When they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speaks, but the Holy Ghost—Take … no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
The God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God—He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong—I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me—O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
D EUT. 33:25; M ARK 13:11—MATT. 6:34; P S. 68:35—ISA. 40:29; 2 C OR. 12:9-10—P HIL. 4:13—J UDG. 5:21
God … hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son … who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high—He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold … but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you—The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
1 J OHN 3:5; H EB. 1:1-3—2 C OR. 5:21; 1 P ET. 1:17-20—2 C OR. 5:14-15
The next day, as they went on their journey and drew near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth. In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. And a voice came to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”
And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.” This was done three times. And the object was taken up into heaven again.
PRAYER.
Good morning grace and peace to you in the name of God our Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. I am so glad to see you here today. I thank God for you. God wants you to know that He Loves you. If you think that God doesn’t love you consider this, God has done everything He could do to show you that he does. What more can He do?
God chose you to be with Him before the foundations of the world. Before He created anything, He chose you and me in Jesus Christ. Just as he Chose Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the people of Israel. God chose them from among all the people in the world. Not because of anything special in them but because He wanted to. He raised them up for the world to see through them His glory, and greatness, and that there is no other God but Him. He taught them what was right and acceptable in His sight, He taught them to love one another, and He taught them what it meant to worship God. He gave to them His oracles that they may follow. They were separated from all the other races in the world so as not to be influenced by them into living as they did until the promised deliverer, Christ our Lord.
Israel was to be an example to the world of how great and wonderful God is. So that others would want to also become people of God. Certain food was restricted by God for them to eat because the food was sacrificed to pagan gods. These foods were called unclean.
he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth.
In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. And a voice came to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat” (Acts 10:12,13).
Just as the food was restricted for them to eat God also did not permit them to socialize with other people outside of their people. They were not allowed to live among so-called pagan people. They had pride among themselves that they were people of God. They looked down on all other races, just as the food they ate they considered to be pure, they also considered they were a better race. Many of them also wanted to be like other nations of the earth with kings and queens and man-made gods. “But when the fullness of time had come God sent forth His Son born of a woman born under the law to redeem those who are under the law so that we may receive adoption as sons” (Gal 4:4-6).
But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”(Acts 10:14).
One thing we should notice is that Peter said no, not so Lord. Jesus Said in Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me Lord and do not what I say”? These two words don’t go together. No and Lord. When you call Him Lord, you are saying you are devoted to Him and you respect Him, you trust Him, you worship him and serve Him, and whatever He wishes you to do, you will do. Jesus said you call me Lord, Lord but you do not the things I say (Luke 6:46).
And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common” (Acts 10:15). Peter didn’t understand this vision it had gone against everything he had learned, all of his life. These animals were created by God there was nothing intrinsically evil about these animals, they’re being sacrificed to other gods didn’t make them evil because men made sacrifices of them to a piece of wood or carved stone. The wood and the stone were just what they were, wood and stone. The problem was the hearts of men. There is only one God, one Lord.
God did not want them to be influenced by mingling with other races and becoming contaminated with idol worshippers.
There is a new economy, and just as no animal is intrinsically evil, no person is more or less evil or beyond the grace of God. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Roman 3:23). Jesus said that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe in Him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life. The Key is whosoever. Not only is it now legal to eat all meats, but God also made it possible for all men to be saved through belief in His Son and to worship Him.
This was done three times. And the object was taken up into heaven again (Acts 10:16).
God told Cornelius a centurion and a gentile to send his servants to get Peter, Peter came down from the roof and went with them to Cornelius. He received Peter gracefully, and then Peter understood the vision God had given Him. That God’s grace has come to Gentiles as well as the Jews. God is the creator of all men. And His gift of grace is for all who believe in Jesus Christ. After Peter preached to Cornelius, he and all His household believed, and they were all saved.
Does this mean we should live like those who don’t believe? certainly not.
