June 15
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Many of those who hunt out there, today's passage from Acts may contain one of your favorite verses in the Bible:
3Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."
This passage tells the story of Peter falling into a trance before going off to a meal. Have you ever been so hungry that you just dream about food? Well there is definitely more to this story than that. Basically God is telling Peter that what he thought of a ceremonially "unclean" (the animals he was ordered to kill and eat) were no longer unclean. This indicates that Jesus cleanses people from all over the place of their sins, making them acceptable in his sight. This is difficult for Peter to understand, but God is teaching him that he is no longer merely the God of Israel, but of all nations. He is "Lord of all creation, of water earth and sky"
Christianity is definitely not about a race or a nationality. It's about Jesus.
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