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 We still have some scripture journals, although this will be the last Sunday in Acts for some time.

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 If you have one of these scripture journals, please turn to Acts chapter 10, and it will be on page 58.

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 So we're going to look at the entirety of the chapter. We won't read every last verse.

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 It is a long chapter, but you'll understand because the flow, in a sense, it's one story,

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 and to break it up would be a bit difficult.

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 But before we get into Acts chapter 10, as a way of a bit of an introduction,

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 I really enjoy sports movies, although I haven't watched a good one in some time.

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 I was talking recently about how good Rudy was.

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 I've always been a big fan of Rudy and Hoosiers.

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 A good soundtrack on a good sports movie really helps as well.

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 Gets me excited.

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 But one of the movies I really think is fantastic is Remember the Titans.

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 It's a fairly newer movie compared to Rudy or Hoosiers, but it's an old story.

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 Even though it takes place in the 70s, it's really an age-old story.

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 It's a story, in this case, of a football team in Virginia that experiences a lot of barriers to success,

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 the biggest of which is racial segregation.

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 Half the team is white, half the team is black, and their biggest opponent seems to be themselves.

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 And there's something wonderful about Remember the Titans,

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 not just simply because it's based on a true story and it's very inspiring,

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 but it sees segregation dissolving in a way that speaks to something that is truly transcendent,

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 something that is almost impossible to see come about on earth

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 if it not for the spirit and the gospel of Christ.

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 There's this wonderful scene in it where the two leaders on the team,

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 one white, one black, come together at this one play,

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 and it seems like this is the beginning of redemption.

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 So we come to Acts 10,

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 and a section of Acts that is incredibly crucial for the rest of the narrative,

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 but really the rest of the history of the gospel for the next 2,000 years and into the future.

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 We see the gospel transition from primarily, almost entirely,

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 a Jewish gospel, Jewish-centric, to moving towards the Gentiles.

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 Cornelius will be the first Gentile to receive the gospel,

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 and he is not just any ordinary Gentile.

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 Gentile is one who is not a Jew,

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 but he is a Roman soldier

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 and part of the occupying force.

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 Maybe it would be a bit easier to have the gospel, in a sense,

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 go to a Gentile who is not as offensive to Jewish sensibilities in the first century.

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 But here we have Cornelius, a Roman soldier,

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 being the first person that the gospel spreads to that isn't Jewish.

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 So our text will help us to see how the gospel, in a sense,

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 isn't just good news for the unbeliever,

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 but we'll also see how in this the gospel is good news for the believer.

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 It's not simply that we accept the gospel and move on to bigger and better things,

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 but the gospel comes to flavor every aspect of our lives.

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 We come to faith, we have a conversion, we hear the gospel,

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 but then afterwards, as Christians, we have a number of other conversions, so to speak.

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 Not conversions from being an unbeliever to a believer,

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 but conversions of ways of thinking from a wrong worldview to a right worldview.

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 Thinking like a secularist, a modernist to thinking like a Christian.

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 So we see these two kinds of conversions in our story today,

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 and on its, on its, the very kind of, the surface level,

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 we see a Gentile converting, but really we're going to see Peter converting as well.

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 So, we'll see that with conversions, we'll see, again, three, I guess in a sense, principles.

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 The first is that God takes the initiative to draw people to himself.

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 The second is that God confronts false ways of life in those he calls.

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 And then finally, God transforms all who are in him by the outpouring of his Holy Spirit.

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 So the first point, God takes the initiative to draw people to himself.

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 Acts 10, it begins with a centurion named Cornelius.

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 He's a centurion, which simply means that he's in charge of 100 soldiers.

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 I saw some conflicting things in my studies this week, but he would be maybe similar to a major.

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 I don't know if it's exactly apples to apples, but in today's armed forces, he'd be like a major.

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 So, not necessarily the highest of high, but certainly not just some regular soldier.

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 He's an important man.

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 Israel, as you remember, is occupied by the Romans.

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 He is a part of that occupying force.

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 And he lives in Caesarea, which is along the coast, if you can kind of picture ancient Israel.

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 Peter is at Joppa, which is Jaffa.

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 It's kind of on the southern coastal tip.

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 Caesarea is about 60 kilometers north, still on the coast.

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 And Caesarea, it's a fairly new city in this time.

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 And it was the bureaucratic headquarters, so to speak, of Rome in Judea.

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 So, this man is, in a sense, an occupier.

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 He is living in a city that really, in some ways, shouldn't exist.

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 It represents everything that the Jewish population hates about being occupied by Rome.

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 And we see that this man, Cornelius, has begun to worship this Jewish god.

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 It's a bit of a remarkable story, if we understand the backdrop.

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 So, Cornelius begins to worship this Jewish god.

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 And he seems to be a really good family man, for he leads his family to do the same.

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 And we come to find out that even though he was pursuing God, in a sense, God was drawing him, even in a greater way.

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 So, look with me, verses 1 to 8.

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 At Caesarea, there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian cohort.

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 He was a devout man who feared God with all his household.

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 He gave alms generously to the people and prayed continuously to God.

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 About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly, in a vision, an angel of God come in and say to him,

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 Cornelius.

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 And he stared at him in terror and said,

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 What is it, Lord?

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 It's interesting that his reaction was terror.

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 This is kind of the classic reaction to some kind of angelic visit throughout the Bible.

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 It is not like, hey, there's an angel, that's cool.

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 It is dread.

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 People turn white.

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 They fall down dead.

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 There's anxiety and panic and fear.

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 And this is what Cornelius is experiencing here.

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 Verse 5.

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 Verse 4.

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 Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God, and now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon, who is called Peter.

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 He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

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 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him.

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 And having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

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 God is getting his attention.

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 God is drawing this man to himself.

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 In the same way that Saul encounters God, so too does Cornelius have this supernatural encounter with this angelic being,

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 or this, in the case of Paul, this God himself, Christ himself.

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 On one hand, Cornelius is doing religious things.

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 He is doing things that are pleasing to God.

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 But in a sense, he is still an outsider.

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 He's still outside the covenant community.

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 We'll see in a little bit that he still has, he's still prone to worship things or people that aren't the God of the Bible.

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 It's also very likely that if he is in a full convert, he is worshiping the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Hebrew God.

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 But at the same time, he would undoubtedly, especially as a Roman soldier, he would be worshiping the cult of Caesar at the very least.

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 Caesar, who fashioned himself as a God-man, required worship.

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 Maybe he also worshipped Jupiter, or Minerva, or Mars, some of the Roman pantheon.

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 But he is still, he is moving, he is trending towards the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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 And more importantly, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is moving towards him.

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 Some of us have come to faith as adults, or have returned to the faith of our youth.

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 This process may have seemed like a long and winding journey of thinking and reading and wrestling, and surely it has been that.

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 But a text like this tells us that as much as you are pursuing God and wrestling through difficulty,

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 that God is at work in your life drawing you to himself.

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 He has taken initiative not because you are a special person, or because you look a certain way,

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 or come from a specific family, or speak a specific language.

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 Because he is choosing to draw you to himself.

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 God makes the initiative.

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 And although it looks like we are the one finding God,

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 God is allowing himself, in a sense, to be discovered.

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 Because he wants to be discovered.

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 He wants to be found.

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 He wants us to know him.

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 And he has gone to great lengths.

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 And he is eager for you to find him.

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 Cornelius, he is seeking God, even though he isn't doing it necessarily perfectly.

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 But God sees what is happening.

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 And he is, in a sense, invading his life.

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 He is drawing Cornelius to himself.

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 Cornelius was seeking God, but God had orchestrated an encounter with Peter.

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 For as Cornelius' messengers were approaching Joppa,

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 God would be drawing another person's heart towards himself, Peter, in a very similar way.

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 This leads us to our second point, that God confronts false ways of life in those he calls.

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 That God, in a sense, sanctifies us, opens our eyes, helps us to walk in obedience towards him.

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 So let's continue reading verses 9 to 16.

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 The next day, as they were on their journey approaching the city,

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 that is, the two servants and the devout soldier that Cornelius sent,

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 Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

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 So this is about 21 hours later, the next day.

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 And Peter became hungry and wanted something to eat.

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 But while they were preparing it,

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 he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened

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 and something like a great sheet descending,

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 being let down by its four corners upon the earth.

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 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air.

