1. Get up, Peter. Kill and eat! (9-16)

Peter was visiting Simon the tanner in Joppa. One day while waiting for lunch, he was praying on the roof. He fell into a kind of trance, and dreamed about a large sheet full of unclean animals, the kind he had been trained from his youth never to eat. When a voice from heaven said, 'Get up Peter. Kill and eat,' he objected. God rebuked him. He should not call unclean that which God has cleansed. God was breaking his Jewish pride and legalism.

2. Three men from Cornelius (17-23a)

While Peter was thinking about the vision, the men Cornelius had sent arrived. They were Gentiles, and they had been sent to Peter by God, for God was personally opening a door into his kingdom for the Gentile world. Peter was obedient to God's Spirit. He ignored Jewish tradition, welcomed the Gentiles into his home as his guests, and ate with them.

Application: Lord, make my conscience a slave to your word, not a slave to my own feelings and ideas. Help me to obey your Spirit.
One Word: Follow God's word, not feelings