Don’t Expect A Crowd When You Genuinely Stand For Truth – It’s Lonely On God’s Path!

Mgbeke Sunday Sermon

February 19, 2023

My beautifully beloved brethren, how are you all doing today? I am so glad to be able to reach out to you again and be a conduit through which our Father will touch someone’s life today.

A recent controversy raged online after a minister made some strong statements about a massively famous and widely loved female American musical artist and her husband, and I’ve been silently watching, smiling, yet asking inside me ever since: Why is there even a debate about her comments at all?!

According to this embattled minister, anyone who calls themselves a “Christian” should never compromise and mingle with the world to the point where they not only feel but also teach others that it is cool and acceptable for them to attend concerts and shows organized by the said artist, her husband, and many others like them.

Again, why should there ever have been any backlash or outrage at her for making these comments, especially in the so-called Christian circles and communities, too? The answer is not far-fetched, though, and for someone out there who is always the lone, “weird” voice of truth and reason among everyone in your circle, this message is for you today.

Stop expecting to see a crowd following you whenever you’re standing for God’s undiluted truth – God’s path and way are always narrow and very lonely! Remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ regarding this, too?

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” – ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭13‬-‭14‬.‬

Our Lord has already assured us that whenever we’re on the path of truth, righteousness, and life, there will be very few people walking that path and staying on it with us. So, should you ever be worried whenever anyone riles against and persecutes you for standing for the truth? The answer is a big NO, my beloved brethren!

Oh, Jesus Christ made this explicitly clear to us that the world must never agree with or love us if we are genuinely standing in HIS truth without any form of compromise, and I believe this with all my heart. He said:

“If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Remember the word I said unto you; The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.” – ‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭18‬-‭20‬.‬

So, knowing all these, what manner of people ought we all to be in this Christian race, and how are we supposed to handle these issues of our righteous garments being stained by compromise and worldliness?

If you read the teachings of the great Apostle Paul from the fourteenth verse of this scripture below, you’ll see clear instructions regarding how every child of God must be in this world. These two verses in it stand out well for me on issues like this, too:

“Wherefore Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch not the unclean thing; And I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, And ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” – ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭6‬:‭17‬-‭18‬.‬

Again, this warning sounded clear to the Apostle John during the revelations of Jesus Christ on the island of Patmos. The scripture says: “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” – ‭‭Revelation‬ ‭18‬:‭4‬.‬

Hence, today I implore and beseech you, all my brethren, don’t ever let yourself get carried away with what anyone else is doing but solely focus on God’s perfect will and ways which are made open and close to you in HIS written Word!

Stop mingling with the world thinking it is of no consequence. Don’t expect anyone to love or praise you for choosing to be against the “trendy” worldly patterns and cultures that have sadly crept even into the supposed household of faith worldwide.

May God bless and keep you, and may HE cause that your strength never fails you in your trials and afflictions for HIS name’s sake. And may HE grant you the mental toughness and strength to never compromise the truth for the world’s acceptance, in the name of Jesus Christ; Amen!