1. ACTS 10 multiply

2. Peter blue-collar guy. fisherman minding his own business his brother Andrew introduces him to Jesus. Jesus tells Simon (Peter) “Your name is now Rock”

3. Matthew 16:18 Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.

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5. Blessed are you, Hashem, King of the Universe …for not having made me a Gentile. …for not having made me a slave. …for not having made me a woman.

6. Acts 9:15 Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles.

7. Acts 10:2-3 He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was everyone in his household. He gave generously to the poor and prayed regularly to God. One afternoon about three o’clock, he had a vision in which he saw an angel of God coming toward him.

8. Acts 10:4-6 the angel replied, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have been received by God as an offering! Now send some men to Joppa, and summon a man named Simon Peter. He is staying with Simon, a tanner who lives near the seashore.”

9. Acts 10:7-8 As soon as the angel was gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier, one of his personal attendants. He told them what had happened and sent them off to Joppa.

10. Acts 10:9-10 The next day as Cornelius’s messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon, and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

11. Acts 10:11-13 He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds. Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.”

12. Acts 10:14-16 “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.” But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.” The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven.

13. Acts 10:13 I want you to get up and kill those animals and eat them.

14. Acts 10:28 Peter told them, “You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean.

15. Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right.

16. Acts 10:36-37 This is the message of Good News for the people of Israel— that there is peace with God through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee, after John began preaching his message of baptism.

17. Acts 10:38 And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

18. Acts 10:39-40 And we apostles are witnesses of all he did throughout Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a cross, but God raised him to life on the third day.

19. Acts 10:40-41 Then God allowed him to appear, not to the general public, but to us whom God had chosen in advance to be his witnesses. We were those who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

20. Acts 10:42-43 And he ordered us to preach everywhere and to testify that Jesus is the one appointed by God to be the judge of all— the living and the dead. He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in him will have their sins forgiven through his name.

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22. the gospel is universal

23. Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right.

24. Christianity has no geographic centre

25. Matthew 28:19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

26. the gospel is historical

27. Acts 10:37-41

28. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.

29. 1 Corinthians 15:5-6 He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve. After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.

30. Greek  illumination  knowledge Hebrew  wisdom  teaching  instruction gospelevangelion

32. Christianity is … …not simply subjective. …it’s objective.

33. the gospel is exclusive

34. Acts 10:36 This is the message of Good News for the people of Israel— that there is peace with God through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

35. Jesus is Lord

36. John 14:6 I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

37. Acts 4:12 There is salvation in no one else.

38. Acts 10:40-42 God raised him to life on the third day. Then God allowed him to appear… to us… his witnesses... And he ordered us to preach everywhere and to testify that Jesus is the one appointed by God to be the judge of all— the living and the dead.

39. John 7:24 NIV Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.

40. Matthew 7:1-2 NIV Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.

41. Acts 17:30-31 God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.

42. Acts 17:32 When they heard Paul speak about the resurrection of the dead, some laughed in contempt, but others said, “We want to hear more about this later.”

43. judgment

44. the gospel is good news

45. Acts 10:43 He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in him will have their sins forgiven through his name.

46. forgiveness

47. Acts 10:44-46 Even as Peter was saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the message. The Jewish believers who came with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles, too. For they heard them speaking in other tongues and praising God.

48. Acts 10:46-48 Then Peter asked, “Can anyone object to their being baptized, now that they have received the Holy Spirit just as we did?” So he gave orders for them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Afterward Cornelius asked him to stay with them for several days.

49. Jesus is Lord