Respond to the Sender

[00:00:00] Take your Bibles with you this morning and turn to the book of acts in chapter 10. [00:00:05] Acts 10. [00:00:11] We'll be looking at a story from the early church this morning. [00:00:17] Acts in chapter 10. [00:00:20] Many of you know, if you were here during the mission conference, you were able to hear some about our ministry in Cambodia and the time we've been able to spend over there. And of course, Cambodia is a Buddhist country. And so one of the things that I've done is we've had our time over there is to try to learn a little bit about the faith of the people there. And the story is told of Buddha, that he was an Indian prince, he was born into a royal family, and his father wanted Buddha to be completely insulated from any kind of suffering or discomfort. And so the story is told that for the first 29 years of his life, he never went outside the walls of his palace. He was just there enjoying the pleasures and joys of life and never encountering any of the difficulties. [00:01:10] And I think it's very common for us as humans to kind of want to put ourselves in that same situation. And we get closed into our own lives and our own concerns. And maybe that's why the Lord told his disciples that they needed to lift up their eyes and look upon the harvest. And I believe that's important for us to lift up our eyes. And that's been the same throughout history. We're going to be reading in just a moment in a story that took place during the early days of the church. It was a very different world at that time. In fact, at this time, when we pick up the story, the only Christians, the only ones who believed in Jesus Christ were all people from Jewish backgrounds or Samaritan backgrounds. They were from a very specific ethnic group, from a very specific religious background. And they weren't yet at a point where they were ready to look beyond that. [00:02:03] They were Jews. And outside was the Gentile world, which was filled with people who had ungodly practices and who were pagans and who were heathens. [00:02:14] And so the early church was Jewish, and this is where they were. And it was time for them to lift up their eyes. And so we read this story today in Acts 10, story of two men. And something very remarkable happened in this story to the point that afterwards, this was the pronouncement of the leaders of the church in Jerusalem. They said, God hath also to the Gentiles, granted repentance unto life. [00:02:43] And God is still in the business of granting repentance today. And so I'd like For us to look at this story. I believe there's some things that we can learn as we read a story about these two men, Cornelius and Peter. Let's read in Acts 10, starting in verse one, there is a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people and prayed to God alway. He saw in a vision, evidently about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him and saying unto him, cornelius. When he looked on him, he was afraid and said, what is it, Lord? He said unto him, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa. Call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter. He lodgeth with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside. He shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do. When the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually. And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa. On the morrow, as they went on their journey and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour, and he became very hungry and would have eaten. But while they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth, wherein were all manner of forfeited beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and of creeping things and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill and eat. But Peter said, not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, what God hath cleansed that call not common. [00:04:37] This was done thrice, and the vessel was received up again into heaven. Now, while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house and stood before the gate and called and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there today I'd like to look at the story of these two men, Cornelius and Peter. And to begin with, I'd like for us to just look at this man Cornelius. And I believe the Lord would have for us to recognize the situation of men without Christ. To recognize the situation of men without Christ. We're introduced to this man, Cornelius. And immediately we're given some important pieces of information about him. In verse one, it says that he was a centurion, and he was of the band called the Italian band. And immediately we realized that this man is different. [00:05:37] He is different from the people that made up the early church. He is different from the people that they were trying to reach. He is a gentile. He was a centurion. He was a Roman soldier. Not just any Roman soldier. He was a Roman soldier from Italy. [00:05:53] Here's somebody. When compared to the people in the country that he's in and compared to the people that were making up the church there, he's different in ethnicity. [00:06:03] He's Italian, they're Jewish. [00:06:06] He's different in his culture. The Roman customs were far, far different from the customs of the Jewish people around them. [00:06:16] This man was different in his politics. [00:06:20] Here's a Roman soldier. He's working for the man. He's working for the empire. And many of the Jews, as we know, were not very happy about the fact that they were under the subjection of the Roman Empire. Here's this man. He's different in every way possible. He's different economically from many of the members of the early church. You know, here he is, he's a centurion, he's an officer in the Roman army. And we see that he had servants and he. He had soldiers that were under him. And here's a man who's