What God has made Clean, DO NOT CALL COMMON!!

Who are we to stand in the way of God?

God in his infinite wisdom created everything for a purpose, and that purpose is to Worship him.

I love reading Acts Chapter 11.

God decided that he didnt just want the jews to have salvation through Jesus, he wanted all to recieve the Love of God.

God became a Universal God, with a Universal Love and a Universal Salvation.

This is not Universalism...dont worry if your reading this.

I believe that Some will not inheret Salvation, because they will just keep Rebelling agaisnt a God who justs wants the best for our Lives.

Men have always went agaisnt Gods will.

From Adam and Eve eatting the Apple to Judas becoming a Traitor.

When you read through Acts 11, you will notice God decides to turn the belief system of the jews on their heads.

They became so used to Spirit falling on them, that some where not happy when the Gentilies also got Repentance.

See the Jews who where the children of Circumcision whre classed as clean, they had to got to the temple and make blood sacirfices to be purified of their sins.

While the Gentiles where the Children of UnCircumcision, these men where classed as pagan and Unclean.

So by both traditions they wouldnt hang and get a beer together.

It was uncool

It was sinful

Until Jesus came about, and turned the whole system on its head.

Peter himself after this dream relized that for the church to grow, the whole world needs a Universal God.

Even us Pagans.

Acts 11 is for a great way to look at the modern church.

We are a Faith with many different Beliefs.

We are a Faith with so many different Paths to Jesus.

We have so many different denominations.

And some of these denominations wouldnt been seen dead with another denominations

Lets say Free Presbyterian and Elim

One has a very Strict understanding of the Word of God, and this one denomination can have a one mind set for the way you dress...this church could be called a Country club

While the other is only into teaching of tongues, water baptism and worship...this also can lead to some hairy furry goings on in the church...it could turn into a Xfiles Church where Mulder and Scully lead the Service.

Now they both have one thing in common.....Seeing the lost saved.

But they have one problem

They cant put thier different ideas aside and work with each on the bigger picture

So when the Unchurched see the trash pile at the doors of these churches they dont want to know anything about us.

They want a God who is different, they want a Church that is Different.

They dont need the trash that is dragging so many churchs deeper into the crapper.

There is to many vipers teaching infectious sermons about practicing traditions, and if we dont follow these traditions we are spitting in Jesus' face.

That is a Cancer eatting away at the Core Beleifs of Christianity today.

So we need to become like the Jews in Acts 11....we need to put our traditions in the furnace...

We need to wake up...

We need to stop calling What God made clean, Common!!

There is alot of people out in the Pagan World who need Jesus.

They need to be loved Brothers and Sisters.

God needs Kingdom Workers not Kingdom Slackers.

Christianity is not a Tradition....


ACTS Chaper 11 Vrs 18, ESV


1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, 3 “You went to uncircumcised men and  ate with them.” 4 But Peter began and explained it to them in order: 5  “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me. 6 Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air. 7 And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’ 8 But I said, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ 9 But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’10 This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven. 11 And behold, at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea. 12 And the Spirit told me to go with them,  making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house. 13 And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter; 14  he will declare to you a message by which  you will be saved, you and all your household.’ 15 As I began to speak,  the Holy Spirit fell on them  just as on us at the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said,  ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If then d God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?” 18 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they i glorified God, saying,  “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”