“Additional Revelation"
Acts 10:24-48

Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.” – Acts 10:34-35

Additional revelation is always a good thing, and how necessary it is for feeble minds like ours. Ours is fallible, His infallible. And that is the challenge, the Infallible helping the fallible understand. It must come by revelation, because education doesn’t cut it, the world’s tutelage cannot get us there. “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” [1 Cor 3:19]

And that is where we see Peter’s perception come into play, “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.”  And I think, until then, Peter thought partiality, the Jew over the Gentile. Because in that day Jews were not to associate with Gentiles, they were deemed “unclean.”  But you can read between the lines here, it did not sit right with Peter, “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.”  

So, how was that reconciled? It was reconciled through additional revelation.

Oftentimes we are only working with partial revelation and need to wait for additional revelation. We do not know the full answer as to “why” and therefore must wait for confirmation. And that is what Peter received in the vision of the sheet let down from heaven [ref. Acts 10:9-16].

Our passage this morning is a lesson on waiting for further revelation. It is an example of responding to God’s revelation rather than our own learnedness. Revelation trumps education all the time because it is wisdom and understanding from God.

“For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.“ [1 Cor 1:26-29]