Entertaining Angels: Lessons in Hospitality Part 8

2. 1 10
No mud Maximum mud

4. Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who wash their robes,
so that they may have the right to the
tree of life and that they may enter the
city by the gates.

5. Acts 9

6. Numbers 9:11-13
Whoever touches the dead body of any person
shall be unclean seven days. He shall cleanse
himself with the water on the third day and on the
seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not
cleanse himself on the third day and on the
seventh day, he will not become clean. Whoever
touches a dead person, the body of anyone who
has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the
tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be
cut off from Israel.

7. Acts 9

8. Acts 9

9. Leviticus 11:24
And by these you shall
become unclean. Whoever
touches an animal carcass
shall be unclean unAl the
evening, and whoever carries
any part of their carcass shall
wash his clothes and be
unclean unAl the evening.

10. Acts 10
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a
Roman centurion of what was known as the Italian
Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his
household, gave alms generously to the people,
and prayed conAnually to God.
About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a
vision an angel of God come in and say to him,
“Cornelius.” And he stared at the angel in terror
and said, “What is it, Lord?”

11. Acts 10
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a
Roman centurion of what was known as the Italian
Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his
household, gave alms generously to the people,
and prayed conAnually to God.
About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a
vision an angel of God come in and say to him,
“Cornelius.” And he stared at the angel in terror
and said, “What is it, Lord?”

12. Acts 10
And the angel said to him, “Your prayers and your
alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon
who is called Peter. He is lodging with one Simon,
a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

13. Acts 10
When the angel who spoke to him had departed,
he called two of his servants and a devout soldier
from among those who aMended him, and having
related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
The next day, as they were on their journey and
approaching the city, Simon Peter went up on the
housetop about the sixth hour to pray.
he next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Simon Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

14. Acts 10
And Peter became hungry and wanted something
to eat, but while they were preparing it, Simon
Peter fell into a trance and saw the heavens
opened and something like a great sheet
descending, being let down by its four corners
upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and
repAles and birds of the air.

15. Acts 10
Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and
eat them.”
“No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten
anything that our Jewish laws have declared
impure and unclean.”
But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something
unclean if God has made it clean.”
The same vision was repeated three Ames. Then
the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven.

16. Acts 10
Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to
what the vision that he had seen might mean,
behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius,
having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at
the gate and called out to ask whether Simon who
was called Peter was lodging there.
And while Peter was pondering the vision, the
Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking
for you. Rise and go down and accompany them
without hesitaAon, for I have sent them.”

17. Acts 10
And Peter went down to the men and said, “I am
the one you are looking for. What is the reason for
your coming?” And they said, “Cornelius, a
centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is
well spoken of by the whole Jewish naAon, was
directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to
his house and to hear what you have to say.”

18. “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”

19. Acts 10
Peter invited them in to be his guests. The next day
he rose and went away with them. Cornelius was
waiAng for them and had called together his
relaAves and close friends. As Peter entered his
home, Cornelius fell at his feet and worshiped
him. But Peter pulled him up and said, “Stand up!
I’m a human being just like you!” So they talked
together and went inside, where many others were
assembled.
Peter told them, “You know it is against our laws
for a Jewish man to enter a GenAle home like this
or to associate with you. But God has shown me
that I should no longer think of anyone as impure
or unclean. So I came without objecAon as soon as
I was sent for.”

20. Acts 10
Even as Peter was saying these things, the Holy
Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the
message. The Jewish believers who came with
Peter were amazed that the gi of the Holy Spirit
had been poured out on the GenAles, too. For they
heard them speaking in other tongues and praising
God. Then Peter asked, “Can anyone object to
their being bapAzed, now that they have received
the Holy Spirit just as we did?” So he gave orders
for them to be bapAzed in the name of Jesus
Christ.

21. Conversion Process:
Step 1 = Hear the Gospel and Believe
Step 2 = Repent and be Baptized
Step 3 = Receive the Holy Spirit

22. Conversion Process:
Step 1 = Hear the Gospel and Believe
Step 2 = Repent and be Baptized
Step 3 = Receive the Holy Spirit
New Process:
Step 1 = Hear the Gospel and Believe
Step 2 = Receive the Holy Spirit
Step 3 = Repent and be Baptized