prosperous and he's well off. And Peter and these other apostles, they were fishermen, they were low level government functionaries, tax collectors. And so here's this man, a man without Christ. A man who's so different in every way as could be from the other people that was in the church here. But not only was Cornelius different, Cornelius was devout. [00:07:16] Look at verse two. He was a devout man, one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people and prayed to God always. This is so interesting. Here's this man. He's from Italy. He's from the center of the empire. He's from a place where paganism was the order of the day. And yet here is a man who's doing his best to try to be a good person. [00:07:42] Cornelius was a religious man. It says he was devout. [00:07:47] It says that he was leading his family to be religious. He feared God with all of his house. [00:07:55] Cornelius was a moral man. He was a good person. [00:08:00] It says that he was a generous person. He gave alms to the people. When Cornelius saw the people in his community, that were suffering and they were poor. He was giving money out of his abundance to try to help them. He was a generous and a kind person. [00:08:16] Cornelius was a praying man. In verse three or. Yeah, in verse two, it says he prayed to God always. And we find out later on he wasn't just praying. He was praying and fasting. Cornelius was a praying man. He was very devout. And, you know, it's so interesting. The Bible tells us that even for people who don't know Jesus Christ, there is a certain conscience and a certain understanding of God and who he is. In Romans, chapter one, it tells us. In Romans 1, 16, 17, it says that the. [00:08:55] I'm sorry, not 16 and 17, 19 and 20. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them. God has shown it unto them. For. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. And the Bible tells us that as people look around them, they see creation and the witness of the conscience within them, that they can understand certain things. God's eternal power and his Godhead. And even the most committed atheist out there understands that there is some sort of power that is greater than them. [00:09:33] And men are, in their different ways, sometimes they're running away from it, sometimes they're trying to find it, but people are trying to justify themselves. There's a lot of good religious people who are without Christ. [00:09:48] I know a lot of them over in Cambodia. You know, there's some people over in Cambodia who are really rough folks. They're drunkards, they're bad people. But there's some really good people. And I know some of them. They're kind. They've been kind to me. They're courteous, they're hospitable. [00:10:07] They do right by their understanding. They do right by the standards of their community there. [00:10:15] And yet, for all of Cornelius goodness and religiosity and kindness, he was in a desperate situation because he did not know Jesus Christ. [00:10:27] And there's bad people all over the world that need Jesus. And there's good people all over the world that need Jesus. And there might be someone in this church this morning. You're a good person. You're a praying person. You go to church, you try to be kind. You try to do right by your neighbors. You try to do right by the people around you. [00:10:45] But as Cornelius did all these things, and as he prayed, God sent an angel to him and said, you know what? That wasn't Going to be enough. [00:10:55] He said, you need to go and send for this man, Peter, and he's going to tell you what you need to do. [00:11:01] No amount of good works that we do, no amount of trying to do right by our own understanding is enough. [00:11:09] You know what I think, Cornelius? I would have liked to have Cornelius for a neighbor. He was a nice guy. I think he would have been a great neighbor. But he was lost without Jesus Christ. And that's the situation of all of us. No matter how good we are. If you have never placed your trust in Jesus Christ, if you've never repented of your own way and submitted to his way, you're just as lost as Cornelius was. And he needed the Lord Jesus Christ. [00:11:40] The Bible says in Titus 3:5, it's not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy. And so here's this man, Cornelius. [00:11:50] He's a man without Christ, Devout, but lost. [00:11:55] He needed to repent, and there was somebody that could help him. And the Lord had put his finger on it, and it was this man called Peter. And so we need to recognize, first of all, the situation of man without Christ. No matter how good any person is without Christ, they're still lost without him. Because Jesus is the only way of salvation. [00:12:19] So let's switch the camera over, as it were, to Peter. Now, I believe here that the Lord would have us to reconsider our sphere of service. Reconsider our sphere of service? What do I mean by that? You know this man, Peter. We're familiar with him. If you've been in church at all, you know the story of Peter. He was. He was a disciple of Jesus Christ who was full of personality, full of his own opinions. And we know he had many different interchanges with the Lord Jesus Christ. He betrayed. He denied the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm sorry, not betrayed. He denied the Lord Jesus Christ as Jesus was going to the cross. But he was reinstated by the Lord and he began to serve. And he was the leader of the apostles during this time. And he's out. And in fact, where this story picks up, he's been on this preaching trip. He's left out of the city of Jerusalem. He's been in the city of Joppa. He's just seen a woman raised from the dead. He's been preaching the Gospel. He's been seeing people saved. He's been working for the Lord. He knew God. He's been working. He's been preaching. As we pick up this story, he's praying in verse six. It Says that in