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Message from Bobby McGraw on July 28, 2022

In this episode, Pastor Bobby McGraw talks about the idea of rescue and how it changes the way we see people. Drawing from Colossians 1:13-14 and 2 Corinthians 5:16, he reminds us that God rescued us from darkness, and in turn, we should stop labeling others and view them as God does—with love and grace. He shares a personal story about his grandfather's old desk, which might seem worthless to others but holds deep value to him. Just like that desk, people deserve to be seen for their potential, not written off. Let’s be a people who rescue and restore.

Transcription:

Thanks so much for being here today. It's our joy to be able to offer this resource. Our hope is that it encourages you.

And today I've been thinking about the word rescue, and there's a lot of different ways to use the word rescue, but listen to what Colossians 1 verses 13 to 14 says. It says, for he, talking about God, has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and he's brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin. It says he has rescued us

And one of the things that I think that rescued people do is they see people differently. In fact, I think before we're rescued, it's easy for us to put labels on people. You know, in Paul's day, there was Gentiles or Jews, or sometimes maybe we'd use the terminology insiders or outsiders.

In politics, we talk about liberals or conservatives. We talk a lot about labels, and our brains just do that. Our brains try to make sense of situations and of people, so we put labels on them

But what if we're not supposed to do that? Listen to what 2 Corinthians 5 verse 16 says. It says, we have stopped, listen to this phrase, we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. The challenge, I really believe, is that for people that have been rescued to begin to view people differently, to view them as ourselves, that all of us are a work in progress, and all of us are unfinished, and all of us have been rescued and restored, and maybe those people that we see ought to be rescued and restored as well.

Maybe we ought to see people the way that God saw us. Instead of labeling us and writing us off, that he chose to rescue us. You know, one of the ways that the term rescue is used is to talk about rescued items.

I have a desk that I'm sitting at right now. It is ugly. I mean, to most people, it's an ugly desk. It's got this weird green color. It's got chips, and it's, you know, it's seen better days. But for me, when I see it, it's a rescue desk because it was my granddad's. My grandmother wanted to get rid of it and create space in her house, and she was going to throw this desk away. But when I see this desk, I see the man that it represents. I see the discipline that I saw him sitting at this desk so often, getting stuff done. And so it is something that's simple, but it is rescued in my life. And now it's the desk I sit in to write sermons, to have Zoom calls with people around the world, to record podcasts like this. So this desk that maybe would be written off is something that's rescued and has great, great worth.

I was thinking about that. What if in our lifetime, we started doing the same thing with people? Instead of writing people off and discarding them and tossing them out, what if we chose to rescue them, to label them with the love of Jesus, to begin to say, you know what, I want to do what Jesus did. I want to look at them and see their potential. I want to see them through the eyes of Jesus and love them. Let's be a people today that rescue.

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