Acts Chapters 10-11;18, Cornelius, trance ekstasis, vision horama, vegetarianism, Seventh Day Adventists, diets, three times, the disciples were human, everyone who believes in him, Limited Unlimited atonement, at the beginning

1. Acts 10-11:18
Acts Chapters 10-11:18, Cornelius, trance
ekstasis, vision horama, vegetarianism, Seventh
Day Adventists, diets, three times, the disciples
were human, everyone who believes in him,
Limited Unlimited atonement, at the beginning,
2014

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3. In Review

4. Acts Is Historical
• Acts is very pragmatic
• Hands on
• Not a theological treatise
• Not about doctrine
• It’s about what happened.
• Very precisely!

5. Why Study The Book Of Acts?
• What’s so
important
about it.
• J. Vernon
McGee calls it
a “funnel
book.”

6. www.bible.org (summarized)
• Luke/Acts is one work in two volumes, ¼ of N. T.
• radical change in the attitudes and actions of the
disciples
• fills in the gap between the Gospels and the Epistles
• from Jerusalem to Rome; theologically, from Israel to
the church; and racially, from Jews to Gentiles
• history of the opposition against the gospel by the Jews
• historical background of the churches in the Epistles
• examples of the apostolic preaching of the gospel
• fulfillment of promises, the coming of the Spirit
• defense of the apostleship of Paul

7. Acts 4:12, Memory Verse
• Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is
no other name under heaven given to men by which
we must be saved."
• Nora Newport relates, “As we returned from Vacation
Bible School one summer day, my young daughter
Melissa asked if we could stop at the library. When I
asked her why, she explained, "This morning my
teacher told me that the only way we get to heaven is
if our name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
• I just want to make sure that my name is in there!"

8. Acts 10:1-48
Peter in the
House of
Cornelius

9. Acts 10:1-5, Who is Cornelius?
• Lived at Caesarea
• a centurion in the Italian Regiment
• devout and God-fearing
• gave generously to those in need
• prayed to God regularly
• prayers and gifts to the poor a memorial offering
before God.
• Acts 10:22…a righteous and God-fearing man,
who is respected by all the Jewish people.
• Yet he is not saved

10. Acts 10:10, He Fell Into A Trance
• Strong’s 1611 ἔκστασις ekstasis {ek'-stas-is}
• Meaning: 1) any casting down of a thing from its proper
place or state, displacement 2) a throwing of the mind out
of its normal state, alienation of mind, whether such as
makes a lunatic or that of a man who by some sudden
emotion is transported as it were out of himself, so that in
this rapt condition, although he is awake, his mind is drawn
off from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on things
divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images lying
within, and thinks that he perceives with his bodily eyes
and ears realities shown him by God. …
• Usage: AV - trance 3, be amazed + 3083 2, amazement 1,
astonishment 1; 7
• DLK (LXX uses in Gen. 2:21, 15:12 deep sleep)

11. Acts 10:3,17,19, Vision
• Strong’s 3705 ὅραμα horama {hor'-am-ah}
• Meaning: 1) that which is seen, spectacle 2) a
sight divinely granted in an ecstasy or in a sleep, a
vision
• Usage: AV - vision 11, sight 1; 12
• [GING] ὅραμα
ὅραμα, ατος, τό vision as opposed to figment of
the imagination Mt 17:9; Ac 7:31; 10:3, 17, 19;
18:9. [panorama, πᾶν + ὅραμα] [pg 140]

12. Acts 10:13, Kill And Eat
• Acts 10:13 Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter.
Kill and eat.“
• 1 Cor 8:8 But food does not bring us near to
God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no
better if we do. NIV
• 1 Cor 8:8 But food will not commend us to God;
we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor
the better if we do eat. NASB
• Food is not a religious thing, just fuel.
• But I still get hungry!

13. Vegetarianism And Adventists
• While “reasoning from the Scriptures” with a Seventh
Day Adventist young man one day, I realized that he
was trusting in the hope that his “being a good person”
and in his being a vegetarian, might get him into
heaven.
• I reminded him that Jesus ate the Passover lamb, and
fish, and that Peter was commanded three times to
"Get up, Peter, kill and eat!” in Acts 10:13.
• NAU Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift
of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may
boast.

