Lonnell Williams

And the very first thing that they say is this.

Now, when they heard this, they were cut to the heart.

They were stabbed.

They were stabbed.

When we say cut to the heart, that doesn't necessarily mean that they were just pricked by the word.

It does not necessarily mean that they felt some sort of unction as if this was a Sunday school message.

It doesn't necessarily mean that they were just simply impressed by the message.

The Bible says that they were cut to the heart.

It means that they were stabbed.

that the word was so piercing that it literally ran through them like a sword.

Now watch this.

The same crowd that mocked the spirit at nine in the morning gets stabbed by the same spirit that they mocked.

The word itself is cutting.

And here's the thing about being stabbed by the word.

You do not argue with the blade.

You do not intellectualize the wound.

You ask the same question that they asked of Peter.

The very same question.

What shall we do?

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.