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 And there came a voice to him,

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 Rise, Peter, kill and eat.

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 But Peter said,

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 By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten

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 anything that is common or unclean.

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 And the voice came to him again a second time,

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 What God has made clean, do not call common.

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 Verse 16,

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 This happened three times and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.

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 This is a very perplexing vision that Peter has.

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 But to really grasp its significance,

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 we must understand the reality of Jewish-Gentile relations in the first century.

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 So in the first century, Jews did not mix with Gentiles.

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 It just didn't happen.

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 It's not that they were mortal enemies.

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 It's not like this is a millennia-old example of the Hadfields and McCoys

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 or the Montagues and the Capulets.

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 There were real prejudices that existed,

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 but they're more so along religious lines.

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 Now, it's not to say that there wasn't ethnic prejudices as well,

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 but primarily there were religious prohibitions within the Jewish camp

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 against anybody who were non-Jews.

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 There's some big problems with assimilation,

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 where Jews would, in a sense, adopt a lot of Roman or Greek customs,

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 but even then there was some uneasiness about that.

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 That wasn't the standard practice.

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 We see some of that, actually, in Acts chapter 2 as well.

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 So there were biblical injunctions against Jews mixing, in a sense, with Gentiles,

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 but it never went beyond, in a sense, religious or biblical prohibitions.

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 It was always, in a sense, on religious grounds in relationship to fidelity to God.

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 So a lot of the dietary restrictions, so to speak,

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 they weren't necessarily given because, you know,

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 pigs will mess you up and change your DNA if you eat them.

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 It wasn't some kind of physiological thing,

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 but it was, in a sense, a symbol of God's people being set apart from the other nations.

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 It was an issue of cleanliness.

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 Cleanliness, not in the sense where one is made dirty

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 just by being a certain ethnicity or speaking a certain language,

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 but an uncleanliness that, in a sense, is on a spectrum

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 where holiness, God himself, is over here,

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 and every degree away from God is just not clean.

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 This is the language that was used.

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 It was unclean.

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 But the problem is, by the first century,

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 this biblical command was expanded to no longer be dynamic,

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 so that in the Bible, one could be unclean,

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 but they could then do things to become clean again.

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 But by the time the first century comes around,

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 if you weren't Jewish, you were just unclean.

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 You were a problem.

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 I mean, maybe not a problem to yourself,

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 but certainly a problem to the people of God.

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 This is not what God wanted.

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 And it's not just Peter, in a sense,

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 having this vision of these unclean animals

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 that are, in a sense, symbolically pointing towards

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 how the Gentiles are actually not unclean, but clean.

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 But it is going to try him and try his sensibilities

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 because that mentality of expanding the biblical injunction

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 to completely prohibit Gentiles had seeped into the church.

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 And now the church, who is primarily Jewish,

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 yeah, God is the God of all people,

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 but really he's still the God of us.

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 Jesus is the Messiah of the whole world,

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 but really just for us.

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 And God was challenging Peter in this thinking.

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 This is one of, in a sense, the conversions that Peter has.

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 That no longer can he think in ethnic superiority,

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 in terms of ethnic superiority,

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 but now all of these boundaries that, in a sense,

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 have their root in the Bible,

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 but have been expanded to mean so much more

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 and go against what God had envisioned,

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 all of that is getting completely shattered.

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 Peter's hungry.

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 God speaks to him in a way that will get his attention.

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 And he sees all the various animals in the world,

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 all unclean animals,

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 and he's commanded to eat them.

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 Snakes, various kinds of carrion,

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 all sorts of scaleless fish,

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 octopi,

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 things that Jews would never touch

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 with a 10-foot pole.

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 Peter, you pious Jew,

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 get up, kill, eat.

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 The dread that would have fallen on him.

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 Am I thinking this in my own head?

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 Maybe I'm being attacked by some kind of demonic force.

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 And yet three times it is said,

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 and Peter seems to have been spoken to by God

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 in a way that he least expected.

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 And he begins to go through, in a sense,

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 a type of conversion,

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 a change of his thinking.

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 A bit later on,

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 we will see that Peter gets the message loud and clear

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 in verse 27, 28, and 29.

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 But to really understand

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 how scandalous this would have been,

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 is to really,

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 I mean, it's hard for us to really grasp this

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 in Ottawa in 2024.

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 But real, true, ethnic prejudice

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 was extended towards the Gentiles

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 from the Jewish nation.

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 In the Gospel,

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 Peter learns, and we learn,

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 that all people are clean,

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 and therefore have an equal footing

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 with one another in Christ Jesus.

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 That God is the God of all people.

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 Cornelius could be worshipping Jupiter,

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 and Minerva, and Mars, and Caesar,

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 and whoever else, or whatever else.

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 But when he comes to faith in Christ,

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 he is made clean.

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 He is transformed.

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 And Peter needs to understand that.

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 He needs to grasp that.

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 Because God has not made

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 two separate, adjacent churches.

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 There is one church.

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 And it doesn't matter

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 if you are Jew or Greek.

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 Now, that does not mean

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 that those categories are erased.

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 Peter doesn't cease to be a Jew.

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 Cornelius doesn't cease to be a Roman.

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 But they are one in Christ.

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 So, Cornelius sends his people.

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 Peter, he is warned that these people

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 are going to come.

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 He has them into his house,

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 which is the beginning of this transformation

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 with Peter.

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 To have in his,

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 at least the lodging that he's staying with,

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 the lodging that he's staying in,

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 to host non-Jews would be

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 scandalous and unclean.

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 He has them in.

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 The next day,

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 him, Cornelius' guys,

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 and six others,

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 so there's ten total,

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 they'll go to Caesarea.

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 It would have been a day's journey.

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 And then,

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 Cornelius reiterates the timeline.

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 And then we find ourselves

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 at verse 34.

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 This is what Peter says.

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 Understanding now

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 the full extent of that vision

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 and what God's purpose are for,

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 what God's purpose is rather

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 for the non-Jews.

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 And this is what he says.

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 So Peter opened his mouth and said,

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 Truly I understand

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 that God shows no partiality,

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 but in every nation

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 anyone who fears him

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 and does what is right

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 is acceptable to him.

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 That's the crux of the story

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 right there,

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 verse 34 and 35.

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 And it's the beauty of the gospel.

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 God is no respecter of people.

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 God,

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 what God does is not contingent

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 upon you or me.

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 And that's a bit of a big deal.

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 God is above us.

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 He is, in a sense,

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 perfect will.

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 He is not swayed.

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 He is not convinced

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 to do one thing or the other

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 that is against his will.

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 He will do his will.

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 Favoritism is out the door.

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 He calls who he wants

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 to call regardless of who they are.

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 And this is truly wonderful news for us

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 because it means that God

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 will save fully.

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 And apart from who we are

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 or what we will do,

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 he, if he chooses to save,

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 he will save.

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 This means that evildoers

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 will not go unpunished

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 because God perverts justice

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 by showing partiality.

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 Nobody, in a sense,

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 has God in their pocket.

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 He shows no partiality.

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 But on the flip side,

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 no one needs to fear

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 God's rejection

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 out of partiality against them.

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 What does this mean?

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 It means that God is perfect

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 in his justice.

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 And if he chooses to save,

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 he will.

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 And we can take him

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 at his word.

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 Anyone from anywhere

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 who comes to faith

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 in the Lord Jesus Christ

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 begins to live

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 out a life

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 obedient to his rule

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 and reign

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 and no longer

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 are under judgment

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 but are acceptable

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 to him.

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 Verse 35.

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 We become Christians.

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 The gospel continually

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 corrects our false thinking

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 and confused worldview

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 and we grow

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 in joyful obedience.

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 That is

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 that next step,

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 that sanctifying work,

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 that purifying work

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 that God does in us.

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 He changes our thinking.

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 But,

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 this confronting

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 of a false belief system

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 only begins,

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 in a sense,

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 before we come,

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 or that it does begin

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 before we come to the Lord.

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 And we'll look at

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 Cornelius here

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 in verse 23 to 25.

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 This is what it says.

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 The next day,

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 he rose and went away with them.

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 This is Peter

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 and his group.

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 And some of the brothers

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 from Joppa accompanied him.

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 And on the following day,

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 they entered Caesarea.

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 Cornelius was expecting them

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 that it called together

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 his relatives

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 and close friends.

