Fbco Sunday Sermons

This chapter records one of the greatest moments in history: when the doorway to salvation is swung wide open for all non-Jews to enter! This is the moment when God makes it clear we are saved by faith alone -- not by keeping the law and becoming a Jew, not even by baptism! (The Gentiles in this story were obviously saved before they went into the water to be baptized.) After this chapter, throngs of people from all over the world will accept Christ, and within three hundred years the Roman Empire will become a Christian Empire. We have read how, after the vision of the unclean food on the sheet, Peter journeyed to Cornelius' house and preached the Gospel. Before Peter had finished his sermon, God had saved these Gentiles and made them His children.