Hated by the world…
1Jn 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Joh 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
The growing hate for Christians is nothing new. Throughout the history of Christianity there have been periods of hate and periods of love for Christianity. During the times of hate for Christianity always there remained those devoted to Christ. During the times of love there remained those devoted to despising Christ.
Right now the world we live in still embraces the love/hate relationship with Christianity. In some places around the world the hate is so great that those hating Christians are killing them. In other places the hate is causing them to imprison Christians. Still in yet other places Christians are accepted and loved.
The thing about Christians as with ANY follower of ANY religion and those who follow no religion at all- so I guess it's safe to say, the thing is about people in general at any given time we live in and among love and hate, as well as all those gray areas between the two.
There are no perfect people living on earth, not a single one. There was only ONE perfect person and that was Jesus Christ our God, our Savior.
Satan would have us believe that we NEED to be loved by other people and that's one of his lies. We do NOT need to be loved by any other person alive, not a single one. Yet Satan wants us to strive for the love of others and feel a great self reproach when we begin to believe we are unlovable.
Satan would have us feel self-loathing to the point of such despair that we end our own lives, and he uses the idea of being loved as a tipping point. We are brainwashed by him through our society to believe that if we are NOT loved by others then something is horrifically wrong with us. Satan has used LOVE - the idea of LOVE as one of his most successful weapons. He's taken something that belongs to God and IS GOD and twisted so we can hardly recognize what LOVE is.
It's no wonder so many people choose not to believe in God, they do it because they don't recognize Him as love at all. He's become a monster if He exists at all and who wants to worship a monster?
Satan has MANY, MANY, too many to count, ways of subverting the minds of people so they are ultimately his.
We have a guard against such attacks and that guard is JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
LOVE IS GOD. So when we are told we are to love one another, we are being told to be as God would have us be towards one another- NOT AS WE OR ANYONE ELSE believes we should be.
Some would love to argue that God loves to punish and destroy to kill and bring all sorts of plagues down upon people but God doesn't LOVE that at all!
Love demands God reveal His hatred for sin and all things sinful and when He does this people point their fingers at Him and say He's just being hateful- sinfully hateful.
Every single action by God is a revelation of His character, HIS love.
God's reaction to sin only reveals His abhorrence of sin. Do innocents ever die? YES. All the time! But DEATH is not the end of the life of the innocent ones and GOD knew this before even a single innocent ever perished. God made a provision through JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR to save all those that would claim HIS innocence and all those beyond the ability to choose. Not a single innocent whether it is a child or an adult with a child's mind, will suffer the second death- the permanent death of non-existence. So yes, if an innocent dies and they do all the time, does this reveal a God of hate like so many choose to believe? No. God has revealed to us that this life we live right now is NOT all there is. In so many ways death is a blessing compared to the pain of living, but even so we are never called to die by our own hands, to cut short our suffering. Compared to eternity the worse pain that exists is nothing, even though it may seem like EVERYTHING to the one suffering.
Hated by the world.
We are hated by the world when we choose to love like our Savior because the world cannot fully comprehend that love, Satan has held up blinders and they've put them on.
So when we are hated does that mean we should allow despair to creep into our lives? We can't, because despair destroys hope.
Those who hate those -who love and follow a God who is LOVE- are under Satan's control.
We are NEVER TO HATE even the worst of the worst.
We are only to HATE the sin they commit.
As God NEVER hates us the sinner.
God only hates the SIN.
God's love is completely revealed in His Word to us. Even in the very end God will not let people suffer endlessly as so many seem to believe. God will allow the sinner to be as if they never were because in the world that will come and exist some day by GOD'S WILL, to have any unrepentant, unforgiven sinner left alive would exhibit a cruelty that is beyond God. Satan has brought that fallacy to fruition, and spread the lie far and wide and has unfortunately been all too successful in getting people to fall victim to His deceptions.
We will be hated- this is a FACT.
Even if you live in part of the world that isn't actively pursuing their hatred of Christ's followers, you are hated. You are hated by SATAN and all those he can inspire to hate you.
You may NEVER be loved in the way of the world, and Satan will happily use this to bring you to despair.
By the GRACE and MERCY of GOD may we NEVER be brought to that place of despair, never!
May we forever know and realize the LOVE Of CHRIST is all we need in this world!
And may we grow ever closer to our LORD, our GOD, OUR SAVIOR, to HIS LOVE and in doing so, have HIS love in us!
All IN HIM, ALWAYS!
