They Hate You Due to Envy

Mark 15vv. 9-14 reveals that the Jews delivered Jesus to Pilate for crucifixion not because Jesus had committed a criminal offense but because of their envy against him. They also incited the crowds to riot so that Pilate may sentence Jesus to death because of the said envy. They could not give a reason for their accusation against Jesus. When Jesus began his ministry, even his own relatives hated him and thought he was mad. Jesus appeared to be as ordinary as any other person and to his brothers and sisters, there was nothing special in him. They tried to oppose his ministry but they could not stop him. Jesus even defied his parents when it came to serving God. He was left in Jerusalem contrary to his parents wishes and caused them great pain as they were searching for him. If you are a born again Christian, you will be hated and persecuted by those who envy you. You will have to defy your parents when their demands are contrary to what you are doing for God.

It is not because you have sinned that you are going through pain. It is because they envy you. In 2008, a Pastor of a Full Gospel Church in Kivaa in Yatta called me to his office when I first attended his Church. In his office, he told me many things about himself. He asked me where my family lived and I told him they were at Makutano in Masii. Later, I began seeing some of the teachers who were members of his Church, and who were working with me at Kivaa Sec., mocking me and showing hatred against me. One of those teachers is a Pastor and he told one student never to talk to me. Some teachers started calling me an agent of Satan because students were taking my preaching seriously. Later I realized that the Pastor of the Full Gospel Church had told some members of his Church that I had cheated him that I had a wife. To him, “family” means wife. His lies against me strengthened those who were persecuting me, and I lost my job. That Pastor lied against me because of his envy. The teachers of Kivaa Sec. who were persecuting me did it because of envy. I do not see how a sexually immoral drunkard of a teacher can claim to me better than a born again Christian, like me. The envy of these fake Pastors and those wicked teachers caused me to be attacked and beaten in the staffroom and at the market outside my house by two teachers. They also threatened that one day they would kill me.

Elijah fled from Jezebel who wanted to kill him because of her envy. Because of envy, Miriam spoke against Moses. Due to envy, Jeremiah was cast into a pit. Due to envy, Joseph was cast into a pit and and later sold to Egypt by his brothers. Due to envy, Cain killed his brother Abel. Due to envy, they stoned Stephen to death. Because of envy, Isaiah was sawed into two. Due to envy, Peter was crucified upside down. Because of envy, John was banished from Israel. It is due to envy that your relatives, workmates, neighbors, etc., are against you without a good reason. Do not start hating yourself thinking you are wrong. Do not bow to their demands. Keep off their Satanic ways even if it means physically avoiding the. 1 Thess. 5v. 22 commands that you avoid all appearance of evil. Defy their ways and denounce them, and God shall fight for you.

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