The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Acts 2:22-28, “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know–
23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.
24 “But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.
25 “For David says of Him, ‘I SAW THE LORD ALWAYS IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND, SO THAT I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN.
26 ‘THEREFORE MY HEART WAS GLAD AND MY TONGUE EXULTED; MOREOVER MY FLESH ALSO WILL LIVE IN HOPE;
27 BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON MY SOUL TO HADES, NOR ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.
28 ‘YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE; YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR PRESENCE.’”

Luke is the author of the Book of Acts. He was, by profession, a medical doctor, making him an excellent scribe for the Apostle Paul, as well as a supreme historian.
He clearly and definitively testifies to the LORD’s miracles, as he lays out the Father’s plan for man’s redemption.

The key to our redemption is no less than the Father’s sacrifice of His only begotten Son on the Cross of Calvary. (Remember Abraham’s near-sacrifice of his
son, Isaac? It was a precursor to the Calvary experience of the LORD Jesus Christ. Further, too, it demonstrated Jesus’ Resurrection. Luke tells us what all of this meant to David –that he would “not (be) abandoned to Hades…” or suffer decay (death).

David credits the LORD with having given him life when he says, “YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE; YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR PRESENCE.” Isn’t that what we all desire? Why, then, do we turn to the
lesser things of life instead of the LORD Jesus? There is no “gladness” like the gladness we experience in when we yield ourselves to Him! What He worked in the life of David, He will work in your life as well. Trust Him and experience True Life!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom