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March 22, 2026 – lesson 12

PUTTING AN END TO PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

Printed Passage:  Acts 10:9-15, 30-35; Galatians 3:28-29

Key Verse: There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.  (Galatians 3:28, NRSVue)

Think About It:
In what ways do prejudice and discrimination hinder people, especially believers, from enjoying the blessings of God?

Printed Passage:  Acts 10:9-15, 30-35; Galatians 3:28-29
Acts 10:9-15
⁹ About noon the next 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 it was being prepared he fell into a trance. 
¹¹ He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners. 
¹² In it were all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air. 
¹³ Then he heard a voice saying, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat.” 
¹⁴ But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean.” 
¹⁵ The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”

Acts 10:30-35
³⁰ Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock, I was praying in my house when suddenly a man in dazzling clothes stood before me. 
³¹ He said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms have been remembered before God. 
³² Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon, who is called Peter; he is staying in the home of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’ 
³³ Therefore I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. So now all of us are here in the presence of God to listen to all that the Lord has commanded you to say.”

Gentiles Hear the Good News
³⁴ Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, 
³⁵ but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness is acceptable to him.

Devotional Reading for March 23-29, 2026:
MONDAY:  A Kingdom Not of This World – John 18:28-38
TUESDAY:  The Lord’s Peace – Number 6:22-26
WEDNESDAY:  God Is Exalted among the Nations – Psalm 46
THURSDAY:  God Guides the Destiny  of Nations – Amos 9:7-12
FRIDAY: Glory and Honor of the Nations – Revelation 21:21-27
SATURDAY: The Nations Shall Gather to God – Isaiah 2:1-5
SUNDAY:  All Peoples Are Kin – Acts 17:22-28