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Why Christians Eat Pork — But Jews and Muslims Don’t _ Biblical Wisdom · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Why Christians eat pork but Jews and Muslems don't. You're
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  Speaker 1: sitting at the dinner table and there's a plate of
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  Speaker 1: sizzling bacon in front of you. Maybe you've never thought
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  Speaker 1: twice about it, just another meal, right, But then you're
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  Speaker 1: with a Jewish friend or maybe a Muslin co worker,
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  Speaker 1: and they politely decline the same dish, not because they're
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  Speaker 1: allergic or pickie, but because of something deeper, something sacred.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly you're wondering why, why is pork off limits
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  Speaker 1: for them but not for you? Don't we all believe
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  Speaker 1: in the same God of Abraham. Didn't we all come
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  Speaker 1: from the same root of faith? This isn't just a
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  Speaker 1: question about food. It's a question that sits at the
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  Speaker 1: intersection of history, holiness, and identity. And if you've ever
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  Speaker 1: cracked open the Bible, it doesn't take long before you
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  Speaker 1: run into laws and commands that seem ancient, even strange.
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  Speaker 1: No pork, no shellfish, no mixed fabrics. But as Christians,
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  Speaker 1: we don't live by many of those same rules. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Did God change his mind? Or is there something deeper
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  Speaker 1: going on in the story. Today we're diving headfirst into
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  Speaker 1: one of the most fascinating contrasts between three of the
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  Speaker 1: world's major religions Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, all tracing back
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  Speaker 1: to the same patriarchs, yet walking different paths when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to what's on the dinner plate. And trust me,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't just about dietary preferences or cultural quirks. It's
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  Speaker 1: about covenant. It's about how people relate to God. It's
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  Speaker 1: about what it means to be clean or unclean, holy
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  Speaker 1: or common, included or set apart. We'll walk through the
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  Speaker 1: pages of scripture, from Leviticus to the Gospels, from Peter's
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  Speaker 1: shocking vision in Acts to Paul's teachings on freedom in christ.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how Jewish law shaped identity, how Islamic tradition
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  Speaker 1: honors purity, and how Christians today stand in grace not
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  Speaker 1: because God changed, but because He fulfilled something bigger through Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: So before you take another bite, pause with me. Let's
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  Speaker 1: open the word. Let's explore not just what we eat,
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  Speaker 1: but why it matters. Because sometimes the smallest things like
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  Speaker 1: what's on your plate, reveal the biggest truths about your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Number One, the ancient law why pork was forbidden in
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament. Let's go all the way back to
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. Well almost. The Israelites have just been rescued
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  Speaker 1: from Egypt. They've seen the Red Sea, part they've walked
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  Speaker 1: through on dry ground, and now they're gathered at the
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  Speaker 1: foot of Mount Sinat. God is about to shape them
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  Speaker 1: not just into a nation, but into a holy people.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the most surprising ways he begins to
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  Speaker 1: do that through food. In the Book of Leviticus, chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 1: God lays out a detailed list of animals the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: could eat and those they couldn't. This wasn't just a
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  Speaker 1: health manual. This was a declaration of holiness. God was
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  Speaker 1: showing his people how to be set apart. You are
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  Speaker 1: to be holy because I am holy, he says Leviticus
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  Speaker 1: eleven forty four. And part of that holiness meant avoiding
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  Speaker 1: animals considered unclean. Among the forbidden animals the pig Leviticus
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  Speaker 1: eleven seven. Their eight says, and the pig, though it
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  Speaker 1: has a divided hoof, does not chew the cud. It
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  Speaker 1: is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat
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  Speaker 1: or touch their carcasses. They are unclean for you. Now
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  Speaker 1: from our modern perspective that might seem arbitrary. Why does
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  Speaker 1: it matter if an animal choose the cud or splits
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  Speaker 1: its hoof. But for the Israelites, every detail mattered. These
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  Speaker 1: commands were about obedient. They were about learning to trust
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  Speaker 1: God's wisdom even when they didn't fully understand it. The
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  Speaker 1: dietary laws acted like boundaries, fences around their identity, reminding
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  Speaker 1: them daily that they were not like the nations around them.
