Acts 10:1-48 - Hostility, Enthusiasm, or Indifference?

Listen along as Mike Gaston continues our series through Acts.

Notes//Quotes:

Acts 10:1-48 - Jack reading

 

Slides

 

Slide 1

 

Big Idea

 

Christ’s plan includes not just us, but all the nations of the world. How will we respond?

 

Slide 2

 

(Map of Israel showing Joppa and Caesarea, to be emailed separately)

 

Slide 3

 

“It is more likely, therefore, that the point is that the Lord’s command frees Peter from any scruples about going to a Gentile home and eating whatever might be set before him. It would be a short step from recognizing that Gentile food was clean to realizing that Gentiles themselves were ‘clean’ also.”

Tyndale Commentary, I. Howard Marshall

 

Slide 4

 

“The conversion of Cornelius was a landmark in the history of the gospel’s advance from its strictly Jewish beginnings to its penetration of the Roman Empire. True, it did not settle any of the issues relating to Jewish-Gentile relations within the church, nor did Jewish believers take it as a precedent for direct outreach to Gentiles. But it did show that the sovereign God was not confined to the traditional forms of Judaism and that He could bring a Gentile directly into relationship with himself through Jesus Christ and apart from any prior commitment to distinctive Jewish beliefs or lifestyle.”

Richard N. Longenecker

 

Slide 5

 

John 10:16

And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

 

Slide 6

 

Matthew 28:18-20

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

 

Slide 7

 

Three possible responses to God’s plan for the nations

Hostility

Indifference

Enthusiasm

 

Slide 8

 

Mike’s Definition of Missions:

 

God is using the preaching of the gospel to turn rebellious sinners around the world into redeemed worshippers of His Son Jesus Christ …

 

… and WE GET TO HELP!

 

Slide 9

 

“Lord, where do I fit?”