WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.200 Hey, everybody, we're the Bible guys, and if you're just 2 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.280 tuning in recently, just know that we are showing a 3 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:07.120 little bit of reruns for a few months, and then 4 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.839 we'll be back bigger and better than ever on August 5 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:13.519 thirty first, because behind the scenes we're taking a hiatus 6 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:14.720 to do some very important things. 7 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:18.399 Yeah, we're building building out a new studio and we've 8 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.399 got some new structure. Super excited about it. So August 9 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.359 thirty first, brand new content. But in the meantime, enjoy 10 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:25.440 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:29.120 So today we're continuing on the story of the Italian 12 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:30.800 Stallion Cornelius. 13 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:34.520 Yes, because you said that because he was the centurion 14 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:36.920 in charge of the Italian Regiment. Is that why he 15 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.719 said that? Yes, the Italian Stallion. Okay, well he's Chris 16 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:43.039 and he is Italian, and I'm Jeff and we're the 17 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:57.920 Bible guys. Boom, it's got that big explosion at the end. 18 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.679 It does it does? It lasts too long? Hey, So 19 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.640 last week you asked me a segment and you said, 20 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.719 what made Chris mad this week? 21 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.680 Yeah, that was very enlightening. You were mad about shopping carts. 22 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:12.959 Shopping carts, Yes, and I said that anybody who doesn't 23 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:14.640 return their card is not a nice person. Yeah. 24 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:16.840 Yeah, it's implied they might not even be on the 25 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:17.400 way to heaven. 26 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:22.879 Okay, so this week it's appropriate that I turn around 27 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.959 for this segment and ask you what has made you mad? 28 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:28.120 Oh? So what made Jeff mad this week? 29 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:28.599 Yeah? 30 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:33.680 Oh you know what? So I have a problem. Well 31 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.599 we all know that, Yes, I mean, well, this is 32 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:36.359 a bad problem. 33 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:36.840 Which one? 34 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.200 So I get angry? Do you get angry? 35 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:43.239 Uh? I don't think I do? My daughter? 36 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:46.560 Does I do? I? And so I feel bad because 37 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:50.200 for some reason, I don't know, I just got really 38 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:53.879 out of sorts with Bonnie, my wife, this last week. 39 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:56.480 And she's like, I just think we need some time apart. 40 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.519 Yeah, and she didn't mean mad, not separate, now separated, just. 41 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:03.920 Jeff, you need to go get somebody and calm yourself down. 42 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.359 Yeah, there we go. Okay. 43 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:10.719 So I just remember, it's like everything said, every decision 44 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:14.719 anybody around me was making just made me mad. It's 45 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:16.960 just stupid. Everything was stupid, just made me mad. I 46 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.080 didn't know why. So then I go and I can't remember. 47 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:22.360 I had a taco or something, and then everything was better. 48 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:23.000 Everything better. 49 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.120 So I don't know why I get angry, but I do. 50 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.919 And everything irritates me. I'm serious. The color of this 51 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:33.280 guy irritates me. The breeze on my face here, everything 52 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.639 makes me angry. And then you know it just takes 53 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:41.639 a little sandwich or a little sandwich everything better. 54 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:45.599 Yeah, i'd be honest, I don't think, But then again 55 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.919 I probably wouldn't know, so you'd have to ask my wife. 56 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.280 Yeah, oh, I know, I can tell like I'm just 57 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.120 getting out of control. Yeah, you can tell your shay 58 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.280 I'm spiraling. Okay, So I thought you were saying you 59 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.800 could tell. I'm like, get away from me. I just 60 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:02.520 want to growl it over. 61 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:04.840 Yeah, I don't think I want to go on record 62 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:07.120 and say I don't think I get angry at all. 63 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.280 So what makes Jeff mad? I think the answer is 64 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:11.039 not having lunch. 65 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:14.759 A late lunch, not having food, that's right, A. 66 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.479 Late lunch makes me angry, that's funny. So I'm sorry, Bonnie, 67 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.400 and I'm glad that she let me sleep indoors. That 68 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.479 very nice, very nice. So once I had a sandwich, 69 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:28.319 I was fine. So we are containing hey real quick? Yeah? 70 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:30.520 Yeah, do you make your own sandwiches most of the time, 71 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:31.759 or does Bonnie make them for you? 72 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:33.639 Oh? I demand them. 73 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:35.599 A woman. 