You are to show them the way. If Jesus is in your life you will change, your life will reflect it. Others will know you are different from them. How you carry your self is very important. Just because someone else is prejudice, you can’t be that way. You cannot choose who gets God’s grace. This is what Jonah tried to do because he was prejudice to Nineveh and felt they didn’t deserve God’s mercy. He was wrong the decision was God’s mercy was God’s to give. Thrust in the Lord, He will protect your heart, and through you He will lead others to Christ.
Don’t be ashamed, God took the shame of the cross away when He raised Jesus from the dead with great power. I am not ashamed of the Gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes first to the Jew and then to the Gentile.
Have you come to believe in Jesus, do you believe that God sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believe shall not perish but shall have everlasting life? Choose today, tomorrow is not promised to anyone. Amen. Come today. Amen
Lord God Thank you for these your people, Bless them Today lord give them the courage today to share your word with others, that they may lead others to your Son, Jesus Christ Amen.
But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”
And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”(Acts 10:14,15).
Greetings my friends’ grace and peace to you in the name of God our Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. God is good and has brought us to this new year, May God bless you this year and many more years to come. I thank God for you and this wonderful opportunity to share with you His wonderful word for our lives.
My friends, there is so much evil going on around us, murder, rape, robbery, thief, child neglect, crimes against children, homelessness, unemployment, corrupt law enforcement, and politicians, outrageous bills, everything you can possibly think of that makes life difficult. The influence of evil around you has a goal to return to the very place God has rescued from. Returning you to a state of captivity to sin and fear and hopelessness. Evil wants you to take your eyes off Jesus. My friends, remember God loves you, you know where he has brought you from, You have tasted choice wine, there is none better in all of the universes. We don’t have to fear or worry, because God fulfills all our needs. We were dead but now we are alive, we were blind but now we see, praise God. Let us rejoice in the face of evil.
Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice. Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus (Phil 4:4-7).
My friends’ let’s rejoice in the Lord, Let us stand up as Christians before all men, no matter what problems we may face, we know that we can pray to God and He will answer our prayer. those who are without God can’t turn to God for help if they did He won’t here them, those who live evil don’t have a life of peace. They can’t sleep well at night, but God in such a way that transcends all understanding give us peace and protects our hearts and our minds, in Christ Jesus. Amen, When I have done all that I can do, I know I can call on God, I can place before Him my petition, He allows us to come to him with our concerns, and with our desires. He loves us and cares enough for us that He supplies all our needs and rewards us with some of what we want. Amen praise God. I rejoice because I know what God has done for me, continually. He loved us so much He gave His Son to die on the cross for you and for me. If God loves us that much He will not deny us any good thing, Amen.
God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe in Him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life (John 3:16). Do you believe? If so contact me.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear—The L ORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him … in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the L ORD … and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the L ORD—To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word—The L ORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
L UKE 1:50; P S. 31:19-20; 1 P ET. 1:17—PS. 145:18-19; 2 K INGS 22:19—ISA. 66:2—PS. 34:18
Jesus the author and finisher of our faith—I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do—We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified—Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.
I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again—Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
J OHN 19:30; H EB. 12:2 —JOHN 17:4 —HEB. 10:10-14 —COL. 2:14—J OHN 10:17-18 —JOHN 15:13
As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness—I beseech you … brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new—In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy—This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind. Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
R OM. 6:4; R OM. 6:19—ROM. 12:1-2; 2 C OR. 5:17—GAL. 6:15-16—EPH. 4:17, 20-21, 24
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand—I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the L ORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end—My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the L ORD.
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her—As a man chasteneth his son, so the L ORD thy God chasteneth thee—Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby—Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
I know, O L ORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
P ROV. 3:12; D EUT. 32:39—JER. 29:11—ISA. 55:8; H OS. 2:14—D EUT. 8:5—HEB. 12:11—1 P ET. 5:6; P S. 119:75
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus—Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the L ORD. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father—We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord—When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known—Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. P ROV. 4:18; P HIL. 3:12—HOS. 6:3; M ATT. 13:43—2 C OR. 3:18—1 C OR. 13:10, 12—1 J OHN 3:2-3
