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Why Jews and Muslims Don_t Eat Pork _ But Christians Do · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: For 3,000 years, one animal has been absolutely forbidden by
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  Speaker 1: Jews and Muslims.
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  Speaker 2: But Christians? We eat it without thinking twice.
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  Speaker 1: Why? If we all serve the same God of Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: why do we have completely different rules? The answer is
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  Speaker 1: hidden in three biblical moments that changed everything. By the
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  Speaker 1: end of this video, you'll finally understand the ancient command...
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  Speaker 1: the shocking vision that rocked the early church and the
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  Speaker 1: deeper truth about what God really cares about.
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  Speaker 2: This is what most Christians never learn in church.
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  Speaker 1: But before we dive in, if you love biblical mysteries
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's go back to where it all began. 1400 BC,
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  Speaker 2: Mount Sinai.
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  Speaker 1: God has just delivered the Israelites from slavery.
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  Speaker 2: In Egypt, and he's giving them the law.
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  Speaker 1: Not just the Ten Commandments, but detailed instructions on how
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  Speaker 1: to live as his chosen people. And among those laws,
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  Speaker 1: tucked into Leviticus chapter 11, is a command that would
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  Speaker 1: shape dietary practice for millennia. The pig, God says, is
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  Speaker 1: unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or
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  Speaker 1: touch their carcasses. Now this wasn't arbitrary. God gave specific
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  Speaker 1: criteria for what made an animal clean or unclean. To
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  Speaker 1: be clean, an animal had to have a split hoof
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  Speaker 1: and chew the cud. Cows qualified. Sheep qualified. Goats qualified.
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  Speaker 2: But the pig?
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  Speaker 1: The pig had a split hoof, but it didn't chew
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  Speaker 1: the cud. It failed the test.
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  Speaker 2: It was unclean.
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  Speaker 1: But why did this matter so much? There are three reasons.
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  Speaker 1: and they all worked together. First, there was a health component.
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  Speaker 1: In the ancient Middle East, with no refrigeration and extreme heat,
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  Speaker 1: pigs were dangerous. They're scavengers. They eat anything, including waste
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  Speaker 1: and dead animals. They carried parasites and diseases that could
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  Speaker 1: devastate communities. God was protecting his people from very real
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  Speaker 1: physical harm. Second, there was a cultural separation issue. the
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  Speaker 1: pagan nations surrounding Israel, the Canaanites, the Egyptians, the Babylonians,
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed pigs to their false gods. Archaeological evidence confirms this.
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  Speaker 1: Pig bones have been found in pagan temples across the
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  Speaker 1: ancient Near East. By forbidding pork, God was drawing a
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  Speaker 1: clear line between his people and the idol worshippers around them.
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  Speaker 1: When an Israelite refused pork, they were making a statement,
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  Speaker 1: We are different. We belong to the one true God.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the third and most important reason. These dietary
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  Speaker 1: laws were covenant markers. They were physical, daily reminders that
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  Speaker 1: Israel was set apart, holy, belonging exclusively to God. Every
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  Speaker 1: single meal became an act of worship, an act of obedience.
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  Speaker 1: You are what you eat wasn't just a saying. It
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  Speaker 1: was a spiritual reality. Holiness through distinction. Purity through separation.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just about one animal. Leviticus 11 lists dozens
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  Speaker 1: of creatures. Shellfish, unclean.
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  Speaker 2: Birds of prey, unclean. Certain insects, unclean.
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  Speaker 1: God was teaching Israel that there's a difference between the
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  Speaker 1: holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean.
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  Speaker 1: And his people needed to live that difference every single day.
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  Speaker 1: Now fast forward to today. Observant Jews still follow these laws.
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  Speaker 1: They keep kosher. They won't eat pork, shellfish, or any
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  Speaker 1: meat that doesn't meet the biblical criteria.
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  Speaker 2: They won't mix meat and dairy.
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  Speaker 1: They inspect food labels carefully to ensure everything is permissible.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't legalism. This isn't blind tradition. For Jews, the
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  Speaker 1: Torah is eternal. It's God's unchanging covenant with Israel. Every
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  Speaker 1: meal is still an act of worship, a way of
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  Speaker 1: honoring God's commands that were given at Sinai over 3,000
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  Speaker 1: years ago. And here's what's important to understand. For Jews,
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  Speaker 1: God never changed his mind about this. The law stands.
