The Anger of the Ungodly

When the ungodly become angry at your attempts to speak to them rationally about God they will often gossip to ruin your reputation, expect it!

This is why God told us to remove ourselves from those who reject Christ when we share the gospel or when we share the truth of Scripture with someone who pretends to be a Christian but has never been born again.

We cannot change anyone, we can only obey God and leave all the results to Him. We are not responsible for making sure others choose Christ, we are only responsible for obeying the Holy Spirit in our message.

Those who batter others through intimidation and mocking are not obeying God, they do not have a heart for people they only wish to dominate others.

1 Corinthians 13:3-7

"… 3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.…7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

Those who lack love and empathy for others do not have the love of Christ. They are attempting to obey God through their own fleshly means. God says that truth without love is like a sounding gong, an irritating ineffective noise. It is not obedience to God when we elevate ourselves above others, dominating and mocking them to be superior to them. This is the opposite of love and is disobedience, not led by the Spirit of God but by the flesh.

Those who love Christ walk in kindness all the time to everyone. Those who are self-absorbed spend more time judging the small insignificant things to find fault to be superior. They develop in their minds scenarios that are not true but they desire to believe. The need for superiority over others is sin, plain and simple.

Those who snap and snarl at others in disagreements are full of self-exaltation, their heart is revealed in their response to correction or disagreement. These people re unreachable and unteachable. It is best to walk away and leave them to God, they are Pharisees who love praise and adulation from others but have none for anyone else.

Matthew 23:4-6 "…4 They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. 5 All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. 6 They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,…"

Matthew 23:27-28

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."

Rules without love are not Christlike. The principles of God flow from the heart of God with great love and concern for others. The rules are not the objective, the transformation of the person is the concern of those who love Christ. We are only messengers, the Holy Spirit moves in the heart.