Peter shares that the God of Jesus Christ is the God of everyone.

Acts 10:34-43

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Cornelius, a Roman Centurion and God-fearer, said this to Peter, “…we are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God.” As a response, Peter began to speak about Jesus Christ.

“Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.” Acts 10:34-35

Whatever country or nation a person is from, God shows no favoritism to one over another. Whoever reveres God and is a conduit of righteousness is accepted by Him. That is the Gospel, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:16-17 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28

“The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all— ” Acts 10:36

The word of God came through Jesus Christ, was sent to the Jewish people, but He is Lord of all. In other words, the Jewish people did not and do not have exclusive rights to God and to His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Christ sent to every human being on this planet, sent by the Creator of all. Peace with God comes from within the human heart and soul through Jesus Christ who gives the Holy Spirit to whoever believes in Him.

“…that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” Acts 10:37-38

Peter is speaking to a Roman Centurion, his close friends, and relatives, all who were non-Jewish Gentiles from a “different world” than the Jewish culture. They knew the word of God that came through Jesus Christ because His word spread everywhere. In fact, our Lord Jesus healed a servant of another Roman centurion, as described in Luke 7:1-10. Jesus came after the preaching of John the Baptist, meaning Jesus was the Christ apart from any previous person of the Old Testament. That meant faith was required to be put in Jesus as the Christ, not in Moses, David, or any other person of the Old Testament [and certainly not the Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees]. That meant the non-Jewish Gentiles, and all the world, could come to God through faith in Jesus instead of through the laws of Judaism.

God anointed our Lord Jesus with the Holy Spirit and the power of the Spirit of God enabled Him to do healings and to cast out demons for non-Jewish Gentiles. Jesus cast out demons from a man of the country of the Gadarenes [non-Jewish Gentiles], as described in Mark 5:1-20. This showed that Jesus came to bring Salvation to all the world, even to Roman soldiers, their close friends, and relatives. This made it plainly seen that God is not just the God of the Jewish but is God over all His creation.

“And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree. Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.” Acts 10:39-41

Peter, and others, were witnesses of everything that our Lord Jesus did in the power of the Spirit, which Cornelius the Roman Centurion would have heard about. Through our born-again experience, we are witnesses to the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we are the non-Jewish Gentiles. The Jewish people killed Jesus by having Him crucified on the Cross, a Roman cross, which Cornelius was very aware about. Today’s atheistic culture crucifies Him by serving the beast that gives them what to speak, do, think, and feel. However, God raised Jesus from the dead after being in the grave for three days, and because He lives, we can live in the Spirit today [2000 years later] and have eternal life beyond the grave. Jesus showed Himself openly [for 40 days] after His resurrection, Acts 1:3. Three of His appearances on earth, after his resurrection, is spoken about in John 21:1-19 and Luke 24:13-35 and Luke 24:36-53.

“And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead. To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.” Acts 10:42-43

Our Lord Jesus is the fulfillment of all the prophecies of the coming of the Christ, the Son of God, who would enable the Gentiles to come to God. The following is one such prophecy, “I will set it up so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does all these things.’ “Known to God from eternity are all His works.” Amos 9:11-12 This is the New Covenant, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:16-17

The above paragraph is what Jesus Christ commanded all of His Apostles to preach. Those who lived, ate, and slept with our Lord knew Him best, and they spread His Gospel everywhere. Today, the Gospel of Christ is on all seven continents of the world.

Through Jesus Christ, all the world is judged, “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” John 3:18-21

“…those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Daniel 12:2

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11