When you're despised
"Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"
"He said to them, "You will surely say this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in Your country.'" Then He said, "Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow." Luke 4:20-26
The Pharisees and religious people looked down on the Lord Jesus because of where He came from. As usual to hypocrites, they recognized His spiritual authority but didn't accept it, and with envy in their heart, spoke harshly about Him.
But the Lord Jesus wasn't intimidated by them. Those who are born of God and filled with the Holy Spirit are not afraid of people like that -- they understand their spiritual deficiency. Jesus spoke boldly and to their face about the time of famine in Israel when the people were not fed by Naaman, the foreigner. This made the Pharisees extremely angry at Him, even to the point of wanting to push Him off the cliff.
Isn't this what happens today with us too? People look down on us because they see no capacity in us. In fact, they like to criticize us. It's interesting to note that these people won't just let us be - you know, when you don't like a restaurant, you simply stop going there. You don't camp outside that restaurant and keep making a scene outside about how much you hated it. And yet, this is what these people usually do... they hate us, but they keep checking out what we're doing, as if they were obsessed with us somehow, looking for things to prove their hatred for us. But their hatred doesn't come from anything we've done, but from evil itself.
That's why, those who are born of God, don't take what their 'supposed enemies' say personally. They understand them, they're just being used.
In faith,
Cristiane Cardoso
"Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?""He said to them, "You will surely say this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in Your country.'" Then He said, "Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow." Luke 4:20-26
The Pharisees and religious people looked down on the Lord Jesus because of where He came from. As usual to hypocrites, they recognized His spiritual authority but didn't accept it, and with envy in their heart, spoke harshly about Him.
But the Lord Jesus wasn't intimidated by them. Those who are born of God and filled with the Holy Spirit are not afraid of people like that -- they understand their spiritual deficiency. Jesus spoke boldly and to their face about the time of famine in Israel when the people were not fed by Naaman, the foreigner. This made the Pharisees extremely angry at Him, even to the point of wanting to push Him off the cliff.
Isn't this what happens today with us too? People look down on us because they see no capacity in us. In fact, they like to criticize us. It's interesting to note that these people won't just let us be - you know, when you don't like a restaurant, you simply stop going there. You don't camp outside that restaurant and keep making a scene outside about how much you hated it. And yet, this is what these people usually do... they hate us, but they keep checking out what we're doing, as if they were obsessed with us somehow, looking for things to prove their hatred for us. But their hatred doesn't come from anything we've done, but from evil itself.
That's why, those who are born of God, don't take what their 'supposed enemies' say personally. They understand them, they're just being used.
In faith,
Cristiane Cardoso
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