Svijet mrzi kršćane jer oni ne pripadaju svijetu, rekao je Isus u Jovanu 15:18-19 u Bibliji. Mnogi kršćani neće prihvatiti ovu istinu i čine sve što mogu da ih svijet zavoli. Sometimes it’s too embarrassing to watch how far Christians go and eventually say or do things that damage the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God. Only because these Christians want to be liked and accepted by the world and be friends with the world.
Compromising with the world
Many Christians compromise with the world and think they are some big shot. While in reality these Christians succumbed by the pressure of the world.
They maybe liked and accepted by the world, but in God’s eyes, they are shameful. Because they were not able to stand on the Word (Biblija).
They didn’t stay faithful to God and obedient to His will. Umjesto toga, oni odrekao Isusa Hrista by watering down the gospel and compromising with the world.
All because they were not prepared to die to ‘self’ and polažu svoje živote i slijedite Isusa.
Everyone that believes has laid down his life
But if you decide to follow Jesus, you crucify your flesh (Matthew 16:24, Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23). Kroz novo rođenje u Hristu (smrt tijela i vaskrsenje duha iz mrtvih), you have become a new creation in the spiritual realm.
Vi više niste đavolji sin (Ovo se odnosi i na muškarce i na žene) that has the spirit of the world (duh antihrista). Stoga, you don’t belong to the devil and the world anymore.
Ali kroz the rebirth, postao si sin Božiji (i muški i ženski).
The Holy Spirit dwells in you and you belong to God and His Kingdom.
What happened in the spiritual realm becomes visible in the natural realm. Stoga, doći će do promjene u vašem životu.
If you won’t experience a change in your life, you might ask yourself if you are truly rođen ponovo and have become a new creation and if the Holy Spirit dwells in you.
When you become a son of God, više ne pripadaš svetu. Stoga, the world no longer welcomes and receives you. Except if you compromise and stay carnal and keep living the life you’ve always lived.
If you live like the world and say and do the same things as the world, then it shows that you are not born again and don’t walk after the Spirit. Since the flesh is still alive and has the highest authority in your life.
The Word of God is quick and powerful
Jer je Božja riječ brza, i moćan, i oštriji od svakog dvosjekog mača, prodoran čak do razdvajanja duše i duha, i zglobova i srži, i razabire misli i namjere srca. Niti postoji stvorenje koje nije očito u Njegovim očima: ali sve su stvari nage i otvorene za oči Onoga s kim imamo veze (Hebrejima 4:12-13)
Kad se ponovo rodiš, it’s crucial to obnovi svoj um sa Riječju Božjom. Because when you don’t renew your mind with the Word of God, you shall keep your carnal mind and keep walking after the flesh and say and do what the world says and do.
If you don’t read and study the Bible daily, you shall not get to know the Father and His will. As long as you stay ignorant concerning God’s will, you shall live according to your will and what you think is right and wrong.
You shall live as you lived before and not skloni starcu a ne obući novog čovjeka.
Therefore it’s necessary to read and study your Bible daily and renew your mind. Duha Svetoga, Who dwells in you shall help, guide and teach you.
The Holy Spirit teaches you in the Word
Kada ste bili Stara kreacija you maybe didn’t understand the Bible. The reason why you didn’t understand the Bible is that your spirit was dead and therefore your mind was darkened and couldn’t understand the spiritual things of God.
Ali kada si postao nova kreacija, your spirit was raised from the dead and by the baptism with the Holy Spirit, you received the Holy Spirit and therefore you shall be able to understand the spiritual things of God and His Kingdom.
Duh Sveti zna dubine Božije, which are hidden in His Word.
By studying the Word of God, you shall not only get to know Jesus, but you shall also get to know God and His will. You shall get to know Njegove misli i Njegovi putevi.
Svaki put, when you find out a truth in the Word of God that contradicts your former carnal mind and what the world says, you shall have to make a choice, to believe and obey the Word of God and walk in faith after the Spirit or to believe and obey the words of the world and your carnal mind and what your senses tell you and walk after the flesh.
You can only walk in faith if you believe that the words of God are the truth and obey them and do the words of God in your life.
