Als mijn God mij te eten geeft - rein vs onrein - Wilco Vos

Main Ideas / Concepts

• God’s design for “family” and rules

  • The world has many families, each with different “rules” across households and neighborhoods.
  • Likewise, there are many religions with differing doctrines and practices.
  • The speaker frames God’s people as a “household/family” under God’s own rules, meant to live according to God’s holiness.

• Entry into God’s family through Christ

  • The Bible (as God’s inspired Word) teaches:
    • who God is,
    • who humans are,
    • and how God desires humans to walk with Him.
  • Anyone who feels they do not belong to God’s household is urged to:
    • acknowledge their human insignificance before the Creator,
    • recognize sin as separation from God,
    • trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave His life so people can be brought into relationship with God.
  • Through faith, believers become children of God and therefore belong to one family/household.

• From a history of judgment to a new family

  • Earth begins as desolate/empty; God sets man there (Adam).
  • Adam sins; humanity multiplies and rebels.
  • Judgment comes (Noah’s story):
    • Noah finds favor.
    • Noah preserves animals in the ark using clean vs. unclean categories (two unclean; seven clean; one sacrifice).
  • After God delivers humanity, God later chooses a people:
    • Abraham leaves land/tribe/family; God establishes a new household.
    • Isaac → Jacob → the 12 sons → Israel (12 tribes).

• The real problem: hypocrisy/enmity and added man-made rules

  • God’s set-apart people are supposed to follow God’s holy rules.
  • The speaker claims they often fail and instead invent additional rules that create enmity with outsiders.
  • A key point is that “wall-building” between groups (Jew/Gentile) was not God’s final plan.

• Ephesians 2: Jew and Gentile become one household

  • The speaker quotes/reads Ephesians 2:11–22 to argue:
    • Gentiles were once “without Christ,” alienated from Israel’s covenants, without hope, and “without God in the world.”
    • Through Christ’s blood, Gentiles are brought near.
    • Christ is peace: He breaks down separation (symbolized by a temple wall and hostility).
    • Christ “abolishes” the enmity in His flesh and reconciles both Jew and Gentile to God in one body.
    • Result: believers are no longer strangers but fellow citizens and members of God’s household, built on apostles/prophets with Christ as cornerstone.

• Jesus and “law”: obedience rather than abolishing

  • The speaker stresses that Jesus:
    • did not come to abolish God’s law,
    • but to fulfill it.
  • The conflict described is not “law vs. no law,” but human by-laws and human-added commandments elevated above God’s instructions.

• Sanctification: holiness as a requirement

  • The speaker repeatedly connects salvation with a call to holy/separated living.
  • Themes across multiple letters include:
    • believers must shift from serving uncleanness to serving righteousness,
    • repentance and holiness matter (not merely verbal confession),
    • sanctification involves:
      • renewed thinking and desires,
      • replacing fear with love/strength/sound judgment.
  • Related texts/themes mentioned:
    • Hebrews: without sanctification no one sees God,
    • 1 Peter: readers should become holy because God is holy,
    • 1 Timothy / end-time warning: some may fall away by doctrines that divert from truth.

• “Be holy, for I am holy”: authority from Scripture

  • The speaker emphasizes Peter’s authority as coming from Scripture.
  • The message is framed as:
    • don’t conform to former lusts/ignorance,
    • become holy,
    • because God commands holiness (“Be holy, for I am holy”).

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Methodology / Instruction-Style Content

A) How to understand belonging to God’s family (faith and submission)

• Acknowledge you are separated from God due to sin.
• Bow and acknowledge the Creator in heaven.
• Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ:
  • recognize His sacrificial death (“His life given so we might live”),
  • receive faith/relationship with God,
  • accept that this faith makes you a child of God and part of God’s household.

