"...That is what the cross stands for: First, the reproach of the world—because we have antagonized it, raised its ire by separating ourselves from it, and are walking on a different plane, and through being actuated by different principles from those by which it walks." - AW Pink "Cross-Bearing"
Consider the opposite:
If you or your church or ministry are not bearing the reproach of the world, but instead has its approval and friendliness...
If you haven't antagonized it and raised its ire by...
Not separating yourselves from the world....
If you are not walking on a different plane...
If you are not actuated by different principles entirely from those who by which it walks....
You ARE the world and do not know Christ nor He you.
Jas 4:4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1Jn 3:13 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
Joh 15:18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Joh 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
1Pe 4:4 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
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