Psalm: 136 Meditation Acts: Sometimes we need to experience something before we can fully understand it. In Mark 7, Jesus makes it clear that it is not what a man eats that defiles him. Peter was with the Lord when He said that, but it isn’t until Peter had this vision (3 times [for the …
Tag: Clean
Monday, November 9
Psalm: 77 Meditation Matthew: Notice what is at issue here: man’s word (tradition) vs. God’s word. In an effort to safeguard against ever offending against God’s word, the teachers (some as far back as 800 years before Crist) put practices in place which would later become “traditions” – i.e., man’s word. Jesus has to explain …
Thursday, July 30
Psalm: 72 Meditation Mark: What is clean and what is unclean? We tend to be no better than the Pharisees – actors all of us. The debate here is what does “clean” mean? Jesus is rather clear the “nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him.” (v. 15) We see the …
Friday, July 10
Psalms: 80, 100 Meditation Acts: Luke now shifts his attention to Peter. We all know that God is “no respecter of persons”. Peter knew that, yet in the vision he had just seen he was told to “kill and eat” (v. 13) the clean and the unclean animals. This he protested but the Lord encouraged …
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