8-3-25 Study of Acts Chapter 10:1-20 The Salvation of the Gentiles

➡ This text discusses a Bible study on the book of Acts, focusing on the transition from the Jewish people to the Gentile church. It highlights the roles of Peter and Paul in this shift, with Peter being key in moving towards the Gentile establishment of the church. The text also explores the concept of ‘light’ as a metaphor for spiritual connection and understanding, suggesting that those who seek truth and understanding, whether believers or not, will be enlightened by God. Lastly, it emphasizes the importance of seeking God wholeheartedly and living according to His will.
➡ This text discusses the concept of seeking God and the difference between being religious and being saved. It uses the example of Cornelius, a devout man who feared God but was not saved. The text emphasizes that being religious, attending church, and studying scripture does not equate to salvation. It suggests that salvation comes from understanding and accepting the words of scripture related to redemption, transformation, and sanctification.
➡ Cornelius, a religious man, was seeking a deeper connection with God. He prayed and gave to others, which God noticed. However, Cornelius couldn’t fully connect with God on his own. An angel appeared to him, indicating that God was responding to his prayers and good deeds, and that he needed further guidance to fully understand salvation.
➡ This text discusses the spiritual connection between humans and God, emphasizing the importance of faith, obedience, and specific instructions from God. It uses the story of Cornelius, who was instructed by an angel to seek out Simon Peter, as an example. The text suggests that God often requires acts of obedience tied to faith, and that he prepares and chooses the receiver of his messages. It also highlights the importance of speaking God’s words and the energy it conveys, as well as the significance of following God’s specific instructions rather than generalizing them.
➡ The text discusses the importance of faith and obedience in religious context, using the story of a man who is instructed by an angel to go to Joppa. Despite his doubts and questions, he obeys immediately, demonstrating his strong faith. The text also emphasizes that God often uses people to carry out his work, rather than doing it himself. It further discusses the idea of being chosen by God for a specific purpose, and the importance of being patient and trusting in God’s plan, even when it’s not immediately clear.
➡ The text discusses the biblical story of Jeremiah, who was chosen by God before his birth to be a prophet. It emphasizes that God chooses his messengers and guides them on their path. The text also explores the vision of Peter, who saw a sheet filled with both clean and unclean animals, referencing Jewish dietary laws from Leviticus. The author suggests that these laws may have been established to prevent disease due to the food preparation methods of the time.
➡ God gave the Jews specific dietary laws to separate them from other groups, preventing them from socializing and intermingling with Gentiles. This was to protect the Jewish nation and bloodline. However, the focus shifted from physical to spiritual purity with the advent of Jesus Christ, who emphasized that what defiles a person comes from within, not what they eat. The New Testament further clarifies that all food is acceptable if received with thanksgiving, dismissing the old dietary laws.
➡ The Apostle Paul was guided by God to spread His word, and we should follow his example. We should be ready to serve as God’s messengers, prepared for any task at any time. This readiness comes from our relationship with Christ and our spiritual growth. It’s important to keep our hearts open to God’s truth, seek His wisdom, and understand that even in a corrupt world, God is working to restore goodness.

Okay, guys, let me know if somebody’s in. I’m using split screen this morning so I can’t see people while I look at my notes. So if you guys see some, see somebody or somebody asking to get in, just give me a heads up. I’ll let them in. So this is Sunday morning. We are back in to our study of Acts. We are doing part B of what we started last week about the salvation of the Gentiles. Now, as you recall from last week, what we begin to look at is the. In studying acts, chapter 10, verses 1 through 20, we begin to work through the transitionary process of dispensations, moving from the focus of the Jewish people into the Gentile church.

And over the past couple of weeks, we’ve looked at Peter and Paul and Peter being the predominant factor here in this migration from the Jews to the Gentiles. Now, foundation from last week a little bit, we know that Christ gave the keys to the kingdom of heaven, which we already know that that is our life as believers on this earth to Peter. And he gave the keys to the kingdom of God, which is basically a heavenly perspective, to Paul, which is basically what he needed to do to the church. Because none of us had lived in, in the Gentiles, none of us lived underneath the law of that created the foundation for the kingdom of heaven.

So there is a complete distinction here. And Christ used Peter to make that move into the Gentile establishment of the church before Paul came on the scene. And he did that in order to create the movement of the other apostles and the Jewish leadership to be positioned for Paul. Now, there’s no coincidence in this, right? There’s no coincidence in what’s going on in your world today. You’re living a simulation of exactly what happened before the foundation of the world. And we’re seeing this being played out now in Acts. There is absolutely no coincidence this ties in to the understanding of how the church needed to be positioned to accept the Gentiles into the church because the Jews and Gentiles didn’t get along.

And it was predicated on the fact of the law. And when Christ came and said, I fulfill the law, the Jewish community didn’t quite understand that, just like we don’t quite understand Ephesians yet. Okay? Ephesians 1, 2 and 3 is the plan of God used to create his creation before the foundation of the world, before time began. And Ephesians 4, 5 and 6 is the application of how we apply God’s individual plan of our creation in this physical life experience. And Acts is the collective of the church of all of that individual characteristics that that’s exactly what the Jews were going through.

So I’m going to pick up from last week and begin. I’m going to overlay this with a couple of points from last, last week so we can get into the rest of this discussion on the salvation of the Gentiles, actually the start of the church. So it’s interesting to point out here that always, that you know, that it always comes up from people outside and even inside the church to people who teach the Bible by asking a question about, well, what about the heathen? Why do they do that? Because they have not bridged the gap that says they being Gentiles, don’t understand that they are the heathen.

Scripture identifies Jews being from the Hebrew original context of labeling. I want you to understand there was really no bloodline other than the bloodline from the 12 tribes from, from Joseph. Okay, those 12 tribes were the original bloodline of the Jews, but they weren’t identified as Jews until Ezra. They were called Israel. Then they were called Hebrew. Okay, Abraham created the Hebrews, Israel. I mean Joseph created the, the Israelites and Jews came on the scene in Ezra. So we, when you look at all of this tradition going through, you need to understand that everybody that was not part of that group basically were called heathen in the Bible and heathen in the Bible are all the Gentiles.

So are all the g, all the heathen going to die and go to hell without ever having heard the message? Well, we, we hear that. And even some of you guys looking at your own life, we hear that incessantly. This is an almost a straw man that people forever and ever throw up to Christians. When you begin your ministry, if you guys have not already started that into your communities for whatever your calling is, you’re going to come into positions where this is going to be thrown at. You might not come out as that type of just spot on question, but you’re going to get thrown at you all types of conditions that based upon the difference between Christians and heathens.

