If you think the non-stop bashing of the President by the political left is bad, wait until they (much less the world) turns its hatred upon the church. You ain't seen nothing yet.
These are just signs of the times in which we live. For when the genuine, true church of Christ emerges in full force and full power, boldly proclaiming the gospel which confronts sin AND the sinner, that's when the real face of those who hate the gospel as well as Christ will be seen for who they are, despisers of those who preach the truth.
The world will never tolerate a confrontational gospel. Ever. Why? Because Satan knows that a gospel that is boldly proclaimed is a gospel which radically changes the listener. Such is the plight of what it means to follow Christ. Not a good life, not wealth, nor health, but a warfare which pits the believer against the powers of darkness.
Jesus made it clear that if they hated him, then they (the world) will hate us. You can't pick and choose your pleasantries in this life any more than you can choose your own fate. If you follow Christ, expect persecution. If you follow Christ, you carry a cross. If you follow Christ, expect to lose friends. If you follow Christ, the journey will become a lonely one. That is the reality of being a believer, it brings the church together thru oppression. Yet Christ reminds us that he will always remain with us, even unto the end.
[Christopher Gregory]
John 15:18-19 … If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 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. ❤
