Svijet mrzi kršćane jer ne pripadaju svijetu, rekao je Isus u Ivanu 15:18-19 u Bibliji. Mnogi kršćani neće prihvatiti ovu istinu i učiniti 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 zanijekao Isusa Krista by watering down the gospel and compromising with the world.
All because they were not prepared to die to ‘self’ and položiti vlastite živote i slijediti Isusa.
Everyone that believes has laid down his life
But if you decide to follow Jesus, you crucify your flesh (Matej 16:24, Ocjena 8:34, Luke 9:23). Po novom rođenju u Kristu (smrt tijela i uskrsnuće duha od mrtvih), you have become a new creation in the spiritual realm.
Više nisi đavolji sin (ovo se odnosi i na muškarce i na žene) that has the spirit of the world (duh antikrista). Stoga, you don’t belong to the devil and the world anymore.
Ali kroz the rebirth, postao si sin Božji (i muško i žensko).
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, U vašem životu bit će promjena.
If you won’t experience a change in your life, you might ask yourself if you are truly Ponovno rođen and have become a new creation and if the Holy Spirit dwells in you.
Kad postaneš sin Božji, više ne pripadaš svijetu. 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 riječ Božja brza, i moćan, i oštrije od bilo kojeg dvostrukog mača, probijajući čak i razdvajajući se duše i duha, i zglobova i srži, i je prepoznatnik misli i namjera srca. Niti postoji stvorenje koje nije vidljivo u Njegovom pogledu: ali sve su stvari gole i otvorene očima Onoga s kim imamo posla (Hebrejima 4:12-13)
Kad se ponovno rodiš, it’s crucial to obnoviti svoj um s 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 odloži starca a ne obući novog čovjeka.
Therefore it’s necessary to read and study your Bible daily and renew your mind. Duh Sveti, Who dwells in you shall help, guide and teach you.
The Holy Spirit teaches you in the Word
Kad 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 kad 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 Boga, 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 po Duhu.
You shall not be received and welcomed everywhere you go. Not even among your fellow brothers and sisters, who are worldly-minded. Dobro, 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 osjećaje, 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 oni, 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, ožujak 13:13, Luke 21:17)
Tada će vas predati da budete u nevolji, i ubit će te: i svi će vas narodi mrziti zbog imena mojega. I tada će se mnogi uvrijediti, i izdat će jedni druge, i mrzit će jedni druge (Matej 24:9-10)
Blago vama, kada će te ljudi mrziti, i kada će te odvojiti od svoga društva, i korit će te, i odbaci svoje ime kao zlo, radi Sina Čovječjega. Radujte se u onaj dan, i skakutati od sreće: za, gle, velika je tvoja nagrada na nebesima: jer isto su činili njihovi očevi prorocima (Luke 6:22)
Ako te svijet mrzi, Znate da me je mrzilo prije nego što te je mrzio. Kad biste bili od svijeta, svijet bi volio svoje: nego jer niste od svijeta, ali ja sam tebe izabrao sa svijeta, zato te svijet mrzi. Sjetite se riječi koju sam vam rekao, Sluga nije veći od svoga gospodara. Ako su Me progonili, Oni će i vas progoniti; ako su držali riječi Moje, zadržat će i tvoju. Ali sve će vam ove stvari činiti zbog Moga Imena, jer ne poznaju Onoga koji me posla (Ivan 15:18-21)
Da nisam došao i razgovarao s njima, nisu imali grijeha: ali sada nemaju kazne za svoj grijeh. Tko mene mrzi, mrzi i moga Oca. Da među njima nisam učinio djela koja nitko drugi nije učinio, nisu imali grijeha: ali sada su oboje vidjeli i mrzili i Mene i Moga Oca. Ali ovo se dogodi, da se ispuni riječ zapisana u njihovu zakonu, Mrzili su Me bez razloga (Ivan 15:22-25)
I have given them thy word; i svijet ih je zamrzio, jer nisu od svijeta, kao što nisam od svijeta (Ivan 17:14)
Why the world hates Jesus?
Svijet vas ne može mrziti; Ali ja to mrzi, Jer svjedočim o tome, da su djela njihova zla (Ivan 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 svijetu, 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. 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, koji u njima obitava, hates the One, Tko prebiva u tebi.
Vrag, who lives in them hates Jesus Christ, Who lives in you. rekao je Isus, 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 zavjetu, when the prophets spoke the truth of God and were hated, Progonjeni, imprisoned and sometimes even killed.
Stoga, one, 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 nastavite 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 Bog ljubavi svim svojim 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 trošak).
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.
Baš suprotno! 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 ujedno i zapovijedi Isusove, you prove that you love God with all your heart, um, duša i snaga.
You show that your love for God comes first in your life, a kao rezultat toga, 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 saučešće on them.
The world hates Christians, who follow and do the Word
Marvel not, Moja braćo, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren (1 Ivan 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.
Đavolski 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.
Tko u njega vjeruje, ne osuđuje se: a tko ne vjeruje, već je osuđen, jer nije povjerovao u Ime jedinorođenoga Sina Božjega. A ovo je osuda, da je svjetlo došlo na svijet, a ljudi su više voljeli tamu nego svjetlost, jer su njihova djela bila zla. Jer tko god čini zlo, mrzi svjetlo, niti dolazi na svjetlo, da ne bi njegova djela bila prekorena. Ali tko čini istinu, dolazi k svjetlosti, da se njegova djela očituju, da su stvoreni u Bogu (Ivan 3:18-21)
And just like Abel, proroci, Jesus and the apostles, ovo je još uvijek 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 (grijeh) 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 zanijekati Isusa Krista. Because whosoever shall deny Jesus, him/her will Jesus also deny before the Father (Matej 10:33, 2 Timothy 2:12)
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