Why did God choose Peter to bring the gospel to the Gentiles?
God made choice among Jewish believers that Gentiles by Peter's mouth should hear the Word of the Gospel and believe. This first occurred at the house of Cornelius, where God visited Gentiles to take out a people for His name, the church.
Les explains that in Acts 15, Peter recalls how God made choice from among the Jewish believers that the Gentiles would hear the Word of the Gospel by his mouth and believe. James confirms this happened at the first, at the house of Cornelius, when God visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name—the church, which is His body. For over 1900 years, the church has been formed predominantly by Gentiles called out from paganism to become members of the Body of Christ. When this began, Jews became envious and opposed it, and God put a blindness upon the nation. Yet God deals with the Jew on two levels, national and personal; national blindness does not remove personal opportunity for salvation.
And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
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What did Peter say about God's choice of the Gentiles in Acts 15:7?
In Acts 15:7, Peter reminded the council that God had made choice among them that the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel through Peter's mouth and believe, referring to the house of Cornelius.