When you are born again and start walking after the Word and the Spirit and therefore walk in faith, then one of the consequences will be that you won’t be so loved anymore, but rather be hated by those, koji pripadaju svijetu, live in sin and are not willing to repent.
The Word divides soulish people and spiritual people
Because just like the Word divides spirit and soul, so shall the Word also divide soulish people, who walk after the flesh and spiritual people, koji hodaju za Duhom.
You shall not be received and welcomed everywhere you go. Not even among your fellow brothers and sisters, who are worldly-minded. Pa, if you say what they want to hear and don’t say anything that might offend them and as long as you do what they expect of you, then there won’t be any problems.
But as soon as you speak the truth and confront them with the truth of the Word, instead of giving them your own opinion, that derives from your flesh; your carnal mind and your carnal wisdom, znanje, Emocije, i osećanja, then you shall experience resistance.
The world hated Jesus
Jesus is our Lord and if He was hated and persecuted by the world and was banned by His people from the temple, Njegovi učenici, who are His followers, shall experience the same thing. Jesus spoke about it and said, da su to, who love Him and obey Njegove zapovijedi, shall be hated and even persecuted.
And ye shall be hated of all men for My Name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved (Mat 10:22, Ožur 13:13, Luke 21:17)
Onda će te predati na muke, i ubiće te: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. I tada će se mnogi uvrijediti, i izdaće jedan drugog, i mrzeće jedni druge (Matthew 24:9-10)
Blagoslovljeni ste, kada će te ljudi mrzeti, i kada će te odvojiti od svog društva, i prekoriće te, i izbaci svoje ime kao zlo, radi Sina čovječjega. Radujte se u tom danu, i skacite od radosti: za, evo, velika je tvoja nagrada na nebu: jer su na isti način činili njihovi očevi prorocima (Luke 6:22)
Ako te svijet mrzi, vi znate da je mrzelo Mene pre nego što je mrzelo vas. Da ste od sveta, svijet bi volio svoje: nego zato što niste od svijeta, ali ja sam te izabrao iz sveta, zato vas svijet mrzi. Setite se reči koju sam vam rekao, Sluga nije veći od svog gospodara. Ako su me progonili, oni će vas progoniti i tebi; ako su održali moju riječ, oni će zadržati i vaše. Ali sve ove stvari će vam učiniti za ime Moga, jer ne poznaju Onoga koji Me posla (John 15:18-21)
Da nisam došao i razgovarao s njima, nisu imali grijeha: ali sada nemaju klobuk za svoj grijeh. Ko mene mrzi, mrzi i mog Oca. Da nisam među njima učinio djela koja niko drugi nije učinio, nisu imali grijeha: ali sada su oboje vidjeli i mrzeli i Mene i Moga Oca. Ali ovo će se dogoditi, da se ispuni riječ koja je zapisana u njihovom zakonu, Mrzeli su Me bez razloga (John 15:22-25)
Dao sam im tvoju reč; i svijet ih je mrzeo, jer nisu od sveta, iako nisam od sveta (John 17:14)
Why the world hates Jesus?
Svijet te ne može mrziti; ali Mene mrzi, jer ja svedočim o tome, da su njihova djela zla (John 7:7)
Jesus gave us the reason, why the world hated Him. Jesus testified that the works of the world were evil, which means that He confronted the people, koji je pripadao svetu, with their sin. When Jesus said these words to His disciples, His disciples were still the old creation. They were still carnal and belonged to the unfaithful generation that belongs to the world. But when they were born again and received the Holy Spirit, they were also hated and persecuted by the world. Because they testified that the works of the world were evil.
When the Holy Spirit dwells in you and you walk in obedience to God after the Word in righteousness, the Holy Spirit will reprove the world a.o. od grijeha.
Stoga, you shouldn’t marvel and be surprised when people, whom you’ve never met and with whom you have never spoken with, hate you for no reason.
That’s because the one, ko obitava u njima, hates the One, Ko živi u tebi.
đavo, who lives in them hates Jesus Christ, Who lives in you. Isus je rekao, that you shall be hated because of Njegovo ime.
Zbog činjenice, that you have died in Christ, you have laid down your own life and therefore it’s no longer you that lives, but through the resurrection of your spirit from the dead and by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, Christ lives in you. When Christ lives in you, you shall speak and do His words and walk in the will of God.
