Theme: TO DO GOOD AND TO COMMUNICATE, FORGET NOT
Text: “And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter.” – Acts 10:4, 5.
Comment: Cornelius, the centurion, was a senior army officer and captain of a troop of hundred men in the Roman army. He was a Gentile; but the Holy Scripture states that he was a “devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.” (Acts 10:2) He was converted to Christianity after a night vision where an angel told him: “Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.” (Acts 10:4) Apostle Peter, a Jew, was commissioned by God to go to Joppa to receive him into the Christian fold as he explained: “Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.” (Acts 10:28) The opening of the door of salvation to the Gentiles spurred Apostle Peter to declare: “Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.” – Acts 10:34, 35.
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