Jesus reminded His disciples to love each other. It's unfortunate that in todays church we concentrate more on what separates Christians rather than love. For example, some believe in infant baptism and others believe in believers baptism, some believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit ended with the apostles, others believe they are for today, some believe speaking in tongues is if the devil, others believe it's of God, some believe that the only sign you are filled with the Holy Spirit is when you speak in tongues, others believe it's power to be transformed to Christlikeness more and more.... Because of these differences, we may not be able to work together but we can still love each other despite us seeing things from a different perspective.
Any true child of God you come across has something to teach you. It's like going to the market, you buy something from one person and leave the rest, then go to another and buy something else and leave the rest, and so on, from grocery, to general shop, to hardware, to garage, to hotel, electrical shop,....you don't buy everything you find there. You only buy what you need. In the same way, every child of God has something of Christ which can bless you and if instead of concentrating on where you don't see eye to eye, if you pick out something of Christ and leave the rest, then go to another child of God and pick something of Christ, and to another in the same way, at the end, you will be a spiritually very rich person.
You have wasted alot of opportunity in the past through fault finding, but now you can decide to look at the good you can pick form believers who don't see eye to eye with you. Start loving people to finding faults with them.
He reminded them that the world would hate them because they are not of the world but He has chosen them out of the world.
He gives the disciples a new sense of values, and they way are in contrary to that of the world.
The disciples would be despised and rejected by the world just as Jesus was. The world has not changed, in fact it's worse. It crucified Jesus and today it crucifies His disciples. There are many forms of persecution for Christians. Have you experienced it? If no, it's because you are a compromiser. Be a true disciple of Jesus.
The reason for this is because they don't know Jesus.
If He didn't speak to them, they'd have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sins.
In other words, the more you hear God's word, the more accountable you will be. Those who don't know Gods word will be judged only by their conscience, but for those who know Gods word, that word will judge them.
If you are not interested in obeying God, it's safer to be far from God's word and that to continue listening and adding to your judgement.
Are you interested in obeying God or do you only want God's blessing s? God is good, He gives material blessed both to the righteous and the wicked. Just look around you and see the richest and healthiest people are not Christians. You don't need to be a Christian to be healthy or rich materially. God is good that He gives this to all.
Christ has something better than material prosperity and health, seek for it
Jesus again reminded them of the Helper, the Holy Spirit who He will send in His name. He will testify of Christ to the believer and the believer will testify of Christ to the world. It's an inworking and then outworking. In other words, God is interested in changing my life first of all and then using me to reach others and bless them.
We see that What Jesus is insisting on is obedience to His commands and the Helper the Holy Spirit.
The most important thing that disciples can do is to obey Jesus but for that they need the Helper, the Holy Spirit.
What's your passion and ambition in life? Is it to please God or something else?
You are blessed to be a blessing
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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