Dec. 28, 2025

Last week we spent a lot of time on speaking in tongues and we started into Peter’s sermon. This week we will get into the focus of his sermon, “the Resurrection of Christ”.

Acts Lesson 4 Study Questions

1.    . Men of Israel, hear these words: Many people would think it would be enough for Peter to stop after the quotation from Joel. But it wasn’t enough, because Peter had not yet spoken about the ________ work of Jesus on our behalf. Everything until this point had been introduction, explaining the strange things they just saw. Now Peter would bring the ___________ message.

2.    Having loosed the pains of death: In the phrase pains of death, the word pains is actually the word for “_____ ______.” In this sense, the tomb was a _______ for Jesus.

3.    Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption: Because Jesus bore our sin without becoming a _______, He remained the Holy One, even in His death. Since it is incomprehensible that God’s Holy One should be bound by _______, the resurrection was absolutely inevitable.

4.    He poured out this which you now see and hear: Peter affirms that what the crowd saw was the work of the ______ and _________ Jesus, who has sent His Holy Spirit upon His church.

5.    Therefore let all the house of Israel know: It is as if Peter said, “You were all wrong about Jesus. You crucified Him as if He were a criminal, but by the resurrection, God proved that He is _____ and _________.”

6.    Cut to the heart: This is a good way of describing the __________ of the Holy Spirit. They now knew that they were responsible for the death of Jesus (as each of us are), and that they had to do something in _________ to this responsibility.

7.    Repent, and let every one of you be baptized: Responding to the question, “What shall we do?” Peter gave them something to do. This means that we must do __________ to be saved, we must do __________ to follow Jesus; it doesn’t just “happen.”

8.    Repent sounds like such a harsh word in the mouths of many preachers and in the ears of many listeners, but it is an essential _______ of the gospel. Repent has been rightly called “the _______ word of the gospel.”

9.    Those who gladly received his word were baptized: Those who believed on Jesus that day did so gladly, even making a dramatic statement in ________. They would not have submitted to baptism unless they were fully ________ of who Jesus was and their great need for Him as a Savior.

10.    They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine: They relied on the apostles to communicate to them who Jesus was and what He had done. They just ________ in Jesus; now they wanted to _______ more.