Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.”

Acts 4:4  “But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.”

4:3 “They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.” 

4:7 "By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?”

4:10 “Then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed”

We ARE TOLD OF HIS PERSONALITY  

His personality is written in His Name!

In his Humanity he is given the name

  Jesus - means "Jehovah Is Savior". 

Isa. 53:3 “He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.”

John 1:11 “He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.” 

Matt. 8:20  “Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” 

Matt. 1:21 ”She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

John 18:37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

The Name Of His Honor

Christ - means "Anointed One"

WE ARE TOLD OF HIS PROVISION

He Provided A Payment

Isa. 53:4-6; “Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

John 19:30 “When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. He suffered our penalty on the cross so that we might go free by the grace of God,”

2 Cor 5:21  “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

B. He Provided A Proof 

Matt. 28:1-6  After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. 5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.”

1 Cor. 15:6 “After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.”

Acts 1:9-11 “After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Acts 2:24  “But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.”

C. He Provided A Promise

1 Co 15:20  “But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.”

1 Thess 4:13-18  “Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.”

WE ARE TOLD OF HIS POWER

2 Cor 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

WE ARE TOLD OF HIS PREEMINENCE

He Is The Lofty Savior

Psalm 118:22 “Jesus is“‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

Phil 2:5-11  “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Col 2:13-15 “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”

Col. 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

He Is The Lone Savior

John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.