Monday, September 12, 2016

ONCE For All

Peter’s Vision About The Gentiles (Non-Jewish Believers)

Acts 10:34-45

Then Peter opened His (Peter’s) Mouth and said: “In TRUTH, I (Peter) PERCEIVE that GOD (GOD Almighty) SHOWS NO Partiality.  BUT in Every Nation WHOEVER (Believers) Fears Him (GOD Almighty) and Works Righteousness IS ACCEPTED BY Him (GOD Almighty).  The WORD (The Gospel of Jesus Christ), which GOD (GOD Almighty) SENT to The Children of Israel, Preaching Peace THROUGH Jesus Christ, He (Jesus Christ) IS LORD of ALL, THAT WORD (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) YOU (Believers) KNOW, which was PROCLAIMED throughout All Judea, and began from Galilee AFTER The Baptism, which John (John, The Baptist) Preached: how GOD (GOD Almighty) ANOINTED Jesus of Nazareth, WITH The Holy Spirit and WITH Power, Who went about Doing Good and Healing All, who were OPPRESSED by the devil, for GOD (GOD Almighty) was WITH Him (Jesus Christ).  And We (Jesus Christ’s Disciples and Followers) ARE Witnesses of All Things, which He (Jesus Christ) DID, BOTH in The Land of The Jews and in Jerusalem, whom They (Unbelievers) KILLED by Hanging (Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion) on a Tree (The Cross).  Him (Jesus Christ), GOD (GOD Almighty) RAISED UP (Jesus Christ’s Resurrection) on The Third Day, and SHOWED Him (Jesus Christ) OPENLY (ALIVE), NOT to All The People, BUT to Witnesses CHOSEN BEFORE by GOD (GOD Almighty), even to Us (Jesus Christ’s Disciples and Followers) who ate and drank WITH Him (Jesus Christ) AFTER He (Jesus Christ) AROSE (ALIVE) from The Dead.  And He (Jesus Christ) Commanded Us (Jesus Christ’s Disciples and Followers) to PREACH to The People, and to TESTIFY that IT IS He (Jesus Christ) who was ORDAINED BY GOD (GOD Almighty) to be JUDGE of The Living AND The Dead.  To Him (Jesus Christ) All The Prophets WITNESS that, THROUGH His (Jesus Christ’s) Name, WHOEVER (Believers) BELIEVES IN Him (Jesus Christ) Will RECEIVE Remission (Cleansing) of sins.”

While Peter was still speaking These WORDS, The Holy Spirit FELL UPON All Those (Believers) who HEARD The WORD.  And Those of The Circumcision (Jewish Believers) who BELIEVED were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because The GIFT (GOD Almighty’s FREE GIFT of Salvation) of The Holy Spirit had been POURED OUT ON The Gentiles (Non-Jewish Believers) also.

Acts 11:1-18

Now, The Apostles (Jesus Christ’s Disciples) and Brethren (Believers) who were in Judea HEARD that The Gentiles (Non-Jewish Believers) had also RECEIVED The WORD (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) of GOD (GOD Almighty).  And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, Those of The Circumcision (Jewish Believers) CONTENDED with Him (Peter), saying, “YOU (Peter) went in to Uncircumcised Men (The Gentiles) and ate with Them (Uncircumcised Men/The Gentiles)!”

But Peter explained it to Them (Jewish Believers) in order from the beginning, saying: “I (Peter) was in The City of Joppa praying; and in a TRANCE I (Peter) SAW A VISION, an Object Descending LIKE a Great Sheet, Let Down FROM Heaven by Four Corners; and it (The Great Sheet) CAME to me (Peter).  When I (Peter) OBSERVED it (The Great Sheet) intently and considered, I (Peter) SAW Four-Footed Animals of The Earth, Wild Beasts, Creeping Things, and Birds of The Air.  And I (Peter) HEARD A (GOD Almighty’s) VOICE SAYING to me (Peter), ‘Rise, Peter; Kill and Eat.’  BUT I (Peter) said, ‘NOT so, LORD (GOD Almighty)!  For NOTHING Common OR Unclean has at ANY TIME entered My (Peter’s) Mouth.’  BUT The (GOD Almighty’s) VOICE ANSWERED me (Peter) again FROM Heaven, ‘What GOD (GOD Almighty) HAS CLEANSED, YOU (Peter) MUSE NOT Call, common.’  Now THIS was DONE Three Times, and All were DRAWN UP again INTO Heaven.

At That Very Moment, Three Men stood before the house where I (Peter) was, having been SENT to me (Peter) from Caesarea.  Then The Spirit (The Holy Spirit) TOLD me (Peter) to GO with Them (The Three Men), DOUBTING NOTHING.  Moreover, These Six Brethren accompanied me (Peter), and We entered The Man’s (Cornelius’) House.  And He (Cornelius) told Us how He (Cornelius) had SEEN an Angel (GOD Almighty’s Holy Angel) STANDING in His (Cornelius’) House, Who said to Him (Cornelius), ‘SEND Men to Joppa, and CALL for Simon, whose Surname is Peter, Who will TELL YOU (Cornelius) WORDS by which YOU (Cornelius) and All Your (Cornelius’) Household will BE SAVED.’  And as I (Peter) began to SPEAK, The Holy Spirit FELL UPON Them (Cornelius and His Household), as UPON Us (Jesus Christ’s Disciples and Followers) at The Beginning (Pentecost).  Then, I (Peter) Remembered The WORD of The LORD (Jesus Christ), HOW He (Jesus Christ) SAID, ‘John (John, The Baptist) INDEED Baptized WITH water, BUT YOU (Jesus Christ’s Disciples and Followers) Shall BE BAPTIZED WITH The Holy Spirit.’  IF therefore, GOD (GOD Almighty) GAVE Them (The Gentiles/Non-Jewish Believers) The SAME GIFT (GOD Almighty’s FREE GIFT of Salvation) as He (GOD Almighty) GAVE Us (Jewish Believers) when We (Jewish Believers) BELIEVED on The LORD Jesus Christ, who was I (Peter) that I (Peter) Could WITHSTAND GOD (GOD Almighty)?”  When They (Jewish Believers) HEARD These Things They (Jewish Believers) became SILENT; and They (Jewish Believers) GLORIFIED GOD (GOD Almighty), saying, “Then GOD (GOD Almighty) has also GRANTED to The Gentiles Repentance TO LIFE (Everlasting Life).”