So this is the point that is graphically illustrated here as we look through these verses and look at Peter, that if an individual lives up to the light that he has now, remember, we’re all born with light. We already talked about that. Biologically at the center of our being is metabolic light. The only condition is, is whether that light grows or dispos, dispensates or dispensates and so on. So the light that you have basically is the light of your connection to the universe. Scripture says we’re all connected one to another, but we’re all connected one to another through some means.

And that means is your metabolic light. Now, if we become, for lack of a better term, saved, if we. If we begin, if we’re redeemed. That’s the best word. If we’re redeemed back to God, okay, then our light is not connected just one to another, but it’s connected back to the source where the light begin. And in doing so, God gives us more light. And the more light is manifested because you received a seed called redemption, called the Holy Spirit into your life as a home resident. And in your sanctification, you grow the light. Christ gives you all of the ability to grow the light.

So he’s going to give you more light, but you have to go get it. You get what I’m saying? So here’s Cornelius down. He’s a devout man. He fears God. This is where we talked about last week. He gives his money to the people. And the term people is used in Acts, and this term is Laos, is used in Acts to speak of the Jews. So he was actually giving money to the Jews. Now, significant term, as we talked briefly last week, this term layups, it. I think if you were to do a deep dive study on that word as it relates to geographical points in the world, I think it would be significant not only for historical map purposes in looking at where those names are, but if you take it back to from those names to the historical reference or go back from the historical reference and bring it forward, I think it would be interesting for your map study.

So he also prayed all the time. Now, Scripture says that unless you’re redeemed to Christ through salvation, you are separated from God and God doesn’t hear you. But here is a man who, in his own heart and his own mind, has come to the understanding of the true God. Now, why is that important? Because he came to that understanding. He was believing in God. He was talking to God. Now, it doesn’t say that God answered him, but he was talking to him. And he was in a period that the Holy Spirit would not come unto him until an apostle laid hands on him.

And we’ve talked about this last time, because of preparation, he had a certain amount of light, and he’s living to the full capacity of that light. And God moves in and really shows him the full light and the light of the world. Jesus Christ. God did that, not Peter. I. And I said this last time, and I’M gonna say it again. I do not believe that God ever, under any circumstances, will hinder the truth from somebody who wants to know it. Believers are unbelievers. If you want to know the truth according to scripture, without even salvation, God’s going to reveal it to you.

Why do I know that? John 7:17. Jesus said this. And he said it. He said it not predicated on the fact that you had to go through a redemption salvation, transformation process. Excuse me. He said it as a statement of fact, says this. If any man wills to do his will, he shall know the doctrine. Now, if you want to do God’s will and you’re trying to understand what it is, God’s going to reveal the doctrine to you, saved or unsafe. If anybody really wants to do what God wants him to do, God will give him sufficient life to be able to fulfill what God desires and demands.

Jeremiah 29:13 it says this. If you seek me with all your heart, you shall surely what find me. Now, I also believe that God never frustrates a truly seeking heart. Now you remember the Holy Spirit draws of God draws the man to him in order to be saved. So he draws you and you seek him. The sad thing about this is that men in our world today don’t seek God. And, but, but they move down and touch But God moves down and touches a life and turns that life around. Then God will fulfill the seeking that takes place in the heart.

And God does that in the case of Cornelius. Now you got to go Back to Matthew 7:7, where it says, ask him. You shall receive seeking you shall what find. For to everyone that asks shall be given. Everyone that seeketh he shall find to anyone that knocks it shall be open to him that is not predicated being saved or unsaved. God never restricts his full light from the one who seeks it. That’s the reason why you have free will. Free will allows you to live this physical life experience underneath the guidance of your own mind. But if your own mind wants to seek out God, then he’s going to give you the doctrine.

So God never restricts his full light from the anyone who seeks him. So you don’t have to worry about the heathen from scripture. The heathen is us. God is just to to make a God is not will never make a mistake. Let me get my words straight. He’s a loving guide with loving to ever be unnecessarily judgmental. God always gives the light to the one who lives up to the light that he has. Scripture says that he Wrote what? His laws in your heart. That’s done before birth. What is that? That’s the light. That’s your metabolic light.

We can physically see it objectively through the right test in medical test, they. And you can see it. So what this physical world has given us from science is the ability to understand that at the center of every being that is born there is a small light. And in that light is your connection to God himself universally. Now let’s get back to Cornelius Corneas was a devout man. That means he was pious and he was religious. Oh, the term religious. Not a follower of Christ, but he was religious. Okay, think about that. And he feared God.

Now most of us who have been involved with the corporate church, who, who teach the truth, I have to preface that regardless of their religious constitution, their bylaws of the church and their religious rituals, you have, and if you fear God, you have that connection through your small light to connect with God. That doesn’t mean you say let’s go back to our, our points in Ephesians on Thursday night. That does not mean you’re safe. The term feared God became a technical term for Gentiles. There were three kind of gentiles in ancient histories. In the mind of the Jews.

One kind was just the plain old run of the mill Gentile. The guy that didn’t look like him, play like him, worship like him, but was just a good being. The other kind on the scale was a God fearer. This was a Gentile who had been sick of his own religion. Think about this. The immortalities and idolatries of his own faith. Start identifying your corporate church relationship. And he was sick of the whole poly polytheistic thing. He had come to the conclusion in his mind that God of Israel was the true God. And while he didn’t have a relationship, he knew that that entity through his self awareness existed.

He began to pray to this guy. He perhaps became involved in the worship in certain synagogues at this time or temple itself. Much like if you remember the eunuch in chapter eight where Philip met. You remember the eunuch was already worshiping God and the, the process of them meeting was inevitable. But he was involved in the Jewish ethic, culture, traditions. He believed in the ethics of the Old Testament, but he had never been circumcised. So he had not come underneath the law. He was not then a full proselyte. In other words, he wasn’t converted to the Jewish faith.

He was what they called a God fearer. Now the third level of the gentile would be the proselyte who had come all the way to Judaism, actually gone through the act of circumcision and fully identified himself with Israel and was considered to be a Jew in a spiritual sense. They were converted not only to the Jewish faith, but the Jewish laws. Now during this time of history we have all three that existed and Cornelius is in the middle. He’s the middle guy. He was a God fearer. He was not a full Jew, so he is not to be considered a Gentile.

