The world hates Christians because they don’t belong to the world, said Jesus in John 15:18-19 í Biblíunni. Many Christians won’t accept this truth and do everything they can to make the world love them. 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 (Biblían).
They didn’t stay faithful to God and obedient to His will. Í staðinn, þeir neitaði Jesú Kristi by watering down the gospel and compromising with the world.
All because they were not prepared to die to ‘self’ and leggja sitt eigið líf og fylgdu Jesú.
Everyone that believes has laid down his life
But if you decide to follow Jesus, you crucify your flesh (Matthías 16:24, Mark 8:34, Lúkas 9:23). Með nýfæðingu í Kristi (dauða holdsins og upprisa andans frá dauðum), you have become a new creation in the spiritual realm.
Þú ert ekki lengur sonur djöfulsins (Þetta á bæði við um karla og konur) that has the spirit of the world (Andi andkrists). Þess vegna, you don’t belong to the devil and the world anymore.
En í gegnum the rebirth, þú ert orðinn sonur Guðs (bæði karl og kona).
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. Þess vegna, það verður breyting á lífi þínu.
If you won’t experience a change in your life, you might ask yourself if you are truly endurfæddur and have become a new creation and if the Holy Spirit dwells in you.
Þegar þú verður sonur Guðs, Þú tilheyrir ekki heiminum lengur. Þess vegna, 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
Því að orð Guðs er fljótt, og öflugur, og beittari en nokkurt tvíeggjað sverð, stingandi jafnvel að sundrun sálar og anda, og liðum og merg, og er greinandi um hugsanir og fyrirætlanir hjartans. Það er heldur engin skepna sem er ekki augljós í augum hans: en allt er nakið og opnað fyrir augum hans sem við eigum að gera (Hebrear 4:12-13)
Þegar þú fæðist aftur, it’s crucial to Endurnýjaðu hugann með orði Guðs. 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 Losaðu þig við gamla manninn og ekki klæddu þig í nýja manninn.
Therefore it’s necessary to read and study your Bible daily and renew your mind. Heilagur andi, Who dwells in you shall help, guide and teach you.
The Holy Spirit teaches you in the Word
Þegar þú varst gömul sköpun 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.
En þegar þú varðst ný sköpun, 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.
Heilagur andi þekkir djúp Guðs, 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 Hugsanir hans og Leiðir hans.
Í hvert sinn, 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, sem tilheyra heiminum, 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, sem ganga á eftir andanum.
You shall not be received and welcomed everywhere you go. Not even among your fellow brothers and sisters, who are worldly-minded. Vel, 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 búast við 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, þekking, tilfinningar, og tilfinningar, 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, Lærisveinar hans, who are His followers, shall experience the same thing. Jesus spoke about it and said, að þeir, who love Him and obey Boðorð hans, 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, mar 13:13, Lúkas 21:17)
Þá munu þeir framselja þig til þjáninga, og mun drepa þig: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. Og þá munu margir hneykslast, og munu svíkja hver annan, og munu hata hver annan (Matthías 24:9-10)
Blessuð eruð þér, þegar menn munu hata þig, og þegar þeir munu skilja þig frá félagsskap sínum, og mun smána þig, og rek nafn þitt út sem illt, fyrir sakir Mannssonarins. Gleðjist á þeim degi, og hoppa af gleði: fyrir, sjá, laun þín eru mikil á himnum: Því að á sama hátt gerðu feður þeirra við spámennina (Lúkas 6:22)
Ef heimurinn hatar þig, þú veist að það hataði mig áður en það hataði þig. Ef þú værir af heiminum, heimurinn myndi elska hans eigin: heldur af því að þér eruð ekki af heiminum, en ég hef útvalið þig úr heiminum, þess vegna hatar heimurinn þig. Mundu orðsins sem ég sagði þér, Þjónninn er ekki meiri en herra hans. Ef þeir hafa ofsótt mig, þeir munu líka ofsækja þig; ef þeir hafa haldið orði mínu, þeir munu líka geyma þitt. En allt þetta munu þeir gjöra yður vegna nafns míns, af því að þeir þekkja ekki þann sem sendi mig (John 15:18-21)
Ef ég hefði ekki komið og talað við þá, þeir höfðu ekki haft synd: en nú hafa þeir enga skikkju fyrir synd sína. Sá sem hatar mig hatar líka föður minn. Ef ég hefði ekki unnið meðal þeirra þau verk sem enginn annar maður gerði, þeir höfðu ekki haft synd: en nú hafa þeir bæði séð og hatað mig og föður minn. En þetta kemur að, til þess að það orð rætist sem ritað er í lögmáli þeirra, Þeir hötuðu mig án ástæðu (John 15:22-25)
Ég hef gefið þeim orð þitt; Og heimurinn hataði þá, Vegna þess að þeir eru ekki heimsins, Jafnvel þar sem ég er ekki heimsins (John 17:14)
Why the world hates Jesus?
