Hated By The World

Do I worry about offending people?  Absolutely not.  I would rather offend some and see them turn to Christ and saved from eternal hell than tiptoe through their emotions because I want them to feel affirmed.  I'm often very bewildered and perplexed at what I see many contemporary "preachers" doing when they stand up to preach or teach.  To open the scripture and make proclamation is a heavy responsibility that should only be done with fear and trembling.  When you claim to be speaking the Words of God, you are held under scrutiny of the highest order......that of Almighty God.  So you'd better be extremely careful and rightly divide the Word of Truth because you will be held accountable for your teaching.  I'm amazed at what passes for biblical teaching today.   Many "Bible Teachers/Preachers" turn it into comedy hour.  Others try to turn it into a TED talk or a a success motivational seminar.  Then others use a few select scriptures here and there, completely taken out of context, and attempt to use it to teach their pop psychology.  They would rather be seen as thought leaders, then as men of God declaring the truth's of the Creator. Jesus made it very clear that the cost of following him was high. Part of that cost involves being the object of hatred by a rebellious and sinful world. And that is our subject on this week's edition of The Eternal Mindset

Nobody likes to be on the outside of the group. Human beings have an innate desire to belong. The thought of being excluded from the group is a very lonely place to be. So it's even worse when not only are you excluded, but are also hated and despised. Yet that is exactly the promise that was made to us by our Lord. In a time of promises of health, wealth, and popularity by many "preacher/teachers", what are we to believe? When the words of man are in direct conflict with the words of Christ, that is an easy decision.

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John 15:18-21 "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love it's own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 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. But all these things they will do to you for My names sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me." 

2 Timothy 3:12 "Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." 

Romans 8:18: "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us...." 

Matthew 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

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