So he is to be considered a Gentile. But he did fear God. He was sick of the immorality and the emptiness of his own religion. He had attached himself to the Jewish religion. He didn’t accept the ceremonial laws perhaps and the circumcision, etc. Etc. Etc. But he often attended worship services in the temple. And it was no doubt he did that because of his interaction with Peter. Immediately when Peter came on the scene, he believed in one God and in the ethics of the Old Testament. Now it’s interesting as you study the book of Acts, you’re going to find that those are the people that Paul usually hit when he went to these Gentile cities.

Remember Paul first went to the synagogues, he went to the Jewish leaders. But in those syntags there were proselytes and middle Gentile folks that were attending worship services that did not go all the way into Judaism through creation of their acts associated with the law. Right. So Paul went into the synagogue and usually he would lead the God fearers to Christ. They were the people living up to the light they had. And then when Paul arrived, he got the rest of the light and were saved. Okay, so that is really, that’s, that is laid out for you now in detail within the scripture of Acts.

Okay, let’s go back through that. So you understand that the confusion about being saved or not saved along those the lines with your individual knowledge base of the fact that you have have now begun to study scripture, you began begin to seek out knowledge, you begin to go to religious things and you have begun to talk to God. Now all of that is good and according to scripture, but that is not salvation. So so many of the problem, because they have done that for so long, think that that process provides them with salvation. That is not true.

And so what you had in the movement of Paul was a whole lot of little groups of God fearers getting saved. Getting saved. They were going to church, they were studying the scripture, they were increasing their light little by little. They were talking to God, but they had no relationship and they became a terrible threat to all the Jews in the synagogues. Now, I want you to go, I want you to think briefly into the book of Revelation. And I want you to consider the seven churches those seven church letters were written to the seven churches in history who attended those churches.

Jews who were idol worship verse Gentiles who wanted to be part of that religion, and proselytes who had already convert Gentiles who already converted themselves all the way into Judaism and the law. So what you see is a tie in from what we’re told that was going on in the seven letters in Revelation of exactly the church in Acts. Why is that important? Because those seven letters are our history. We’ve already learned that in our study of that portion of Revelation. So here’s a picture of a man who is a very religious man. Now, I would say the majority of people in this group are religious people.

But I can also say that some of you claim that religious aspect as your salvation. And that is a problem. You can be a very religious man and not be saved. In chapter 11 of Acts, verse 14, it says this. Who shall tell thee words by which thou and all thy house. It comes to three words. Sat should shall be saved. What is Paul saying? You can go to church all you want. You can think that you’re in so religious, you know what, water just rolls off your back. But unless someone has told you in the words, the words of what the words of the scripture called redemption, salvation, transformation, sanctification, you’re not safe.

See, Cornelius was not saved. He was not a Christian. That example is just like us in this world who have gone to church all our life, but have never understood what it means to be saved. Narrow as a gate. He’s going to enter. Everybody’s gonna. I mean, what did, what did, what did the world want you to understand? What did I always said? They want you to know about God in Christ, the church, religion, but they don’t want you to have a relationship with him. So if they can consume you in all of the ritual aspects of a corporate church and all of the details, reading the scripture, singing and all that good stuff.

But they have not taught you to have the relationship with Jesus Christ. You’re not safe. And Thursday night, matter of fact, you’re classified as a fool. So Carneus was living up to the light he had. But God was moving him, drawing him into him, providing him more light, the process leading up to salvation. Up until that time he heard from Peter, he did not have enough to be fully saved. You get this with this is. This is you. You get all of these religious leaders, the pulpit of the church who went to cemetery to learn how the laws that they were going to teach you through the governmental positioning of where they were going to lead you from the church to keep you just on the line to prevent you from having a relationship with Jesus Christ.

You have just enough, but you’re not fully safe. It’s an interesting thing to see. There are many religious people active in many religious activities who are not saved. Corneas. Religion was very honest. And he was seeking the true God with a true heart. And God always honors that. See Satan and them know that. But they also know the human nature of this physical experience. We will only go as far as we need to go. To do what? Feel good. Think about it. How many of you for. For using this as example, bad example, because it’s all.

It doesn’t do anything anyway. How many of you take prescriptions until you feel good and then you stop? That’s human nature. How many of you take physical therapy till you feel good and then you stop? I’m all healed. Now, in order for God to deal with this guy Cornelius, he had not only had to choose him first of all, but secondly, he needed him to respond to his searching heart. Thirdly, he had to prepare him. And so he comes to him in a vision. We learned that last week in verse three, he saw in a vision.

Notice verse two that says he prayed to God always. You know, it seems to me that as I. That as I study the Bible, great things always happen when people are in prayer. Why? Because it’s the highest form of worship. God moved on Cornelius when he was in prayer. Do you think God gave him the vision when he was sleeping at night? No. He had no relationship. You’re not connected with God, but you’re trying to connect with God through prayer. And in that connection, sometimes God gives you information. Now, you’re going to see in a minute that.

That it was Peter when he was praying, that God moved on him as well. Prayer is a great place to be. Remember, the posture of your prayer depends upon the honor and elevation of your need. Okay. Generally speaking, the best position is prone on your face. But the next one is on your knees before God and for God to speak. And then here it happens. He saw in a vision. Cornelius did. Eventually, about the ninth hour of that day would be about 3 o’ clock in the afternoon. Significant time. Remember, the Bible is a book of codes.

And three is a number that is very important, which now three o’ clock normally during that time period, what was going to be for evening prayers for the Jews. And since he was a God fearer, he may have followed that custom and spent that 3 o’ clock time in prayer. Now and at that time he saw a vision, an angel of God coming into him, saying unto him, Cornelius called him by name. Scriptures tells us, Cornelius, and here’s the clear, crystal clear, an angel who says Cornelius. All right, God moves in response to prayer. You say, what was Cornelius praying about? Now we don’t know specifically what he was praying about, but we have a good guess because he was seeking more and more knowledge.

What’s key to that knowledge? Wisdom, revelation. He was seeking more knowledge about knowing God. He was. He probably was saying, I want this fullness that you if are talking about through your scriptures. He was searching for more light and God was about to invade him with is more light than he probably ever knew. And then here came the angel with the angelic appearance. Verse 4 says, Soldiers aren’t supposed to be afraid of anything, but he was kind of afraid of this. And even probably the bravest heart would have quaked at this experience. Can you imagine if you had an angel revealed to you and you knew it was an angel? What would you feel? That happens today, guys? Well, when he looked on him, corneas was afraid and says this, what is it, Lord? Oh, he identified the angelic experience.

