A style of this sort will seem to modern readers marred by classical stiffness- "truth," "Knowers," the Good," "Man" -but we can by no mean deny that behind our objection to such language is a guilty consciousness of the flimsiness, and not infrequently the trashiness, of our modern talk about "values."
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Reflections for Easter Day
14 But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them:
22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know — 23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. 24 But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible.
- Acts 2:22ff
It all begins with two words in the Greek: Oddly enough, the NASB translates the relative pronoun "on" as an adversative. Thus, they render Acts 2:24 as "but God." However, there is no adversative. Again, there is no adversative. Consider, how strange would it be for Peter to say that it was literally by God's predetermined plan and foreknowledge that Jesus was murdered yet then say, "but God raised Him..." -that would be God working against God! Thus. today is a day to be thankful for God's plan of salvation, the sovereignty of God over evil for the sake of good, the power of God to raise Jesus from the dead, the end of "birth-pains" (wdin) of death.
As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed yet from my flesh I shall see God; whom I myself shall behold, and whom my eyes will see and not another
14 But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them:
22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know — 23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death."- Acts 2:22f
1) Christology: Jesus Christ has proven his divinity by miracles, wonders and signs. Peter affirms simultaneously that Jesus is also a man.2) Sovereignty: the murder of Jesus was God's plan; it was no mere accident.3) Evil: the men who murdered Jesus were guilty and responsible for their actions.4) Soteriology: God intends to predetermine (orizw) evil for the sake of love, glory and redemption.
Awake, O sleeper,And arise from the dead,And Christ will shine on you- Ephesians 5:14
1. Being awakened (Romans 13:11)2. Being raised from the dead (Ephesians 2:1-10)3. Transferred from light to darkness (John 3:19ff; Colossians 1:10-14)
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and grief to bear!What a privilege to carry, everything to God in prayer.O what a peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bearAll because we do not carry, everything to God in prayer!
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
