Wednesday Night Bible Study | 08.25.2021
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FPC Starkville, Martin Lifer – Wednesday Night Bible Study
August 25, 2021
The 1st Recorded Group-Prayer in the Early Church and 1st Recorded Sermon by Paul
Return Us to Several Key OT Covenant Promises & Prophecies from Our Big-Picture OT Overview
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The 1st Recorded Group-Prayer in the Early Church
Acts 4:24-30
24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said,
“Sovereign Lord
- Who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
- 25 Who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit:
‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed’ —
27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, 30 while You stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
God the Creator - “Who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them”
Psalm 146:6/ 146:3-9 / Acts 14:15 & 17:24
God the Author of the Scriptures (by His Holy Spirit)
Jesus as Messiah, God’s Son, and Holy Servant
Messianic Prophecy re the nations’ doomed rebellion v. YHWH (in Heaven) & “His Anointed” & “Son” (in Zion)
Psalm 2:1-2 (2:6-9ff. & 2:12)/ Hebrews 1:5
Isaiah – YHWH’s Servant 42:1-4, 49:1-7, 50:4-7 & 52:13-53:12
“Davidic Covenant” – God’s Promises re David’s House & Son
2 Samuel 7:4ff/ Psalm 132:11 -> Isaiah 55:3/ Jer. 33:17ff.
Exodus 6:1-8, 7:3/ Deuteronomy 6:20-22ff. – God’s outstretched hand -> signs & wonders, judgment
Zephaniah 1:4 – God’s hand of judgment on Judah
See Isaiah 53:5 – God’s hand stretched out for healing through the Servant’s atoning suffering
Acts 13:16-41
16 So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said:
“Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm He led them out of it. 18 And for about forty years He put up with[a] them in the wilderness.19 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. 20 All this took about 450 years. And after that He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And when He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, of whom He testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ 23 Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised. 24 Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.25 And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
26 “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. 27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. 28 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. 32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 33 this He has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’
34 And as for the fact that He raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken in this way, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, “‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’ 36 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,37 but he whom God raised up did not see corruption. 38 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by him everyone who believes is freed[b] from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. 40 Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about:
41 “‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish;
for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”
- Acts 13:18 Some manuscripts he carried (compare Deuteronomy 1:31)
- Acts 13:39 Greek justified; twice in this verse
God’s gracious election & deliverance of Israel (and their rebelliousness) – Deuteronomy 4:37-38; Isaiah 1:2ff.
God’s Choosing of & Covenant with David, including the promise of the ultimate Messiah & Son – see Page 1
All above & ALL the promises fulfilled in Jesus