Acts 15:28-31
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell. 30 So when they were sent off, they came to Antioch; and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter. 31 When they had read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement.
We are not burdened with the Law as a way to earn God's acceptance, but it is now written on our hearts by His Spirit to motivate our desires as His own. Certain things of course we do not do; there is no lawlessness, but lawfulness in rightful and willing obedience. Therefore the church and its leaders gave good counsel and brought encouraging joy to the hearers of the letter. So God's Spirit moves us to minister to the house of God as He did here.
Our desire must be to find His words and devour them, making them give joy and rejoicing in being His (Jer.15:16).
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