For Those who have trusted Christ, may I encourage you in this time of increasing wickedness.
There are those who would call us mean, negative and uncaring because we post Scriptures that seem that way. But remember the most loving thing anyone can do for a lost and dying world is to warn them what is coming and give them an opportunity to trust Christ, so that they will not be counted with the wicked who perish.
Many and even most who hear the warnings will be angry at them, rather than believing them. They will hate and persecute those who are attempting to snatch them from the fires of hell through the preaching of the truth.
They will hate us for exposing sin, even though our motives are to help, not harm. Don't be discouraged by this, the world is getting worse, we are told this would happen in 2 Timothy 3. Members of our own families will be against us, even telling lies to turn others against us, will little or no truth to the allegations.
2 Timothy 3:1-9 "3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was."
Matthew 10:36 "and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD."
Matthew 5:11 ""Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me."
Malachi 4:1-3
"4 “For behold, the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“That will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
3 You shall trample the wicked,
For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet
On the day that I do this,”
Says the Lord of hosts."
2 Peter 3:9
"The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance."
Proverbs 6:16-19 "There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
19 a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers."
If you are the object of this kind of hatred, be blessed, you are in the company of the apostles and Christ Himself. It is very hard and discouraging if we focus on the reviling, but if we focus on Christ, we can experience great joy that we have placed God above everyone and everything, in the place of pre-eminence.
Hallelujah, it will be over soon, all this mess will be burned up, our bodies will be new and we have a glorious inheritance awaiting us at the marriage supper of the Lamb.
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