Sometimes what it means to follow Jesus is turning people down, turning nice offers that people have for us down, being socially awkward, not being acceptable in the eyes of the world. Jesus said in Luke chapter 9; “For whoever is ashamed of Me and my words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed, when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s and of the holy angels.”
I want to give you an example: This morning I had a dream, and in my dream, I had gone into town. I went into a certain store where I have bought clothes before and shoes, and I looked up on the wall and I saw a poster of a band, the band was the Bee Gees. I don’t listen to this band, and I don’t really know anything about this band, but when I looked at the poster, someone in the store wanting to do me a favor for being a good customer, offered me the poster and an old record of theirs that maybe was signed.
It was a really nice offer, but I knew in my dream, that if I received this offer, I would be denying Jesus. And in that moment, I had a choice either to stand up for Jesus Christ and reject this offer and look really awkward, or just to receive it, because it was a really nice thing that the store was doing. I chose to stand with Jesus, and also in my everyday life when things like this happen, I also choose to stand with Jesus. When the opportunities arise (to shine) we have to stand our ground with the Lord. We can also let people know, the reason why isn’t because we hate people, it’s not because we don’t like people doing nice things, but a lot of time the things that people are offering us are just things from Satan. And often people in the world don’t know that what they are offering is actually satanic. People have offered me many things like this before.
But I reject things of the world because I have something MUCH better, and that is Jesus Christ. I belong to His Kingdom. I will also share with you or anyone else the things that Jesus has given me, His words, His truth, His love… IF you will accept it. I love to give, but I WILL NOT TAKE FROM THE WORLD. As a child of the Kingdom of God we want to GIVE the truth of God, share His love with the world, but we do not want to receive Satan’s gifts, because those things will pull our souls to hell. I hope this message makes sense to someone who is being tempted to go the way of the world, or to fall into the world by Satan. Often Satan acts like a gentleman, he acts like he loves you, but in the end, Satan wants to destroy your soul, he wants to take you and your family to hell. I hope this encourages you to stand in the light of the truth with Jesus Christ even if it is awkward and even if it doesn’t make sense to the world. May the grace of Jesus be with you.
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