“What God has made clean, do not call common.”
“What God has made clean, do not call common.”
Acts 10:9-16, The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
Peter, like many of the early Jewish believers, had yet to recognize that we are no under a new covenant. There has been one sacrifice, once for all, and the former dietary rules as part of worship were no longer in effect. And even better, the new covenant is for all the nations, in fulfillment of the promise to Abraham. Like Abraham, Peter has to recognize that his traditions are to be laid aside for obeying God in light of the new covenant! What traditions are holding us back from what God wants to do through us?
We want to walk before you, to be controlled by your Spirit, to accomplish all that you have for us to do, Lord; unbind us from anything that is not of you!
ESV Lectionary
Acts 10:9-16, The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
Peter, like many of the early Jewish believers, had yet to recognize that we are no under a new covenant. There has been one sacrifice, once for all, and the former dietary rules as part of worship were no longer in effect. And even better, the new covenant is for all the nations, in fulfillment of the promise to Abraham. Like Abraham, Peter has to recognize that his traditions are to be laid aside for obeying God in light of the new covenant! What traditions are holding us back from what God wants to do through us?
We want to walk before you, to be controlled by your Spirit, to accomplish all that you have for us to do, Lord; unbind us from anything that is not of you!
ESV Lectionary
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