Te riri nei te ao nei i te mau kerisetiano no te mea e ere ratou no te ao nei, Ua parau Iesu i roto ia Ioane 15:18-19 i roto i te. E rave rahi kerisetiano o te ore e farii i teie parau mau e o te ore e rave i te mau mea atoa ta ratou e nehenehe e rave no te faatupu i te here o te ao nei ia ratou. 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 (te Bible).
They didn’t stay faithful to God and obedient to His will. Maoti râ, rātou ua patoi ia Iesu Mesia by watering down the gospel and compromising with the world.
All because they were not prepared to die to ‘self’ and te horo'araa i to ratou iho ora e a pee ia Iesu.
Everyone that believes has laid down his life
But if you decide to follow Jesus, you crucify your flesh (Mataio 16:24, Mareko 8:34, Luka 9:23). Na roto i te fanauraa apî i roto i te Mesia (te poheraa o te tino e te ti'a-faahou-raa o te varua no roto mai i te feia pohe), you have become a new creation in the spiritual realm.
Aita faahou outou e tamarii o te diabolo (e tano te reira no te tane e te vahine) that has the spirit of the world (te varua o te aneti-Keriso). No reira, you don’t belong to the devil and the world anymore.
Teie râ, na roto i te the rebirth, ua riro mai outou ei tamaiti na te Atua (Te tane e te vahine).
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. No reira, E tupu te hoê tauiraa i roto i to outou oraraa.
If you won’t experience a change in your life, you might ask yourself if you are truly Ta'na atu and have become a new creation and if the Holy Spirit dwells in you.
Ia riro mai outou ei tamaiti na te Atua, e ere outou i te mea apî roa no te ao nei. No reira, 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
E mea vitiviti te parau a te Atua, Fa'atumu, e hau atu i te piti o te 'ode, Noa'tu e, e mea maitai roa te Atua i raro a'e i te varua e te varua, e te mau amuiraa e te mau pahi tama'i, e te hoê taata aravihi no te mau mana'o e te mau tumu o te mafatu. Aita atoa te hoê mea ora o te ore e itehia i To'na aro: tera râ, ua matara te mau mea atoa i mua i te mata o Ta'na e ti'a ia tatou ia rave (Heberia 4:12-13)
Ia fanauhia oe, it’s crucial to faaapî i to outou feruriraa i te parau a te Atua. 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 ua tuu i nia i te taata ruhiruhia e aita oomo i te ahu o te taata apî.
Therefore it’s necessary to read and study your Bible daily and renew your mind. Te varua mo'a, Who dwells in you shall help, guide and teach you.
The Holy Spirit teaches you in the Word
I to outou riroraa ei ōrama 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.
Teie râ, i to outou riroraa ei tao'a hamani apî, 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.
Ua ite te Varua Mo'a i te mau mea hohonu o te Atua, 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 To'na mau mana'o e to ' na;.
e mau taime i te mau taime atoa, 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, no te ao nei, 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, Te taata e haere ra i muri a'e i te Varua.
You shall not be received and welcomed everywhere you go. Not even among your fellow brothers and sisters, who are worldly-minded. Oia mau, 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 hi'opo'a 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, ite, Te mau nota, e'ere, 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, Ta'na mau pĭpĭ, who are His followers, shall experience the same thing. Jesus spoke about it and said, teie mau; ta'o'a, who love Him and obey Ta'na mau faaueraa, 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, Luka 21:17)
E tuu atu ratou ia outou ia hamani-ino-hia, e e haapohe ia outou: e e ririhia outou e te mau nunaa atoa no to'u i'oa. E e rave rahi o te hi'o i muri iho, e e faaino ratou te tahi i te tahi, e e riri te tahi i te tahi (Mataio 24:9-10)
E ao to outou, ia riri ana'e te taata ia outou, e ia faaatea ê ana'e ratou ia outou i to ratou amuiraa, e e faaino ratou ia outou, e te faaino i to outou i'oa, no te Tamaiti a te taata. Ia oaoa outou i taua mahana ra, e te horo no te oaoa: nō, fa'a'ōfa'i, E rahi to outou utu'a i te ra'i: mai te reira te huru ta to ratou mau metua i rave i te mau peropheta (Luka 6:22)
