Upon This Rock (20): Robbing Christ of His Honor (12)
Doezema examines Peter's vision and the inclusion of Gentiles into the church through careful exegesis of Acts 10, exploring how the apostle's understanding of the Levitical law and Jewish purity traditions had to be transformed to fulfill Christ's missional command. The article addresses the theological and practical implications of Peter's divinely-given revelation that the gospel was not to be restricted to Israel but extended to all nations.
Previous article in this series: June 2015, p. 396. How does the Levitical system figure into the proclamation of the gospel to the Gentile world? That, we said, was the practical problem that waited still for solution. And it was to the apostle Peter that that mystery was revealed. For Peter it was the question of how to respond to the request of one Gentile and his acquaintances. But the implications were far broader. For the church, it was the question of how to be obedient to Christ's...
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