JESUS WASN’T NICE ?!
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2024
- JESUS WASN’T NICE ?!
Niceness is not a fruit of the spirit. Kindness is. Nice people don’t make enemies. Jesus had lots of enemies. Jesus cared about truth and righteousness more than making and keeping friends. For one thing, Jesus had no patience for unrepentant, greedy, prideful and selfish men who took advantage of others.
When he saw moneychangers and merchants selling animals in the temple courtyard he “made a whip, drove them from the temple area, and overturned their tables” (John 2).
This was not a fit of uncontrolled rage. Jesus didn’t run through the courtyard screaming and flipping cages (which would have injured the animals inside).
Instead, Jesus was totally in control: he took the time to make a cord with which to herd the larger animals out of the courtyard. He overturned money-changing tables and ordered the people to take their birdcages out (so the birds would not be injured), and barred them from coming back in to exploit the temple visitors.
He didn’t care that he was inconveniencing and offending people or messing up their business. They were the ones who were wrong, for desecrating a holy space by daring to use their wrongful business practices on humble travelers who only wanted to worship God. And he wasn’t afraid to call them out and stop them.
Jesus also had no patience for religious hypocrites. He criticized the Jewish religious leaders for holding on to empty traditions while ignoring their fellow human beings’ very real needs.
He demonstrated through his example how true religious leaders ought to behave, how they ought to care for those under their authority.
Some of the things he said to these oppressors could not be described as “nice” in any way.
But Jesus didn’t care about being nice. He cared about truth & righteousness, about waking the religious leaders up to their selfishness, pride and hypocrisy, and giving them a chance to repent and behave godly.
At times, people can be won over with gentle words. At times, they need the truth spoken to them to help them to wake up. Jesus did both.
During Jesus’ three and a half years of ministry, Jesus touched and healed social outcasts. He defended women who were being criticized by arrogant men. He raised the dead.
But he also made a lot of people mad. So much so that they eventually killed him.
From a young age, most children are taught to “be nice.” Which includes everything from being polite (say “thank you,” don’t ask awkward questions, don’t talk about religion or politics during dinner parties) to saving face (your own and others’).
We forget it is possible to act “nice” outwardly while secretly hating or deriding a person in your heart.
We do it all the time, either because we want to look good in spectators’ eyes, or because we want to avoid conflict.
But Jesus was not afraid of what people thought, nor was he afraid of conflict.
He had no problems breaking the status quo, pointing out people who were doing or saying wrong things, and confronting arrogant religious leaders who were hurting the people they were supposed to help.
He also didn’t care about being politically correct.
Many times, after healing someone sick, Jesus would say “go and sin no more, or else something worse might happen to you.”
He knew they needed to be walking in the fruit of the spirit and holiness and righteousness.
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Good to see someone making a distinction between being "Nice" and being "Kind".
Nice people don't get to heaven!
Saved people do!
Amen.
Christians aren't meant to be sweet.
Christians are meant to be salty.
Gentle and patient. We are to be like the beatitudes
Salt means humble. No salt = unkind(proverbs)
@Rileyed agreed.
@@HellBentMonk2024 salty sounds like someone from Jersey. 😂
@Rileyed lmaooooo stop...
We could joke around all night.
Thank you for speaking truth 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
WOW THANK YOU !!!!.. FINALLY someone who's NOT AFRAID to SPEAK the TRUTH about JESUS ❤❤❤❤
We He sure has been nice and kind to me, all my life. ❤
Please how ?
Am a born Christian and sometimes I feel so down 😭 of myself because of low finance but I still believe God😞
It's Wendy Lisa kidd doing she's changed my life. A BROKER- like her is what you need.
$356K monthly is something you should feel differently about....
Lovely! I enjoyed it like I enjoy a $100k monthly around the turn!!!
Great message.
I remember reading the new testament and realizing that Jesus was no push over this gave me so much more confidence. 😅 Jesus was direct and fearless 🤯. I stopped taking nonsense of course I had to apologize a few times and go to God in prayer.😂 I'm still maturing, my mom compared me to a tigress lol. The righteous are as bold as lions.🦁😅
Thank you for the beautiful and accurate representation of Jesus the Christ.
Great word.... called "Righteous Anger"! We are to call sin to repentance, not break bread with it if one wants to stay in their sin! Jesus told us to dust off our feet and move to the next town for anyone who rejects His word!
We are called to die to our flesh and be fully submitted to the Lord! Persecution of the Church is heavy and great in these days. Knowing that it will get much worse moving fwd.
God Bless fam❣️💕
Yes And Amen Selah Thank You Heavenly Father For Everything 🙏🏽 🙌🏽 ❤️
The Lord been speaking all day about this and I got a word to share. The Lord is revealing what is in people heart.
I was just telling my mom this! Very true!
Ive always been a people pleaser. I should be concerned about pleasing God not humans.
Finally, the truth. Being nice, according to my reglious background, has made a victim of abusers but mostly those who say the love God.
Yes indeed! Truth be told!
Man of God I love your videos!! Very full of truth and insightful!
Perfect
People take advantage of me when im kind.so i think twice before being kind.
Thank you! This was spot on! I appreciate you Nelson. God Bless you! 🙏🏼
Thank you!
I say it all the time. Nice gets you walked over and trampled by snakes. Kindness is fruit we bear.
Nice is how you coax kids into vans. Kind is how you help people that think help is more heroin.
I'm an Anglican. My former priest admitted to me that he was a gleeful psychopath and had a predilection for young boys. He said it in a 3rd person way, then in a first person way. There are cults of demons within our institutions and always have and will be. I stand firm in my faith. Ecclesiastes 'there is nothing new under the sun'... 'it were better to be stillborn than see all the evil under the sun". I wonder why God needs us sometimes.
Thank you for this
Colossians 4:6:
"with all wisdom speaking the word of God, admonishing one another with all patience and teaching.
"Leviticus 19:14 NKJV
[14] You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
2 Timothy 2:24-25:
"And the servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to all, able to teach, not resentful."
Jesus could do that lol. Great truth Amen
Just ensure you don't get yourself arrested. 😭
This was good
1:44 🎉
You know what is sad? When my own priest at my church is a gossip and has even made remarks about me to another priest..
It ain’t walking after 30yrs if I don’t change
Amen my father is strict
He whipped them out of there with a knotted rope if I'm not mistaken
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People's potential deliverance from demons and sins is worth the time and space of promoting the book to some people who may not know of it otherwise.
If I may be so bold to discern, that the book sale is not so much about the money, it's about the salvation of souls for the LORD.
My books have helped tens of thousands of Christians around the world. And my personal sessions of healing and deliverance have helped thousands. Good fruit.
In Luke 18 they scolded the blind man to be quiet. And all he wanted is for the son of David to have mercy on him. Be very careful people what you deem useless in your own human strength! There are people in real bondage and have been severely oppressed by people and demons and need help from someone who actually has insight to the problem. Including myself!!!
Im buying his book just like I bought the Bible.
no He wasnt nice at all He was full of the zeal of the Lord and told people the truth.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. (Matthew 10:34 NKJV)