74 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.879 Yeah, I'm making myself. I do not all, but I 75 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.840 do a lot of the cooking. Yeah, I love it. 76 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.840 Well, that wasn't like a wife homemaker reference. 77 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:46.240 Yeah, but you set me up for it. I had 78 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:46.759 no choice. 79 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:49.000 Well, no, no, I don't care about that. I mean 80 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:51.360 I care about the fact that every home has their 81 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:51.960 own system. 82 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:53.479 Yes, right, that's what I was meaning. 83 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:55.439 So you have your own system, you make most of 84 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:58.800 the food, so therefore you lot sandwiches. Well, in my house, 85 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:00.360 my wife is the one who grew else. 86 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:01.479 Oh yeah. 87 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:04.319 And I don't know why people have to share. I've 88 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:07.280 always thought I've always thought, yeah, you my wife can 89 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:11.879 share grilling recipes. I've always thought that that I would 90 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:13.919 do the grilling. But then she just sort of did 91 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.040 it one day, and then she likes it, and I 92 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:19.240 was like, well, that's okay. I don't really have that 93 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.279 big of a desire to do it. So I think 94 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:26.079 that consequently, she just makes better sandwiches than I do. 95 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:27.480 Oh wow, she just does. 96 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.480 So I just so a lot of times, you know, 97 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:32.040 she won't even tell me what she's making. 98 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.439 It's super convenient that you're able to be so complimentary 99 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:37.319 about how amazing she isn't making sandwiches. 100 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:38.480 It is convenient. 101 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.519 That's a that's a tremendous strategy. Young men, all of 102 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:44.199 you brand new married men, just compliment your wife on 103 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.000 how amazing she is. You're so much better than I 104 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:52.360 am making these amazing sandwiches. Okay, you keep doing that. 105 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.600 Nobody can do this like you. I cannot put this 106 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.800 meat down on this bread. Not possible. I cannot put 107 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.000 the slices in between these stupiece of bread. 108 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:08.120 Leg Are you doing voodoo in the kitchen? Oh, it's brilliant. 109 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:09.240 You are a genius. 110 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:10.519 Thank you. 111 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:11.560 You're an evil genius. 112 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.839 You're awesome. I love you. 113 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:15.879 That's great. 114 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:17.879 So, by the way, she's in the bathroom right now, 115 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.519 putting on her makeup for going to work, is listening 116 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:20.759 to this. 117 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.759 Yeah, okay, every day, every day, every day? Yeah? All right, Well, 118 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:25.399 now you know one of his secrets, Liz. Don't let 119 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:26.240 him get away. 120 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.959 With it, Okay, okay. 121 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:33.199 So we are finishing up the story of Cornelius, right, 122 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:37.079 and he's the leader of the Italian regiment. He's a centurion. 123 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:41.279 He's a good guy. But even good guys need Jesus right, 124 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.959 and so good guy, but he still was separated from God. 125 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.920 And so God sends Peter. God has to overcome Peter's biases, 126 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:55.480 and Peter goes, I'm not comfortable being here. You know, 127 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:57.600 I'm not supposed to be here, but God told me 128 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.319 to be here. And so Peter walks through the door. 129 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:05.240 And then here's the rest of the story. So we're 130 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:07.800 going to start in verse thirty four in Acts, chapter ten, 131 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.920 and it just says, Then Peter replied, I see very 132 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.680 clearly that God shows no favoritism in every nation. He 133 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:17.680 accepts those who fear Him and do what is right. 