Seeing With Love

People are a product of Gods Design

Colossians 1:16 CSB

16 For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities— all things have been created through him and for him.

Genesis 1:26–27 CSB

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.

God created people in His image for His good pleasure

There is a unity in being made, all in the image of the father

Genesis 11:1–9 CSB

1 The whole earth had the same language and vocabulary. 2 As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.) 4 And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.” 5 Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building. 6 The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore it is called Babylon, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.

God established every nationality and ethnicity for His good purpose.

… We continue to see this is Acts as it says in

Acts 17:26–27 CSB

26 From one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live. 27 He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

Different cultures understand the world in unique ways, and God uses this to show just how immeasurable and grand he is.

God is so unique that there is only one way to Him, Jesus, yet he is so vast that He made assorted cultures that could understand the depth of who he is in different ways

God Loves the People He Designed

John 3:16–17 CSB

16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

God’s plan is to save the people He designed.

Genesis 28:14 CSB

14 Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Romans 5:8 CSB

8 But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

So we know, God intends for all of Human Kind to come to know him and be saved.

We know that we, as his children, should be the ones that bless the world and lead others to know him!

God’s plan is extended to all people

Genesis 28:14 CSB

14 Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

John 3:16 CSB

16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Galatians 3:27–29 CSB

27 For those of you who were baptized into Christ have been clothed with Christ. 28 There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise.

we are all one! We are all heirs, his children! If that’s so, why is there fighting? why is there discrimination?

We Should Love All of the People God Created

John 13:34–35 CSB

34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Mark 12:30–31 CSB

30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. 31 The second is, Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.”

1 John 4:11 CSB

11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

If God loves everyone, than as His Children, so should we.

If God Loves everyone, So Should we.

Just because

youre in sports

top of your class

a certain ethnicity

a certain age

have been a christian for a long time

or have been a christian for a short time

youre tall

youre athletic

youre intelligent

you go to a christian school

you go to church every week

you dont do either

none of these things make you more or less valuable than anyone else

They may be awesome! But your value is found in the one who made you

just like he made us into different people groups and cultures, he made us with different skills, talents, desires, and convictions all to give the world a better idea at the depth of who He is.

If God Loves Everyone, So Should You.

If you dont have a relationship with Jesus, know that He loves you

even if you hate him

even if you rejected him

even if you feel like he’s turned his back to you, he loves you

You can know him, and have a relationship that leads to redemption, and peace.