In this second half of his sermon, Peter returns to his hard line that everyone most repent and convert to Christianity (although it would not be known by that name for some time yet) if they want to avoid the judgment to come. Since Peter is addressing an audience of Jewish believers he uses the common ground of the Old Testament Scriptures to connect Jesus to prophecy and show that he is the one that has been promised by their own Holy Books to come and bring them salvation. For them belief in God was a given, they just had to learn that Jesus was God.

Last week we as began our study of the Acts we learned that it contains a history of how the Christian church got its start. We also learned that the history recorded for us in Acts is very well established as accurate, so accurate that stories are often told of historians being converted merely by studying the book of Acts alone. This week we will be turning our attention back to the eleven disciples that we previously followed through the Gospel of John…