If you are a son of God, then the world doesn’t know you, because the world doesn’t know Him. That’s what the Bible says in 1 John 3:1. The world will not understand you anymore and thinks you are foolish and woolly. Por que? Because the world lies in darkness and those, who belong to the world are carnal and walk after the flesh according to the ruler of the world and is ruled by the senses, emoções, sentimentos, pensamentos etc.. The flesh dominates the life. But if you are born again in Christ, you have been transferred from the darkness into the Kingdom of God and therefore you shall no longer live like the world (na escuridão) não mais. You have become a son or daughter of God and are no longer a son or daughter of the devil. You are born of God. Deus se tornou seu Pai, therefore you shall listen to Him and do His will. This means that you shall walk after the Spirit, being led by the Word and the Spirit and walk in the will of God.
Separated from the world
Contemplar, que tipo de amor o Pai nos concedeu, para que fôssemos chamados filhos de Deus: portanto o mundo não nos conhece, because it knew him not (1 John 3:1)
Assim que você se tornar renascido, e se tornar um filho de Deus, you will be separated from the world. Your spirit will become alive by the power of the Holy Spirit. You will receive God’s nature, pela habitação do Espírito Santo. Quando você renove sua mente com a Palavra de Deus, and apply the words of God into your life, you will live by what the Word says, instead of what the world, your senses and your feelings say.
O espírito Santo, Who lives inside of you will guide you and teach you, so that you will be able to understand the Word of God. Quanto mais você renove sua mente com a Palavra de Deus, the more your mind will be transformed into the mind of Christ, and will line up with A vontade de Deus. When you apply the Word of God in your everyday life, you shall stay in the Jesus Christ; the Word and walk after the Spirit instead of the flesh.
The world will turn against you
Quando você se torna um filho de Deus, and walk after the Spirit and do what the Word says, you shall notice, that the world shall change her attitude towards you and shall treat you differently. As pessoas, who were once your friends, Conhecidos, family members or close colleagues, will change their behaviour and some will even turn against you.
The more you begin to look and act like the Word, the more hostile they will become. Maybe you don’t understand what’s happening, and are you looking for answers to explain their hostile behaviour towards you. But you shall not find the answer, você está procurando.
Talvez você pense, that you did something wrong, and want to find out, what you have done wrong. But let me tell you this: you didn’t do anything wrong and they didn’t do anything wrong.
It’s about the fact, that the father of this world; o diabo, hates the Person, quem mora dentro de você: Jesus.
The devil hates Him and will always hate Him. Portanto, os filhos do diabo, will also hate the children of God. No one can change that. It’s a fact.
“Se o mundo te odeia, know that it hated Me before it hated you”
Jesus diz: Se o mundo te odeia, você sabe que ele me odiou antes de odiar você. Se você fosse do mundo, o mundo amaria o seu próprio: mas porque você não é do mundo, mas eu escolhi você fora do mundo, portanto o mundo te odeia. Lembre-se da palavra que eu lhe disse, O servo não é maior que o seu senhor. Se eles me perseguiram, eles também vão perseguir você; se eles guardaram a minha palavra, eles vão manter o seu também (JN 15:18-20)
Quando você nasce de novo, you shall no longer live the way you used to live; segundo a carne. But you shall live after the Spirit and the Word. Por causa disso, the world shall no longer like you, and shall even hate you.
O mundo não pode te odiar; mas eu odeio, porque eu testifico disso, que as suas obras são más (JN 7:7)
Quando os discípulos eram a velha criação, the world didn’t hate them. But the world hated Jesus, porque Ele testificou que as obras dela eram más.
O mesmo Espírito Santo, Quem viveu em Jesus, vive dentro de você, and will also testify that the works of the world are evil. Jesus nunca permitiu o pecado, but revealed sin and called the people to arrependimento.
A sweet fragrance or a nasty fragrance?
You shall be a sweet fragrance to those, who are looking for the truth, and to those, whom God has chosen. But you shall be a nasty fragrance to those, who don’t want to listen to the words of God and want to keep living in rebellion against God and His Word.
Porque somos para Deus o doce perfume de Cristo, naqueles que são salvos, e naqueles que perecem: Para aquele que somos o sabor da morte até a morte; e para o outro o cheiro de vida para vida (2 Co 2:15,16)
When the world loves you, you should examine yourself, if you really walk according to what the Word says? Are you really a sweet savor of Christ unto God? Or are you still a savor of death unto God? Are you really born again by the Holy Spirit, do you walk after the Spirit? Or are you still a sinner? Do you habitually live in unrighteousness and sin, and are death to Him?
Trying hard to be accepted by the world
Why are so many Christians trying so hard to be accepted by the world? Why do they want to be liked by the world, and adjust Gods Word to the world, so that they can join them and live exactly like the world? Why don’t Christians just remove the worldly things out of their lives, instead of Christianizing worldly things and make them all right and acceptable to them, so that they can keep doing them? Why do believers try to save the world by changing the church of Christ into a people’s church, onde as pessoas são o centro em vez de Cristo? Why don’t they come out for the Word and stand on the Word? Why don’t they take a stand for Jesus Christ? Por que? Por que?
Não ame o mundo, nem as coisas que há no mundo. Se algum homem ama o mundo, o amor do Pai não está nele (1 JN 2:15)
If the world loves you, and you love the world and live like the world, then the love of the Father is not present in you. When the love of God is not present in you, then the Holy Spirit is not present in you, and therefore Jesus is not present in you. Estas não são minhas palavras, but they are His Words.
‘Seja o sal da terra’
