Healing a Hateful Heart

People who say they are Christians but who hate other Christians are deceived. They aren’t really Christians.

1 John 2:9 says – The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness. 1 John 3:15 says – Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. 1 John 4:20 says – If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

And people who verbally abuse other people aren’t acting like Christians. 1 Peter 2:23 says that when Jesus was reviled, he did not revile in return. 

You can fool yourself, but you can’t hide a hateful heart. When you revile other people, you reveal your heart. But if you will confess your hateful sin, God’s love will heal your hateful heart.   

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Demons Believe in Jesus

Romans 10:9 says “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved”. So why aren’t the demons saved? Because the demons confess that Jesus is Lord. Mark 3:11 says whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." And the demons know for a fact that Jesus is risen from the dead. They were there.

James 2:19 says the demons believe in God and shudder in fear. Demons know, believe, feel, and fear the truth. So why aren’t the demons saved? Because they know Jesus IS Lord, but they don’t seek to honor, love, obey, serve, or worship Jesus AS Lord. You see, you can have your intellect filled with the truth, and you can have your emotions stirred by the truth, but are your actions motivated and moving towards faithfully trusting the truth? Are you different than the demons?

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If the Bible isn’t True

If the Bible isn’t true, then Christianity isn’t true. And Jesus isn’t true. Why? Because Jesus treated the Bible as if it was true. Jesus said the OT was all about him. He referred to the OT scriptures a lot. And the NT is filled with Jesus’ own words. So, if the Bible isn’t true then Jesus isn’t true.

Now, a person doesn’t have to believe the Bible is true before they can be saved, but the Bible has to be true for them to be saved. Think about someone who doesn’t even know there is a Bible. But then a preacher comes, and that person receives Jesus and is saved. That new convert came to faith through preaching about the Jesus we find in the Bible.

You can experience something without knowing how to describe it. For example, a newborn baby is alive, breathing, crying, and eating, before that baby knows how to describe any of that. So, a new convert may not have known it, but they were believing in the truth of the Bible when it comes to Jesus. And Jesus believed the Bible was true. And he taught it. 

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