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Jack Gutknecht
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Jack Gutknecht
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I'm glad you started with Luke 6:22, as Jesus does, to connect it to the very next verse in the context, Luke 6:23. -- "Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets". -- When others hate me because I belong to Christ, Jesus says I am blessed. He is not talking about being disliked because I am rude or arrogant, but because my loyalty to Him clashes with the world’s values (John 15:18-19). If people reject, insult, or treat me as worthless because I follow Jesus, it is not a sign that something has gone wrong, but a sign that I am walking the same road He did, since He Himself was hated first (John 7:7). This hatred is not a curse but a confirmation that I belong to Him. It reminds me that I am part of His kingdom, and that my reward is not in people’s approval but in heaven’s promises (Luke 6:23). So even when I face hatred, exclusion, or slander, I can find joy. It may not feel good in the moment, but that very hatred becomes a doorway to deeper fellowship with Jesus and a reminder of the eternal joy that awaits me (Romans 8:18). A strange doorway perhaps, but a doorway, nonetheless.
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