The Pharisees and scribes rejected Gods purpose for their lives by rejecting the baptism of John.
God's purpose is hidden from the eyes of many due to pride. They rejected John and thought He was possessed by a demon because he lived differently from them, they also rejected Jesus saying he was gluttonous and a friend of sinners.
There are different people that God sends into our lives with a function which God wants to fulfill in us. If we have prejudices because in some area they are different from us, we'll discover at the end of it the loss will on our side and God's full purpose was not accomplished. If we only accept those who agree with us 100% in everything, we'll very poor spiritually. Different servants of God throughout the centuries have been different in some ways with different emphasis in different parts of scriptures. For example if you have a prejudice on water baptism you decided that those who baptise children are false prophets, you end up calling great servants like Martin Luther who emphasized justification by faith a false prophet; you also call John Wesley founder of the Methodist church a false prophet.
If you have a prejudice that if you don't speak in tongues you are not filled with the Holy Spirit, you'll miss the blessing God has for you through many servants of His who never speaks in tongues and some who don't believe speaking in tongues it is for today and they are filled with the Holy Spirit.
Whatever prejudice you have, it is a blockage to receiving all that God has for you. Get rid of your prejudices and decide from today that every child of God has something of God that can blessed me even if there are some things I don't agree with.
A Pharisee asked Jesus to dine with Him and Jesus went. Remember that the Pharisees were the one who were always seeking to destroy the ministry of Jesus and were always looking for faults in Him but Jesus never allowed that to form an opinion about all the Pharisees which would be a prejudice.
Let us follow Jesus here. Never have a prejudice against certain type or group of people because part of them did that. We are raised with prejudices of certain communities or families that this is how they always act. If you meet a child of God from the community, your own prejudices will hinder you from receiving what God has for you.
The question should be, has God accepted this person, if yes, why should you reject them?
Did God wait for the person to be perfect and correct in everything before He accepted him? If no, why do you say you will only accept them when they are correct in everything.
Don't be a hindrance to Gods blessings by your prejudices.
A woman who was a sinner went to Jesus and began wiping His feet with her hair and tears and kissing His feet and anointing them and Jesus commended her.
One thing we learn from the woman is being sensitive to the needs of others around you. She was sensitive to something that the Pharisee was not sensitive to yet Jesus needed. Ask God to help you to be sensitive to the needs of others around you.
We also learn from Jesus not to make ourselves a burden to others unnecessarily. He was perfectly contented and never made demands to the Pharisee that he had to wash His feet. He received whatever He was given with gratitude.
When you are invited in a place, do you concentrate on what is lacking making demands thatvyou must be treated in such a way or you must be given something or do you enjoy what you are given?
He said that those who are forgiven much love much and those who are forgiven little love little.
We see that how much we love God is directly dependent on how much we know we have been forgiven.
Do you now know why you love God so little? Why you will only serve when it's convenient, why you are so tight-fisted always calculation in your giving your whole life and everything to God? You have not seen how wretched you are. You have not seen how great your sins were against God and what a criminal you were yet God has forgiven you. Oh that God may open your eyes that you may see your wretchedness that you may love the Lord more and more.
Have you ever felt in your life even once that you were the greatest of all sinners in the world? If no, you very far from God. Draw nearly to the light of God's holiness and immediately you will see what a wretched you are.
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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