SATAN WANTS YOU TO BE A NICE CHRISTIAN

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:02]Satan wants you to be a nice Christian.

[00:00:07]Niceness is not a fruit of the spirit.

[00:00:11]Kindness is.

[00:00:13]Nice people try to get along with everyone, including those who live compromised lives full of sin and won't stand up to evil because they want everyone to like them. Jesus had lots of enemies, upset many religious leaders, stirred up a lot of people because he called out their sin and evil and told them to repent.

[00:00:35]So, the word nice has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last 700 years, evolving from a negative term that meant ignorant or foolish in the 13th century to its modern meaning of pleasant or kind.

[00:00:50]Originating from the Latin word nescius, which means not knowing, it passed through Old French and Middle English with meanings that included foolish, fussy, dainty, and precise before finally settling on a positive connotation in the 18th and 19th centuries.

[00:01:09]So, Satan wants Christians to allow those who operate in the Jezebel spirit to control others in the church and in their marriages. He wants those who are evil to do whatever they want and Christians to behave nicely and tolerate their sin, look the other way, and not upset the religious establishment who are compromised. Jesus cared about truth and righteousness more than making and keeping friends and having people like him. Jesus had no patience for unrepentant, greedy, prideful, sexually impure, and selfish men who took advantage of others. When he saw moneychangers and merchants selling animals in the temple courtyard, he made a whip, drove them from the temple area, and overturned their tables. It's in John chapter 2.

[00:01:56]So, this was not a fit of like uncontrolled rage. Jesus didn't run through the courtyard screaming and flipping cages, which would have hurt the animals inside. Instead, Jesus was totally in control. He took the time to make a cord with which to herd the larger animals out of the courtyard. He overturned money-changing tables and ordered the people to take their bird cages out so that the birds would not be injured and barred them from coming back in to exploit the temple visitors. So, he didn't care that he was inconveniencing and offending people or messing up their businesses.

[00:02:34]They were the ones who were wrong for desecrating a holy space by daring to use their wrongful business practices on humble travelers who only wanted to worship God. And he wasn't afraid to call them out and stop them. Jesus also had no patience for religious hypocrites. He criticized the Jewish uh religious leaders for holding on to empty traditions while ignoring their fellow human beings' very real needs. He demonstrated through his example how true religious leaders ought to behave, how they ought to care for those under their authority. Some of the things he said to these oppressors could not be described as nice in any way.

[00:03:17]But Jesus didn't care about being nice.

[00:03:19]He cared about truth and righteousness, about waking the religious leaders up to their selfishness, their pride, their hypocrisy, and giving them a chance to repent and behave godly. At times people can be won over with gentle words, but at times they need the truth spoken to them to help them to wake up. Jesus did both.

[00:03:40]So, during Jesus's 3 and 1/2 years of ministry, Jesus touched and healed social outcasts. He defended women who were being criticized by prideful men.

[00:03:51]He raised the dead, but he also made a lot of people mad, so much so that they eventually killed him.

[00:03:57]So, from a young age, most children are taught to be nice, which includes everything from being polite, saying thank you, don't ask awkward questions, don't talk about religion or politics during dinner parties, or to overlook those who are in sin. We also forget it's possible to act nice outwardly while secretly hating or deriding a person in your heart. We do it all the time, you know, either because we want to look good in someone's eyes or because we want to avoid conflict.

[00:04:27]So, Jesus was not afraid of what people thought, nor was he afraid of conflict.

[00:04:32]He had no problems breaking the status quo, pointing out people who were doing or saying wrong things, and confronting arrogant religious leaders who were hurting the people that they were supposed to help. He also didn't care about being politically correct.

[00:04:47]Many times after healing someone that was sick, Jesus would say, "Go and sin no more, or else something worse might happen to you."

[00:04:55]He knew that they needed to be walking in the fruit of the spirit, holiness, righteousness, so that they could go to heaven. Obedience matters, so don't be nice, speak the truth of what Jesus did.

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