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I Love Bacon
On my burgers, in my omelets, on my baked potatoes, wrapped around filets and jalapeños, on my pizzas, and w/ my breakfasts.
It was always better out when we were camping.
Pork chops.
Pulled pork sandwiches.
Sara’s and Agee’s!
Luau!
Have you had their pork belly?
When we have friends over for brunch there will be bacon.
At our Super Bowl party, there will be bacon wrapped stuffed jalapeños.
You will smell it, see it, taste it, and enjoy it.
This is comfort food.
And a comfort smell!
I don’t think I have any Jewish ancestry.
I’m very European and Native American.
In the OT, Jews didn’t eat any part of a pig.
God had his reasons to forbid it.
One was, He wanted Israel to be different from every other culture.
There were things they couldn’t do that everyone else did.
Be different.
Set apart.
Holy.
There were no attempts t/b culturally relevant.
Today, churches strive t/b culturally relevant.
We minimize the differences between church culture and outside culture.
We want people t/b able to relate easily.
This effects music style, dress codes, and other things like this.
Some churches go too far in wanting the ppl to feel comfortable.
Comfort is important, but not at the expense of godly standards.
The Jewish culture was different.
Not necessarily better.
Just different.
God wanted it t/b different.
There were things the people had to sacrifice.
Like, bacon.
But, for all the sacrifices they made, there were benefits.
God was present w/ them.
He is life.
If you’re close to God you’re living better than anyone else.
Protection, provision, eternal security.
But, to be close to God it cost them something.
Worth the cost, but people had to consider the cost.
Some rebelled.
During the OT, God resided in one place, the temple.
As long as Israel was living faithfully and obediently.
The temple was built w/ a special room for God’s presence, the holy of holies.
It was the holiest.
The priests could go in and worship and take care of business w/ God for themselves and on behalf of the people.
But that was it.
If you wanted to be close to God you had t/b close to the temple.
is the equivalent of the Great Commission of the OT:
Psalm 67:1-
The idea was that other nations around the world would see that God blessed Israel in the PL so the ppl of these nations would want to come and live in the PL and participate in God’s blessings, too.
God so blessed Israel and those who believed they would make the significant sacrifice of moving accepting the law as authority in their life, including, no bacon.
If they didn’t accept the dietary restrictions then they didn’t fully benefit from their proximity to God.
Belief first.
Then obedience.
So, they had to believe in the importance of obedience to the law.
But, offset by blessing.
If you wanted t/b close to God you had to come to Him.
And, once you were close, you had to come all the way on His terms.
The temple was in Jerusalem.
And, synagogues in Jewish communities around the PL.
Outside, there were no opportunities to worship God.
At Christmas, that changed.
Emanuel: God w/ us.
God came to us.
For the first time, God came to the ppl.
He had come to individuals before, but now he came to everyone.
In a form we could all relate to.
Not as a cloud, pillar of fire, or burning bush; but a man.
33 years later, God went a step farther.
Jesus came to us, died for us, was raised for us, then left us.
But, He sent the Holy Spirit to live IN us.
Never before had God taken up permanent residence in anyone.
And, now, He does in everyone who has faith in Him.
God came to us.
Then, God moved in us.
And then He said, “Let’s go throughout the world.”
No longer does a person have to come to God to be saved.
God came into the world to save us.
Once we’re saved, He commanded us to take Him places and to people who need Him.
What about the law?
What about all the dietary restrictions?
You invite someone into your life or you get yourself invited into theirs, what about the rules that would have offended God if OT saints broke them?
Coming into my house, a Gentile’s house, and we’re serving bacon, would have been so offensive to God no believing Jew would have ever entered.
So, sinse we’ve now been commissioned to go into the world, God had to do something about the rules that kept us apart.
God would never command us to do the impossible or contradict Himself.
So, He would not commission us to go into friends and neighbors’ houses to take Him to them if He were going to be offended and get us in trouble if we’re served bacon.
Jesus fulfilled the law.
And in so doing, made it possible for us get invited over by friends and neighbors and make everybody feel good about the occasion.
We might be the closest to God some of our closest neighbors ever get.
So, when we go over, God comes to them.
No one has to be offended.
Everyone can be comfortable and comforted by God.
is where these changes are established.
2 men have visions about the same time.
God brings them together so that we can see how it works when come comes thru us to someone who does not know Him.
2 Visions
Cornelius’
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