Before we get started, I'd like to just kind of give a picture here and kind of what's going on. Basically we're on the book of Acts. I think we all know that by now. In the book of Acts, it can be split up with two main characters all throughout the book of Acts. Who would the two main characters be? The two main figures that are not Jesus Christ. Who are the two main figures in Acts? Peter and Paul. That's it. And so basically the book of Acts can be broken down into the first half as Peter, and then Paul takes up, and then he kind of, you can see his missionary journeys. So anyway, just to get a good idea of that, we're seeing here how Peter is the focal point here. This is fascinating. So let's read. Acts chapter 10, verses 40 to 48. Him God raised up the third day and showed Him openly, not to all people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with Him after He rose from the dead. And He commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is He which was ordained of God to be the judge of the quick and dead. To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. While Peter yet spoke these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. Keep your thoughts there on the word also. That's very important. because Peter had actually done this before earlier in the book of Acts, and we're going to look at that. Verse 46, For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days. So right now Peter is in the middle of, he's speaking, he's preaching, and he's in the house of Cornelius, and Cornelius had a little congregation that was there that he would preach to, and Cornelius was told to stay back at his house in Joppa, and Peter was brought by his men into Joppa, into the house, and this is where he's giving a really good, he's preaching, he's giving the gospel here. So last week we were talking about the divine initiative. Does anybody remember what we were talking about regarding the divine initiative of God? And this is what Peter was making very clear. And there's a key word that he uses here. Does anybody remember what that involves? as a divine initiative. But that means basically, I mean I don't want to cut anybody off, does anybody want to talk about this? But if not, just as a quick reminder, this might get you going a little bit, that it's of the Lord. Our salvation is of the Lord. And Peter says in verse 36, He is Lord of all. And so we see the word chosen is in here. We see the word chosen is all throughout the Bible. And it's God's choosing that we are saved. It's not anything that we can do to initiate it, and then we just kind of bring Christ in on the tail end. You know, whenever we think that we've done something good enough, that our works are good enough, that we've done something, to grab God's attention that we're supposed to be obligated to go to heaven because we've done something good. See we live in a world that most people think that. How could the Lord ever do anything bad to me when I die because I'm a good person. Well that's the way I think a lot of people are going to a lot of people are going to find out really have a really bad awakening and judgment when they find out that they think that their salvation was predicated on the works of themselves instead of the Lord, and that's going to be a very horrible experience. So at this point, we have seen the Sermon of Peter, and he declares Jesus Christ as the only way, the truth, and the life. These Christians, actually, they're referred to as the people of the way. See, Peter here is talking to the Gentiles. Many times Paul referred to the early Christian church, both Jews Gentiles as the people of the way." And now the Gentiles are coming into the new church. Acts 22, 4 we read, "...and I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women." That's what Paul said. Paul goes back and he makes it very plain what he had done. He never hid it. He never tried to hide and try to smooth over all the horrible things he had done before he got saved. And he made it very pronounced, and he said, many times, O wretched man that I am, he said, I am the least of the apostles, for I persecuted the people of the way. Peter hears preaching to Cornelius, his kinsmen, some of the soldiers, and his family, and he gives them the root of all being and declares God to be the Lord of all, and that all things are determined and carried out by Jesus Christ. We're going to go back to Acts 2, verses 25 to 34 and read the original sermon here a moment. And could I ask, Brother Charlie, could you go back to Acts 2? In a minute I'll call on you and read verses 25 to 34. And we see how this is when Peter was preaching to the Jews. So, we're going to look at the eternal decrees of God, and as we see Peter's sermon, we can basically see what's going on here, because the gospel doesn't change, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit doesn't change the Christians, and we're going to see what happens here, and I think it's a great way to look at, you know, to open this up. We see Peter here. He gives the ministry. He speaks of the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And we see the Holy Spirit sent from Jesus Christ to these dear Gentiles. And he has given the Gentiles the revelation of the gospel, wonderfully from the Holy Spirit of truth, righteousness, knowledge, counsel, and hope. And the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of our infirmities. And this is the Holy Spirit that came down upon the Jews and came down upon the Gentiles. And if you're a Gentile, this is very important. This chapter is a mammoth, mammoth chapter for the ushering in of the Gentiles into the Christian church. So if you're ready, go ahead, Charlie, if you could read Acts chapter 2, verses 25 to 34. For David speaketh concerning him. I besought the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer. I only want to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life. Thou shalt make me full of joy with thine countenance. Then, brethren, let me freely speak unto you of a patriarch, David, that he is both dead and buried, and his supper-garden is with us unto this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with that food to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. He seen this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, therefore we all are witnesses. Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens, but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit down, We see here how Peter is giving the sermon and he goes back to David. Why do you think he went back to David? That's very important for both of these messages. Why do you think that he brought David up and he made it very clear what was going on here? It's so important. You see that Psalm 110.1, that was exactly what I was going to say next, because that's where that verse is. And you see how there is a meeting in the Holy Council of God, where God and His Son, there is a meeting there, just like we see back in Psalm 2. Go ahead, I'm sorry. But Peter is making a real important distinction here. Who is it? Now this, now before I get into that, this is a man of state. Go ahead. Sure. No. Right. Right. And that's a lead-in to the most important question that we can ask about worship. Now, exhaustively, we've talked about this over the years, about who is it that accepted worship in Scripture? Who was it that, if they had not accepted worship, it would have made them a liar? Only Jesus Christ. But it's a sad part of our existence today that just about everything but Jesus Christ is being worshiped. Church leaders in the evangelical ranks, the Pope, Peter is considered the Pope, and here we can see we learned last week that we know that Peter was not the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, where he told Cornelius, went down to worship him, and he said, get up, I'm nothing but a man, I'm nothing. But this is what we have today. And what Peter is saying back, and he goes and refers back to David, who was it that resurrected from the dead? That's it. I mean, here he gives the gospel. But who was it that resurrected from the dead and ascended into heaven? If, if a spiritual leader or a God can resurrect from the dead, that is the only way they can be deity. If they can resurrect themselves from the dead, that is the only possibility of them being deity. Who else has done that? And so we as Christians, we know who our King is. We know who our Savior is. We know who we are to worship. Because our Savior, resurrected from the dead, shed his blood for us for our sins. Right. His resurrection is not eternal, right? That's a good point, because Satan does perform miracles, as Pastor Olson showed last week. We go all the way back to Moses. Remember the snakes? They're all smoke and mirrors. They're sorceries. They're magic. They're black magic. And does it exist today? Well, yeah, you better believe it does. There's a lot of weird things out there that are happening. I was listening to a pastor a couple weeks ago, and I thought this was a fascinating story. I gotta throw this in. He was talking about how when he first got into the ministry, way back in the late 60s, early 70s, he was asked to go preach at this church, and the people were all talking about how the Holy Spirit has told him to do this, and told him to do that, and they were supposed to do all these weird things. So they asked him to come over after the service or whatever, a whole bunch, it was a bunch of young people, And he said it was like 20 or 30 people, and they asked him to come over to the house, and they wanted to have a special prayer meeting. And he said, well, I thought we were just going to go have a special prayer meeting. We're going to sit down, read the Bible, listen to a good thing, you know. He goes over there, and they enter into this big, dark room, and they said the Holy Spirit led them to pray and to intermediate and to pray to their dead loved ones. And this was his church that he was preaching. And he went in and he let them have it. And he said, that is not going to happen. That in the Old Testament was a damnation. That's a curse to do such a thing. And this is how people can take this and really, you know, you really mess this up. But Peter makes this very... Theresa. Right. Right. Well, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but you either have one of two spirits inside of you. You either have the Holy Spirit or you have demons. There's no spiritual purgatory where you're in this state of neutrality in certain parts of your life. And that's a good point Teresa's making because if you have the Holy Spirit and you're guided, well, you would never do that. Dave? Yes. Yes! That is one of the biggest voodoo cults there is, and it is so posh, and it is so decorated, and it is so referred to in the Christian caucus today as Christianity. That's a good point. Dave? I'm taking pictures of all these old churches, and most of them have churches. Right. One, when you come out to Parkland Church, there's like a little valley in the middle of the hill on the other side. Oh, that's bad. Well, look at the sacraments. Look at one of the sacraments. It's the veneration of the saints through worshiping of images. Praying to Mary. She's dead. We pray to Mary. The popes pray to the dead popes. These popes literally go back to John Paul. They pray. They pray to them. What are they praying? To the burning in