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Living Waters of Grace 10.17.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, County
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  of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  Lord, I'll believe it if I can see it, and I'll trust you if
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  you got all this A through Z all lined out.
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  And I don't have to like worry about making a mistake or going
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  down the wrong path or something.
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  When the Lord impresses something on your heart and you
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  know it, and you've heard the voice of God, not literally out
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  externally, but the voice of God speaks in terms that interact
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  with our mind and our heart. And you and I should know the
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  difference between hearing our own imagination and hearing the
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  voice of God. What's the definition of faith?
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  What does it mean to walk in faith?
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  The Bible teaches us that faith is believing in something you
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  can't see that grates against everything inside of us.
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  We want proof. We want to know beyond a shadow
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  of a doubt that reality is what we think it is.
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  As we just heard from Pastor Clark, God is calling us to be
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  people who hear His voice and make a distinction.
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  As much as you might like God to simply show you exactly what His
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  plan is, He's calling you to listen for His voice and walk in
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  faith. Now here's Pastor Clark in Acts
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  chapter 10 with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  We are in the book of the Acts. Acts chapter 10, Peter is the
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  guy that we're going to learn a little bit more about.
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  We've learned a lot about Peter through the Gospels and also the
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  beginning of the book of the Acts, the first sermon he
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  preached where over 3000 people got saved.
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  We will be transitioning to the apostle Paul after Chapter 11 as
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  he takes on more of the central focus of the ministry of the
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  church. So let me read and make some
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  comments. This is Cornelius Gentile, a
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  Roman Italian guard, who was being pursued by the Holy
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  Spirit. There was a certain man in
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  Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the
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  Italian regiment, A devout man and one who feared God with all
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  his household, who gave alms generously to the people and
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  prayed to God always. About the ninth hour of the day
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  he saw clearly in a vision an Angel of God coming and saying
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  to him, Cornelius. And when he observed him, he was
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  afraid and said, What is it, Lord?
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  And so he said to him, Your prayers and your alms have come
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  up for a memorial before God. Now send men to Joppa, and send
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  for Simon, whose surname is Peter.
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  He is lodging with Simon at Tanner, whose house is by the
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  sea. He will tell you what you must
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  do. And when the Angel who spoke to
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  him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household
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  servants and a devout soldier from among those who waited on
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  him continually. So when he had explained all
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  these things to them, he sent them to Joppa.
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  Now, when we as Christians read the Bible, we read it from a
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  historical perspective, and that's good.
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  But I think it's really important to personalize what it
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  is we read so that we might understand how it is that the
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  Holy Spirit can still speak to us in the days that we live.
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  God uses His word now. He doesn't really need to send
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  angels to get messages to us, although He could if he wants
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  to. He's God.
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  But He's given us the Word of God so that when we read the
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  Scriptures, the Holy Spirit speaks to us from the Word of
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  God and puts things on our heart and directs our paths and tells
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  us what we should do. The way of the Holy Spirit is
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  very, very personal. The Lord will put something on
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  your heart, everyone of you in your daily life, God is speaking
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  to you about something. He's putting a vision upon your
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  heart. He's giving you a burden for
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  something. He's giving you a concern for
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  someone that He loves, and He wants to use you as a witness,
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  as a testimony. Every human being on the face of
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  the planet, whether you believe it or not, looks up in the stars
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  at night and has the same question.
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  Why am I here? How was this made?
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  Is there a God? And if there is a God, why is
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  life like it is? And usually it sort of stops at
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  that point. But the Bible tells us in
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  Romans, just by creation, we know there's a creator and that
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  we are accountable to him, and that one day we will leave this
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  world and we will meet our maker.
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  So it's important to realize that the Holy Spirit, no matter
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  where people live in the world, when there's a heart like
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  Cornelius that is being pursued by the Spirit of God and being
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  drawn by the Spirit of God to Jesus, the Lord begins to do all
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  this background work. Cornelius, that tells us, was a
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  devout man. He respected the God of Abraham,
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  Isaac, and Jacob. He was so deep into
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  understanding that there is one God, but to the point he wasn't
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  willing to become a full blown Jew and be circumcised and
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  follow all the customs. But he had come through Pagan
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  worship as a Roman citizen, Zeus, and all these different
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  strange gods that the Pagan Roman people worshipped.
