Antioch heard the letter and rejoiced. The chapter that opened in dissension closes with prophets strengthening brethren and the word of the Lord still moving.

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The council's answer traveled to Antioch as a letter, and one sentence in it outweighs the whole list: it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us.

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James pastored the most law-keeping city on earth, and everyone expected him to defend the old requirement. He answered with a prophet instead.

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When the Jerusalem council stalled in dispute, Peter stood and told what he watched God do in a Roman house. His last sentence turned the question around.

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Stoning, prison, and the sword had not slowed the church. An argument between believers came closer, and what Antioch did with it still instructs.

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The gospel that reached an enemy's living room was sent to every creature on earth. Take the word everyone and refuse to shrink it.

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Peter never finished his sermon. The Holy Ghost fell on a Roman household with the same sign as Pentecost, and the believers who came with him were astonished before they were glad.

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The wall between Jew and Gentile did not fall because Cornelius changed. It fell because Peter finally saw what God had said since Abraham.

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God did not argue Peter out of his old categories. He stated the new instruction and stated it again, until Peter moved.

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Cornelius was praying long before anyone preached to him, and heaven had already kept every word. The outsider you wrote off may be closer to God than you are.

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