And he said, just like Paul did on the Damascus road, he didn’t need to identify who it was. He knew who it was. He says, what is it, Lord? And he said unto him, he said unto him, God said unto you thy prayers and thy, and my and thy alms, meaning supporting other people are come up from a memorial before God. Now do you know something anywhere in the world, in the darkest spot of the world, in the bushiest of the bush country, God sees and reads the heart of every single individual. How? Well, light. Don’t you ever believe for a minute that God doesn’t know what’s going on in the breast of every man.

And if that man is truly living up to the light he has, God will move on him with true information. All right, I want to stop it. Ephesians 1:3. God gave us all the blessings before the foundation world of all heavenly places. How do we manifest those? By living in the light. How do we know there’s life? Because God wrote his laws in our heart. We have the light of the world. And because of his gracious mercy, His. His, his general grace, his general mercy, we all get Some part of those blessings, whether we’re saved or not.

Why? Because if you’re living to the light that you have, in that small portion, you’re able to get a small blessing. Now here’s the case. He says to him, like smoke ascending from a fire, your prayers and the deeds that you have done have risen up to the nostrils of God. And he considers it a sweat sweet smelling saber. And God is moving in response to you. Oh my gosh, where did we hear that? We heard that in the Old Testament where the Jews were offering what God told them to offer to him. And in regards to what? Offerings, sacrifices.

So remember this Carnelus was giving to the people. He was giving offerings to the people and going to church and supporting the church. What does that remind you? That tithes and offerings, guys, when you do that. And the reason why the individuals who receive those ties and offerings must give worthy thanks to God in receiving that is why. Because that becomes a sweet smelling savor to God. And he accepts it. And by doing it, he accepts you. If you’re not obedient in that area of your life, what happens? That part of your area of your life is going to be judged.

You become sick. Sick leads to what? Inequities, Inequity leads to death. Death or what? Your financial condition of his life. So Car Carnel had accepted the belief in God and God had accepted Corne according to his has an honest heart. But notice this. He couldn’t save him. Cornelius could not save himself and God could not save him. Because in the dispensation that God said, in this period of time, an apostle had to lay hands on the individual. There’s a process to the salvation today, which is why I was, I was doing some, some messages this week about the teaching on Thursday night that I was, I was concerned.

Yeah, I’m concerned for you. Why? Because I’m not sure you received the right message. But see, God couldn’t say them still apart from the true information. And so God had to move not only in response, but he had to give him the right information. What’s the right information? How to be saved. And you have to hear it. Somebody’s got to speak it. You can’t do it yourself. Oh, so why is that important? Because all along this way, when you’ve gone to church and you’ve done all of this religious stuff and you come out and say, oh you know what, I pray to God and blah blah, blah for salvation, so forth and so on.

No, that is not how this happens. The majority of you may think you’ve been saved in that regard. Well, scripture says different. And so his prayers and his devotion and his faith and the goodness of the man had risen to heaven like the sweet smelling offering. God had got his attention. And now he’s got God’s attention. Why? Because he’s obeying the law. And it had entered the nostrils of God. Okay, now it’s getting a little bit scientific here. What happens with the breath that we exhale? Don’t you think about this? You breathe in guide and we exhale what? Carbon dioxide.

Now I want you to go back and I want you to think about the four elements of your DNA. The first three elements are exactly God’s elements. And the last one is called carbon. That’s the physical element that gives us this physical life here in this world. God has nitrogen, we have carbon. God’s Holy Spirit. We happen to be physical, but the connection is through what? The air you breathe. Oh, and how do you do that? You don’t just breathe in and out, but you’re supposed to what? Speak the words of God. And when you speak the words of God, you convey energy.

Think about it, guys. Put this biological thing into play here. You speak the words of God, and when you speak the words of God, you excel. What? Carbon dioxide. The machine, your AI simulated body. This machine is in direct Correspondent To God, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, as long as you’re breathing. So God said, carneus is living up to the light he has now. And I’m going, and this is God saying, I’m going to move on his behalf. I’m going to put this together for him. Because forever, to whoever that man is who lives up to that light, God responds.

And then the angel gives him specific instructions. And I want to say this. God is always very specific. When you get a thing called, oh, I think I got a revelation of God. And it is so. It is so generic. It is so not in any detail. I didn’t come from God that just provided chaos. God is very specific. He’s very detailed, he’s very organized. He doesn’t give you generalities. Now, in verse five, it says, the angel says, send men to Japa and call for the one Simon, whose surname is Peter. Now he says this. You go to Joppa, Cornelius here.

Now here we come across another principle. God not only chooses the receiver and responds to the searching heart of the receiver and prepares the receiver for what God is going to give to them. Remember, even though you’re saved. And you’ve asked God for something and it’s not immediately manifested in your life. You might be going through preparation. Have you ever just sit back and say, okay, God, I’ve prayed this prayer. Am I in a position to receive it? What do I need to do? We never do that. We think we could command God to do whatever by just asking him to do it.

No. So God not only chooses the receiver, responds to the searching heart of the receiver and prepares the receiver, but God gives the receiver the opportunity to respond actively. Oh, my gosh. What do I need to do to allow this prayer to be fulfilled? Now, God could have said through his angel, Cornelius, all you have to do is do these steps. Do you know that God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life? Matter of fact, he did that for the foundation of the world and whatever. And he could have gone through the gospel.

Danger could do that. Let’s see. He could have simply gone right through the Gospel and said, cornelius, do you believe? Cornelius could have said, jesus, I believe. Then it would be over, Cornelius, great. But no, he. He didn’t do that. And that’s not what he does. Remember, he blinded Paul on the road and he sent him to what? A man. To give him the truth. See, Paul said that we were sent to the world for the obedience of faith. Romans 1 said that. You see, God always wants to tie with faith an act of obedience. Oh, self assessment.

The fruits. The fruits is what you’re measured by. The fruits come by what? Obedience. To what? The faith of the Gospel. Obedience. If you fail one area of obedience, you fall on them all. Because that’s what the Christian life is all about. You might as well learn it today. Okay. That’s why the Bible says if you believe in your heart. Romans 10, 9. And in 10. And do what else? Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ. You’ll be saved. Okay. I prayed a prayer or what? Just. I just prayed the prayer. Just thinking through it.

What does scripture say? Read this again. Confess with your mouth. That’s not your brain. You speak the words. Why? Because when you speak the words, you engage God with the energy from you to the energy he’s giving back to you. Biological. Do that with your mouth. Okay. The Lord Jesus Christ, he then says, you’re going to be saved. God wants some kind of act of obedience tied in with that salvation. So he gives to Carneus the opportunity to be obedient. And isn’t it interest interesting that if. If I were Cornelius, he would have been my Reaction.

