When you follow Christ, the world, the church, the family, the institutions will all attempt on some level to make you think you have lost your mind, don't believe them.
The more radically you follow Christ the less you will be supported and loved in this world, even by those who say they are Christians.
You will be chastised for causing hurt feelings merely by bringing up scripture in conversation. You will be ignored by the more polite people but the response is basically the same.....that is the devil attempting to discourage discussion about Christ and His principles.
Then you have those who are enablers who will be very uncomfortable speaking the truth to those who are in error, even defending the one whose feelings they are concerned about.
Notice often the feelings of the one in error is much more important to some people than what the person in error is doing to the rest of the body with their nonsense and division.
God was clear to the Galatians that they were proud of how tolerant of sin they were in the body. They counted themselves as more loving by not confronting those who cause division by their sinful attitudes and behavior.
Galatians 3: 1-2 1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?"
God did not praise them rather he chastised them for their tolerance of sin, comfortable with offending God but uncomfortable with chastizing sin that was promoting the sin by their silence. In other words, they were more worried about appearing kind than they were about the holiness of the body. Willing to offend God so as not to offend sinners in their sin.
Does any of this sound familiar? There are people with wrong thinking, wrong focus who are bombastically so within the church who are being defended, while those who are Spiritual desiring holiness are being silenced through accusations of being unloving.
Is it any wonder the modern church is so off base, accepting of sin and hostile toward those who love the Bible.
Galatians 3:3
"Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"
The church has adopted the ways of the world to avoid any conflict at all to appear kind. But it is not kind because it takes the church down the long road to hell without guidance and without correction.
Luke 12:51 "51Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. "
Truth divides because it causes the rebellious ones to rise up and fight against it. Sometimes it can be discouraging but do not let it stop you from speaking the truth. We are not called to have results, we are called to be faithful even if no one else will listen.
Be encouraged and strengthen by Christ in you, at some point in your life you will feel all alone, but He will go through with you always.
John 14:16-17
"16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you."
Hallelujah!!!!
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