LESSON
66
THE COUNCIL AT JERUSALEM PART 3
Acts 15:13-20 New Living Translation (NLT)
13 When they had finished, James stood and said, “Brothers, listen to me. 14 Peter[a] has told you about the time God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for himself. 15 And this conversion of Gentiles is exactly what the prophets predicted. As it is written: 16 ‘Afterward I will return and restore the fallen house[b] of David. I will rebuild its ruins and restore it, so that the rest of humanity might seek the Lord, including the Gentiles— all those I have called to be mine. The Lord has spoken— 18 he who made these things known so long ago.’[c]19 “And so my judgment is that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from eating food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from eating the meat of strangled animals, and from consuming blood.
- JAMES ADVICE V. 13-18
- EXACTLY AS PREDICTED V. 15
- JAMES JUDGMENT V.19-20
- DO NOT: EAT FOOD OFFERED TO IDOLS
- DO NOT: ENGAGE IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY
- DO NOT: EAT MEAT FROM STRANGLED ANIMALS
- DO NOT: CONSUME BLOOD
THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF MEN’S RULES OF CONDUCT FOR CHRISTIANS
