A Believer Can Never be Considered Unholy
For years, I have known that in Acts 10:15 Peter is conveying a message that he received from God that all foods were now permissible for him to eat as a Jew because no foods that have been cleansed by God can be considered unholy.
Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy." Acts 10:15 NASB
The word used for unholy in the Greek means to make unclean or regard as unclean.
Recently I was reading that verse again and the word “cleansed” stuck out to me. It hit me that God was not only talking about food. God was saying that nothing he has cleansed can be considered unholy. I read further for confirmation, and there it was plain as day from Peter.
And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean. Acts 10:28 NASB
Peter realized long ago what I had just realized. Nothing cleansed by the blood of Christ can ever be considered unholy.
It is interesting to note, the Gentiles never had the law and the Jews viewed them as a most unholy people. Most reading this will be Gentiles, and the Jews would have never even considered that a Gentile like yourself would have the slightest chance of being holy before God. The Jews considered the Gentiles as unholy dogs who were outside the law. How could they possibly be holy outside the law?
And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” Matt 15:26 ESV
To those outside the law, I became as one outside the law…
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