Acts
Part 28: Sent to be Faithful
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Josh Weiland - March 19, 2023
The Gospel is for All
Peter stays and continues doing ministry in Joppa for a while after the healing of Aeneas in Lydda and the raising of Tabbitha. While waiting on his lunch one day, God gives Peter a vision of something like a sheet lowering from heaven, full of "unclean" animals that were not permitted to be eaten according to Jewish dietary law. When a voice from heaven tells Peter to kill and eat, he refuses. But he's then rebuked, "Do not call common what God has made clean." Shortly after this, men arive from Caesarea on behalf of a Roman Centurion named Cornelius. God had also been working in his life, sending an angel to have Cornelius send for Peter. Peter comes, and while he's teaching about Jesus many believe and the Gospel moves beyond the ranks of the Jews to the Gentiles. Peter laid his bias and partiality aside, once he realized God shows no partiality. And since God shows no partiality neither should we—the Gospel is for all.
Scripture References: Acts 10:1-48, Acts 11:1-18
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Sent to be Faithful
Acts 14 records the heart of Paul and Barnabas’s first journey to spread the Gospel. After being run out of Antioch, they head to Iconium where once again there is fruitfulness as they share the Gospel along with opposition to it. When a plan to mistreat and stone them surfaces, they move on to Lystra. In Lystra a crippled man is healed at Paul’s word. After witnessing the miracle, the crowds believe Barnabas and Paul to be Zeus and Hermes. When Paul and Barnabas insist they are not gods but mere men chaos ensues. Paul is stoned and dragged out of the city, assumed dead. After the disciples gather around him he rises, reenters the city then heads to Derbe the following day. Paul and Barnabas were ministering in a culture deeply divided, chaotic, and often opposed to the Gospel—not unlike our own. When the world is full of chaos, opposition, & division, our job is to be faithful and point people to Jesus, leaving the results to God. Pastor Josh also gave a helpful paradigm of “Receive, Reject, Redeem” for us to use as Christians as we interact with our culture.
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