基督徒很多, 他們盡最大努力並盡一切努力讓世界愛他們. 因為世界討厭基督徒. 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. 反而, 他們有 否認耶穌基督 by watering down the gospel and compromise with the world. All because they were not prepared to die to ‘self’ and 放下自己的生命 並跟隨耶穌.
神的兒子
But if you decide to 跟隨耶穌, you have crucified your flesh (墊 16:24, 3月 8:34, 魯 9:23). 通過再生, which means that you’ve died to the flesh and your spirit is raised from the dead, 你已經成為一個 新創作 在精神領域.
你不再是魔鬼的兒子, 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, 你已經成為神的兒子, 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 重生 and have become a new creation and if the Holy Spirit dwells in you.
當你成為神的兒子時, 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
因為上帝的話很快, 和強大, 比任何雙劍更尖銳, 甚至刺入靈魂和精神的分裂, 和關節和骨髓, 並且是對內心思想和意圖的辨別者. 他的視線中都沒有任何生物: 但是萬物都是赤裸裸的，向他的眼睛打開了 (希伯來 書 4:12-13)
當你重生時, it’s crucial to 更新你的想法 與神的話語. 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 神的旨意 and therefore you shall not 推遲老人 而不是 穿上新人.
神聖的靈魂, Who dwells in you shall help you and guide and teach you. When you were the 舊造 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.
但當你成為新造的人時, 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.
聖靈知道上帝的深處, 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 他的想法 和 他的方式.
每次, 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, 誰屬於世界, 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, 誰追求聖靈.
You shall not be received and welcomed everywhere you go. Not even among your fellow brothers and sisters, who are worldly-minded. 井, 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, 知識, 情緒, 和感受, 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, 門徒, who are His followers, shall experience the same thing. Jesus spoke about it and said, 那些, who love Him and obey 他的誡命, 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 (墊 10:22, 3月 13:13, 路克 21:17)
那時他們必將你交給受苦的人, 並殺死你: 為了我的名字，你們應討厭所有國家. 然後許多人會被冒犯, 並且會互相背叛, 並且會互相憎恨 (馬修 24:9-10)
你們有福了, 當男人恨你, 當他們將您與公司分開時, 並責備你, 並把你的名字拋棄為邪惡, 為了人的兒子. 那天很高興你們, 並為喜悅飛躍: 為了, 看, 您的獎勵在天堂很棒: 因為他們的父親以同樣的方式向先知 (路克 6:22)
如果全世界都討厭你, 你們知道它在恨你之前恨我. 如果你們是世界, 世界會愛他自己的: 但是因為你們不是世界, 但我從世界上選擇了你, 因此世界恨你. 記住我對你說過的話, 僕人並不比主人偉大. 如果他們迫害我, 他們也會迫害你; 如果他們遵守我的話, 他們也會保留你的. 但他們會為了我的名對你們做這一切事情, 因為他們不認識那差我來的 (約翰 15:18-21)
如果我沒有來和他們說話, 他們沒有犯罪: 但是現在他們沒有罪. He that hates Me hates My Father also. 如果我沒有在他們中間做過的作品, 他們沒有犯罪: but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father. 但這即將發生, 為要應驗他們律法所寫的話, They hated Me without a cause (約翰 15:22-25)
我已經向他們保證了; 世界也討厭他們, 因為他們不是世界, 即使我不是世界 (約翰 17:14)
Why the world hates Jesus?
世界不能恨你; 但是我討厭, 因為我作見證, 其行為是邪惡的 (約翰 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, 誰屬於世界, 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.
所以, 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, 誰住在他們身上, hates the One, 誰住在你心裡.
惡魔, who lives in them hates Jesus Christ, Who lives in you. 耶穌說, that you shall be hated because of 他的名字.
因為事實, 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. 就像舊約中一樣, when the prophets spoke the truth of God and were hated, 迫害, imprisoned and sometimes even killed.
所以, 那些, 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, 介意, soul and strength and haven’t laid down your flesh, 並繼續隨從肉體而行, you care what other people think of you because it affects you. 所以, you shall eventually succumb and compromise with the world.
But when you 愛上帝 全心全意, 介意, 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 (另請閱讀: 計算成本).
然而, 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.
相反! 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, 這也是 耶穌的誡命, you prove that you love God with all your heart, 介意, 靈魂與力量.
You show that your love for God comes first in your life, 結果, you keep walking in obedience to Him.
You know the reason, why the people, 誰屬於世界, 恨你, 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. 反而, you shall be moved with 同情 on them.
The world hates Christians, who follow and do the Word
Marvel not, 我的弟兄們, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren (1 約翰 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, 就像耶穌一樣.
為什麼? 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 (根 21:41, 1 喬 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.
惡魔之子們, 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.
相信他的人沒有被譴責: 但是他認為還沒有被譴責, 因為他沒有以上帝的唯一兒子的名義相信. 這是譴責, 那光進入世界, 男人愛黑暗而不是光明, 因為他們的行為是邪惡的. For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, 免得他的契約應被拒之門外. But he that does truth comes to the light, 他的行為可能被闡明, 他們是在上帝里面鍛造的 (約翰 3:18-21)
And just like Abel, 先知們, Jesus and the apostles, this is still the case. 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 (罪) 是邪惡的.
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 否認耶穌基督. Because whosoever shall deny Jesus, him/her will Jesus also deny before the Father (馬修 10:33, 2 蒂莫西 2:12)
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