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A. The Rapport for the Time
I love this time of year don’t you!
Thanksgiving and Christmas have some huge traditions that are different for each household.
You grow up with things being a certain way and you expect that certain way because it is what you have always done.
And if it is changed, WOW, we will be the first to complain and make sure others know that this is not the way things are done.
Every person in this room know what that is like.
B. The Reading of the Text
C. The Review of the Text
The passage we will be looking at this morning is tradition but it goes further than that by a great margin.
What we have is something that God established not man some (however many years ago) that is now at this very moment being changed by God in a vision to Peter.
D. The relevance of the Text
For us in this room we this passage has many different lessons we can learn.
The first being the message that we saw last week that NO ONE is outside the hands of God.
NO ONE.
All may come to know the Lord in but a moments notice by repentance and faith in Christ.
The greater teaching aspect of these verses for us will be that God
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Not the way I see it
Peter goes up to the rooftop around noon to pray.
Someone is preparing a meal for him so while he is hungry and on the rooftop the Lord directs a vision to teach Peter.
A sheet descends from the heaven with a all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of he air and tells Peter to take from the sheet and eat.
I would like for us to look at this portion of the text from three different standpoints for us to understand it better.
A.Old Testament Eating Laws
B. Christ had taught this to Peter already
The dietary laws of the OT had been fulfilled in Christ and he is now teaching them that what defiles a person is what come out from the heart.
This matches up with the Sermon on the Mount that we are walking through on Wednesday nights.
God is concerned about your heart because out of the heart comes the actions of our life.
C. Peter is having trouble putting the two together
Three times the Lord repeats to him which seems to be a thing for Peter
He denied the Lord Three times
He is ask do you really love me three times by the Lord..Then feed my sheep
But understand this is the very first time that the Lord has taught him this lesson in regards to it being about including the Gentiles into the same salvation.
Christ fulfilled all the OT laws that he might open the way for ALL both Jew and Gentile alike, Greek and Barbarian to the saving grace of Christ our Lord.
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Guided by the Spirit
Perplexed—diaporeo---4 times in NT—To not know what to do, to be very confused.
Peter doesn’t have the entire story.
He is just simply piecing things together the best that he can as the Spirit guides and directs his steps.
AS he is in pursuit of Christ.
He doesn’t have:
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Obedience to the Spirit
Look at the confidence of Peter in the middle of his confusion!
Peter is going with them without knowing the end result because he knows it is the Lord that is guiding his steps.
Application:
“He realized he was treating the Bible like some magazine just flipping through, reading here and there as impulse moved him.
He wanted spectacular results in his Christian life, but put in thoroughly mediocre effort.
He would have to change or give it up.
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