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Honouring Christ's Servants And Gospel

Acts 15:25-29

So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul – men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell. (NIVUK)

The Council in Jerusalem had agreed that Gentiles did not have to become Jews in order to be saved and receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 15:19). Previously, religious activists went to Antioch on their own authority to contradict Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:1-2). They acted wrongly but, in God’s plan, the episode precipitated all the apostles and church elders coming to a decision under the Holy Spirit's guidance. That decision greatly encouraged the Christians in Antioch (Acts 15:30-32) and has established the apostles’ doctrine on the matter for every generation.