Gen anpil kretyen, who do their best and try everything they can to make the world love them. Because the world hates Christians. Sometimes it’s just 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 they want to be liked and accepted by the world and become friends with the world. They compromise and think they are some big shot. While in reality they succumbed and are defeated by the pressure of the world. They may be liked and accepted by the world, but in God’s eyes, they are shameful. Because they were not able to stand on the Word and didn’t stay faithful and obedient to the will of God. Olye de sa, yo genyen denied Jesus Christ by watering down the gospel and compromise with the world. All because they were not prepared to die to ‘self’ and bay pwòp vi yo epi suiv Jezi.
Yon pitit gason Bondye
But if you decide to swiv Jezi, you have crucified your flesh (atè 16:24, Mar 8:34, Lu 9:23). Atravè rejenerasyon, which means that you’ve died to the flesh and your spirit is raised from the dead, ou vin tounen yon nouvo kreyasyon nan domèn espirityèl la.
Ou pa yon pitit gason dyab la ankò, who has the spirit of the world; the spirit of the antichrist and you don’t belong to the devil and the world anymore.
But through regeneration, you have become a son of God, in whom the Holy Spirit dwells. Now you belong to God and His Kingdom.
What happened in the spiritual realm will become visible in the natural realm. Therefore there shall be a change in your life.
If you won’t experience a change in your life, you might ask yourself if you are truly fèt ankò and have become a new creation and if the Holy Spirit dwells in you.
Lè ou vin yon pitit gason Bondye, you don’t belong to the world anymore and therefore the world will no longer welcome and receive 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
Paske pawòl Bondye a rapid, ak pwisan, ak pi file pase nenpòt nepe de bò, pèse menm nan divize nanm ak lespri, ak nan jwenti yo ak mwèl, epi li se yon moun ki konprann panse ak entansyon kè a. Pa gen okenn kreyati ki pa parèt devan je l: men tout bagay yo toutouni e yo louvri devan je Sila a nou gen pou nou fè a (Ebre 4:12-13)
Lè ou fèt ankò, it’s crucial to renouvle lide ou ak Pawòl Bondye a. 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. You shall not get to know the volonte Bondye and therefore you shall not wete vye granmoun lan and not mete nouvo nonm lan.
Lespri Sen an, Who dwells in you shall help you and guide and teach you. Lè ou te la ansyen kreyasyon 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.
Men, lè ou te vin tounen yon nouvo kreyasyon, 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.
Sentespri a konnen pwofondè Bondye, 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 Panse li epi Fason li yo.
Chak fwa, 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, Ki moun ki fè pati nan mond lan, live in sin and are not willing to repent.
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, ki mache dapre Lespri Bondye a.
You shall not be received and welcomed everywhere you go. Not even among your fellow brothers and sisters, who are worldly-minded. Oke, 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, konesans, emosyon yo, ak santiman, 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, Disip li yo, who are His followers, shall experience the same thing. Jesus spoke about it and said, ke sa yo, who love Him and obey kòmandman l yo, 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 (atè 10:22, Mar 13:13, Lik 21:17)
Lè sa a, y'a lage ou nan afliksyon, epi yo pral touye ou: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. Lè sa a, anpil moun pral ofanse, epi youn pral trayi lòt, epi youn pral rayi lòt (Matye 24:9-10)
Benediksyon pou nou, lè moun va rayi ou, ak lè y'a separe ou ak konpayi yo, epi yo pral joure ou, epi voye non w deyò tankou sa ki mal, poutèt Pitit lòm nan. Fè kè nou kontan nan jou sa a, epi sote pou kè kontan: pou, gade, rekonpans ou se gwo nan syèl la: paske zansèt yo te fè menm jan ak pwofèt yo (Lik 6:22)
Si mond lan rayi ou, nou konnen li te rayi m anvan li te rayi nou. Si nou te nan mond lan, mond lan ta renmen pwòp tèt li: men paske nou pa moun lemonn, Men, mwen chwazi nou pami lemonn, Se poutèt sa, mond lan rayi ou. Sonje pawòl mwen te di nou an, Sèvitè a pa pi gran pase mèt li. Si yo te pèsekite m ', yo pral pèsekite nou tou; si yo kenbe pawòl mwen yo, yo pral kenbe pa w la tou. Men, tout bagay sa yo y ap fè pou nou poutèt Non mwen, paske yo pa konnen moun ki voye m' lan (Jan 15:18-21)
Si mwen pa t 'vini ak pale yo, Yo pa t 'gen peche: Men koulye a, yo pa gen okenn cloke pou peche yo. He that hates Me hates My Father also. Si mwen pa t 'fè nan mitan yo travay yo ke okenn lòt moun te fè, Yo pa t 'gen peche: but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause (Jan 15:22-25)
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, menm jan mwen pa nan mond lan (Jan 17:14)
Why the world hates Jesus?
Mond lan pa ka rayi ou; men mwen li rayi, paske mwen temwaye sou li, ke travay li yo se move (Jan 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, ki te fè pati mond lan, 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. of sin.
Se poutèt sa, 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, ki moun ki rete nan yo, hates the One, Ki moun ki abite nan ou.
Dyab la, who lives in them hates Jesus Christ, Who lives in you. Jezi di, that you shall be hated because of Non li.
Paske nan reyalite a, 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. Jis tankou nan ansyen kontra a, when the prophets spoke the truth of God and were hated, pèsekite, imprisoned and sometimes even killed.
Se poutèt sa, sa yo, 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, lespri, soul and strength and haven’t laid down your flesh, epi kontinye mache dèyè kò a, you care what other people think of you because it affects you. Se poutèt sa, you shall eventually succumb and compromise with the world.
But when you Renmen Bondye ak tout kè w, lespri, 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 (Li tou: Konte pri a).
Sepandan, 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.
Okontrè! 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, ki se tou a Kòmandman Jezi, you prove that you love God with all your heart, lespri, nanm ak fòs.
You show that your love for God comes first in your life, e kòm yon rezilta, you keep walking in obedience to Him.
You know the reason, why the people, Ki moun ki fè pati nan mond lan, hate you, 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. Olye de sa, you shall be moved with konpasyon on them.
The world hates Christians, who follow and do the Word
Marvel not, frè m yo, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren (1 Jan 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, menm jan ak Jezi.
Poukisa? 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.
Pitit dyab yo, 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.
Moun ki kwè nan li pa kondannen: men moun ki pa kwè yo deja kondannen, paske li pa t kwè nan non sèl Pitit Gason Bondye a. Epi sa a se kondanasyon an, limyè sa a te vini nan mond lan, e lèzòm te renmen fènwa pase limyè, paske zèv yo te move. Paske, tout moun ki fè sa ki mal, rayi limyè a, pa vin nan limyè a, pou zèv li yo pa ta rale zòrèy. Men, moun ki fè verite a vini nan limyè a, pou zèv li yo ka parèt klè, ke yo te travay nan Bondye (Jan 3:18-21)
And just like Abel, pwofèt yo, Jesus and the apostles, sa a toujou ka a. 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 (peche) yo mechan.
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 deny Jesus Christ. Because whosoever shall deny Jesus, him/her will Jesus also deny before the Father (Matye 10:33, 2 Timote 2:12)
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