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Chapter 1: What is the introduction to the Acts 2:37-41 message?
take your seat. My name is Lonnell Dawson-Williams. I am the executive pastor here at 2819 Church. It's all good. Appreciate you. It's all good. Listen, I'm grateful for this amazing opportunity as we continue in the series of Acts chapters 1 and chapters 2. I have been given the amazing assignment on this day to continue in that process. But before I do, I want to
kind of jump ahead of myself a little bit. And I want to share with you something that has been very near and dear to this house. In fact, at the beginning, at the change of the name to 2819 and the birth of the church, Pastor Philip was inspired and instructed by the Holy Spirit to preach out of the entire book of Matthew. And how many people were blessed by that entire encounter?
To walk verse by verse, line by line, word by word through the entire book of Matthew, we saw so much take place in the life of this church that it would be, I think, spiritual malpractice on our behalf not to commemorate what God has done, is doing, and will do in the life of the church. And so what we decided to do was look back over all of the sermons that
every single sermon throughout the three-year period and put together a book that we want you to be able to take home and keep. And it is the book of Matthew. And it is an amazing coffee table book that you'll be able to get. You can actually purchase it if you want. We're going to pre-order a few for the team, but I really want you guys to lean into this because it's something as a keepsake.
It's a tool of evangelism that when people come in your house and They sit on your couch. If you was like me growing up, my grandmama had the couch with the plastic. Did y'all have that? And then the spiders would get in there, and the kid, you'd try to smack them. Never mind, that wasn't you. All right, in my house, it was weird.
But anyways, come sit in your house, in your living room, that you can go ahead and share the good news of what God is doing in 2819 Church over the last three years. So really excited about that. Let's open up our Bibles, if we can. We're going to go back to the book of Acts, Acts chapter 2, as we kind of come to the summation of this particular message and series, and I'm excited.
I was with Pastor Phillip in New York just two days ago, or yesterday, excuse me, as he was finalizing the Street Preachers Tour, which is going to pick back up sometime in the fall, and they were recording, and we were just kind of walking and talking, and he said, Lonnell, I need you to preach, Doc. I said, all right, sir, I got you.
I'm about to get up here and do what we got to do, so I'm excited to continue this message. We're going to go to Acts chapter 2, verse number 37 through 41. I'm going to read the entire pericope here. It's only four verses, and we're going to walk through this line by line. And the Bible reads as follows.
It says, Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Brothers, what shall we do? And Peter said to them, Repent, And be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off.
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Chapter 2: How does Peter's sermon address the crowd's conviction?
It is the pride that sits under that anointing. It is the lust that sits under the discipline. It is the offense under the discernment. It is the pain that learned how to sound mature without becoming healed.
infection my god today i feel you infection is what sin becomes when it isn't protected instead of confessed and and the mercy of god is that he loves you too much to let what is killing you stay covered has anybody ever been in a season where it feel like god just keeps taking the cover off of your mess Where he just keeps revealing all of this stuff.
You know, the Bible talks about ending down in the dark will be brought to the light. But my question is, how many of us, every time the light comes on, we run over and, nope, not today. Wait, wait, wait, nope, nope, nope, not today. But God said, I can't hear what you keep turning the lights on. So I'm going to expose you. If I got to expose you to the world, I will. But I'm coming after you.
I'm running after you. Granny used to say, 99 and a half.
Just won't do. Okay, that's too old school for y'all. I'm sorry. All right, all right, all right.
A weapon can be used by two different people, but the same way. A criminal will use a sword to cut. and to destroy. A surgeon can use the very same weapon to heal. The word cuts, but it does not cut like an enemy. It cuts like a physician. It opens what is infected so the healing can begin.
And some of us Christians have been using our weapon and walking around like this, hoping and praying that just because I have it means that it's going to work. Just because I walk around with it doesn't mean I'm actually using it. But it is not until I get into thy word and I hide myself in thee when I can read the word for myself. That is when change happens.
Oh God, but watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this. Some of us will walk around with a scalpel and refuse to use it. We post it. We reference it. but we don't let it perform surgery on us. Look at the crowd. Look at the crowd. This is what they say. They ask this question. They say, what shall we do?
The same ones who are mocking on Pentecost were the same ones asking to be saved. That's why you have to be careful who you write off because the spirit may be working where your patience has already run out. Shata, all right. They went from mocking to being called brothers. Look at the text. Watch this. It says, brothers, what shall we do?
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Chapter 3: What does it mean to be 'cut to the heart' by the Word?
I take the USB-C cord. I plug it into my laptop and then I plug it into the phone. Now watch this. For some reason, I didn't think to just open up my laptop and look at the time. I don't know if I was just sleepy. I don't know what it was. I didn't, I didn't, and I'm sitting there like, oh my God, I got to call my assistant.
