Verse of the Day: He exposed Simon when God first visited the Gentiles to form a people among them by name. (Acts 15:14)
It is almost impossible to overestimate the centrality of God’s honor in the motivation of the Church’s mission.
- When Peter had his world deranged by the sight of filthy animals in Acts 10.
- And by God’s lesson that he had to evangelize both the Gentiles and the Jews.
- He returned to Jerusalem and told the Apostles that all this was due to zeal.
- By name.
- We know this because James summed up Peter’s talk like this: “Brothers.
- Listen to my words: did you explain to Simon how God first visited the Gentiles to form a people among them by name?(Acts 15: 13-14).
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No wonder Peter said that God’s plan was to unite a people by name; because the Lord Jesus had marked Peter a few years earlier with an unforgettable lesson.
Remember that after a rich young man turned away from Jesus and refused to follow Him, Peter said to Jesus, “Here we leave everything and follow you [unlike this rich young man]; So what about us?( Matthew 19:27). Jesus responded with a slight rebuke, which in fact said that there is no extreme sacrifice when lived by the name of the Son of Man. “Anyone who has left home, brothers, sisters, or father, or a mother [or woman], or children, or fields, by my name, will receive many more times and inherit eternal life?(Matthew 19:29).
The truth is clear: God carries out, with omnipotent pleasure, a global plan to gather a people for their name from each tribe, language, and nation (Revelation 5. 9; 7. 9). He has endless enthusiasm for the fame of his name among nations.
Therefore, when we align our affections with his own and, because of his name, renounce the search for worldly comfort and unsote in his world plan, God’s almighty commitment to his name is upon us and we cannot be defeated, despite many tribulations (Acts 9. 16; Romans 8. 35-39).
By: John Piper. © Desire God? Solid joys
Original: May 10th? A village by its name, © 2017 Faithful Ministério. All rights reserved. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br: Camila Rebeca Almeida Critic: Vinicius Musselman Narration: Elalio Garofalo Neto.
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