Whatever you have been told or come to believe yourself Jesus was absolutley not a nice guy. Was he a good man, yes, Righteous absolutley, sinless and perfect with out a doubt, but he was not a nice guy. A nice guy would not call his elders and religious leaders [ignorant fools] or hypocrites (matt 23 : 23-37) a nice guy would not bind a whip out of chords and in a pre-meditated act of aggression chase merchants out of thier stores. Jesus was not a perfect child by todays standards he challenged his parents on multiple occasions the most notable by refusing to see them when he was back in his home town preaching. One thing Jesus did do however was to follow the will of God. He did not like it all the time ( prayer before crucifixionLuke 22:42) but he was willing to do it. Just as Jesus was not a nice guy niether are you called to be a nice person. You are called to be a a strong person. the world will tell you that if you speak of your faith you are trying to impose it on them and that this is not allowed. They will also tell you that to say that your fiath is the right one is closed minded and bigoted. The world will tell you to let others alone and let them believe what they want. Jesus tells you thati f you do that then they go to hell. In fact he goes as far as to give the great commision and send you out into the world that tells you to leave them alone and make disciples of those people.(matt 28:16-20)
The world will not like it in fact many of them will hate you for it but that was promised to us by Jesus at the begginning of this journey (matt 10: 17-20) but it is what you are called to do. Let no one tell you that it is not your place to decide what is right and what is wrong we know ,because of our Lord Jesus, the correct path. We are the true guides in this world, but we must show them the way with Love. We can not judge a persons righteousness or if they are worthy of God but we can love them and pray for them and more than that we can rebuke them for thier sins as long as we can be and have been rebuked and have repented of our own sins. It is time to stop letting the world dictate what kind of Christians we are allowed to be the time for being politically correct is at an end now is the time when the world needs Strong and Loving Christians which the world is ,sadly, in a short supply of. It is our time to fill that need and fullfill the role that we were given here on this earth, to seek and save the lost.
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