Love the foreign resident. - Deut. 10:19Jehovah commanded the nation of Israel to show proper love to the foregin resident, because many Egyptians had joined them in leaving Egypt. This was proper and fair.
I was in service with a sister and we were working an apartment building. As we went from door to door, we met many foreign residents. The sister took advantage of this and asked each one what their native tongue was. She found a video in that language and played it for them. Their faces lit up when they heard about Jehovah in their own tongue.
We are tought to love our neighbor as ourself. We would be grateful if we moved to, say, Turkey, and someone there played something in English for our benefit.We would not withhold that from ourself, would we?
If you show contempt for a person from another country, in effect, we would be treating ourself better than our neighbor. That isn't what the Bible teaches. It teaches us to treat others the same as we treat ourself. Being diligent to help those who do not speak our language in learning about Jehovah is one way we can express love amid a world full of hatred, contempt and blame to the foreign resident.
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