14. Acts 10:13, Adventists
• None of the points listed next divide between
orthodoxy/heterodoxy, but all are good to
consider when talking with Seventh Day
Adventists to determine what the individual
Adventist is trusting in for their eternal
destiny.

15. Acts 10:13, Adventists
• Sabbath
• Seer Status of Ellen G. White
• Steers (1Cor. 8:8, Acts 10:13), vs. vegetarianism
• Satan Sin Bearer, Lev. 16, http://www.slideshare.net/dkooyers/leviticus-1216-scapegoat-azazel-
satan-the-sin-bearer-laws-about-after-childbirth-day-of-atonement-male-and-female-circumcision-male-and-female-differences-aaronic-priests-
leprosy-hyssop?utm_source=slideshow&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=post_upload_view_cta
• Sin Penalty is hell (Matt 8:29, Mark 5:7, Luke 8:28, 16:23, 28, Revelation 14:9-11)
• Sunday Worship is the mark of the Beast
• Separating from the Body of Christ over
secondary issues

16. www.compass.org Listed some “diet
verses” that may help us diet
• QUESTION Dear Compass,
• I have tried scores of different diets my entire
life, and nothing seems to work for very long.
Do you know of any "scriptural" diets I could
follow? Or maybe some inspirational "diet"
verses?
• www.compass.org suggested some “diet
verses” that may help us diet;

17. Acts 10:14, Diets
• ANSWER, This is a new area for us. Since we have seen some that DO
need to diet, we'll take a crack at this. :-)
• Print the verses below and take them with you wherever you go. Just
before each meal, read one of the following verses OUT LOUD (reading
"out loud" is the key ingredient to this diet - and this includes when you
are eating in restaurants, airports, with friends, etc.. Do this for 60 days.
• . . . do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in
you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? —
1 Corinthians 6:19. . . they are enemies of Christ, whose end is destruction,
whose god is their appetite . . . Philippians 3:18-19
• For sin shall not be master over you . . . — Romans 6:14
• . . . for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness
and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. — Romans 14:17
• The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the stomach of the
wicked is in want. — Proverbs 13:25

18. Acts 10:14, Diets
• For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body. —1 Corinthians 6:20
• . . . put a knife to your throat, if you are a man of great appetite. —
Proverbs 23:2
• I buffet my body and make it my slave . . . — 1 Corinthians 9:27
• Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food; but God will do away
with both of them. Yet the body is . . . for the Lord; —1 Corinthians 6:13
• And in their heart they put God to the test by asking for food according to
their desire. — Psalm 78:18
• . . . I shall not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness,
Christ shall even now, as always, be exalted in my body . . . — Philippians
1:20
• When confronted with the desire to eat between-meal snacks, read one of
these verses out loud.

19. Acts 10:14, Diets
• I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. — Philippians 4:13
Whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, of good repute, if there is
any excellence and anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these
things. —Philippians 4:8
• Please let us know how this diet works :-)
• Full article is a slide after “THE END”

20. Acts 10:16, Three Times
• Acts 10:16 This happened three times, and
immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
• Matt 26:34 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered,
"this very night, before the rooster crows, you
will disown me three times.“
• NAU 2 Corinthians 12:7 ….there was given me a
thorn in the flesh… 8 Concerning this I implored
the Lord three times that it might leave me…

21. Acts 10:20, Do Not Hesitate
• Acts 10:20 So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to
go with them, for I have sent them."
• Why do you suppose the Spirit said, “Do not hesitate to go
with them.”
• Acts 18:9-10 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision:
"Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. 10
For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm
you, because I have many people in this city.“
• Acts 27:23-24 Last night an angel of the God whose I am
and whom I serve stood beside me 24 and said, 'Do not be
afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God
has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.'

22. The Progress of the Gospel, Alex R. Hay
• It will have been observed that what was accomplished by the
founders and first missionaries of the Early Church was done
through the normal working of the Holy Spirit. It is often thought
that Barnabas, Paul, Luke, Timothy, Titus, Silas and the other New
Testament Evangelists just suddenly and miraculously found
themselves possessed of the necessary knowledge and experience
for the ministry they were called to, that the churches sprang up
miraculously, that Elders were found ready immediately and that a
special dispensation of the Spirit's power was manifested at that
time in both Evangelists and converts.

