Where’s the Pain?
Richard Bradley
Acts 2:36-39
This seems like an odd question doesn’t it? After all, no one likes pain. In fact, we spend a great deal of time and treasure trying to avoid it. We all know that being in pain is no way to live. However, the pain referenced in verse 37 is not physical pain. It’s spiritual pain. Today, we would say that these people were under conviction. They were not only under conviction, they were under great conviction. In fact, they were under such great conviction that it felt like they were taking a dagger to the heart.
Tell me, when was the last time you saw or experienced this kind of conviction? Today, we’re more likely to see people in their pews checking their watches than to see them at the altar pouring out their hearts to a loving and merciful God.
Without out conviction there is no pain. Just as physical pain tells us there’s something wrong with our bodies, spiritual pain, or conviction, tell us something is urgently wrong between us and God.
Acts 2:36-39
36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."
37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
If this conviction is exactly what we need today – and it is – why aren’t we experiencing more of it – how can we get back to it?
CONVICTION’S SOURCE
36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified,
both Lord and Christ."
Conviction is an obvious work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit not o ...
Richard Bradley
Acts 2:36-39
This seems like an odd question doesn’t it? After all, no one likes pain. In fact, we spend a great deal of time and treasure trying to avoid it. We all know that being in pain is no way to live. However, the pain referenced in verse 37 is not physical pain. It’s spiritual pain. Today, we would say that these people were under conviction. They were not only under conviction, they were under great conviction. In fact, they were under such great conviction that it felt like they were taking a dagger to the heart.
Tell me, when was the last time you saw or experienced this kind of conviction? Today, we’re more likely to see people in their pews checking their watches than to see them at the altar pouring out their hearts to a loving and merciful God.
Without out conviction there is no pain. Just as physical pain tells us there’s something wrong with our bodies, spiritual pain, or conviction, tell us something is urgently wrong between us and God.
Acts 2:36-39
36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."
37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
If this conviction is exactly what we need today – and it is – why aren’t we experiencing more of it – how can we get back to it?
CONVICTION’S SOURCE
36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified,
both Lord and Christ."
Conviction is an obvious work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit not o ...
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