Christian Living

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The Persecution
It’s A Part of The Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 5:10-12 blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets which was before you.

Mark 13:9 but take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten; and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

Persecution is a part of the Kingdom of Heaven whereas man is concerned. We have to fight to keep our salvation sure. We have work to do on ourselves to stay the course God has called us to. Every day is not sweet in this way. The way seems hard sometime and the persecutions or trouble keep coming. If it’s not oppression that hangs around our necks; it’s abuse in some kind of form. It can be physical, emotional, mentally, or psychological. We particularly battle with race, religion and mankind over many things that does not relate to salvation. Because of differences in belief and ordinances we are constantly at war with each other. God’s people are not to argue over religion for the Word speaks for itself and of itself. Man think that they are and have become lord and jury over man’s soul and feel they can do them any way they want to and they are to be quiet about it. God does not want his people to be overly concerned with the small matters of the world, he just don’t want us to be deceived by Satan’s devices. Many will come in Jesus name saying they are the Christ. Luke 21:34 and take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Persecutions cause heart attacks, strokes, paralysis and nervous conditions. We have to have ourselves rooted and grounded in the truth of Jesus Christ. Many things we go through as Christians is for the sake of Jesus Christ, but what if we do not know Christ? Then we stand in the way of sinners, we set in the seat of the scornful and we will have our day before Christ.

The Kingdom of Heaven, how bad do you want it? What are you willing to take for the Kingdom of Heaven? Are you willing to die? Are you willing to be beat up for the Gospel sake? Are you willing to stand up to dignitaries and declare the uncut truth of the gospel? It’s time we make up our minds that no matter what come or go; Jesus is here to stay. We will take some black eyes physically and spiritually. We will be cut down by peers just as Jesus was cut down by his peers, the chief priest, the Sadducees and Pharisees. They came after Jesus with everything they had but Jesus came for that purpose. Can God depend on us to continue his course for our lives no matter what happens, whoever walks out of our lives, or what they say about you? These are small or published in every nation. Each one of us walks around with a nation within us that we have to reach in our life time. We waste too much time pondering on things that doesn’t matter much with the Kingdom of God. We lay up treasures down here in the earth and claim territory that one day we will leave. We don’t need houses in heaven; we have mansions that moth and rust can’t corrupt or thieves break through and steal. This kingdom has been prepared long before our time for it was prepared in the foundation of the world. Our names are written in heaven, it’s up to us what will be written. It is God’s good pleasure to give us the kingdom. We are too fearful of what people have to say about us but we better be concerned with what is written in the book of life. We will give an account of deeds done in these bodies and to the body of Jesus Christ. Jesus said today we will be with him in Paradise. He is coming again and his Kingdom with him.

Jesus has given to us life eternal and we are not to perish. We cannot be plucked out of his hands as long as we follow and serve Him. Wherever Jesus is, so will his servants be. Jesus went to prepare a place for us that where He is we can be also. Jesus said in St. John 14:2-3 in my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself that where I am, there ye may be also. My son before he died would always say mama I feel so good inside I can’t get enough of my Jesus. He was overflowing with the Spirit of God on the inside and his life lived on the outside in Jesus Christ. This was one of his songs;

“I feel so good inside, I can’t live a day without my Jesus. I can’t do without my Jesus. I feel good when the Word is being absorbed and saturated in my inner man each day. Jesus changed the way I feel a long time ago. Jesus is real in my soul. The more I pray He fills my heart every day. Jesus is coming soon, will you be ready to go. Blessed are those that do His Commandments for they shall enter into the gates of Jerusalem. Are we ready to go? Can you see where I am coming from, Jesus is real”.

He was murdered two months later. His wife was in the Church too, but she didn’t let Jesus come in on the inside. She wanted Alvin to go back, leave Christ and go back to the world of drugs. She needed money for surgery for her mother and reverted back to her old ways of doing things. He refused so she got him a contract to sing worldly rap for a million dollars, but he saw Satan for who he was and refused. He said; ”mama the devil just offered me the world. A famous rapper had offered him a million dollars to go back to the world and rap for him. He said mama I know I don’t have long on this earth, the devil just offered me the world as he had Jesus right before He began his ministry”. Two months later his wife murdered him for insurance money.