You may say, can I go myself? Can I do this myself? Why do I have to sin, guys? Why do I have to do what you’re telling me to do? Can’t I just do this? No. God is very specific. We become generalized in what we understand. We become generalized in our nature to do things in a very individualistic point of view versus the specifics that God has given us. If I was told to go to Dallas, now, direct Dallas from here is 45 miles. One. Well, I can take many free. I can take one. One freeway at U S Road, or, you know what.

But I. 30, 45 miles. I mean, that’s the direct route to Dallas. But if God says, I want you to go to Dallas, it’s okay, let me get in the car and I’ll go. But he says, no, I want you to go this route. I want you to go to Quinlan. I want you to go from Quinlan to Tarot. I want to go from Tarot to Forney and for 40 to Dallas. Now, that would take me about two and a half times as long to go to Dallas. I could have said, God, I can make it a lot there.

You want me to do something, I can get there a lot faster. No, he says, I want you to go do this. Why would I ever argue about the specifics of the command that God is giving me of how, where to go? So, Carneus, I’ll go there. And so, matter of fact, he says, I want to go there. I don’t read in the next text, praise the Lord. He was obedient. He was believing God. He was obedient. And. And you say, well, why would God take this time? Carnegie sat there for days waiting on Peter. He went and he was idle for a while.

Now, I think that’s. That’s mainly two reasons. I think that’s mainly two reasons. Number one, I think it was the fact that God wanted Peter also to act on faith. I think he set this up to give both guys enough time to absorb the vision that they had in understanding the task that was going to come. And it gave them time to think about it. Now, Peter was going to have to pack and head for Cornelius’s house strictly on faith. He didn’t know this guy. He says, I mean, to have a brunch, a bunch of Roman soldiers.

I’m sorry, I need to have a bunch of Roman soldiers arrive at his door and say, come on, we’re taking you to a man who wants to see you. That’s the scary side of the story. Roman soldiers that didn’t happen. A Roman century officer was sent to a place on faith through a vision to see somebody had never met by a name of Simon Peter. And Peter was sent to see a man named Corneas that he didn’t know, never had met, but he knew he was a Roman centerman because he was well known. And he knew that if he went, there was a possibility that he would meet at least a home 100 Roman soldiers.

Secondly, I think in order to break the barriers down, I think the Lord wanted Peter to lead Cornelius to Christ in Cornelius own house, which no Jew would ever enter. And so God had the plan laid out, and Cornelius didn’t hassle God about it. Important for us. He believed and obeyed. He says, just send some men. And so he says, now send men to Joppa. Call for Simon, whose name is Peter. He lodges with Simon, a tanner. We talked about that last week. So he makes a distinction. And he could find out which one whose house it is by the seaside.

He laid. All this stuff was laid out in this vision. And we know that tanners had house by the seaside because they needed the salt water for their tanning process. So he shall tell thee what thou us to do. He said, now I’ve got my man over here, over here. Now go, senior man. This is God saying, senior man. And you wait there. They’ll come back with him. Oh, Corneas must have been on pins and needles waiting for all this to unfold. But he obeyed immediately. When the angel who spoke unto Cornelius in verse seven had departed, he called two of his household servants and devout soldiers of those that waited on him continually.

And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa. Now, immediately after sees the vision, he fires these guys out to Joppa. No waiting obedience immediately. You know, a man of less face then that would have said, now, come on, angel, is this really real? Are you really from God? And what’s all of this about going to Joppa? Why do I have to go to Joppa? I mean, if this is real, why can’t you just tell me? Don’t you have a guy here? Oh, my gosh. Think of yourself. Isn’t there somebody in Caesarea who knows this stuff? And then why can’t I just go there? Why do I have to wait this agonizing time on this person you’re sending? Why do I have to wait here? Just suspend all of this stuff and let’s get on with it.

How do I know that he’s going to believe this message? Anyway, ah, let me see. Here’s the comparison. Here’s your self assessment. But here was a man of true faith. Oh, that’s one measurement of your self assessment. And God gave him the opportunity to prove the obedience of faith. Second, self assessment. Are you obedient to the faith that God has given you? Remember, he gives it to you. You don’t get it. Giving you because of your request of salvation. God is forever, ever doing that. Right? That’s called filling with the Spirit. He’s continually filling full of him.

Now, it’s only my hope, as I exhibited Thursday night. You’re learning that. That in your life never to be impatient with God when he’s trying to teach you how to be obedient. And so immediately he does exactly what God said. And this is really exciting because it should help us to see again that God uses human instruments to do everything we say. Oh, God, why don’t you just do it yourself? That is not how God operates. If you say that you do not know scripture, God just could have come down and said, okay, Cornelius, zap. Here, I’m just going to touch you.

You’re safe. But God uses human instruments to do his work. God wanted to use Peter. Remember Acts 1:8. But ye shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you shall be what my witnesses. Ye shall be. That’s our job. You’re getting that self assessment. Our job. Our purpose in life, you might say, oh, my gosh, I don’t even know what my purpose is. Well, yeah, it is right here. It tells you you’re to be God’s witness. So Corneas is getting prepared. What are we seeing in the preparation of the receiver We’ve seen? One, God chose him.

Look at the specifics of this. God chose him. Two, God responded to his open heart. Three, God prepared the soil with the proper information and instruction. Fourth, God promised more light. He shall tell thee what thou artest to know when you have a seeking heart. And fifth, God ask for obedience of faith. Now, meanwhile, going back to Peter, he prepares the messenger down in Joppa. That’s where Peter was. Verse 9. Here’s the second vision. On the next day, after he had given Cornelius division. On the next day, as they went on their journey, which is the soldiers from Cornelius house to Jaffa, this is the two servants and the soldier.

And drew near unto the city, Peter went up onto the housetop to pray about the six sixth hour numbers. That’s noon, by the way. It’s time for prayer then, too. And so Peter Was going up on the roof to pray. They did a lot of things on the roof, by the way. I wonder why. I wonder why we sit outside. I love outdoors. I told you that a lot of times I’d much rather be outdoors than inside. It’s difficult when it gets too hot. But outdoors to me, every day for an hour or two is. Is just in my blood.