I got to get, I'm over here about to, all right, let me just hop in the shower real quick. Let me do what I got to do. And then something said, open up the, open up the computer. So I went back over to the computer and I opened up the computer and guess what time it was? 5.59. Now I was supposed to get up at six. I opened up my computer. It was 5.59.
And as soon as I said, thank you, Jesus, the alarm went off. Some of us are operating like the alarm has not gone off in our life yet. The alarm is blaring and you still sleep. God sent me by here to let you know it is time to wake up. Stop playing around with your sin. The alarm is ringing. Jesus is coming back. And if you don't get right, you will get left.
Is there anybody in here that says, not me. The devil is a liar. I will be right there. I'm not going to let that alarm go off on me. I'm going to be ready. Come hell or high water, you best believe. I don't need life to keep life and I'm going to be all right. And this is the problem. Some of us are not sorry we sinned. We are sorry it surfaced. We are not grieved that we offended God.
We are grieved that the consequences have found us. Regret says, how do I get out of this? But repentance is, how do I get back to him? See, pain can make you cry, but only repentance can make you come back home. Come home. And here's the thing about conviction and repentance. Conviction without repentance leaves you aware but unchanged.
Repentance without conviction becomes behavior modification without surrender. So you can feel one without fully walking in the other, but you cannot have holiness without having both. And then Peter says, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Now, this is not referring to the gifts of the spiritual gifts, but the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The same spirit that fell on the 120 in the upper room is the same spirit that's going to be promised to eventually the 3,000 that were congregated. So when the Holy Spirit falls, you just got to be ready. When the indwelling of the Holy Spirit happens, you can't fight it. Because the Holy Spirit will do something in you that other things cannot do. Watch this. Look at verse number 39.
And Peter has something stunning that he says in verse 39. Watch this. For the promises is for you and for your children. And for all who are far off. Everyone whom the Lord our God calls for himself. Watch this. When the Jews were talking to those who are far off. In their mind when they heard this they were referring to the Gentiles. The people that they thought God had written off already.
The outsiders, the unclean, the ones who are not a part of his sanctified tribe. And here is where Peter, standing in Jerusalem 50 days after the resurrection, before any Gentile missions, before the church was even started, in this first few days, he is saying, he looks at the Jewish people and he says to them, the promise is for them too. The one you thought God didn't see.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the question 'What shall we do?'
It reaches to the people that you see on the street corner. It reaches to you.
everyone and that should tell us if you are sitting here today carrying the shame of feeling like you are far off from god far off from your purpose far off from your family far off from who where you thought god was going to take you and who you will become the promise has your name on it as well you are not too far from the spirit you are not stained too stained for his mercy
You are not an afterthought in the plan of God. You are the kind of person that this promise was meant to reach. Now watch the rest of the verse. And I'm going to try my best to preach this and not get too happy. It says for you and your children. See the language echoes Genesis 17 verse 7. Directly where God tells Abraham. He says I will be God to you and your offsprings. After you.
So somebody here needs to hear this. The promise is bigger than your bloodline, but it is not smaller than your household. God can reach farther than your family tree, but he still cares enough about what's growing in your house. And this is the critique buried right here in the text. Because so many of us have not realized that our salvation has implications on the next generation.
Our children do not inherit what we provide. They inherit what we normalize. What you tolerate in private in your home can become what your children call normal. They inherit our prayers, but they also inherit our patterns. You cannot pray for your children to love a God that they never see you be with. They inherit your church attendance, but they also inherit your private appetites.
Children learn their faith from your mouth, but they learn their values from your habits. I wonder if there's anybody in this room that says, not my house, not my babies. The devil is a liar. I'll do whatever it takes. The generational curse will stop with me. Nobody else with my last name is going to go through the hell that I went through. Disease stops with addiction, stops with me.
Lies stop with me. Welfare checks stop with me. Sex and AIDS stops with, is there anybody in here? We won't pick another weed, another bottle. I refuse to let it keep going. It stops with me. They might inherit your last name. but they will not inherit your chains. They may inherit your house, but they will not inherit your hidden bondages.
They may inherit your story, but they will not inherit your surrendered sin. Is there anybody here that says, God, do what you got to do. If you got to cut me, cut me, but don't cut them. Do what you ask for me and my house. And as a matter of fact, I promise you that you got to be grateful that somebody with your last name was a generational chain breaker.
Somebody held on one end for you so that you wouldn't have to experience what they experienced. And now here you are holding on to the next chain saying, we about to break this thing. My grandmama used to sing a song, somebody prayed for me. Kept me on their mind. Took the time to pray for. I'm so glad they. I'm so glad they prayed. I'm so glad they prayed for me.
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