When You No Longer Follow The World, It Will Begin To Hate You.

A world that continues to live a lie will hate you for not continuing in it.

1st Peter 4:3/5

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

• The world constantly tries to allure and pull us into the depravity, delusion, degeneracy and the evil, trying to sell it as 'not a big deal' or 'its just a little fun' or 'Gods grace is greater' or some other gnostic lie or worldly compromise. It is the same 'slight of hand' that the serpent played on Eve in the Garden... "Did God really say...?" To be IN the world and OF it is to live a lie, and if as a professing follower of Jesus? It ultimately is 'suppressing the truth in unrighteousness'.

• As we look at the world today, it is no longer hidden. It is plastered in our faces 24/7 on social media, the TV, our phones, computers, magazines and every other thing which can be used to 'influence' us (Ephesians 6:12). The world is constantly trying to 'sway' us into following it into destruction, and simply to live a lie, suppressing the truth in unrighteousness and calling it 'God loves me anyways, I can repent tomorrow'.

• I urge the one reading this, if you are disgusted with the way that the world is, this is God Himself pulling you out of it. If you also happen to be a follower of Jesus and are disgusted by the world? This is your opportunity to make Jesus known to it, while there is still time (John 9:4). We can feel pity for those caught in the dissipation as we once were (Luke 21:34), seeking to help them out of the world as it races to its demise. Let us keep ourselves from idols, and from feeling that we need to be 'accepted' by the world, because it will never accept the things of Christ Jesus so long as it loves living a lie (Revelation 21:8, 22:15).