This message is about bringing people to Christ through prayers of thanks, for Luke 23:26-34 explains how Jesus dying on the cross, asked Father God to forgive His doubters, for they did not know what they were doing, meaning they did not know or understand this was part of God’s plan, purpose, and timing, for Jesus to fully pay humanity’s sin debt, and resurrect as Christ, humanity’s Messiah, King of kings, and Lord of lords, but we know this for the Holy Spirit has revealed it to us from the Scriptures.
Therefore, I am saying, “Never reject people who are hard to deal with, for even though we may not be able to pray them into a humble, submissive life in Christ; we can love them and by our praise and thanks, the Lord can humbly and submissively bring them into a loving relationship with Him.
We learn this from four very important passages of New Testament Scriptures that are commands and not suggestive information: Ephesians 5:15-21, Colossians 3:12-17, 1 Thessalonians 5:14-22, and 1 John 3:16-23.
God commands His children to love Him and those He created; to forgive those He created, for when Jesus was on the cross, He asked Father God to forgive, because people do not understand God’s ways, plan, purpose, and timing; therefore, we must allow the Holy Spirit to intercede for their salvation through our love, forgiveness, and prayerful thanks to God, in the name of the Lord Jesus, the resurrected Christ.
This biblical truth is not only a New Testament command but also an Old Testament command, because the Lord God speaking through the Prophet Ezekiel, in chapter 22:23-31, revealed to Ezekiel how eternally important prayerful thanks and praise to God for lost people’s salvation, is.
The wickedness of national leaders, especially those who claim to be Christians, usually fill the good people with angry complaints as they seek to have these leaders removed from office, but God commands us in His word, to allow the Holy Spirit to intercede for their salvation, through our love, praise, and thanks, to God in the name of our Lord Jesus, the resurrected Christ, as we fully give ourselves to praise, thanks, and worship to God for saving them and not destroying them.
Condemning wicked people to hell and the lake of fire is so easy for the flesh to do, but to love them, praise and thank the Lord for forgiving and saving them is easy for the heart to do, when Christ Jesus lives His life through us, as Galatians 2:19-21 reveals.
Scripturally understanding faith that gets both Jews and Gentiles into the Holy Spirit and into the body of Christ, by making us the church worldwide, is simple if the Holy Spirit opens it to us.
Both Jew and Gentile Christians, are “of faith”, because Romans 14:14-23 warns everyone who does not value where a person is spiritually, and uses our Holy Spirit power, love, and sound mind (2 Timothy 1:3-7) to show our freedom in Christ Jesus that Romans 5:1-5 says, our faith has gotten us into (accessed) the grace and truth that John 1:14-18 says, “Came through Jesus Christ).
Whatever Scriptures we read, we see God’s forgiving love for created humanity; thus, He commands Christians, the body of Christ that contains both Jews and Gentiles, to love the lost into God, through Christ Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, for God says in 1 Corinthians 13:8 and 13, “Love never fails”, so use the love of God flowing through us to love people into a loving relationship with the Godhead.
Never reject people who are hard to deal with, for even though we may not be able to pray them into a humble, submissive life in Christ; we can love them and by our praise and thanks, the Lord can humbly and submissively bring them into a loving relationship with Him; thus, someone prayed for our salvation and our continuous walk of peace in Christ Jesus, so we should now pass it on to others God created and loves as much as He loves us.
Tim, Kim, and Jim Nabors