Joppa. Here, Peter, he goes up on the housetop to pray. About the sixth hour, it's noontime. They're getting lunch ready. And he decides to redeem that time and pray. [00:13:38] Here's this man, Peter. He's serving, he's working. [00:13:43] He's a dedicated man. [00:13:46] And then he has this dream as he's there. He's waiting for lunch, he's praying. He falls into a trance. He sees heavens opened. A vessel, a great sheet knit at four corners. And as it descends from heaven, he looks over and into the sheet. He can see all manner of animals that were unclean for him who had come up as a Jew. Things that were forbidden for him to touch, things that were forbidden for him to eat. There might have been pigs. This is the original pigs in the blanket, by the way. Here it is coming down from heaven. There might have been pigs over there, dongs, lizards, snakes, all manner of animals that he was not to ever eat, not to ever touch. And as a Jew, I'm sure there was just this feeling of revulsion that came over him as he saw these things. Then he hears the voice rise, Peter, kill and eat. [00:14:46] What was he supposed to make out of that? [00:14:49] You know, we know that when Jesus Christ went to the cross, he did away with the law, these ordinances that the Jews had been living under for hundreds of years. Jesus Christ had fulfilled the law, and he had given his life so that man might be saved. [00:15:09] And that they were no longer under the law. And Peter, technically, was no longer under those laws, those ceremonial food laws. [00:15:19] So what is he dealing with here? [00:15:22] What he's dealing with is his own personal preconceptions, his own personal prejudices, his own personal comfort zone. [00:15:33] Now, I eat pork all the time. I like ham. I like bacon. There's very few things made from pigs I've ever had that I did not like. Which is not a perspective I share with your pastor, I'm sorry to say. [00:15:48] However, I can imagine that if you had grown up your whole life believing that eating pigs is just outside the pale, it's disgusting. It's repulsive. I mean, let's be honest. Pigs are fairly repulsive. It's not hard to get there, okay? [00:16:06] Even without being law, he could look at that and say, I can't do it. I've never done that. This is really, really uncomfortable for me to even think about doing. I mean, you can imagine he looked over at a dog. I'm sure many of you own dogs, and it might be very repulsive for you to Think about eating a dog. Many Cambodians do not share your repulsion towards eating dogs. [00:16:28] I can imagine if I looked over there and I saw some tarantulas and the Lord said, rise and eat. [00:16:34] I might have a hard time with that. [00:16:37] And this is something where this voice is telling him to do something that is way outside his comfort zone, way outside anything he's ever done. And what does Peter say? [00:16:48] Verse 13. The voice from heaven says, came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill and eat. But Peter said, not so, Lord. For I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. [00:17:02] And so as Peter looks at this and he hears the voice from heaven, and I believe this is the voice of the Lord saying, rise, kill and eat. [00:17:13] And Peter flatly says, no. [00:17:19] It's kind of funny, really, what he says, not so Lord. [00:17:24] Can we really say that? [00:17:27] If we really acknowledge Jesus as our Lord, can we really say, no, Lord? [00:17:35] And so Peter here. And why is he refusing what God is telling him to do? [00:17:40] Because it's uncomfortable. [00:17:42] Because it doesn't feel right. [00:17:46] Because he's never done this before. It's outside of his experience. [00:17:52] And this happens three times. The sheet comes down and Peter says, no. Goes back up. It comes back down. Rise, Peter, kill and eat. Not so Lord. Goes back up, comes back down. [00:18:06] Rise, Peter, kill and eat. Not so Lord. And here's Peter. He had reasons why he did not want to do this. [00:18:16] And I believe that these unclean animals on this blanket that had come down from heaven, this was representing the Gentile world around him, which is people that he would not have ever interacted with, not ever have given the time of day to not ever have had a relationship with. [00:18:35] And God is using this vision of animals to wake him up to this. [00:18:41] And I'm sure that Peter would have had a natural revulsion to spending any time with Gentiles. They were unclean, they were ungodly, and he didn't want to be around them. And there's plenty of other people who would have backed him up in this. In fact, later on, when people find out that he did spend some time with Gentiles, other Christians, they had a big problem with that. They said, you did this and it was wrong. [00:19:04] And there was a lot of people who would have said to Peter, you know what? You really shouldn't do that, because that is a little weird, that is a little uncomfortable, that is a little bit outside of what we usually do, and you shouldn't do that either. [00:19:17] But God had something for Peter to learn. [00:19:22] And in the course of the story we see these men show up, and Peter does agree. They show up, they say, hey, look, this man, Cornelius, he needs to see you. Will you come with us? And Peter does agree. Let's read a few more verses here. Verse 19. While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, behold, three men seek thee arise. Therefore get thee down and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them. Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius, and said, behold, I am he whom you seek. What is the cause whereof ye are come? And they said, cornelius, the centurion, a just man, one that feareth God and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house and to hear words of thee. Then called he them in and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him. And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea, and Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends. [00:20:24] For, for the sake of time, I'm not going to read this whole thing. But as Peter comes in, Cornelius tells him the story again of praying and fasting and seeing the vision of the angel and sending for Peter. And he says, you have well done that thou art come. In verse 34, Peter opened his mouth and said of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. [00:20:50] And God had revolutionized Peter's outlook on things. And whereas before he would not have anything to do with this group of people, these Gentiles, suddenly he realized that all those things that seemed so important to him, that were just complete turn offs to him, that he felt like he just couldn't get over, didn't matter at all to God. Because God has a heart for all men and wants all men to be saved. [00:21:18] In Revelation, chapter five, we see, we get a little glimpse into heaven. We get a little glimpse into where things are perfect and where things are done as God wants them to be done. In Revelation 5, verse 9, there's a great group of heavenly creatures and also of saved saints. In verse nine, they sung a new. They sung a new song, saying, thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and hath redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation, and hast made us unto our God, kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. [00:22:04] God's vision. God's goal is to have people up in heaven, from every ethnic group, from every tongue, from every people, from every country. [00:22:16] And the Jews of Peter's day were selling themselves short and really selling God short, because they couldn't see beyond their own little sphere. They couldn't see beyond all the people that were just like them. [00:22:31] And I believe that God. [00:22:35] I know that God wants to see people saved from every group, even. [00:22:43] There may be groups of people that we might have a hard time. You say, I don't like to be around people like that. It makes me uncomfortable. I find those people's lifestyle repulsive. [00:22:56] Those people's politics are a real problem. [00:23:02] I have a difficult time being around people from this country or from this ethnicity or with this skin color. [00:23:09] And we begin to define our sphere. Well, I'll go this far, but there's. [00:23:14] I can't do that. [00:23:17] Well, I can minister to this group of people, but not those. I can serve God here, but I won't go there. And Peter had begun to define this fear. And anything outside was not so, Lord. [00:23:31] I wonder, would we be bold enough to say not so, Lord, as he calls to us, as he works in our heart, that we would say, you know what, God? I'm willing to do this, but I'm not willing to do that. [00:23:44] I don't do that. That's beneath me. That's too difficult for me. That's too uncomfortable for me. I've never done that before. [00:23:54] I'm talking about things that God is telling us to do. [00:23:58] And Peter got to the point where he had to reconsider his sphere of service, where he was willing to serve the Lord by God's grace, he was able to look beyond what he had ever seen before. [00:24:10] And he went and he met with Cornelius. [00:24:14] And so the exhortation to us today is to respond to the sender. [00:24:21] Respond to the sender. [00:24:24] There's so many interesting things in this story. It's a long story. We didn't read it all in chapter 10. But something that's very interesting to me is the way the story is told. It emphasizes the amount of time that's happening. [00:24:38] It tells us the time that Cornelius was praying. He was praying in the ninth hour, which would have been three in the afternoon. [00:24:46] And then the next day, at the sixth hour, Peter's praying. And so Cornelius sends these men, and they go and it's an overnight trip, and they go to Joppa, and they get there in the middle of the day, and they meet Peter, and they speak with him, and they stay with him a night. And then they spend the whole next day journeying. [00:25:06] And on the fourth day, it says that Cornelius was waiting for them with all of his kinsmen and near friends. And there's this uncertainty in the story. [00:25:23] Cornelius has this vision. He sends these men out. You know, no cell phones, no text messages, like, hey, boss, we met Peter. He's coming. [00:25:36] Cornelius. There's this uncertainty. Is Peter going to come? [00:25:40] Is he going to respond? [00:25:42] Is Cornelius going to hear the message that he needs to hear? [00:25:48] And he waits four days, and Peter arrives, and Cornelius is waiting. [00:25:56] And I wonder how many people around the world are waiting to see if God's people are going to respond to the call. [00:26:07] As God in his grace is working in our hearts, and the lost world is waiting, they may not even know what they're waiting for. [00:26:18] They're waiting just like Cornelius is waiting. Is he going to come? [00:26:22] Is he going to show up? [00:26:28] There's another word that just keeps coming up throughout the whole story. It's this idea of sending. [00:26:34] The angel tells Cornelius to send men to Joppa and call for Simon. In verse 8, he sends them to Joppa. In verse 22, they come and they tell Peter, and they say that Cornelius was sending for him to come to his house. [00:26:55] Verse 33, Cornelius, he says, I sent to thee and thou. It's well done that thou art come. And so we have this idea of sending. And Cornelius is sending men out, and he's sending for Peter. [00:27:10] But it's so interesting when we look in verse 19, the Holy Spirit says to Peter, Three men seek thee. Arise, Therefore get thee down and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them. [00:27:26] And I said, this was a story about two men, Peter and Cornelius. But the truth is, there's three actors in this story, and