204 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 4 - Book 17 - Acts Chapters 3, 4, 5

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 17 ACTS CHAPTER 3, 4, & 5 Because I've found out in my own study that the Abrahamic covenant was really the bedrock of everything that God has been doing in order to redeem mankind. I'm going to call out one man. We like to normally think that as soon as Israel crucified their Messiah, The Christ, then God was through with them, and turned to the Gentiles, but that's not the case. And that is why I'm constantly showing you from Scriptures that Peter is still pleading with the Nation of Israel. Pick that up in our closing remarks in our last lesson, verse 25, where Peter says to the Nation: Acts 3:25 "Ye are the children of the prophets, and (the children) of the covenant which God made with our fathers (remember Peter is just as Jewish as the rest of them), saying unto Abraham, `And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.'" The seed of the woman. Who was the Seed of Abraham? The Christ! So this was all tied all the way back as part of God's plan of redemption for the whole human race. But it was going to be through the Nation of Israel. And Peter is pleading with them. You're the Covenant people, believe it, accept Him as your King, and as your Messiah, and God would yet send Him again. Then verse 26: Acts 3:26 God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away (how many?) every one of you from his iniquities." Every Jew had to believe and be converted and understand that Jesus was The Messiah, their Christ. Zechariah 8:22,23 "yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. Israel is still going to have her day in the sun, but in the meantime God has now been dealing with us Gentiles. But remember the secret to these passages. "Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead." Especially the Sadducees, because the Sadducees did not believe in the Resurrection. Here is the one group most concerned about Peter's preaching that Christ is alive and is yet able to come and be their King. The Sadducees are saying to Peter, "How dare you teach something that flies in the face of our doctrine? Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of men was about five thousand." So you see there is a fair number of Jewish believers at this time. "Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them (now watch this, who is Peter talking to here? I'm just asking that you read what it says), Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel," Who were Israel's rulers? "If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent (or crippled) man, by what means he is made whole;" Peter says if this is what we are on trial for: Acts 4:10 "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified (remember Peters tells Jews they killed Him. Paul tells us Gentiles that He died for us. Do you see the difference, it's like day and night), whom God raised from the dead (Peter says this for the Sadducees), even by him doth this man stand here before you whole." All through Scripture, who is the Stone or the Rock? Christ is. Daniel Chapter 2, when he sees the Stone cut out without hands smiting King Nebuchadnezzar's vision. Who's the Stone? Christ. Christ again. Matthew 16:18 "And I say also unto thee, `That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;...'" Christ was. He's the Rock of our Salvation. Here Peter is using an Old Testament analogy how that He was to be the Chief Corner Stone, He was to be the Head of the Corner, and He was the Stone they needed to hold everything together. Grass grew over it and people would stumble over it as they cut across the lot. Now in that same light the Scripture says that "Jerusalem will also be a stone of stumbling." All the nations of the world are stubbing their toe on Israel and Jerusalem. Let's read it again. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Saul's persecution has been running rampant, especially in the area of Jerusalem against Jewish believers. One, in spite of the terrible persecution that was coming in upon these believers, that Jesus was The Christ, these twelve men did not run. Everyone else is fleeing for their life, but these twelve men sit tight. Most people don't). Also in Chapter 11 we find: Acts 11:19 "For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed." Why do you suppose the Scripture sees fit to give the man's age as forty something? Remember Israel's time of testing over and over was 40 years. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible