Acts 11:1-18 - Corps Notes - May 4, 1976
Acts 11:1-18 May 4, 1976 I do not know from God’s Word whether this teaching or the first teaching was the one that brought them to the new birth where they received the fulness of the spirit. Maybe they had a coffee break, went to the bathroom. Maybe they had a little bit of lunch, and then came back, and Peter taught again. Maybe they broke up again and had ice cream with marshmallows on top and then he taught again. I just don’t know, but I know that while Peter was teaching one of’ these times, (whether it was the first time or the fourth), that one of those times this tremendous record in Acts 10 occurred. And the 11th chapter simply is a continued unfolding of what occurred afterward, later. Acts 11:1 “And” - now “had” – delete – not in the texts “Received” – dechomai That’s interesting to me. When they heard, back in Judaea, they did not hear that they lambanō-ed. You and I know from chapter 10 that they had lambanō-ed. And yet the record here in Acts 11 says they only heard that they dechomai-ed. Sounds like Samaria, doesn’t it? Whether this is due to the fact that these were Gentiles and that they just didn’t just didn’t want to say, “they spoke in tongues”, I don’t know, but it looks sort of like it – because, “No Gentiles could do that, you know that, without becoming proselytes, going through all the ritual.” Yet I have shown you from Acts 10 that he was not a proselyte. Cornelius was not a proselyte. Acts 11:2 “contended” - were contending “with” - against Boy, the moment Peter got down there they jumped on him with both feet. In essence they said “Peter, just what in the blazes were you doing?” So they immediately started a fight; contending with him. Acts 11:3 “men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them” - That’s what really disturbed them. Whenever you ate with someone, you know what that meant; that you weren’t going to knife them in the back; that they belong to your family, your fellowship. We read it from Revelation 3:20. They didn’t object for h
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Tweet Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: 5-04-1976 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And I noticed again that some of the thi