Red And Yellow Black And White They Are Precious In His Sight! You Need To Read This To Prepare For Sunday…

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Exodus 35,36; Acts 10

Red And Yellow Black And White They Are Precious In His Sight!
You Need To Read This To Prepare For Sunday…

Scripture

Acts 10

²⁸ Peter told them, “You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean. 

Observation

Peter had a lesson to learn about people! The lesson is this: God does not show favoritism. Red and Yellow Black and White they are all precious in His sight. Just to come to Peter’s defense a little bit we need to be reminded that the Jewish people were God’s chosen people. Out of all the nations in our world God chose Israel as His own.

What the Jews failed to realize was that God chose the nation of Israel to be a light to the rest of the world. Many times as believers we fail to realize that we have also been chosen but we have been chosen not because we are special, we have been chosen to take the Gospel to the rest of the world.

These are very exciting days at Christ Fellowship! Those attending our worship services are from every walk of life. It is wonderful. It is the way it is going to be in Heaven. I pastored Tampa Baptist Church for eight years and during that time I tried hard to make our church multi cultural but for the most part it remained what I call a “Lilly White Church”. 

Praise be to God that with the birthing of our new church, Christ Fellowship, all of that has changed. Under the leadership of our senior pastor Bruce Moore and his wife Heather our church has been wonderfully transformed. It is, if I can use one of Pastor Bruce’s favorite words, “Phenomenal” what is happening at Christ Fellowship.

You and I still have plenty of work to do when it comes to accepting people like God wants us to accept them. At least I know that I do.

Who do you need to reach out to that may look a little different than you, that has a little darker skin color than you, that maybe smells a little different than you, or that speaks a heart language that is different than yours? Why not make an effort to demonstrate God’s love to them like Peter did to Cornelius.

 Here are just a few possibilities:

• How about sitting with them in your worship service.

• Invite them to go with you and your family to lunch after church.

• Invite them over to your house for dinner.

• Give them and hug and take extra time to talk with them so they know that you value them as a person.

Application

I will intentionally show God’s love to people that happen to be a little different than me. How about you?  

Prayer

Heavenly Father, help me accept people the way you accept them. Don’t let me judge people by their outward appearance. Thank You for what You are doing at Christ Fellowship. I pray that our church will be the church to reach this city. I pray that our church would continue to reach people from every walk of life. Keep us on track. Don’t let us miss what You want to do in our city. You are a Mighty God. 

For You so loved the world that You gave Your only Son that whosoever believes in You will not perish but will have Eternal Life. Thank You for bringing the world to our church so that we have the opportunity to love them!

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