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"Then I heard a voice: 'Go to it, Peter - kill and eat.'
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I said, 'Oh, no, Master. I've never so much as tasted food that wasn't kosher.'
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The voice spoke again: 'If God says it's okay, it's okay.'
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This happened three times, and then the blanket was pulled back up into the sky.
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"Just then three men showed up at the house where I was staying, sent from Caesarea to get me.
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The Spirit told me to go with them, no questions asked. So I went with them, I and six friends, to the man who had sent for me.
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He told us how he had seen an angel right in his own house, real as his next-door neighbor, saying, 'Send to Joppa and get Simon, the one they call Peter.
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He'll tell you something that will save your life - in fact, you and everyone you care for.'
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"So I started in, talking. Before I'd spoken half a dozen sentences, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us the first time.
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I remembered Jesus' words: 'John baptized with water; you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
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So I ask you: If God gave the same exact gift to them as to us when we believed in the Master Jesus Christ, how could I object to God?"