Ac 18:9-119And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.”11And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.ESV
Paul in Corinth.Many people in that city earmarked for salvation.Impossible to see which ones are targeting – God doesn’t use laser targeting!So, look at that teenager who is called “slut” by those in her street; look at the person who worships a golden statue and burns incense to it daily; look at the man caught up in an affair with the woman he met at the pub; look at the guy who has been living with his boyfriend for 2 years now; someone else in and out of remand centre and prison for stealing; the person with the eating disorder – but such a bad self image; the binge drinkers; people whose mouth is just a cess-pit of foul language; the loan shark and his heavy – hard to see them as being in God’s sight if we look at them in the depths of their sin & squalor.Invisible though it may be, they were in God’s plan:
1 Co 6:9-119Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.11And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.ESV
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