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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