INTRODUTION
Whose eyes are you looking at people threw?
When we look at people do we see them the way the Lord
Sees them?
O r do we think we already have it figured out?
1 COR 6:9-11
“ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
Main-point 1. There’s know difference in sin.
A. Sin is sin to God (drunkard or the greedy)
1 Cor 6:11
“And that is what some of you were. But you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God”.
B. ( We like to categorize sin) ex-husband, porn
John 8:34
“Jesus replied,” I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin’.
He didn’t say everyone who’s a drunkard is a slave to sin He said everyone who sins is a slave to sin. So sin is sin.
We tend to categorize sin because that sin hurt us. Or offends us all sin offends God but he still loves us.
C. We need to realize we have all sinned.
Romans 3:22-23
“There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”
Acts 10:34
“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, of the truth I perceive
That God is no respecter of persons,
We let peoples sin keep us from ministering to them we can’t do that they need the Lord as much as we do.
Main-point 2. Learning to build bridges.
A. By finding common ground.
We need to meet people ware there at. That’s why in class we studded different demotions and cults.
1 Cor 9:22
“To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.”
B. Loving them
That’s a commandment.
Mark 12:31
“The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these”.
That’s the most thing that people need because there is such a lack of it. Is to be loved and know they madder that will knock down so many walls. To know they are here for a reason not by chance.
C. Sharing Christ with them.
We can do this by being example. Not just talking the talk but walking the walk. Lost people are looking for real people who are who they say they are.
1 John 3:16-18
“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and truth”.
Main-point 3. Where here for 3 reasons
A. To get saved
1 Tim 2:4
“Who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of truth.”
B. Prepare are self’s
By reading the word getting to know God learning his ways.
Romans 12:12
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will”.
C. Make disciples (getting people saved)
Matt 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”.
We are only hear for a short time we need to spend less time trying to figure ever one out why there this way or this is so wrong that I can’t even acknowledge them and realize that God loves them just as much as he loves us the only difference is they don’t have him. And all these other things will not change untill they have Christ.
It’s our job to love them like Christ loves us even when we were sinning and give them the word even if we don’t think it will madder. God knows there heart and we need to be obedient to the Lord.
