4/27/10: Acts 10:34-48

Main Idea: Holy Spirit among Gentiles

What I learned about God: God is "blind"\

Summary: This is after Peter's vision of the food on the carpet. Peter finally understands that God is not a God of only the Jews but also for the Gentiles. Peter then goes out and preaches to a group of people that included the Jews and the Gentiles. It was just Peter speaking of the Gospel but when people heard the story, the Holy Spirit fell on all the people and all the believers that were there to witness the Gentiles receiving the Holy Spirit were all amazed. This showed them that God was not a God of one race but the God of the world. Peter than explains to everyone, how if any man is a God fearing man and will accept Jesus as their savior from sins, then they have no right to deny them, and so Peter baptized each and everyone that the Holy Spirit fell upon.

Application: This applies to my life in the same exact way but in a more racial way. I see people who live out on the streets and they are the lazy ones who don't work and cannot provide for themselves. Being brought up to think like that, most of my life I did think like that because in my own sense, I felt that I was superior to those people, but can i really judge them without knowing them. This is truly a misconception in the Asian community because we feel in a pride based culture, that since we have a stable job and a stable source of income, that we are better than the people who don't have a stable income line or a steady job. This is when we as Christians must break out of this mold of being an Asian or any type of thinking that involves discrimination. We must take that opportunity to use our actions to be louder than words in that when we help those people instead of bickering and lecturing those people, we become more Jesus-like rather than become more like the Pharisees. We must use this opportunity to see them as an equal brother or sister of Christ in which they can see God's love through us.

Money Owed: 8 dollars

-Andrew Park