If the world is not hating you and wanting to tear you into pieces then there is really something wrong with your witness and your lifestyle. You are just not trying hard enough to live the right kind of life. Yes, they will certainly hate you because you are a Christian, and if they are not outright threatening you then they are hating what you stand for or should. Believe me, it is not just you, because first of all, they hate what Jesus Christ stood for. They still hate him to this day for what he means in the lives of all Christians. He was against the pollution of idols, the evil morals of the people, and the demonic possession that takes away your resistance to temptation and evil.
Are you willing to sacrifice your vicious fleshly needs and desires that take you away from the presence of God? Are you fighting hard enough against the evils of Marxism that would enslave an entire nation to the whims of just a few powerful elites? Those powerful elites will never give up their own comforts and twisted lifestyles. They would force their perversions upon every living soul under their dominion and subject all people to horrendous sacrilege, bringing about the destruction of the family and any moral values that are left. Your children will suffer irreparable harm under their forced guidance of perverted teachings, and the children you love will not know the peace of God that passes all understanding.
That peace is the tranquility all Christians feel, when they are doing the will of God by following his commandments and keeping his laws. It is better to fear God than man, because he is able to cast both body and soul into hell, of all those who will not obey. The gnashing of teeth and the groaning in hell will be the torment of others and not yours, but only if you follow God.
“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Philippians-4-7/
“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-10-28/
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.”
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-13-28/
“And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-13-42/
“When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.”
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Acts-7-54/
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-15-18/
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.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-15-19/
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-17-14/
“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-1-7/
If you are not of this world then the world will hate you, because Jesus Christ is not of this world. There will be wailing and weeping and gnashing of teeth in this world because of His love for us. They will hate you because they hate Him and are condemned for their inability to give up their sins. They will die tormented in their sins and they know it. therefore they hate you.
September 23, 2022
Cliff Rhodes Christian Ministry