People? Let Us Study People... God Loves People.

LET US STUDY PEOPLE, GOD LOVES PEOPLE! DO YOU?

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

CRUSHED?

DO WE SEE THE LITTLE PIECE OF THE PUZZLE? MAYBE TO UNDERSTAND WE NEED TO SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE. JOB WAS UNDER STRESS, PROBLEMS, TRIALS, DEATH AND SICKNESS UNDER A CRUSHING LOAD.

… JOB NEVER SAID: NOW WIFEY DEAR, YOU ARE STUPID AND FOOLISH. Job saw the bigger picture. We tend to focus on the problems of today. Job knew better than saying that. Study what Job said…

Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

I have a friend that has pastored several years. He says I love to pastor. There is one problem with the job so he says. I asked and he replied: I WOULD LOVE PASTORING IF IT WERE NOT FOR PEOPLE. He said HUMAN BEINGS DRIVE ME CRAZY. I tried to tell him if it weren’t for people we would have no need to exist. I hear him. We must know all people are imperfect and have their own little quirks. We can expect smooth sailing and no storms but we must get real. There are tall people, short people, smart people, stupid people, all kinds of people.

THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE. WE ARE IN BOTH CLASSIFICATIONS. Every living person is a student and a teacher.

1. *STUDENT: a person that studies, observer, pupil, a learner, follower, positive, listener, helpful, cooperative.

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED THIS WEEK?

2. *TEACHER: one that guides, explains, reasons, to get individual to think, personal adaptation, to care, to communicate, enthusiasm. WHAT HAVE YOU TAUGHT THIS WEEK? A good teacher progressively turns the student into his own teacher. A good teacher teaches you to think, not how to think.

THE BOOK OF JAMES ADDRESS FOUR KINDS OF PEOPLE….

James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1. *THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT REFUSE TO LISTEN. (They tend to think they know it all.)

2. *THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WILL LISTEN AND THEN NEVER WILL DO ANYTHING.

3. *THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WILL DO THINGS BUT WILL NOT RECEIVE INSTRUCTION.

4. *THE FOURTH AREA IS EVERY TEACHERS GOAL: THEY WILL LISTEN AND FOLLOW UP AND DO.

HOW DOES GOD LOOK AT HUMANITY? GOD’S EYES SEE MUCH DIFFERENTLY THAN MAN SEES THINGS. MAN SEES THE CARNAL AND TEMPORAL… GOD FOCUSES ON THE ETERNAL AND SPIRITUAL… THEN THERE IS THE FENCE STRADDLER.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

1. *GOD’S CLASSIFICATION OF PEOPLE. THE CARNAL FLESH SIDE OF MAN #1 GOAL IS PLEASURE. This part of man rejects God or accepts a partial Biblical view: MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY. Thus they reject God’s Biblical standard in favor of what they think. The natural man refuses a standard of truth. All ways lead to God? They resist God’s plan and accept materialism and pleasure seeking. There is no submission --- The fleshly trades a God personal relationship for SIN. IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT. There is no accountability. Faithfulness is for old-timers. This religious trip is foolishness and there is no fear of the judgement of God.

2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

2. *THE GOD CLASSIFICATION OF PEOPLE THAT PLEASES HIM… THOSE THAT ACCEPT THE BIBLE AS GOD’S HOLY INFALLIBLE WORD. These people see in the light of eternity. Spiritual people have a PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE SON OF GOD. They have sought the FORGIVENESS of Jesus Christ. They avoid sin. They pray and study their Bible.

3. *THE THIRD CLASSIFICATION OF GOD’S ATTITUDE TOWARD PEOPLE ARE CLEAR… THEY ARE COMPROMISERS… THEY STRADDLE THE FENCE. They say they love God but they have one leg in one area and the other in the mess of the world. They love two opposite sides. They don’t want to offend anyone. No self-discipline.