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Golden Text Illustration— “Whosoever Shall Call Upon the Name." A notorious robber grew weary of his sinful life, and wanted to become a Christian, but despaired of being saved. A Christian man talked and prayed with him, but could not give him any en couragement. At last he sang the first words of “ There is a fountain filled with blood,” but the poor man said, “ There is nothing in that for me.” He then sang the second stanza, “ The dy ing thief rejoiced to see,” etc. “ That means me,’’ he cried and called upon the name of God in Jesus’ name to for give him. He soon had hope in Christ. And Peter with the smell of fish scarcely off his hands and never inside the school of the prophets.hs-McNeill. Peter’s ser mon is extremely COMMENTS FROM simple, calm and MANY SOURCES lucid. The more Keith L. Brooks we realize God’s p r e s e n c e , the more we are convinced of the majesty and force of truth, the less we shall be disturbed by the endeavor to MAKE what we say strong, impressive, touch ing and solemn. The apostle testifies of the life,'death and resurrection of Jesus as being the cause and source of the great work which they now witnessed.— Saphir. Said unto them. Note what sort of a sermon the Holy Spirit used as His channel for such converting grace. Nothing could have been further from an intellectual or literary display. It was a simple appeal in substance and citation from inspired prophecy with its verification in the resurrection of Christ and the ascension gift of the Holy Spirit. In view of the wide de parture of modern preaching from this Pentecostal model, we need not be amazed at the partial if not total dis appearance of Pentecostal power.— Pierson. Be this known unto you. This v. 14. Peter standing up.
was a positive message. It was not “ M'ethinks” or “ It seems to me” .— Eliot. v. 22. Jesus of Nazareth, a man ap proved of God. He begins and ends with Jesus. Any Spirit filled man will always make the Lord Jesus the very center of his preaching.— Torrey. He opens his sermon presenting Jesus as a man, a fact they would all recpgnize. He comes to his climax by proving Him to be both Lord and Christ, Redeemer and King.— Sel. Miracles, wonders and signs. “ Miracles” , literally “ powers” , is applied to them because they pro claimed the might of Him who wrought them. They are named “ wonders” be cause they called forth that feeling when they were wrought, and “ signs” because they pointed out their Author as divine.-—Lumby. v. 23. Delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Everything that men do comes to pass according to God’s eternal plan of grace, but this does not in any wise exonerate those who do evil, for they do it of their own choice. The cruci fixion of Jesus, though it was a part of God’s plan, was done through the hands of lawless men.—Torrey. His death was not a surprise. It was of the foreknowledge of God. It was not an accident of time or circumstance. It was according to His determinate coun sel. God created this world as the arena where He might display His love, His grace and the omnipotence of re demption to an anticipatively lost and ruined race, sunken in sin and under the sentence of death. (I Pet. 1:20.) — Haldeman. Ye have crucified. The rejection of Christ is the equivalent of the crucifixion of Christ.—T, C. H. v. 32. This Jesus hath God raised up. Three conclusive proofs are here given that Jesus Christ rose from the dead: 1, He was seen by the disci ples-; 2, the Holy Spirit had come upon
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