23. The Progress of the Gospel, Alex R. Hay
• That may seem a plausible excuse for the comparative
powerlessness evident today, but there is no ground for it in
Scripture. We have seen that Paul and his companions had to go
through years of preparation in the school of hard experience,
becoming thoroughly acquainted with the principles of spiritual life
and ministry and with the structure of the local church, before the
Holy Spirit sent them forth to the work. It was seven years after
Pentecost before the Lord led out to the evangelization of the
Gentile world, because Greek-speaking men must first have years of
experience to fit them for the work. Those who ministered did so at
as great a cost as is required of us today. In the churches, Elders and
Deacons were not appointed until ample time had been given for
them to be proved. Even in the church in Jerusalem this was so. And
the enemy was just as active in just the same way, spreading false
doctrine, causing divisions and using every weakness of the human
heart.

24. The Progress of the Gospel, Alex R. Hay
• No, it was not easier in those early days; the work was done then
just as it has to be done today. It was done victoriously because it
was done in God's way, in the power of the Spirit, through utter
yieldedness, obedience, prayer and faith. Those who are willing to
walk in the same way today will reap the same fruit. The whole
difficulty is the cost of this walk. It means taking the way of sacrifice
that our Lord and the early Evangelists of the Church did not shrink
from taking. It means continual death to the flesh with its desires,
wisdom and pride. That there are those who are willing for this,
there is no doubt. There has always been such a company and there
always will be so long as the Spirit of Christ remains among men.
The number may not be great, because few will be willing to pay
the cost, but the Lord will be with those who do and their labor and
testimony will bear eternal fruit.

25. ACTS 10:21
I Am He Whom
Ye Seek

26. • Acts10:24 Cornelius
was expecting
them…
• Why?
• Acts 10:3…He
distinctly saw an
angel of God…
• It’s about 30 miles,
like walking to
Cloverdale

27. Acts 10:25-26, I Am Only A Man
• Acts 10:25-26…Cornelius met him and fell at
his feet in reverence. 26 But Peter made him
get up. "Stand up," he said, "I am only a man
myself.“
• Peter should have said, “Here, kiss my ring!
I’m the vicar of Christ and I were funny hats.”

28. Acts 10:34, Peter’s Repentance
• Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter began to speak: "I now
realize how true it is that God does not show
favoritism 35 but accepts men from every nation
who fear him and do what is right.
• Acts 10:34…I perceive that God is no respecter of
persons: KJV
• Acts 10:34…God is not one to show partiality,
NASU
• Acts 10:34…God does not show partiality to
anyone because of his looks or circumstances… An
Expanded Translation by Kenneth S. Wuest

29. Acts 10:42, He Ordered Us To
Preach To Sinners
• Acts 10:42 "And He ordered us to preach to the people,
and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has
been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the
dead.
• Colossians 1:25 Of this church I was made a minister
according to the stewardship from God bestowed on
me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the
preaching of the word of God,
• H. Grattan Guiness (1835-1910) said, "I do now most
heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live
preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing
sinners till I drop down dead."

30. Acts 10:43, All The Prophets
• Acts 10:43 All the prophets testify about him that
everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of
sins through his name."
• Who is “all the prophets”?
• Who is “everyone who believes in him”?
• John 1:12, 3:16
• 2Pet 3:9 not wishing for any to perish but for all to
come to repentance.
• 1 Timothy 2:4 who desires all men to be saved and to
come to the knowledge of the truth. (NASB)

31. Acts 11:2, Peter Criticized
• Acts 11:2…Peter went up to Jerusalem, the
circumcised believers criticized…
• Doesn’t seem like they think he’s the first
infallible pope.

