1.22- What is the proper attitude toward those who have hurt us

1.22-

What is the proper attitude toward those who have hurt us and they then get in trouble and want to destroy their own life?

We should care for them and appeal to them to not do themselves any harm.

To attack Jesus people is a very bad thing and cause many bad things to happen.  Guilt and shame and other bad things can happen.

Once Paul and Silas were in prison for helping someone and they kept on praising God.  They sung hymns of praise in the middle of the night.  There was an earthquake.  The prison leader who had been in charge of harming them was about to take his own life.  They said to him,
"Do yourself no harm."

When we suffer for doing what is right in following Jesus we can be sure that God will bless us with His love, mercy and grace.
They on the other hand are setting themselves up for guilt and shame and many other negative outcomes.

We should pray for them.  We should do what we can to help them.

They did this for this jailer.  He repented.  He washed the wounds they had put on their backs.  He was baptized and became a follower of Jesus.  That is the impact of praising God in the midst of hard things.  Keeping a loving attitude toward those who have hurt us.

Acts 16.
²² The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their ^[j]robes off them and proceeded to order ^[k]them to be beaten with rods. ²³ When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely; ^24 [l]and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the ^[m]stocks.
²⁵ But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; ²⁶ and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. ²⁷ When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸ But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!” ²⁹ And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

The Jailer Converted

³¹ They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” ³² And they spoke the word of ^[n]the Lord to him together with all who were in his house. ³³ And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. ³⁴ And he brought them into his house and set ^[o]food before them, and rejoiced ^[p]greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.