Message: Are you God-fearing?

Are you God-fearing? Have you kept the Commandments? Is something still missing?

Hear the Apostle Paul explain to a Jewish company that their prophets spoke of a Suffering Messiah. Click Here to open an MP3 in a separate window.

Bible Reading: Bible Reading: Acts 13:26-41 (printed below for your easy reference). Please follow closely the scriptures below as Mr Les Hills from Lismore explains what happened on that day.

26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
30 But God raised him from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

HYMN

O JESUS, O Jesus, how vast Thy love to me;
I’ll bathe in its full ocean to all eternity;
And wending on to glory, this all my song shall be,
“I was a guilty sinner, but Jesus died for me.”

O Calvary, O Calvary, the thorn- crown and the spear;
’Tis here Thy love, my Jesus, Thy flowing wounds appear;
Oh! depths of grace and mercy, to these dear wounds I flee,
“I was a guilty sinner, but Jesus died for me.”

THOUGHT

“Through This Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins” (v36). Are you the sinner this message is intended for? The Prophet speak of a Suffering Messiah, but they also warned (v40, 41) of an unbelieving heart even when it is laid clear.