PJP2 SEVEN - 170217 - GOSPEL

SEVEN: Share/Seek; Encourage; Verily Verify the Victory; Evaluate NOW (Note On WORD)

{NOTE: All Passages Of the WORD, Select (POWS) are from the ESV; Also might readily see Emphasis And Paraphrase added/jaj....Appreciate your patience/understanding....}

GOSPEL: God's Own SON Provides (us with) Everlasting LIFE

Team PJPJ - Today His Holy Spirit has Guided me to Simply Share our Lord Jesus's Story as Inspired By His Holy Spirit and Relayed by the Apostle Peter via Peter's First Major "Sermon" during the First Pentecost post our Lord Jesus' Resurrection (and Ascension).....

Acts 2:22-41 (ESV)....“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. For David says concerning him, “‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken; therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’ “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”’ Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls."....

Thus, Team, May I Offer Up this Brief Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise.....Psalm 80:1-3 (ESV)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Praise and Worship Your Holy Name.  Lord Jesus, Thank You as You Give Ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You Who Lead Joseph and us Like A Flock of lost sheep.  O Holy Spirit, to You Who Is Enthroned Upon The Cherubim, May Your Light of LIFE Shine Forth in, around and through us.  O Father God, Thank You, for As You Have Before, during the days of Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, Once More, Stir Up Your Righteous Might And Remind us That You Have Indeed, Through Your Son, our Lord Jesus, Come To SAVE us from ourselves!  Lord Jesus, Restore us in a Right Relationship with Your Father.  O Holy Spirit, Indeed May Your Face Shine upon us.  Father God, Open our Inner Hearts and Minds to Repent and Receive Your Salvation.  Lord Jesus, In You and You Alone, we Are SAVED.  We Raise our Praise and Prayers, Lord Jesus, in Your Holy Name...Amen and Amen....jaj

REMEMBER:  Ephesians 3:20-21 (ESV)...."Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."