Judging Based on Reaction is not Wise

We can never judge the reaction of others when we speak the truth about God or about what they are doing, based on the delivery.

They killed Christ and the apostles for telling the truth and they will hate us too. Did Christ and the apostles not deliver the message correctly?

Matthew 10:22-23 "Matthew 10:22-30

22 and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes."

We are not responsible for the reaction and the Holy Spirit is responsible entirely for the delivery.

The delivery may be different for different people based on what the Holy Spirit knows that person needs. We cannot know what a person needs to hear or at what intensity, but the Holy Spirit does.

So many people these days are judging someone as "having done it wrong" because someone became angry. The mantra in our day is "we must say it in a way that it will be received", if that were true then all we have to do is tell the gospel the right way and everyone hearing would become born again. This is nonsense when we know the Bible clearly says that most will not receive the truth, that only a few will be saved.

In our day people get angry that you didn't give them the right gift they wanted, they will rage at the silliest things and blame others for their own bad attitude and anger. The devil will make the person with the gospel think they did something wrong in even speaking the gospel, intimidating them into silence, a win for the devil if he can do this.

There are many deliveries of the gospel, as many variations of delivery as there are personalities. We must be generous in assuming believers obeyed the Holy Spirit in their delivery no matter what the hearer's response.

Matthew 10:26-30

"26 “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

27 What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.

28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered."

Hallelujah!!!!