Excellent, this is an indication how we will be treated. Satan is working very hard, just as hard now as he was in Christ's time, to stir up the unbelievers against believers. If they will hate Christ claiming his miracles were from the devil, they will discredit us this way for the good that we do. They will see our good deeds as bad, even judging something they know nothing about, but choose to assume the worst because of their contempt for us.
When we attempt to bring good... sense to a situation based on the Scriptures, teaching things that would help and even save from hell, the response is going to be to destroy us, anyway they can.
One of the most effect ways of hurting people in our day is to turn family members against us, through gossip, innuendo and covert acts of meanness. Often there is no other reason other than the confidence we have in Christ, obeying Him, when others want us to disobey Him. Even when we require nothing of them, they will be angry that we don't do what they are doing.
John 15:18-19 "18"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19"If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.…"
Psalm 118:7-9 "…7The LORD is for me among those who help me; Therefore I will look with satisfaction on those who hate me. 8It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in man. 9It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in princes.…"
Proverbs 17:11 "An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him."
John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
When we attempt to bring good... sense to a situation based on the Scriptures, teaching things that would help and even save from hell, the response is going to be to destroy us, anyway they can.
One of the most effect ways of hurting people in our day is to turn family members against us, through gossip, innuendo and covert acts of meanness. Often there is no other reason other than the confidence we have in Christ, obeying Him, when others want us to disobey Him. Even when we require nothing of them, they will be angry that we don't do what they are doing.
John 15:18-19 "18"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19"If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.…"
Psalm 118:7-9 "…7The LORD is for me among those who help me; Therefore I will look with satisfaction on those who hate me. 8It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in man. 9It is better to take refuge in the LORD Than to trust in princes.…"
Proverbs 17:11 "An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him."
John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
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