Acts 2:22-36
On The Day of Pentecost Peter preached. The Upper Room Church prayed for ten days. Peter preached for ten minutes and three thousand souls came to Christ.
This sermon is uncommon. This sermon is supernatural. This sermon is the best kind of sermon that can be preached.
This sermon has qualities and properties that are necessary for contemporary preaching. It does not have the performative aspects of modern preaching nor does it have the structure of seminary homiletics. It is nonetheless, in my estimation, the best kind of sermon any New Covenant proclaimer can ever preach.
The Best Sermon Features Scriptures
When Peter started preaching he started in The Book of Joel and gave the interpretation and the application of an Old Testament text (vss. 14-16). The rhema (spoken word) that is preached must be located and launched from the logos (written word). Preaching that is based in The Scriptures is the only kind of preaching the Spirit of God will endorse.
The Best Sermon Features Pictures
When Peter preaches he uses descriptions and illustrations to give his audience a picture of who Jesus is. That is the work of the preacher. We must offer clear pictures of our Christ. We are called to preach Him and present Him in our proclamation.
Vs. 22 – Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
The Best Kind of Sermon Features Closures
When Peter preaches he brings the Scriptures and the pictures of the sermon to a point of closure. Every great sermon has a great close. Peter closes his message by settling the matters before them. Jesus is who He says He is. Jesus is alive and well. He is both Lord and Christ. Jesus must be received or rejected.
32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
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