hell. Unless they got saved at the last second or something. I mean, they're praying. That's all voodoo. Well, we could go into this for the next rest of the Sunday school class. What about transubstantiation? What could be more disgusting than that? Taking and then saying that, now correct me if I'm wrong, that when Christ was in his humanity, when Christ here was on this earth, he was in his physical state, he could bleed, he could eat, he could sleep, he was in his humanity. When he was here on this earth in his ministry, was he omnipresent? Well, in his physical state, he couldn't be. Jesus, what you would never see during his ministry, Jesus, his physical presence at the temple, and then in Galilee, and there was five Jesuses all at the same time, you know, in the ministry. He, in his humanity, had to stay here. He had to walk back and forth. You know, sometimes he could, you know, kind of use his powers and walk through people when they were trying to kill him, but he didn't. But he, at the time, in his humanity, was not omnipresent in his humanity. Well, what they're saying today in the Catholic Church, that in His humanity, He could be re-crucified at any given time in any Catholic Church during their communion. They can re-crucify Him. Basically. That's voodoo. I mean, that is just really weird. And most people just go ahead and do it because they have no idea what it means. They have absolutely no idea. Peter here is making it very clear our mode of worship. He speaks of the ordinances. He talks about how we are to worship the Lord and what the gospel of Jesus Christ is. Now here, Charlie is reading here, Peter was talking about even David called the Lord Jesus Christ his Lord, even though Christ called himself David's son. Now, of course, Jesus Christ is a direct descendant of David, but he calls David, calls him his son and his Lord. So what's up with that? The Pharisees asked that question. And Jesus Christ said, basically, I am David's son, David's Lord. What do you think about that? And then he goes and he says that, if you go through the New Testament, I don't have the verses in front of me, just what Lisey was saying, Psalm 110.1, the Lord said to my Lord, sit down at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. And the Pharisees were befuddled that he was equating himself with God. And then when the I Am statements came, then they were furious. Then John 10.30, I and my Father are one, that's what really put him over the edge. These all, what Peter is giving here, are what the Westminster Confession of Faith dedicates to the eternal decrees of God. The Westminster Confession of Faith dedicates an entire chapter to the determinate counsel of God, entitled, Of God's Eternal Decrees. And in his decrees it states, God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass. Freely and unchangeably. God is immutable. He can't be changed. Ephesians 1, verse 11 says, "...in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will, that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ." Hebrews 6, 17 we read, wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. And so David is showing the gospel, I mean, Peter mentions David, and he's saying that the gospel has never changed. And when he preaches back in Acts 2, he gives the same message in Acts chapter 10, when he speaks to the Gentiles. You know, in God's determined counsel, many times over the years, Pastor Olson has mentioned, and if you can add to that, many times that the Lord is not wicked, but he uses wicked means in order to bring, you know, to fulfill his prophecies or to, correct me if I'm wrong, to bring glory to himself or to do his works. Examples. Anybody have any examples? Lise? Amen. Other examples anybody where the Lord used wickedness in the Bible pastor Olson. Oh, yes Right Exactly, I mean look at the very first event in the history of the Bible. I I was listening to Pastor Mike Britton. His last sermon, Roberta gave me a CD. His last sermon was on February the 18th, 2018, just before he went into a coma. And he gave an excellent message. I have to tell you what he said. And I think specifically, I think it's in the book of Judges, there was a generation there that really had lived in relative peace. And the Lord said specifically that he was going to allow them to be attacked so that they would learn that war. That's a very good point. Example after example after example. Many times the Lord used very difficult, very wicked means. I mean, let me get back to this real quick. Pastor Mike Britton was talking about what happened in the garden. What happened in the garden? He equates that to what science does today. He said Adam and Eve, they wanted empirical evidence to see if God was really who he said he was. And so the empirical evidence was, instead of obeying God and having faith, spiritual faith in the Lord, they wanted to go to that garden and see what Satan had in store for them. And Satan basically said, hath God said, will you surely die? Are you really going to die? And they wanted empirical evidence. This was a science experiment, he says. So they wanted to see if they ate of the fruit of the tree, of the knowledge of good and evil, if it really meant what he said. And that is where the Lord used wicked means to glorify himself, because they were wicked. What they did was they defied God and they tried to go in. They tried to get in, in a sense, and get into heaven another way. They wanted to go around God. And so they knew something was wrong with it because they did run and hide. And so that's one of the ways. What about Jonah? How about Jonah? And he was kicking and screaming. Lisa? Right. Right? Yeah, there's so many right there. That's