Jesus In The Book Of Cornelius
Cornelius
I like good people and nearly all my life I have been around good people. Oh, I have known a scalawag now and then, but most of the people I have known have been very fine people and I have enjoyed being with them.
I like to read about good people and I have a number of volumes in my library about great men who were pioneers; who a long time ago made possible the work that is going on, even today, in the church. And I enjoy reading those books.
But, the best man that I have ever read about other than my Lord is the man in the story, which is recorded in chapters ten and eleven of the Acts of the Apostles..
For some reason or another, although my Lord had said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15), the early disciples either didn’t understand that or they didn’t think …show more content…
That has been a problem for certain Bible students; however, the law under which Cornelius was worshipping must be considered. It wasn’t Christianity for up to that time he had not obeyed the gospel. It was not Judaism, because he was not a Jew or a proselyte to the Jewish religion; he was an uncircumcised Gentile.
There had been but one other law under which God accepted worship; the Patriarchy.
The Law of Moses was given only to the descendants of Jacob; the Israelites (Deut. 5:2); notwithstanding, a Gentile was proselyted now and then. Cornelius was neither a Jew nor a proselyte; so, he was worshipping God, acceptably, under the Patriarchal system.
The condition of the Gentiles from the Pentecost to the house of Cornelius was exactly the same as that of the Jews from the cross to the Pentecost.
Anyway, one day God told him, through a messenger, to send down to Joppa; down by the sea side, to Simon’s house because there is a fellow there named Peter who would tell him and his house words whereby he could be
I like good people and nearly all my life I have been around good people. Oh, I have known a scalawag now and then, but most of the people I have known have been very fine people and I have enjoyed being with them.
I like to read about good people and I have a number of volumes in my library about great men who were pioneers; who a long time ago made possible the work that is going on, even today, in the church. And I enjoy reading those books.
But, the best man that I have ever read about other than my Lord is the man in the story, which is recorded in chapters ten and eleven of the Acts of the Apostles..
For some reason or another, although my Lord had said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15), the early disciples either didn’t understand that or they didn’t think …show more content…
That has been a problem for certain Bible students; however, the law under which Cornelius was worshipping must be considered. It wasn’t Christianity for up to that time he had not obeyed the gospel. It was not Judaism, because he was not a Jew or a proselyte to the Jewish religion; he was an uncircumcised Gentile.
There had been but one other law under which God accepted worship; the Patriarchy.
The Law of Moses was given only to the descendants of Jacob; the Israelites (Deut. 5:2); notwithstanding, a Gentile was proselyted now and then. Cornelius was neither a Jew nor a proselyte; so, he was worshipping God, acceptably, under the Patriarchal system.
The condition of the Gentiles from the Pentecost to the house of Cornelius was exactly the same as that of the Jews from the cross to the Pentecost.
Anyway, one day God told him, through a messenger, to send down to Joppa; down by the sea side, to Simon’s house because there is a fellow there named Peter who would tell him and his house words whereby he could be