134 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:19.920 This is the message of good news for the people 135 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:22.800 of Israel, that there is peace with God through Jesus Christ, 136 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:26.120 who is Lord of all. You know what happened throughout Judea, 137 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.560 beginning in Galilee after John began preaching his message of baptism, 138 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:31.920 and you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with 139 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:33.879 the Holy Spirit and with power. And then Jesus went 140 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:36.600 around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by 141 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.519 the devil. For God was with him. And we apostles 142 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:42.240 are witnesses of all he did throughout Judea and Jerusalem, 143 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:44.480 and they put him to death by hanging him on 144 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.199 a cross. But God raised him to life on the 145 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.319 third day. Then God allowed him to appear not to 146 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:52.639 the general public, but to us, whom God had chosen 147 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:56.160 in advance to be his witnesses. We were those who 148 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.399 ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead, 149 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:00.519 and he ordered us to preach every everywhere and to 150 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.920 testify that Jesus is the one appointed by God to 151 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.120 be the judge of all the living and the dead. 152 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.720 He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying 153 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:11.000 that everyone who believes in him will have their sins 154 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.639 forgiven through his name. Even as Peter was saying these things, 155 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:17.839 the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to 156 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:20.480 the message, and the Jewish believers who came with Peter 157 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:22.519 were amazed that the gift the Holy Spirit had been 158 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:25.199 poured out on the Gentiles too, for they heard them 159 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.439 speaking in other tongues and praising God. Then Peter asked, 160 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.199 can anyone object to their being baptized now that they've 161 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:33.720 received the Holy Spirit just as we did. So he 162 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:35.879 gave orders for them to be baptized in the name 163 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:39.199 of Jesus Christ, and afterwards Cornelius asked him to stay 164 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:43.000 with them for several days. Wow, that's so cool. So, 165 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:48.079 as far as we know, this is the first gentile convert, 166 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:50.439 non Jewish convert, as far as we know, it's the first, 167 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:51.759 first one mentioned in the Bible. 168 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.240 Yeah, it's an accuracy and making an. 169 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:58.160 Emphatic statement that this is the first gentile that became 170 00:07:58.160 --> 00:07:59.000 a Christian in the book. 171 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:03.000 Okay, he's saying that because we because the heading on 172 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:06.680 our note says Cornelius is the first gentile convert. And 173 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:08.959 I made a comment, and here's the comment. And this 174 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:12.040 comment is irrefutable, by the way I'm laying irrefutable. I'm 175 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:12.680 laying the line. 176 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.240 There's an open minded person, please tell us. 177 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:17.519 Well, no, I mean facts are facts. Yeah, this table 178 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:22.360 is would Yeah, okay, and it's this the first gentile convert. 179 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:25.560 I said, well, it's actually the first gentile convert convert 180 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.519 mentioned in the Bible. Yes, right, So unless the Bible 181 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.040 goes out of its way to say, hey, just Crnelius 182 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:32.360 was the first John, I agree. 183 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:33.080 I just said it. 184 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.159 Yeah, he said it the way you told me to 185 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.919 say it, did you. Yes, Just now I think we 186 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:39.759 should rewind the tape on that one. Oh no, no, you 187 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:42.279 said he's the first gentile. 188 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.080 Convert that we know of in the Bible. 189 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.000 I said it that way, Okay, all right, So anyway, 190 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:48.159 I'm I have this. 191 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.039 I feel like sometimes you just want to fight, just 192 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:50.440 to fight. 193 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.159 Well, you beat me at the fall kickoff, and I 194 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:57.399 feel still bitter about it. So let me just say this. 195 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.559 I do have a little bit of a thing. Yes, 196 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.600 and so I could just talk about this for two secs. 197 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:04.519 Why I brought it up. 198 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:09.639 Yeah, So anybody who attaches something that isn't in the 199 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.399 Bible irritates me. So for instance, there was a speaker 200 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.080 at my old church and he was talking about a 201 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:19.159 lot of these Jewish customs and mentalities. And the woman 202 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:23.679 who touched Jesus' garment, remember that, he said, Jesus turned around. 