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Hey you, what do you think or believe when you look at this topic?
please share with us these thoughts.
I’m talking about people in the modern day.
Does God favor some believers over other believers?
If you believe so, why? How come?
Are there scriptures that can prove otherwise?
please share with us these thoughts.
I’m talking about people in the modern day.
Does God favor some believers over other believers?
If you believe so, why? How come?
Are there scriptures that can prove otherwise?
Favourites He hasn't got in the sense that He doesn't bless one more because that person delights Him more. He gives rain to the just and the unjust and hardships come the way of the righteous and the way of the sinner.
Yet you forget the obvious and that is love itself. When a person loves another person actively then something from that persons love dwells in the person loved. So it is with God. When we love God then He is very close to us from He loves us as well.
So in individual people God's love can be killed, as happens in the hearts of unbelievers, or He can carry a piece of us and we of Him in our loves, love for each other.
So in His love God has favourites, those who are in His love, and He in theirs. That is called relationship. But i don't believe for one moment that God would give me more material goods or money or anything worldly to me because He loves me more than my unbeliever neighbour. His love is much more on a personal basis.
A living relationship with God on high brings us His blessings within though! For i have far more joy, thankfulness, praise, love, kindness and all kind of other good things available to me because His love dwells in me.
A love relationship with God amounts to something far more than unbelievers will ever experience.
Peace.
Psalms 90:17
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.
Maybe ponder on this verse...
Jonah 4:
11“Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”
No, can't see God favours some believers over others. There is no partiality with God.
There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.
— Romans 2:9-11
But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage. But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. But from those who were of high reputation (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me.
— Galatians 2:4-6
God loves all believers equally. But the expression of His love through His plans and purposes differs.
That’s the part which causes confusion. Everything the Lord imparts has a reason. A lesson which adds to our holiness or impact on the world for His glory. It includes blessings (sun) and challenges (rain).
Problems arise when we compare ourselves with others and desire their experiences or blessing. We’re glimpsing the sun and remain oblivious to the hardships. We forget difficulties arrive in many guises. Plenty brings additional temptations, spiritual harassment, and added responsibilities.
We must be mindful of the lessons in the wilderness. Grumbling is a sin. The Lord apportions to us as He wills.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. —Matthew 25:15
Yours in His Service,
~bella
God cannot be just and play favorites at the same time. The proof? God is just. It is His own self-description of Himself. He also tells us He is no respecter of persons. Therefore if God plays favorites He is a hypocrite and does not tell the truth. Therefore He is sinful if He does.
God may appear to play favorites to some people. Jesus told us at the time He healed the two blind men that their request for healing depended upon their faith. He healed them therefore they truly believed, had faith in, Jesus' ability to heal. Do all people have that kind of faith, or do many modern people entertain doubts as to God's willingness or ability to work miracles? If a person does that can they really expect to see miracles since Jesus has told us that He will answer our prayers according to the faith we have in Him?
The same goes for many other types of unbelief. How often do we pray selfish prayers by just looking to benefit ourselves? Do we really believe that God is to reward our selfishness? And how many people ask God to do things that we doubt Him doing ourselves? If we doubt God will really do things that we ask of Him can we really expect Him to answer our prayers? Jesus gave us the answer to that, as it will be done to us according to our faith.
Remember the story of Jesus coming down the mountain on the morning of the day after He was transfigured? Jesus' disciples had tried to cast a devil out of a boy but had failed. The boy's father immediately runs to Jesus and asks if He could heal his son. Jesus' reply? If thou canst believe all things are possible to him that believeth. Do you remember the father's reply? Lord I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. And Jesus threw the demon out of the boy. The father confessed his doubt and asked Jesus to heal his unbelief. So Jesus performed both miracles at the same time. He healed both the father and the son of their spiritual maladies.
Are we looking for God to give us blessings that we want but will work against us in the long run? Should God bow to our will, or should He do what is for our ultimate good? There are many factors going into whether we will see what we think is a positive answer to prayer. But Jesus loves us and does what is best for us even if we think He does not answer our prayer.
One prayer I can always see being answered in a positive way is if we ask Him to reveal Himself to us so that we might build our faith in Him. But don't be surprised if things seem to go wrong after that. Why? Because faith is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised to be strengthened. And every time we exercise faith Jesus will draw nearer to us and we will get to know and understand Him better.
Study Jesus' speech to His disciples on the way to the garden of Gethsemane. He speaks of the relationship of branches of the vine to the vine and how that relationship speaks to our connection to Jesus and fruit bearing in our lives.
There is the word people and thinking all the modern people - people today - God is favoring everyone because He gave His Son for everyone. About believers I gave my opinion already.
Looking from the point of treating - there was good opinions in this chain - if God is doing this
(King James Version: Hepr. 12:6)
6.For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
it obviously do not mean he is not favoring this person. I'm seeing here love
(American Standard Version: Hepr. 12:7-10)
7. It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
8.But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9.Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10.For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
When I have been a target of this treatment, I was having temptation to compare my life to other believers, those who were having "fun and easy". In the end I realized this is for my best. It was not easy to thank God but it was the only way to go through and continue living with God.
Someone may have thought "this man is not in God's favor" during those times.
The scripture says God does not show favoritism.
The uneven ground we stand on is related to sin's effect on creation, and how it affects our bodies and minds.
Here is a useful passage that relates to this subject matter from perspective of the previous era:
Ezekiel 18
21 ¶ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
I would not dare accuse God of injustice. If He did not guard the one who spoke blasphemy, it would be because something in that person's heart. We see only outward things, but God knows the heart and judges accordingly. Ultimately, what is righteous is that we believe God and part of that is recognizing our own judgments can err but His never does.
God is no respecter of persons. That said. You and your relationship with him will make you and him be closer. So in a sense there is respect and closeness he will have. But that is more up to us at that point and our relationship with him.
I agree Jeshua. Then what about in Romans when it says God has not favorites?
This will be my last post, I’ll get back to working.
“But there will be glory and honor and peace from God for all who do good—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism.”
Romans 2:10-11 NLT
The question is Does God favor some Christians more than others? The answer would be no. He doesn’t. He loves all equally.
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