We know that God demonstrated His great love for us by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to the earth to die on the Cross for our sins. We have all sinned and we have all fallen short of the glory of God. God sent Jesus on a rescue mission to save sinners such as you and I. God pursues us through the Holy Spirit to draw us to Himself. God doesn't want anyone to perish and spend eternity in a literal hell away from the presence of God. He wants us all to come to Him by placing our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus.
God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day to show us that He is indeed God. Jesus is at the right hand of God and one day He will return as the King of kings and the Lord of lords. God didn't leave us believers to fend for ourselves until Jesus returns, but He gives the Holy Spirit to indwell everyone that has placed their faith in Jesus Christ and have received Him as their Lord and Savior. We must repent of our sins and place our faith in Jesus Christ.
We show our love for the Lord by obeying what He says in His Holy Word, the Bible. None of us are perfect and we still have the fleshly sinful nature in us that rears up at times. When we do sin we must confess our sin to Him and we know that He is faithful and just and He will forgive us our sin (I John 1:9)
When we come to faith in Christ Jesus we are saved. We also have a mission and marching orders. We are to tells others about Jesus and His love for them. People are important to God. We may look down on others especially when they are different that us. God created mankind in His image. We are God's handiwork even the very least of us and we are special in God's eyes.
Everyone we meet in our daily lives is loved by the Creator of all things seen and unseen. It is our job as believers in Jesus Christ to tell them and lead them into a relationship with the true living God. If we don't tell them about Jesus, who will? When we tell others about Jesus and His love for them we are showing our love for Jesus and to them.
God is an Awesome God and He loves each one of us more than we can imagine and more than we definitely deserve. I am reminded of a story that Jesus told about a lost sheep. We can read about that in Luke 15:1-7 which says,
1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.
2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 Then Jesus told them this parable:
4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders
6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
The Pharisees were grumbling under their breath that Jesus was welcoming and eating with sinners. They weren't very loving towards those they looked down upon. Sometimes we can run into the same trap if we are not careful. There maybe people that come to our minds that we can't imagine that God would even possibly love them, but He does and loved them so much that He sent Jesus for them as well.
God cares about people even those we consider the least. The Church needs to awaken from it's sleep and reach out to the lost with the love of Jesus Christ and proclaim the Gospel of Christ to all people. We believers in Jesus Christ need a new boldness, but not one that is of the bully type. We need a boldness through the empowering of the Holy Spirit to tell others what God has done for them through Jesus Christ.
When the Church fails to be the Church we all lose and that goes especially for the lost who need to hear the Gospel and be saved. Their is only one name under heaven in which people need to be saved by and that is the name of Jesus Christ. If we believers in Jesus Christ don't tell them, who will?
We must stand up for the Lord Jesus Christ and we must stand firmly upon the Holy Word of God and be empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit and proclaim the truth to all people in hopes that they too will come to faith in Jesus Christ.
Lord,
Sometimes we look down on other people and we know we shouldn't.
Help us to love those around us and pray that their eyes and hearts will be opened to Your love for them.
Help us to love You more and help us to love others.
Empower us through the Holy Spirit to speak the truth of the Gospel with boldness.
We praise Your Holy Name.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen
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