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  Speaker 1: Pork became a powerful symbol of what it meant to
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  Speaker 1: obey or disobey God. Eating it was not just a
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  Speaker 1: culinary choice, it was a spiritual act. And in a
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  Speaker 1: time when idols and foreign gods lurked around every corner,
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  Speaker 1: staying faithful, even in what you ate, became a form
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  Speaker 1: of worship. So why was pork off limits? Not because
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  Speaker 1: God hated pigs, but because He loved his people and
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  Speaker 1: he was shaping them into something different, something sacred. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: God's covenant with israel identity through obedience. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: where it gets even more personal. You see, for the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish people, the dietary laws weren't random rules to follow,
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  Speaker 1: They were covenant markers. They were part of the sacred
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  Speaker 1: agreement God made with Israel, just like the Sabbath, just
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  Speaker 1: like circumcision, avoiding unclean food became part of how they
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  Speaker 1: lived out their relationship with God. Imagine this, You're in exile,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by people who eat pork freely. You've lost your temple,
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  Speaker 1: your land, maybe even your language, but you can still
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  Speaker 1: hold on to who you are by what you don't eat.
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  Speaker 1: That's how powerful these laws became. They weren't just about
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  Speaker 1: what went into your mouth. They were about what stayed
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  Speaker 1: rooted in your heart. Through obedience to these commands, Israel
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  Speaker 1: remembered who they were. In Deuteronomy fourteen two three, God
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  Speaker 1: reminds them, or you are a people holy to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord your God, do not eat any detestable thing. Every
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  Speaker 1: meal time was a reminder you are not like the others.
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  Speaker 1: You belong to the Lord. And isn't that something we
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  Speaker 1: all long for to belong to know who we are.
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  Speaker 1: For the Israelites, the Covenant gave them that sense of identity,
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  Speaker 1: even when scattered across the earth, even when persecuted, their
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  Speaker 1: dietary obedience held them together. That's why the command to
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  Speaker 1: avoid pork wasn't just about pigs. It was about faithfulness.
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  Speaker 1: It was about choosing God over convenience. It was about identity,
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  Speaker 1: and for our Jewish brothers and sisters today, that identity
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  Speaker 1: remains sacred. It connects them not just to God, but
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  Speaker 1: to generations of ancestors who chose obedience, sometimes at great cost.
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  Speaker 1: So as we continue this journey, let's not dismiss these
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  Speaker 1: laws as ancient or irrelevant. Let's see them for what
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  Speaker 1: they truly are. A love story written in commandments, a
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  Speaker 1: divine calling woven into everyday life, even down to what's
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  Speaker 1: on your plate. Number three Islam and dietary law. Continuation
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  Speaker 1: of the sacred purity. Now that we've seen how dietary
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  Speaker 1: laws were foundational for the Jewish people, let's look at
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  Speaker 1: how this reverence for purity continues in Islam. Because while
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  Speaker 1: Judaism and Christianity both come from the root of Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: Islam does too, And when it comes to food, especially pork,
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim path is much closer to that of the
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  Speaker 1: ancient Israelites. In the Qur'an, the prohibition against pork is clear.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just suggested, it's commanded. Sorah alba Kara two
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  Speaker 1: seven three says he has only forbidden you carrion, blood,
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  Speaker 1: the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to other than Allah. Similar verses are repeated throughout the Qur'an,
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  Speaker 1: reinforcing the seriousness of this ban. So why such a
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  Speaker 1: strong stance against pork in Islam? Well, the reasoning is
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  Speaker 1: remarkably similar to what we see in the Old Testament, purity, obedience,
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  Speaker 1: and distinction. In Islamic theology, cleanliness isn't just about the body,
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  Speaker 1: it's about the soul. It's about approaching God in a
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  Speaker 1: state that honors his holiness. Pigs are seen as inherently
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  Speaker 1: impure animals, and avoiding their meat is an act of
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  Speaker 1: spiritual discipline. But it's more than just a rule. It's
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of identity. Just like in Judaism, what you
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  Speaker 1: eat in Islam is directly tied to who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Muslims use the term hallal to refer to what is permissible,
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  Speaker 1: and staying within that boundary is a way of staying
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  Speaker 1: close to God. It's not a punishment, it's a privilege.
