TRUE LOVE (8)
Series: James
Stephen Whitney
James 2:8-13
Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors, but Mahatma Gandhi ended British rule over his native India in 1947 without striking a single blow. A frail man, he devoted his life to peace and brotherhood in order to achieve social progress and independence for India.
In his autobiography he wrote that while he was a student he read the Gospels seriously and considered converting to Christianity. He believed that in the teaching of Jesus he could find the solution to the cast system that divided the people of India.
The cast system was a hereditary division in society based on religion family, wealth, and occupation. Whatever caste you were born in was what you had to stay in for the rest of your life. There was no chance that you could ever change or better yourself.
One Sunday Gandhi decided to attend a service at a nearby church and talk to the pastor about becoming a Christian. When he entered the sanctuary, however, the usher refused to give him a seat and suggested that he go and worship with his own people.
Gandhi left the church and never returned. He said, "If Christians have cast differences also, I might as well remain a Hindu."
Prejudice distorts what it sees because it is blinded to the truth, deceives when it talks because it does not speak the truth and destroys others because it doesn't see people for who they are.
When we judge others because of the color of their skin, their nationality, the way they dress, the job they have or the activities they do, we are wrong. James says that it is sin.
God is impartial and loves everyone because he created them.
John 3:16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish . . .
FAVORITISM IS SIN :8-9
Love :8
Really (KJB leaves it out) - Gk. is emphatic meaning indeed.
Royal law - literally what pertains to the king meaning t ...
Series: James
Stephen Whitney
James 2:8-13
Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors, but Mahatma Gandhi ended British rule over his native India in 1947 without striking a single blow. A frail man, he devoted his life to peace and brotherhood in order to achieve social progress and independence for India.
In his autobiography he wrote that while he was a student he read the Gospels seriously and considered converting to Christianity. He believed that in the teaching of Jesus he could find the solution to the cast system that divided the people of India.
The cast system was a hereditary division in society based on religion family, wealth, and occupation. Whatever caste you were born in was what you had to stay in for the rest of your life. There was no chance that you could ever change or better yourself.
One Sunday Gandhi decided to attend a service at a nearby church and talk to the pastor about becoming a Christian. When he entered the sanctuary, however, the usher refused to give him a seat and suggested that he go and worship with his own people.
Gandhi left the church and never returned. He said, "If Christians have cast differences also, I might as well remain a Hindu."
Prejudice distorts what it sees because it is blinded to the truth, deceives when it talks because it does not speak the truth and destroys others because it doesn't see people for who they are.
When we judge others because of the color of their skin, their nationality, the way they dress, the job they have or the activities they do, we are wrong. James says that it is sin.
God is impartial and loves everyone because he created them.
John 3:16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish . . .
FAVORITISM IS SIN :8-9
Love :8
Really (KJB leaves it out) - Gk. is emphatic meaning indeed.
Royal law - literally what pertains to the king meaning t ...
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