Clean

October 12, 2025

What happens when God erases the line between clean and unclean? In Acts 10, Peter’s encounter with Cornelius reveals that Jesus came to make every heart clean and every life new.

In this powerful message, we witness a turning point in the story of the Church. Peter, once a man eager for recognition, now stands humbled by the Holy Spirit’s work as God reveals a truth long promised: the gospel is for all people. When Peter enters the home of the Gentile Cornelius, he learns that God shows no favoritism—what He has made clean, no one should call unclean.

Through stories from Scripture and real life, this sermon explores how Jesus fulfills the ancient call to make the unclean clean. From the Old Testament laws of purity to the touch of Christ healing the untouchable, we see how God’s cleansing grace moves from ritual to relationship. Sanctification, like Peter’s transformation, is a lifelong process of being washed by the Spirit and made new in Christ.