"I Declare that Jesus Christ is Lord" | Pastor Ben Kellert
"I Declare that Jesus Christ is Lord" | Pastor Ben Kellert
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
"Open the eyes of my heart, LordOpen the eyes of my heartI want to see YouI want to see You"
Do we really want to see God?
Limiting God is to create a religion that gets in the way of our relationship with the creator of the universe.
- It's times for the church of Jesus Christ to start believing outside of the box and to be able to see God for who He is.
Open the eyes of my heart, Lord.... I NEED to see you!!!
Acts 11: 1-18 "The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
4 Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. 7 Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’
8 “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
9 “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ 10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.
11 “Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. 12 The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. 14 He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’
15 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”
18 When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.”
- Do not call anything impure that God has made clean
- The Spirit told me... "Have not hesitation"
- Who was I to think that I could stand in God's way?
Faith in God has always been the avenue to God -
God's plan for the world was for the whole world, not just the Jews...
- Jesus loved and died for the Entire World!
- John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
- Mark 16:15 "He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."
Romans 3:23 "for all [of us] have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"
*God is God for Jews & Gentiles.
Undeniable Facts:
- His Vision was from God
- The spirit spoke to him
- Cornelius’ vision from God
- Holy Spirit’s baptism after hearing and believing god’s word (like at _____ Pentecost)
- Peter’s 6 Jewish Witnesses
Acs 11:17
- "So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”
I refuse to put God in a Box... I refuse to have a box!
God wants to do amazing things in and through our lives!
Let's not stand in the way of what God wants to do in our lives!
Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Come, Lord Jesus, Come!!
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