GOSPEL NUGGETS 110

If Christ alone is the Savior then what about those who have never heard of the Good News of Christ's salvation?

Ac 11:12 "Then the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.

13 "And he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, 'Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon whose surname is Peter,

14 'who will tell you words by which you and all your household will be saved.'

Remember this principle--->He who is faithful with little will be faithful with much (see Lu 16:10). Let's apply this principle to the issue at hand.

If God sees you faithful with whatever light He has given you, no matter how small that light may be, He will make Himself responsible to reveal to you more light resulting in your salvation. Everyone in the world has been given light by God. We all have creation to testify about God's eternal power and Godhood. We all have consciences, no matter how imperfect, we all have knowledge of right and wrong enough to convict us that we are sinners helpless and hopeless in ourselves to deliver ourselves from sin's power.

A native aborigine living in the jungles of Africa looking up to heaven intuitively knows about God. Looking within, he knows, to a degree, right from wrong. And in attempting to live faithfully according to his conscience, he will realize that the good he knows that he must do and the bad that he knows he must not do are respectively impossible to keep and avoid perfectly all the time from the inside out. He will then realize that he is a sinner in need of deliverance from sin.

And God seeing such a man, will arrange and orchestrate events and situations in order that the preacher of the Good News of salvation and the faithful and convicted sinner will cross paths so that the latter will hear about Christ and find salvation.

And that's exactly what happened here (Acts 11: 12-14). God intervened and moved the pieces in the chessboard that both the convicted sinner (Cornelius) and the messenger (Peter) will be in the same place at the same time.

Are you faithful to the light that you have? Do you realize that you are a sinner? Have you seen your need of salvation?