203 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.759 He goes, let me tell you why Jesus turned around, 204 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:32.080 And the why wasn't because of the power drained. It 205 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:33.639 was something else. And then he said and then he 206 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:36.360 noticed blah blah blah. And I actually thought to myself 207 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.120 and I said this to him later, which he did 208 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.919 not appreciate. I said, are you literally telling me that 209 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.799 you know the why behind jesus motives, what he was thinking, 210 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:48.960 what he was feeling, what his motives were. When it's 211 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:52.159 not given in the Bible. Now, all of it could 212 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.360 be completely be okay. With one single tiny tweak. You 213 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.840 can say this, he probably turned around for that reason, 214 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:00.759 or it's. 215 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.840 A good maybe, or maybe yeah, have you ever thought 216 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:04.600 maybe he turned around? 217 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:07.159 But if you want to lean toward confidence, you could 218 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:10.080 say there's a good chance. Right, So you can say 219 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.480 all those things, but you have to you have to 220 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:17.240 not You can't say definitively that Cornelius is the first 221 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:20.360 convert in the Bible, because there's a good chance that 222 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:21.120 maybe he was. 223 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:22.600 Right the first gentile convert. 224 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.080 Here's where it makes sense. It makes sense that, you know, 225 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:29.000 the Holy Spirit gets poured out to the gentiles afterwards, 226 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:33.600 it makes sense that Cornelius is this huge influence because 227 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.399 of his position as a Roman centurion. Makes sense that 228 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.320 he would have been the first convert. 229 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:41.919 Well, the next chapter also Peter gets hauled in for 230 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.399 leading a gentile to Christ and has to justify why 231 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:49.399 you baptized him. That's great, right, so the consequences, Yeah, so. 232 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.000 Then there's probably, yeah, very. 233 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.840 Likely, so he is the first gentile convert in the Bible, right, 234 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:57.759 we just don't know that he's the first gentile convert 235 00:10:57.799 --> 00:10:59.799 in christ in the history of christian. 236 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:04.000 And the history. Yeah, so my big tweak for pastors 237 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:07.279 and teachers isn't a big tweak at all. Just say 238 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:10.480 most likely or probably, or I believe, even I believe 239 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:11.120 is subjective. 240 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:13.240 Right, Well, this is the reason why I want to 241 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.720 bring this up is because you know you'll hear us say. 242 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.360 Sometimes you hear me say when I'm speaking. The reason 243 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:21.519 why I want to use more scripture and less of 244 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.360 Jeff's words is because Jeff's opinions don't matter any more 245 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.200 than anybody else's opinions. What the words of God say 246 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.919 in the Bible, that's what matters. So if the words 247 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:34.440 say it, we believe those words. If the words leave 248 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:37.159 stuff out, well then we shouldn't. We can try to 249 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:39.200 connect the dots and fill in the gaps, but we 250 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.879 can't definitively say that God said those things because the 251 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.720 words of the Bible don't say he was the first 252 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:50.919 convert in all of Christianity, the first gentile convert. But 253 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:54.320 he appears to be, at least in the storyline of Scripture. 254 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.840 He's the first one mentioned, and it sure seems like 255 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:00.639 it stirs up pot afterwards, and so evidences are Cornees 256 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:05.480 was probably the first gentile convert. But the Bible doesn't 257 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.960 specifically say that, so it's fair to kind of wrestle 258 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.600 with it a little bit. And I think I think 259 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:12.279 that your your opinion on that is very solid. Be 260 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.159 careful about saying things the Bible doesn't say. Just say 261 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:16.679 the things the Bible does say, right. 262 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.159 And so there isn't I don't remember where this is. 263 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.559 I think it might have been in Deuteronomy, where it says, 264 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:24.519 and it has the weirdest words. It says, don't add 265 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.960 a jot or a tittle to God's word. And a 266 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.200 jot and a tittle were the smallest marks. They were 267 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:34.559 sort of like equivalent to today is like apostrophes or 268 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.600 right or commas. That's how small they were jots and 269 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.679 tittles in that language. And so but it would say 270 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:42.200 don't add a jot or a tittle, in other words, 271 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.639 don't add a single thing that isn't there. So it 272 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:47.200 just it just is a great challenge for all of 273 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:49.320 us to say. And by the way, you could say, 274 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.440 I fully believe with all my heart this thing. And 275 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:54.080 that's fine if you want to go strong on something. 