Eat Common FoodLesson Text: Acts 10:9-14

Maud church of Christby Jim Bradshaw

Sunday Morning, March 24, 2013

Goodor

badAct 1:6-8 NKJV Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" (7) And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. (8) But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Well, I have Never!

What are some things that you would never do?

Well, I have Never!

What about Peter?

“I will never fall away…”

Mat 26:33 NKJV Peter answered and said to Him,

"Even if all are made to stumble because of You, I will never be made to stumble."

Luk 22:60-62 NKJV But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are saying!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. (61) And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times." (62) So Peter went out and wept bitterly.

1 Corinthians 10:12

Well, I have Never!

What about Peter?

“You shall never wash my feet.”

Joh 13:8-10 NKJV Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me." (9) Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" (10) Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

Well, I have Never!

What about Peter?

“I have never eaten…”

Act 10:14-15 NKJV But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean." (15) And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

What about you…What have you never done?

• Feed the hungry, cloth the naked, visit the sick (Matt. 25).• Teach the Gospel (Matt. 28:19-20)

Common and unclean• According to the Law of Moses

1. Normally we think about food but also deal with ceremonial unclean.

Act 10:25-29 NKJV As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. (26) But Peter lifted him up, saying, "Stand up; I myself am also a man." (27) And as he talked with him, he went in and found many who had come together. (28) Then he said to them, "You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean. (29) Therefore I came without objection as soon as I was sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me?"

Common and unclean• Salvation first given to the Jews.

1. Romans 1:162. The Gospel was why Cornelius sent for Peter.3. Act 10:33 NKJV So I sent to you immediately, and you

have done well to come. Now therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God."

4. Act 11:14 NKJV who will tell you words by which you and all your household will be saved.'

5. Peter was criticized.6. Act 11:2-3 NKJV And when Peter came up to Jerusalem,

those of the circumcision contended with him, (3) saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!"

Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty

God makes no distinction of persons.1. Read Acts 10:42-43, 11:17-18.2. Gal. 3:26-29

What god has cleansed

• It is the Lord who does the cleansing1. Acts 2:472. Eph 2:11-13 NKJV Therefore remember that you, once

Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— (12) that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. (13) But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

What god has cleansed

• It is the interrogation of a good conscience1. Acts 10:47-482. Acts 22:163. 1Pe 3:20-21 NKJV who formerly were disobedient, when

once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. (21) There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

What god has cleansed

• No Longer Common!1. No Second Class Christians2. 1Co 6:9-11 NKJV Do you not know that the unrighteous will

not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, (10) nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (11) And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

What god has cleansed

• To Refuse to take the Gospel to the world is to stand in God’s way.1. Act 11:17 NKJV If therefore God gave them the same gift as

He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"

2. Luke 10:33