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• Lesson 14 (2) (Acts 11:19-12:25) •"The Hand of the Lord Was With Them" ---"Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life" (Acts 11:18) . This was the inescapable conclusion following the dramatic events in Caesarea documented in Acts 10. The Holy Spirit had fallen on Cornelius, his relatives, and close friends. Peter had commanded Gentiles to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of their sins and then given a full explanation to those who were skeptical in Jerusalem. "If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?" (Acts 11:17). With the scope of God's willingness to save both Jew and Gentile now fully in view, Luke begins to highlight the church in Antioch - people who will launch the gospel deeper and deeper into the Gentile world. "The Grace of God on Display in Antioch""Remember what Luke told us at the beginning of Acts 8. Immediately following the violent stoning of Stephen:""There arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered through out the regions of Judea and Samaria... Now those who were""scattered went about preaching the word. (8:1, 4)""Now, in Acts 11:19-20, we learn just how far some have been scattered""Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and""Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except""Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who""on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching""the Lord Jesus.""=> What is Luke drawing our attention to by specifically mention in that some were ""speaking the word to no one except Jews""?""=> In your own words, what does it mean to preach ""the Lord Jesus""?" continue on pdf lesson 14 print out