Preaching and living by the truth for Jesus and it’s consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Master and Lord Jesus Christ left His faithful followers of all ages and you in particular to do and teach the entirety of God’s words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doing this will enable you to delight God in heaven and bring you to unequal favour and blessings from Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, this will bring you to indescribable attack and persecution from the devil and his cohorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was the exact situation, Stephen one of the seven deacons in the early church found himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 7:58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like Stephen, even our Master and Lord suffered the same faith in the hands of obstinate and reprobate Sanhedrin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was exactly what Jesus did and brought Him to trouble with the Sanhedrin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acts 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Same thing will happen to you when you embrace and replicate the lifestyle of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will be unusually hated and persecuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matthew 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mark 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luke 21:16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You must as a matter of compulsion endure it till Christ comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This attitude from the agents of satan must never surprised you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 John 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Master and Lord Jesus Christ from glory exhorted you in particular to be faithful to the end and receive your befitting rewards in eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But then you must cleave to Christ through thick and thin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nothing must separate you from Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You must endure to the end and till Christ comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then here and hereafter like Joseph and others you will be commensurately rewarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His grace will be sufficient for you till the end in Jesus name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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