Jesus spoke the words of His Father and the world wouldn’t receive His words. Baš kao u Starom zavetu, when the prophets spoke the truth of God and were hated, progonjeni, imprisoned and sometimes even killed.
Stoga, Te, who belong to Jesus and speak His words, which are the same words as the Father, shall be hated by the world.
Do you love God or do you love yourself?
As long as you don’t love God with all your heart, um, soul and strength and haven’t laid down your flesh, i nastavi hodati za mesom, you care what other people think of you because it affects you. Stoga, you shall eventually succumb and compromise with the world.
But when you voli Boga svim srcem, um, soul and strength and have laid down your flesh and walk after the Spirit, then it won’t affect you, because your flesh is dead. You are not surprised that the world hates you because Jesus warned you (Pročitajte također: Izračunajte troškove).
Međutim, you will not let that stop you to speak the truth of God and keep preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ on the earth. You shall not stop to preach and establish God’s Kingdom on this earth.
Naprotiv! You shall continue and keep walking after the Word and the Spirit and therefore you shall keep walking in the truth and the love of God.
You shall not compromise with the world. You shall not try so hard to be liked and to be accepted by the world. But you shall stay loyal to Jesus and stand on the Word and not deviate from the words of God.
As long as you keep walking the Spirit and the Word and therefore do the commandments of God, koji su takođe Isusove zapovijedi, you prove that you love God with all your heart, um, dušom i snagom.
You show that your love for God comes first in your life, i kao rezultat, you keep walking in obedience to Him.
You know the reason, why the people, koji pripadaju svijetu, mrzim te, but you shall not be moved by that. You shall neither become mad or angry because you don’t walk after the flesh and therefore you are not led by your feelings and emotions. Umjesto toga, you shall be moved with saosećanje on them.
The world hates Christians, who follow and do the Word
Marvel not, braćo moja, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren (1 John 3:13-14)
The hearers of the Word shall not be hated, since they are no threat to the kingdom of darkness. Only the followers and doers of the Word, which means that you believe every word of God and do the words of God, shall be hated by the world, baš kao Isus.
Zašto? Because you testify by doing the truth and righteous works, that the works of the world are evil.
Look at Cain and Abel. Abel wasn’t killed by Cain because they had a disagreement or a fight. But Abel was killed because his works were righteous. The righteous works of Abel testified that the works of Cain were evil (Gen 21:41, 1 Jo 3:12)
This also happened with Jesus. Jesus walked in the truth and did righteous works. That’s why He was hated by the world. Because by doing righteous works Jesus testified that the works of the world were evil.
The Light of the world
Jesus was the Light of the world and through Him, the evil works, which were hidden in darkness were brought into the light.
Đavolji sinovi, who were the workers of iniquity and belonged to the world, hated the Light and therefore they did everything they could to get rid of Jesus and eliminate the Light.
On koji vjeruje na njega nije osuđen: Ali on veruje da nije već osuđen, jer nije vjerovao u ime samo rođenog boga. A ovo je osuda, Taj svjetlost dolazi u svijet, i muškarci su voljeli tamu, a ne svjetlo, jer su im djela bila zla. Jer svako ko čini zlo mrzi svjetlost, ni jedno ni drugo ne izlazi na videlo, da ne bi trebalo biti reproducirano. Ali ko čini istinu izlazi na svetlost dana, da se njegova djela mogu manifestirati, da su kovani u Bogu (John 3:18-21)
And just like Abel, the prophets, Jesus and the apostles, Ovo je još uvek slučaj. When Jesus Christ dwells in you and you walk after the will of Jesus and do what He has commanded you to do and walk in righteousness in the truth and the light, then the world shall hate you. Because your righteous works testify that the works fo the world (Greh) su zli.
Jesus knew this and foretold His disciples. His disciples knew this and foretold their disciples. And we, as His disciples should know this and inform our disciples, so that the truth is revealed and the disciples will know what to expect and become spiritually resilient and are able to stand on the Word and don’t poriču Isusa Hrista. Because whosoever shall deny Jesus, him/her will Jesus also deny before the Father (Matthew 10:33, 2 Timothy 2:12)
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