Acts 2:14-21
How was the God made relevant to you?
Jesus meets us where we are at – at our point of greatest need. Consider how Jesus shared the Good News. With the woman at the well, he used relationships. With Nicodemus, he used reasoning. With the paralytic, he healed him. With the sinful woman who wept at his feet, he forgave her sins. Jesus used whatever fit the person to communicate the Gospel.
In our passage today, Peter stood and addressed the crowd with a loud voice to explain why people heard what was said in their own language. This was not the same Peter that had denied Jesus. It wasn’t even the same Peter that would speak first and think later. This Peter spoke with understanding of who Jesus was and what he had done. This Peter presented a God who had a plan to reach the world, and what an amazing plan it was.
God’s plan of redemption is presented from cover to cover of the Bible. Who would have ever thought that the best way to spread the Good News would be to come into the world as a human being in the form of a baby?
"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us."
"Who, being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used for his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant."
God came as a human in order to communicate His love and grace in a way that you and I could relate to and understand. In Acts, He spoke in languages that each person could understand for the same reason. So that "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved". Jesus made God relevant. Now it’s out turn.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%202%3A14-21&version=NIV;TLB
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Acts.2.14-Acts.2.21
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