If you aren’t aware of something happening in our world, dear Christians, please, please wake up. In my forty-eight years as a Christian, I’ve seen lots of cultural confusion, immorality, and compromise.
But I’ve never seen anything close to the evil that is celebrated in our present culture. It’s as if Satan is taking steroids.
Second Timothy 3:12-13 has never been more relevant:
“Everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
Christians who believe in scriptural self-denial, forgiveness, reconciliation, humility, integrity, and sexual purity have always been a minority. But they have become a tiny remnant—a hated, slandered, reviled remnant.
If you're seeking to live a godly life in Christ Jesus you are already experiencing increased criticism and persecution. It's happening worldwide and it's happening in our neighborhoods.
People of the world are “going from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
As we prepare for increasing persecution, we must acknowledge how serious our challenges have become.
If you own Wisdom for Life, I encourage you to read or re-read Day 62.
Bible Love Notes
John 15:
ReplyDeleteThe World Hates the Disciples
18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 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. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’