” The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. “
As you recall, I discussed John 7:2-7 in our last Bible study and I mentioned that I want to continue discussing verse 7.
Let’s continue.
Jesus told his brothers;
” The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. “It is interesting that Jesus said; It is interesting that Jesus said;” The world cannot hate you; “Jesus did say clearly;Jesus did say clearly;” cannot “Jesus did say clearly;” “As we say “Birds of a feather flock together.”Jesus did say clearly;” “As we say “Birds of a feather flock together.”Jesus said to His disciples later;
Jesus did say clearly;” “As we say “Birds of a feather flock together.”Jesus said to His disciples later;” If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. ” John 15:19John 15:19Even though there have always been wars between nations that have nothing to do necessarily with Jesus Christ, the world in general will love its own and will side with its own when it involves Jesus.John 15:19Even though there have always been wars between nations that have nothing to do necessarily with Jesus Christ, the world in general will love its own and will side with its own when it involves Jesus.Just the mere mention of Jesus’ name can stir up a ruckus.John 15:19Even though there have always been wars between nations that have nothing to do necessarily with Jesus Christ, the world in general will love its own and will side with its own when it involves Jesus.Just the mere mention of Jesus’ name can stir up a ruckus.While Jesus might happen to be respected by some people as a man in history who went around doing good, or as President Bush has said about Him…”Jesus was a good philosopher…” or as the muslims believe Jesus to be a good prophet but - “beside Himself”, or as many evangelical christians who once believed Jesus at His word as being the only way to Heaven have now reduced Jesus to being one of many ways to Heaven, when it comes to telling the world about Jesus being the Savior of our soul and saving us from our sin, then hostility arises and the inner hatred is revealed.John 15:19Even though there have always been wars between nations that have nothing to do necessarily with Jesus Christ, the world in general will love its own and will side with its own when it involves Jesus.Just the mere mention of Jesus’ name can stir up a ruckus.While Jesus might happen to be respected by some people as a man in history who went around doing good, or as President Bush has said about Him…”Jesus was a good philosopher…” or as the muslims believe Jesus to be a good prophet but - “beside Himself”, or as many evangelical christians who once believed Jesus at His word as being the only way to Heaven have now reduced Jesus to being one of many ways to Heaven, when it comes to telling the world about Jesus being the Savior of our soul and saving us from our sin, then hostility arises and the inner hatred is revealed.However, if a person is so burdened down with the load of sin and acknowledges that he or she is a sinner and needs help, as this is the result of the Holy Spirit convicting the person of sin and the person being open to the Holy Spirit’s conviction, and since the Holy Spirit is acting in agreement and unison with Jesus the Son of God and God the Father in directing a person to Jesus as Savior then, when someone comes along and mentions Jesus to a person who is in this process of the Holy Spirit’s conviction of sin
John 15:19Even though there have always been wars between nations that have nothing to do necessarily with Jesus Christ, the world in general will love its own and will side with its own when it involves Jesus.Just the mere mention of Jesus’ name can stir up a ruckus.While Jesus might happen to be respected by some people as a man in history who went around doing good, or as President Bush has said about Him…”Jesus was a good philosopher…” or as the muslims believe Jesus to be a good prophet but - “beside Himself”, or as many evangelical christians who once believed Jesus at His word as being the only way to Heaven have now reduced Jesus to being one of many ways to Heaven, when it comes to telling the world about Jesus being the Savior of our soul and saving us from our sin, then hostility arises and the inner hatred is revealed.However, if a person is so burdened down with the load of sin and acknowledges that he or she is a sinner and needs help, as this is the result of the Holy Spirit convicting the person of sin and the person being open to the Holy Spirit’s conviction, and since the Holy Spirit is acting in agreement and unison with Jesus the Son of God and God the Father in directing a person to Jesus as Savior then, when someone comes along and mentions Jesus to a person who is in this process of the Holy Spirit’s conviction of sinthe precious name of Jesus is most precious to this person and he or she will more times than not be responsive to Jesus.
But first of all, if we think we are good enough to go to Heaven just as we are and we do not think we need Jesus as Savior from our sins, then we will never feel the need to put our faith in Jesus since Jesus won’t seem important to us even if the Holy Spirit is convicting us of sin. We have a conscience and if we callous our conscience against the conviction of the Holy Spirit and continue to think we do not need Jesus as Savior, that we are good enough to make it to Heaven on our own, then we will never come to faith in Jesus Christ. Since He is meaningless to us.
I’m with people everyday who not only do not believe they need Jesus to help them but actually hate Jesus or anyone who informs them that they are sinners and need to be forgiven of their sins.
Why? I haven’t done anything wrong! Read the rest of this entry »
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