The Truth- why people hate Jesus’s followers

 So this awesome sister in Christ posted this video on the real reason for why Christians will receive hate.

It is very good. She goes through a text of scripture in 1 Kings 22 where Ahab declares his hatred for a prophet because he only spoke what was evil towards him(I.e. the truth). She basically brings this up to say this: we as Christians are going to receive hate because we speak the truth.  That’s not surprising because we as Christians are United to the Truth (John 14:6) who was nailed to the cross for speaking the truth. We should should also consider that the devil, the father of lies is called the ruler/prince of this world. So naturally, we as Christians are going to get a lot of haters because we are speaking against lies and the unregenerate love their lies greatly. 

Simply put, one of the simplest ways to have persecution coming your way is to speak the truth. Speak the truth about what God says particularly concerning marriage, gender and sexuality and expect persecution to come your way. The unregenerate are trying to suppress the truth (Romans 1:18) so when they hear it spoken, they will try to marginalize those who do.

Of course this is no license to be a jerk towards other people. The Christian is to speak the truth in love. The point is that even when speaking the truth in a loving fashion people are going to hate on us Christians. Something we shouldn’t be surprised about.