Acts Lesson 2/Days 9 & 10

Acts Lesson 2/Days 9 & 10

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If your hairdresser told you that your hair was thinning out, what would you ask? If your mechanic said you had a bad leak, what would you ask? What if your vet said your dog had fleas, what would you ask? If you’re like most people, you’d probably ask, “What should I do?” You have heard some important news from an expert...now what? Shrug and move on? Of course not. Get the help you need to make it right. Our final passage in this lesson begins with this question, “What shall we do?”

If there’s one thing about Peter’s preaching that stands out today it is that he did not avoid calling out the sins of the crowd listening.

Many preachers today hold back on making any focus on sin until they think they have won the crowd over with stories, music, or other methods that they believe are more enticing. Not Peter. Peter dove right into the truth. Peter was bold. Peter spoke the truth loud and clear, “This Jesus that you crucified...!”

Ouch.

Here’s the deal, why would someone ask, “What should I do?” if they don’t feel a need?

Why would anyone think they need a savior if they don’t feel a need to be saved?  Jesus did not fear losing his audience by his hard sayings – he boldly preached the truth because dying without it is eternal just as much as living with it will be.

 

Today, our world is more interested in comfort and encouragement

than in hard realities of dying and sin. It’s too black and white to say there’s a heaven and a hell

and a direct path to one or the other that depends on receiving the truth and acting on it.

You’re “judgmental” if you tell someone they are a sinner.

 

In our society of Instagram photos, Twitter quotes, and Facebook posts people want a cozy message that fits

on a coffee mug or t-shirt. What do you think Peter would say on a mug or print on a t-shirt?

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