The world pulled over your eyes to blind you.

Can you trust the Bible? I guess if you are a Christian you instinctively answer yes. But do we? In looking at John 16 last we saw that Jesus confronts his disciples with the fact that the world will hate them. That it will put them out of the synagogue and even kill them all the time maintaining that in doing so they are serving God. Is that how we think of the world?

My hunch is that it isn't. In fact the world trumpets its tolerance of all religions therefore it would argue it does not hate us. However, when we stand up for the truth of the gospel that there is no other way to God but through faith in Jesus Christ, when we explain to people what the truth is about what the Bible has to say about their standing before God, then we see through the worlds tolerance. Because telling the gospel provokes reaction and all too often hostile reaction.

We must not let ourselves be fooled into thinking the world love the Christian or even that it tolerates us. The world will tolerate the nominal believer, it will tolerate the liberal believer, but it will do everything it can to silence a gospel believer, even saying it does so in honour of its notion of God or gods.