Gospel preaching in book of Acts Sermon # 2, Paul’s first recorded.
Start of 1st Missionary journey, Barnabas & Paul set apart. Journey thru Cyprus now Antioch in Pisidia. It’s the Sabbath & so the Synagogue.
An invitation
- Preaching from Scripture – Redemption History leads to Jesus v16-31
- The God of Israel in action, God’s sovereign plan in history
- David the great King & man after God’s own heart
- Paul’s Epistles “Jesus according to scripture, born of the seed of David”: Jesus is the climax of biblical redemptive history
- Getting the Gospel Right – The Person & Work of Jesus v 32-39
- “And we bring you good news”
- Psalm 2v7; Isaiah 55v3; Psalm 16v10
- The gospel (evangelion) is objective content
- Forgiveness of sins is proclaimed, believer is freed (justified)
- The Warning – Beware Therefore v40,41
- Habakkuk 1v1-9 a warning to Israel
- “Paul has … offered them the forgiveness and justification achieved by Christ in his death & resurrection. They must choose which side of the prophetic cause they will embrace” Peterson
- Pleasant preaching only? “Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the Wrath to come.” Sinners in Hand of an Angry God, Edwards