And very many times the houses were close together and the roof was kind of the area of recreation and the rest and suntan or whatever else they would do along with meditation. And so Peter went up on the roof. It’s time for Peter to get ready now. Peter didn’t know Peter need to get ready. God had a lot of work to do. Peter was, you know, he began his career as a very sincere bigot. And God had to sort of tear him down piece by piece. And now Peter’s coming apart very well so far. Remember Jew and Gentile, complete divisive situation.

He had been troublesome to the Lord periodically during the days of the Lord tenure on earth. Oh right. He was the most rebellious, hardheaded, hot apostle that ever exists. You want to go from zero to ballistic. I can imagine he was redheaded. Can you imagine that? Hebrew dark colored skin. But you got to imagine he’s redhead. The shift was coming about though, in his life. The gears in his brain were beginning to turn. Think about yourself. God’s going to mold you, right? He says that you’re. He’s molding that you as his creature, right? He’s doing that collectively in your life.

That doesn’t happen unless you’re doing sanctification, by the way. So Peter’s being molded. And the shift that the Lord needed in Peter’s life, now he’s going to. He’s not changing the basic makeup of you, but he’s changing you with that basic makeup. To do what? Be a witness for him. So Peter’s gears are changing, his brain’s shifting, they’re beginning to turn and things are beginning to come into focus as God had designed them to be. But he needed one other super kind of vision to try to get him over the hump of dealing with Gentiles. And here we’re going to see it.

We’re going to see that work of the Holy Spirit on the messenger identical to that on the receiver. First of all, God had to chose, choose the messenger. That was Peter just like he chose the receiver. Cornelius, verse 9. On the next day, as they went on their journey and drew near to the city. Peter, he’s here’s. The guy that God wants now. Now you know that if you study the Bible at all, you know that God is in the business of calling out special people for a special judge self assessment point. You think you get one calling now, you could have a different calling every day.

Look at Peter. He went to Japa. What to see a stated a tanner. And he did what? He raised a person from the dead. And then God says, okay, I need you now. Go to Japa. Do you think your calling’s just, oh, I call you and that’s all you have? Absolutely not. How many times in the Bible have you read of the prophets of old? The word of the Lord came unto me and said, boom, go do this. Or the apostle Paul says, I am an apostle not of the will of men, but of the will of God.

Or Christ hath called me as his apostle. You know, this is the part and partial of it. You can go back to Abraham. Well, God said to Abraham, you live in Ur. Get up, get out and go to the land that I will show you, you’re my man. So now do as I say. He didn’t even know where he was going. Now you got to love the conversation that we find with Isaiah and Jeremiah, which shows how directly God calls. Listen to this. If you think God isn’t sovereign and you think God isn’t caring about his own purposes, if you think everything is just up to everybody’s decision, look at this.

Isaiah 49, verse 1. Listen. O coast unto me and hearken ye peoples from far. Listen. The Lord hath called me from the womb. Oh, that was even before he’s born from the body of my mother. Hath he made mention of my name? Oh yeah. For the foundation of the world, remember? And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword in the shadow of his hand. He hath hidden me and made me a polished shaft in his quiver path. He hidden me. God has had me on his list. Oh, gosh. Foundational world from the room. I am a chosen prophet.

And it goes on to talk about it in the chapter that’s. Then there’s Jeremiah. Pearl guy, no one ever listened to anything he said. True. And yet his whole. He was faithful his whole life. How would you like to be commissioned to state the truth and nobody hears you? Go preach. Go teach. All of your life you’re spending time preaching and teaching and no one ever listens. Do you realize that was the commission of Jeremiah and he did it? You guys, if you can’t find somebody to listen to you, you don’t do. You don’t know who’s listening to you.

Jeremiah 1:5. Before I formed thee. This is God talking to Jeremiah. What? Before I formed thee, before the foundation of the world. That is God talking to him. He says, before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee. Well, of course, course he did. God says we’re in his. In the mind of God. Before the angels were created, before anything. Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee. Jeremiah. You’re one of the ones I’ve had on my list from before conception. Oh my gosh. We need to take time in our study and, and take a study time just on the word conception.

And before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. Oh. And ordained you a prophet unto the nations. Can you imagine that? When Jeremiah’s mother was still greatly child, she didn’t know what was going on. But she. But God knew she was carrying a prophet. That was already determined in white eternal eternity past. What is that? Before the foundation of the world. Then I said, ah, Lord God, this is hard to handle. Behold, I can’t speak, I’m a child. I’m ignorant. I can’t be your prophet. And then the Lord said unto him, say not, I am a child.

You know what he’s saying? This world’s saying you’re a child. I’m telling you, don’t say that. For thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whosoever I command thee, thou shalt speak. Don’t be afraid of their faces. That’s key in that time period. For I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Their faces. Who was Jeremiah talking to giants? Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Now God is in the business of choosing his messengers.

I hope you understand that the spirit of the Lord moves upon people and leads them in a way that God wants them to go. This is one of those things that we’re going to talk a little more about. If you feel God leading you strongly, you need to be obedient. God has placed his hand upon you as a messenger for a specific mission. Remember in Luke 1 the old priest Zechariah and his fairly old wife Elizabeth. And God said through an angel to them, I want to announce something. Oh, I want to announce something. Guys, here’s.

Here’s something going to be a revelation to you. You’re going to have a son. And he shall be great, and he shall turn Many of the hearts of his people to the Lord their God. And he shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He went on and on and on. His name shall be called what? John. He went down all through these things, beloved of God. You see, he went all down through this thing. And, oh, Zacharias says, have you looked at me lately? God? This is like Abraham with Sarah. I’m old. I’m very, very old.

And the Lord says, nah, never mind. So be it. You know, you’re going to have a son. And it says in there, he’s going to be a prophet. He just lays it all out. And the guy isn’t, you even conceived yet. Do you not understand that you’re predestined before the foundation of the world? Have you not read these examples of scriptures over and over and over that talks about the list, the. The. Your name in the land, book of life before the foundation of the world. Your predestined, your selection, your plan, all. You’re not getting this.

See, God’s in the business of choosing, not choosing. Today he chose an eternity past. I like John 15:16, where Jesus says this. He says to his disciples, you have not chosen me, but I’ve chosen you and ordained you that you should go forth and bring forth fruit. Why did he choose them? Well, he chose it for the foundation of the world because their names are encoded in the creation language itself. You didn’t choose me. I chose you. You aren’t wandering around the seesaw one day and saying, oh, Messiah, Messiah. I came down and I said, hey, follow me.