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  Speaker 1: The covenant remains. The command is still binding. So when
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  Speaker 1: a Jewish person refuses pork, they're not being stubborn or old-fashioned.
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  Speaker 1: They're being faithful to what they believe is God's eternal word.
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  Speaker 1: And that faithfulness deserves our respect. Now, Muslims also abstain
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  Speaker 1: from pork, but for a different reason and from a
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  Speaker 1: different source. In the Quran, multiple verses declare pork haram,
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  Speaker 1: which means forbidden. Surah 2, verse 173 says, He has
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  Speaker 1: only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine,
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  Speaker 1: and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah.
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  Speaker 1: Surah 5 verse 3 repeats the prohibition. Surah 6 verse
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  Speaker 1: 145 does the same.
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  Speaker 2: Notice the pattern.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Jewish law, pork is placed in.
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  Speaker 2: A category of forbidden things.
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  Speaker 1: But unlike the Torah, the Quran doesn't give detailed explanations
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  Speaker 1: for why. There's no mention of split hooves or chewing
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  Speaker 1: the cud. The command is simply given. and Muslims are
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  Speaker 1: expected to submit. That's what Islam means, submission to Allah's will.
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  Speaker 1: For Muslims, this is a test of faith. Allah has
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  Speaker 1: declared pork forbidden, and that's enough. Obedience doesn't require understanding
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  Speaker 1: every reason. It requires trust in God's wisdom and sovereignty.
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  Speaker 1: And so 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide abstain from pork as
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  Speaker 1: an act of worship. as proof of their submission to
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  Speaker 1: divine authority. What halal means in Islam is permissible, lawful,
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  Speaker 1: acceptable to God. Halal meat must be prepared in specific ways.
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  Speaker 1: The animal must be slaughtered with a prayer in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Allah. Blood must be drained. And certain animals,
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  Speaker 1: including pigs, are never halal under any circumstances. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: just religious preference. For Muslims, Eating pork isn't a minor issue.
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  Speaker 1: It's a serious sin, a violation of God's clear command.
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  Speaker 1: And just like with Judaism, this creates a daily practice
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  Speaker 1: of spiritual discipline. Every meal requires intentionality. Every grocery store
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  Speaker 1: trip requires vigilance. Muslims living in non-Muslim countries go to
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  Speaker 1: great lengths to ensure their food is halal. They check ingredients,
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  Speaker 1: avoid restaurants that serve pork, and teach their children from
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  Speaker 1: a young age what is and isn't permissible. This is
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  Speaker 1: faith lived out in the most practical, tangible way possible.
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  Speaker 1: So now we have a pattern. Two major world religions,
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  Speaker 1: both tracing their roots back to Abraham, both claiming revelation
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  Speaker 1: from the one true God, and both absolutely forbidding pork.
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  Speaker 1: Jews have been doing it for over 3,000 years. Muslims
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  Speaker 1: have been doing it for over 1,400 years. The practice
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  Speaker 1: is ancient, widespread, and deeply rooted in what both traditions
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  Speaker 1: believe is divine command. Let's pause here and recap what
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  Speaker 1: we've learned so far. Jews abstain from pork because of
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  Speaker 1: Leviticus 11, God's eternal command in the Torah. It's a
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  Speaker 1: covenant marker, a sign of being set apart for God.
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  Speaker 1: Muslims abstain from pork because of the Quran. where Allah
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  Speaker 1: clearly forbids it. For both faiths, this isn't just tradition.
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  Speaker 1: It's obedience to divine revelation. It's an act of worship
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  Speaker 1: practiced daily for centuries.
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  Speaker 2: Two religions, one.
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  Speaker 1: Prohibition, both rooted in submission to God's word. And that
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  Speaker 1: brings us to the tension that confuses so many people.
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  Speaker 1: Christians follow the same God of Abraham. We read the
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  Speaker 1: same Old Testament that Jews read. We believe in the
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  Speaker 1: same prophets. We claim the same moral foundation. Yet we
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  Speaker 1: eat pork freely. We don't keep kosher. We don't follow halal.
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  Speaker 1: We grill bacon on Sunday morning before church and think
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  Speaker 1: nothing of it.
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  Speaker 2: So what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Did God contradict himself? Did Christians just decide to ignore
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  Speaker 1: the rules? Did we get it wrong? Or did everyone else?
