Clean and Unclean Animals

Hey, it's Sarah with the World Mission Society, Church of God.

Clean and unclean animals. It's Sabbath Day Saturday, and clean

and unclean animals. Leviticus eleven, verse one to forty seven.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron stays to the Israelites,

of all the animals that live on land, these are

the ones you may eat. You may eat any animal

that has a divided hoof and that choose the cut.

There are some that only chew the cud or ha

only have a divided hoof, but you must not eat them.

For example, the pigs, though it has a divided hoof,

does not chew the cud. It is unclean, unclean for you.

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

They are unclean for you. And then it says at

the end, do not defy yourself by any of these creatures.

Do not make yourself c unclean by means of them,

are made unclean by them. I am the Lord your God.

Consecrate yourself and be holy, because I am holy. Do

not make yourself unclean by any creature that moves along

the ground. I am the Lord who brought you up

out of Egypt. Do to be your God. Therefore be

holy because I am holy. Don't eat the meat from

their bodies. Don't even touch animals bodies can't eat if unclean,

will make ourselves unclean. Divided hoof or true the cud

means the divided hoof means it has to slay in it,

and it carries a heavy load. Chew the cut means

it eats its food and regurgitates and eats it again.

What does it mean to distinguish between clean and unclean animals?

What does it mean? You must not eat animals that

choose that that you must eat animals that only chew

the cut and has the divided hoof. This was the

law kept by the Jewish people Leviticus twenty twenty five.

You must therefore make a distinguish between clean and unclean animals,

and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defive yourself

by any animal or bird or anything that moves along

the ground. Those that I have set apart as unclean

for you. So the Old Testament law is a shadow.

So there is animals that we must not make ourselves

unclean by associating with. But there's there's a way that

we can associate with all animals. That's in this verse,

Acts ten, verse nine. Peter had Jewish customs about not

eating anything unclean. So Peter was the Jew and he

was not. He was following the Jewish law, which said,

don't eat anything unclean, don't associate with unclean people, or

eat unclean animals as meat. He knew the Jewish law,

but Cornelius was not Jewish. Peter didn't associate with non

Jewish people. He said, it is against our law for

a Jewish, for a Jew to associate with a gentile.

We can even see the Jewish people nowadays. They don't

want to touch or associate with the gentiles because it

would make them unclean. But it says God accepts every

nation of people who fear God and do what is right,

not just the Jewish nation, but all nations. So God

made all nations clean that they accept the gospel. If

we preached them they accept the gospel, they could become clean.

But we need to be careful not to be defaulted

by unclean animals. Romans eight, verse eight. Romans eight, verse nine.

About noon the following day, as they were on their

journey and approaching the city, when Peter went up on

the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something

to eat, And while this meal was being prepared, he

found into a trance. He saw I haven't opened, and

something like a large sheet being let down to earth

by its four corners. They contained all kinds of four

footed animals and wills, reptiles and birds. Then a voice

told them to get up, Peter kill and eat. Surely not,

Lord Peter replied, I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.

The voice spoke to him a second time, do not

call anything impure that God has made clean. This happened

three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision,

the men sent by Cornelius found where Simon's house wasn't

stepped and stopped at the gate. They called their a

Simon was known as Peter, was staying there. While Peter

was still thinking about the vision, the spirits said to him, Simon,

three men are going are looking for you, so get

up and go downstairs. Don't hesitate to go with them,

for I've sent them. Peter went down and said to

the men, I'm the one you're looking for why have

you come? The men replied, we have come from Cornelius,

the Centurion. He is a righteous and god fearing man

who was in a respective by all the Jewish people. A

holy angel told him to ask you to come to

his house so they can hear what you have to say.

So Peter was allowed to associate with them to preach

the gospel, and Peter invited the men into the house

to be his guests. The next day Peter started out

with them and some of the bleeders from drop It

went along. The following day he arrived in Cesaria. Corneous

was expecting them, and he called together his relatives and

close friends. As Peter entered the house, Corneas met him

and fell out his feet in reverence, and Peter says,

stand up, He said, I only man myself. While talking

with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering

of people. Said to them, you are well aware that

is against our law for a Jew to associate or

visit with a gentile. But God has shown me that

I should not call anyone impure and clean? Does that

means anybody can that here's the gospel if they receive it,

anybody we could preach the Gospel to anybody, and when

they receive the Gospel, they become a clean animal. And

then Peter began to speak in verse thirty four, I

now realize how it is that God is not your favoritism,

but accepts from every nation the one who fears and

does what is right. You know the message God sends

to the people of israel An noown says the good

news of peace of Jesus Christ roor was Lord of all.