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  And he began to realize that these gods have no power.
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  But this God of history, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had
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  done significant things, and he's aware of these things.
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  And so in essence, he is a believer in the sense of the one
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  God, but doesn't know Jesus Christ yet.
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  And so as he's going up to pray, he's following the ritual of the
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  Jewish tradition of praying the hours.
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  The 9th hour was 3:00 in the afternoon and so he would go up
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  and he would begin to pray and this is something that he did
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  all the time according to the scriptures.
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  He had this heart to pray and they also feared God.
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  He also was very generous with his resources and help poor
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  people. And so God was observing
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  everything about this man's life.
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  You don't get saved by giving money.
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  You don't get saved by praying. But God could see that what was
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  happening in his life was causing him to be prepared to
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  receive Jesus. He was getting to this point
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  now, and it says that the Lord observed him.
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  It's beautiful to realize that God is observing us all the
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  time, you and me. He's watching us.
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  He's seeing how we live. He's seeing what we prioritize.
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  He's seeing what makes us tick, so to speak.
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  What gives us passion? As the Lord sees our lives, He
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  begins to work on them in specific ways and ways that we
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  can't even imagine at times until they begin to start to
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  happen. It's exciting, the way of the
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  Spirit, the way of the Holy Spirit.
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  And so He gives him real, specific information here.
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  He has this vision and a vision is something that materially
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  isn't objectively able to be quantified or solidified in the
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  sense of matter and form and feeling.
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  He's seeing something like an altered state of consciousness,
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  if you may, from his inner being, his mind's eye.
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  He, he's seeing something that you and I, if we were there, we
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  wouldn't be able to participate in this vision.
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  This was a specific vision God had given him to bring him to
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  this point of direction. It's all these prayers is your
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  prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.
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  So even lost people, God can look at them and and not every
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  lost person is, you know, wicked in the sense of just being like
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  the devil. There's a lot of people out
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  there that don't know the Lord that are good hearted people,
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  right? They're willing to to help
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  people and do things and they're kind and they're gentle.
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  They're humble and sometimes they make Christians look bad
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  because of how they're wired, maybe in a deeper way in regard
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  to caring about other people. So the Lord now gives him
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  direction as to what specifically he needs to do.
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  He's telling him to send men to Joppa.
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  So Caesarea is on the Mediterranean coast, about 135
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  miles northwest of Jerusalem. Joppa is about 30 miles, about
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  two day journey from Caesarea. The Lord is telling him send a
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  couple guys down here to Joppa and send for Simon, specifically
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  Simon. Now he doesn't know who Simon
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  is, but he's given this name, Simon, Simon Peter, the more
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  powerfully used apostles. Peter at this time is beginning
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  to become conditioned to becoming gracious because he was
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  a Jew. He was really committed to the
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  Law of Moses. He had a lot of hang ups.
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  When he first became a Christian.
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  He had certain types of perspectives regarding Judaism
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  versus people who are gentiles. The tradition was that if
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  someone was a Gentile, first of all, you wouldn't really hang
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  out with them. You definitely wouldn't go into
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  their house, nor would you invite them into your house.
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  There was a lot of a prejudice between those two people groups,
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  and that's never taught in the Bible, right?
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  Prejudice. There is no Jew or Gentile bond
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  or free, male or female. God sees us as one people group.
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  He, he looks at the heart. And so Simon's down here already
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  living in a home of a Tanner who's dealing with unclean
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  animals and all kind of blood and stuff that would have been
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  taboo is a kosher Jewish person. But the Lord put him in his
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  house either to just hang out for a while, to have a place to
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  lodge, or maybe to learn a trade so he could make some money to
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  help him in the midst of his ministry.
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  But he's telling Cornelius specifically where this Simon
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  is. He's at this House of the
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  Tanner, and he says he will tell you what you must do.