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  Speaker 1: The answer is no to all of those questions. Something
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  Speaker 1: revolutionary happened in the New Testament that changed everything. And
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  Speaker 1: it happened in three specific moments. Jesus makes a declaration
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  Speaker 1: that shakes the foundation of Jewish law. It happens in
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  Speaker 1: Mark chapter 7. The Pharisees are confronting Jesus about his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't your followers wash their hands before eating? They're
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  Speaker 1: not talking about hygiene. They're talking about ceremonial purity. According
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  Speaker 1: to Jewish tradition, eating with unwashed hands makes you ceremonially unclean.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus responds by calling them out. You hypocrites, he says,
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  Speaker 1: you honor God with your lips, but your hearts are
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  Speaker 1: far from him. Then he turns to the crowd and says,
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  Speaker 1: something absolutely shocking. Nothing that enters a person from the
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  Speaker 1: outside can defile them. Nothing that enters from outside can
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  Speaker 1: make you unclean. His disciples are confused. They pull him
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  Speaker 1: aside later and ask what he meant. And Jesus explains...
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  Speaker 1: Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from
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  Speaker 1: the outside can defile them? It doesn't go into their heart,
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  Speaker 1: but into their stomach, and then out of the body.
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  Speaker 1: And then Mark adds this editorial comment. In saying this,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus declared all foods clean. All foods clean. That includes pork.
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  Speaker 1: That includes shellfish. That includes everything Leviticus 11 called unclean.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't a small statement. This was a direct challenge
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  Speaker 1: to 1,500 years of dietary law. But the disciples didn't
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  Speaker 1: fully understand yet. They were still Jews. They'd never eaten
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  Speaker 1: pork in their lives. It would take another revelation for
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  Speaker 1: the full weight of this to sink in. Peter has
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  Speaker 1: a vision that changes everything. This happens in Acts chapter 10.
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  Speaker 1: Peter is on a rooftop in Joppa.
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  Speaker 2: It's noon. He's hungry.
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  Speaker 1: He's praying. and suddenly he falls into a trance. He
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  Speaker 1: sees heaven open up, and a large sheet descends, held
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  Speaker 1: by its four corners. On this sheet are all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of animals, four-footed animals, reptiles, birds, and the voice of
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  Speaker 1: God speaks, Get up, Peter, kill and eat. Peter's response
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  Speaker 1: is immediate. Surely not, Lord, I have never eaten anything
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  Speaker 1: impure or unclean. Peter is a devout Jew. He's followed
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  Speaker 1: the dietary laws his entire life. The idea of eating
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  Speaker 1: unclean animals is repulsive to him. But God doesn't back down.
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  Speaker 1: The voice speaks again. Do not call anything impure that
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  Speaker 1: God has made clean. And this happens three times. Three
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  Speaker 1: times the sheep descends. Three times God commands Peter to eat.
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  Speaker 1: Three times Peter resists. Three times God corrects him. Why
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  Speaker 1: three times? Because God is making absolutely sure Peter gets
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  Speaker 1: the message. This is a fundamental shift in how God's
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  Speaker 1: people relate to the law. Now here's what's crucial. This
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  Speaker 1: vision wasn't just about food. Peter realizes this later when
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  Speaker 1: he's called to the home of Cornelius, a Roman centurion,
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  Speaker 1: a Gentile. Jews didn't enter Gentile homes. They didn't eat
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  Speaker 1: with Gentiles. Gentiles were considered unclean. But Peter understands now.
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  Speaker 1: God is tearing down the walls. The old categories of
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  Speaker 1: clean and unclean don't apply anymore. Not for food, not
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  Speaker 1: for people. The gospel is breaking out beyond Israel. The
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  Speaker 1: church makes it official. This happens at the Jerusalem Council
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  Speaker 1: in Acts chapter 15. The early church is facing its
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  Speaker 1: first major controversy. Gentiles are coming to faith in Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They're being baptized. They're joining the church. But some Jewish
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  Speaker 1: believers are saying, wait, they have to follow the law
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  Speaker 1: of Moses. They have to be circumcised. They have to
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  Speaker 1: keep kosher. Paul and Barnabas push back hard.
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  Speaker 2: No, they say.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen God save Gentiles by grace through faith with
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  Speaker 1: no law required. The debate gets heated. the apostles and
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  Speaker 1: elders gather in Jerusalem to settle the issue.
