Another principle I have found over the years dealing with accusers is that if their accusations do not work, because they simply don’t hold water, is that accusers can dish it out but not take it. They can say anything they like to disgrace you, they will lie to disgrace you, they will tell a story from one perspective to disgrace you, they will tell people who they barely know but are your friends to try and disgrace you. Now, because often these accusations will fail, the accuser is now at risk of being disgraced.
Your accuser is happy for you to be disgraced, but generally the people who make accusations cannot handle being disgraced. The idea that people look down on them and see them as an accuser of the brethren, that people would now be careful around them, think less of them is too much for them, so what happens then is that the accusations and the accuser get desperate. It’s like when the plan A of accusing you to make you feel bad, to bring you down, to disrupt your life doesn’t work, and they realize that, they often switch to plan B, but plan B is fuelled by rage and nastiness and has no plan. It’s just insanity.
I am writing this to help you realize that if this happens to you, it’s not personal, it’s that your accuser has a hatred in their heart for you because they never guarded their heart, they never kept short accounts with God, and that is behind the craziness. It’s not personal to you, it’s not even unique to you – everyone has had to deal with it and it is just a principle of accusations.
When they tried to falsely accused Jesus, and He kept his mouth quiet and acted in a godly manner, they then spat on Him, they then blindfolded Him and punched Him and slapped Him! (it’s in Mark 14.65 if you want to look it up). Why spit on Jesus? That’s absolutely disgusting behaviour! Because they wanted to make Him unclean. They are unclean and are spitting on Him to make Him unclean. That’s the essence of accusation, but now the accusation hasn’t worked they got violent. I’ve seen accusers when their accusations do not work raise their fists at me, threaten to invade church services – it’s the same rage and the same spirit.
To prove Jesus was a false prophet, they blindfolded Him and punched Him in the face! That’s insane. That’s desperate. If you didn’t read that in the Bible, and someone told you that their accusers did that to them after the accusations didn’t stick, you would shake your head in shock at that behaviour. Accusers get desperate when the accusations don’t stick. They hate you and want to destroy you and if their clever words (or should I say words they think are clever), if their snide comments, if their little texts to your friends don’t work – it is entirely possible they will go crazy.
The scribes and Pharisees deliberately tried to provoke Jesus to speak on things so they could listen to Him speak and find “something out of his mouth, that they might accuse Him” (Luke 11.54). I have had people download my sermons and listen to them, not to grow, not to be inspired, not to learn the Word, but purely for the purpose of catching me out. I asked someone recently if they had ever listened to any of my sermons, and their answer was yes to accuse you. That’s crazy behaviour. That’s not the spirit of Christ.
My other thought about this is a warning to anyone who is accusing others – you might one day slip into this kind of insanity. It’s a downhill journey when you accuse others, it’s best to stop now, repent and go back to the Jesus side! Don’t let the devil employ you, he may suddenly change the job description and you might be so filled with hate, you end up punching Jesus in the face to prove a point! Don’t be that person.
Selah.
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