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So Acts is a video report of how the Apostles and disciples shared the Gospel message in every possible setting. What we get is to see how the eyewitnesses shared with the world what happened in the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus. As we go through all 28 chapters we find that there are 22-recorded events where a Gospel Message is presented.
The FIRST Gospel Presentation is in Acts 2. The time has come. After being called to be a fisherman for eternal souls. After being given on-site, hands-on training for three-plus years. After being tutored privately, commissioned publicly, and filled with the very Holy Spirit of God, Peter steps up to the microphone to deliver his first sermon. I’m sure his pulse was throbbing in anticipation, his heart pounding with excitement to at last say what he had been taught, shown, and commanded him, to say. So here it is, here is Gospel Presentation number one in Acts chapter 2. Peter preaches the first sermon after Christ’s death, burial, resurrection, and sending the Holy Spirit down to indwell the Church. What does he say? Many things, all important
And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
Now to the conclusion in Acts 2:37-39
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 “For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
The result? Note Acts 2:41
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
So, what was the summary of the first message? One word, REPENT.
Let’s go to the SECOND gospel presentation in Acts 319. Again it is Peter preaching after the wonderful healing of the man who had been unable to walk for over 40 years (Acts 4:22). What is the gospel message? Listen to Acts 3:19 and then v. 26:
v. 19 “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
v. 26 “To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”
What is the message? Now we have two parts: repent and turn (turn is the meaning of “be converted” which is the translation of the Greek word epistrepho. Strepho means “to turn around” and epi means, “on, at, around, etc.” it is a preposition attached to a word to magnify the meaning. So in street talk it would be “really turn around, away from iniquity”.
What happened to those who listened? Listen to Luke’s accounting in Acts 4:4:
However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
So, what was the summary of the 2nd message? REPENT and TURN AWAY FROM INIQUITY.
Now to the THIRD gospel presentation in Acts 4:12
“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
There is a common description we use today. Peter said again, the third description of salvation: be saved. From what we might ask? Well when the name of the Messiah was given as Jesus it was stated in Matthew 1:21
“And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
So what is saved? Saved from sins. Thus we can say in summary after the 3rd Gospel message? REPENT and TURN AWAY FROM INIQUITY, and BE SAVED FROM SIN.