good. Excellent. Joseph. Look what his brothers did. Look at the wickedness. Some wanted him dead, and they wanted to put him in a hole. Then he got pulled out, sold into slavery. And look at all the horrible things that happened to dear Joseph on his way to power. He was on his way to power. He was an Israelite shepherd, which was the lowest of the low. He becomes second in command. Lisa. Right. Right. And then there's Mordecai. And look what happened. Look what had to happen to Haman. before everything came together. Haman had plotted against Esther and Mordecai, and he was the one that wound up being hung on his own gallows. There's just so many examples. It's incredible. We see, to show how many times in Scripture God's worked through wicked in the acts of man to bring glory and exaltation, For His almighty power, look at Pharaoh, look at Ahab and Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Cyrus, Herod, Caesar, Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, and Nero. They all played into God's hand. He predestined them in their acts to carry out His sovereign plan of redemption. But they're responsible for their wickedness. See, Judas can't, in the Day of Judgment, say, whoa, wait a minute. How can you cast me into hell? I am a major figure in redemption. If I had not betrayed Jesus and turned Him in, He'd have never been crucified. If He'd have never been crucified, He'd have never resurrected. If He'd have never resurrected, none of us would be saved. He can't say that in the Day of Judgment. He's responsible for His actions. Matthew 26, 24 says, the Son of Man goeth as it is written of Him, but woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It had been good for that man if he had not been born. So here Christ was and is divine. And Peter is making this very clear in this message that he's given. He is God. He is perfect in nature. And he kept every letter of the law perfectly. As we spoke about Wednesday night, we were talking about the law. Now David in Psalm 119 is basically all of Psalm 119 is a celebration of the law. and how the Lord kept it perfectly. 1 Peter 2.22, Peter writes later, Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. Then we go to Hebrews 4.15, For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin. 2 Corinthians 5.21, For yet made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now you have to take all of this and plug it in. I hope you're really following me because when you take all of these wonderful words, these are all words of salvation and everlasting life. These are the words that Peter is using to these Gentiles. Why is that so important? Look at all of the lies the Gentiles are being fed right now. Look at the lies. They're in the middle of the Jewish council, the Sadducees that don't believe in the resurrection, the Pharisees that don't believe Jesus is Christ. They're in the middle of the Roman Greco world where it's all philosophy and it's all these weird idol worshiping and all. That's no different than today. Where's that any different than today? It's the same kind of things of worshipping then until you have all these Jews You have many Jews around that they don't believe Jesus is Christ. They don't believe he is the Messiah You have many other churches that they have they believe in philosophy and education and all these different they don't believe that Jesus is Christ that he is the ultimate way the truth in the life and Peter is making it very clear because he loves them and Christ is bringing Peter who Peter was kicking and screaming at first and saying no Lord. I'm not changing my dietary laws He wasn't Peter was not questioning as we can see this being played out the character of God and questioning if God Was who he said he was or if he's a fickle God or not a fickle God changing all the dietary laws But what he's understanding here. He's learning the meaning of Do we understand the meaning of what is going on here and how it applies to our lives as Christians? Does it mean anything to us? Because what he's saying here is very important. He's saying Christ is divine and that because of his heavenly divine power and God's predetermined eternal decrees that we are now being freed from death. What could be more important than that? I like the quote we read Wednesday night from Patrick Henry. I don't think I have it in front of me. Oh, I wish I had that in front of me. It would be here if I did. I have it. Listen to this. Patrick Henry, the patriot and founding father of our country, said, it cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians. Not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. You don't hear about that forefather too much anymore, do you? That's one forefather. They kind of leave him in the back. George Washington said the same thing. that the greatest education that a child can have is one of Jesus Christ. He said that. He also said, think twice before you speak once. I thought that was pretty good. The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said Americans should select and prefer Christians as the rulers. I think it's a pretty good statement. Peter thinks so. He believes he's not at all. See, Peter is stripped himself away from himself here. Many times Peter was a kind of bad himself, impetuous he was. But he's giving all the glory here to Christ in this wonderful message. You know, it's magnificent that the key component is the gospel of Jesus Christ here. And basically what Charlie had read here with Peter going back, he refers to the prophecy of David. You go to Psalm 16, 8, "...I have set the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved." Psalm 189.21, "...with whom my hand shall be established, with mine