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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Daily Bible Verse, the

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Speaker 2: podcast that examines one verse each day to learn more

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Speaker 2: about God and his will for our lives. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: Kyle Norman. After a brief message from one of our sponsors,

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Speaker 2: we will continue with today's verse. Today's verse can be

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Speaker 2: found in Acts, Chapter two, verses thirty seven and thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: When the people heard this, they were cut to the

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Speaker 2: heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, brothers,

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Speaker 2: what shall we do? Peter replied, repent and be baptized,

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Speaker 2: every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ

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Speaker 2: for the forgive of your sins, and you will receive

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Speaker 2: the gift of the Holy Spirit. One of the greatest

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Speaker 2: dangers to our faith life is our own familiarity with

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Speaker 2: the Gospel. By this, I mean that we become so

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Speaker 2: accustomed to the information regarding the life, death, and a

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Speaker 2: resurrection of Jesus that hearing this message no longer resonates

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Speaker 2: with us. This is particularly true for people who have

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Speaker 2: grown up in the church, who've read the Bible before,

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Speaker 2: or maybe have a long list of scriptures memorized, and

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Speaker 2: so when we hear the gospel message, we internally think, oh,

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Speaker 2: I know this, But this doesn't happen for the people

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Speaker 2: of Scripture, as we see, particularly in the Book of Acts,

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Speaker 2: as we read, when they hear the Gospel proclaimed in

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Speaker 2: their midst, they are cut to the heart. A passage

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Speaker 2: read above occurs on the day of Pentecost. The Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit has just fallen powerfully upon the disciples, and in

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Speaker 2: any tongues they hear the wonders of God proclaimed. People

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Speaker 2: around them hear the articulation of the Gospel in their

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Speaker 2: own language, and afterwards Peter stands before them to explain

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Speaker 2: what's happening. He explains that the Spirit has come upon

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Speaker 2: the disciples, just as the prophet Joel had prophesied. And

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Speaker 2: he explains that this bestole of the spirit is connected

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Speaker 2: to Jesus, who is crucified, who is Lord and Messiah.

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Speaker 2: And this message carries with it an implicit invitation for

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Speaker 2: everybody around them to respond to what God is doing

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Speaker 2: in their midst. And so as they hear about the

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Speaker 2: wonders of God, as they hear about Jesus raised as

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Speaker 2: Lord of all, as they hear about how the Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit can be met in their own lives, they feel

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Speaker 2: themselves deeply affected, and they are cut to the heart. Now,

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Speaker 2: being cut to the heart doesn't just mean that their

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Speaker 2: interest piqued. They weren't just intrigued over this new bit

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Speaker 2: of information that they hadn't previously considered. They felt deeply addressed.

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Speaker 2: They felt that the message of the Gospel was for

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Speaker 2: them personally. They could be included in what God was

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Speaker 2: doing in this world. And so they responded to the apostles,

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Speaker 2: what shall we do? And their response is to repent

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Speaker 2: and be baptized. Now again, these words can be so

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Speaker 2: familiar to us that we can forget to recognize the

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Speaker 2: truth that they are saying. Repentance can to easily be

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Speaker 2: misconstrued as this act of dour contemplation. We reflect on

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Speaker 2: how horrible we've been, how wretched we are before this

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Speaker 2: perfect God. And so we can think that repentance simply

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Speaker 2: means that we need to see ourselves under God's vindictive anger.

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Speaker 2: But the word repentance simply means to turn, to change direction,

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Speaker 2: to change our way of thinking. What is described by

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Speaker 2: the word repentance is this act of turning ourselves into

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Speaker 2: what God is doing. It's a decision to walk in

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Speaker 2: the direction that God is leading you now. Yes, for

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Speaker 2: some this means leaving former things behind. But the force

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Speaker 2: of the word is more about what we turn into

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Speaker 2: rather than what we turn away from. And the word baptism,

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Speaker 2: while baptism doesn't simply describe a complex liturgical action done

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Speaker 2: by obtained bastars in fancy churches, the word baptism simply

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Speaker 2: means to immerse. For the early Christians, the act of

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Speaker 2: being baptized was this act of showing that they were

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Speaker 2: immersing themselves in God's kingdom. It signifies that they're life

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Speaker 2: was going to be lived under the lordship of Jesus

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Speaker 2: and empowered by the Spirit. And so when we put

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Speaker 2: these two words together, weget this wonderful invitation for all

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Speaker 2: of the people to turn to God's kingdom, reveal through

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Speaker 2: the power of the Holy Spirit, rooted in the lordship

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Speaker 2: of Jesus, and then to immerse themselves in it, to

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Speaker 2: walk in the midst of it. For every person on

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Speaker 2: that Pentecost day, they who heard the articulation of Christ's life, death,

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Speaker 2: and resurrection, they felt individually called to participate in what

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Speaker 2: the Spirit was doing all around them. Where does God

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Speaker 2: cut you to the heart? By this, I mean where

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Speaker 2: do you feel this grand invitation from God to embrace

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Speaker 2: what God is doing in you and all around you?

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Speaker 2: What does the Lord nudge you to accept the truth

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Speaker 2: of your forgiveness, the truth of your empowerment of the spirit,

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Speaker 2: the truth that Jesus is always with you. And when

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Speaker 2: you have a sense of that, how might you turn

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Speaker 2: into that reality and immerse yourself in kingdom living, daring

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Speaker 2: to live all of your life from the standpoint of

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Speaker 2: Christ's lordship. Because when we live this way, we may

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Speaker 2: just find ourselves immersed in God's unyielding blessings all around us.

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