The more the believer speaks the truth the more they can expect to be rejected. Even more astonishing is that they will be accused of things that are not true but the evil ones want to believe about you.
James 1:2-8
"2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
We are seeing monstrous instability in the modern church. Most Christians don't know what they should believe, but whats worse than that is that they don't want to know.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."
Proverbs 21:2
"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart."
Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
Isaiah 5:21
"Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!"
Proverbs 26:12
"Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him."
There will be many people who tell us we shouldn't correct or rebuke others. They are living in a culture that is stubborn and arrogant, any form of correction is considered rude, those with prideful hearts will rage at any suggestion that they were incorrect or that they didn't consider the Bible as the source of wisdom.
When a culture believes whatever you want to believe is their truth, then they will not endure correction or rebuke.
Get used to this brothers and sisters. Do not allow the tactics of the devil to cause you to act the way these bullies act. State your case according to the Bible and be determined to be unaffected or unemotional about the response. The response is God's business, we are merely the messengers.
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