God-fearer
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Nov 2, 2026
Tony CostaGUEST
But then Luke mentions another category.
Tony CostaGUEST
He calls them the God-fearers.
Tony CostaGUEST
And these were Gentiles who didn't go the full way.
Tony CostaGUEST
They didn't go through circumcision.
Lee CampbellHOST
And we're told that they came to this city.
Lee CampbellHOST
They were probably what's called God-fearers.
Lee CampbellHOST
They were probably Gentiles from a Gentile background, but had adopted the Jewish faith and worshipped the God of Israel.
Lee CampbellHOST
And so they came for this celebration at Passover time.
Joel LiebermanHOST
Now notice that by recording the substance of what Paul and Barnabas said here, Luke is preserving a sample of their preaching to pagan audiences.
Joel LiebermanHOST
You see, with a pagan audience, up till now they've been preaching at Jewish people in synagogues, God-fearers that were visiting synagogues, now it's a pagan audience.
Joel LiebermanHOST
It's necessary to actually pull back, to go back a further stage with the proclamation of a one true God.
Joel LiebermanHOST
They had to start back a little bit.
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He said God offers forgiveness to anyone who believes.
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The word moves from neighbor to neighbor, from the Jewish families to the Gentile God-fearers, from them to their friends and co-workers and relatives who have never set foot in a synagogue.
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And on the next Sabbath, something extraordinary happens.
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The account says that almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.
Brandon FogalHOST
And that's what these—he saw these Judaizers, which they could have been Gentiles who had become Jewish themselves.
Brandon FogalHOST
Like, this is being a proselyte, a God-fearer, a person— going under the yoke of the law.
Brandon FogalHOST
Not necessarily a God-fearer.
Brandon FogalHOST
It would be somebody that is a Gentile who becomes Jewish.
Brandon FogalHOST
They become a proselyte to Judaism.
Derek ChambersGUEST
When I say beautiful, I'm talking about supporting the poor, caring for widows, welcoming strangers, and having one full day's rest every week for animals as well as people.
Derek ChambersGUEST
There was much for them to like.
Derek ChambersGUEST
Such people were known as God-fearers because they followed the rules and they worshipped God but they stopped short of becoming fully Jewish as they could do if they wanted to.
Derek ChambersGUEST
But it was just such a palaver really.
Derek ChambersGUEST
So when Paul rocked up with his message that they needed no palaver to gain access to the God they already loved, they listened, these God-fearers listened with great interest.
Derek ChambersGUEST
Discovering that they could become part of God's people just by believing in this Jesus whom God had sent, they were quick to join the new Christian church.
Derek ChambersGUEST
So Paul was doing very well.
Dan RennerHOST
But his calling specifically was to the non-Jewish people.
Dan RennerHOST
Verse 7 says, And he departed from there and entered the house of a certain man named Justice, one who worshipped God, so he's a God-fearer, whose house was next to the synagogue.
Dan RennerHOST
So right next door, he leaves the synagogue, and he goes, apparently, right next door, across the way, or whatever it might have been, to this fellow's house.
Dan RennerHOST
Verse 8, Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue... believed on the Lord with all of his household, and many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.
Clayton BellHOST
And that power is not just for the Jews who grew up in it.
Clayton BellHOST
It's not just for the few Gentiles who served enough to be considered God-fearers.
Clayton BellHOST
It is a power that's available not just in Jerusalem, not just in Rome, not just in Galatia, not just in Ephesus, but in Trinity, in Odessa, in Palm Harbor, in Wesley Chapel, in Carol Ward, for you, for you, for you, and for you.
Clayton BellHOST
It is a power for everyone who believes.
Brian SumnerHOST
And so here's this man from Ethiopia on his own accord going to the temple to worship.
Brian SumnerHOST
He would have been called a God-fearer.
Brian SumnerHOST
And on his way back, church, what is he doing? He's reading what? Isaiah.
Brian SumnerHOST
Isaiah.
Joel LiebermanHOST
But behold, one who is coming after me, whose sandal I'm not worthy to untie.
Joel LiebermanHOST
Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who are God-fearers, it is to us the message of this salvation has been sent.
Joel LiebermanHOST
So he's saying that the Messiah was proclaimed by a forerunner.
Joel LiebermanHOST
Who was that? Yohanan the Immerser.
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