If the world cannot find something against you they will poke at every little thing you do and say to be able to blame you for something. If they can make you seem like the bad one they relieve themselves of their own heart conviction.
Why would the world hate us for how we live and what we say? After all, they don't have to do what we do. They hate us because they are influenced by devils who cause the world to believe they have something against us. The goal of the devil is to intimidate us into silence, accusing us the same way the devil does every day.
Revelation 12:10 "Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night."
John 15:19-21 "…19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. 20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. 21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.…"
We are living in the end days when families will turn on their own, the ones who have been born-again. Members of our own families will use manipulation, accusation, distortions, gossip and everything else to destroy our character to anyone who will listen. Sometimes it's very subtle, the dismissiveness, subtle ignoring, and other tactics that cause those around them to think something is wrong with us.
Do not become discouraged when you feel alone or personally attacked, this is part of the existence of someone who wants Christ more than anyone or anything else.
Matthew 22:36-38 "…36“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?” 37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment."
If we love Christ more than anyone or anything we will live as He wants us to live. When we do this we can expect to lose family and friends. It is a blessing to know that we are not alone, Christ and the apostles were rejected and even killed.
Luke 10:27
"And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
1 John 4:7
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God."
When we love Christ with our whole heart we can't help but love others the way He has loved us. There is no guile, anger or contempt in the heart of a born-again believer.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
No fruit, No Spirit, No Salvation!
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