My goodness the hate that the elect have to face by some is terrible. With some you try and ignore and be kind but they could never ignore you and just are filled with pure hate. But Jesus promised that this would happen to the true followers of Christ. They will make accusations that they cant backup in a court of law and do all kinds of things. This is to be expected. How should we respond in anger? No! We are dealing with dead people and although they may confess salvation they are dead and lost and cannot reason by the Bible.
I applaud those of you on this site whom have faced this as I have and I encourage you to keep the faith and to keep on fighting for the faith and standing for Christ.
The Pure Hatred towards believers..
Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by evangelist6589, Sep 6, 2013.
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Those who do not have the love of Christ have nothing but hate.
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Are you the infallible determiner or judge of who is lost and who is saved?
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John 3:19-20
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
Romans 3:21-31
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Believers need to witness to those of this world, pray for them for they are lost. But do not be surprised when they act as they do. They are lost and cannot act any better. God will call His true elect to salvation, but it is our duty as pilgrims in a lost world to witness and bring people to the light. -
The Pot Calling The Kettle Black....
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I do however find it very amusing that you believe that in a world of sinful people (as filthy as menstrual clothes as the bible makes reference to) that you can suggest we are even capable of doing anything without being hypocritical. Why hypocrisy is the mother of all sins. There isn't a human being alive (with the exception of Christ of course), I am certain, who does not wallow in it, knowingly or unknowingly. We must accept ourselves for what we are. That is the secret of a healthy mind and body.
And Greg, hypocrisy should not be wholly detested. Without it we should have no civilization, nor could humans live together for a single hour without each other. Other words for it are gentility and tolerance and regard for neighbor, and self restraint and self discipline. I might go so far as to say that without it we should have no churches and no religions. -
We are all flawed because the heart is deceitful above all things and desparately wicked even those who are the children of God seem to be able to reinvigorate the flesh, do and say wicked things.
Yes we are to judge. Jesus finished His pronouncments of "judge not that you be judged" with self-judgement, righteous judgment.
I think a good analogy is to judge symptoms as a well-trained physician who himself has the disease of sin and has overcome by the blood of the lamb.
Our judgment is to be theraputic not punitive (that's God's perogative).
Yes, we need to be careful not to get infected (or re-infected) ourselves.
I think the O/P is well taken however, as the final hour approaches satan knows he has but a little while and turns on the over-drive on hate.
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Are you an Idealist? Chaplin was!
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Interesting topic. Amazing how it can fly out of control into a finger pointing contest.
I don't put much thought into the subject myself. The first time I read the Gospels it was clear that living a Christian life would be hard and rejected by many. So I view any flak I get as bearing my daily cross. Let those who hate do as they will and continue to build your treasures in heaven. -
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I was asking the poster proper thought-provoking questions to try to get him to think more carefully about what he asserts. -
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If truth be known, nothing beats a 12 to 18 YO Single-Malt Scotch..... but because of distilling characteristics, well that has a distinct smell....sometimes like peat. Forget the Bourbon (thats just fomented corn squeezing). -
Believers will believe, doubters will doubt and haters will hate.
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