Summary
So we're going to do a quick review of last week because where we're picking up today is right in the middle of a really really important and key story within all of Scripture. Last week in the reading we first heard about a Roman centurion Cornelius who was visited by an angel and the angel told him to send for Peter. Then we moved over to Peter and we saw him on the rooftop where he had a trance and he had a vision and in verse 11 it says he saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down being lowered to the ground by its forecoorners. But Peter said by no means Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean. So as we heard last week Peter's first reaction when faced with this vision and this voice from heaven was to adamantly refuse to eat what he had considered profane because as an Orthodox Jew, the laws of his religious tradition had been so ingrained into his life that his first reaction was to deny this new direction that he was being given. A covenant, ceremonial laws, particularly these food laws, they called a person to be holy as God is holy.
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- Verboten 3-17-19 — So we're going to do a quick review of last week because where we're picking up today is right in the middle of a really really important and key story within all of Scripture. Last week in the…