Acts 2:22-36 Preaching Jesus: Exalting the Christ

Acts 2:22-36 · 2026-06-14 · John Perez · Acts

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Acts 2:22-36 Preaching Jesus: Exalting the Christ Acts 2:22-36 Preaching Jesus: Exalting the Christ We have been looking at the book of Acts through the lens of kingdom narrative, and I want to continue to do so but from the perspective of the Jew who is visiting Jerusalem from their far-away homes. Imagine you being one of these Jews. You most likely would have been born outside of Israel, yet you have this connection to Israel. As Scripture states, to you belongs the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law, the worship, and the promises. To you and your people belongs the patriarchs, and there is a special promise that from your race a descendant of David would arise to destroy the enemies of Israel, to reestablisht the throne, and to usher in an era where Israel and her people would be eminent over all other nations. What this means for you is a regathering into the land which would eliminate the need to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to properly celebrate the feasts and worship God. This means that you would enjoy the promised abundance that God would bring upon the land; you would never experience lack of any good. You would experience freedoom from foreign invasion and oppression because the kingdom to come would be eternal. As you enter Jerusalem, you notice native Jews are speaking what Acts describes to be the mighty works of God, but in your native tongue. You ask yourself how it is possible that these men who were from Jerusalem could speak all these languages? Then you hear one of those Galileans explain what we heard last week: that what you see happening "is what was uttered through the prophet Joel." As a faithful Jew, you immdiatley understand the claim this Galilean is making: the Messiah is here and the kingdoom is about to be restored. However, you notice that this Galilean, Peter, stops short in his citing of Joel. He didn't finish the prophetic text, he stopped with You assume that the reason why Peter stopped short of the prophecy is because he is going to explain that salvation will be through the destruction of Israel's enemies and the immediate enemy is Rome. Instead, Peter turns the mirror on the crowd. And isn't that how so many people live? They might not call it salvation, but we live in a society which yearns to be saved from poverty, sickness, injustice, domestic abuse, or societal ills, and we prop up saviors that we think will deliver us from those things. The Modern "Saviors": Society frequently props up human "saviors" (political figures, movements, or self-help formulas) to deliver us from societal and personal ills. Why do you think it is so deeply hardwired into human nature to look for a quick, visible, or political fix to our problems rather than a spiritual one? However, the Gospel exposes an uncomf…

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