arm shall strengthen him." Then we see in Psalm 16.27, "...for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to seek corruption." What does that mean? This is part of Peter's sermon. He's saying that Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead will not leave, as David said, my soul in corruption. So how could He not leave our souls in corruption if He didn't resurrect from the dead? It would be impossible. That's how important this is, and Peter mentions this here. He says, "...to Him gave all the prophets witness. And through His name, whosoever believeth Him, shall receive remission of sin. Can somebody look up John 3, verses 15 to 18? Boy, this really, really brings this verse out. Whoever gets it, just go ahead and read it loud. He says, Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Read the next one. Thank you. Thank you. Perfect. He that believeth is not condemned. He that believeth. It doesn't say he that does not really perform well with his own good works is not condemned. It says he that believeth not. And you have as a Christian, how can you not ask, why wouldn't anyone want to believe in Jesus Christ? Well, I think I have an answer. I think we could all talk about it. We could open the floor up to some very good answers if we're all really keyed in. I think what really the biggest problem is that people do not think and they don't want a Savior. Why would they want a Savior if they don't think they need to be saved? And if they don't know what they're being saved from and they're not being taught, how are they going to know? How are they here without a preacher? Well, right here we see that Peter is the preacher. He's an elder and he's preaching to the Gentiles. Lisa. Right. Standing for torture. So the people who reject it, they don't want to face it. They know it's there because it's part of their conscience, it's part of their, you know, they know. So all God is written on their hearts, and they know it's there, and they know that they should be self-advocating for everyone. So if we're baring our heads, we can't pretend to be somebody that doesn't exist. So then in other words, what you're saying, correct me if I'm wrong, is you're saying that sin should be taught and preached, right? Correct? Hell should be talked about every now and then. Right. And I say that sarcastically because if you're ever going to hear about hell, it's going to be so now and then, it's almost non-existent. So then, another thing that you're saying is that sin should be discussed, and the effects of sin, and what happens if you die in your sins, correct? I think you're bringing up an important case, Lisey. That's a good track. That's a really good one. That gets most people's attention with all the tracks. Right. Right. I'll bet. Those pictures are devastating in that track. You're not kidding. I love that track. That one really gets your attention. Lisa. Right. Right. Right. That's right. I'm good. I'm a good person. Right? Well, you just brought up an incredible, a two-sided problem right now. We'll talk about that in a minute. Lise? Right. That's right. That's right. Well, the big problem it poses is what I learned over the years by my brother Ben going in and out of rehabilitation. I read the cards. I took him to some of the rehabs. And you go to the rehabs, and you look at the rehabs, and then you look at some of the 12-step processes, and now they have 16-step processes. It's the same thing, basically, you get in most churches today. You're getting a rehabilitation intervention is what you're getting. Now, what Lisa is saying is talking about sin and hell. We've got a real important case here to make because we really need to understand what this means because in most churches, they're interventions. What does God say? There is none that doeth good, no, not one. God is no respecter of persons. Peter says he is Lord of all. Pastor Mike Britton, one of the number one statements that I remember him making for years, he would always go right to this verse in verse 36. He's either Lord of all or he's not Lord at all. He said that over and over and over again to quote this many times. So the point Peter is making, he is showing the Gentiles that they need something other than what they have. And the point that I'm trying to make getting back to Lisa is God says there is none that do with good, but most churches today are telling you and they're telling not you, but those that come to, you're beautiful, you're good. Yes, I'm okay, you're okay. But don't dare mention sin or Joel Osteen won't have 50,000 people sitting down in the Civic Center anymore. Don't talk about hell. Oh, we don't want to hear about it. We have enough problems during the week, and when we come to church, we just want to be comfortable. So don't tell them about hell, because you might have to get this thing out. And if you get that thing out, oh, well, then, you know, we're not doing that anymore. Lisa. Right. And now look at what's happened since the second week of March. Now this is pathetic. Now we had, I did some numbers, I ran some numbers about a year ago before the China flu hit and everybody decided to stay home from church and get on TV, and basically the national average of when people go to church across, this is Catholic churches, Evangelical churches, most of them are contemporary, How many minutes of actual preaching and teaching do they hear? They didn't even ask the question, is it from the Bible or not? How many minutes of a national average does some man in between the guitars and the drums and the puppets and the clowns, the portraits, the football tickets and all on Sunday morning, and that's what they do down here at Rosedale Baptist, by the