Acts 2:40. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Peter first bore witness to the truth, and then pleaded with his hearers to receive his testimony. All true ministers will both "testify and exhort." Some are always exhorting; they cry, "Believe, believe," but they do not tell their hearers what is to be believed. Others are always testifying; they preach good doctrine, but they do not like to exhort sinners to repent, and believe the gospel. Each of these is a one-legged ministry, but we must have two legs to our ministry, and, like Peter, "testify and exhort saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation." "Come out from those who crucified Christ, quit the generation that is guilty of the blood of the Son of God, put your repentance between you and them, put your public baptism between you and them, avow that you belong not to them, but to him whom they crucified, and whom God hath exalted."
Acts 2:40. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Peter first bore witness to the truth, and then pleaded with his hearers to receive his testimony. All true ministers will both "testify and exhort." Some are always exhorting; they cry, "Believe, believe," but they do not tell their hearers what is to be believed. Others are always testifying; they preach good doctrine, but they do not like to exhort sinners to repent, and believe the gospel. Each of these is a one-legged ministry, but we must have two legs to our ministry, and, like Peter, "testify and exhort saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation." "Come out from those who crucified Christ, quit the generation that is guilty of the blood of the Son of God, put your repentance between you and them, put your public baptism between you and them, avow that you belong not to them, but to him whom they crucified, and whom God hath exalted."