I.　Concerning the sinners:

A.　God desiring all people to be saved—1 Tim. 2:4.

B.　The Lord wanting to get the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame, even commanding us to compel them to come in—Luke 14:21, 23.

C.　God choosing the foolish of the world, the weak of the world, the lowborn of the world, and the despised—1 Cor. 1:26-29.

D.　History teaching us that many useful servants of the Lord were raised up from the lower-class people.

II.　Concerning the believers:

A.　Every member of the Body of Christ being indispensable—1 Cor. 12:22.

B.　God tempering the Body together—1 Cor. 12:23-25.

C.　Experience telling us that our evaluation of the believers in the church has turned out quite often to be the opposite.

III.　The elders, on the one hand, having the clear sight over the people with much discernment, and on the other hand, being blinded spiritually.

IV.　Knowing no one according to the flesh; everyone in Christ being a new creation—2 Cor. 5:16-17.