend not your speculation as to the being and the nature of God not you new morality which tells you to read Lady Chatterley's Lover and indulge in filth. [00:246:53]

There is only one way of Deliverance and of Salvation it is to call upon the name of the Lord if it is to believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that he came into this world in order that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life you believe that you cry out unto him you give yourself to him you get up and you follow him. [00:263:27]