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  So Cornelius is at the point of wanting to really know the truth
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  and to have someone tell him about the Messiah.
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  Now, he was aware of the historical aspects of Jesus.
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  I'm sure the tradition that had already been established
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  probably heard about Pentecost, different things, But
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  nonetheless, he needed to hear specifically point by point what
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  the Gospel was Then he says, and when the Angel who spoke to him,
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  it departed. Cornelius obviously did exactly
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  what he was told it to do. He got two of the household
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  servants and a devout soldier from among those who waited on
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  him continually. And when he had explained all
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  these things to them, he sent them off on this journey.
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  Now, the irony of this thing of how the Holy Spirit works.
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  You're praying about something, someone else is praying about
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  something. How do two people get connected
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  or people or families or how did people end up at this church or
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  that church or how to how did I end up, you know, being at the
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  right place at the right time? Or someone gave me a copy of the
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  Bible and said, hey, you know, read this.
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  I'm getting some answers from it.
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  I mean, all of us have a specific story of how we came to
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  faith in Jesus Christ. And every one of our stories is
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  supernatural. Every one of them is miraculous.
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  Every one of them is is individual and God specifically
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  chose a circumstance and the person and the event to bring
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  you to a point where your heart was ready and open and you
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  received the gospel from whoever it was that the Lord sent to
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  you. It doesn't happen by accident or
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  a mistake or happenstance. It was divinely appointed by
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  God, just like we're reading here, this divine experience.
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  And so then here's Peter. He's, he's having a vision, a
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  trance more than a vision. The next day as they went on
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  their journey and drew near the city, Peter, he goes up on the
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  housetop to pray about the 6th hour that would have been noon.
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  He's praying the, the specific hours of prayer that the Jewish
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  people were traditionally accustomed to.
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  Then he began to become very hungry.
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  And when indeed, isn't that funny?
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  Whenever you're like, OK, I'm going to spend some time with
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  the Lord in prayer and then your mind's thinking about all kind
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  of other stuff, right? Oh, I'm tired, I feel like
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  taking a nap. A boy, I could go for a hot dog
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  or a sandwich or whatever. Then anything the enemy can do
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  to get your mind off a prayer, he'll get you thinking about,
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  right. It's interesting to see.
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  Even apostles had that issue. So he wanted to eat, but while
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  they made ready, they were making food down there.
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  He fell into a trance and saw heaven open and an object like a
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  great sheet bound at four corners descending to him and
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  let down to the earth. In it were all kinds of four
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  footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things and
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  birds of the air. And a voice came to him.
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  Rise, Peter, kill and eat. So this is a big bag here of all
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  kind of different kind of things that someone could possibly
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  consider eating. To a Jewish person, this is like
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  a nightmare. There was UN kosher stuff in
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  here, this stuff that Peter would have never ever considered
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  eating, not even be tempted to eat.
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  These things were filthy. And so the Lord's telling him,
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  and it's in red print in my Bible, Rise, this is Jesus.
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  Rise, Peter, kill and eat. And isn't it typical with Peter?
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  Peter said, no, not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything
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  common or unclean. I mean, this guy's still arguing
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  with Jesus. You, you would think that the
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  Lord would say, look, Peter, I gave you a chance and numerous
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  time, you know, you just aren't cooperating.
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  I'm going to work with someone else.
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  This is so encouraging because we're all like knuckleheads.
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  At least I speak for myself. And we just don't get it
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  sometimes, do we? And the Lord is so patient.
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  He's not like if he's waiting for you and me to be perfect, no
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  one's going to get anything done and no one will ever do anything
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  because none of us are perfect, are we?
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  And isn't it good to know that, like, how can God use you or how
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  can you use me? You're not perfect.
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  Well, I never said I was, and neither did you.
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  And it humbles us to realize that God chooses.
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  He tells us. And in the Corinthians, you
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  know, he's chosen the weak and foolish things of the world to
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  confound the wise so that no flesh would glory in his
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  presence. So Peter said, not so Lord, for
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  I've never eaten anything common or unclean.
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  It's a self-righteous attitude, religion.