Heimurinn getur ekki hatað þig; En ég hatar það, því ég ber vitni um það, að verk þess eru vond (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, sem tilheyrði heiminum, 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. syndarinnar.
Þess vegna, 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, sem í þeim býr, hates the One, Hver býr í þér.
Djöfullinn, who lives in them hates Jesus Christ, Who lives in you. Jesús sagði, that you shall be hated because of Nafn hans.
Vegna þess, 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. Rétt eins og í Gamla sáttmálanum, when the prophets spoke the truth of God and were hated, ofsóttur, imprisoned and sometimes even killed.
Þess vegna, þeir, 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, Hugur, soul and strength and haven’t laid down your flesh, og haltu áfram að ganga eftir holdinu, you care what other people think of you because it affects you. Þess vegna, you shall eventually succumb and compromise with the world.
But when you elska Guð af öllu hjarta, Hugur, 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 (Lestu líka: Telja kostnaðinn).
Hins vegar, 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.
Þvert á móti! 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, sem einnig eru boðorð Jesú, you prove that you love God with all your heart, Hugur, sál og styrk.
Þú sýnir að ást þín til Guðs kemur fyrst í lífi þínu, og þar af leiðandi, þú heldur áfram að ganga í hlýðni við hann.
Þú veist ástæðuna, hvers vegna fólkið, sem tilheyra heiminum, hata þig, en þú skalt ekki hrífast af því. Þú skalt hvorki verða reiður eða reiður vegna þess að þú gengur ekki eftir holdinu og þess vegna ertu ekki leiddur af tilfinningum þínum og tilfinningum. Í staðinn, þú verður fluttur með samúð á þeim.
Heimurinn hatar kristna, sem fylgja og gera Orðið
Marvel ekki, bræður mínir, ef heimurinn hatar þig. Við vitum að við erum farin frá dauða til lífs, því vér elskum bræðurna (1 John 3:13-14)
Áheyrendur orðsins skulu ekki hataðir, þar sem þeir eru engin ógn við ríki myrkursins. Aðeins fylgjendur og gerendur Orðsins, sem þýðir að þú trúir hverju orði Guðs og gerir orð Guðs, shall be hated by the world, Rétt eins og Jesús.
Hvers vegna? 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 Jói 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.
Synir djöfulsins, 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.
Sá sem trúir á hann er ekki fordæmdur: En sá sem telur ekki er ekki fordæmdur, Vegna þess að hann hefur ekki trúað á nafni eingets sonar Guðs. Og þetta er fordæmingin, Það ljós er komið í heiminn, Og menn elskuðu myrkur frekar en ljós, Vegna þess að verk þeirra voru vond. Því að hver sem illt gerir hatar ljósið, hvorugt kemur í ljós, Svo að ekki ætti að ávíta verkum hans. En sá sem gerir sannleikann kemur til ljóssins, að verk hans megi koma fram, að þeir séu unnar í Guði (John 3:18-21)
And just like Abel, spámennirnir, Jesus and the apostles, þetta er samt þannig. 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 (synd) eru vondir.
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 afneita Jesú Kristi. Because whosoever shall deny Jesus, honum/henni mun Jesús líka afneita fyrir föðurnum (Matthías 10:33, 2 Timothy 2:12)
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