Tuesday, October 6, 2020

10/06/20 THE GREATNESS OF OUR GOD #21 — Back online again, finally!

Acts 10:46 (CSB) says, “For they heard them speaking in tongues and declaring the GREATNESS of God. Then Peter responded…”

Up to this point Scripture records that only Jews had been saved. But God had always planned (even EXPLICITLY in the OT) to save people of every tribe, language and nation. God Himself presented visions to the Apostle Peter and the Roman centurion Cornelius to arrange for Peter to preach to Cornelius and his household. God knew that the Jews would need convincing proof that these non-Jews were saved. So the Holy Spirit caused them to speak in languages previously unknown to them. Somehow the Jewish believers who accompanied Peter knew they were “declaring the GREATNESS of God!” Peter immediately recognized the validity of their conversion and commanded that they be baptized (v.48).

Since the vast majority of us are NOT Jewish, Thank the Lord—Jesus came to save people from every tribe, nation and language, including you and me! Cornelius and his household were the very first of many saved, redeemed, committed followers of Jesus whose parents were not Jews!

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