For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
The promise of the Spirit applies to you Jews even though you crucified the Messiah, and extends to your descendants and all nations wherever they are. Parents may take courage: God's purpose is to perpetuate salvation from generation to generation, not to confine it to one age.
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For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call. (a) The word that is used here shows us that it was a free gift.
Peter's words struck thousands like a rod of God's strength, and what was strange and wonderful was how hard hearts suddenly became attentive, became troubled, became urgent. The Spirit worked by the word to begin and carry on a good work of grace where moments before there had been only resistance.
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Commenting on Acts 2:37-41