Lonnell Williams

It's interesting because the same phrase in the Greek is also found in two other places, but specifically it's found, I believe, in Luke chapter three, verse 10.

And this is where John the Baptist is saying, and he has professed and proclaimed that someone greater than I is coming and he preaches the gospel.

And all of a sudden they say the same thing.

What shall we do?

And that's the language of people who just realized that

that they participating in the killing of the Messiah.

It was a panic.

It was a fretting.

It was this complicity of catching up.

It's like I just realized that this whole time I've been on the wrong side.

And now I need to know how to get on the right side.

My question is not a question of curiosity.

It is a call for desperation.

And the only people who ask that question with that posture or that position are the people who the word has really cut.

You cannot ask, what shall we do sitting comfortably?

You ask what we shall do on the floor when you come to the revelation of yourself in Christ.

Now, this is the thing.

Peter's sermon does not end with an applause.

It does not end with a celebration.

They don't say, great word, preacher.