{"id":5547,"date":"2009-08-12T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/08\/acts-and-mission-7.html"},"modified":"2009-08-12T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:01:39","slug":"acts-and-mission-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/08\/acts-and-mission-7.html","title":{"rendered":"Acts and Mission 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pentecost.jpg\"<\/span>Peter’s “sermon” — which is more interpretation of event than anything else — explains that the tongue-speaking community, of which he is a part, is not some lunatic fringe but the very embodiment of God’s promises through the prophet Joel.<\/p>\n

But Peter goes immediately from Joel to Jesus, the “God-accredited” man through miracles, wonders and signs. Notice, too, that these things were done by God in their presence through Jesus. Acts of God is the emphasis.<\/p>\n

Again, God handed him over; you put him to death unjustly; but God overturned that injustice by raising him from the dead. In fact, death could not hold him … why? Scripture (Psalm 16).<\/p>\n

Through and through what happened at Pentecost and what happened with Jesus — miracles to death to resurrection — where acts of God. This is emphasized in Beverly Gaventa’s commentary (The Acts of the Apostles (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)<\/a>\"\")<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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” ‘I saw the Lord always before me.
       Because he is at my right hand,
       I will not be shaken. <\/p>\n

   Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
       my body also will rest in hope,<\/p>\n

  because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
       you will not let your holy one see decay. <\/p>\n

    You have made known to me the paths of life;
       you will fill me with joy in your presence.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Death could not hold him because God’s Scripture, through David, says death cannot hold him and his body will not see decay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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