Gentiles Repent and Experience New Life

God Loves Us
God's Pervasive and Sustaining Love

God's Love for Nineveh

Acts 11:11-18 The Message

11-14 “Just then three men showed up at the house where I was staying, sent from Caesarea to get me. The Spirit told me to go with them, no questions asked. So I went with them, I and six friends, to the man who had sent for me. He told us how he had seen an angel right in his own house, real as his next-door neighbor, saying, ‘Send to Joppa and get Simon, the one they call Peter. He’ll tell you something that will save your life—in fact, you and everyone you care for.’
15-17 “So I started in, talking. Before I’d spoken half a dozen sentences, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us the first time. I remembered Jesus’ words: ‘John baptized with water; you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ So I ask you: If God gave the same exact gift to them as to us when we believed in the Master Jesus Christ, how could I object to God?”
18 Hearing it all laid out like that, they quieted down. And then, as it sank in, they started praising God. “It’s really happened! God has broken through to the other nations, opened them up to Life!”

For Reflection

Who would have thought that separated from society and imprisoned, Paul would continue to have opportunities to witness to the Holy Spirit?  In my youth, I heard one visiting Scottish preacher say " Ye can trample down the heather but ye canna' trample the wind." The word of God and the witnessing of Christ's followers scatters on the winds of truth.

Pray

Pray that the meaning of your existence lies in your witness to the truth of God manifesting in human goodness.