See Like Jesus See Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:16-21)
Gary McManus, 06/21/2020Part of the New Life series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
June 21, 2020 (Father’s Day) 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
A blessed Father’s Day this Father’s Day to all dads. -- you are the first Fathers ever to celebrate Father’s Day during a world-wide Pandemic.
Father’s Day inspiration: William Jackson Smart
(Civil War Veteran)
Pandemic: Pastor’s conclusion. . .
Pastor’s Professor, W. D. Davies, on 2 Corinthians 5:16. . .
Paul, in his congregations, had to deal with teachers who believe that they are SUPERIOR to the Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 9:2, 2 Corinthians 11:5).
CEV: We are careful not to judge people by what they
seem to be, though we once judged Christ in that way.
Followers of Jesus: see people the Jesus way.
Prejudice is basically any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
Jesus NEVER judged people by what they seemed to be.
Pastor noticed in the Bible:
Jesus did not refer to people by their illness except! . . . to describe their change of status.
(See Matthew 15:4)
Jesus always saw people as people, not categories.
True or not?
Matthew 11:28: “Come to me ALL. . .”
TIGERS can’t change their stripes. . .but
WE ARE NOT TIGERS.
“You can’t make a silk purse out of sow’s ear.”
. . .but God can.
. . .or make people/Israelites out of rocks. . .Matthew 3:9.
Jesus made a tax collector into a disciple!
Jesus saw Matthew as a disciple of Jesus and
that is exactly what Jesus turned Matthew into.
2 Corinthians 5:16:
we regard no one from a human point of view. . .
A real person we all know person who began
to take on the eyes of Jesus. . .Mother Teresa
of Calcutta.
She ministered to “the poorest of the poor.”
How could she do that? Her scriptures were Jesus’
story in Matthew’s gospel book (sheep and goats),
Matthew 25.
Teresa’s words: It is not enough for us to say:
I love God, but I do not love my neighbor.
St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God
and you don’t love your neighbor.
Mother Teresa tried to teach all of those in her
order that they are to look to see Jesus as the person that they are helping—have eyes to see. . .
not with the brain but with the heart.
‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the
least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’
Amen.
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