way. Anyway, and I can name a bunch of them, because I know exactly, I can see the advertisements. You go past this Lutheran church, it says, do you all like carbs? Well, that's good, because Jesus is the bread of life. That's what it says now. And then there's another one that's purple that says, you come into church on Sunday, we're going to watch football. Now you can go hear a message and watch the football game or rerun, because they're all hooked up to Zoom. Now all the churches have nothing but screens, or you can just sit at home in your pajamas and do it. So it's 20 minutes of somebody talking. Doesn't even say if they're giving the gospel or whatever, or preaching the Bible. That's about what people are getting. It was 19 to 20 minutes, as most churches. That's the preaching you're going to get today. You know, I'll bet this sermon from Peter, and we've read some of it. Charlie wonderfully read in Acts chapter 2, verse 25-34. I'll bet that sermon was hours, and I'll bet that people couldn't get their ears closed for one second. How long was Paul preaching when Eutychus fell out of the window? Remember that? I love that story. And I love it because when Eutychus fell out of the window, Paul went over and got down and raised him from the dead as if he was being an annoyance to him because he was interrupting the sermon. Eutychus, get up, get back in your bed and listen. He was dead, by the way. In the name of Jesus Christ, get up. And he gets up and he goes, now sit down and listen now. And so hours, 20 minutes, And we're almost done here, and I haven't even gotten into the Holy Spirit yet. We're not going to go out of Acts 10 until we get to that. So, I mean, here now, Peter is giving the step-by-step process. He's giving them the gospel. What comes first? We're going to get into this next week. What comes first? The water baptism or the falling down of the Holy Ghost? In the chapter. If you were paying attention when you were reading, it's very plain. What comes first? Well, what comes first in the Catholic Church? I'll make it easy on you. You're saved by your water baptism. And then the Holy Ghost comes upon you in whatever voodoo form they say you can have it. The falling of the Holy Spirit came first on them before the water baptism. And that's the same thing that happened at Pentecost. And so the question we're going to be answering next week, was the Holy Spirit that fell down upon the Gentiles and it fell down upon the Jews when they started speaking in tongues was, were the tongues understandable? And what is the difference between the tongues then and the tongues now? Because the tongues now kind of fits into what we were talking about, all the entertainment and the goofy things that are happening in church today. Everything is happening in church except preaching. So getting back to once again what Lisa was saying, which is very, very important, yes, I don't believe that a pastor, a teacher, a parent that's teaching their kids or anyone can even begin to say that they love their children or their congregation unless they teach them what they're facing with hell and sin. If you don't know where to go, that's what, you know, I love, one preacher said, everybody, he was talking about the Senate Judiciary Committees and all these things that are going on. Oh, they're sitting there talking about the LGBTQ. Oh, we've got to get abortion and all. And they just talk about these things like they're wonderful. But if you're a Christian, you know that it bothers them. You want to know why? Because everyone was created with a conscience. Everyone has a conscience. And you're going to own up to that conscience sooner or later. Lisa? Right. and trying to grow it out there, but the Republicans, you know, I mean, she did a lovely job, but she wasn't going forward with how she really feels. I mean, you know, you know she wasn't, you know, she wasn't really taking those questions hard, because she wants to be on that bench, which, at some point, you know, hopefully, you know, how she really feels shows through her work, And in the same token, she knows full well that anything that she does say will be completely twisted around and turned around and turned against. And so, what is so important about what Peter is doing is now the Gentiles are coming in, and he's teaching them the real truth. He's teaching them about their sins. And the rest of his ministry will be like that. Lisey. People are guilty before they ever walk into the church. One of the reasons people go into the church is, where do you go with your guilt? And if a pastor is doing the right job, he shows them where they go with their guilt. You go right to the cross. And you repent. Those are the first words John the Baptist said. Christ said repent. And then Peter later, we're going to talk about this, he brings up the term repentance unto life. What is that? Psalm 51 is entitled repentance unto life. Read it this week. It's only 19 verses I think. Read it. Right. Right. Right, giving tracks out. Going back to what Dave was saying real quick, I went into a Starbucks up here in Northeast. I went in, used the bathroom and all. I left the track, two tracks sitting out. And I came out, I was getting a drink. I'm sitting there and a lady grabbed the track. She's sitting there with her daughter. And I overheard her talk, did you see this? Wow, look at that, look at that. So I got out of my car and I sat there and prayed. She was like, wow, what was that? And she was leafing through that thing, and I was like, that was great. But we better stop, or Bob's going to come and yank me out with a rod and a hook. Let's finish up. Matthew, can you close us with prayer this morning? Thank you, Matthew.