Blessed By Repentance
I do not know if anyone likes to be wrong. Now some are better at it than others but for many of us admitting we are wrong is like swallowing a handful of gravel. It going to take some time and effort and we probably won’t get it all. We might have to do it but we don’t have to like it. But maybe we should. In Acts 3, Peter is preaching yet another gospel sermon. After a miracle of healing, he is telling the crowd about the plan of God fulfilled in Jesus and the evil that had been done to him. Peter tells them that even though they “ had acted in ignorance ” (17), they still needed to “ repent and turn to God” (19). He warned them failure to heed the message would end in destruction (23). Yet consider what he proclaims in the last verse of the chapter: " For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways ." How were they blessed here? By God sending Jesus. How had that blessed them? By turn
