Chapter 11 verse number 5 the Bible reads here. I was in the city of Joppa praying and in the trance
I saw a vision a certain vessel descend as it had been a great sheep
Let down from heaven by four corners and it came even to me upon the which when I had fast in my eyes
I considered and saw four-footed beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air and I heard
A voice saying unto me arise
Peter slay and eat
But I said not so Lord for nothing common or unclean at that any time entered into my mouth
But the voice answered me again from heaven what God have cleansed that called not thou
Common and this was done three times and all were drawn up again into heaven
So here in the story we see that Peter has this vision and God drops this sheet down this great sheet with unclean animals
What we would consider what the Bible calls unclean animals in the Old Testament and of course Peter being used to the
The Old Testament law said no, there's no unclean thing that's ever entered into my mouth
Now we know that obviously in the New Testament
We don't observe that in the New Testament
The Bible says that the Old Testament stood in meats and drinks and diverse washings
Which really were done away with it when Christ came and so that was no longer valid now
That was a spirit the spiritual application to that was this people and when you sit with God was trying to get across the piers
Hey, you need to start reaching out to other people other than the Jews
You start reaching out to the Gentiles and people who are a different nation
So you can reach them for the Lord Jesus Christ and here's what he was asking. Are you gonna rise to that occasion?
Rise kill and eat rise go get them rise go preach the gospel to them rise. Go do something for God
And it took them a while to get it
Luckily Paul the Apostle Paul was the one who actually
Started reaching out to these groups and started seeing a bunch of people saved other than the Jews
And let me say this God is also speaking to us today and saying hey
We need to rise kill and eat and what does he mean by that leader rise and go preach the gospel to everyone
We need to rise and go preach the there's nothing uncommon or unclean here. Well, except for the sound of my team and
Common or unclean that we can reach
God is saying get them all
Red yellow black and white get them all
And by the way, that's why it's important that hey if you speak Spanish, especially in California, you need to be out stolen
Okay, Alex knows we're we're stolen in Long Beach
I mean we run to a lot of Spanish-speaking people and it's frustrating for him
I mean, I know I know Spanish so I think I could preach the gospel in Spanish
This frustrates people who knock all the time and it's like man
I wish I can win this person to Christ, but we can't why because they speak Spanish
But here's the thing we need to rise and reach those people
We need to rise and reach every single ethnicity that we can reach in
California are you gonna rise to the occasion to take care of that?
Are you gonna rise to the occasion to reach the people who maybe who only speak Tagalog? Maybe they speak Spanish
Maybe these maybe they speak Mandarin whatever language they speak
Hey, they're here. And by the way, save yourself a plane ticket if you want to become a missionary just stay here
There's a bunch of people here
Look, I don't know how much ticket is to go to China, but China's like in Monterey Park
You know what I'm talking about. There's a bunch of Chinese people there. I'm talking about only time Mandarin speaking Chinese people
Look, I'd rather just save the money just go over there
Then I can just go home and see my wife. You know, I don't have to be gone for like a week or so
But here's the thing they're all there. Are you gonna rise and do something about it?
See man, I just don't know you want enough with the excuses. Let's just do it
By the way
I'm not saying you need to learn another language to reach someone if you speak English. There you go
And there's a bunch of people there's a bunch of Hispanics to speak English
They speak Spanish and English and you can reach them as well
All right, but rise to the occasion and take care of business
Slainy as the Bible says judges chapter