Repentance, Refreshing, and Restoration

As Peter continues to preach to the Jewish audience, he shows that all the prophets prophesied and spoke forward to Christ, and if Israel truly knew their own prophets, they must believe on Christ. Repent and turn to Christ, that they would receive forgiveness of sins, the refreshing of the soul, and participation in the redemptive work of Christ, whereby he is restoring all things unto himself.

Acts 3:17-26, “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’ And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

Series - “Acts: Christ’s Church Built”

Speaker: Samuel Wente