act 10v34 God Is No Respecter of
Persons
"GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS"
Acts
These words do not mean, as
many imagine, that God treats all men alike in providence and grace. He does
not. "God's grace is his own; and he dispenses it according to his own
sovereign will and pleasure" (Charles Simeon). God sovereignly
distinguishes men from one another (I Cor. 4:7), in election (II Thess.
The text simply means that God has no regard for
those things that distinguish men from one another in this world: wealth or
poverty, morality or immorality, learning or ignorance, race or face. God does
not prefer any man or despise any man because of his earthly condition. God's
grace is entirely free and sovereign. He says, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I
will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that
runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy...and whom he will he hardeneth"
(Rom.
"God is no
respecter of persons", and neither should we be. There is no place in the