"Putting an End to Prejudice and Discrimination"

March 22, 2026

Background: Ruth 1:1-18; John 4:5-10; Acts 10:1-11:18; Rom. 1:14; Gal. 3:28-29;

Print: Acts 10:9-15, 30-35; Gal. 3:28-29; Key Verse: Galatians 3:28-29

Acts 10:9-15 (ESV)
⁹  The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.
¹⁰  And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance
¹¹  and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth.
¹²  In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air.
¹³  And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
¹⁴  But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
¹⁵  And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”

Acts 10:30-35 (ESV)
³⁰  And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
³¹  and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.
³²  Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’
³³  So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”
³⁴  So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
³⁵  but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Galatians 3:28-29 (ESV)
²⁸  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
²⁹  And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

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