Understand Why They Reject You

 March 8

“I have given them your Word,
and the world has hated them
because they are not of the world,
just as I am not of the world."
John 17:14

It is a hard concept to grasp, the fact that those who have the Word of God inside them will be hated by the world. Human beings crave acceptance, and most have learned to modify their behavior so as to be acceptable to everyone, so it's a shock when someone turns against them seemingly without cause, leaving them perplexed.

It shouldn't be perplexing, because the Lord has told us beforehand that it will be so. What is inside the non-believer will be repulsed by what is inside the believer.

"But even if our gospel is veiled,

it is veiled to those who are perishing,
whose minds THE GOD OF THIS WORLD
has BLINDED..."
2 Corinthians 4:3-4

We live in a different Kingdom than they do, and they don't realize that the god of this world is Satan himself. They would laugh at you if you told them that. The reality is that what is inside them is repulsed by the Spirit within you.

The born-again person shouldn't be surprised when he finds that people in the world seem to reject him without cause. It's not without cause. Those who are not born again are living in a state of spiritual death under the rulership of Satan, the god of this world - so naturally what is inside them is going to be repulsed, or "turned off" by the presence of one who does not belong in that camp, but who belongs to the Kingdom of God.

Never forget that the greatest man who ever lived, the one who healed terminally sick people and cast demons out of those so afflicted, who went about doing good to all ...they crucified him.


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