Prejudice – Sin ThAT Divides

Prejudice:

• Webster: An irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics
• Thus, it is judging people, not based on knowledge, but based on things such as: The color of their skin or their nationality. Their financial condition or social standing. Their education or occupation. Their appearance, age, or physical limitations. Their religious or cultural background.
• You know what is wrong with being prejudice? It’s evil!
• It allows us to mistreat, misvalue and look down upon another person.
• Evil because practicing prejudice requires us to forget the fact that “God created man in His own image” ( 1:27).
• We must forget that “We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” ( 3:23).
• And forget that “There is none righteous, no, not one” ( 3:10)

So then, all Christians must be imitators of God and Christ who died for all: As it is written

• “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ” (1 Cor. 11:1) and “and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again” (2 Cor. 5:15).
• John wrote, “Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.” (3 John 1:11)
• John wrote, “Therefore, be imitators of God as dear children” ( 5:1)
• In other words, we’re all in the same boat!

Therefore, no person should be considered inferior because of his or her background, appearance, or circumstances. Why…