{"id":10012,"date":"2021-12-29T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T12:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-acts-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:38:50","slug":"devotional-on-acts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-acts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_15883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15883\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/100_2935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/100_2935-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15883\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/100_2935-640x1024.jpg 640w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/100_2935-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/100_2935-768x1229.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/100_2935-960x1536.jpg 960w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/100_2935.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Mt Rainier National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>What do we do now?<\/p>\n<p>Acts 2: Get out of this sick and stupid culture!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the Day of Pentecost.\u00a0 Those in the Upper Room have received the Promise of the Father.\u00a0 The power of the Holy Spirit flows out of them and they proclaim the Good News of Jesus with authority they\u2019ve never had before and in languages they\u2019ve never spoken before.\u00a0 Thousands come running to see what\u2019s happening and Peter preaches his Pentecost sermon.\u00a0 Good people hear this message and are alarmed that the Messiah has come, been executed, and has risen from the grave.\u00a0 Is it too late for them?\u00a0 Has the long awaited Messiah come and they missed the boat?\u00a0 Pleading, they ask, \u201cSo now what do we do?\u201d\u00a0 Peter\u2019s answer is this: \u201cChange your life&#8230;turn to God&#8230;be baptized&#8230;receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.\u201d\u00a0 A corrupt, Christ-denying culture has brought them to the brink of disaster.\u00a0 Their only hope, Peter says with Spirit-filled confidence, is to \u201cget out of this sick and stupid culture.\u201d\u00a0 This message of both warning and hope is still the one people need to hear today.\u00a0 Our culture of self and materialism is destroying our souls.\u00a0 We\u2019re on the brink of eternal disaster.\u00a0 Our hope is in the resurrected Savior of the world.\u00a0 The message of God to this generation is the same as the one Peter gave to his so long ago: \u201cRepent, turn to God, be baptized, receive the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take Away: There\u2019s a way through to God and that Way is named Jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do we do now? Acts 2: Get out of this sick and stupid culture! It\u2019s the Day of Pentecost.\u00a0 Those in the Upper Room have received the Promise of the Father.\u00a0 The power of the Holy Spirit flows out of them and they proclaim the Good News of Jesus with authority they\u2019ve never had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1485,1428],"tags":[1268,233,558,564,816,913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15884,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions\/15884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}