TOPIC: REPENT AND BE CONVERTED
TEXT: Acts 3:12-19(NKJV)
- 3:12. So when Peter saw [it,] he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
- 3:13. “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let [Him] go.
- 3:14. “But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
- 3:15. “and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
- 3:16. “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which [comes] through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
- 3:17. “Yet now, brethren, I know that you did [it] in ignorance, as [did] also your rulers.
- 3:18. “But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.
- 3:19. “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
STUDY:
Peter, speaking after the miracle that made the lame man at the temple gate to walk, told the crowd that the miracle did not happen because of his or John’s godliness or power, rather it was by the power of the God of their fathers who glorified Jesus, whom the Jews delivered up and denied before Pilate and killed him, but God raised him from the dead.
Peter told his hearers that it was through faith in the name of Jesus that God healed the lame man. He told them that although they acted in ignorance, they fulfilled what was prophesied about Christ. He finally charged them to repent and be converted for forgiveness of their sins and for a glorious future. Repentance requires admission of guilt for wrong-doing and deciding not to repeat the offence.
It is turning away from sin and self, and looking to God for forgiveness and salvation. Conversion is a spiritual turning away from sin in repentance and to Christ in faith. If God looks at your life today, what will He see? Decide to repent of your sins, and turn to Christ in faith today, so you can become a new person (2 Cor. 5:17).
PRAYER:
Help me, O Lord to reject sin and worldliness and follow Christ daily, Amen!
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