When we tell the truth of God, whether a principal or a command it will be met by the world with contempt. This is not about you, it is on the person who rejected God's word in favor of the standards of the fallen culture. More people today who say they are Christians have never experienced a transformation, they were never born again. Never blame yourself when someone becomes angry at you for telling truth, they chose their anger over a reasonable discussion to discover the truth.
The devil wants us to believe that the violent reactions of others are our fault. The born again believer does not become violent or contemptuous when told they are wrong. A born again believer knows their security comes from God and that God sees it all. There is no sense that they need to badger or punish someone or into believing them, they can leave it all with God and remain calm.
Those who want to control others use anger as a tool on their belt, hoping their victim will crumble under the weight of their wrath. Born again believers feel no need to force, intimidate or demean others to gain the advantage over them.
God will not change into a new creation anyone who does not want to be changed. He only changes those who desire to be delivered from their sinful nature. This is why we see so many people in church gatherings who never seem to grow spiritually, even going into their elders years worse than when they first proclaimed to be Christians.
Far too many people think they will just join the church club and that makes them saved. They do not understand that salvation comes through faith in Christ, after which He sends the Holy Spirit to dwell in them as a counselor and guide among other things.
Many church attendees today do not have the Holy Spirit because they did not repent, they had no desire to become Christlike and they even spurn many of His commands. They think the commands are suggestions they can choose or not choose.
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. 4So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."
John 15:18-25
Disciples’ Relation to the World
18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake because they do not know the One who sent Me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sinned, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates Me hates My Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
25 But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’"
Some evidence that someone belongs to Christ is that they love the Word of God, treasure His commands and love the brethren with whom they share the Holy Spirit.
Romans 12:10
"Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor."
1 John 3:14
"We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death."
Ephesians 4:2
"With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,"
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