While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.

Then Peter said, “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.

 ACTS 10:44-8 (NIV)

 

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Peter and the Jewish believers who went with him to the home of the gentile Cornelius were amazed to see and hear the Gentiles filled with the Holy Spirit. Up till that time they did not fully comprehend the universal nature of Christ salvation. To them it was just for the circumcision, for the Jews only.  Through and by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, God intends to approve, seal, confirm, establish, and vindicate His work, His people, and His servants and anointed ones. Not just by the gifts and manifestations of his power, but also by the hidden graces of the fruits of the spirit. Doubts, schisms, racial prejudices, carnal spuriosities are refuted, not by lofty arguments, or academic qualifications, but by the pure manifestation of the Spirit and power.