Acts

This lesson is part 27 in a verse by verse study through Acts titled: Peter’s Message to Cornelius.
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Grace Ambassadors Bible Fellowship - April 17th, 2018

[@thegnomechaun1194]

The mystery of christ is the body of Christ the new creature formed by those saved freely by his grace through faith without the law without Israel without the covenants and without works of any kind and that Faith being in Christ's death on the cross burial and Resurrection from the dead that saves you and put you in the body of Christ immediately after you trusted that amen

[@fernandogarza2313]

Well put bro

[@tuipearson5673]

Thanks Justin, great teaching on this subject. :)

[@rickorider]

Such an enlightening message! So clear to under what Peter was preaching to Cornelius. Have heard many preaching Acts 10 making it a pattern for the gospel today but clearly an error of understanding. Thankyou...we have be going through these lessons on A ts and they are so helpful.

[@sudhanshupatra5777]

Thank you pastor It is wonderful exposition

[@tobilobao10]

Wow! Thank you Justin!

[@cesarcabungcal7588]

Amen

[@heatherrollins4636]

makes it so clear

[@roga49]

Wow,thank you brother Justin ❤️❤️❤️

[@KILLERWHALECHANNELS2380]

Another well timed Bible study lesson. We have a new thread on my Theology Forum concerning the question of whether Cornelius is in the Body Of Christ. I hope this answers some questions, Thank you pastor JJ !!!

[@dkgrace6743]

Awesome. Thank you.

[@robertnieten7259]

If the Lords' specific statement to Peter ,during his vision, " What God hath cleansed call not thou uncommon", is not just about gentiles as a whole but Cornelius and his guests specifically then before Peter spoke to them they had already been spiritually cleansed somehow. The Lord said what God "Hath cleansed" meaning past tense. If that was the case the only way Cornelius and guests could have been is if they had been baptized by John of repentance for remission of sins. From where Cornelius lived to the Jordan River where John was would have been a day's travel. Peter didn't have to explain to them who John was, they knew. This would explain the gentiles recieving the Holy Spirit without seemingly haven't been water baptized if there was, at the time, a window of opportunity to where John's baptism was still effective.

[@kenlarson7890]

Hi Brother. Im still pretty new to the mid Acts position. I'm learning a great deal and all the things that made no sense are all now lining up. This is an answer to prayer Brother. I do have a question. Is the gospel of the Kingdom different from the gospel of the circumcision? If it is do people still recieve the Holy Ghost in the gospel of circumcision?

[@gracesaves949]

@ken larson, still learning too, lI say no diff. Holy Spirit operating in the Body of Christ formed by the Gospel of Grace Paul taught & we continue to build upon.

[@kenlarson7890]

Hi there. Thank you for your response Grace Saves. I've been studying this Mid-Acts doctrine for about 6 months now and all I can say is WOW! I've grown and learned more in the past 6 months that the past 10 years since being saved!

[@nancylovelace6544]

But for now the gospel to the circumcision they have been put on hold so it is not an operation

[@petarbradvicbiblijarijecbo5798]

Amen, good lesson!

[@trellusg]

This slicing artificially divides salvation (“by works” before supposedly and “by faith” now since Paul) - but this is flatly contradicted by Paul himself in his letter to the Romans (chapter 4) when he plainly makes the case that not even Abraham - who clearly was before Jesus much less Paul - not even Abraham was justified by any works but by faith. Paul also points out that David (who was after Moses) rejoices in the “blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.” Does anyone see that David himself had the righteousness of Christ imputed to him? Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life - no man comes to the Father but by me.” None of us are saved by works - not those before Moses, not those after Moses before Jesus, not those between Jesus’ earthly ministry and Paul’s revelation of the body of Christ - not us since. The revelation of the body of Christ is just that - it’s the revelation of it, not the inception of it - the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, before Adam much less before Moses before Jesus’ earthly ministry in Palestine and before Paul’s conversion and revelation of the body of Christ. There is one gospel, yes, spoken with new words and revelations through different ages - but it’s not a “different gospel,” and everyone who is saved is in the body of Christ, whether Jew or Gentile, male or female - his body is not divided by the “ages” marking different UNDERSTANDINGS. Jesus’ death did not end the Law - it ended the deadly consequences of it IN HIS *BODY*, of whom you are and in whom you have your life - the life LAID DOWN and the blood presented to a MERCY seat. “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself daily, take up his cross and follow me.” We have a cross - because we are in him as soon as we turn from our selves and are BURIED WITH HIM, so that we are gifted (through no works of our own but rather the GIVING UP OF ALL SELF-WORKS) with the very Spirit of Christ that raises us up a new creature in Christ, “born again” - just as JESUS taught in John 3.