Not Everyone is Going to Like Us, Part 1 (TMF:1410)

Friday, July 10, 2020
Peace to Live By: Not Everyone is Going to Like Us, Part 1 (TMF:1410) - Daniel Litton
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       Let's turn to Matthew 5 and starting going through these passages. So, the first one that I want to consider is found toward the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. If we go to verse 11, we read the following: "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you” (Matthew 5:11, 12, ESV). Thus, this is the first of our hard sayings from Jesus. Now, this is at the conclusion of the Beatitudes, the blessed, or happy sayings that Jesus has stated toward his followers, his disciples. And that includes us today. This passage is uncomfortable first because it indicates to us that not everyone in the world is going to like us—not everyone is going to be on our side. And this is hard for many to hear, particularly in our current day and age here in the United States. The goal of many folks is to be liked by everybody. I mean, that’s what Facebook is about for a lot of people, right?