Was Jesus really popular, and influential with affluence, did he command the things we look up to him for these days,as most people want us to believe?
For me I know my onions, and know what the bible says categorically from a personal relationship with Him.
A proverb in English transliteration would read "your palms would never deceive you" although gotten from a secular origin and as found in some texts in the sayings of Solomon. Truth be told, you can't really deceive yourself; let alone people . People know the truth when they see one, but most never want to admit it; which is subject to different reasons, otherwise, remuneration or what they derive from its denial.
No matter what you think there is only one thing you know for sure or admit that there is a Creator and people who say otherwise don't have any reasonable proof. I stand to be questioned on any grounds if you think differently with these points:
1. The bible I read never paints a world for the Christian in this world we live in.
2. It doesn't assume a position of affluence or comfort for the Christian.
3. Your voice will never be heard when you speak.
4. You would suffer untold hardship for your beliefs.
5. People would call you names of any sort.
6. You can never be really liked by the famous and popular.
7. You can't feed from the media.
Although this looks like the seven commandments of a true Christian, it is more of what Jesus said when he was on earth corroborated by his true apostles on earth today if there is any left.
Why do you think all Jesus said about the end times is becoming truer than our vision would decipher in this last days men would depart from the truth!
New International Version
"Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold'' Mathew 24:12
Really you don't really need to preach much with your words but your life should show it to orgasmic proportions in painful terms.
Don't jerk off but be "the jerk" everybody is deriding for the sake of Christ it is far worth than rubies.
Your life is much more precious than all you could ever imagine in Christ. Love from your able bodied disciple.
Yet the one most unpopular is still the most famous.