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  Speaker 1: It's a daily reminder of submis of surrender not just
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  Speaker 1: to a law, but to the one who gave the law.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, Islam came centuries after Jesus, Yet it reaffirms
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  Speaker 1: many of the dietary restrictions given to the children of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: It draws a direct line back to Abraham, back to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: back to a holy lifestyle marked by obedience and reverence.
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  Speaker 1: As Christians, we might not follow the same rules, but
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  Speaker 1: understanding this helps us appreciate the depth of devotion behind them.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds us that for millions of people today, not
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  Speaker 1: eating pork isn't about being different. It's about being faithful,
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  Speaker 1: and that should stir in us a sense of respect,
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  Speaker 1: even if our path has taken a different turn. Number
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  Speaker 1: four Jesus and the fulfillment of the Law. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is where everything begins to shift, and it's where we
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  Speaker 1: as Christians step into an new covenant that changes the
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  Speaker 1: way we understand purity, obedience, and even food. Jesus didn't
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  Speaker 1: come to erase the law. He came to fulfill it.
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  Speaker 1: He said so himself in Matthew five seventeen. Do not
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  Speaker 1: think that I have come to abolish the law or
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  Speaker 1: the prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but
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  Speaker 1: to fulfill them. That means everything God commanded in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament still matters, but Jesus brings it to its
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  Speaker 1: ultimate purpose, and that includes the dietary laws. One of
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  Speaker 1: the most eye opening moments comes in Mark seven. The
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees are criticizing Jesus's disciples for eating with unclean hands,
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  Speaker 1: a violation of ritual tradition, But Jesus turns their criticism
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  Speaker 1: on its head. He says, nothing outside a person can
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  Speaker 1: defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what
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  Speaker 1: comes out of a person that defiles them Mark seven fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: And then in verse nineteen, the Gospel quietly adds this
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  Speaker 1: stunning phrase in saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that, in one moment, Jesus redefines what it
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  Speaker 1: means to be pure, not by what enters your stomach,
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  Speaker 1: but by what flows from your heart. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: the old laws were wrong. They had their purpose. They
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  Speaker 1: pointed towards something greater. But when Jesus came, he became
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  Speaker 1: the fulfillment of that holiness. He took what was external
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  Speaker 1: and made it in. No longer do we need a
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  Speaker 1: list of foods to tell us we belong to God.
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  Speaker 1: We have the Holy Spirit living in us. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: about discarding tradition. It's about recognizing its completion. Just like
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  Speaker 1: a seed becomes a tree, the law of Moses blossoms
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  Speaker 1: into the grace of Christ. The heart of the law, holiness, obedience,
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  Speaker 1: identity is now written not on stone tablets, but on
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  Speaker 1: our hearts. So while our Jewish and Muslim neighbors still
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  Speaker 1: honor God through what they avoid, we honor Him through
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  Speaker 1: who we follow. Not because the law was wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus made a way for something even deeper, transformation
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  Speaker 1: from the inside out. Number five Peter's vision in Acts
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  Speaker 1: a turning point for the Early Church. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to know the exact moment everything changed, look no further
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  Speaker 1: than a rooftop in the city of Jappa. One of
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  Speaker 1: the most defining scenes in the Early Church happens in
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  Speaker 1: Acts Chapter Peter the apostle is preying around noon and
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  Speaker 1: he falls into a What he sees completely wrecks his
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  Speaker 1: understanding of holiness. A large sheet comes down from heaven,
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  Speaker 1: filled with all kinds of animals, many of them considered
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  Speaker 1: unclean under Jewish law, including pigs. Then a voice from
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  Speaker 1: head heaven says, get up, Peter, kill and eat. Peter
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  Speaker 1: is shocked, surely not, Lord, I have never eaten anything
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  Speaker 1: impure or unclean, And the voice responds, do not call
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  Speaker 1: anything impure that God has made clean. Now Peter doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get it at first. He's still thinking about food. But
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  Speaker 1: God is doing something much bigger here, because right after
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  Speaker 1: the vision, Peter is invited to the home of Cornelius,
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  Speaker 1: a Roman, a Gentile, and suddenly Peter understands the vision
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just about dietary rules. It was about people. For centuries,
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish people were called to be separate, to preserve
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  Speaker 1: their identity, to remain distinct. But now through Jesus, God
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  Speaker 1: was opening the door to the Gentiles. He was tearing
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  Speaker 1: down the walls of division, and he used food, something
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  Speaker 1: as ordinary as well for lunch to make an extraordinary point.