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  This is still stuck to his back. You know, he thinks he has to do
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  certain things to accommodate his spiritual equilibrium.
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  And a voice spoke to him again the second time.
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  What God has cleansed, you must not call common.
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  OK, You think he'd start to get it?
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  This was done three times. So Peter eventually sort of got
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  it, and the object was taken up into heaven again.
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  So I'm sure he's thinking, like, what did I see?
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  What's this about? Can I really eat pig now?
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  Can I really eat pork? I wonder what it tastes like.
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  And when he did taste it, he said, boy, I wish I could have
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  been eating this thing my whole life, right?
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  I've missed out. And a lot of good food here.
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  So Peter's wondering in verse 17 within himself what this vision
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  which he had seen meant. He's rehearsing of what's this
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  all about. Behold, the men who had been
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  sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house and
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  stood before the gate. So they have just arrived and
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  they called and asked whether Simon, his surname was Peter,
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  was lodging there, living there. So while Peter's thinking about
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  the vision of verse 19, the Holy Spirit says to him, behold,
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  three men are seeking you arise, therefore go down and go with
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  them, doubting nothing for I've sent them.
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  Now this is like really awesome because the Holy Spirit's
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  speaking specifically to Peter about someone who's already
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  there. And you, if you're walking with
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  the Lord and you're seeking God, I'm sure if I brought you up
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  here today, you could tell all kinds of stories of how the Lord
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  set up certain situations ahead of time with you knowing about
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  something before something even came to pass.
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  And that's what makes living in Christ exciting.
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  It doesn't happen all the time as much as maybe we would like
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  to experience it. But if we're open to the
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  direction of the Holy Spirit, he'll set up divine
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  appointments, He'll set up situations that there's no way
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  something could come to pass if it wasn't Him doing it right.
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  And it just gives you goosebumps at times.
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  And you think about the the realness of God and how powerful
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  he is and how he can show up and how he can maneuver and move
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  situations. And, and the Bible talks about
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  spiritual gifts, the words of knowledge, the words of wisdom.
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  These are real spiritual, supernatural gifts.
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  Some people have certain types of gifting, other people, other,
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  we all have certain kind of spiritual gifts.
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  But sometimes, like I told you a story about the man that gives
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  away the Bibles and he came out of the restroom and the young
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  lady comes out of the bathroom and she had been drinking
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  heavily and partying and, and he just the Lord put on his heart,
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  it's her birthday today. And he said happy birthday and
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  she's how do you know it's my birthday?
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  That's the Lord. He does stuff like that.
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  If we're open to the leading of God's Spirit, He works out
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  beside the dimensions of how our normal thought processes work.
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  Without faith, it's impossible to please God.
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  We need to be walking by faith and not by sight.
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  So often. Like Lord, I'll believe it if I
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  can see it, and I'll trust you if you got all this A through Z
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  all lined out. And I don't have to like, worry
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  about making a mistake or going down the wrong path or
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  something. When the Lord impresses
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  something on your heart and you know it, and you've heard the
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  voice of God, not literally out externally, but the voice of God
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  speaks in terms that interact with our mind and our heart.
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  And you and I should know the difference between hearing our
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  own imagination and hearing the voice of God.
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  And I think we begin to hear the voice of God when we're willing
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  to be still in prayer. Both these guys heard the voice
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  of God's working through their time in prayer.
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  And you might say, well boy, I just never sense God's voice or
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  his presence. I'm not sure.
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  Well, spend some time in prayer, waiting on the Lord, fasting,
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  whatever it is, giving God time to speak to you about what it is
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  He wants you to do. Instead of this going off and
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  doing it in your own strength, you're doing it on your own
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  will. Lord, what would you have me to
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  do? What would you want me to do?
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  And Cornelius said, what is it, Lord?
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  The question, what you're talking to me now what?
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  What do I do? I want to become more in tune,
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  as I'm sure you do too, what with the voice of the Lord, How
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  do I interact in this conversation or how do I respond
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  to this crisis situation? Or, you know, what do I say to
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  this lady that's very angry about Roe versus Wave being
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  overturned and just beside herself dropping F bombs and
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  she's telling me her frustration then telling me, but she's a
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  Christian. You know, it was interesting.