32. Acts 11:11-12, 10 Men
• Acts 11:11-12… three men who had been sent
to me from Caesarea stopped at the house
where I was staying. 12 The Spirit told me to
have no hesitation about going with them.
These six brothers also went with me…
• #’s 10 & 2 reminds me of “witness”
• Zechariah 8:23, Jeremiah 41:1, 2 Chronicles
4:7-8, 2 Kings 20:9-11

33. Acts 11:15, At The Beginning
• Acts 11:15 "As I began to speak, the Holy
Spirit came on them as he had come on us at
the beginning.
• What does “at the beginning” mean?
• Some hyper dispensationalists say the church
starts in Acts 28, or later.

34. Acts 11:18, Even The Gentiles!
• Acts 11:18 When they heard this, they had no
further objections and praised God, saying,
"So then, God has granted even the Gentiles
repentance unto life.”
• We’re in stage 4;
• NAU Acts 1:8 but you will receive power when
the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you
shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and
in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the
remotest part of the earth."

35. Acts 11:18, God Has Granted
• Acts 11:18 …"So then, God has granted even the
Gentiles repentance unto life.”
• “God has granted” their change of thought or mind.
• “Repent” absolutely cannot mean “turn from your
sins” (completely different Greek words), because that
would make God responsible for their sins, He had not
granted “repentance.”
• No, in Acts 11:18 “God has granted” them a change of
thought or mind about their sin condition before God
• We would never come to Him if God hadn’t granted,
called, arranged, moved, wooed, and bought us!
• http://www.slideshare.net/dkooyers/matthew-3-repent-stop-sinning-turn-metanoeo-penance-believe-gospel-
salvation-1-272013-ss

36. We Are Called Be Witnesses!
• We need discernment to know who to witness to. Are
they devout, God fearing, religious, praying people
who are lost like Cornelius was?
• Romans 10:2 For I testify about them that they have a
zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
• Are they trusting in a different gospel, different Jesus,
and/or different gospel (2 Corinthians 11:4)?
• Warren Wiersbe has said, “Christians think they are
prosecuting attorneys or judges, when, in realty, God
has called all of us to be witnesses.”
• Judging others, Luke 6:37 Rom 14:10 James 4:11 1
Cor 4:3, 4:5, 5:12, Matthew 7:1

37. So in conclusion
• We are all called be witnesses!
• Witnesses to the whole world
• Even the unspeakable gentiles
• Even the devoutly religious
• Even the atheists, and irreligious
• Acts 1:8 “…even to the remotest part of the
earth."
• Even to your neighbor in Anderson Valley!

38. Tenth Floor
Bathroom In
A Hi-rise
Building
THE
END

39. Compass International,
QUESTION FOR THE DAY, "diet" verses?
• QUESTION FOR THE DAY
• Dear Compass,
• I have tried scores of different diets my entire life and nothing seems to work for very long. Do you know of any "scriptural" diets I could follow? Or,
maybe some inspirational "diet" verses?
•
• ANSWER:
• This is a new area for us. Since we have seen some that DO need to diet, we'll take a crack at this. :-)
• Print the verses below and take them with you wherever you go. Just before each meal, read one of the following verses OUT LOUD (reading "out
loud" is the key ingredient to this diet -- and this includes when you are eating in restaurants, airports, with friends, etc.). Do this for 60 days.
• I Cor. 6:19 ". . . do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your
own?"
• Phil. 3:18, 19 ". . . they are enemies of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite . . ."
• Rom. 6:14 "For sin shall not be master over you . . ."
• Rom. 14:17 ". . . for the kingdom of God in not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit."
• Prov 13:25 "The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the stomach of the wicked is in want."
• I Cor. 6:20 "For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body."
• Proverbs 23:2 ". . . put a knife to you throat, if you are a man of great appetite."
• I Cor. 9:27 "I buffet my body and make it my slave . . ."
• I Cor. 6:13 "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food; but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is . . . for the Lord;"
• Ps. 78:18 "And in their heart they put God to the test by asking for food according to their desire."
• Phil. 1:20 ". . . I shall not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ shall even now, as always, be exalted in my body. . ."
• When confronted with the desire to eat in between meal snacks, read one of these verses out loud.
• Phil. 4:13 "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."
• Phil. 4:8 "Whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, of good repute, if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell
on these things."
• Please let us know how this diet works :-)
•
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