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  Speaker 1: Peter later tells Cornelius, God has shown me that I
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  Speaker 1: should not call anyone impure or unclean Acts ten twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: What a powerful shift. The categories of clean and unclean
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  Speaker 1: weren't about animals anymore. They were about inclusion. God was
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  Speaker 1: welcoming everyone to the table, not just Jews, but all nations,
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  Speaker 1: all backgrounds, all sinners in need of grace. This moment
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  Speaker 1: is the turning point. It's where the Church moves from
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  Speaker 1: Jewish roots to global mission. And yes, it changes the
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  Speaker 1: way Christians eat, But more importantly, it changes the way
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  Speaker 1: we see each other. No more outsiders, no more walls,
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  Speaker 1: just one family, united in Christ. Number six Paul's letters,
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  Speaker 1: Freedom in Christ, not legalism. Now, if vision opened the
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  Speaker 1: door the apostle, Paul burst right through it, arms wide,
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  Speaker 1: full of fire and clarity. Paul understood the old law
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  Speaker 1: inside and out. He was a pharisee. He knew the
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  Speaker 1: rules about pork, about kosher eating, about what made someone
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  Speaker 1: clean or unclean. But when Paul met Jesus, everything changed.
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  Speaker 1: In his letters, Paul addresses this head on, and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't just give us permission to eat pork. He gives
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  Speaker 1: us something even better perspective. Take Romans fourteen, for example,
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  Speaker 1: Paul writes, one person's faith allows them to eat anything,
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  Speaker 1: but another eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything
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  Speaker 1: must not treat with contempt the one who does not,
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  Speaker 1: for God has accepted them. Romans for the issue isn't
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  Speaker 1: the food, it's the heart behind it. Or look at
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  Speaker 1: first Corinthians eight, Paul talks about meat sacrificed to idols,
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  Speaker 1: another major debate in the Early Church. His conclusion food
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  Speaker 1: does not bring us near to God. We are no
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  Speaker 1: worse if we do not eat, and no better if
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  Speaker 1: we do. What matters is love, love for God and
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  Speaker 1: love for others. But may be the clearest statement comes
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  Speaker 1: in First Timothy, for Paul warns about those who will
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  Speaker 1: teach that certain foods are forbidden. He writes, for everything
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  Speaker 1: God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected
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  Speaker 1: if it is received with thanksgiving. That's the Christian approach
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  Speaker 1: to food, not fear, not legalism, but gratitude. We don't
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  Speaker 1: earn God's approval by what we put on our plate.
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  Speaker 1: We live in his grace, and in that grace we're
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  Speaker 1: free not to indulge selfishly, but to eat with humility,
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  Speaker 1: with conscience, and with love for those around us. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Christians can eat pork. But the deeper truth is this,
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  Speaker 1: It's not about what you're eating. It's about who you're becoming.
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  Speaker 1: Are you becoming more like Christ? Are you walking in love?
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  Speaker 1: Are you using your freedom to serve others? Because at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, that's what the Gospel does.
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  Speaker 1: It takes the law written on stone and rewrites it.
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  Speaker 1: On our hearts, leading us not by rules but by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit number seven. So why do Christians eat pork today?
