Sermon Tone Analysis

A. The Rapport for the Time

Who may be saved?

Two weeks ago, Last week Correcting vision.

What does your salvation mean to you.

We have come our of a week of thanksgiving to get to the text this morning and ask ourselves what does our salvation mean to us?

B. The Reading of the Text

C. The Review of the Text

What we will find in the text this morning is great anticipation that has been building for the last 2 weeks.

What we have in the text is the collision course of Peter and Cornelius and his entire household that has all been orchestrated by the God of all creation.

You see

D. The relevance of the Text

At what lengths will God go?

At what lengths has God gone for Cornelius so far in chapter 10? Hold on to that thought in the midst of us walking through the verses together this morning and be ready to pull the thought out at vs. 34-35 and then again at the end.

T.S.

We dive into the verses this morning I pray with the same great expectation as our dear friend Cornelius.

I.

With Great Expectation

Acts 10:23–24 (ESV)

23 So he invited them in to be his guests.

The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

24 And on the following day they entered Caesarea.

Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

Verse 24 speaks to the faith of Cornelius that the Lord had already entrusted to him.

Cornelius sent of people a few days ago to collect someone that he have never met.

But his belief and faith was so great that he understood that something big was going to happen even though not fully aware of all that would take place.

We first see this faith in the fact that he has called his relative and close friends over to meet this person, whoever they may be.

Can you imagine how that conversation may have gone?

Everyone I have a gathering at my house on Tuesday if you guys could come over it would be great.

What are we doing.

Well, I had an angel come visit me and tell me to send for a guy that would share with us about salvation?

Who is the guy?

I really don’t know.

I’ve heard somethings about him but never met him myself.

In fact, I’ve heard stories about what is going on in other place but it seems as though God is going to do something big and I want you all to be a part of it with me!

Cornelius is so thankful that Peter has arrived and that God has connected them the first thing that he does is fall down at his feet and worship him.

Peter has him get up and they talk as if long lost friends as they enter into the house of Cornelius.

Then Peter spills the beans of what has brought him to this house on this day and the Cornelius describes his side of the events with Peter

This is not what the Jewish people had been taught.

Jubilees 22:16 “Separate yourself from the nations, And eat not with them: And do not according to their works, And become not their associate; For their works are unclean, And all their ways are a pollution and an abomination and uncleanness.”

Do you see the heart of Cornelius in vs. 33

They are in his house but in the presence of God(Cornelius understands that all this has been orchestrated by God for His benefit, His Salvation.

The desire of Cornelius heart is to listen to the heart of Peter as he wants to know all that is commanded by the Lord.

He wants to hear.

We can make this Christian life extremely complicated at times.

I can and you can.

We try to figure out all that God would have for us when in truth this Christian life is simplegrace It begins with a heart that truly desires to know the Lord and God takes us from darkness into the marvelous light.

Don’t take that for granted!! How precious it is to just worship the one who redeemed us for himself.

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God calls us to live our life in wonder of his love for us.

My faith walk with the Lord should be one that is filled with great expectations around every corner.

Cornelius is like a child before the King of all creation with a desire to know more.

Are you that this morning?

Cornelius does not have the Spirit of God indwelling him at this moment, he is not saved, but has a desire to know more.

How sad to think that a redeemed person might not have that same excitement because they are to busy trying to do than to just be obedient now

T.S.

You see Cornelius comes with great expectation and that leads to the greatest truth he could ever know.

II.

The Greatest Truth

This is not a new truth just one that man had decided to stuff away.

In the New Testament

Baker---No partiality—You see Jews and Gentiles alike are accountable to God for sin.

There is not distinction between the two.

Mankind is all created in the image of God and accountable to God for our sins.

This word conveys the idea that God “receives faces” or “Lifts up the face” that bows to him in acceptance.

The point is that he makes no distinction in how he reacts to people.

All have the same potential access to God.

THE GOOD NEWS—The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is the News that will change a life in an instant.

Giving new life and new birth to an enemy of the Cross!

Peter even says they know what has been happening around them but they needed someone to tell them about Christ!

Verse 38-43 is the Good Stuff!!!

This is the work of Christ completed in this life for you and I.

This is the Gospel detail of the work accomplished before the Jews and the Apostles live out before them and going to a cross in death.

It is a life lived for all who would believe.

It is a life lived for Cornelius and the gentiles in that room who are desperate for more than what they have knowing that they need direct revelation from God.

The need the Lord of ALL!

Lord of All

Ultimately Jesus is Lord because is is Judge of ALL both Jews and Gentiles.

There is no other judge.

Not one for the Jews and one for the Gentiles.

There is not distinction because we all have sinned and are all made in the image of God.

App..are you sitting here this morning knowing that you are in need of saving.

You know your way does not work before a righteous and holy God but like Cornelius you are looking for more?

You can never obey your way into the kingdom of God.

You can’t walk in the ways of God apart from the power of God.

The testimony of believers in this room today is that we are all sinners in need.

It will only come through the simple grace of God in Repentance and belief in one far greater than yourself.

T.S. Repentance is exactly what we see in vs. 44

III.

Repentance and Belief

App—There is a difference between seeking and entering into fellowship with God.

God directs Peter to complete Cornelius’s journey back to God.

Cornelius’s heart has been well prepared for the gospel.

His conversation in many ways stands in contrast to Paul’s.

Where Paul went from enemy to believer by a dramatic appearance, Cornelius went from an open seeker to a believer through the preached Gospel.

The contrast reveals the variety of ways in which God can work.

(Baker)