Lonnell Williams

So those who received his words were baptized.

They were added that day about 3,000.

Now this is what's interesting.

I saw this yesterday.

Look at the text.

It says, so those who received his words were baptized.

It didn't say everybody received it.

Not everybody got it.

There were people that heard the word and still walked away unchanged.

That means some heard the same sermon, felt the same conviction, stood under the same truth, and still walked away unchanged.

The difference was not the word.

The difference was their response.

The word did not become powerful when they received it.

The word was already powerful.

Reception was the moment they stopped resisting what they already knew was true.

The word has not been received until it can enter into the rooms inside of you that used to be locked.

And the miracle found in Acts 2 is not just that 3,000 came in.

It is that 3,000 received the word that accused them.

And the proof that you've received the word is not that you heard it.

It's that you obeyed it.