Fisher’s the man. I chose you. You see, God is in the business not only of choosing the receivers, but he’s also in the business of choosing the messengers. There’s no greater thrill in the world than to know you’re. You’re his chosen messenger. Now, that’s a mystery, but it’s also a joy. Get back to Peter. So Peter has. Is this chosen messenger. And all the rough edges on Peter is. Are being refined, he’s being worked on, and he’s been worked on long enough that God says, he’s got a job for you. I got a job for you, Peter.

Peter went up to pray, and in verse 10 says, and he became hungry. Now, Cornelius was fasting at this time. Verse 30 says, and when he was spoken to by his vision, Peter was doing maybe the same thing. Anyway, he went up there and he was hungry, and he would have eaten. But while they were being made ready, he was going to go down and eat. When it was ready, they Were getting lunch ready, who’s going to go down and eat? But he fell into a trance and the Greek word here is extasion. His senses were suspended is what it means.

He was in a sensual suspension, that is, he could not really comprehend sensually what was going on. At that particular point God invaded his consciousness with a vision. And it’s interesting how that in this vision was involving eating. So God accompanied to his hunger and here it comes. And in his vision he saw heaven open. He looks up and there’s heaven. Oh well that’s upward. He sees it open portal. And a vessel descended unto him as it had been a great sheet knit out of the four corners and let down to the earth. Now here comes a big sheet.

We don’t know how what the size of the sheet is. It just says it’s a big sheet. Now this isn’t a sheet literally, but it’s as it had been a sheet. Which means it was some kind of large tarp like thing. It had four corners and probably pulled together and tied with a rope. And the rope extending into heaven, the thing is lowered down this big tarp with four corners tied. Now that’s interesting, right? Verse 12 is even more interesting. In which were all manner all four footed beast of the earth, and wild beast and creepiest thing and fowls of the year.

Now it’s full of all conglomeration of animals. This tarp is this big chart that he sees in his vision. Now the animal in this thing, and here’s the key point, the animals in it were clean and unclean. You see back in Leviticus chapter 11. Matter of fact, let’s go back even further. God told. No, God told Noah to load the ark, we’re taught, with clean animals. He loaded them both with clean and unclean. Now let’s go to Leviticus, chapter 11. God laid down some absolute absolutes in terms of the diet of Israel. Now you know, don’t turn that to it.

We’re just going to talk to it in Leviticus 11. You need to read that, that chapters sometime just to see what this is. He says in verse two there, these are the beasts which you shall eat. Among all beasts that are on the earth, whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven footed, and cheth the cud among his beast that you shall eat. Nevertheless, these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud of them that have divided the camel, because he cheweth the good, but divideth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you, and you can’t eat the rock badger and you can’t eat the hair and you, and that’s not the rabbit.

And as we know it today, by the way, that’s a Hebrew word, arabeth, which is translated hair. But it shouldn’t be, it’s, it’s another type of animal. And then you should, shouldn’t eat pigs and so forth and so forth. Basically was laying out the, the Jewish food chart. And if you eat anything out of the sea that doesn’t have scales or fins, that’s an abomination. Oh, what’s that? Oh what’s that? Shrimp have scales or fins? Does lobster have scales or fins? Do oysters have scales or fins? Octopus has skills of in Calamore by the way. Scallops don’t have skeles or spins.

In essence, anything that lives at the bottom you shall not eat. And he goes all the way down to list certain birds. Okay, so forth and so on. So these are, these are given to Israel as their dietary laws. And so consequently in the mind of a Jew, as Peter lived the law for all of his life up into Pentecost, there was a division between clean animals and unclean animals. And no self respecting kosher Jew would ever eat anything but clean animals. And Peter was this, he never touched anything but clean. Because that was the tradition, matter of fact we talked about last week.

If you touched a dead body, it was unclean, you had to go, you couldn’t do anything, shake hands, eat whatever, unless you went and washed first. Then you might say, well why did God make this distinction? Why did God make clean and unclean animals? Well, I think number one that there were are some animals who were perhaps more liable to carry epidemic type diseases. And because of the fact that the preparation of food in those days wasn’t anything to what it became, God was kind of purifying Israel from at least the dominant threat of epidemic parasites.

Absolutely. Because you see, they lived in a community that was always close together. If one got sick, they all got sick. Go just take a look at the, what happened in, in Europe when the plague hit? Okay. They moved in the wilderness in like a little garrison of people all jammed together. If an epidemic ever broke out, it could wipe them all out. And what did God use? He used all of the time in Egypt to build his nation and he needed to keep that nation intact. Why? Because that was the bloodline and the people chosen people to give Christ is tenure here and to be the witness of God himself.

That was their purpose, which they didn’t do, by the way. Now Although I think it’s a minor point of God’s preserve their existence in that way he could have kept the diseases from them by giving what siren power. They could have said okay nation, I’m going to instill in you all my sovereign power more that you can clean whatever you want to eat and eat what you want. Nope, that’s not what he does. He only gives you what you’re entitled to. The major point is this. God had him eating certain animals and not certain other animals for this primary reason to distinguish them from other Gentile peoples.

Now in those days, oh think about this. If you were able to eat what Gentiles ate, then you would have been okay to go to the Gentile houses to what intermingle. And what happens when you do that? Social intercourse occurs at banquets. They didn’t have any of the entertainment we have today. What was the big deal were feasts read about them in all of the time in the Bible feast. They were forever and ever having feasts and you always see them lying around on couches. And then the Roman phase where they would throw up and then go back and eat more and all those horrible things.

And oh not only that, they were having social orgies. So in prevention of a bloodline corruption, he prevented the Jews for partaking in that which the Gentiles did. So they would not be able to go into Gentiles homes or in their empires, which is really what happened to feast with them in order to protect number one the nation and number two the bloodline, or vice versa. So God gave the Jews such distinct dietary laws that they shouldn’t. They couldn’t get together socially with Gentiles. That was the point. Because as they went into the land of Canaan, now we’re talking about the land of the giants, the land of Cain.

It was so easy for them to get intermingled, but it happened anyway. But God drew the lines so that they would not be able, were they obedient to his standards, to be able to have a social kind relationship with the Gentiles. That was the whole point. The Gentiles were idolatrous neighbors. And you might say, oh, he’s making this up. Well no I’m not. That’s what the Bible says in Leviticus, chapter 20, verse 25. You knew I have a verse for that, right? It says this. You shall put the difference between clean beast and unclean, between unclean, foul and clean.

Ye shall make your souls abominable by beast or foul, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground which I have separated you as unclean. Now you might ask why. Well, it goes on. And be holy unto me, for I, the Lord am holy and have separated you from other people that you should be mine. That says, I don’t want you getting involved with the Gentiles. I don’t want you acting like they act and doing what they do. And of course, those banquets turned into orgies. And so he just drew these lines. Oh, what? Those are the laws.

