The Resurrection Makes You Feel So Alive!

The Resurrection Makes You Feel So Alive!

We’re talking about Peter today.

How must he have felt living thru all of these events in his life?

Galilean fisherman called by Jesus to be an apostle.

Peter walked on the water!

Saw Christ transfigured.

It shall not happen to you! Get thee behind me Satan!

Gets temple tax from a fish’s mouth.

Who do you say that I am? You are the Christ!

Cut off the ear of ?Malchus?.

Denied Christ three times.

Experienced Jesus’ crucifixion and burial

Entered the empty tomb

Huge catch of fish.

On the road to Emmaus - dinner they realized it was Jesus! wow!

Do you love me? Tend my lambs. Feed my sheep.

saw Christ’s ascension (40 days after)

So before Christ’s resurrection and ascension, Peter was maybe not too bright and maybe a bit clumsy and maybe spoke before engaging his brain (which was beautiful a few times - You are the Christ!).

But after Christ’s resurrection and ascension what happened to Peter? He became a different person!

If you saw the things that Peter saw, (spoken about earlier) what kind of person would that make of you?

At what point do you think Peter really got it? Some say right away on the shores of Galalee. Some Say when he said You are the Christ! Others think it was after the resurrection. In any case, after the resurrection, it became so real for him that he exemplified a different person!

Acts 2

1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. 5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” 12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” 13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

“They have had to much wine?” That doesn’t even make sense!

They declared the wonders of God in their own tongues. Don’t get bogged down on whether they were each one speaking one language or each hearing in their own language.

A miracle that certainly got people’s attention and got them listening to what was going on!

Would this event get your attention if you were there?

14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. 15 These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! 16 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17 “ ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. 21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Peter explained what was happening. They are experiencing prophecy!

22 “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. 24 But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.