Saturday, March 26, 2022

When their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them

 John 16:1-11

“All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

Even so, there will be those who think they are serving God in seeking to kill the followers of Jesus. Jesus returns to what he has already said to them: his place, to prove to people how wrong they are about sin and judgment, and to lead his followers into a deeper understanding of the truth.

Why?

Those who not know Jesus though they kill disciples will think they are offering a service to God. Just as they crucified Jesus. So to be a Christian have to be suppressed or discarded by this world.

We are not belong to this world, so this world does not welcome us. We stay in these world is not gain the praise of people but to honor the name of the Lord.

Because Jesus has chosen us from the world, we are temporally living in this world. Our mission is honor the name of the Lord and show the love of Jesus to witness Jesus love with us.

How?

Keep in mind all word of Jesus, do our best to honor the Holy name of the Lord, no on our strength but for the Holy Spirit is with me, I can do what I should do as a follower of Jesus.

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