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 Verse 25.

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 When Peter entered,

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 Cornelius met him

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 and fell down

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 at his feet

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 and worshipped him.

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 But Peter lifted him up

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 saying,

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 Stand up.

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 I too am a man.

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 I mentioned at the beginning

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 that Cornelius

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 almost certainly worshipped

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 other gods.

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 Almost certainly

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 was not monotheistic.

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 Yet,

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 in a sense,

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 the truth of the matter is

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 God was still

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 at work with him

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 because Cornelius

00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:02.900
 was looking,

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 in a sense,

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 to the only God

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 that exists.

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 And this helps us

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 to understand

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 that

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 even before

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 and even after

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 we come to faith,

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 we struggle

00:24:15.140 --> 00:24:15.920
 with the worship

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 of other gods,

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 other things.

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 We put our faith

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 and trust

00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:20.699
 in things

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 that are not

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 God,

00:24:23.679 --> 00:24:24.539
 that do not lead

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 to God.

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 We do not look

00:24:25.699 --> 00:24:26.319
 to the gospel

00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:27.159
 for salvation.

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 We look to other things.

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 We do not live

00:24:32.099 --> 00:24:33.199
 infidelity

00:24:33.199 --> 00:24:34.459
 to the triune God

00:24:34.459 --> 00:24:36.339
 immediately after

00:24:36.339 --> 00:24:37.139
 we come to faith.

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 But as the gospel

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 takes hold

00:24:39.939 --> 00:24:40.579
 in our lives,

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 the reality

00:24:41.179 --> 00:24:42.439
 of being members

00:24:42.439 --> 00:24:43.159
 of the kingdom

00:24:43.159 --> 00:24:43.979
 of God

00:24:43.979 --> 00:24:45.579
 begins to take root

00:24:45.579 --> 00:24:46.199
 and we grow

00:24:46.199 --> 00:24:47.139
 in our obedience

00:24:47.139 --> 00:24:48.519
 and our devotion

00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:49.220
 to Christ,

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 he exposes

00:24:51.939 --> 00:24:52.460
 gently

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 but very vividly

00:24:54.619 --> 00:24:56.179
 our false

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 and curated

00:24:57.419 --> 00:24:57.980
 religions

00:24:57.980 --> 00:24:59.859
 that we have

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 lived by,

00:25:00.879 --> 00:25:01.899
 our ethos,

00:25:02.699 --> 00:25:04.980
 the very thing,

00:25:05.179 --> 00:25:06.079
 the worldview

00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:07.279
 that informs

00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:07.960
 our coming

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 and our going.

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 This is not easy

00:25:11.199 --> 00:25:12.439
 but it's necessary.

00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:12.940
 God,

00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:14.920
 he is no respecter

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:15.539
 of people

00:25:15.539 --> 00:25:16.660
 but he is also

00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:18.100
 a jealous God.

00:25:19.140 --> 00:25:20.120
 He will not share

00:25:20.120 --> 00:25:20.680
 the throne

00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:21.900
 with anybody else.

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 Contrary to

00:25:25.120 --> 00:25:26.259
 much of

00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:27.019
 modern thought,

00:25:27.140 --> 00:25:28.019
 we don't actually

00:25:28.019 --> 00:25:28.660
 live in a

00:25:28.660 --> 00:25:30.000
 truly secular age.

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 We live in a

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 very religious age.

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 Not necessarily

00:25:34.100 --> 00:25:35.000
 in the classic

00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:36.759
 categories

00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:37.840
 of religion

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 but we are

00:25:38.820 --> 00:25:39.880
 inundated with

00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:41.220
 truth claims

00:25:41.220 --> 00:25:42.200
 and in a sense

00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:43.360
 religious claims,

00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:44.819
 belief structures

00:25:44.819 --> 00:25:45.860
 that oftentimes

00:25:45.860 --> 00:25:47.000
 are antithetical

00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:48.200
 to the gospel.

00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:51.180
 We have

00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:52.380
 a misguided view

00:25:52.380 --> 00:25:53.079
 of what it looks

00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:54.220
 like to be humans

00:25:54.220 --> 00:25:56.680
 made in God's image

00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:58.940
 of what the good life

00:25:58.940 --> 00:25:59.380
 is,

00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:00.220
 what salvation

00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:00.839
 is

00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:02.279
 and God

00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:03.920
 as he saves us

00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:04.700
 he desperately

00:26:04.700 --> 00:26:05.819
 wants to change

00:26:05.819 --> 00:26:06.480
 this mentality

00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:07.059
 to give us

00:26:07.059 --> 00:26:07.420
 in a sense

00:26:07.420 --> 00:26:08.180
 another conversion.

00:26:08.180 --> 00:26:10.539
 We must grow

00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:11.200
 in our allegiance

00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:11.940
 to Christ

00:26:11.940 --> 00:26:13.500
 and he is patient

00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:14.080
 as we

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 gradually

00:26:14.940 --> 00:26:16.820
 bend the knee

00:26:16.820 --> 00:26:18.279
 to Christ

00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:19.140
 in all areas

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 of our lives.

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 But if you've been

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:23.440
 a Christian for some time

00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:24.380
 this isn't something

00:26:24.380 --> 00:26:25.279
 that is easy

00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:26.420
 and it takes

00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:27.519
 great strength

00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:28.180
 and determination

00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:29.080
 and even then

00:26:29.080 --> 00:26:30.660
 you fail.

00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:32.740
 It is only by the power

00:26:32.740 --> 00:26:33.580
 of the Holy Spirit

00:26:33.580 --> 00:26:34.120
 that we can

00:26:34.120 --> 00:26:35.200
 make this change

00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:35.880
 and this leads to

00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:36.820
 the third point

00:26:36.820 --> 00:26:37.780
 that God transforms

00:26:37.780 --> 00:26:39.140
 all who are in him

00:26:39.140 --> 00:26:40.400
 by the outpouring

00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:40.980
 of the Spirit.

00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:43.660
 So with a captive audience

00:26:43.660 --> 00:26:45.900
 verse 34

00:26:45.900 --> 00:26:47.560
 Peter begins

00:26:47.560 --> 00:26:48.380
 proclaiming

00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:49.320
 to the Gentiles

00:26:49.320 --> 00:26:49.920
 the gospel

00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.820
 for the first time

00:26:50.820 --> 00:26:51.420
 and this is what

00:26:51.420 --> 00:26:52.380
 he says.

00:26:53.080 --> 00:26:54.100
 So Peter opened

00:26:54.100 --> 00:26:54.540
 his mouth

00:26:54.540 --> 00:26:55.100
 and said

00:26:55.100 --> 00:26:56.000
 truly I understand

00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:56.940
 that God

00:26:56.940 --> 00:26:58.560
 shows no partiality

00:26:58.560 --> 00:27:00.300
 but in every nation

00:27:00.300 --> 00:27:01.680
 anyone who fears him

00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:02.680
 and does what is right

00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:03.820
 is acceptable to him.

00:27:03.819 --> 00:27:05.539
 As for the word

00:27:05.539 --> 00:27:06.599
 that he sent to Israel

00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:07.740
 preaching good news

00:27:07.740 --> 00:27:08.279
 of peace

00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:09.319
 through Jesus Christ

00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:10.879
 he is Lord of all

00:27:10.879 --> 00:27:12.339
 you yourselves

00:27:12.339 --> 00:27:13.480
 know what happened

00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:15.039
 throughout all Judea

00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:16.139
 beginning from Galilee

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 after the baptism

00:27:17.679 --> 00:27:18.679
 that John proclaimed

00:27:18.679 --> 00:27:19.879
 and how God

00:27:19.879 --> 00:27:20.839
 anointed Jesus

00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:21.559
 of Nazareth

00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:22.539
 with the Holy Spirit

00:27:22.539 --> 00:27:23.200
 and with power

00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:24.480
 he went about

00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:25.119
 doing good

00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:25.619
 and healing

00:27:25.619 --> 00:27:26.879
 all who were oppressed

00:27:26.879 --> 00:27:28.740
 literally tyrannized

00:27:28.740 --> 00:27:29.700
 by the devil

00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:30.899
 for God

00:27:30.899 --> 00:27:31.460
 was with him

00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:32.940
 and we are witnesses