1Jn 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Joh 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
The growing hate for Christians is nothing new. Throughout the history of Christianity there have been periods of hate and periods of love for Christianity. During the times of hate for Christianity always there remained those devoted to Christ. During the times of love there remained those devoted to despising Christ.
Right now the world we live in still embraces the love/hate relationship with Christianity. In some places around the world the hate is so great that those hating Christians are killing them. In other places the hate is causing them to imprison Christians. Still in yet other places Christians are accepted and loved.
The thing about Christians as with ANY follower of ANY religion and those who follow no religion at all- so I guess it's safe to say, the thing is about people in general at any given time we live in and among love and hate, as well as all those gray areas between the two.
There are no perfect people living on earth, not a single one. There was only ONE perfect person and that was Jesus Christ our God, our Savior.
Satan would have us believe that we NEED to be loved by other people and that's one of his lies. We do NOT need to be loved by any other person alive, not a single one. Yet Satan wants us to strive for the love of others and feel a great self reproach when we begin to believe we are unlovable.
Satan would have us feel self-loathing to the point of such despair that we end our own lives, and he uses the idea of being loved as a tipping point. We are brainwashed by him through our society to believe that if we are NOT loved by others then something is horrifically wrong with us. Satan has used LOVE - the idea of LOVE as one of his most successful weapons. He's taken something that belongs to God and IS GOD and twisted so we can hardly recognize what LOVE is.
It's no wonder so many people choose not to believe in God, they do it because they don't recognize Him as love at all. He's become a monster if He exists at all and who wants to worship a monster?
Satan has MANY, MANY, too many to count, ways of subverting the minds of people so they are ultimately his.
We have a guard against such attacks and that guard is JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
LOVE IS GOD. So when we are told we are to love one another, we are being told to be as God would have us be towards one another- NOT AS WE OR ANYONE ELSE believes we should be.
Some would love to argue that God loves to punish and destroy to kill and bring all sorts of plagues down upon people but God doesn't LOVE that at all!
Love demands God reveal His hatred for sin and all things sinful and when He does this people point their fingers at Him and say He's just being hateful- sinfully hateful.
Every single action by God is a revelation of His character, HIS love.
God's reaction to sin only reveals His abhorrence of sin. Do innocents ever die? YES. All the time! But DEATH is not the end of the life of the innocent ones and GOD knew this before even a single innocent ever perished. God made a provision through JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR to save all those that would claim HIS innocence and all those beyond the ability to choose. Not a single innocent whether it is a child or an adult with a child's mind, will suffer the second death- the permanent death of non-existence. So yes, if an innocent dies and they do all the time, does this reveal a God of hate like so many choose to believe? No. God has revealed to us that this life we live right now is NOT all there is. In so many ways death is a blessing compared to the pain of living, but even so we are never called to die by our own hands, to cut short our suffering. Compared to eternity the worse pain that exists is nothing, even though it may seem like EVERYTHING to the one suffering.
Hated by the world.
We are hated by the world when we choose to love like our Savior because the world cannot fully comprehend that love, Satan has held up blinders and they've put them on.
So when we are hated does that mean we should allow despair to creep into our lives? We can't, because despair destroys hope.
Those who hate those -who love and follow a God who is LOVE- are under Satan's control.
We are NEVER TO HATE even the worst of the worst.
We are only to HATE the sin they commit.
As God NEVER hates us the sinner.
God only hates the SIN.
God's love is completely revealed in His Word to us. Even in the very end God will not let people suffer endlessly as so many seem to believe. God will allow the sinner to be as if they never were because in the world that will come and exist some day by GOD'S WILL, to have any unrepentant, unforgiven sinner left alive would exhibit a cruelty that is beyond God. Satan has brought that fallacy to fruition, and spread the lie far and wide and has unfortunately been all too successful in getting people to fall victim to His deceptions.
We will be hated- this is a FACT.
Even if you live in part of the world that isn't actively pursuing their hatred of Christ's followers, you are hated. You are hated by SATAN and all those he can inspire to hate you.
You may NEVER be loved in the way of the world, and Satan will happily use this to bring you to despair.
By the GRACE and MERCY of GOD may we NEVER be brought to that place of despair, never!
May we forever know and realize the LOVE Of CHRIST is all we need in this world!
And may we grow ever closer to our LORD, our GOD, OUR SAVIOR, to HIS LOVE and in doing so, have HIS love in us!
All IN HIM, ALWAYS!
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