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JESUS OF NAZARETH
TUESDAY, JULY 21
Acts 2:22-24

Luke 18:31-34

 

“And they shall scourge him,
and put him to death:

and the third day he shall rise again.”

 

JESUS OF NAZARETH
 
Peter’s address is now a wider calling to the people of Israel, both native and foreign Jews. He introduced the man approved of God. He was anointed, given and fulfilled all the demands of the Father. He is now received of God being delivered by God’s determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
 
Approved: Peter called for the people to remember a man approved of God. His works of wonders and words of comfort were not hidden from the people. He explained that Jesus’ great suffering and cruel death on the cross were all according to the decree of the Father. What transpired were all foreknown of God and nothing happened by chance or by man’s charge. Jesus’ resurrection from the dead was the greater proof of His divine purpose of condescending to earth. It was prophesied in the Old Testament and was fulfilled in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Delivered: The Lord Jesus was handed over to the lawless which included the Jewish Council and the Romans, as determined by the foreknowledge of the Father. Judas betrayed Him, but it was God’s perfect plan for the Lord Jesus to go under the mocking and murderous hands of the Romans. It was foreordained that He must go to the cross for you and for me. It was all because of God’s redemptive plan for man that Christ had to go through all this.
 
Raised: Jesus was raised up. This refers to His resurrection. Death had no power over Him. The Lord Jesus had to die, for it was necessary for His resurrection. The death and the grave were a prelude to His victory over death. The assurance of our salvation is not only based on the perfect life and sacrificial death of our Lord and Saviour, but the absolute fact of His resurrection.
 
Are you convinced of the truthfulness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Will you tell this great news to others?
 
THOUGHT: Am I able to comprehend the sacrifice of Jesus for me?
PRAYER: Almighty Father, I thank Thee for making me a part of Thy chosen people, whom Thou hast foreknown.

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