Romans 8:36
"36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
There cannot be continual conflict between human beings when we are dying to ourselves. Conflict, arguments, and resistance to the truth only happen when people fight against God.
Those who love Christ are peaceful people, they do not accept sin in themselves or others because of this they speak the things of God with boldness because of the love in their hearts. They freely and easily confess when they are wrong allowing them to grow in holiness. Without confession, there is no Spiritual growth.
When we become angry at what someone says it is protection of self rather than love of the truth.
Luke 9:23
"23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."
In our day we see many people if not most who walk around angry all the time. They are easily rattled, raging at the slightest challenge to seek Christ.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2Preach 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.…"
Why is it this way? Answer:
We are living in days just like those of Noah's day, when everyone has a very high opinion of themselves refusing to be corrected, refusing discipline to be changed.
Matthew 24:37-39
"37 For [a]the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be."
Jeremiah 6:14-16 …14 They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. 15 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD. 16 This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’"
Not only are people not ashamed of their sinful attitudes that lead to sinful actions, but they are also angry with anyone who will challenge them to repent or even consider themselves to be sinning.
Yes, we are living as in the days of Noah right before Christ comes to remove His church, right before the tribulation begins. So many people who say they are Christians will be shocked when they do not go up with the saints in the rapture. Their high opinion of themselves has caused them to trust in themselves rather than Christ.
Pride drives this world to such an extent that nearly everyone except the born-again believers thinks arrogance is a strength, when God says it is the height of weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10
"8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
May we not lament over our weaknesses but glory in God's sufficiency as He walks through everything with us. Hallelujah!!
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