No Favoritism
We live in a world that practices favoritism. This is done both in the positive sense and the negative sense. Our culture favors certain people and groups for various reason. It also disfavors certain people and groups. All of this is based on outward appearance and other superficial factors. We see it all the time in businesses, the courts, and in other areas. When we see it, we know it is wrong, because God's Spirit shows us this injustice whether we are believers or not. It comes from the general revelation of God to everyone in this world. We know from Scripture that God shows no favoritism of any kind. Peter learned this from God's vision to him about the clean and unclean animals and by the coming of the group of Gentile men, who were sent by Cornelius, a God-fearing Roman, after he had been visited by an angel. (Acts 10:34,35) "Then, Peter replied, 'I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. In every nation He accepts those who fear Him and do what is rig...