HOLD ON TO YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST IN TIME OF CRISIS.

CHRIST CHOSEN DISCIPLES:

OUR INDIVIDUAL CROSS AS A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST MUST NOT BE ABANDONED FOR ANY REASON.

IT HAS TO BE CARRIED TO THE END.

LUKE, 9:-62: CHRIST PROCLAIMED, “NO ONE HAVING PUT HIS HAND TO THE PLOW AND LOOKING BACK IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”

NOTHING IN HELL CAN CHANGE OUR MIND NOT TO FOLLOW CHRIST TILL THE END OF OUR EXISTENCE ON EARTH.

(ROMANS, 8:-31-39)

THE SCRIPTURE MADE IT CLEAR THAT “INDEED, ALL WHO DESIRE TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS WILL BE PERSECUTED. (2 TIMOTHY, 3:-12)

WE AS A CHURCH ARE SHOT OF WORDS WHEN ONE OF OUR BROTHERS IN CHRIST BRINGS TO OUR NOTICE THAT, “HE IS NO LONGER BELIEVE IN JEHOVAH GOD.

IN OTHER WORDS, HE QUIT BEING A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST.

REASON FOR HIS DECISION: ALL THAT HE HAS BEEN FASTING AND PRAYING FOR HAS NOT COME TO PASS.

JAMES, 4:-3 “YOU ASK AND DO NOT RECEIVE BECAUSE YOU ASK AMISS, THAT YOU MAY SPEND IT ON YOUR PLEASURE.”

THEREFORE HE HAS CHOSEN TO TRY ANOTHER GOD.

WE CAN BRING A BOTHER WHO FELL INTO SIN BACK WITH LOVE AND AFFECTION.

BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN ENLIGHTENED, AND HAS TESTED THE HEAVENLY GIFT AND HAS BECOME A PARTAKER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, IF HE FALLS AWAY, TO RENEW HIM AGAIN TO REPENTANCE SINCE HE CRUCIFIES AGAIN FOR HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD AND PUT HIM TO AN OPEN SHAME. (HEBREWS, 6:-4-6)

IN CONCLUSION: WE ALL KNOW THROUGH THE SCRIPTURE THAT, THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE.

THAT IS TO SAY, “SALVATION IS FREE.”

BUT IT COST GOD HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. (JOHN, 3:-16)

AND IT ALSO COST CHRIST HIS LIFE ON THE CROSS.

TO US, IT MAY BE FREE. BUT TO GOD AND HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON IT COMES WITH A PRICE.

SO THE COST OF OUR DISCIPLESHIP IN CHRIST, (LUKE, 14:-25-35) IS OUR ONLY PORTION OF HIS SUFFERINGS AND DEATH THAT WE MAY REIGN WITH HIM WHEN HIS GLORY IS REVEALED.

PLEASE JOIN IN PRAYER FOR OUR PERSECUTED BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD, MOSTLY THOSE IN THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND UKRAINE IN PARTICULAR-ALONGSIDE PRAYER FOR VICTORY FOR THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL; IN ADDITION TO OUR ONGOING PRAYERS FOR LOVE AND UNITY AMONG CHRIST-FOLLOWERS REGARDLESS OF DENOMINATION.