Saul’s (Paul’s) Conversion and His Revelation FROM Jesus Christ

Acts 26:12-18

“While thus occupied, as I (Saul) journeyed to Damascus with Authority and Commission from The Chief Priests, at Midday, O King (King Agrippa), along the road I (Saul) SAW A LIGHT FROM Heaven, BRIGHTER than The Sun, SHINING around me (Saul) and Those who journeyed with me (Saul).  And when We All had fallen to the ground, I (Saul) HEARD A (Jesus Christ’s) VOICE SPEAKING to me (Saul) and SAYING in The Hebrew Language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are YOU PERSECUTING Me (Jesus Christ)?  It is HARD for YOU (Saul) to kick AGAINST the goads.’  So I (Saul) said, ‘Who are YOU, LORD (Jesus Christ)?’  And He (Jesus Christ) SAID, ‘I AM Jesus, Whom YOU (Saul) ARE PERSECUTING.  But RISE and STAND on Your (Saul’s) Feet; for I (Jesus Christ) have APPEARED TO YOU (Saul) for THIS PURPOSE, to MAKE YOU (Saul) A Minister and A Witness BOTH of The Things which YOU (Saul) HAVE SEEN and of The Things which I (Jesus Christ) Will yet REVEAL TO YOU (Saul).  I (Jesus Christ) Will DELIVER YOU (Saul) FROM The Jewish People, as well as from The Gentiles, to whom I (Jesus Christ) NOW SEND YOU (Saul), TO OPEN Their (The Gentiles) Eyes, IN ORDER TO TURN Them (The Gentiles) FROM darkness TO LIGHT, and FROM the power of Satan TO GOD (GOD Almighty), that They (The Gentiles) May RECEIVE Forgiveness of sins and an INHERITANCE among Those (Believers) who are SANCTIFIED BY FAITH IN Me (Jesus Christ).’

Galatians 1:11-12, 15-19

But I (Paul, once known as Saul) MAKE KNOWN to YOU, Brethren, that The Gospel (The Gospel of Jesus Christ), which was PREACHED by me (Paul) is NOT according to Man.  For I (Paul) NEITHER RECEIVED IT (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) from Man, NOR was I (Paul) TAUGHT IT (The Gospel of Jesus Christ), but IT (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) CAME THROUGH The REVELATION of Jesus Christ.

But when it PLEASED GOD (GOD Almighty), Who SEPARATED me (Paul) from My (Paul’s) Mother’s Womb and CALLED me (Paul) THROUGH His (GOD Almighty’s) GRACE, TO REVEAL His (GOD Almighty’s) Son (Jesus Christ) IN me (Paul), that I (Paul) might PREACH Him (Jesus Christ) AMONG The Gentiles, I (Paul) did NOT immediately CONFER with Flesh and Blood (Mankind), NOR did I (Paul) go up to Jerusalem to Those who were Apostles (Jesus Christ’s Disciples) BEFORE me (Paul); but I (Paul) went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.  Then after Three Years, I (Paul) went up to Jerusalem to SEE Peter, and remained with Him (Peter) Fifteen Days.   But I (Paul) SAW NONE of The Other Apostles (Jesus Christ’s Disciple), EXCEPT James, The LORD’s (Jesus Christ’s) Brother (Half Brother).

Fellow Believers, did YOU (Believers) KNOW that it was NOT Officially Ordained (by GOD Almighty) to PREACH The Gospel of Jesus Christ to The Uncircumcised (The Gentiles), until AFTER Jesus Christ’s Resurrection and AFTER Jesus Christ’s Ascension.  Peter was TOLD in a VISION, FROM GOD Almighty, while Saul (Paul) was TOLD, THROUGH A Revelation FROM Jesus Christ.  Paul became The Main Disciple of Jesus Christ to The Gentiles, this is NOT to say that The Other Disciples did NOT Preach The Gospel of Jesus Christ to The Gentiles.  It’s believed that during Paul’s RECEIVING His (Paul’s) Revelation FROM Jesus Christ, He (Paul) RECEIVED The Knowledge of “The Being Caught Up Together”, which He (Paul) calls, A Mystery, and He (Paul) WRITES about what He (Paul) LEARNED in His (Paul’s) Epistles, especially in His (Paul’s) Letters to The Corinthians and The Thessalonians.

Therefore, by GOD Almighty’s Amazing Saving Grace THROUGH GOD Almighty’s FREE GIFT of Salvation, ALL BELIEVERS (BOTH Jewish and Gentiles) Will Be IN GOD Almighty’s Immediate Presence, WITH Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, GOD Almighty’s Holy Angels, and All The Rest of The Children (Believers) of GOD Almighty, for Eternity, Forever.  Amen.

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