Breaking Barriers 3

It is difficult to be a manifestation of Christ to someone if you fear them or hate them. You don’t have to understand them, but you need to be willing to understand them. What do they fear? What do they hate? What do they value?

After He had suffered, He also presented Himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
While He was together with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father’s promise. “This,” He said, “is what you heard from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
So when they had come together, they asked Him, “Lord, at this time are You restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
(Acts 1:3-8 HCSB ©®)

Barrier 3: between Jews and Gentiles when the Holy Spirit sent Peter to the home of Centurion Cornelius.

Luke recorded in chapter 10 of Acts of the Apostles in detail how the Holy Spirit spoke to Cornelius that he should send for Peter, and how He spoke to Peter that he should go with Cornelius’ servants when they came for him, and that things that had been previously called unclean were now being cleaned by Yahweh.

When Peter went to Cornelius’ home, he was not able to finish preaching a sermon when the Holy Spirit invaded the meeting and filled everyone who was present. Peter raised this point later, during an argument recorded in chapter 15 of Acts of the Apostles, about whether or not Gentiles should be instructed to obey the laws given to the Jews through Moses.