Chapter 10; God’s plan unfolds to the nations receiving the Gospel. The main Characters are the 1-Holy Spirit who carries out God’s plans; 2-Cornelius in Caesarea whose life is totally devoted to God praying, serving and leading his house to love and honor God; 3-Peter the young leader of the new church; and 4-witnesses on both sides. This chapter is an eye opening picture of how God works in the church using ordinary people who have experienced Him and are open to believing what He shows them and not afraid to trust in that. More later…
Dan
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This chapter shows a perfect example of how the Salvation through Jesus Christ is available to all people. It also serves as an excellent warning not to see different people as less than others, vs.28, "...but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean." In vs. 45, we see that the circumcised believers were taught that ALL may receive the free gift of salvation: "The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles." And Peter commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Jesus Christ. So as a lesson to us today, no matter who we think is beyond helping, we should not stop in spreading the Good News of salvation to all people if God is leading us to do so.
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