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  1. Oct 18, 2024 · Acts 10: Holy Spirit Poured Out on Gentiles – Key Insights. Pastor Duke Taber. October 18, 2024. Bible Chapters. Spread the love. Acts chapter 10 marks a pivotal moment in the early church’s history. It’s a chapter that challenges deeply held beliefs and opens the door for the gospel to reach the Gentiles. In this chapter, we see God ...

  2. Feb 18, 2019 · Acts 10 – Peter and Salvation of the Gentiles. After Cornelius receives the Holy Spirit, Peter returns to Jerusalem. The “circumcised believers” there asked him about his visit to a Gentile’s home. To what extent is Peter defending himself in this section? Luke says that they the circumcised believers “criticized him” (διακρίνω).

  3. Feb 17, 2019 · After the Jerusalem Council, it is deemed that Gentiles must simply believe, and begin to “act like Christians” in the sense that they would abstain from sinful things. The ritual act of circumcision would no longer define God’s people, but rather the circumcision of the heart.

  4. Oct 7, 2020 · In Acts 10 (Peter's vision) and Acts 15 (the Council at Jerusalem) that question is answered: Gentiles too can be part of God's family just as they are. This was a live issue for many Jewish believers, who showed enormous grace in receiving and welcoming Gentiles into their hearts and homes.

  5. 6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

  6. Dec 14, 2022 · The Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 likewise shows the apostles making compromises to include and accommodate Gentile believers without betraying central Jewish convictions. Paul relentlessly commands compromise and self-denial for the sake of communal peace (Rom 14, 1 Cor 1:10-17; 9:19-23; 10:31-33, Eph 4:3, Phil 4:2-3, Col 2:16-23).

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  8. Jan 4, 2022 · Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles by God’s choice. The Lord Jesus declared that He had a specific mission for Paul: “This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel” (Acts 9:15).