You know that what has happened throughout the province of Judea,

beginning in Galli after the Baptist and that John preached

how God annoyed to Jesus Nazara with the Holy Spirit

and power. And now he went around doing good and

healing all who were under the power of the devil,

because God was with him Verse forty two. He commanded

us to preach to the people and to testify that

he is the one whom God appointed as judges of

living in the dead. All the prophets testify about him,

about him, that everyone who believes in him receives for

goodness and through his name. While Peter was still speaking

these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard

the message. The circumcised believers who came with Peter were

astonished at the gift of the Holy Spirit and poured

out even to the Gentiles, for they heard them speaking

in tongues and praising God. So that even if the gentiles,

meaning non Jewish people, could hear the gospel, God made

every nation claimed to hear the Gospel. First Corinthians nine,

verse nine. Who serves as a soldier at his own expense,

who plants a vineyard and does not eat his grapes,

who tends to flock and does not drink the milk.

So I say this merely on human authority. Doesn't the

law say the same thing? For it is written in

the Law of Moses. Do not muslin ox while its

treading out the grain? And is it about Oxen that

God is concerned? Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes,

this was written for us, because whoever plows and threats

thre threasures should be able to do so in the

hope of sharing in the harvest. If we have someone

spiritual seat among you, is it too much if we

reap our material harvest from you? If I'll just have

this right of support from this shit, and we have

it all the more. But we did not use this right.

On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than

hinder the Gospel of Christ. Don't you know that those

are serving the temple get their food from the temple,

and that those are serving the altar sharing what is

all for the altar. In the same way the lords

commands that those who preach the Gospel she receives their

living from the Gospel. Paul said, I have not used

any of these rights. I'm not writing this in the

hope that you will do such things for me. I'd

rather guide than allow anyone to deprive me of this boat.

For when I preach the Gospel, so the oxen are

compared to the gospel workers. When I preach the Gospel,

I cannot boast, since I'm compelled to preach. Woe to

me if I do not preach the Gospel. If I

preach voluntarily, I have a reward. If not voluntarily, I

simply discharged trust committed to me. What is my reward then,

just this, that I'm preaching the Gospel, I may offer

it free of charge. To not make full use of

my right as a preacher of the Gospel verse nineteen.

Though I am free and belong to no one, I

have made myself a slave to everyone to win as

many as possible. To the Jews. That became like a

Jew to win the Jews, to those under the law.

I became like one under the law through myself. I'm

not under the law, so as to win those under

the law. To those not having the law, became like

one not having the law. Though I am not free

from God's law, but under Christ's law. So there's the

law of Christ. So as to win those not having

the law. So to preach the gospel, we have to

become a slave to everyone. To the week, I become

a week to win the week. I become all things

to all peoples that by all possible means I might

say something. I do this for the sake of the God,

that I may share in his blessings. Do not know

that in a race, all the runners run, but only

one gets the prize. Run in such a way as

to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games

goes into strict training. They do not get a crown

that will not last. But we do it to get

a crown that will last forever. Therefore, I do not

run like someone running aimlessly. I do not fight like

a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow

to my body and making my slaves, so that after

I have preached to others, I myself will not be

just qualified for the prize. Paul was under a price law.

People following the law of prist true the cut hear

the word of God and obey it, and hear it

again and obey it. The regurgitate and eat it again,

recourgitate and eat it again. The split hoof is carrying

the heavy load. Like a split hoof, the oxen have

it to carry a heavy load. So the gospel workers

preach the gospel within going through the narrow gate carrying

the cross of Christ. Oxen are gospel workers or clean animals.

Animals represent people. We must associate with the people who

chew the good and preach the gospel. That means to

obey the word of God and preach the gospel. That's

why we keep the Sabbath day because sometimes we have

to associate with people for work, or we might get

unclean as we're preaching. Because what kind of people do

pigs represent? Jesus sends demons into pigs. And when he

came to the other side of the country of the

darren Gar Gagerines, two demons possessed men confronted him as

they were coming out of their tombs. So there's two

people possessed by demons, right they were, so should be violent,

and that no one could pass by that way. And

they cried out, saying, what business do you have with us,

Son of God? Have you come here to torment us

before the time? Now there was a herd as many

pigs feeding at a distance from them, and the demons

begged him, saying, if you're when it cast us out,

send us into the herd of pigs. And he set

to them go, and they came out and went into

the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the

steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.

So the pigs represent demon possessed men. Pigs are unclean

animals in the Old Testament, and are unclean people that

are demon possessed in the New Testament. Pigs do not

chew the cud. They are monogastric animals, possessing a single

compartment compartment's stomach and omnivores unlike true ruminants such as

cows or sheep. While pigs do not do have split hoofs,

they lacked the specialized stomach system needed to regurgitate and

rechew their food, so we shouldn't associate it with any

of these animals, the unclean animals, unless we're preaching the gospel.

But now God made all whoever accepts a gospel can

be saved. Thank you.