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Racial prejudice ran deep in the early church. It was even in the hearts of the apostles! Today we have made some progress, but there is still a long way to go. As believers we are to totally eliminate favoritism and prejudice.

Peter said, "Now I really understand that God doesn't show favoritism, but in every nation the person who fears Him and does righteousness is acceptable to Him." Even Peter needed God to open his eyes to his own sin of favoritism and prejudice! And you know who Peter thought was dirty, unclean and unable to be saved? ME! And most likely, YOU!

How does that make you feel? Peter needed a miracle to see God's love for ALL people! We are the ones represented by Cornelius. We were the ones who Peter would have thought himself better than. We were the ones who Peter thought were beyond the saving grace of God!

Don't allow prejudice to live in our hearts. Jesus came to destroy such thinking!