What did Peter say in Acts 15 about how the Gentiles would hear the gospel?
Peter declared that a good while ago God made choice among the Jewish believers that the Gentiles by his mouth should hear the Word of the Gospel and believe. This was God's way of taking out a people for His name from among the Gentiles.
Les explains that Peter, speaking in Acts 15 a long time after the initial event, reminded the Jerusalem council how God had made choice among the Jewish believers that the Gentiles would hear the Word of the Gospel by Peter's mouth and believe. Les points out that James, moderating the meeting, confirmed that Simeon (Peter) had declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles at the house of Cornelius to take out of them a people for His name. Les identifies that people as the church, which is His body. For the last 1900 and plus years, the church is being formed predominantly by Gentiles called out from paganism to become members of the Body of Christ. When that began, Jews became envious and opposed it, and God put a blindness upon the nation, though He deals with the Jew on two levels—national and personal—so 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.
More Questions
What did Peter tell the Jerusalem council about the Gentiles in Acts 15:7?
At the Acts 15 council, Peter rose after much disputing and said that God had made choice among them for the Gentiles to hear the gospel from Peter's mouth and believe.
Whom did God choose to bring the gospel to the Gentiles in Acts 15?
In Acts 15:7 Peter recalls that God chose him specifically so that the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel by his mouth and believe.