Acts 15:6-11

We are all precious in the eyes of God. 

In the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus salvation is found. He is the word of God made flesh. He willingly gave up His life in exchange for ours. for all of mankind who accept His sacrifice He gives eternal life with God. There will be a great gathering of those who believe in every nation who worship our God in Spirit and in truth.

Jesus is the great equalizer!

Acts 15:6-11

6 Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. 7 And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: “Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, 9 and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.”

Luke (the narrator) stresses that the ruling of the Jerusalem Council will represent the Church’s official verdict on the matter. Peter cites his own experience with the Gentile Cornelius and his vision about clean and pure food, which he has already explained to the church leadership in Jerusalem. Peter reasons that since God is working among both Jews and Gentiles that to demand that the Gentiles become Jews is to doubt what God has declared. This point seems to be based on Peter’s vision about clean and pure food. Peter reminds the audience that no Jew was able to satisfy the law. Faithlife Bible.

Jews who became followers of Christ could still be Pharisees. The same could not be said for the Sadducees, for they denied that there was a resurrection, and thus could not believe that Jesus had been raised from the dead. Is salvation granted through faith alone? Or does a person have to have faith plus the works of the law in order to be forgiven by God? That was the question. He leaves us with the eternal truth that we are saved through faith by grace alone. The emphasis in the Book of Acts now moves from Peter to Paul, from the presentation of the gospel message among the Jews to its presentation to the Gentiles. NKJ Bible.

Acts 2:4  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Acts 10:15 And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”