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  Speaker 2: Peter stands up and tells.
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  Speaker 1: Them about his vision, about how God gave the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to Gentiles just as he did to Jews. James,
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  Speaker 1: the brother of Jesus, quotes the prophets and declares that
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  Speaker 1: Gentiles don't need to follow Jewish law. And then they
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  Speaker 1: write a letter. Acts 15, verse 28. It seemed good
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  Speaker 1: to the Holy Spirit... and to us not to burden
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  Speaker 1: you with anything beyond these requirements. Abstain from food sacrificed
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  Speaker 1: to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals,
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  Speaker 1: and from sexual immorality. Notice what's not on the list. Pork, shellfish,
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  Speaker 1: any of the Leviticus 11 restrictions.
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  Speaker 2: They're gone.
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  Speaker 1: The few dietary guidelines they do give aren't theological. They're practical, cultural,
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  Speaker 1: In that time and place, eating blood or food offered
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  Speaker 1: to idols would offend Jewish believers and hinder the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: It was about sensitivity, not salvation. And Paul reinforces this
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  Speaker 1: freedom throughout his letters. Romans 14, verse 14. I am
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  Speaker 1: convinced that no food is unclean in itself. Colossians 2,
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  Speaker 1: verses 16 and 17. Do not let anyone 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 to come. The reality, however, is found
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. 1 Timothy 4, verses 3 through 5. They
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  Speaker 1: forbid people to abstain from certain foods, which God created
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  Speaker 1: to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and
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  Speaker 1: know the truth. For everything God created is good, and
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  Speaker 1: nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see what's happening here? The early church, led
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  Speaker 1: by the apostles who walked with Jesus, who were filled
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  Speaker 1: with the Holy Spirit, declared with one voice that the
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  Speaker 1: dietary laws of the Old Testament are no longer binding
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  Speaker 1: on Christians, not because those laws were bad, not because
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  Speaker 1: God made a mistake, but because something greater has come.
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  Speaker 1: The shadow has given way to the substance. The temporary
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  Speaker 1: has been fulfilled by the eternal. and His name is Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: So what does all of this mean? Why did God
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  Speaker 1: give dietary laws in the first place if He was
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  Speaker 1: just going to abolish them later? The answer is found
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  Speaker 1: in understanding the difference between the Old Covenant and the
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  Speaker 1: New Covenant. The law, including all those dietary restrictions, was
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  Speaker 1: never meant to be permanent.
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  Speaker 2: It was a shadow, pointing forward to something greater.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter 10 verse 1 says the law is only
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  Speaker 1: a shadow of the good things to come, not the
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  Speaker 1: realities themselves. Think about what shadows do. They give you
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  Speaker 1: the outline, the shape of something, but not the substance.
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  Speaker 1: The dietary laws were teaching Israel about holiness, about separation,
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  Speaker 1: about purity. But they were external markers of an internal reality.
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  Speaker 1: God wasn't ultimately concerned about whether you ate pork. He
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  Speaker 1: was concerned about the condition of your heart. Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: it plainly in Mark chapter 7. After explaining that food
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  Speaker 1: doesn't defile a person, he lists what does. What comes
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  Speaker 1: out of a person is what defiles them. For from within,
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  Speaker 1: out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, envy, slander, arrogance,
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  Speaker 1: and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile
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  Speaker 1: a person. That's the real issue. Not what goes into
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  Speaker 1: your stomach, but what comes out of your heart. The
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  Speaker 1: dietary laws were temporary markers for a specific people during
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  Speaker 1: a specific time. They were part of the Mosaic Covenant,
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  Speaker 1: the agreement God made with Israel at Sinai. But Jesus
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  Speaker 1: inaugurated a new covenant, prophesied in Jeremiah 31. This covenant
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  Speaker 1: isn't written on stone tablets. It's written on human hearts.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about external obedience to food laws. It's about
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  Speaker 1: internal transformation by the Holy Spirit. When Jesus said in
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  Speaker 1: Matthew 5, 17, I have not come to abolish the law,
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  Speaker 1: but to fulfill it. This is what he meant. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't destroy the law. He completed it. Every sacrifice pointed
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  Speaker 1: to his sacrifice. Every ritual cleansing pointed to his cleansing.