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  I was tempted to say, can I pray for you?
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  But she would probably beat the crap out of me.
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  That would be another conversation.
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  Maybe down the road I'll say, hey, by the way, we had that
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  conversation. I want you to know I've been
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  praying for, you know, and I am praying for.
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  But hearing the voice of the Lord, so Peter, specifically
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  this, this isn't what we're studying in the book of the
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  Acts, folks. Is not like this an act.
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  This is like supposed to be part of everyday life for all of us.
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  And when the book of the Acts becomes alive in the day that we
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  live, then we begin to see God working within the realm of the
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  supernatural in people's lives. And I think we've been so
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  conditioned mentally. It's one thing to know the Word,
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  to memorize the Scriptures, to know where to find is find that.
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  But how is God interacting with you and me in the midst of what
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  it is we're reading and learning and anticipating that?
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  Do we have a desire to hear God and to have him set up
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  circumstances for us so we can be used by God?
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  So Peter goes down to the men who had been sent to him from
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  Cornelius and said, yes, I am he whom you seek.
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  For what reason have you come? They said Cornelius, a
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  Centaurian, a just man, one who fears God and has a good
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  reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was divinely
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  instructed by a holy Angel to summon you to his house and to
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  hear words from you. And so then he invited them in
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  and lodged them. And this is huge because
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  probably a month before this, Peter would have never
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  considered this. He's hanging out with the Tanner
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  in an unclean place. He's already like compromised
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  some of his kosher convictions. And now he has this vision of
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  these animals in this blanket. And he's starting to see this
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  isn't about this animals and eating.
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  This is about relationships with people, with Gentiles that he
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  would have never given the time of day to.
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  And he invites them in. And not only does he invite them
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  in, but he's hanging with him. He's he's entertaining them.
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  He's the word lodging means that he's, he's spending time with
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  him. He just doesn't say, well, you
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  can sleep over there. I'll see you tomorrow when we
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  head out. No, he, he fed them, he took
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  care of them and he talked with them.
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  That's a beautiful, beautiful story of, of the conversion
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  that's going to come up for Cornelius.
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  But Peter's being converted to real Christianity, not religion,
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  not judgment, not criticism. The Lord doesn't want us to be
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  criticizing each other. He wants us to be loving one
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  another and forgiving one another and being patient with
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  one another. And until we're willing to
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  become less judgmental and less critical, we won't hear the
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  voice of God. We'll quench the voice of God in
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  my judgment or your judgment or my criticism or my control,
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  whatever. God can't work.
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  It's only as we're open to Him to be like Jesus that God will
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  begin to really show up and move and work in ways that we can't
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  even comprehend. And so on the next day Peter
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  went away with them, and some brethren from Joppa accompany
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  him. So he took some guys with him
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  because he knew there was going to be problems in Jerusalem.
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  When this gets around, someone's going to say to the apostle, we
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  heard you brought Gentiles into your house.
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  You know, that's against the law of Moses.
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  These people are unclean. They're just not worthy of our
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  bloodline. Terrible, terrible
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  discrimination. And this is the leaders of the
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  church still had this stuff in on the Judaizers.
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  Thank you for listening to this edition of Living Waters of
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  Grace. Pastor Clark is teaching us
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  about the book of Acts in this series.
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  Acts is a powerful and unique part of Scripture, not just
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  because it records the spread of the Gospel geographically from
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  Jerusalem to the ends of the earth, but also culturally.
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  Acts shows us how the message of Jesus moved beyond its Jewish
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  roots and began to reach the Gentile world, which started
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  with Peter leading a small group in the Upper Room, became a
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  global movement with Paul taking the gospel to cities,
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  synagogues, and marketplaces across the Roman Empire.
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  Acts captures this vital transition and reminds us that
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  the good news of Jesus is for all people in every place.
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  May we be inspired to carry that same gospel boldly into our
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  world today. Living Waters of Grace comes to
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