"We consider other people as if they don't have God, but the reality is that they have God but they just don't know it. God said to His word that What He cleansed we must not call common.
Acts 10:15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call it common!"
Common
Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.
- We must remember that God is God of all
- We must remember that we're now, because under grace and not by law
Some of us think that God only exist on our side.
In John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes on Him shall not perish, but has everlasting life." Also in Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we we're sinners, Christ died for us."
These two passages are just few example that Christ died for us all because of the Father. That's why Paul said in the book of Romans 12:14 "Bless those who persecute you; bless and not curse" and in verse 20 and 21, "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head. Do not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
Matthew 5:44 "But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you."
But it doesn't mean that they're save becase in Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace we have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." That's why we are here to give them that kind of faith, in 2 Timothy 1:9 "He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began."
God has purpose in people's attitudes for us
- God use their attitudes to understand them.
- God use their attitudes to stretch our patience. (just like Stephen)
- God use their attitudes to challenge us. (just like Paul)
- God use their attitudes to display His power. (just like Pharaoh)
- God use their attitudes to so that we can learn to love them. (just like Jesus)
How to win them?
- Know their reasons
- Understand them (understand not tolerate)
- Make friends with them, start to share and inspire
- Pray for them
- Pray for yourself



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