CFC India
A disciple of Jesus will never get offended - Zac Poonen Zac Poonen · July 26, 2010 · 3m 49s
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Summary The central message is that a true disciple of Jesus must be a lover of God, not a lover of self, reputation, or pleasure. The speaker argues that a key sign of self-love is being easily offended by what others say or do. True discipleship requires taking up the cross and putting self-life to death, a concept that is increasingly neglected in the last days.
Transcript 0:00 four types of lovers mentioned here uh lovers of self lovers of money and verse four lovers of pleasure and lovers of God four types of 0:17 lovers and only one of them is Right a true Christian must be a lover of God but instead of being a lover of God he's going to be a lover of himself um his own rights his 0:34 reputation his honor uh one of the proofs of that is we get so easily offended only one who loves himself gets offended one who doesn't love himself but loves God never gets offended with anything that another person says or 0:52 doesn't say with anything that another person does or doesn't do we get offended because we get hurt our selflife gets hurt by the way somebody treated us by what we heard somebody said about us behind our back we love 1:10 ourselves so much and who are who are we talking about now unbelievers no so-called believers who have never understood what it is to take up the cross and put self to death see because in the last days there's going to be very little 1:24 preaching about the cross and death to self-life it's almost unheard of in in most churches today and never heard of in Christian television and so when there's no preaching against death on death to self self is going to flourish in the lives 1:41 of many Christians they won't even know that you cannot follow Jesus if you love yourself they'll think you can love yourself and follow Jesus and look at the multitudes of Christians who get offended and hurt and don't even feel 1:57 that that's a terrible sin this somebody did that to me I have a right to be hurt exactly because you're an unbeliever you're not a disciple of Jesus that's why you got a right to be hurt if you a disciple of Jesus you have 2:11 no right to be hurt Jesus was never hurt when they called him Prince of devils they spat on his face they did all types of things what does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus there are very very few Christians who are going to take up the cross in 2:26 the last days and follow him and so it's going to be very difficult to be a true Christian because we are surrounded by people who claim to be Christians who claim to be filled with the spirit who claim to speak in tongues Etc and who 2:38 get hurt and get offended or are disturbed because their name was dragged in the dust now Jesus taught us to pray Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name forget about your own name but the last days Christians are going to be more 2:52 concerned about their name for example I'll tell you do you know how much the name of Jesus is Dishonored in India today but that that doesn't disturb most people who call themselves Christians but if their name was dragged in the mud 3:06 by somebody once boy that would really disturb them or if their little pretty daughter's name was dragged in the dust boy that would disturb them but let the name of Jesus be Dishonored throughout the country doesn't bother them you 3:20 think such people are Disciples of Jesus no far from it but they sit in churches they claim to be born again they claim to love the Lord that is the amazing thing that devil has done deceiving them that they love themselves from top to 3:37 bottom head to foot and they think they're Disciples of Jesus so we can only warn you nobody can change you from being a lover of self if you don't want to be free from it yourself
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