276 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.360 So that being said, and I just really want to 277 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:00.320 spend it because we spent a big time yesterday on 278 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.200 this story a little bit, but I wanted to cover that. 279 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:04.000 I thought that was a great idea. But what you 280 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.679 have here now is Peter explains the gospel. Now, the 281 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.440 gospel is not just you all people need Jesus. That's 282 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:17.720 not the gospel. The gospel is we're sinners all y'all 283 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:24.039 people need Jesus. Right, that's not the gospel. Your opinion 284 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.279 that people need to be Christians is not the gospel. 285 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.600 Our idea that more people need to pray or go 286 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.600 to church, that's not the gospel. The gospel is we're 287 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:37.600 all sinners separated from God. Jesus died on the cross 288 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.600 and rose again, and if we'll have faith in Him, 289 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:43.519 we can have forgiveness of sins. We repent of our 290 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:45.759 sins and place our faith in him, we can have 291 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:48.519 forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God in heaven. 292 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.480 And this is basically the storyline that he's telling it. 293 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.399 And then he says, and we were witnesses of the 294 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:57.679 fact that he died and rose again. Right, So this 295 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.960 is the gospel presentation that he's making. Cornelius and the 296 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.080 others they received Christ, and the Holy Spirit falls on 297 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:10.559 Cornelius and the other listeners at that point. So Peter 298 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:15.200 isn't just giving his own opinions here. He's explaining the 299 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:20.279 gospel from a biblical the actual events of the death 300 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:21.440 baron resurrection of Christ. 301 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.480 So let me tell a real quick story. Yesterday I 302 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.080 did a funeral and I officiated a funeral. And it 303 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:29.960 wasn't a family that I knew. It was a funeral 304 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:35.519 home that needed a non denominational pastor. Apparently, she the deceased, 305 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:37.799 was ninety six years old, by the way, So that's 306 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:39.919 a pretty good long life, isn't it. So she grew 307 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.039 up in the Great Depression. It's pretty fascinating you're. 308 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.039 Ninety six years old. It doesn't matter if she'd gotten 309 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:48.480 hit by a bus. It was still natural causes. Right 310 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:49.879 at that point, you've lived a long time. 311 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.039 Right. So she has one daughter and a son in law, 312 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:55.879 and they were my contacts, and we were collecting information 313 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:59.120 about her life and things, and so you know, it 314 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.720 was a hodgepodge where the dad was Catholic, she was 315 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.559 a Presbyterian, and the daughter was Methodist. It was pretty crazy, 316 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:07.480 so they called me. So anyway, I go in there 317 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:09.840 and I sit down with this gentleman and his first 318 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:14.679 name was Dave, and Dave said, Dave said two things 319 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.000 that stood in my mind. The first thing he said 320 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:19.679 is he said, well, I grew up in a certain 321 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.480 faith that taught me that it's that all the other 322 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:25.480 faiths are bad and mine's the only faith. And so 323 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:28.840 he had this sort of issue at the fact that 324 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.120 you know that I was even there, right, And he says, 325 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.759 if you're not of this faith that I grew up in, 326 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:38.200 then then you're not You don't you don't count. And 327 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:40.559 I laughed, and I said, you know what's so funny, 328 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:42.720 Dave is I was sort of taught the same thing 329 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:45.080 growing up. And I said, it took me a long 330 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.679 time to sort of unlearned that. And it really depends 331 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:50.120 on where you believe the authority comes from, because if 332 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.519 you believe the authority lies with man commissioned by God, 333 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.679 you know, and the church has the authority to speak 334 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.200 on behalf of God, then you know that's that's a 335 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.440 whole different story. But if you believe the authority with 336 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:02.919 the word of God that I'm going to tell you 337 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:05.600 that Nowhere in the Bible does it say that. And 338 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:07.879 he said, really, doesn't say that in the Bible. I 339 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.039 said no. So that was his first thing. He was like, huh, 340 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:13.840 I've never heard. I've never heard that. I always had 341 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:16.679 the Bible said that, and I said, no, doesn't say 342 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:18.840 that in the Bible. Okay. First thing. Second thing was 343 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:24.759 whether that's extremely relevant to Cornelius, right, being brainwashed by people? Right? 