Hey, this is Stephen Fertig. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your

faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God as moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

So thankful that you're here today and I am going to go ahead. I normally have you

stand to read the scripture. It's 19 verses today. So go ahead and sit down and we'll

take it slow. God bless you. My scripture from today's point of view is Acts chapter 11.

This sermon will probably take two weeks to preach. We did it last night. The Lord showed

up. I thought he did till nobody said that was here last night. Yeah. To me, he showed

up. And so we probably won't get to the entire message today. But in Acts chapter 11,

it's a very unique and pivotal story as the gospel is going forward through the ministry

of the early church where it says in verse 1, the apostles and the believers throughout

Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the Word of God. So when Peter went up to

Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him and said, you went into the house of

uncircumcised men and ate with them. Starting from the beginning, verse 4, Peter told them

the whole story. Here it is. I was in the city of Joppa Prang and in a trance, I saw a vision.

I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners and

it came down to where I was. I looked into it. Oh, touch somebody and say, look into

it. Yeah, I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles,

and birds. Then I heard a voice telling me, get up, Peter, kill and eat. I replied, surely

not, Lord. How are you going to say no and call them Lord in the same sentence? That's

crazy. Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth. The voice spoke from heaven

a second time. Oh, thank God for second chances. Third chances. Fourth chances. Can I get a

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