Daily Devotion

 

This is one of the most interesting passages in the New Testament because it is an account of the first Christian sermon ever preached. Acts tell of the proclamation of the facts of the gospel to those who never heard them before. There is proof that Jesus and all that happened to Him is proof of Old Testament prophecy. In modern times, less stress has been laid on the fulfillment of prophecy. We have come to see that the prophets were not nearly so much fore-tellers of events to come as forth-tellers of God's truth to men. But this stress of early preaching on prophecy conserved the great truth that history is not haphazard and that there is meaning to it. 

  
To believe in the possibility of prophecy is to believe that God is in control and that He is working out His purposes.

Jesus the Messiah has come, the Messianic prophecies are fulfilled, and the New Age has dawned. The early Church believed that Jesus was the hinge of all history; that with His coming, eternity invaded time; and that life and the world could never be the same again. It went on to state that Jesus had been born of the line of David, that He taught, that He worked miracles, that he had been crucified, that He had been raised from the dead and that He was now at the right hand of God. The earthly life and death were not the end; after them came the resurrection. Jesus was someone they met and knew, a living presence.