Peter’s sermon in Acts 2:22-24, 32-36
Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— 23 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it… 32 This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. 33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, 35 until I make your enemies your footstool.”’ 36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Jesus was a man that proved everything he said with miracles
Jesus was arrested, but only because it was part of God’s foretold plan
Jesus was crucified and died by “lawless men” (Sinners)
Jesus was raised from the dead.
1 Cor 15:3-11: For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
Delivered to the people “as of first importance” – nothing more important
Christ died for our sins
“Our” shows that he didn’t have anything to thing die for, just us.
Christ was buried
Christ raised on the 3rd Day
He appeared, actually and physically
All by the Grace of God that Jesus died for our sins.
So we preach
So you believed.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
God substituted our sin for Jesus on the cross and in exchange gave us Jesus’ righteousness.
Romans 4:25: who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Crucified for our sin, as payment, paying off our sin debt
Raised from the dead, as God’s own witness that our sins are wiped away, and now we can justly stand before God, blameless, faultless.
Jesus took your sin, served your sentence for sin on the cross to the point of death, and in turn gave you HIS righteousness and justified you by faith in HIS WORK.
We are not good enough for our lives to pay off the world’s debt to sin.
If you died for my sins, who's going to die for your sins? Me?
Only an eternally valuable perfect sacrifice can cover all the known sins of every person that has ever lived. And that is not you or I.