🚶‍♀️ Walking Through The Word™ Project 2025

📅 July 01, 2025 – Acts 10:1–23

🪶 “DON’T DABBLE WITH THE DETAILS”

God gives Cornelius specific directions:

Send men to get Simon Peter, who is staying with Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.

Let’s back up a bit …

Before God gives Cornelius directions. He also gave Peter instructions.

Peter was told to stay with Simon the tanner.

📜 Then God shows Peter a vision — not once, but THREE TIMES — and tells him:

👉 “Don’t call unclean what I have made clean.”

⏳ At that same moment, Three men show up at the tanner’s house asking for Peter.

Peter is told by the Spirit to go with them — because GOD sent them.

Why Does God tell Peter to go? Let’s break this down a little further.

Peter is still contemplating his vision of seeing Three blankets come down from heaven, full of clean and unclean animals.

God says: “EAT.”

Peter nearly rebukes Him: “I’ve never eaten anything unclean.”

God says: “What I SAY is clean, IS clean. Don’t argue.”

And then — boom — three “unclean” men show up.

Yes the Gentile men coming for him, a Jew, were unclean. However God was showing Peter in the vision that all three men He now called clean.

Instead of rebuking the men, he invites them in, lets them stay the night, and he leaves with them the next morning.

🧭 THESE WERE THE INSTRUCTIONS:

Stay with Simon the tanner.

Not Simon the blacksmith.

Not Simon the fisherman.

SIMON. THE. TANNER

Next…

The Gentiles were told go to the Simon the tanner’s house.

Ask for Simon the one they also call Peter.

And Last,

Peter GO with them.

📣 THIS WAS HUGE.

Jews didn’t eat with Gentiles — let alone travel with them or invite them into their homes.

God was setting the stage for people like YOU and ME to eventually be included in God’s plan for salvation.

🌪️ BUT WHAT IF…

Peter had said,

“Yeah, no thanks. I think I’ll go stay with Simon the fisherman instead. That just makes more sense to me.”

The three men show up at the Simon the tanner’s house and… well, there’s only one Simon. So it must be him.

They convince this Simon to go back with them to Caesarea.

He thinks he’s off to teach a leather-working workshop.

The servants of Cornelius are super confused, but just go with the plan.

A couple of days later, the men arrive with Simon the tanner at the home of Cornelius.

Now Cornelius is confused, “…wait, what?” Is this even related to what I was praying? He assumes everything is going as planned.

The next day Simon ends up giving a full-on TED Talk about hide-stretching techniques.

Cornelius starts a Vocational school and they name it:

👜 HOLY HIDES™ – “Leatherwork with Legacy.”

🏛️ Caesarea becomes famous for its handcrafted goods.

Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit is standing outside, like: “Uhh… this is not what I had in mind.”😳

This is where a previous pastor would say, “ARE YOU WITH ME NOW?”

And I’d be sitting there thinking:

“Umm… actually no. What are you even talking about?”

And that’s the point. If you’re confused — GOOD.

That’s what I WANT you to feel right now.

Because …

🚫 ONE DETOUR from God’s instructions…

🚫 ONE “I think I know better”…

…and suddenly the whole mission turns into something completely different. In this case, from discipleship to craftsmanship.

📌 If God has told you to do something specific —

➡️Even if it doesn’t make sense.

➡️Even if no one has done it before.

➡️Even if it breaks religious tradition…

✨It’s probably Him.✨

✅ DON’T DABBLE WITH THE DETAILS.

✅ Follow His instructions closely.

✅ Don’t circle back and say, “Well, God said this, but I figured I’d do that instead.”

You could end up leading people down a path they were never meant to travel.

Remember to always:

📝 Follow God’s instructions.

🎯 Stay on God’s Path.

🙏 Trust Him on the journey.