If The World Hates You

If The World Hates You ( REPOST )

Today’s Scripture: If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. (John 15:18-19)

Down through history, Jesus has been proven right time and time again. Christians have died in the coliseum. They’ve been fed to the lions. Burnt at the stake. Sold into slavery. Or have had all their worldly possessions taken away.
Even today, Christians are still being persecuted.
In the Sudan, Christians have been frequently harassed, family members have been kidnapped, and many have been sold into slavery or died under the butchery of those who disagreed with them.
In China, Bible based churches often are forced to worship to worship underground, behind closed doors. In some parts of this world, it is a dangerous thing to be a Christian.
To a lesser degree, Christians often face persecution even here in the US.
In 1998, David & Diane Reiter of Denver were ordered by that city to stop their weekly home prayer meetings because a city administrator determined he didn’t want any religious activities in their neighborhood
In 1999, in Seattle, Washington, a pregnant 25 year old woman was kicked off a public transit bus in the pouring rain. Why? Because the bus driver overheard her talking with a fellow passenger about the Lord.
And I’m praying that the daily scriptures does not stop, because of somebody might not like the Word of God been talked about in the company. This world has done a lot of things that does not please God.
Even when ministers preach the word of God, have been persecuted by lies, if we happened to say not what the public wanted to hear, but only the right word to satisfy our worldly hearts. I have heard of great ministers been talked about the wrong way, just because people just don’t like certain things that they preach about or not. Now here are some of the things I have heard about preachers “ Joel Osteen preaches to lightly to the people about how to survive in this world of disappointment on how to keep your head up and their eyes on God, T.D. Jake’s has to big of a church and he acts out to much with display emotions on how God got him through hard times or Tony Evans preaches to hard THE Word of God hurting our feelings , even about me also that I have said things that were to hard on people, I am sorry but please take that up with God, I‘m just the messenger.” We have became like the people that hated Jesus, in which hated Christians and we can’t see ourselves in the mirror on how we treat them . God uses all of us to minister to one another to help us grow in God . Minister’s preaches God’s Word to minister to us, even you all have ministered to each other saying how God brought you through a certain situation that you couldn’t see your way out of. We all are ministers if we just stop putting each other down, and act the way God wants us to. That is with love towards one another, not the way they treated Jesus in back in His day of living. Let’s try not to act like those that persecuted Jesus and the Christians, let’s act like Christians with love and not worry about what God have to say to us with His Word. So keep on giving your testimonies because it is praising God, and stop putting down Christians and ministers when they talk about our Heavenly Father.