Have any of you been accused of not being a loving and understanding Christian because you attempted to use the Scripture to correct someone?
If anyone has not been rejected, maligned, or mocked for their stand for Christ's principles in the Word of God then it might be because they haven't bothered to warn others of the consequence of sin in their lives.
Never allow rejection to cause you to feel false guilt. If we are guilty the Holy Spirit will make it plain to us and we will confess to be cleansed. However, the world will attempt to make us feel guilty over something we did that the Holy Spirit told us to do.
Christ and the apostles were accused of things that were not true because the world hated them.
Matthew 5:11
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account."
Proverbs 11:9
"With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered."
1 Peter 5:8
"Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."
1 John 4:1
"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."
2 Timothy 3:1-5 tells us that the last days mentality will be so prevalent that it will be in the church and the world and it will be continual.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 (Difficult: Means "ragingly insane"
Difficult Times Will Come
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."
When we understand the end times mentality of most people we can observe as if we are watching a stage production but we do not have to suck it into our souls to destroy our peace and joy. We only become devastated by the personal attacks if we are not focused on Christ and are ignorant of the devices of the enemy. Knowledge is power over the devil and his minions.
Feelings are temporary and fleeting, not worth pondering, except to dismiss them as irrelevant and not based on facts. The less we focus on feelings the better off we are, it is good to say to ourselves when feelings arise, "these are not based on truth" and dismiss them. It is amazing how much stronger we become and how much less we "feel" badly when we are attacked unjustly.
Lately I have seen the foolish humor in the attacks and have at times even laughed they were so silly.
1 Peter 3:17
"For it is better to suffer for doing good if that should be God's will, than for doing evil."
There was one instance in which the accuser was being so ridiculous as to accuse me of the very thing he just finished doing, that the Holy Spirit gushed forth in laughter without a desire to explain it to the accuser why I was laughing. I just walked away, I had such peace, I don't do this unless it is the Holy Spirit. In this instance, it silenced the accuser and he avoided me after that, it was a good thing to be avoided.
John 5:30
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me."
Jesus Christ said in the John passage that He did nothing without the will of the Holy Spirit, I want to be this way too. The more we seek Christ in us the more we will seek Him. His answers are so fulfilling and wonderful. There is nothing better than being in the will of the Father through Christ Who lives in me.
Hallelujah!!!!!
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