00:27:32.940 --> 00:27:34.220
 of all that he did

00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:34.980
 both in the country

00:27:34.980 --> 00:27:35.539
 of the Jews

00:27:35.539 --> 00:27:36.440
 and in Jerusalem

00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:38.259
 they put him to death

00:27:38.259 --> 00:27:39.079
 by hanging him

00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:40.160
 on a tree

00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:41.779
 but God raised him

00:27:41.779 --> 00:27:42.519
 on the third day

00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:43.539
 and made him to appear

00:27:43.539 --> 00:27:45.100
 not to all the people

00:27:45.100 --> 00:27:45.960
 but to us

00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:47.319
 who had been chosen

00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:48.019
 by God

00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:49.039
 as witnesses

00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:50.920
 literally eyewitnesses

00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:51.799
 who ate

00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:52.700
 and drank with him

00:27:52.700 --> 00:27:53.720
 after he rose

00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:54.319
 from the dead

00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:55.740
 and he commanded us

00:27:55.740 --> 00:27:56.860
 to preach to the people

00:27:56.860 --> 00:27:58.059
 and to testify

00:27:58.059 --> 00:27:59.840
 that he is the one

00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:00.859
 appointed by God

00:28:00.859 --> 00:28:01.519
 to be judge

00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:02.000
 of the living

00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:02.500
 and the dead

00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:04.319
 to him all the prophets

00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:05.079
 bear witness

00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:06.299
 that everyone

00:28:06.299 --> 00:28:07.399
 who believes in him

00:28:07.399 --> 00:28:08.459
 receives forgiveness

00:28:08.459 --> 00:28:09.159
 of sins

00:28:09.159 --> 00:28:10.799
 through his name

00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:12.679
 notice

00:28:12.679 --> 00:28:13.980
 that Peter

00:28:13.980 --> 00:28:14.539
 is clear

00:28:14.539 --> 00:28:15.279
 that the gospel

00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:16.500
 cannot be separated

00:28:16.500 --> 00:28:17.679
 from the literal life

00:28:17.679 --> 00:28:18.759
 death

00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:19.379
 and resurrection

00:28:19.379 --> 00:28:20.139
 of Christ

00:28:20.139 --> 00:28:21.419
 I mean there's a lot

00:28:21.419 --> 00:28:21.819
 in there

00:28:21.819 --> 00:28:22.859
 but he goes

00:28:22.859 --> 00:28:23.740
 to great extent

00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:24.639
 to talk about how

00:28:24.639 --> 00:28:25.879
 from the Galilee

00:28:25.879 --> 00:28:27.139
 after the baptism

00:28:27.139 --> 00:28:27.779
 of John

00:28:27.779 --> 00:28:28.660
 into Jerusalem

00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:30.039
 that Jesus lived

00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:30.879
 that he died

00:28:30.879 --> 00:28:31.680
 he was crucified

00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:32.859
 he was buried

00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:33.960
 three days later

00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:34.680
 he rose

00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:35.940
 we saw him

00:28:35.940 --> 00:28:36.759
 we ate with him

00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:37.559
 we drank with him

00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:38.660
 he stayed with us

00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:40.960
 Peter is saying

00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:41.819
 that the gospel

00:28:41.819 --> 00:28:42.839
 can't be divorced

00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:43.660
 from the literal

00:28:43.660 --> 00:28:44.599
 person of Christ

00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:45.920
 or the literal

00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:47.099
 resurrection of Christ

00:28:47.099 --> 00:28:48.180
 the time that Jesus

00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:49.379
 stayed with the disciples

00:28:49.379 --> 00:28:49.920
 afterwards

00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:51.319
 until he ascended

00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:52.000
 into heaven

00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:53.660
 Jesus

00:28:53.660 --> 00:28:54.920
 truly

00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:55.720
 came

00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:56.779
 and there are

00:28:56.779 --> 00:28:57.700
 eyewitnesses

00:28:57.700 --> 00:28:58.500
 not just one

00:28:58.500 --> 00:28:59.180
 not just two

00:28:59.180 --> 00:29:00.059
 not even twelve

00:29:00.059 --> 00:29:02.140
 but Jesus appeared

00:29:02.140 --> 00:29:02.860
 to many

00:29:02.860 --> 00:29:04.000
 and many people

00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:05.960
 it's not one

00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:07.059
 lone prophet

00:29:07.059 --> 00:29:07.819
 in a cave

00:29:07.819 --> 00:29:08.420
 in Arabia

00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:09.680
 who gets

00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:10.400
 a revelation

00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:11.360
 from God

00:29:11.360 --> 00:29:13.019
 it is not

00:29:13.019 --> 00:29:13.920
 one man

00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:14.480
 in

00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:16.140
 New York

00:29:16.140 --> 00:29:18.019
 in the 1800s

00:29:18.019 --> 00:29:18.360
 who gets

00:29:18.360 --> 00:29:19.420
 a private revelation

00:29:19.420 --> 00:29:20.140
 from God

00:29:20.140 --> 00:29:21.100
 it's not some guru

00:29:21.100 --> 00:29:21.720
 who has

00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:23.900
 a series

00:29:23.900 --> 00:29:24.820
 of enlightenment

00:29:24.820 --> 00:29:25.980
 by himself

00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:26.740
 and then

00:29:26.740 --> 00:29:27.700
 tells everybody

00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:28.340
 it is

00:29:28.340 --> 00:29:29.600
 a real

00:29:29.600 --> 00:29:30.640
 literal

00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:31.400
 resurrection

00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:32.220
 that is witnessed

00:29:32.220 --> 00:29:33.240
 by many people

00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:34.840
 remember

00:29:34.840 --> 00:29:37.700
 this is spoken

00:29:37.700 --> 00:29:38.320
 to

00:29:38.320 --> 00:29:40.220
 Cornelius

00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:40.460
 who

00:29:40.460 --> 00:29:42.200
 very well

00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:42.740
 could have

00:29:42.740 --> 00:29:43.700
 heard

00:29:43.700 --> 00:29:44.820
 that this

00:29:44.820 --> 00:29:47.160
 other insurrectionist

00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:48.360
 Jesus of Nazareth

00:29:48.360 --> 00:29:49.180
 was hung on the tree

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:49.960
 it's not like

00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:50.360
 this is

00:29:50.360 --> 00:29:51.680
 some idea

00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:52.440
 for Cornelius

00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:53.480
 it was a real person

00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:54.080
 that he would have

00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:54.720
 heard about

00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:56.700
 Peter is saying

00:29:56.700 --> 00:29:57.539
 I've seen him

00:29:57.539 --> 00:29:58.400
 and there are others

00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:58.860
 and I can

00:29:58.860 --> 00:30:00.420
 I can show you

00:30:00.420 --> 00:30:01.200
 other people

00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.580
 or get other people

00:30:02.580 --> 00:30:03.259
 to testify

00:30:03.259 --> 00:30:03.720
 on

00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:05.420
 on my behalf

00:30:05.420 --> 00:30:06.420
 it's not just me

00:30:06.420 --> 00:30:07.240
 who has seen him

00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:08.100
 but other people

00:30:08.100 --> 00:30:10.440
 and look at verse 43

00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:11.680
 this is what

00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:12.640
 he ends with

00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:13.500
 he says

00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:14.120
 to him

00:30:14.120 --> 00:30:14.840
 all the prophets

00:30:14.840 --> 00:30:15.440
 bear witness

00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:16.340
 and here it is

00:30:16.340 --> 00:30:16.980
 that everyone

00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:18.140
 who believes in him

00:30:18.140 --> 00:30:19.660
 receives forgiveness

00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:20.480
 of sins

00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:21.420
 through his name

00:30:21.420 --> 00:30:23.180
 that if you

00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:24.080
 believe in Christ

00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:24.900
 that he rose

00:30:24.900 --> 00:30:25.560
 from the grave

00:30:25.560 --> 00:30:26.300
 that he literally

00:30:26.300 --> 00:30:26.820
 came

00:30:26.820 --> 00:30:28.840
 to live

00:30:28.840 --> 00:30:29.440
 to die

00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:30.420
 to rise again

00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:32.120
 for our sins

00:30:32.120 --> 00:30:32.820
 your sins

00:30:32.820 --> 00:30:33.840
 are no more

00:30:33.840 --> 00:30:35.400
 there's a bit

00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:35.740
 here

00:30:35.740 --> 00:30:36.640
 where he says

00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:37.380
 that he was

00:30:37.380 --> 00:30:38.680
 hung on a tree

00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:40.120
 he doesn't necessarily

