There is no doubt that if you were to ask those who hated Christ and his
religion, they would say that Jesus Christ was a drunkard and a wine bibber.
They would accuse him of starting a new religion, of departing from the way of
Moses and incorporating new doctrines into the Monotheistic Jewish tradition
that the prophets knew nothing about. To put it simply, they would accuse him
of heresy, and as history for our sake has recorded, they crucified him. Yet,
Christ maintained his doctrines and taught his disciples the way of God
regardless whether the society at large loved them, understood them or
cherished them. Christ would not bow down to the rule of Rome, to the cries of
the masses, nor to the will of the religious rulers; but Christ did bow down to
this, namely, the will of God. We see the evidence of this in Jesus’ own words
“Joh 4:34 Jesus said to them, "My
food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. And also in Joh 6:38 For I have come down
from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And
in Joh 12:49
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but
the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment--what to say and what
to speak. And finally in The words that I say to you I do not speak on
my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Jesus was God’s spokesman to a world who would rather follow the
dictates of their own hearts and be led by their own natural light of reason.
God’s will and words was too abstract for them, they could not understand it
lest they leave their dark dwellings and come into the marvellous light. Christ
spoke to them in the night and look how they mobbed him, they jeered him, and
mocked his words. He spoke to them about the pleasant mornings, the simplicity
of following him in the light and O look how they threw stones at him as if he
were speaking in a foreign tongue. At last they crucified him for blasphemy for
refusing this world’s orders and ways. And is it not so, that in every
generation, those who had the truth of Christ and preached it with great zeal
and fervency were likewise subjected to the fire of madness by the masses.
Their words were like falling rain, although appealing to their consciences,
they put up their umbrellas and ignored its call, warning them of the judgement
to come and of the sweet eternity if only they would comply and believe the
message preached.
But nay. They reject the gospel. My friends reject the gospel. This
gospel alone, which has the cure to all of life’s ails and troubles, they
reject. It is not sensible to them, it is not wise. My generation would not so
much have Christ crucified but they would denounce him a lunatic, a mad man, or
simply a good moral teacher but those who have any sense, any wisdom would not
come to a conclusion of him being a mere religious teacher, they would denounce
him mad or say like doubting Thomas, My Lord and My God.
If you call yourself a Christian, preach Christ and his message. If the
world hates you, good. For they hated Christ. Stand up for him in the public square,
do not be silent in the workplace, give him the glory in the media, stand up
for his justice, live according to his will. The world will hate you but
remember this, they hated him first. While they hate you, do not hate them for
the message of Christ is love. While they curse we bless, while they hate we
love and we love their very souls and existence. We would do as much for them
as we would for our own sons. Here is the outrageous love of God for you, that
while you were an enemy, a campaigning rebel to usurp his sovereign authority,
He sent his Son to die for your wicked sins, yea those terrible deeds done in
darkness. Jesus died for it all.
K.Oni
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