"36 “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”
37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
38 Peter replied, “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. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”
40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day."
This comes from Acts 2.
I really like the phrase they used, "cut to the heart". I love metaphors and this is one that I really like.
I'm not quite sure how to explain what it means to be "cut to the heart". I guess it is what it sounds like. You are struck by a profound realization of something. You may be disturbed or strongly convicted to want to do something about what you've just realized.
In this passage, Peter is telling people that they have killed Jesus - the man who did no wrong, who was blameless. They killed God's only son. This was and is big news. Having killed someone of such high status, the people were upset. They were distraught. They were convicted and wanted to know how they could somehow make things right. So Peter tells them to repent and get baptized (verse 38), since Jesus died for our sins already, all we need to do to "get right" with God, is to accept the sacrifice Jesus has offered to make in our place, so that we may be saved from eternal death.
There are few moments in one's life where we feel cut to the heart. The realization that we have sinned, and the conviction that brings us to repent, to change who we once were and to become renewed so that we may truly live - that is a time to be cut to the heart.
In Colossians 1:9-14 it says,
"We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
Let this be a prayer for me.
37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
38 Peter replied, “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. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”
40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day."
This comes from Acts 2.
I really like the phrase they used, "cut to the heart". I love metaphors and this is one that I really like.
I'm not quite sure how to explain what it means to be "cut to the heart". I guess it is what it sounds like. You are struck by a profound realization of something. You may be disturbed or strongly convicted to want to do something about what you've just realized.
In this passage, Peter is telling people that they have killed Jesus - the man who did no wrong, who was blameless. They killed God's only son. This was and is big news. Having killed someone of such high status, the people were upset. They were distraught. They were convicted and wanted to know how they could somehow make things right. So Peter tells them to repent and get baptized (verse 38), since Jesus died for our sins already, all we need to do to "get right" with God, is to accept the sacrifice Jesus has offered to make in our place, so that we may be saved from eternal death.
There are few moments in one's life where we feel cut to the heart. The realization that we have sinned, and the conviction that brings us to repent, to change who we once were and to become renewed so that we may truly live - that is a time to be cut to the heart.
In Colossians 1:9-14 it says,
"We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
Let this be a prayer for me.
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