"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’” (John 15:22-25 NASB1995)
The people who hated Jesus, what kinds of evil did they do
against him? What were their habits, their practices? In what ways did they
persecute Jesus? They lied about him. They mischaracterized him. They accused him
of things he did not do and of character traits which were not his to possess.
And they hounded and harassed him continually, pulling all kinds of tricks and
schemes to try to trap him in their webs of deceit, hoping to trip him up with
his words so that they would have cause to accuse him of wrongdoing.
A term for someone who acts like this today might be a
narcissist. And the traits vary, depending upon whom you read. But some of
these traits are that they are liars, self-obsessed, controlling, selfish, arrogant,
cruel, secretive, emotionally shallow, impulsive, lacking in genuine empathy,
passive, manipulative, self-important, self-indulgent, and those who play mind
games on others, and who use gaslighting to try to frame their targets for
things they did not do; to make an innocent person appear guilty.
And that really does describe the people who persecuted
Jesus. Another way to describe them, when it comes to the internet, might be
trolls. For they are people who intentionally target and respond to some posters
with similar methods and tricks and schemes, and with inflammatory remarks and
insults and false accusations meant to upset and/or to anger their target,
hoping to create chaos and to provoke emotional reactions so that they would
have cause to accuse them or to discredit them so others would ignore them.
What Jesus’ persecutors did to him is still being done today
by some people who hate Jesus, in truth, for they are doing it to those who
love the Lord and who serve the Lord, in truth, and who are teaching the truth
and not the lies which are so popularized today. The unrighteous are targeting
the righteous with their cruel tricks and schemes because they want to silence
them. They want others to hate and reject them, as they do, so that they will
not listen to them, and so they will turn away from them and from the truth.
For this really comes down to them hating the truth. And
many hate the truth because their deeds are evil, and the truth exposes their
evil deeds for what they are. And so they try to find some way to discredit the
truth tellers who are following the Lord in obedience, so that others will not
believe the truth. And this is what many are doing today who are altering the
truth of the gospel to make it more acceptable to human flesh. They are calling
the truth tellers “legalists,” “judgmental,” “haters,” and “self-righteous.”
And they are convincing many people that the truth is the
lie and that the lie is the truth. And the multitudes are following them for
they make no requirements for death to sin and for walks of obedience to our
Lord, as necessary components of faith which saves. They convince their
listeners that all God requires is that they “believe” in Jesus but without
really explaining that belief in Jesus must result in death to sin and walks of
obedience to his commands, or it is not faith which results in eternal life.
For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny
self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if
we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity.
But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience
to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with
God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew
7:21-23).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John
6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1
Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32;
Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2;
1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
An
Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s
Free Servant, Sue J Love
Your bond is broken with your Lord and
Savior
And your testimony is separate from
Him.
Your words not matching your actions
today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and
pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.
Purity’s lacking in your life and
witness,
For you profess one thing, but other
you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the
flesh.
Not living in truth to what you
confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.
Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis
true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it
true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord
God.
Because of how you live, you are a
fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life
to God.
Narcissistic Assaults Against The
Innocent
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