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“And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts” (Matthew 8:34)
When you start behaving in kingdom ways, not everyone is going to be thrilled. Jesus had done a good thing in that he freed a demonic man who was held captive. When the demons went into the pigs and they drowned, the people were not happy that Jesus was in their presence. Today if you are doing anything at all for God, people aren’t going to like you especially if you start messing with what is making them prosperous outside of righteousness and salvation.
Jesus made it clear that He did not come here to be well liked or to make The Word (Himself) more palatable to those around Him. The spiritual leaders of His day had failed to live The Word as it was written. Jesus relentlessly pursued those who taught untruth, who spoke the opposite of who He was and is. Jesus became quite upset when spiritual leaders used the law and the prophets for their own benefit and not for the benefit of helping others who were less fortunate.
If you start hearing and seeing a watered-down version of Jesus, you aren’t looking at Jesus – you are looking at someone from the enemy’s camp. Run as fast as you can away from them; feed on God’s Word, Jesus; keep fed with prayer and march forward knowing who you are in Him.
There are people today who are rocking the world for Jesus and being talked about cruelly for doing so. They don’t care what other people think. They are getting people saved so Hell is not their eternity. If someone asks me to leave, I’ll do as Jesus did – go to the other side and pass over into my own city, with Him.
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