Tattoos might be a permanent mistake. But your love for tattoos is not permanent.
To the Pharisees, I am not saying tattoos are acceptable. I am saying that what God made clean is clean indeed. I have no tattoos but just because I don’t have any tattoos doesn’t make me better than you who have tattoos.
What a person once was they are not. This means that what God has made clean is clean indeed. For we all have sinned – Past tense and fall short of the glory of God.
Now that we should be born again old life is not present anymore. New life in Christ is now present in us.
This is an allegory. What if God tells me, Trey fellowship with people with tattoos all over their faces?
What should I say no Lord it is forbidden they are unclean to fellowship with.
What if God says Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.
Do you not understand what I am trying to say here Pharisees or church pew warmers,
What a person once was they are not. Meaning what God has made clean is clean indeed. Who are you to deny the love of Christ to anyone? Some would say I can’t be seen with someone or talk to anyone who has tattoos all over their body. Know that a person has changed. Their sin may be visible but your sin was invisible.
The same way you deny them, God can deny you. It is written in Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
To the Pharisees, I am not saying tattoos are acceptable. What I am saying is this, what God made clean is clean indeed.
Whatever Church denomination that you belong to. Whatever organization that you belong to if it is Seven Day Adventist, if you are Jehovah's Witness, if you are Mormon if you are Pentecostal, if you are Evangelical, whatever you say you belong to. If you can’t fellowship and be seen with someone who has tattoos all over their body, then how can we belong to Christ? Let’s take a look at Acts 10
Acts 10: 9-23
Peter’s Vision
9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
17 While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon’s house was and stopped at the gate. 18 They called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter was staying there.
19 While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Simon, three[a] men are looking for you. 20 So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.”
21 Peter went down and said to the men, “I’m the one you’re looking for. Why have you come?”
22 The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.” 23 Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests.
Acts 10: 24-43 Says Peter at Cornelius’s House
The next day Peter started out with them, and some of the believers from Joppa went along. 24 The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. 25 As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. 26 But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”
27 While talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. 28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. 29 So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?”
30 Cornelius answered: “Three days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me 31 and said, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor. 32 Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.’ 33 So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.”
34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. 36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. 37 You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached— 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil because God was with him.
39 “We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, 40 but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. 41 He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
To the Pharisees, I am not saying tattoos are acceptable. I am saying that what God made clean is clean indeed.
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