WE ARE NOT TO COWER IN FEAR AND FALTER IN OUR FAITH BECAUSE OF PERSECUTION.
SOLDIERS OF CHRIST:
OUR INDIVIDUAL FAITH IN GOD THROUGH CHRIST JESUS COMES WITH PERSECUTIONS, WE HAVE BEEN FOREWARNED.
JOHN, 15:-18-27, CHRIST PROCLAIMED, “IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, YE KNOW THAT IT HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU, IF YE WERE OF THE WORLD, THE WORLD WOULD LOVE ITS OWN, BUT BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THE WORLD, THEREFORE THE WORLD HATED YOU.”
TO BE OF CHRIST IS TO BE AN ENEMY OF THE WORLD, TO BE OF THE WORLD IS TO BE AN ENEMY OF CHRIST.[JAMES,4:-4]
IT IS FAR MUCH MORE BETTER THAT WE FACE THE PERSECUTION FROM THE WORLD AND GAIN ETERNITY WITH CHRIST RATHER THAN BE FRIENDS WITH THE WORLD AND BE JUDGED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB ON THAT DAY.
WE ARE NOT TO COWER IN FEAR AND FALTER IN OUR FAITH BECAUSE OF PERSECUTION.
THE THREE HEBREWS STOOD TO DEFEND THEIR FAITH IN PERSECUTION AND THEY NEVER FALTER. [DANIEL, 3:-8-25]
LIKEWISE, DANIEL HIMSELF HELD ON TO HIS FAITH IN PERSECUTION [DANIEL, 6:-1-26]
ROMANS, 15:-4 “FOR WHATEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN BEFORE, WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING THAT WE THROUGH THE PATIENCE AND COMFORT OF THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT HAVE HOPE.” 1 CORINTHIANS, 10:-13 “NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN, BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL HE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU ARE ABLE TO ENDURE, BUT WITH THE TEMPTATION, HE WILL ALSO MAKE A WAY OF ESCAPE THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT.”
IN CONCLUSION: LET US PLEASE HOLD ON TO OUR INDIVIDUAL FAITH IN PERSECUTION, HE HAS PROMISED NOT TO FORSAKE US IF WE ENDURE TO THE END. [HEBREWS, 13:-5]
PLEASE LET US REMEMBER THE WIDOWS AND THE FATHERLESS IN OUR PRAYERS, AND ALSO THE POOR AND THE NEEDY THAT THE HOLY SCRIPTURE COMMANDED US NOT TO NEGLECT: [DEUTERONOMY, 15:-11] BOTH THE WIDOWS, THE FATHERLESS, AND THE POOR HAVE BEEN SINCE NEGLECTED BY THE CHURCH.
WHEN CHRIST COMES, WHAT WILL BE OUR EXCUSE FOR NEGLECTING THOSE THAT HE COMMANDED US TO TAKE CARE OF?