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Welcome to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. This year we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ in All of Scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
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Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire Biblical story, but the center of it. Hey everyone. Hello everyone. Welcome back to A Year in the Bible. I'm joined with my co host Beth.
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Hey friends. Today we are going to talk about the annotation day for the New Testament passage, which is Acts 2:22, 24. These verses say, fellow Israelites, listen to these words. This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders and signs that God did among you through him. Just as you yourselves know, though he was delivered up according to God's determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him. God raised him up, ending the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be held by death. So, Alexa, do you want to share your thoughts on today's annotation?
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Yeah, I really enjoyed annotating this passage because there's just so much to learn from it. I'm going to focus on two of the prompts, starting with the prompt about God's attributes. The first attribute I saw was God's power. And I think we see God's power a couple ways in this passage. The first is in verse 22 when Peter says that God did miracles, wonders and signs through Jesus. So that demonstrates God's power because God did some really amazing things through Jesus during Jesus's ministry. And then in verse 24, we read that God raised Jesus up, which refers to Christ's resurrection. And this speaks to God's power because it truly is a mighty work to raise Jesus from the dead. And we could say that that's maybe God's biggest display of power.
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I think so. Raising Jesus from the dead absolutely shows God's power. What was the other attribute that stood out to you?
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I know I'm repeating myself the past couple days, but we really are seeing an emphasis on God's sovereignty, which truly is incredible. In verse 23, Peter says that Jesus was delivered up by God's determined plan. So while it was the people who nailed Jesus to the cross, it was God's plan for Jesus to be delivered up in this way. But it's also God's plan to raise Jesus from the dead to make it possible for Jesus to defeat death and bring life for all that place their faith in him. So once again we see God's sovereignty on display as he works through Jesus's death to not only raise Jesus from the dead, but also provide a spiritual death and resurrection for believers.