Acts 11:12-18

Sometimes you just have to trust, without understanding, knowing that God is in control! He allows events to  happen to teach all of us......sometimes they are easy lessons and sometimes they are hard. He will teach us one way or the other...we choose!

The manifestation of the Holy Spirit was the same to the Gentiles at Caesarea as it was to the Jews at Jerusalem. Christ places believers in the care and safekeeping of the Holy Spirit until the day He returns. 

The Samaritans were part Jewish; the Ethiopian eunuch and Cornelius were Jewish proselytes. Finally the Jewish Christians that made up the early church understood Jesus’ commission to them: they were to bring the gospel message to the Gentile too.

Acts 11:12-18

¹² Then the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house. ¹³ And he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, ‘Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon whose surname is Peter, ¹⁴ who will tell you words by which you and all your household will be saved.’ 

¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning. 

¹⁶ Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said,  ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ ¹⁷ If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?” 

¹⁸ When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”