Meditation

Reader,

We're back after our short break last week with our next speech from our series in the book of Acts. So far, we've copied out Stephen's defense before the Sanhedrin in Acts 7 and Peter's sermon on the Pentecost in Acts 2.

This week, we're turning to another Speech given by Peter in Acts 10 at the house of Cornelius the gentile.

It begins with Peter receiving a vision from God while praying, where he sees a sheet containing unclean animals and is commanded to "kill and eat." Peter protests, but God insists that what He has made clean should not be called impure.

Simultaneously, Cornelius, a Gentile centurion, receives a message from an angel instructing him to send for Peter.

This divine encounter leads to Peter visiting Cornelius, marking the first significant outreach to Gentiles, beginning the expansion of the gospel beyond Jewish boundaries.

Today's passage is Acts 10:34-38

Peter at Cornelius’s House

34 Then Peter began to speak:

“I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. 36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

37 You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached— 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

Encouragement

Acts chapter 10 marks the decisive shift of the ministry to the Gentiles. While this is carried on through Paul for the bulk of the book, it is important that Peter recognizes this first.

He does so through a remarkable vision, and at the same time, he is called by the Gentiles to preach to them—again, due to a vision given to Cornelius.

Having had his vision, Peter does not need to find the Gentiles to preach to; they find him and call him.

Andy

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