2:36
Peter’s sermon then reaches its dramatic conclusion, “God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah”. When it says “God has made” we should not think that this means that until the resurrection there was somehow some doubt about whether He would be “Lord and Messiah”. Peter is simply making the point that Jesus is the Lord and Messiah. He also highlights again the fact that we crucified this same Jesus.
2:37
The people were “cut to the heart”. Biblical preaching should cut people to the heart, it should have an effect. This happens when the preaching is Biblically based and because of the work of the Holy Spirit. In this case we clearly see that the preaching was effective. The people’s response was “Brothers, what shall we do”. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would convict of sin, righteousness and judgement (John 16:8), and that is what happened here. The gospel demands a response, it is not a set of interesting ideas.
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