B) How believers should live (sanctification and obedience)

• Direct bodily members/abilities away from serving uncleanness and unrighteousness.
• Reassign members to serve righteousness for sanctification.
• Practice daily holiness as “set apart for God”:
  • reject impurity, greed, lusts, and sin,
  • avoid the “spirit of fearfulness,” and instead walk in love and sound judgment.
• Treat rejection of holiness as rejection of God (not merely rejection of a person).
• Follow Jesus as obedient children:
  • do not conform to former desires,
  • seek God’s will (“not my will, but yours be done,” as referenced).
• Study Scripture to become more familiar with God’s commands and authority.
• Pray for guidance and for the Holy Spirit to:
  • speak and help listening,
  • cause the seed of God’s Word to bear fruit.

C) Dietary / ritual holiness taught from Old Testament categories (as described)

• Use God’s distinctions between clean and unclean animals (presented as commanded “from creation” and taught to Noah/Israel).
• Do not defile yourself:
  • abstain from “abominations,”
  • avoid carcasses/creeping things/unclean birds/animals God did not appoint for food.
• Link purity/uncleanness to blood/life:
  • blood is associated with life,
  • consuming certain blood/carcass conditions is described as making a person unclean.
• Examples given by the speaker:
  • if an animal dies (e.g., in a flock), it is not to be eaten by God’s people during the time described,
  • sickness/disease is implied as a consequence of eating what God did not appoint.

D) Scriptural interpretation approach the speaker advocates

• Jesus is presented as fulfilling the law, not nullifying it.
• The speaker argues that claims such as “New Testament removed food laws” are mistaken.
• When addressing Mark 7 (food defilement), the speaker asserts:
  • uncleanness comes from the heart,
  • but this does not negate God’s holiness commands about food.
• The speaker uses Acts 10 (Peter’s vision) while claiming Peter’s understanding aligns with God’s holiness purposes rather than reversing dietary holiness.
• Implied principles:
  • don’t add to or remove from Scripture,
  • reject teachings that impose rules through “doctrines of demons,”
  • reject the idea that God’s commands are “tormenting.”

E) Contrast: holiness vs. legalism / freedom

• The speaker warns against both extremes:
  • legalism (“legalistic trappings”) that torments,
  • freedom “according to the flesh” that discards holiness.
• “Real freedom” is framed as serving the God of Abraham/Isaac/Jacob in obedience and holiness.

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Overall Lesson / Takeaway

• God forms one family/household by faith in Christ (reconciling Jew and Gentile).
• True membership includes sanctification and obedience—living set apart because God is holy.
• Holiness includes distinctions like “clean vs. unclean” and avoiding “abominations,” taught through Scripture (Leviticus/Deuteronomy) and upheld as fulfilled rather than abolished through Christ (per the speaker’s interpretation).

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Speakers / Sources Featured (as Named in the Subtitles)

Speaker(s)

• Wilco Vos (implied from the video title)

Bible / Religious Sources

• The Bible / Scripture (general)
• Ephesians (chapter 2)
• 1 Peter (chapter 2)
• Romans (chapter 6)
• 2 Corinthians (chapter 12) (referenced as quoted content)
• Hebrews (referenced)
• Ephesians (chapter 5) (referenced)
• 1 Thessalonians (chapter 4)
• 1 Timothy (chapter 4) (and also a brief quote of 1 Timothy 4: “Spirit clearly says…”)
• Leviticus (chapters 11 and 19; also general Leviticus themes)
• Deuteronomy (chapters 5 and 14)
• Acts (chapter 15 and chapter 10; Acts 15 referenced; Acts 10 referenced via Peter’s vision)
• Mark (chapter 7)
• Isaiah (chapter 65) (referenced)
• Revelation (mentioned in the context of not adding/removing and general authority)
• Noah
• Adam
• Abraham
• Isaac
• Jacob / Israel
• Peter (apostle; as quoted in Acts / referenced)
• Paul (apostle; as quoted in Romans/Ephesians/1 Thessalonians/etc.)
• Jesus Christ / Lord Jesus Christ
• Philo (Philo of Alexandria; referenced historically)
• Daniel (referenced historically)
• David (referenced historically)
• Elijah (referenced at the end)

Other Non-Biblical Text / Figure References

• Egyptians / “doctors” / researchers (mentioned generally; no specific named researchers)