They will devalue your aspirations, your talents and your joy. These people will attempt to convince you that you are mean, selfish and uncompromising. They will negate most of what you say and do unless it agrees with them.
If you are seeking the Lord through the Holy Spirit, then you will be a target for those who are not doing this. Often I run into people who look at me as if I had two heads, they cannot wrap their minds around total dependence on the Holy Spirit and don't believe it is even possible.
Most "Christians" are depending on what is falsely called knowledge to determine their actions, not wisdom but their idea of knowledge. They have been trained in psychology to make sure that they say and do things that will draw people to them.
Christ did everything perfectly right and most people rejected Him.
Matthew 7:13-14 "13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it."
When the goal is to get people to like us, we have gone down the wrong path. Getting people to like us does not mean they will like Christ. When we compromise truth or soften it in order to have a following that elevates us, we have compromised the gospel. The motives of a compromiser is in question. When we know the inevitable rejection that Christ promised those who love Him, we can expect most people to attack our character, our deliver and everything else except address the subject matter before them.
Mark 13:12-13 "…12 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. 13 You will be hated by everyone on account of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved."
We know that in these end times we will find more people hostile to truth than those who want it. 2 Timothy 3 tells us all about the mentality of the people of the end times.
Never allow another human being to intimidate you into silence or allow them to affect your dependence on the Holy Spirit. There are those who will mock and demean you in order to cause frustration and compromise. It is the devil using these people to bring you into submission to his agenda, which is to intimidate into silence anyone who is walking with Christ.
It is the work of the devil to come against a born again believer who is speaking truth.
1 John 3:7-9 "…7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.…"
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