CORNELIUS

 *22/11/2020*


*FOURTH SUNDAY SERVICE*


THEME: *ANGELS: MESSENGERS OF GOD*


TOPIC: *ANGELS MINISTERED TO MANY PEOPLE*


SUB-TOPIC: *CORNELIUS*


Text: Acts 10:3-8


*#to call for Peter#*

Those who were scattered by persecution from Jerusalem had been preaching the gospel only to Jews (Acts 11:19). At this point, they began to overcome their prejudices and carry the message of Christ to the Gentiles.

As a *centurion*, Cornelius would have been part of a cohort, a regiment of the Roman military. A legion numbered about six thousand men. Each legion had ten cohorts of about six hundred men each. The cohorts were divided into centuries of a hundred men, and each century was commanded by a centurion, something like a modern sergeant.

Cornelius was a Gentile of Italian descent. He and his family were "God-fearers", similar to the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:27). Caesarea, which was about thirty miles north of Joppa on the coast, was the capital of Judea under the Roman procurators.

*lodging with Simon, a tanner:* God cut away Peter's prejudices by having him stay for many days with one whose trade Peter likely considered repulsive.

*when the angel... departed, Cornelius called:* Cornelius desire was to be pleasing to God. The fact that he readily obeyed the angel is a sign of how much he desired the truth. With this kind of attitude, there is no question that Cornelius was open to receiving the truth of the gospel the moment he heard it.


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