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After they had heard this explanation, they didn't argue with him anymore, and praised God, saying, “Now God has granted the opportunity to repent and have eternal life to foreigners as well.” — Acts 11:18 | Free Bible Version (FBV) The Free Bible Version is a project of Free Bible Ministry.
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!" - Acts 11:18 | World English Bible (WEB) The World English Bible is in the public domain.
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life." - Acts 11:18 | New Heart English Bible (NHEB)
When they heard these things Peter's vision at Joppa, and Cornelius's at Caesarea, and the wonderful pouring forth of the Spirit upon these Gentiles under Peter's sermon:
they held their peace; and ceased contending and disputing with Peter, or blaming him for his conduct; for otherwise they were not silent, but made use of their tongues:
and glorified God; praised his name, adored his rich grace, and gave him the glory of all the wonderful things related to them:
saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. The phrase "unto life", is left out in the Ethiopic version, which only reads, "God hath also given to the Gentiles that they should repent"; but it ought not to be omitted, being in the Greek copies in general, and of considerable moment, rightly understood; the Arabic version directs to a wrong sense of it, "perhaps God hath given also to the Gentiles repentance, that they may live by it"; the word "perhaps", is very wrongly put instead of "then", which affirms that God had given them repentance, whereas this makes a doubt of it; and upon a supposition of it, the version ascribes too much to it; for it is not by repentance that men live spiritually, but by faith in Christ Jesus; nor do they obtain eternal life by it, but by Christ; though true repentance is an evidence of spiritual life, and it begins with it, for as soon as ever God quickens a sinner, he shows him the evil of sin, and gives him repentance for it: "repentance" here designs the grace of evangelical repentance, which is attended with faith in Christ, as it was in these Gentiles, and with views of pardon in Christ, and which springs from the love of God, and this is "unto life"; is a repentance from dead works, and is attended with a life of faith, and issues in eternal life: and it is also a "grant" from God; it is not in the power of man's free will, who though he may have time and means, yet if he has not grace given him to repent, he never will; his heart is hard and obdurate, and no means will do without an almighty power; not the most severe judgments, nor the greatest mercies, nor the most powerful ministry; it is a pure gift of God's free grace, and a blessing of the covenant of grace: and this being given to Gentiles, shows that the covenant of grace belongs to them, as well as to the Jews; and discovers a false opinion of the Jews, that the Gentiles should not be saved; and answers the design of the Gospel being sent among them, whereby the doctrines both of repentance and remission are preached unto them; and opens the glorious mystery of the calling of them, and may encourage sinners of the Gentiles to hope for this grace, and apply to Christ for it, who is exalted to give it.
LUKE/ACTS S.O.A.P. ~ ACTS CHAPTER 11
Monday, 2/16/26
SCRIPTURE:
Once the apostles and other believers heard this, they calmed down. They praised God and concluded, “So then God has enabled Gentiles to change their hearts and lives so that they might have new life.” ~ Acts of the Apostles 11:18
OBSERVATION:
So quick to jump to conclusions...
...but also - willing to hear the whole story...
"...GOD enabled the Gentiles to change their hearts and lives so that they might have new life..."
Not something they could've done on their own...
...and proof of what Jesus said: "With God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26 - and yeah, I hadda look it up...)
...and what John said in chapter 3, verse 16: "God so loved the world..."- Gentiles included...
...and thankfully so - since being Gentile as far back as I can trace...
APPLICATION:
Calm down!
Praise God!
Allow God to enable me to change my heart and life -
daily!
hourly!
Have new life!
PRAYER:
Father God - thank You for reminding me of Your saving grace and presence - for changing the hearts and minds of the early believers as well as the Gentile, that I might, all these years later, also change my heart and life and have the new life of salvation through Your Son Jesus - May I be found worthy, and confess the times and actions when I refuse to surrender my will for Yours - In Jesus's Name, Father, and for Your glory and honor and praiseful worship in all things...
Yours - in Him...
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God gave the Gentiles repentance, Acts 11:18
When God gave the Holy Spirit to the Gentiles in Cornelius' house, what this showed the Jewish believers was that God had given them repentance leading to life.
Acts 11:18 is a verse—the first in our survey of “repentance” verses in the New Testament—in which a word derived from the verb metanoeō may arguably mean only a change of belief, without implying a change of behavior. The context is this: Prior to the events of Acts 10, the Church of Jesus Christ was strictly Jewish and Samaritan (after the events of Acts 8); Gentiles were not welcome. In Acts…
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