00:30:40.120 --> 00:30:41.140
 I mean he's

00:30:41.140 --> 00:30:42.080
 alluding to the cross

00:30:42.080 --> 00:30:42.759
 but he doesn't say

00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:43.480
 he was crucified

00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:44.980
 to hang on the tree

00:30:44.980 --> 00:30:46.259
 in Deuteronomy 21

00:30:46.259 --> 00:30:47.039
 is to be

00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:47.960
 cursed

00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:50.120
 and Jesus

00:30:50.120 --> 00:30:51.259
 Peter is saying

00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:52.860
 takes your curse

00:30:52.860 --> 00:30:53.680
 upon himself

00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:54.740
 and he becomes

00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:55.079
 cursed

00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:56.000
 so that you

00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:56.519
 could be

00:30:56.519 --> 00:30:57.819
 free

00:30:57.819 --> 00:30:59.420
 or put another way

00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:00.519
 Jesus takes

00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:01.799
 your uncleanliness

00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:03.160
 and puts it

00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:03.799
 upon himself

00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:05.200
 so that you

00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:05.860
 would be made

00:31:05.860 --> 00:31:06.259
 clean

00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:07.940
 holy

00:31:07.940 --> 00:31:09.960
 connected with God

00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:10.819
 in the very

00:31:10.819 --> 00:31:11.860
 presence of God

00:31:11.860 --> 00:31:12.360
 himself

00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:13.680
 and what happens

00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:14.440
 afterwards

00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:15.559
 in verse 44

00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:16.019
 and on

00:31:16.019 --> 00:31:16.340
 is

00:31:16.340 --> 00:31:18.740
 again

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:19.360
 with all the

00:31:19.360 --> 00:31:20.519
 background of

00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:21.340
 Jewish Gentile

00:31:21.340 --> 00:31:21.799
 relations

00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:22.700
 it's incredible

00:31:22.700 --> 00:31:23.240
 and this is what

00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:23.660
 it says

00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:25.720
 while Peter

00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:26.279
 was still

00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:26.860
 saying these

00:31:26.860 --> 00:31:27.120
 things

00:31:27.120 --> 00:31:27.960
 the Holy Spirit

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:28.860
 fell on all

00:31:28.860 --> 00:31:29.480
 who heard the

00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:29.740
 word

00:31:29.740 --> 00:31:31.160
 and the believers

00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:31.759
 from among

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.519
 the circumcised

00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:32.960
 that is

00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:33.980
 the Jewish people

00:31:33.980 --> 00:31:34.480
 who had come

00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:34.860
 with Peter

00:31:34.860 --> 00:31:35.660
 were amazed

00:31:35.660 --> 00:31:36.720
 because the

00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:37.259
 gift of the

00:31:37.259 --> 00:31:37.820
 Holy Spirit

00:31:37.820 --> 00:31:38.700
 was poured out

00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:39.480
 even on

00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:40.460
 the Gentiles

00:31:40.460 --> 00:31:41.420
 for they were

00:31:41.420 --> 00:31:41.960
 hearing them

00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:43.039
 speaking in tongues

00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:44.059
 and extolling God

00:31:44.059 --> 00:31:45.200
 a pause there

00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:46.379
 mid-sermon

00:31:46.379 --> 00:31:47.079
 the Holy Spirit

00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:47.519
 falls

00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:48.359
 mid-sermon

00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:50.519
 it is as if

00:31:50.519 --> 00:31:51.359
 God is

00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:53.000
 I don't want to

00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:53.859
 necessarily attribute

00:31:53.859 --> 00:31:55.480
 human attributes

00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:56.240
 to God

00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:56.839
 but it's almost

00:31:56.839 --> 00:31:57.480
 as if God

00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:58.720
 is too eager

00:31:58.720 --> 00:31:59.639
 to give them

00:31:59.639 --> 00:32:00.119
 himself

00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:01.639
 that he's not

00:32:01.639 --> 00:32:02.079
 even going to

00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:02.799
 wait until the

00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:03.399
 end of the sermon

00:32:03.399 --> 00:32:04.379
 and just pours out

00:32:04.379 --> 00:32:04.819
 the spirit

00:32:04.819 --> 00:32:05.519
 on these people

00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:06.679
 and these people

00:32:06.679 --> 00:32:07.460
 are so eager

00:32:07.460 --> 00:32:08.419
 to receive God

00:32:08.419 --> 00:32:09.759
 that they've

00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:10.220
 heard enough

00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:10.799
 in a sense

00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:11.799
 and they are

00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:12.700
 extolling God

00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:13.559
 they are praising God

