Today, I want to review Peter’s vision found in Acts 10.
An angel comes to a centurion named Cornelius and lets him know that God has noticed his prayers and generosity. So, the angel tells him he needs to see a guy, and that guy is Peter.
Act 10:9 The next day, as they went on their journey and drew near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.
Act 10:10 Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance
Act 10:11 and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth.
Act 10:12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.
Act 10:13 And a voice came to him, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat."
Act 10:14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean."
Act 10:15 And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."
Act 10:16 This was done three times. And the object was taken up into heaven again.
Act 10:17 Now while Peter wondered within himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate.
So, Peter goes with Cornelius’ servants to meet him, then communicates the following.
Act 10:27 And as he talked with him, he went in and found many who had come together.
Act 10:28 Then he said to them, "You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Act 10:29 Therefore I came without objection as soon as I was sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me?"
Peter goes on to reveal the Gospel to the centurion and his relatives, the Holy Spirit comes down on all of them, and Peter then instructs they be baptized in water. After staying a few days with them, he returns to Jerusalem to give his report to the church, and they asked him why he would go visit these gentiles. He then repeats to them what we have already heard, his vision and the outcome of his visit.
Act 11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning.
Act 11:16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, 'John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
Act 11:17 If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"
Act 11:18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life."
So, should we conclude, as mainstream Christendom does, we can eat whatever flesh we want? NO! Peter, who experienced the vision concluded that he should call nobody (no human) unclean. And then, the whole congregation, hearing the witness of the entire event, did they conclude we can eat whatever flesh we want? NO! They, instead, concluded that God has granted to non-Jews repentance to life.
Informal Logic
Informal logic is what’s typically used in daily reasoning. This is the reasoning and arguments you make in your personal exchanges with others. (lawyers)
Formal Logic
In formal logic, you use deductive reasoning and the premises must be true. You follow the premises to reach a formal conclusion. (spiders)
Inductive & deductive reasoning – inductive (umbrella keeps dry in rain, she took umbrella and stayed dry; conclude it was raining… but was it?)
So, how does our logic compare with Godlogic?
God compares His thoughts to human thought, and there simply is no comparison.
Isa 55:8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
Isa 55:9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isa 55:10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater,
Isa 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Paul writes to Titus to explain that God cannot lie, and that He has revealed truth through His word and the sharing of that word.
Tit 1:1 Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness,
Tit 1:2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,
Tit 1:3 but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
Mal 3:6 "For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
So, Godlogic far exceeds the logic of man, yet God has shared His logic in His word and makes it clear that it is consistent.
Revisiting Peter’s vision, we will find that Christendom has misinterpreted that vision by not relying on God’s unchanging word.
Genesis 2
Gen 7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
Gen 7:2 You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;
Gen 7:3 also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.
Mrk 7:18 So He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
Mrk 7:19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?”
The Bible only ever makes an argument that humans should eat only clean animal flesh. All other animal flesh is NOT food because it is unclean for human consumption. Nevertheless, human logic and reasoning, born from a desire to eat whatever we want, or managed by the fear of going hungry, has led to the clear misinterpretation of God’s word.
The power of human persuasion based on false premises is guaranteed without God’s revelation. God’s revelation is through His Word and the Word made flesh, and we only understand it via Godlogic.
So, if Isaiah declares that God’s ways are not man’s ways, what hope do we have of adopting Godlogic?
1Co 2:9 But as it is written: "EYE HAS NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NOR HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN THE THINGS WHICH GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."
1Co 2:10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
1Co 2:11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
1Co 2:13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
1Co 2:16 For "WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT HIM?" But we have the mind of Christ.
It is imperative on each of us to seek God’s will and always ask for Godlogic. It is not found in the realm of men apart from God, and it requires we use the gift of the Holy Spirit to understand God’s will for us daily all the way through to His expressed will for all of mankind when all things are fulfilled.
To those whom God is calling and those who have received God’s Holy Spirit as a down payment on salvation, you have access to Godlogic. Make sure you identify it and use it.
