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Second Class Citizens

Second Class Citizens. Why do we make people feel 2nd class? 1. We often _______ ________ than everyone else. think we. are better. Turn in your Bibles to: Luke 18:9-14. 2. We should have a ___________ for ourselves and other people. healthy love. John 13:34 (NIV) .

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Second Class Citizens

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  1. Second Class Citizens

  2. Why do we make people feel 2nd class? 1. We often _______ ________ than everyone else. think we are better

  3. Turn in your Bibles to: Luke 18:9-14

  4. 2. We should have a ___________ for ourselves and other people. healthy love

  5. John 13:34 (NIV) “A new command I give you: LOVE ONE ANOTHER. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

  6. Romans 12:10 (NIV) “BE DEVOTED TO ONE ANOTHER in brotherly love. HONOR ONE ANOTHER above yourselves.”

  7. Romans 15:7 (NIV) “ACCEPT ONE ANOTHER, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.”

  8. Galatians 5:13(NIV) “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature rather, SERVE ONE ANOTHER in love.”

  9. Ephesians 4:2(NIV) “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER in love.”

  10. I Thessalonians 5:11(NIV) “Therefore ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”

  11. Galatians 5:14(NIV) The entire law is summed up in a single command: “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”

  12. How do we not feel 2nd class and not make others feel that way? 3. _____ is the answer. Grace

  13. GRACE is: G od’s R iches A t C hrist’s E xpense

  14. God’s unmerited favor “Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.” A. W. Tozer

  15. Genesis 6:8-9 (Amplified) “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a just and righteous man, blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked with God.”

  16. When we feel like we are second class citizens we are OFTEN thinking about the past. 4. God is not as nearly interested in our _____ as He is in our ______. past future

  17. Hebrews 8:12 (NIV) For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.

  18. Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV) Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

  19. Are you willing to “love one another” and stop making others feel second class? Are you willing to stop remembering your past and making yourself feel second class?

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