00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:13.919
 they have put

00:32:13.919 --> 00:32:14.759
 faith in God

00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:15.720
 and God

00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:16.599
 responds in

00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:17.019
 kind

00:32:17.019 --> 00:32:20.059
 Peter

00:32:20.059 --> 00:32:21.599
 has recognized

00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:22.159
 this

00:32:22.159 --> 00:32:23.740
 and he is

00:32:23.740 --> 00:32:24.319
 in a sense

00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:24.919
 saying listen

00:32:24.919 --> 00:32:25.500
 if God

00:32:25.500 --> 00:32:25.899
 has saved

00:32:25.899 --> 00:32:26.339
 these people

00:32:26.339 --> 00:32:26.839
 who are we

00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:27.259
 to withhold

00:32:27.259 --> 00:32:27.700
 baptism

00:32:27.700 --> 00:32:28.679
 as a sign

00:32:28.679 --> 00:32:29.720
 of entryway

00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:30.519
 into the church

00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:32.000
 and here

00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:32.679
 not since

00:32:32.679 --> 00:32:33.359
 Pentecost

00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:34.099
 in chapter 2

00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:34.599
 do we hear

00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:35.460
 anything about

00:32:35.460 --> 00:32:35.919
 tongues

00:32:35.919 --> 00:32:36.419
 for whatever

00:32:36.419 --> 00:32:37.700
 the tongues

00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:38.159
 are

00:32:38.159 --> 00:32:39.139
 and I try

00:32:39.139 --> 00:32:39.700
 to tackle

00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:40.099
 this in

00:32:40.099 --> 00:32:41.000
 the Sunday

00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:41.440
 follow-up

00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:41.820
 I send

00:32:41.820 --> 00:32:41.960
 out

00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:42.440
 midweek

00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:43.680
 I think

00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:43.920
 it's

00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:44.799
 back in

00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:45.180
 September

00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:45.720
 or October

00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:46.120
 whatever

00:32:46.120 --> 00:32:46.720
 but it's

00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:47.140
 there

00:32:47.140 --> 00:32:47.980
 whatever

00:32:47.980 --> 00:32:48.460
 tongues

00:32:48.460 --> 00:32:49.080
 is

00:32:49.080 --> 00:32:50.680
 referring

00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:50.920
 to

00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:51.279
 here

00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:53.740
 Luke

00:32:53.740 --> 00:32:54.940
 has recorded

00:32:54.940 --> 00:32:55.940
 it in a way

00:32:55.940 --> 00:32:56.340
 to say

00:32:56.340 --> 00:32:56.660
 that this

00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:57.160
 is a second

00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:57.799
 Pentecost

00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:59.200
 that it is

00:32:59.200 --> 00:32:59.600
 not just

00:32:59.600 --> 00:33:00.080
 that the

00:33:00.080 --> 00:33:00.480
 Jews

00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:01.360
 had their

00:33:01.360 --> 00:33:02.580
 coming to

00:33:02.580 --> 00:33:02.960
 faith

00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:03.460
 this new

00:33:03.460 --> 00:33:03.759
 covenant

00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.120
 where the

00:33:04.120 --> 00:33:04.580
 Holy Spirit

00:33:04.580 --> 00:33:05.140
 was poured

00:33:05.140 --> 00:33:06.039
 onto them

00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:06.380
 and that the

00:33:06.380 --> 00:33:06.779
 Holy Spirit

00:33:06.779 --> 00:33:07.240
 came into

00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:08.240
 their lives

00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:08.600
 and in their

00:33:08.600 --> 00:33:08.940
 hearts

00:33:08.940 --> 00:33:09.279
 and they were

00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:09.880
 new creations

00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:10.880
 but what

00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:11.180
 happened

00:33:11.180 --> 00:33:11.500
 with the

00:33:11.500 --> 00:33:12.060
 Gentiles

00:33:12.060 --> 00:33:12.400
 it was

00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:12.780
 kind of

00:33:12.780 --> 00:33:13.080
 like

00:33:13.080 --> 00:33:13.640
 salvation

00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:14.080
 light

00:33:14.080 --> 00:33:15.180
 it was

00:33:15.180 --> 00:33:15.540
 kind of

00:33:15.540 --> 00:33:15.880
 like

00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:17.100
 Holy Spirit

00:33:17.100 --> 00:33:17.580
 light

00:33:17.580 --> 00:33:19.100
 what Luke

00:33:19.100 --> 00:33:19.400
 is trying

00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:19.900
 to tell us

00:33:19.900 --> 00:33:20.140
 is that

00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:20.800
 this is

00:33:20.800 --> 00:33:21.260
 the same

00:33:21.260 --> 00:33:21.640
 thing that

00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:22.060
 happened to

00:33:22.060 --> 00:33:22.380
 the Jewish

00:33:22.380 --> 00:33:22.820
 people in

00:33:22.820 --> 00:33:23.260
 Acts chapter

00:33:23.260 --> 00:33:23.600
 2

00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:24.680
 because the

00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:25.260
 Gentiles

00:33:25.260 --> 00:33:26.420
 are 100%

00:33:26.420 --> 00:33:27.000
 legitimate

00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:27.860
 members

00:33:27.860 --> 00:33:28.580
 of the

00:33:28.580 --> 00:33:28.920
 church

00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:29.760
 of God

00:33:29.760 --> 00:33:30.440
 why

00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:31.120
 because of

00:33:31.120 --> 00:33:31.520
 Christ

00:33:31.520 --> 00:33:32.900
 not because

00:33:32.900 --> 00:33:33.220
 of who

00:33:33.220 --> 00:33:33.660
 they are

00:33:33.660 --> 00:33:34.420
 but because

00:33:34.420 --> 00:33:35.240
 who Christ

00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:35.660
 is

00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:37.360
 so the

00:33:37.360 --> 00:33:37.940
 spirit is

00:33:37.940 --> 00:33:38.380
 given to

00:33:38.380 --> 00:33:38.900
 them in the

00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:39.360
 same kind

00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:39.879
 way that

00:33:39.879 --> 00:33:40.119
 it is

00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:40.500
 given to

00:33:40.500 --> 00:33:40.899
 the Jewish

00:33:40.899 --> 00:33:41.339
 believers

00:33:41.339 --> 00:33:41.839
 in Acts

00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:42.479
 chapter 2

00:33:42.479 --> 00:33:44.899
 the Gentiles

00:33:44.899 --> 00:33:45.539
 are full

00:33:45.539 --> 00:33:46.039
 and true

00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:46.719
 members of

00:33:46.719 --> 00:33:47.119
 the one

00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:47.559
 holy

00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:48.059
 catholic

00:33:48.059 --> 00:33:48.819
 and apostolic

00:33:48.819 --> 00:33:49.279
 church

00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:50.899
 catholic

00:33:50.899 --> 00:33:51.419
 meaning that

00:33:51.419 --> 00:33:51.879
 it is for

00:33:51.879 --> 00:33:52.500
 all people

00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:53.219
 apostolic

00:33:53.219 --> 00:33:53.799
 meaning that

00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:54.299
 it is the

00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:54.959
 gospel of

00:33:54.959 --> 00:33:55.319
 Christ

00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:56.199
 that is

00:33:56.199 --> 00:33:57.479
 proclaimed

00:33:57.479 --> 00:33:58.139
 by the

00:33:58.139 --> 00:33:58.639
 apostles

00:33:58.639 --> 00:34:00.939
 only the

00:34:00.939 --> 00:34:01.459
 spirit of

00:34:01.459 --> 00:34:01.839
 God

00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:03.079
 through the

00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:03.699
 gospel of

00:34:03.699 --> 00:34:03.939
 God

00:34:03.939 --> 00:34:04.459
 can bring

00:34:04.459 --> 00:34:04.839
 together

00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:05.559
 such diverse