Right. We also learned in the New Testament that the laws of the old world, other than diet, well, even the laws of the old world, because he changed those, became the laws of the New Covenant. In my old days, as transparent I will be in my old days working on Wall Street. I’m not happy as of my life back then, but it was, it was part of it. Investors like to feast not only on food, but flesh. And it was taught at a very early age that if you want to be successful on Wall street, you’ve got to cater to the investors that have the money in this world.

Right. He’s got the money in this world. Majority Lucifer matrix people. Why? Number one? Because Christians think that being successful is a bad thing. Christians think that having money goes back to the scripture in misinterpreting what the scripture has to say, that it’s all evil. So there was really very few Christians. And still today, by the way, they don’t have a lot of money now. That’s not bad either. But God didn’t make us to live in poverty. He made us to thrive. Thrive, meaning being successful. Successful means that basically you’re going to obtain the wealth of God.

What? Go back and look at Abraham, go back and look at David. Yeah. Did they have sin in their life? Yes. But they were not only successful, they throw. They thrived in the time of social times. They were wealthy. They had all of this stuff. What did the world teach us? The world taught us the inverse of all that. Why? Because they wanted to hoard it. Because the people that have the money control us. The mindset of our life has got to change. It’s not in having the wealth. That’s the issue. The issue is your relationship with Jesus Christ.

He will direct you or to invest money because he will grow his kingdom through what? Human intervention. That’s what he does. And if we do not step up to the table and understanding that wealth creation is a form of God’s plan for his people, we’re missing the boat. I’m going to get to the end here. This whole story about Carneus and Peter really is a focus on today. Jews, Jews, because they were put on the shelf in Acts, remember Romans, to act because they had what they had not accepted Messiah as Messiah. Therefore, Christ put them on the shelf and they live without him.

Now, I want you to understand what that means. They live in the world. They live as part of the world. They continue to worship their idols because they don’t worship the one true God. And that condition with Christians is what this is all about in this teaching. Now, Mark, chapter seven, verse 14 says this. And this is Jesus’s words. Hearken unto me, every one of you, and understand this carefully. There is nothing from outside of a man that can enter into him, that can defile him. Well, that’s a shocking statement to the Jews, shocking statement to the world today, because that’s what they want to do.

Because they thought if you ever put pork in your mouth then, or if you ever go against the Jewish religion today, that was it. I have good friends in New York, Jewish friends, they’re kosher, but boy, they like a good barbecue pork sandwich. But he says, that’s not anymore. This is Jesus at the time. The things which came out of you, they’re the ones that defile you. What is he saying? I’m through with the ceremonial things. I want for you to understand that what I’m talking about are spiritual things. Guys, I want you to listen to this.

This statement that was made by Christ is the baseline of the New Age movement. Now, down in verse 19, he says this because it entereth and he goes on. He says, are you so, without understanding, do you not perceive that what, whatever thing from outside enters into the man, it can’t defile him. Why? Because it enters not into his heart, the home. It doesn’t go into the heart, it goes into his stomach. And literally the Greek here is making all meats clean. You eat something, goes through the bodily process and. And is eliminated. But he says, the thing I’m concerned about is what’s on the inside spiritually.

Verse 21. Evil thoughts, murder, fornication, adultery, theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, mischievousness, evil eye, blasphemy, pride. All these evil things come from within and defile the man. What’s Jesus telling us? Simply this. I’m not concerned anymore about what you’re putting in your mouth. I’m concerned about what’s coming out of it. Timothy goes on and is very, very clear on this point. First Timothy 4, who will come? And they will teach you to abstain from foods which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving. Listen this verse 4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.

You see, even then Paul knew that there were Judaizers who were trying to push off dietary laws on Gentiles. And he’s simply saying they’re false teachers. There are no dietary laws anymore. Get together. And again I say, that’s the message of romance. Romans 14. That’s the specific significance. Now, I want to close by looking at this. The apostle Paul operated on this principle. It says in Acts 18:9. You don’t need to look it up, just listen. 18:9 to 11. Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision. Be afraid, be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace.

Oh, that was good. Because Paul was probably matter what he said when he said it. For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee. God says, you’re my prepared messenger. And then he says this to him, for I have many people in this city. I’ve got many prepared receivers. In the next verse he says this. And he continued there a year and six months teaching the word of God among them, and here came the prepared messenger, the prepared receiver. God said, now is the time. God is in the business of doing this.

And that is exactly what we should be doing. We are to be his messengers, and we are to be prepared for any calling at any point as many times during a day or day to day or week to week or month to month. We’re not called for one specific task. You might be called for a general task, teach, but in that teaching you’re going to have specific callings all along the way. And it’s our job to be prepared and it’s our job to have that relationship with Christ. Then when he’s ready to tell us our task, we’re ready to receive it.

And that doesn’t happen without sanctification. Guys, I can only pray that we’re available for the intersecting of those divine tongues. With that, I’m done. Any questions? Comments? Actually made it through it. Cool. Anything? Sure. All right, let’s pray. Father, thank you for this morning. Thank you for the time to get together. We appreciate the fact that you revealing Scripture to us in a manner by which not only do we can we comprehend it, but we can understand it. Gain your wisdom and then seek out additional reality revelation through our study of our sanctification into you, Father, we ask that basically you continue to guide us.

Open our hearts to the truth. Continue to work with those who are in need of health healings and give a healing hand to those we ask that basically are with those that are in rehabilitation. Give them the complete mind of understanding that while they’re under hurts and pains that basically that is a condition of healing in itself through you Father, we ask continue blessing over our minds and our hearts and understanding that this world is corrupt and what’s going on in this world is a cleaning out of the corruption and the ability to insert yourself back into soc.

Society world society in a manner by which allows us to continue this life. Without it, basically we were dead. Father, go with us the rest of the week. We have a tremendous program set up for this week study time. And we ask that basically you give us the time and, and and the effort to come to those and study what you are revealing to us. We want to thank you for your son. Thank you for choosing us before the foundation of the world, for writing our names in the Lamb’s book of life, for giving us salvation, showing us the redemptive process, transformation, sanctification.

Prepare us for what’s to to come. God give us the wisdom and understandment to look to you in everything and not look to a man or you use men to do your thing. But you’re all, you’re the only one that’s behind it and I thank you for that. We give you all the glory. We love everything that’s going on and we ask all these things in right now.
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