344 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:27.679 And then and then the second thing was I stood 345 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:29.679 up there and I gave the gospel, which is exactly 346 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.240 what Peter did with in Corneus's home, and I said, 347 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:37.000 you know, Jesus Christ died in the cross for only 348 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.080 one reason, to pay for your sins and mine fully completely. 349 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:43.720 And finally, and then and I said, most people believe 350 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.559 they get to heaven based on their good versus they're bad. 351 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:48.679 But we just have to believe in what was done 352 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:51.480 for us at the cross of cavalry. So we get done. 353 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:53.320 And you know, and I only share like five or 354 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:56.759 six minutes some comforting promises of the scriptures. We get done. 355 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.440 And now, granted, you have to understand they're they're playing 356 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.039 a last song, they're going to do final respects. People 357 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:05.440 have come up and passed by the casket, like there's 358 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.200 still more funeral to happen, Right, So I get up 359 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.759 and I walk out. This dude gets up and follows me, leaves, 360 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.079 the funeral comes and follows me in the hallway and 361 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.720 he goes. I have never heard that, And so what 362 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.279 he was really saying was and all of his time 363 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:22.920 associated and he got offended by the church in nineteen 364 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.799 sixty nine hadn't been back. But in all the time 365 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.599 growing up, he had never heard his claims where he 366 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:32.599 had never heard plainly that that's how you get to heaven. 367 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:32.880 Wow. 368 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.799 Yeah, And I thought that's unbelievable. 369 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:37.640 Well, this is the story of Cornelius. 370 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:37.920 Right. 371 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.279 Cornelius was a good man who did a lot of 372 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:42.200 good things. He might have been the best Roman soldier 373 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:46.160 as far as morality goes, but he still needed the 374 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.440 Gospel to penetrate his life. He still needed his sins forgive, 375 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:52.240 and he still needed to place his faith in Jesus Christ. Right, 376 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.559 there's so many good people, people who do good things, 377 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.519 but you can't get into heaven just good deeds. Cornelius 378 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.880 wasn't on his way to heaven until responded to the 379 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.200 good news that Jesus paid the price for our sins 380 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.799 right and rose again. And so what a powerful thing 381 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:10.119 for many people when they discover there's no way to 382 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:13.799 heaven except through Jesus Christ. Right, it's not your good deeds. 383 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.000 So this is Peter back to the very first verse 384 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:18.640 we read. He said, I see very clear that God 385 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.480 shows no favoritism. This kind of goes back to the 386 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.400 conversation we had a little bit yesterday. The racial thing, 387 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:28.000 the social thing, all those things, and then God accepts 388 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:32.039 those who fear him. That's really the issue. Some of 389 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:36.160 us reject God, reject Christ. And God's fine, I'll let 390 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:37.839 you do your own thing. But if you fear Me 391 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.440 and you come to me, then I will receive you. 392 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.559 I'll accept you. And this is what's happening in this context. 393 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.319 And then what do they do. The Holy Spirit comes 394 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:52.039 on them at salvation, so there's not some other secondary thing. 395 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.119 It's at the moment they trust Christ, the Holy Spirit 396 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:56.119 comes on them. And then Peter goes, we need the 397 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:59.599 baptizem or is anybody going to objective I baptize these Gentiles. Now, 398 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.559 most of the Christians would have objected, probably right, But 399 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:07.440 because Peter goes, nobody's gonna object here are they. Right. 400 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:11.400 Peter's using kind of his apostolic authority and his influence 401 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:13.720