Peter Preaches to the Gentiles

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Peter Preaches to the Gentiles

(In other words some things are about to change)

Acts 10:24-38

For Sunday October 18, 2015

by Assistant Superintendent Lois Armstrong

A glimpse of Peter's background shows he was one the first disciples to speak out. Yes sometines out of turn. He was the first to PREACH, on the day of Pentecost. Also just before his encounter with Cornelius, he was the first to speak life into a dead woman named Tabitha. In today's LESSON, we will find Peter doing another FIRST.  That is crossing the line no one else had yet crossed.

Preaching to the Gentiles, meant that Peter crossed the line of Jewish Law. In our society today, there are lines that we have been forbidden or afraid to cross such as the Mason Dixon Line, which dealt with slavery. Crossing long-established barriers requires courage. Peter was impelled to do what was needed to extend the gospel to the Gentile nation. My Question is: Isn't that our calling as well?  To go boldly where we have never gone before. (Matthew 28:19).

I believe God is sending out a cry to the believers today to go to Corneluis' house. You see in Cornelius' he has FAMILY, his FRIENDS, and his NEIGHBORS waiting to hear the GOOD NEWS!

That VISION that keeps coming to you, is not to demean you but to teach y0u a lesson in humility. Everyone who God created is in His own image, and likeness (Genesis 1:26). Therefore who are we to call ANYONE unclean or unworthy of receiving the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Join us in Rhema Word (Sunday School) as we dig deeper into the scriptures. Tell the person next, " I WANT TO BE A FIRST!"