ah cornelius the man honestly i'd like to fashion my life after this mans faith in God you see his story takes place in acts chapter 10 of the bible it correlates with the rock's(peter) story lets look shall we cornelius the good book says was a God fearing man as well as his whole family there was only one problem with this according to the early church anyone non-jew was considered unholy and unclean dumb well as the story progresses we find that due to cornelius faith God had a master plan to open the eye of the church God sent an angel to cornelius commending his faith and said to send people to find peter and at the same time God was giving peter this crazy dream about animals in a sheet and killing and eating which wasnt peters forte so he was all weirded out and told God we couldnt do it it was unclean and peter had never eaten anything unclean and God told him nothing he made was unclean and peter just didnt get it well around that time is when the people cornelius sent showed up and nabbed peter and took him back to cornelius house when he got there and cornelius told him what God had said to him and finally it clicked in peters head what the dream was about it wasnt about food and eating it was about God's people you see God wanted the church to know that his promises werent just for the jews but for all who believe in God and so peter changed his aim from the small target of the jewish nation to the much larger target including the whole freaking world wow im getting all excited cause God loved us all so much so back to the story God used cornelius the non-jew to show peter the jew that Jesus died on the cross not just for the jews but for all man kind everywhere and everyone thats why cornelius is my favorite bible person dude cause i want to be used like that i want God to use me to share His awesome message with the whole world that message being that Jesus did die on the cross and he did rise from the dead three days later and he is alive today and does work in the lives of all those who confess His name and believe in their hearts that he did what he did and can do what the bible says he can do which is forgive any man and woman of any and every sin as long as they repent and follow after Him(Jesus) the message shortened even shorter Jesus died and rose from the dead to forgive the sins of every man so that they might live eternally with him in heaven woot woot lets hear it for the big man up stairs for having the master plan so whos with me and wants to live like cornelius and follow after God and be used by God to share God's message of His son Jesus please read Acts chapter 10 of the bible and then proceed to read the rest of the bible again and again and again and... im done here
chad
