"The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth." —Psalm 37:12
The
Lord Jesus Christ has been gone from the earth for nearly 2,000 years; yet,
many people today still defame his character, slander his good name and say
all manner of evil against Him.
Jesus never sinned even once (2nd Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15). Jesus was holy and perfect in every way. Yet, His enemies found enough fault in Him to nail Him to a cross and execute Him. If they did that to our Lord and Savior, prey tell me, what do you think our enemies, critics and carnal religious people will do to us? Jesus taught in John 15:20b, “The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you...” If the carnally-minded religious leaders of Jesus' day disrespected Him, belittled Him and tore down the precious Savior, then they will do the same thing to us in 2015. Thus, it doesn't surprise me that some of the most malicious, nasty and derogatory attacks against me and my ministry have come from ungodly religious leaders.
Matthew 25:40, “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
It's been nearly 2,000 years and yet so many people today hate Jesus, and still try to find fault with Him, just as the wicked Pharisees did. Many historians wickedly try to uncover some detail under some rock that will discredit the Lord Jesus, shame His testimony and destroy His credibility. Try as they may, they have failed, and so they fabricate every malicious lie about the precious Savior.
Conan O'Brien has portrayed Jesus Christ as a homosexual voyeur on his Late Night Show. Dan Brown and Ron Howard portrayed Jesus as having a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene in The DaVinci Code, and claim He had children. The Last Temptation of Christ slanders our Lord and portrays Him of being an adulterer. The Godless movie SAVED, horribly blasphemes the holy name of Jesus, making jokes as to how well Jesus is “hung” on the cross while focusing on His crotch. The blasphemous movie, Jesus Christ Superstar, assassinates our Lord's character and portrays Him as a worldly heathen. Rocker, Harvey Danger, sings that Jesus had to go die on the cross and stuck him with the check.
Marilyn Manson, on his album Holywood, displays a picture of a rotting man on a cross. Manson mutilates himself on stage, rips-up the Holy Bible and spews “blasphemies” against the Lord Jesus Christ. John Lennon, in his book, A Spaniard in the Works, portrays Jesus Christ as, "Jesus El Pifico, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy fascist bastard Catholic Spaniard" (A Spaniard in the Works, p.14).
In the alleged Gospel of Judas, which is not a part of the Bible, Jesus is portrayed as a conspirator with Judas. Many people today claim that Jesus was a fake and a fraud. Criss Angel and David Blaine have both publicly attempted to imitate the miracles of Jesus, in an admitted attempt to discredit the Son of God. In so doing, they have hardened people's hearts against God, just as Pharaoh's magicians hardened his heart against God in imitating Moses' miracles.
Perhaps no other group has attacked the Messiah any more than His own people, the Jews. In the Jewish holy book, the Talmud, Jesus is said to have been boiled in excrement (urine and dung). This is what the world has to say about the spotless Lamb of God.
Isaiah 51:7, “Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.”
So what do you think our enemies
will say about us? While the righteous expose the wicked for parading their
sins publicly, and for attempting to publicly justify their wickedness; the
wicked pry under every rock, maliciously plotting against the righteous,
monitoring our every move with a magnifying glass, just waiting for any
fault or sin that they can use to destroy our name, assassinate our
character and discredit our work for God. Our intent is good; their intent
is evil. When you're a Christian, the whole world is waiting for you to
fall. Criticism can only destroy us if we respond wrongly. Let God avenge
you of enemies (Romans 12:19). Don't fight back. There's no way to fight
back and be Christlike. The Lord didn't say to “Go into all the world and
spread gossip about every creature.”
Shame On Pastors Who Hurt Others and Spread Gossip
Anybody can spread a rumor until it becomes as truth, even though it's a bunch of lies (or partial lies). People all over the world are suspicious of Jesus Christ, thinking that He may have had sexual relations with Mary Magdalene, because of evil movies such as The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar and The DaVinci Code, that fabricate and spread rumors about Jesus Christ. That is the intent of such movies, i.e., to plant seeds of doubt and suspicion in people's minds, to discredit Christianity. Ah, but God is still on His throne, and the wicked shall not prevail (Isaiah 13:11).
Here is what Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Propaganda Minister, said about the power of lying...
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” [emphasis added]
SOURCE: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
If this sinful world found fault, where there was no fault, in our precious Lord and Savior and nailed Him to a cross; then you can be assured that they will nail us to a cross as well when we are less than perfect. If they can't find fault, then they will spread rumors about us in an attempt to destroy us and our work for God in their hatred.
It was the religious leaders that despised Jesus the most, because He came out uncompromisingly against them, exposing their hypocrisy and errant ways. Nothing has changed in 2,000 years. If you stand today for the purity of God's Word by defending the exclusivity of the King James Bible, you'll be torn down and degraded by today's apostate religious (they certainly aren't behaving as Christian) leaders! If you expose the modern corrupt Bible versions, you will be attacked by today's corrupt pastors and religious leaders. If you expose the false prophets who teach a false plan of Lordship Salvation in today's churches, you will be degraded and insulted by the apostate religious leaders who support them. The Pharisees were Jesus' bitterest enemies. They were the religious big shots in town! It's hard to imagine, but nevertheless very true, that Christ's worst enemies were religious people! It was the humble sinner (the harlots and the publicans) who believed on Jesus; but the religious leaders condemned Him.
Keep in mind that Jesus was perfect, and yet they found fault where there was no fault. The servant is not greater than his Lord. If people hated, betrayed and spread rumors about the sinless Lord Jesus Christ, then we can be assured that they'll do the same to us too, especially because we are imperfect sinners. Love them with God's unconditional love and pray for them, knowing that their time of reckoning is coming, when God will judge them according to the way they have mistreated others (Matthew 7:1-2).