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  Speaker 1: By now the picture should be coming into focus. From
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  Speaker 1: the laws of Moses to the vision of Peter to
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  Speaker 1: the bold clarity of Paul. The Bible reveals a journey,
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  Speaker 1: a progression from ritual separation to spiritual freedom, and it
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  Speaker 1: brings us to the question that started at all. Why
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  Speaker 1: do Christians eat pork today? The answer is simple, but
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  Speaker 1: it's anything but shallow, because in Christ we are no
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  Speaker 1: longer bound to the ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant.
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  Speaker 1: We are no longer defined by what we eat, but
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  Speaker 1: by who we follow. Let's be clear. The Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: dietary laws were good. They were given by God. They
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  Speaker 1: serve their purpose. They taught obedience, discipline, and identity. But
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  Speaker 1: they were part of a covenant that pointed forward to
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  Speaker 1: something greater. And that something greater is Jesus. Through his life,
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  Speaker 1: death and resurrection. Jesus fulfilled the law. He didn't throw
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  Speaker 1: it away, he completed it. He embodied its purpose in him.
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  Speaker 1: Holiness isn't about clean foods or clean hands. It's about
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  Speaker 1: a clean heart, and through him, the dividing walls between
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  Speaker 1: jew and gentile, between clean and unclean, were torn down.
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  Speaker 1: Christians today stand in a new covenant, a covenant of grace.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Paul could write, let no one judge you
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  Speaker 1: by what you eat or drink. These are a shadow
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  Speaker 1: of the things that were to come. The reality, however,
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  Speaker 1: is found in christ Colossians two, sixteen seventeen. This doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean we eat carelessly or live without discipline. Christian freedom
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  Speaker 1: is not about doing whatever we want. It's about honoring
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  Speaker 1: God in everything we do, including how we eat. And
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  Speaker 1: if that means choosing not to eat pork out of
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  Speaker 1: sensitivity for some one else's faith or background, that's love
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  Speaker 1: and action. But theologically, there is no command in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament that forbids Christians from eating pork. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: quite the opposite. Scripture encourages us to receive all food
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  Speaker 1: with thanksgiving as a gift from God, and when we do,
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  Speaker 1: we remember that our righteousness doesn't come from our meals.
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  Speaker 1: It comes from the poured out at the cross. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: Christians can eat pork. But the bigger truth is this,
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  Speaker 1: Our holiness is no longer about what's on our plate.
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  Speaker 1: It's about who we are in Christ. It's about who
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  Speaker 1: we are in Christ. Conclusion from the Law to grace,
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  Speaker 1: one table, one Lord. As we close this journey, let's
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  Speaker 1: zoom out for a moment. We've walked through ancient laws,
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  Speaker 1: sacred traditions, prophetic visions, and apostolic letters. We've seen how
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  Speaker 1: three great faiths, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity each approach the
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  Speaker 1: same God with reverence, but take different paths when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to purity, identity, and obedience. Jews refrain from pork
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  Speaker 1: out of covenantal faithfulness. Muslems avoid it in submission to
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  Speaker 1: divine command. Christians through Christ have been given freedom, not
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  Speaker 1: freedom to live without purpose, but freedom to live by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, in love and with deep gratitude. Isn't that beautiful?
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  Speaker 1: Each path is serious, each one is sacred. Each one
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  Speaker 1: reflects a desire to honor God with every part of life,
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  Speaker 1: including what we eat. But here's what makes the Christian
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  Speaker 1: message unique. It's not about building our way up to
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  Speaker 1: God through rules. It's about God coming down to us
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus and in Him. Everything changes, not just our
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  Speaker 1: menu but our hearts. So whether you eat pork or
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  Speaker 1: avoid it, the deeper question is this Do you know him?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know the one who declared all things clean,
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  Speaker 1: who touched lepers, welcomed outcasts, and gave his life for
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  Speaker 1: sinners like us. Because he's the reason Christians live differently,
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  Speaker 1: not in rebellion, but in response to grace. And maybe today,
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  Speaker 1: around someone's table, with bacon or without it, you'll have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to share not just your food, but your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Because the real feast, the one that satisfies forever, isn't
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  Speaker 1: about what we eat. It's about the one who invites
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  Speaker 1: us to the table, and that invitation it's open to
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  Speaker 1: all