Acts 10:34-48 | Confronting Your Blind Spotsಮಾದರಿ

Acts 2 is the bedrock of the book. Everything we see develop in Acts plays out from this moment. Here, Jesus pours out his Spirit onto his disciples accompanied by heavenly signs and the disciples speak miraculously to the gathered crowd in ways they could understand. Some seek. Some scoff. But none can deny something out-of-the-ordinary is happening.

Peter speaks boldly to the gathered crowd about Jesus, crucified and risen, and now lord of all. He speaks of God’s plan of salvation, God’s vindication, and how God’s plan had been leading to these events all along. The people are cut. They start to see the role they had to play and all of their culpability. They cry out in despair wondering what they can do. Peter replies to them: Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus for forgiveness. And you’ll receive the Holy Spirit too. Three thousand are baptized, and come to be a part of the people of Jesus that day.

This happened on a Jewish holiday called Pentecost, and the event has come to be known as Pentecost ever since.

But it is not the only Pentecost. Two more times we see Jesus pour out his Spirit in a dramatic way. In Acts 2 it was on Jews. But in Acts 8 we find something similar happens to Samaritans. And now in Acts 10, on Gentiles too. All of this lines up with what Jesus told his disciples: “You will be my witness in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). The point of this witness is that Jesus wants all people to turn to him and be saved, and it takes his Spirit to help them confront their blind spots to realize both the need and the means.

Since the fall of humanity, God has been bent on confronting people’s blind spots to sin and spiritual uncertainty. Israel often refused to see. Samaritans often suffered from distorted vision. And most Gentiles didn’t even know where to look. It’s easy to be blind to God and what he’s doing. God is not content to leave us groping in the dark. Often that means confronting blind spots. Because the point of it all is that God wants people to see that he loves them, wants them, and is reaching out to save them. Don’t miss it.