Our Wednesday Evening Message for June 18, 2025

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                          "When God Answers Our Prayers"

                                              Text: Acts 10: 23-33

                                                                                                 

​Our Wednesday evening messages are focused on Bible teaching. My goal is to explain the text by comparing scripture with scripture. The method of my teaching is expository in nature with the attempt to explain each verse according to the context. I am a slave to the text. Wherever the text leads me that will be my focus. It is my goal that my congregation in our Wednesday evening service walk away understanding the Word of God as the Holy Spirit directs me as their pastor.

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In this study, I walk you through the various prayers found in the Bible. There are actually 100 of these prayers beginning with the prayer of Abraham from the Book of Genesis to the prayer of the Apostle John in the Book of Revelation. We have been in this study since March of 2022.

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In this study, we see God answering the prayer of an unsaved man, a gentile named Cornelius. He was praying that God would show him how to be saved.  God answered that prayer by sending Peter to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him. However before God could do that, He had to change Peter's heart. Peter was an orthodox Jew that followed strictly the Mosaic Law. According to the Mosaic law, Gentiles are aliens and strangers to the Jewish covenant and promises of God. However, Christ death on the cross tore down that wall that existed between the Jews and the Gentiles. Consequently, God sent a vision to Peter to let him know that Gentiles were no longer aliens to the gospel.  In our text, we see Peter going to the house of Cornelius to share the gospel with him and other Gentiles that were there. This was an glorious moment for a Jew to enter into the house of a Gentile. An event that had never occurred before. As a result, these Gentiles were saved by His wonderful grace. 

 

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I encourage you to listen to this message in it's entirety as I try to walk you through the meaning of this text. May this message encourage you as it did those who attended our morning service.

 

 

 

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                                            Pastor Michael R. Martin

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