one of them is the Lord, and he is truly the one. The messengers came for Cornelius, but it was the Holy Spirit that was sending and that wanted to send Peter out to go and meet Cornelius and to share the gospel with him. And it's so interesting. In this story, we get the story of Cornelius and what happened, and the angel tells him. He says, you need to find Peter, and he's going to tell you what thou oughtest to do. And then these men come and they tell it to Peter, and they tell him the story, and it says, cornelius needs to hear words of thee. And then Peter shows up, and Cornelius tells him the story again, and he says, we are here. You're going to speak to us. And we are here present to hear all things that are commanded thee of God. And this story gets told over and over again. The focal point every time. You got to hear the words, you got to hear the message. You got to listen to what Peter is going to say to you. And in verse 34 he begins, he preaches this amazing sermon in verse 36, the word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ. He is the Lord of all. That word I say you know is published throughout all Judea. Began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. For God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews in Jerusalem, who they slew and hanged on a tree. Him God raised up the third day and showed him openly not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach unto the people, to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of the quick and the dead. To him give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. [00:29:37] What a presentation of the gospel. Jesus came. He was the chosen one. He did God's will upon the earth. He gave his life upon the tree. He rose from the dead. He's coming back to judge the quick and the dead. And anyone who believes in him has remission of sin, has forgiveness of sin. And that gospel has not changed. It is still the power of God unto salvation. There's people around the world who are waiting to hear this very message, to hear about the God of very gods who came and died and rose again and is ready to save them. Today Peter preaches this message and just an amazing manifestation of God's power. In verse 44. While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all of them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believe were astonished as many as came with Peter. Because then on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then answered Peter, can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. And they prayed him to tarry. Certain days everybody got saved. They all trusted in Jesus Christ. And that doesn't happen every time we preach the gospel. But that's what we want to see. And God did an amazing work here, to the point that even folks that were critical finally had to admit God did it. [00:31:08] God has granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life. [00:31:15] God granted it. You know, God's not beholden to save any one of us. God doesn't owe us anything. But in his goodness and his grace, he's made a way of salvation. Made it for you, made it for them, granting repentance unto eternal life. [00:31:34] As we consider this story and we. We wrap it up, I'd like you to think about the story this way. You know, in this story, what was the weakest link, so to speak? [00:31:47] Where could things have gone wrong? [00:31:51] You know, Cornelius was not the weakest link. [00:31:56] He didn't know any better. [00:31:58] He's trying to be a good person. He's doing what he knows. [00:32:03] We can't fault him. [00:32:06] God's not the weakest link. God's still saving people when they call upon him. [00:32:13] Peter was the weakest link. [00:32:16] There was a lot riding on how Peter was going to respond to the sender. You know, the truth is that God wanted to send him out. [00:32:27] God willed that Peter would go to Cornelius House. God willed that he would go and preach the gospel to this Gentile and break that barrier and show people that the gospel was for all men. [00:32:42] And yet we find Peter saying, not so, Lord. I don't want to do that. [00:32:53] There is a great need for laborers in God's work today. [00:32:59] And I believe that God is still calling. [00:33:03] I believe that God is still sending. [00:33:08] We all know the verse Matthew, chapter nine. I want to read it as we conclude this morning. [00:33:16] Matthew 9:37. Jesus said to his disciples, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. I'm here to tell you the laborers are few. [00:33:37] The need is great today. [00:33:40] My family and I have been in Cambodia for 11 years. [00:33:44] There are less Baptist missionaries in Cambodia today than there were when I came 11 years ago. [00:33:51] We've been back in the States for just a little over three months on our furlough. We've been over in Cambodia for four years and come back. [00:33:59] And I'm going to churches around the nation. And I've heard this from numbers of pastors saying, brother Matt, we can't find missionaries to support. [00:34:10] We used to get calls from missionaries all the time, and now we got to try to find people a pastor in Northern Virginia. He said, brother Matt, I know five or six churches right now that don't have pastors. [00:34:34] Where are the young men who are going into ministry? Where are the laborers? [00:34:40] And I don't have all the answers for that. [00:34:44] But I know that God wants us to pray for laborers, and I know that God wants to send laborers, and I know there's a danger for us to do the same thing that Peter said and to say, you know what? This isn't inside my comfort zone. This is not inside what I'm willing to do and what I'm used to. And. And no, no, Lord, I won't do it. [00:35:06] And then what of Cornelius? [00:35:09] What of those who are waiting? [00:35:14] May God help us. [00:35:17] May God help us to respond to the sender.