God Makes the Unclean Clean!

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Rev. Enoch Thompson | June 10 2025 | Acts 10:7-16

KEY VERSE: “The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean." Acts 10:15 (NIV)

MESSAGE:

From tradition and cultural orientations, we call certain persons unworthy, undeserving, unimportant, and other terms of inferiority. Where this tagging originates from a religious perspective, it seems to stick the most. Gentiles were considered unworthy and unclean people by the Jews. A true and proper Jew would have nothing to do with Gentiles or even the half-breed Samaritans. However, the Gospel of the Kingdom was not intended solely for the Jewish people. The Jews were to be channels through which the Saviour would come, for the benefit of all humanity (Gen. 12:3).

The Lord had a hard time getting His immediate Jewish followers to understand that the Kingdom was for all nations and to step out of their Jewish sense of superior worth. Reaching out to the Samaritan and Gentile arenas was a huge challenge for them. The trance of the sheet with all kinds of creatures that the Lord sent to Peter was a parable to awaken Peter to the merciful, generous heart of God to welcome the Gentiles into His family through faith in Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross.

God, by His sovereign power and His just decrees, calls what otherwise has been called unclean clean (e.g. Mark 7:19), and when He does so, the “unclean” must become clean. We were unclean by sin, but through the blood of Jesus, we have been called saved, saints, children of God; praise the Lord!

FEET AND HANDS FOR THE MESSAGE:

Do you recognise the change in your description before God because of the blood of Jesus Christ? You are not a sinner but a saint. Pray for grace to see other people the way God sees them and treat them as such.

PRAYER:

Dear Lord, please forgive me when I still look at people in their status before they came to you. Help me please to embrace those you have embraced, and also to see myself the way you see me. For your dear Name’s sake, Amen.

THERE SHALL BE SHOWERS OF BLESSING.

SHOWERS! BLESSINGS!!

The 365 DAILY BIBLE READING Day 161: 1 Samuel 24 — David Spares Saul

DAILY word study: CLEAN

The Greek word used in Acts 10:15 is katharizō, meaning to cleanse, to purify, or to declare clean. It is commonly used in ceremonial and moral contexts in the New Testament.

Peter’s vision challenged a mindset shaped by ritual purity and national identity. The command “do not call anything impure that God has made clean” wasn’t just about food—it was about people. God was preparing Peter to embrace Gentiles as co-heirs in Christ. The same word katharizō is used when Jesus cleanses lepers (e.g., Matthew 8:3) and hearts (Hebrews 9:14), revealing the full reach of God’s restoring power.

Reflection:

What God has cleansed—whether a person or a past—must not be labelled otherwise. If God calls it clean, it's clean.