The world hates Christians because they don’t belong to the world, said Jesus in John 15:18-19 în Biblie. 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, dar în ochii lui Dumnezeu, sunt rușinosi. Because they were not able to stand on the Word (Biblia).
They didn’t stay faithful to God and obedient to His will. In schimb, ei negat pe Isus Hristos by watering down the gospel and compromising with the world.
All because they were not prepared to die to ‘self’ and își dau propriile vieți și urmează -l pe Isus.
Everyone that believes has laid down his life
But if you decide to follow Jesus, you crucify your flesh (Matei 16:24, marcă 8:34, Luke 9:23). Prin nașterea din nou în Hristos (moartea cărnii și învierea duhului din morți), you have become a new creation in the spiritual realm.
Nu mai ești fiu al diavolului (acest lucru se aplică atât bărbaților, cât și femeilor) that has the spirit of the world (duhul lui antihrist). Prin urmare, you don’t belong to the devil and the world anymore.
Dar prin the rebirth, ai devenit fiu al lui Dumnezeu (atât bărbat cât și femeie).
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. Prin urmare, va avea loc o schimbare în viața ta.
If you won’t experience a change in your life, you might ask yourself if you are truly născut din nou and have become a new creation and if the Holy Spirit dwells in you.
Când devii fiu al lui Dumnezeu, nu mai aparține lumii. Prin urmare, 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
Căci Cuvântul lui Dumnezeu este rapid, și puternic, și mai ascuțit decât orice sabie cu două, străpunctând chiar până la divizarea sufletului și a spiritului, și a articulațiilor și măduvei, și este un discerner al gândurilor și intențiilor inimii. Nici nu există nicio creatură care să nu se manifeste în privința Lui: dar toate lucrurile sunt dezbrăcate și deschise pentru ochii lui cu care trebuie să facem (Evrei 4:12-13)
Când te naști din nou, it’s crucial to reînnoiește-ți mintea cu Cuvântul lui Dumnezeu. 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 Lăsați-l pe bătrân si nu Îmbrăcați-vă cu omul nou.
Therefore it’s necessary to read and study your Bible daily and renew your mind. Sfantul Duh, Who dwells in you shall help, guide and teach you.
The Holy Spirit teaches you in the Word
Când erai Veche creație 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.
Dar când ai devenit o nouă creație, 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.
Duhul Sfânt cunoaște adâncurile lui Dumnezeu, 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 Gândurile lui și Căile lui.
De fiecare dată, 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, care aparțin lumii, 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, care se plimbă după Duh.
You shall not be received and welcomed everywhere you go. Not even among your fellow brothers and sisters, who are worldly-minded. Bine, 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 aştepta 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, cunoştinţe, emoții, și sentimente, 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, Discipolii săi, who are His followers, shall experience the same thing. Jesus spoke about it and said, că aceia, who love Him and obey poruncile Lui, 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, Luke 21:17)
Atunci ei te vor preda ca să fii chinuit, și te va ucide: și veți fi urâți de toate neamurile pentru numele meu. Și atunci mulți vor fi jignit, și se vor trăda unii pe alții, și se vor urî unii pe alții (Matei 24:9-10)
Ferice de voi, când oamenii te vor urî, și când te vor despărți de compania lor, și vă va reproșa, și alungă numele tău ca pe un rău, de dragul Fiului omului. Bucurați-vă în ziua aceea, și sar de bucurie: pentru, Iată, răsplata ta este mare în cer: căci în același fel au făcut părinții lor cu profeții (Luke 6:22)
Dacă lumea te urăște, știți că M-a urât pe Mine înainte de a vă urî pe voi. Dacă ați fi din lume, lumea le-ar iubi pe ale lui: ci pentru că nu sunteţi din lume, dar eu te-am ales din lume, de aceea lumea te urăște. Adu-ți aminte de cuvântul pe care ți l-am spus, Slujitorul nu este mai mare decât stăpânul său. Dacă M-au persecutat, te vor persecuta si pe tine; dacă au păzit cuvântul Meu, le vor păstra și pe ale tale. Dar toate aceste lucruri vi le vor face de dragul Numelui Meu, pentru că nu-L cunosc pe Cel ce M-a trimis (Ioan 15:18-21)
Dacă nu aș fi venit și le-aș fi vorbit, nu avuseseră păcat: dar acum ei nu au nici o haină pentru păcatul lor. Cel ce Mă urăște pe Mine, urăște și pe Tatăl Meu. Dacă nu aș fi făcut printre ei lucrările pe care nimeni nu le-a făcut, nu avuseseră păcat: dar acum amândoi M-au văzut și M-au urât atât pe Mine, cât și pe Tatăl Meu. Dar aceasta se întâmplă, ca să se împlinească cuvântul scris în legea lor, M-au urât fără motiv (Ioan 15:22-25)
le-am dat cuvântul Tău; şi lumea i-a urât, pentru că nu sunt din lume, chiar dacă eu nu sunt din lume (Ioan 17:14)
Why the world hates Jesus?
Lumea nu te poate urî; dar pe mine mă urăște, pentru că mărturisesc despre asta, că lucrările lui sunt rele (Ioan 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, care aparțineau lumii, 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. de păcat.
Prin urmare, 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, care locuiește în ele, hates the One, Cine locuiește în tine.
Diavolul, who lives in them hates Jesus Christ, Who lives in you. a spus Isus, that you shall be hated because of Numele Lui.
Din cauza faptului, 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. Exact ca în Vechiul Legământ, when the prophets spoke the truth of God and were hated, persecutat, imprisoned and sometimes even killed.
Prin urmare, aceste, 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, minte, soul and strength and haven’t laid down your flesh, și continuă să mergi după carne, you care what other people think of you because it affects you. Prin urmare, you shall eventually succumb and compromise with the world.
But when you iubeste pe Dumnezeu din toată inima, minte, 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 (Citeste si: Numărați costul).
in orice caz, 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.
Dimpotrivă! 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, care sunt și cele poruncile lui Isus, you prove that you love God with all your heart, minte, suflet și putere.
You show that your love for God comes first in your life, și ca urmare, you keep walking in obedience to Him.
You know the reason, why the people, care aparțin lumii, te urăsc, 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. In schimb, you shall be moved with compasiune on them.
The world hates Christians, who follow and do the Word
Marvel not, Frații mei, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren (1 Ioan 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, la fel ca Isus.
De ce? 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.
Fiii diavolului, 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.
Cel ce crede în El nu este condamnat: dar cel ce nu crede este deja condamnat, pentru că nu a crezut în Numele singurului Fiu al lui Dumnezeu. Și aceasta este condamnarea, că lumina a venit în lume, iar oamenii iubeau mai degrabă întunericul decât lumina, pentru că faptele lor erau rele. Căci oricine face răul urăște lumina, nici nu iese la lumină, ca nu cumva faptele lui să fie mustrate. Dar cel care face adevărul vine la lumină, pentru ca faptele lui să se manifeste, că sunt lucrate în Dumnezeu (Ioan 3:18-21)
And just like Abel, profetii, Jesus and the apostles, Acesta este încă cazul. 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 (păcat) sunt răi.
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 nega pe Isus Hristos. Because whosoever shall deny Jesus, him/her will Jesus also deny before the Father (Matei 10:33, 2 Timotei 2:12)
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