WE ARE NOT THE FIRST TO SUFFER PERSECUTION FOR PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, SO WE ARE NOT AFRAID
CHRIST CHOSEN DISCIPLES:
TIME IS NOT OUR FRIEND, IT IS AN OPPONENT THAT MUST NOT BE AHEAD OF US.
TIME IS NOT WHAT WE NEED TO PLAY GAMES WITH
EVERY SECOND IN OUR COURSE OF DISCIPLESHIP IN CHRIST MUST BE FULLY UTILIZED IF WE ARE NOT TO BE LEFT BEHIND.
WE MUST WORK THE WORKS OF HIM WHO SENT US WHILE IT IS DAY; NIGHT IS COMING WHEN NO ONE CAN WORK.”
[JOHN, 9:-4]
THE HOLY SCRIPTURE HAS MADE IT CLEAR TO BELIEVERS THAT “NEITHER HE WHO PLANTS NOR HE WHO WATERS IS ANYTHING BUT GOD WHO MAKES THINGS TO GROW.
THE MAN WHO PLANTS AND THE MAN WHO WATERS HAVE ONE PURPOSE, AND EACH WILL BE REWARDED ACCORDING TO HIS OWN LABOR. [1 CORIN. 3:-6-11]
OUR LORD JESUS WILL BE HERE IN A MINUTE; WHAT ARE WE GOING TO GIVE AS AN EXCUSE FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO WIN THE SOULS THAT WE WERE CALLED TO WIN? [JOHN, 15:-5-6]
THEREFORE NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OUT OF OUR INDIVIDUAL COMFORT ZONE AND START PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST TO ALL CREATURES. [MARK 16:-15-16] NO EVANGELISM, NO SALVATION.
WE WERE CALLED SO THAT WE MAY BRING SOULS TO SALVATION. LAZINESS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED IN HIS KINGDOM
WE MUST NOT BE FEARFUL OF OUR LIVES. ROMANS, 14:-8 “IF WE LIVE, WE LIVE TO THE LORD, AND IF WE DIE, WE DIE TO THE LORD, SO WHETHER WE LIVE OR DIE, WE BELONG TO THE LORD.”
THE EARLY APOSTLES PREACHED THIS SAME GOSPEL WITH THEIR BLOOD, SO WHY ARE WE SO FEARFUL?
IF OUR BANK ACCOUNTS AND OUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS ARE FROZEN AND SUSPENDED ALL BECAUSE WE PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, SO BE IT. [ROMANS, 8:-38-39]
WE ARE NOT THE FIRST TO SUFFER PERSECUTION FOR THIS REASON: CHRIST HIMSELF BLED TO DEATH ON THE CROSS THROUGH PERSECUTION.
IF THIS GOSPEL OF CHRIST IS OUTLAWED, WE MUST STILL PREACH IT, EVEN TO THE POINT OF EXECUTION WE MUST NOT FALTER [2 TIMOTHY, 1:-7]
IN CONCLUSION: JESUS PROCLAIMED, “HE WHO LOVES HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT, AND HE WHO HATES HIS LIFE IN THIS WORLD WILL KEEP IT FOR ETERNAL LIFE”
[JOHN,12:-25]