Monday, June 4, 2012

Not to call anything impure that God has made clean


Not to call anything impure that God has made clean

Acts 10:15
            15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

Acts 10:28
            28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.

Acts 15: 8, 9
            God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us.
            He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.

Acts 11:9
            “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’

Luke 11:41
            39 Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. 40 You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? 41 But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  Not to call anything impure that God has made clean
2)  God has shown Peter that he should not call anyone impure or unclean
3)  God has purified our hearts by faith and accepted us
4)  Lord said to Pharisee that being generous to the poor makes everything clean for him.

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