00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:06.240
 people into

00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:07.599
 the church

00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:11.119
 wrapping

00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:11.619
 things up

00:34:11.619 --> 00:34:12.179
 the mutual

00:34:12.179 --> 00:34:12.679
 recognition

00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:13.079
 of the

00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:13.579
 Jews

00:34:13.579 --> 00:34:14.000
 to the

00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:14.539
 Gentiles

00:34:14.539 --> 00:34:14.820
 and the

00:34:14.820 --> 00:34:15.300
 Gentiles

00:34:15.300 --> 00:34:15.619
 to the

00:34:15.619 --> 00:34:15.900
 Jews

00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:16.199
 is at

00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:16.380
 the

00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:16.619
 heart

00:34:16.619 --> 00:34:16.960
 of this

00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:17.380
 chapter

00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:18.579
 it's at

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:18.860
 the heart

00:34:18.860 --> 00:34:19.099
 of the

00:34:19.099 --> 00:34:19.500
 gospel

00:34:19.500 --> 00:34:20.820
 that in

00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:21.300
 Christ

00:34:21.300 --> 00:34:23.179
 people are

00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:23.699
 united

00:34:23.699 --> 00:34:24.860
 in a way

00:34:24.860 --> 00:34:25.320
 that

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:26.800
 that transcends

00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:27.380
 the things

00:34:27.380 --> 00:34:27.860
 that we can

00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:28.579
 do or

00:34:28.579 --> 00:34:29.980
 try or

00:34:29.980 --> 00:34:30.820
 the programs

00:34:30.820 --> 00:34:31.679
 we try to

00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:33.280
 try to

00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:33.800
 launch but

00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:34.900
 it is rooted

00:34:34.900 --> 00:34:35.340
 in the

00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:35.920
 immutable

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.980
 Christ

00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:37.880
 the unchanging

00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:38.280
 one

00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:39.519
 the salvation

00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:40.640
 one on

00:34:40.640 --> 00:34:41.200
 the cross

00:34:41.200 --> 00:34:44.080
 prejudice

00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:45.160
 between

00:34:45.160 --> 00:34:46.180
 various groups

00:34:46.180 --> 00:34:47.280
 are not

00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:47.740
 new it's

00:34:47.740 --> 00:34:48.500
 age old

00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:50.300
 but only

00:34:50.300 --> 00:34:51.000
 Christ

00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:52.800
 can unite

00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:53.980
 such diverse

00:34:53.980 --> 00:34:55.080
 and broken

00:34:55.080 --> 00:34:55.519
 people

00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:57.220
 this is why

00:34:57.220 --> 00:34:58.580
 this

00:34:58.580 --> 00:34:59.780
 move

00:34:59.780 --> 00:35:00.539
 within

00:35:00.539 --> 00:35:03.060
 our secular

00:35:03.060 --> 00:35:03.620
 society

00:35:03.619 --> 00:35:04.239
 our secular

00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:04.859
 society

00:35:04.859 --> 00:35:06.059
 of diversity

00:35:06.059 --> 00:35:06.859
 inclusion

00:35:06.859 --> 00:35:07.900
 equity

00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:08.819
 all these

00:35:08.819 --> 00:35:09.500
 programs

00:35:09.500 --> 00:35:11.319
 they

00:35:11.319 --> 00:35:12.719
 at their

00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:13.099
 core

00:35:13.099 --> 00:35:14.539
 will not

00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:14.920
 work

00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:16.539
 because

00:35:16.539 --> 00:35:17.339
 the issue

00:35:17.339 --> 00:35:18.219
 is a sin

00:35:18.219 --> 00:35:18.639
 issue

00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:19.440
 and an evil

00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:19.859
 issue

00:35:19.859 --> 00:35:21.219
 and a

00:35:21.219 --> 00:35:21.819
 brokenness

00:35:21.819 --> 00:35:22.159
 issue

00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:22.819
 it's a

00:35:22.819 --> 00:35:23.199
 supernatural

00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:23.859
 issue

00:35:23.859 --> 00:35:24.559
 and the

00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:25.019
 only way to

00:35:25.019 --> 00:35:25.420
 fix a

00:35:25.420 --> 00:35:25.859
 supernatural

00:35:25.859 --> 00:35:26.239
 issue

00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:27.159
 is by a

00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:27.599
 supernatural

00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:28.059
 savior

00:35:28.059 --> 00:35:29.319
 not through

00:35:29.319 --> 00:35:29.960
 natural

00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:30.659
 means

00:35:30.659 --> 00:35:31.539
 and the

00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:32.179
 great irony

00:35:32.179 --> 00:35:33.199
 in trying

00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:33.579
 to fix

00:35:33.579 --> 00:35:34.339
 a supernatural

00:35:34.339 --> 00:35:34.819
 issue

00:35:34.819 --> 00:35:36.219
 by natural

00:35:36.219 --> 00:35:36.739
 means

00:35:36.739 --> 00:35:38.079
 is that it

00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:38.919
 only perpetuates

00:35:38.919 --> 00:35:39.460
 the problem

00:35:39.460 --> 00:35:41.819
 just this week

00:35:41.819 --> 00:35:42.579
 two stories

00:35:42.579 --> 00:35:43.119
 about

00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:44.199
 universities

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:46.139
 rolling out

00:35:46.139 --> 00:35:46.960
 various

00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:47.839
 DEI

00:35:47.839 --> 00:35:48.519
 campaigns

00:35:48.519 --> 00:35:49.000
 have proved

00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:49.219
 this

00:35:49.219 --> 00:35:49.559
 one

00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:50.779
 in Waterloo

00:35:50.779 --> 00:35:51.299
 it's a

00:35:51.299 --> 00:35:52.139
 black only

00:35:52.139 --> 00:35:52.940
 time to

00:35:52.940 --> 00:35:53.239
 swim

00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:54.559
 how does that

00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:55.059
 bring people

00:35:55.059 --> 00:35:55.440
 together

00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:56.259
 how does that

00:35:56.259 --> 00:35:57.159
 unite people

00:35:57.159 --> 00:35:58.299
 how does that

00:35:58.299 --> 00:35:59.420
 take

00:35:59.420 --> 00:36:00.199
 differences

00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:01.639
 not ignore

00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:02.039
 them

00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:02.779
 but say

00:36:02.779 --> 00:36:03.139
 listen

00:36:03.139 --> 00:36:03.719
 we are going

00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:04.199
 to unite

00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:04.960
 around something

00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:05.899
 greater and

00:36:05.899 --> 00:36:06.119
 bigger

00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:06.819
 it doesn't

00:36:06.819 --> 00:36:08.960
 similarly

00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:09.759
 on the

00:36:09.759 --> 00:36:10.239
 campus of

00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:10.519
 York

00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:11.119
 University

00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:12.460
 a Jewish

00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:12.819
 group

00:36:12.819 --> 00:36:13.539
 was told

00:36:13.539 --> 00:36:14.819
 well they

00:36:14.819 --> 00:36:15.339
 weren't told

00:36:15.339 --> 00:36:15.679
 but they

00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:16.460
 were discouraged

00:36:16.460 --> 00:36:16.980
 from meeting

00:36:16.980 --> 00:36:17.460
 because

00:36:17.460 --> 00:36:18.480
 it would

00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:19.500
 in a sense

00:36:19.500 --> 00:36:20.159
 cause

00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:23.279
 uncomfortableness

