Sermon Illustrations

Let me tell you, please: I don’t understand God’s procedure. I mean, God called a nation, Israel. AND GOD GAVE TO THEM LAWS AND RESTRICTIONS… A very restraining life-style, requirements and commandments, tens and hundreds… Take a look in Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy…

But after that, the same God come and said: I AM NOT INTERESTED ANYMORE IN THOSE LAWS AND CEREMONIES: LET PEOPLE COME AS THEY ARE.

- “But Lord, they are Gentiles” they must to be circumcised, they must to keep all the Laws of Moses, the have beards, to feast, to…”

- “No, said God, let them come as they are: Greeks, and Romans, and Barbarians… As they are, no special requirements”…

And the Jews were shocked: How is possible to such unclean people to enter the Kingdom? No wonder how they fight against Paul, the Jews converted to Christianity… They wanted to make the Gentiles embrace all the Jews laws and lifestyle first, and after that, only after that, being baptized and considered as their brothers and sisters… But Paul said NO, God is not interested anymore in such laws and restrictions…

Is God inconsistent? 1500 years of restrictions and now no restriction at all?