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Acts 2 – The Most Important Chapter in the Bible?
I don’t know if one chapter can be the most important, but Acts 2 is one of the most important. What does it show?
1. How to rebuff objections – use scripture (vv.15-16).
2. God fulfills prophecy (vv.17-21; 25-28,31).
3. God is Sovereign (vv.23,36).
4. The focus of our preaching – All that is said about Jesus (vv.22ff).
5. God is more powerful than death (vv.24ff).
6. Deity of Jesus (vv.34-35).
7. How to be saved by God (vv.37-38).
8. What a local church is to do and be (vv.(41-47).
As we look through this list (undoubtedly incomplete), we can sadly take note of how some of these are and have been ignored.
1. Why use scripture when tradition, opinions, and emotions are paid more attention to?
2. Liberal thinkers automatically discount prophecy saying it must have been written post-event in order to be accurate because prophecy is impossible.
3. Too many have a deistic view of God; even in God’s church.
4. Do politics and opinions play a more prominent role than Jesus in today’s sermons?
5. The resurrection is a neglected theme – both Jesus’s and ours; but it is the strongest apologetic for God’s existence.
6. As C.S. Lewis succinctly phrased it, Jesus was either Lord, Liar, or Lunatic. Acts 2 says Lord.
7. Anyone who says man doing anything is infringing on God’s sovereignty is saying something different than Peter. Anyone who says “baptism is a work and is unnecessary” is contradicting Peter.
8. How many churches do not have a strong doctrinal stance, or strong affiliation for one another?
In some ways Acts 2 is to the rest of the NT what Genesis 1-3 is to the rest of the Bible – the beginning of most everything important.
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