Enemies of the cross of Christ Jesus! Philippians 3:18-21

Enemies of the cross of Christ Jesus!
Philippians 3:18-21
18 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Self-righteous pride and boasting will never see the need for Jesus' Shed blood on the cross to save you, because it is blind to sin, hence, is an enemy of the crops of Christ. Self-sufficiency and self Love, will not see the need for Jesus' sufficiency, hence is an enemy of the cross of Christ. Self-Autonomy of the self made man will never see the need for dependence upon God in life, for it seeks dependence on self and rages upon dependence of their Creator, Hence, is an enemy of the cross of Jesus Christ. The delusion of self as to wanting to be self existence hating the truth and fact of being a creature created by God called into existence by God, hating the nature of its own creaturelyness, wanting to be the supreme divine creator; hence, is an enemy of the Cross of Jesus, for it hates the fact of having been made by God's hand.

When you ignore your sin and sinful condition before God, you are showing that you hate the cross of Jesus, and You Hate God and His remedy to deliver you from your sinful condition in His only begotten Son! You respond in rejection to God the Father's chosen deliverer in His Son, Jesus Christ, and spurn contempt toward the Blood of Jesus to cleanse you and redeem you from your utter depravity, hate and rage against God and from God's eternal wrath abiding on you.

When you live like you have no need for the cross and blood of Jesus, that pride of self-sufficiency shows that you Hate the cross of Jesus and hate His blood to redeem your life from sin, death and eternal destruction and shame!

You act as an enemy of the cross of Jesus, when you trust in the confidence of your sinful nature to please God. Do you not realize that your good works in the flesh are like filthy rags before Almighty God!

Your deceptive arrogant pride to be blind to your sin will be the death of you, for you insist on walking in blindness to the Holiness of God, and continue in deceit of self effort, works and external rituals that will never save you, hence an enemy of the cross of Jesus!


However, when you see your utter depravity and helplessness to your sinful condition then the deep seated need to cry out to God will make you a lover of the cross of Christ and embrace the cross of Jesus in your life to drink from the everlasting fountain Of His blood to receive cleansing and forgiveness, resulting in a right standing and reconciled relationship of peace and Harmony with God; then you will have peace with God through the blood of Jesus, hence, will embrace the cross of Jesus and live for Him!