Dr. Mike Jones

Q: Dr. Mike, as a Christian, what should be my response to those that I meet who show hostility towards the Gospel?

Q: Dr. Mike, as a Christian, what should be my response to those that I meet who show hostility towards the Gospel?

A: Good question, my friend: as believers, we have all experienced it in our early introduction to Christianity; and hostility to the ‘Word of God’ has grown worst. At times, when I’m witnessing to those outside of the “Ark of the Covenant of Grace,” you can literally here the resentment of Holy God in their words, and most of the time, they end the conversation with this statement: “If there is a Heaven to be had, I’m not as bad as some people that I know who say they’re Christians, therefore, I feel that I’ll make it in!” Little do they know that what keeps them out of the Kingdom of Heaven is their rejection of God’s Son as their source of SALVATION!

Doesn’t this sound like the spiritually dead that the Apostle Paul mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:19-20, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”

In Matthew 7:6, Jesus equated those that rejected the Gospel as dogs and swine; “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. He’s simply saying that dogs weren’t that wide spread in the Jewish culture, as a domesticated animal, and they certainly wouldn’t have received ‘holy meat’ that had been sacrificed in the temple. And we know from sacred scripture how they felt about the unclean swine/pig. Therefore, certain truth and blessings of the Christian faith are not to be wasted on those that show hostility towards the Word of God.

We are commanded in Matthew 10:14-15, “And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.” Simply go and minister elsewhere, while being prayerful. At some point, you will prick the heart of the person and turn it from a ‘heart of stone to a heart of flesh,’ whereby the Gospel can penetrate.