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  Speaker 1: Every dietary restriction pointed to the holiness he would provide.
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  Speaker 1: And once he fulfilled it, the shadow was no longer needed.
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  Speaker 1: The reality had arrived. Paul explains this in Colossians 2.
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  Speaker 1: The rules about food and drink, about religious festivals and Sabbaths,
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  Speaker 1: these are a shadow of the things that were to come.
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  Speaker 1: The reality, however, is found in Christ. Christ is the substance.
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  Speaker 1: Christ is the fulfillment. And in Him we have freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Not freedom to sin, but freedom from using external rules
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  Speaker 1: to achieve what only grace can accomplish. Holiness, righteousness, acceptance
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  Speaker 1: before God. Galatians 5 verse 1 puts it powerfully. It
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  Speaker 1: is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand
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  Speaker 1: firm then. And do not let yourselves be burdened again
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  Speaker 1: by a yoke of slavery. Going back to dietary laws,
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  Speaker 1: going back to trying to earn God's favor through external obedience,
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  Speaker 1: that's slavery. Christ offers freedom. But freedom doesn't mean carelessness.
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  Speaker 1: In Romans 14, Paul addresses the issue of food.
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  Speaker 2: Directly.
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  Speaker 1: He says some believers have stronger faith and eat anything.
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  Speaker 1: Others have weaker faith and only eat vegetables. And his instruction?
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  Speaker 1: Don't judge each other. Each person should be fully convinced
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  Speaker 1: in their own mind. And then he adds this crucial principle.
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  Speaker 1: If your brother or sister is distressed because of what
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  Speaker 1: you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do
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  Speaker 1: not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
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  Speaker 1: Your freedom is real, but it should always be exercised
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  Speaker 1: with wisdom, with love, with concern for others. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: Christians can eat pork. Yes, we have freedom in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: But that freedom is not a license for selfishness. It's
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for love. The mature believer understands that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the most loving thing to do is to limit your
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  Speaker 1: freedom for the sake of someone else's conscience, someone else's
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  Speaker 1: walk with God. So here's the clear answer to the
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  Speaker 1: question we started with. Why don't Jews and Muslims eat pork?
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  Speaker 1: But Christians do. Jews remain under the Mosaic Covenant. For them,
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  Speaker 1: the Torah is eternal, God's unchanging word given at Sinai.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping kosher is faithfulness to the covenant God made with Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Muslims follow the Quran's clear prohibition. Pork is haram, forbidden
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  Speaker 1: by Allah's command. For 1.8 billion Muslims, abstaining from pork
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  Speaker 1: is obedience to divine revelation, an act of worship that
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  Speaker 1: pleases God. Christians live under the new covenant. We believe
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  Speaker 1: Jesus fulfilled the law, that his death and resurrection were
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  Speaker 1: ushered in a new era of grace. The dietary restrictions
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  Speaker 1: of Leviticus were shadows pointing to Christ. And now that
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  Speaker 1: Christ has come, those shadows are no longer binding.
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  Speaker 2: We have freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Not because we're rejecting God's word, but because we're living
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  Speaker 1: in its fulfillment. This isn't a contradiction. It's not three
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  Speaker 1: religions serving different gods. It's three different understandings of how
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  Speaker 1: God has revealed himself, three different covenants, three different stages
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  Speaker 1: in the unfolding story of redemption. And for Christians, the
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  Speaker 1: story reaches its climax in Jesus. But here's the deeper
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  Speaker 1: revelation that ties everything together. It was never about the pig.
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  Speaker 1: It was never about the menu. It was always about
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  Speaker 1: the heart. God doesn't care what's on your plate. He
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  Speaker 1: cares what's in your soul. The question isn't what I
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  Speaker 1: can eat. The question is, am I clean before God?
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  Speaker 1: And the answer to that question has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with diet and everything to do with Jesus. His blood
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  Speaker 1: cleanses us from all sin. His righteousness covers us. His
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  Speaker 1: spirit transforms us from the inside out.
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  Speaker 2: That's the gospel. That's freedom. That's the new covenant.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why Christians can eat pork without guilt, without shame,
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  Speaker 1: without fear. Because we've been made clean, not by what
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  Speaker 1: we avoid, but by who we trust.
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  Speaker 2: And his name is Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: keep seeking truth and remember, It's always about the heart.