00:36:23.279 --> 00:36:23.779
 to

00:36:23.779 --> 00:36:25.259
 people of

00:36:25.259 --> 00:36:25.819
 Palestinian

00:36:25.820 --> 00:36:26.700
 dissents

00:36:26.700 --> 00:36:27.160
 not an

00:36:27.160 --> 00:36:27.720
 Israel

00:36:27.720 --> 00:36:28.180
 group

00:36:28.180 --> 00:36:28.780
 a Jewish

00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:29.160
 group

00:36:29.160 --> 00:36:31.180
 obviously

00:36:31.180 --> 00:36:31.460
 there's

00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:31.940
 overlap

00:36:31.940 --> 00:36:32.220
 but they're

00:36:32.220 --> 00:36:32.660
 separate

00:36:32.660 --> 00:36:33.940
 a separate

00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:34.680
 aspect of

00:36:34.680 --> 00:36:35.000
 that as

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:35.280
 well

00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:36.240
 again

00:36:36.240 --> 00:36:37.320
 the

00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:37.960
 desire

00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:38.240
 to

00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:38.840
 unite

00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:41.420
 because

00:36:41.420 --> 00:36:41.760
 of a

00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:42.100
 supernatural

00:36:42.100 --> 00:36:43.260
 issue

00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:44.180
 by natural

00:36:44.180 --> 00:36:44.640
 means

00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:44.980
 only

00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:45.660
 perpetuates

00:36:45.660 --> 00:36:46.320
 the problem

00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:48.500
 only in

00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:49.019
 the gospel

00:36:49.019 --> 00:36:49.400
 do we

00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:49.720
 have

00:36:49.720 --> 00:36:50.440
 true

00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:51.860
 inclusivity

00:36:51.860 --> 00:36:52.380
 true

00:36:52.380 --> 00:36:52.940
 equity

00:36:52.940 --> 00:36:54.600
 even

00:36:54.600 --> 00:36:55.240
 in the

00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:56.000
 face of

00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:56.739
 diversity

00:36:56.739 --> 00:36:57.119
 great

00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:57.619
 diversity

00:36:57.619 --> 00:36:57.899
 Jew

00:36:57.899 --> 00:36:58.399
 Gentile

00:36:58.399 --> 00:36:58.939
 diversity

00:36:58.939 --> 00:37:01.559
 because

00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:02.439
 the only

00:37:02.439 --> 00:37:03.159
 true

00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:03.899
 immutable

00:37:03.899 --> 00:37:05.239
 reality

00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:05.679
 in the

00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:06.000
 universe

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:06.399
 is that

00:37:06.399 --> 00:37:06.859
 Christ

00:37:06.859 --> 00:37:08.959
 is a

00:37:08.959 --> 00:37:09.199
 true

00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:09.539
 savior

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:09.859
 and that

00:37:09.859 --> 00:37:10.119
 we are

00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:10.359
 true

00:37:10.359 --> 00:37:10.679
 sinners

00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:12.639
 all who

00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:12.959
 put their

00:37:12.959 --> 00:37:13.519
 faith and

00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:13.979
 hope in

00:37:13.979 --> 00:37:14.359
 Christ

00:37:14.359 --> 00:37:15.019
 have

00:37:15.019 --> 00:37:15.459
 forgiveness

00:37:15.459 --> 00:37:16.619
 and their

00:37:16.619 --> 00:37:17.439
 sins are

00:37:17.439 --> 00:37:17.819
 washed

00:37:17.819 --> 00:37:18.299
 clean

00:37:18.299 --> 00:37:18.959
 no longer

00:37:18.959 --> 00:37:19.879
 unclean

00:37:19.879 --> 00:37:20.219
 people

00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:20.759
 but clean

00:37:20.759 --> 00:37:21.159
 people

00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:21.979
 no longer

00:37:21.979 --> 00:37:22.979
 common

00:37:22.979 --> 00:37:23.479
 people

00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:24.240
 but are

00:37:24.240 --> 00:37:24.639
 holy

00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:25.159
 people

00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:26.960
 for God

00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:27.599
 transforms

00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:28.159
 all who

00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:28.539
 are in

00:37:28.539 --> 00:37:28.900
 Christ

00:37:28.900 --> 00:37:29.280
 Jesus

00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:29.880
 by his

00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:30.079
 Holy

00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:30.480
 Spirit

00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:31.219
 this is

00:37:31.219 --> 00:37:31.500
 the hope

00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:31.740
 of the

00:37:31.740 --> 00:37:32.099
 gospel

00:37:32.099 --> 00:37:33.000
 this is

00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:33.500
 the truth

00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:34.000
 of Acts

00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:34.300
 10

00:37:34.300 --> 00:37:35.960
 and this

00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:36.240
 is what

00:37:36.240 --> 00:37:36.599
 ought to

00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:37.079
 mark a

00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:37.420
 church

00:37:37.420 --> 00:37:38.159
 like ours

00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:39.980
 we come

00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:40.480
 from

00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:41.900
 some similar

00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:42.340
 backgrounds

00:37:42.340 --> 00:37:42.760
 of course

00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:43.260
 but we also

00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:43.619
 come from

00:37:43.619 --> 00:37:43.920
 different

00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:44.420
 backgrounds

00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:45.340
 so what

00:37:45.340 --> 00:37:45.780
 unites

00:37:45.780 --> 00:37:46.179
 us

00:37:46.179 --> 00:37:47.440
 is because

00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:47.679
 we have

00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:47.980
 the same

00:37:47.980 --> 00:37:48.559
 sports

00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:50.059
 favorite

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:50.480
 sports

00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:50.820
 teams

00:37:50.820 --> 00:37:51.420
 or hobbies

00:37:51.420 --> 00:37:52.739
 or likes

00:37:52.739 --> 00:37:54.019
 for cuisine

00:37:54.019 --> 00:37:54.860
 or interests

00:37:54.860 --> 00:37:55.960
 all very

00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:56.619
 great stuff

00:37:56.619 --> 00:37:57.000
 important

00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:57.440
 stuff

00:37:57.440 --> 00:37:58.440
 can't be

00:37:58.440 --> 00:37:58.699
 the thing

00:37:58.699 --> 00:37:59.239
 that unites

00:37:59.239 --> 00:37:59.440
 us

00:37:59.440 --> 00:37:59.719
 we are

00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:00.119
 united

00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:00.599
 around the

00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:00.880
 banner

00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:01.400
 of Christ

00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:01.860
 Christ

00:38:01.860 --> 00:38:03.059
 Christian

00:38:03.059 --> 00:38:04.279
 forgiveness

00:38:04.279 --> 00:38:05.099
 of sins

00:38:05.099 --> 00:38:06.219
 made clean

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 by the

00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:06.880
 blood

00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:07.279
 of the

00:38:07.279 --> 00:38:07.539
 lamb

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 this is

00:38:08.139 --> 00:38:08.639
 what

00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:09.019
 unites

00:38:09.019 --> 00:38:09.420
 us

00:38:09.420 --> 00:38:11.320
 that's

00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:11.679
 the only

00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:11.880
 thing

00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:12.179
 that can

00:38:12.179 --> 00:38:12.500
 truly

00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:12.940
 unite

00:38:12.940 --> 00:38:13.320
 us

00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:14.799
 amen

00:38:14.799 --> 00:38:15.219
 let us

00:38:15.219 --> 00:38:15.460
 pray

00:38:15.460 --> 00:38:17.460
 father

00:38:17.460 --> 00:38:18.059
 thank you

00:38:18.059 --> 00:38:18.659
 for

00:38:18.659 --> 00:38:20.220
 doing

00:38:20.220 --> 00:38:20.720
 something

00:38:20.720 --> 00:38:21.740
 that only

00:38:21.740 --> 00:38:22.260
 you could

00:38:22.260 --> 00:38:22.679
 do

00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:23.360
 but that

00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:23.740
 we so

00:38:23.740 --> 00:38:24.199
 desperately

00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:24.659
 needed

00:38:24.659 --> 00:38:26.059
 lord

00:38:26.059 --> 00:38:26.760
 not just

00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:27.320
 to convert

00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:27.720
 us

00:38:27.720 --> 00:38:28.059
 from

00:38:28.059 --> 00:38:29.360
 unbelief

00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:29.980
 to belief

00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:31.139
 but to

00:38:31.139 --> 00:38:31.500
 convert

00:38:31.500 --> 00:38:32.280
 our wrong

00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:32.720
 thinking

00:38:32.720 --> 00:38:33.460
 from thinking

00:38:33.460 --> 00:38:34.460
 in

00:38:34.460 --> 00:38:35.159
 categories

00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:36.559
 of this

00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:37.039
 world

00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:37.579
 of

00:38:37.579 --> 00:38:39.199
 in a

00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:39.500
 sense

00:38:39.500 --> 00:38:40.820
 of

00:38:40.820 --> 00:38:41.360
 having

00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:42.679
 us

00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:43.340
 on our

00:38:43.340 --> 00:38:44.159
 on our

00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:44.800
 own thrones

00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:45.260
 rather than

00:38:45.260 --> 00:38:45.600
 you on our

00:38:45.600 --> 00:38:46.000
 own thrones

00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:46.480
 and converting

00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:47.000
 that thinking

00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:47.720
 to seeing

00:38:47.720 --> 00:38:48.040
 our great

00:38:48.040 --> 00:38:48.480
 need for

00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:48.840
 you and

00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:49.300
 how you

00:38:49.300 --> 00:38:49.980
 and only

00:38:49.980 --> 00:38:50.380
 you can

00:38:50.380 --> 00:38:50.860
 solve the

00:38:50.860 --> 00:38:51.280
 issues

00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:52.420
 and problems

00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:55.000
 and brokenness

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:56.240
 and separation

00:38:56.240 --> 00:38:58.040
 alienation that

00:38:58.040 --> 00:38:58.760
 we experience

00:38:58.760 --> 00:38:59.360
 lord we thank

00:38:59.360 --> 00:38:59.780
 you for this

00:38:59.780 --> 00:39:00.280
 and we thank

00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:00.780
 you that it's

00:39:00.780 --> 00:39:01.460
 by your spirit

00:39:01.460 --> 00:39:02.340
 that you do

00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:02.700
 this

00:39:02.700 --> 00:39:04.020
 and lord we

00:39:04.020 --> 00:39:04.680
 thank you that

00:39:04.680 --> 00:39:06.580
 as we saw

00:39:06.580 --> 00:39:07.080
 in acts

00:39:07.080 --> 00:39:07.740
 chapter 10

00:39:07.740 --> 00:39:08.720
 great joy

00:39:08.720 --> 00:39:09.380
 accompanied

00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:10.320
 salvation

00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:12.100
 and that two

00:39:12.100 --> 00:39:13.300
 opposing groups

00:39:13.300 --> 00:39:14.020
 became one

00:39:14.020 --> 00:39:14.680
 in christ

00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:16.779
 lord let us

00:39:16.779 --> 00:39:17.619
 always look to

00:39:17.619 --> 00:39:18.899
 you to

00:39:18.899 --> 00:39:20.259
 strive by

00:39:20.259 --> 00:39:21.039
 your strength

00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:22.819
 to see

00:39:22.819 --> 00:39:23.659
 those that are

00:39:23.659 --> 00:39:24.339
 different than

00:39:24.339 --> 00:39:24.899
 us as

00:39:24.899 --> 00:39:25.480
 brothers and

00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:25.799
 sisters

00:39:25.799 --> 00:39:27.079
 because you

00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:28.339
 see us

00:39:28.339 --> 00:39:28.699
 as your

00:39:28.699 --> 00:39:29.299
 children and

00:39:29.299 --> 00:39:29.779
 we are the

00:39:29.779 --> 00:39:30.759
 brothers and

00:39:30.759 --> 00:39:32.059
 sisters of

00:39:32.059 --> 00:39:32.440
 our big

00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:33.199
 brother christ

00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:35.659
 so lord we

00:39:35.659 --> 00:39:36.279
 ask by your

00:39:36.279 --> 00:39:36.799
 spirit that you

00:39:36.799 --> 00:39:37.359
 would help us

00:39:37.359 --> 00:39:38.980
 to grow in

00:39:38.980 --> 00:39:39.559
 this reality

00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:40.000
 and truth

00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:40.559
 in christ's

00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:41.219
 name we

00:39:41.219 --> 00:39:42.279
 pray amen

00:39:42.279 --> 00:39:43.639
 amen

00:39:44.699 --> 00:39:46.539
 for

00:39:46.539 --> 00:39:47.480
 jim Düts

00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:47.940
 miracles

00:39:47.940 --> 00:39:49.659
 we

00:39:49.659 --> 00:39:51.259
 we

00:39:51.500 --> 00:39:52.119
 do

00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:52.399
 we

00:39:52.399 --> 00:39:54.399
 know

00:39:54.399 --> 00:39:54.419
 know

00:39:54.419 --> 00:39:55.099
 you

00:39:55.699 --> 00:39:55.779
 we

00:39:55.779 --> 00:39:56.179
 we

00:39:56.179 --> 00:39:57.119
 you

00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:03.960
 think

00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:04.839
 that kind of

00:40:05.419 --> 00:40:07.639
 oh