{"id":1624,"date":"2019-06-05T04:51:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2019-06-05T04:51:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T12:51:22","slug":"devotion-acts-1027-29-remember-and-thank-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Acts 10:27-29 Remember And Thank God"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Acts 10:27-29\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0While talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people.\u00a028\u00a0He said to them: \u201cYou are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile.\u00a0But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.\u00a029\u00a0So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 As Peter had been told by the emissaries of Cornelius, he found that Cornelius was indeed a God seeker who wanted not only himself to know the Truth of God, but also his family and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said to them: \u201cYou are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile.\u00a0But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 As previously noted Jews did not associate with non-Jews.\u00a0 Peter was aware that they were aware of this as he notes \u201cYou are well aware<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 It is important to remind them of this since up to that point, they would not have associated with each other.\u00a0 To us it may seem a harsh way to start.\u00a0 It probably was.\u00a0 Often in our communications the story behind what we say can is much stronger than what we say.\u00a0 In our day a bold person might say \u201cLook, we know that you people don\u2019t like us and we don\u2019t like you.\u00a0 I am only here because God directed me to come and not of my own volition. Our people consider you people a dirty and uncouth people who eat food and do things that are barely, if that, above a feral dog.\u00a0 We consider your people so abhorrent that we feel the need to purify ourselves if you should touch one of us.\u201d\u00a0 No, Peter didn\u2019t say all of that with his words, but everyone knew what was behind his words.\u00a0 Not a way a seminary would teach to open up.<\/p>\n

Peter was telling his audience the way he formerly, but no longer felt.\u00a0 There is a division among scholars as to what the purpose of the Peter\u2019s vision was.\u00a0 Was it solely to have Peter expand his dietary menu, or was the meaning of the vision to prepare him to accept all the world, including Gentiles, as fellow believers, if they come to humble themselves before Jesus. \u201cYou can\u2019t see the forest for the trees\u201d too often applies as scholars wrestle for meanings.\u00a0 Sometimes we all need to step back and see the big picture.\u00a0 Regarding the meaning of the vision, Peter has made it abundantly clear that the most powerful meaning of it was that Jesus came to save any person in the world that would acknowledge Him as the only way to Heaven.<\/p>\n

Peter is also making it clear that whatever traditions or customs we have held dearly to must be let go when God teaches us otherwise.\u00a0 Any opinion or belief that is contrary to scripture or the leading of God (which never contradicts scripture) must be discarded.\u00a0 We must take to heart that what we are to consume is \u201cevery word that comes from the mouth of God<\/i>\u201d (Matthew 4:4<\/b>).\u00a0 Any thought, any argument by any person or institution that does not agree with the Word must be bound.\u00a0 We must train ourselves to trust all that God says and that anything that we, or anyone else, could think of or dream of that opposes the Word of God must be captured and taught to believe God above all else (2 Corinthians 10:5<\/b>). \u00a0So Peter was telling them that God caused him to change his way of thinking and living.\u00a0 What he was about to tell them would change their way of thinking and living.\u00a0 It is what will happen, even if incrementally, to all who love and worship Jesus as Savior and Lord.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?\u201d<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Peter reveals that when he was directed by God, he obeyed God without reserve.\u00a0 Peter was not Jonah, who preached God\u2019s message contrary to his own will.\u00a0 No, Peter had the Holy Spirit within him and was a new man with a new heart and mind.\u00a0 He went to the Gentiles in willing obedience to God.<\/p>\n

Though Peter had heard why Cornelius had sent for him, he asked again why he was sent for.\u00a0 Perhaps Peter wanted to hear Cornelius relate the story (and he did).\u00a0 The question about why we came to hear the Good News, and became a disciple of Jesus is one that we should look back on and remember.\u00a0 We need to consciously remember it every day.\u00a0 Getting up every day and remembering the reason we accepted Jesus as Savior and Lord is a good thing.\u00a0 We were lost.\u00a0 We all were headed to hell.\u00a0 Nobody (sane) wants to go there.\u00a0 Remembering that Jesus died for us, and came to us, while we were His enemies (Romans 5:10<\/b>) is a sobering thought that brings great appreciation.\u00a0 Let\u2019s often remind ourselves why we desired to hear the truth.\u00a0 How horrid our future if we had not heard and believed.\u00a0 We all were in the same boat as Cornelius and those in his house.\u00a0 Remembering that can keep us humble and much more prone to praise God. \u00a0Yes, remember and praise God!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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