True to the Faith: The Acts of the Apostles: Defining and Defending the Gospel (Biblia.com)

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The Acts of the Apostles is about more than the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth. By the time the ascended Christ had sent the Holy Spirit to guide his disciples, they had no doubt what the basics of the gospel message were: that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day and would one day come again. But, according to Luke’s account, difficult questions and...

was Jewish, and like himself they would have understood that ‘the restoration of all those things which God had promised to restore’ would include, as the prophets said it would, the restoration of the kingdom to Israel. Here then is what he told his audience: Repent then and turn [to God] so that your sins may be wiped out, in order that times of recovery7 may come to you from the Lord, and he may send the Messiah whom he has already appointed for you, that is Jesus. Heaven must receive [and retain]

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