Ok fair question and will explain as I understand it Remeber Jesus told Peter in verse 15 of Chapter 10
"What God has cleansed you must not call common.” 16 This was done three times. And the object was taken up into heaven again.
this is the starting point of the Narrative of those who Peter was to go and see.
In Verse 19 the "Spirit" was leading Peter to three men who were looking for him. after Peter got there he began to preach in verse
Verse 34. In verse 36 Peter says :
"The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all— 37 that word you know,
These men have heard the Gospel message Peter said they Knew it. Past tense. Jesus is Lord was preached repentance was preached. That is what Peter just said.
"which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: "
Peter continues and somewhere in the message, they have received by faith the Lord Jesus through the Preaching of the Gospel.
Remember it was Jesus who said the preaching of the gospel would save people by grace through faith.
Verse 44 says :
44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.
" HEARD" THE WORD past tense the word Heard means in the Greek
to attend to, consider what is or has been said to comprehend, to understand
Word" is logos here the same as in John 1 Speaking of Jesus which is the context that is being preached by Peter they heard it they received and then the Holy Spirit Confirmed the Word AS Jesus said the Holy Spirit will do In John 14.
One more very telling thing after this event.
Peter says in verse 47
"Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? "
How did Peter receive the empowerment of the Holy Spirit? After he was saved. Jesus said the Power of the Holy Spirit was for the purpose of witnessing Acts 1:8 Jesus Speaking why? because they were already saved. again verse 48 to affirms a past tense experience
they were saved just as Peter said in Acts t2 when asked: "what must we do to be saved "? Believe = saved than be baptized.
same thing right here. we do not have to split hairs when the normative is seen throughout the book of Acts.
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
"What God has cleansed you must not call common.” 16 This was done three times. And the object was taken up into heaven again.
this is the starting point of the Narrative of those who Peter was to go and see.
In Verse 19 the "Spirit" was leading Peter to three men who were looking for him. after Peter got there he began to preach in verse
Verse 34. In verse 36 Peter says :
"The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all— 37 that word you know,
These men have heard the Gospel message Peter said they Knew it. Past tense. Jesus is Lord was preached repentance was preached. That is what Peter just said.
"which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: "
Peter continues and somewhere in the message, they have received by faith the Lord Jesus through the Preaching of the Gospel.
Remember it was Jesus who said the preaching of the gospel would save people by grace through faith.
Verse 44 says :
44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.
" HEARD" THE WORD past tense the word Heard means in the Greek
to attend to, consider what is or has been said to comprehend, to understand
Word" is logos here the same as in John 1 Speaking of Jesus which is the context that is being preached by Peter they heard it they received and then the Holy Spirit Confirmed the Word AS Jesus said the Holy Spirit will do In John 14.
One more very telling thing after this event.
Peter says in verse 47
"Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? "
How did Peter receive the empowerment of the Holy Spirit? After he was saved. Jesus said the Power of the Holy Spirit was for the purpose of witnessing Acts 1:8 Jesus Speaking why? because they were already saved. again verse 48 to affirms a past tense experience
they were saved just as Peter said in Acts t2 when asked: "what must we do to be saved "? Believe = saved than be baptized.
same thing right here. we do not have to split hairs when the normative is seen throughout the book of Acts.
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
Your premise is "the Holy Spirit can not come upon an unsaved person"
Your entire observation of acts 10 is framed in that belief. Not in what happened.
To you ,"it can not possible be,therefore let my prove my belief"
But to think the Holy Spirit has some "off limits" law of heaven to the unsaved is poppycock.
It is,as a matter of fact,the HOLY SPIRIT that plows the heart of the unsaved in conviction and wooing into salvation. The Holy Spirit leads men to Christ. PRE CONVERSION.
So we have the Holy Spirit Working a mighty work in ...hold your breath....unsaved gentiles.
To you...an impossibility
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