The
precious Lord Jesus Christ has been gone from the earth for nearly 2,000
years; yet, many people today still defame his character, slander his good
name and say all manner of evil against Him.
The Word of God proclaims that Jesus
never sinned even once (2nd Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; 1st Peter 2:22).
Jesus was holy and perfect in every way. Yet, His enemies found enough fault
in Him to nail Him to a cross and kill Him. If they did that to our Lord and
Savior, prey tell me, what do you think our enemies will do to us?
It's been nearly 2,000 years and yet
so many people today hate Jesus, and still try to find fault with Him, just as
the wicked Pharisees did. Many historians wickedly try to uncover some detail
under some rock that will discredit the Lord Jesus, shame His testimony and
destroy His credibility. Try as they may, they have failed, and so they
fabricate every malicious lie about the precious Savior.
Conan O'Brien has portrayed Jesus
Christ as a
homosexual voyeur on his Late Night Show. Dan Brown and Ron Howard
portrayed Jesus as having a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene in The
DaVinci Code, and claim He had children. The Last Temptation of Christ
slanders our Lord and portrays Him of being an adulterer. The Godless movie
SAVED, horribly blasphemes the holy name of Jesus, making jokes as to
how well Jesus is “hung” on the cross while focusing on His crotch. The
blasphemous movie, Jesus Christ Superstar, assassinates our Lord's
character and portrays Him as a worldly heathen. Rocker,
Harvey Danger, sings that Jesus had to go die on the cross and stuck him
with the check.
“Good! I hope the Jews did
kill Christ, I'd do it again. I'd F*cking do it again in a second!”
—Jewish
comedian, Sarah Silverman,
Jesus is Magic;
72-minute movie, 2006
Marilyn Manson, on his album
Holywood, displays a picture of a rotting man on a cross. Manson
mutilates himself on stage, rips-up the Holy Bible and spews “blasphemies”
against the Lord Jesus Christ. John
Lennon, in his book, A Spaniard in the Works, portrays Jesus Christ as,
"Jesus El Pifico, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy fascist
bastard Catholic Spaniard" (A Spaniard in the Works, p.14).
In the alleged
Gospel of
Judas, which is not a part of the Bible, Jesus is portrayed as a
conspirator with Judas. Many people today claim that Jesus was a fake and a
fraud.
Criss Angel and
David Blaine have both publicly attempted to imitate the miracles of
Jesus, in an admitted attempt to discredit the Son of God. In so doing, they
have hardened people's hearts against God, just as Pharaoh's magicians
hardened his heart against God in imitating Moses' miracles.
Perhaps no other group has attacked
the Messiah any more than His own people, the Jews. In the Jewish holy book,
the
Talmud, Jesus is said to have been boiled in excrement (urine and dung).
This is what the world has to say about the spotless Lamb of God.
Isaiah
51:7, “Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of
their revilings.”
So what do you think our enemies
will say about us? While the righteous expose the wicked for parading their
sins publicly, and for attempting to publicly justify their wickedness; the
wicked pry under every rock, maliciously plotting against the righteous,
monitoring our every move with a magnifying glass, just waiting for any fault
or sin that they can use to destroy our name, assassinate our character and
discredit our work for God. Our intent is good; their intent is evil.
Anybody can spread a rumor until it becomes as truth, even though it's a bunch
of lies. People all over the world are suspicious of Jesus Christ, thinking
that He may have had sexual relations with Mary Magdalene, because of evil
movies such as The Last Temptation of Christ, and The DaVinci Code,
that spread rumors about Jesus Christ. That is the intent of such movies,
i.e., to plant seeds of doubt and suspicion in people's minds, to discredit
Christianity. Ah, but God is still on His throne, and the wicked shall not
prevail (Isaiah 13:11).
Here is
what Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Propaganda Minister, said about the
power of lying...
“If you tell a lie big enough
and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie
can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from
the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus
becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress
dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by
extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
SOURCE: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph
Goebbels
If this sinful world found fault,
where there was no fault, in our precious Lord and Savior and nailed Him to a
cross; then you can be assured that they will nail us to a cross as well when
we are less than perfect. If they can't find fault, then they will spread
rumors about us in an attempt to destroy us in their hatred.
Keep in mind that Jesus was perfect,
and yet they found fault where there was no fault. The servant is not greater
than his Lord. If people hated, betrayed and spread rumors about the Lord
Jesus Christ, then we can be assured that they'll do the same to us too. Pray
for them.
Jesus is Precious!
Whom do
you say Jesus is?
America: A Nation of Evil Hypocrites!
Who is
on the Lord's side? (Exodus 32:26)
I was searching through my Bible at church the other day for a passage and
ran across our text Scripture above, “For my love they are my
adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. And they have rewarded me
evil for good, and hatred for my love.” What a truth! Any mature
Christian who has expressed God's unconditional love toward others, while
that individual(s) instead returned evil for your good, and hatred for your
love, can immediately identify with this Bible passage. The heathen world
returns evil for evil, and oftentimes evil for
good. As Christians we are forbidden from rendering evil for evil to any
person. 1st Thessalonians 5:15, “See that none render evil for evil
unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves,
and to all men.”
A lot of unsaved people are
spiteful toward born-again Christians, hating them without cause because of
the goodness of Christ present in that believer's life (John 15:19). 2nd Timothy
3:1-3, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For
men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without
natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
DESPISERS OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD.”