Mai te mea e, e'a 'oe te ao nei, ua ite oe e ua riri roa vau ia ' u na mua ' ' e a riri ai outou. Ahiri oe i rave i te ao nei, E here te ao nei i to'na iho: te tahi râ, tera râ, ua ma'iti au ia outou i rapae i te ao nei, ia'na. A haamana'o i te parau ta'u i parau atu ia outou, E ere te tavini i te mea rahi a'e i to te arii. Mai te mea e, ua tamau noa ratou i te, E faaino atoa ratou ia outou; Ua tamau noa ratou i te faaite i to ratou mana'o e,, E tamau noa â ratou i te tapea i te reira. Teie râ, e rave ratou i teie mau mea atoa ia outou no te parau a to ' u i'oa, no te mea aita ratou i ite Ia'na o tei hapono ia'na i te (John 15:18-21)
Ahiri vau i ore i haere mai e paraparau ia ratou, Aita ta ratou i rave i te hara: aita râ ta ratou e tapo'i no ta ratou hara. O tei riri ia'u, e riri atoa oia i to'u Metua. Ahiri vau i ore i rave i te mau ohipa ta te tahi atu taata i ore i rave i rotopu ia ratou, Aita ta ratou i rave i te hara: tera râ, ua ite mai ratou ia'u e to'u Metua, e ua riri mai ratou ia'u atoa. Teie râ, e tupu te reira, ia tupu te parau i papa'ihia i roto i ta ratou ture, Ua riri mai ratou ia'u ma te tumu ore (John 15:22-25)
Ua horo'a vau ia ratou i te hoê parau; e ua riri roa te ao nei i te mea, no te mea e ere ratou i te ao nei, e ere atoa vau i te mea (John 17:14)
Why the world hates Jesus?
Eita te ao; aita râ vau e, no te mea e faaite au i te reira, o te ohipa ïa e manuïa, e mea ino (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, Te ora nei oia i te ao, 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. o te hara.
No reira, 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, o vai te parahi ra i roto ia ratou, hates the One, O vai tei pohe i roto ia outou.
ōhipa, who lives in them hates Jesus Christ, Who lives in you. Ua parau Iesu, that you shall be hated because of To'na i'oa.
No te mea ïa e, 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. Mai roto mai i te Faufaa Tahito, when the prophets spoke the truth of God and were hated, hamani-ino-hia, imprisoned and sometimes even killed.
No reira, Oia, 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, mana'o, soul and strength and haven’t laid down your flesh, e a tamau noa i te haere i muri a'e i te tino, you care what other people think of you because it affects you. No reira, you shall eventually succumb and compromise with the world.
But when you here e to outou mafatu, mana'o, 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 (A tai'o atoa: A taio i te haamâu'araa).
Tera râ,, 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.
Aita roa'tu! 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, o te reira atoa Te mau faaueraa tumu no ni'a ia Iesu, you prove that you love God with all your heart, mana'o, fa'a'ōfa'i.
You show that your love for God comes first in your life, e ', you keep walking in obedience to Him.
You know the reason, why the people, no te ao nei, riri ia outou, 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. Maoti râ, you shall be moved with aroha on them.
The world hates Christians, who follow and do the Word
Marvel not, to'u mau taea'e, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren (1 John 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, Mai ia Iesu.
Nō te aha? 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 tā'atira'a 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.
Te mau tamaroa o te diabolo, 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.
Eita te taata e faaroo Ia'na e faahapahia: area o te ore e ti'aturi ra, ua faautuahia ïa, no te mea aita oia i tiaturi i te I'oa o te Tamaiti hoê roa a te Atua. E teie te faahaparaa, ua tae mai taua maramarama ra i ni'a i te fenua nei, e ua here a'e te taata i te pouri hau atu i te maramarama, no te mea ho'i e, e mea ino ta ratou mau ohipa. For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, ia ore ta ' na mau ohipa ia faautuahia. But he that does truth comes to the light, ia itehia ta ' na mau ohipa, e ua ravehia ratou i roto i te Atua (John 3:18-21)
And just like Abel, te mau peropheta, Jesus and the apostles, E tamau noa â te reira. 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 (hara) fa'a'ōfa'i.
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 faaru'e ia Iesu Mesia. Because whosoever shall deny Jesus, him/her will Jesus also deny before the Father (Mataio 10:33, 2 E hō'ē 2:12)
'Ia riro ei miti no te fenua’
