Jesus explained the reason He warned His disciples on what would come so that they would not fall away from faith.
The warning on persecutions and rejection were to equip them to be ready to face them head on when they came. It's unfortunate that many are not prepared beforehand on the coming persecution. It's important to understand that if you are to be a true disciple of Jesus, if you want to live a godly life without compromise, you will face persecution. 2Tim 3:12
The true disciples would even be thrown out of some churches and some will be killed by religious people because they choose to believe the bible rather than the churches traditions. They will be killed as way of cleansing the church from wrong teachings and the killers will think that they were serving God in cleansing the church.
The reason for the persecution is because they don't know God.
We see here that for us to be protected from deception, we must have a personal knowledge of God, and intimate relationship with the Holy, a daily inner walk with Him. We must continually seek Him in prayer, and study His word. But also remember these religious folks also pray and read the bibles but they don't have contact with God.
We can pray and never have contact with God. We are just doing it to fulfill a duty, and reading the bible can be like reading a science book.
A living contact with God in prayer and bible reading is what makes one spiritual and another religious.
Do you have a living contact with God? If you seek Him, not an experience, not a gift, but if you seek God with all your heart, you will find Him. Jer 29:13
It's impossible to have contact with God and your life remains the same. He will change you, your perspectives from earthly to heavenly, and so on.
Seek Him.
Jesus reminded them He was going to His Father but that should not bring sorrow in their hearts because it is to their advantage that He went away, otherwise the Helper would not come.
Can you imagine what your life would be if you lived physically with Jesus in the same house. Guiding you, protecting you, walking with you and so many things.
How would your life change if Jesus physically lived with you wherever you are? We'd see the whole world in a new perspective, there would be no fear, it would be very easy to overcome temptations to sin.
Remember He said He is not leaving us as orphans. The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to carry out the same function in our lives which Jesus would if He lived physically with us.
This is the reason that the devil has brought a lot of confusion in the body of Christ concerning the Holy Spirit because He does not want us to enjoy the promise of the Father. He has blinded many believers on the Holy Spirit and made others to just be satisfied with an emotional experience without inner reality. I believe in speaking in tongues as a gift of the Holy Spirit but it's not a sign that you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Just open your eyes to all the tongue speakers and look at their lives outside the prayer house, many are powerless just like any other person. Don't be deceived or satisfied for just having a gift without inner reality of the power of the Holy Spirit.
He is called the Holy Spirit because His primary reason is not to give us emotional experiences or gifts but to make us holy in our private lives. Looking at the sensuality of the lives of many, the only possible explanation is that they are not filled with the Holy Spirit; maybe there was a time they were but now they are not; just like you can say you had filled your car petrol tank but today, it is empty.
Seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Seek inner power and inner reality and transformation. Don't be satisfied with outside transformation but you know your inner life is corrupt. Go for the real thing.
You don't need anyone to lay His hands on you; you only need to thirst and believe. God is more eager to fill you with the Holy Spirit that you are eager to be filled.
Just seek Alone in private and He will meet with you. Take whatever gifts He chooses to give but don't exchange it for the power.
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