SURVIVING HATE

By Rick Mathes

John 15:18 (NASB77) ¹⁸  ” If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

The Word of God says that if we love the world, the love of the Father is not in us. So isn’t it ironic that the world we are so tempted to love hates us in direct proportion to our love of the Lord. The more we grow to love Him the more those who are not His hate us and I am extremely grateful for that. I don’t want to be one of them, do you?

Not in any particular order but the world, without Godly restraints, is destroying everyone physically with not only bad diets and dangerous foods and eating habits but with alcohol and a banquet of drugs that make you feel good while they are killing you. Isn’t that just like Satan?

One he’s weakened you physically, he will go for your mind and plant doubt and fear or anxiety there which are the keys to hell. The keys to heaven are faith and trust. Even in the midst of a prayer the evil one will slip in a sick thought and the last place the world wants your mind to focus is on the Word of God. That book becomes the devil’s public enemy number one!

The world will do all it can to affect your carnal interests with success and approval but effect your every effort with worldly, material desires, goals and achievements. All this is temporal or world views are narrowed through the prism of hell. Bad becomes good and good bad. Defecating on the Cross becomes fashionable.

Divorce, week-end marriages, recreational sex, and even bestiality become the in-things with homosexuality in the lead; anything goes if the adults are consensual and no one gets hurt. It’s all relative with no moral absolutes except those that are relative to the social context.

Get a handle on this. Religion is making God in man’s image and likeness. It is a matter of bringing God down to our standards of depravity. You can call it legalizing sin. God is dead and mankind rules!

So if there is only one God it doesn’t matter what religion you have or rules you follow, if He is the God of love, He will never send anyone to a hell. Just love everyone and you will go to heaven? Hogwash!