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Are You Rejecting God’s Blessing?
Correcting the neural pathways of the past
But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.” Acts 10:15 (NLT)
The story of Cornelius and Peter is an interesting one because it shows both sides of the curtain. It shows the other side of prayer especially when we pray for insight into spiritual things and God prepares a saint at the other end of our prayers to bring the knowledge to us.
But that’s not the linchpin in the story. The key here is what if God had sent Cornelius but didn’t prepare Peter? Peter was a Hebrew and all his life the Jewish culture had taught him what was acceptable and what wasn’t. It had taught him clean from unclean and that lesson extended beyond animals to people.
The interesting thing is that with all that time spent with Jesus, it seemed they had overlooked that very important lesson which was the basis for everything that they were to do on earth:
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 (NLT)
Jesus was sent to the world. This salvation we preach was to transcend beyond the four corners of Jewish culture and spread through to the world. But before that could…