The world doesn't know God's love,
nor can they comprehend the sacrificial, selfless and unconditional love of
a Christian. The heathen world always looks for one's angle, that is, a
selfish reason for the good that God's children do. When we return good for
their evil, it demonstrates God's unconditional love toward all mankind.
After the Lord had been crucified, He prayed forgiveness for the men who did
so. It is Christlike to bless those who curse us, do good to those who hurt
us, and pray for those who despitefully use us.
Luke 6:27-33, “But I say unto
you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless
them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto
him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that
taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man
that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not
again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them
likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for
sinners also love those that love them. And if
ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners
also do even the same.”
The two greatest commandments in
the Bible are really just one... TO LOVE (love God and love thy neighbour,
Matthew 22:36-40).
We cannot control the way others
behave. If someone wants to harm us, they will likely get their chance one
way or another. Joseph's envious half-brothers sought to do evil against him
and got their chance. So also did Daniel's enemies succeed in having him
cast into the lion's den, but God protected him.
We cannot control the way other
people think or behave; however, we can control ourselves. If you hurt me,
I'm not going to hurt you back. I'm going to place the matter into God's
hands for judgment in eternity. Some people will hurt you deliberately,
wanting you to retaliate, just to get a desired negative reaction out of
you. It is in such situations that it's best to obey God and do nothing,
showing kindness and love instead, returning good for their evil, heaping
coals of fire upon their head for judgment day. Romans 12:20,
“Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink:
for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.” The
Biblical way to respond to the mean, rotten and hurtful things which people
do to us is to PRAY FOR THEM. This is the great truth presented in Psalms
109:4.
Let's take a closer look at our
text passage of Scripture from Psalms 109:1-5...
Psalms 109:1-5, “Hold not
thy peace, O God of my praise; For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of
the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a
lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
against me without a cause. For my love they are my adversaries:
but I give
myself unto prayer. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and
hatred for my love.”
Notice that David specifically
mentions the hurtful words which his enemies have attacked him with. One of
the easiest and most effective ways to destroy a person's name and life is
by spreading bad things about them. We are all held accountable by God for
the things we say publicly about other people. In fact, for every word that
we speak or type on the internet God will hold us accountable (Matthew
12:36). David's enemies hated him, yet David had done absolutely nothing to
them except love them as a friend. David said, FOR MY LOVE THEY ARE MY
ENEMIES... BUT I WILL GIVE MYSELF UNTO PRAYER!!! What a powerful truth! God
wants us to PRAY when people do us wrong. When people return evil for your
good, pray for them.
David Turned To Prayer
When People Hurt Him
The most beautiful part of our
text verse is when David says “BUT I GIVE MYSELF UNTO PRAYER.” Luke
6:27, “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them
which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which
despitefully use you.” It is a Biblical principle that we ought
to pray for those who despiteful use us. “Spite” is feeling the need to see
someone suffer. There are a lot of spiteful individuals in today's world,
who enjoy hurting others just because they can. Spite is showing malicious
ill will and a desire to hurt others. So many people are spiteful toward
others. Spite is malevolence by virtue of
being malicious or nasty. Some people just like to be mean and rotten.
The apostle Paul makes a
remarkable statement in 2nd Corinthians 12:15, “And I will very gladly
spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the
less I be loved.” The more that Paul loved, the less he was
loved. In other words, the greater Paul's capacity became to love OTHERS,
the less capacity others had to reciprocate (return) Paul's love. If I'm
growing closer to the Lord day-by-day, walking with Jesus in prayer, fasting
and searching the Scriptures; but you're not, then you're not going to be
able to love me unconditionally the way I love you. The Bible teaches for
Christians to set their affections on things above (Colossians 3:1-2),
instead of minding earthly things (Philippians 3:19).
Psalms 35:11-13, “False
witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. They
rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. But as for me, when
they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting;
and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.”
The Christian life is a life of
prayer, which mostly includes praying for OTHERS. The idea of selfish prayer
is worldly, not Biblical. God already KNOWS what we have need of.
Matthew 6:7-8, “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen
do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not
ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have
need of, before ye ask him.” Yet we are taught in Luke 11:5-9
and Luke 18:1-8 the wonderful truth of IMPORTUNITY in prayer, that is,
insistently begging God for the needs of OTHERS. Job 16:21, “O that
one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!”
Philippians 2:4-5 teach us to have THE MINDSET OF CHRIST and reveals
what that mindset is... “Look not every man on his own things, but
every man also on the things of OTHERS. Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus.” The Lord lived His earthly life
thinking about the needs of OTHERS. This is our example to emulate.
Christ Liveth In Me
Remember, we don't live the
Christian life; but rather, Jesus through His Spirit (Romans 8:9) lives the
Christian life through us day-by-day as we yield to the Spirit's leading in
the Words of God. Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of
God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
The Lord promises to avenge
(recompense) all men for their evil deeds (Romans 12:19; Ecclesiastes
12:13-14; Acts 17:32; Romans 2:1; James 4:12).
I know that the Lord is doing a
great work through me on the internet. It's the Lord's Spirit working in me,
both to will and to do of His good pleasures (Philippians 2:13). As such I
have made many enemies, but it is Jesus Who they really hate. John
7:7, “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it,
that the works thereof are evil.”
God has given to humanity so many GOOD blessings, but men
have sought out evil inventions (Ecclesiastes 7:29). Psalms 145:9,
“The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.“
Psalms 38:20, “They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
because I follow the thing that good is.” Proverbs 17:13, “Whoso rewardeth
evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.”
“For
my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my
love.” —Psalms
109:4-5
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