Existem muitos cristãos, who do their best and try everything they can to make the world love them. Because the world hates Christians. 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. Em vez de, eles têm denied Jesus Christ by watering down the gospel and compromise with the world. All because they were not prepared to die to ‘self’ and lay down their own lives e siga Jesus.
A son of God
But if you decide to siga Jesus, you have crucified your flesh (Esteira 16:24, março 8:34, Lu 9:23). Através da regeneração, which means that you’ve died to the flesh and your spirit is raised from the dead, você se tornou um nova criação no reino espiritual.
Você não é mais um filho do diabo, 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, você se tornou um filho de Deus, 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 renascido and have become a new creation and if the Holy Spirit dwells in you.
When you become a son of God, 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
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (Hebreus 4:12-13)
When you are born again, it’s crucial to renove sua mente com a Palavra de Deus. 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 vontade de Deus and therefore you shall not adie o velho and not revestir-se do novo homem.
O espírito Santo, Who dwells in you shall help you and guide and teach you. When you were the velha criação 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.
But when you became a new creation, 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.
The Holy Spirit knows the depths of God, 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 Seus pensamentos e Seus caminhos.
Toda vez, 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, que pertencem ao mundo, 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, who walk after the Spirit.
You shall not be received and welcomed everywhere you go. Not even among your fellow brothers and sisters, who are worldly-minded. Bem, 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, conhecimento, emoções, e sentimentos, 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, Seus discípulos, who are His followers, shall experience the same thing. Jesus spoke about it and said, que aqueles, who love Him and obey Seus mandamentos, 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 (Esteira 10:22, março 13:13, Lucas 21:17)
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another (Mateus 24:9-10)
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, contemplar, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets (Lucas 6:22)
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. Se eles me perseguiram, eles também vão perseguir você; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for My Name’s sake, because they know not Him that sent Me (John 15:18-21)
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. He that hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause (John 15:22-25)
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world (John 17:14)
Why the world hates Jesus?
The world cannot hate you; but Me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil (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, who belonged to the world, 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. do pecado.
Portanto, 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, who dwells in them, hates the One, Que habita em você.
Satã, who lives in them hates Jesus Christ, Who lives in you. Jesus disse, that you shall be hated because of His Name.
Por causa do fato, 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. Just like in the Old Covenant, when the prophets spoke the truth of God and were hated, persecuted, imprisoned and sometimes even killed.
Portanto, aqueles, 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, mente, soul and strength and haven’t laid down your flesh, and keep walking after the flesh, you care what other people think of you because it affects you. Portanto, you shall eventually succumb and compromise with the world.
But when you Deus do amor with all your heart, mente, 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 (Leia também: Conte o custo).
No entanto, 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.
Pelo contrário! 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, which are also the mandamentos de Jesus, you prove that you love God with all your heart, mente, soul and strength.
You show that your love for God comes first in your life, and as a result, you keep walking in obedience to Him.
You know the reason, why the people, que pertencem ao mundo, hate you, 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. Em vez de, you shall be moved with compassion on them.
The world hates Christians, who follow and do the Word
Marvel not, meus irmãos, 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, assim como Jesus.
Por que? 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.
The sons of the devil, 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.
He that believes on Him is not condemned: mas quem não crê já está condenado, porque não creu no Nome do Filho unigênito de Deus. E esta é a condenação, que a luz veio ao mundo, e os homens amavam mais as trevas do que a luz, porque suas ações eram más. For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, para que seus atos não sejam reprovados. But he that does truth comes to the light, para que seus atos sejam manifestos, que eles são feitos em Deus (John 3:18-21)
And just like Abel, the prophets, 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 (pecado) are evil.
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 deny Jesus Christ. Because whosoever shall deny Jesus, him/her will Jesus also deny before the Father (Mateus 10:33, 2 Timóteo 2:12)
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