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ACTS: LESSON 10

X. PETER PREACHES TO CORNELIUS AND HIS HOUSEHOLD: THE FIRST UNCIRCUMCISED GENTILE      CONVERTS (Acts 10:1-11:18).

A. Cornelius sees vision and hears instructions from angel as he is praying - Sends three men to Joppa and fetch Peter                     (10:1-8).

B. Peter falls in trance and sees vessel of full of unclean beasts descending from heaven three times - "What God hath                 cleansed, make not thou common" (10:9-16).

C. As Peter thinks on vision, The Holy Spirit instructs Peter to go with three men sent by Cornelius (10:17-23).

D. Peter meets Cornelius who has assembled his household to hear all  things commanded Peter of the Lord (10:24-34).

E. Peter begins to preach God as no respecter of persons and of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection (10:35-43).

F. Miraculous power of Holy Spirit falls on Gentile hearers as Peter begins to preach - Peter commands Gentile hearers                 to be baptized in water in the name of Jesus Christ (10:44-48).

G. Peter rehearses the events of conversion of uncircumcised Gentiles to concerned Jews in Jerusalem - they understand                 that God hath granted repentance unto life to Gentiles as He had to Jews (11:1-18).

QUESTIONS:

1. What was Cornelius' occupation?

 

2. Give a brief description of the Cornelius' character.

3. What did the angel of God tell Cornelius to do?  Why was this important to the soul of Cornelius?

4. What revelation was God giving Peter when he fell into a trance?  When did Peter learn of the meaning of the trance?

5. What did Peter not allow Cornelius to do when they first met?

6. What was different between Peter's sermon to Cornelius and his sermon in Acts 2?

7. Who were the witnesses that Jesus appeared to after His resurrection?

8. What has God ordained Jesus to be?

9. What did the prophets bear witness to concerning Jesus?

10. While Peter was preaching what occurred that amazed the Jewish believers?

11. What did this occurrence mean to the inspired apostle Peter?

12. Why did the Jews in Jerusalem contend with Peter?

13. What caused them to hold their peace and glorify God?

14. Since "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God"  (ICor. 2:14), Cornelius and the Gentile household were       saved before baptism. (T) (F)

15. What fact indicates that "the gift of the Holy Spirit" in Acts 2:38 is not the miraculous gift received in Acts 10.

16. Cornelius is an example showing that even good men still need to be __________ .