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Religious Habits Challenged

Acts 10:9-14

About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.' 'Surely not, Lord!' Peter replied. 'I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.' (NIVUK)

Peter was chosen by Jesus to be a ‘disciple’, which means ‘learner;’ and 'apostle', which means a ‘commissioned representative who is sent out’ (Luke 6:13-16). He knew the Jewish law of the Old Covenant; he was devout and strictly religious. But he did not know that Jesus was preparing him to invite Gentiles into God's presence. Neither did he know that the Lord had already told a Gentile Roman Centurion, Cornelius, to invite Peter to explain the gospel to him and his household (Acts 10:1-6).