The Church, us; we are the church is supposed to be spirit filled, spirit led and spirit controlled. We have gone so far away from God to run after the mighty dollar. That mighty dollar will take us out of position with God unbeknown to us. The Kingdom suffers violence and the violent take it by force. We can only hold on to Christ when we learn to discern what spirit is in operation that we are able to know what is God and what is Satan. Two forces works in the earth, the Spirit of God and the spirit of Satan. The Spirit of God on the inside and the spirit of Satan on the outside. God shows us his Kingdom spiritually. Satan shows us his kingdom using things, stuff, false power, fear, false things appearing real. We have gone so far away from God Church. Jesus set up the Church in the earth and established the Kingdom of God in its entirety. Why do we think we can take what we want of the Church and use it for our own vain glory? We take down when we can’t take the persecution that comes with being a part of the Kingdom of God. Satan is always there to make us bow to him, but it’s our responsibility to say no and recognize who it is that governs our actions. Satan will make us throw away the very thing that God intended to use to build up the Kingdom. It’s always a struggle for God’s true people to function in today’s church because of the threat Satan feels. Whenever we allow Satan to use us he destroys us in the end. His whole desire is to kill the work of the Kingdom of God. He steals our peace, righteousness, joy, glad tidings, and destroys our visions. If we hold on to God in the hard times we will reap the good times God promised. Eternal life is a promise to those that endure to the end. We can’t start good and finish wrong and see God. Luke 12:32 fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Jesus has appointed unto us a kingdom, as His Father had appointed unto Him that we may eat and drink at his table in his kingdom. John 5:29 and we shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life.

A few months ago I saw a sign saying the date of the end. I said to someone how can anyone predict the date of the end time when Jesus himself did not know the day, time, hour, or date that he would return. Jesus is coming back again and He gave us the signs of the times. Matthew 24:6-13 Jesus said we would hear of wars and rumors of wars. Nation shall rise against nations and kingdom against kingdom, famines and pestilence in the land, earthquakes in divers places which marks the beginning of sorrow. We will be delivered up to be afflicted, we will be killed spiritually hated of all men for Jesus name sake, we shall have many that will offend us and betray us; even so much as hate one another. Many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. The love of many shall wax cold because iniquity or hidden sin abounds in them. Even after we suffer persecution for the Gospel sake we still have to endure all the way to the end for it’s those that endure to the end that will be saved. We have to be virtuous and wait on the Lord to come for his bride. We are the church and our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Jesus is coming back for His Spirit that he originally created man to be; male and female in His image he created us. Our lamps must be filled with oil and we must be ready to go with Jesus when He comes back.

We suffer persecutions but this is only the beginning. Someone lying on you is not persecution. If we stay with God, we will be beat up for the gospel. We will be thrown in jail for the gospel. We may even be hung up like Jesus was. Whatever the persecution that will come, will you fold or stay the course? We being warned of Jesus not to In the church today we have wise and foolish brides that await the coming of the Lord. The wise continuously put the oil of the Word into their vessels and the foolish think that they will have time to get some oil before they die. The Word is here, the Spirit is here and the Father is here today. We need a transfusion from the world to the Kingdom of God. God has given us the means of transformation through His Son that died for the sin of the world. We are not to premeditate, what we will do, speak or say to those that offend us or hurt us mentally, physically or emotionally. Psychologically we are already defeated by words that don’t matter unless we refuse to accept them. We have to make the change in Christ that strengthens us in times of a put down by man. A cry will be made at midnight; what will you be caught doing at midnight? Naturally midnight is the best time of night to pray for a Saint will be effective in our natural life. Sacrifices must be made if we are to partake of the Kingdom of God. Romans 14:16-17 let not then your good be evil spoken of; for the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

We have been given power through the Holy Ghost to help us not walk into temptation and will deliver us from evil. There is no evil that will enter into Heaven; for all the evil was kicked out with Satan and the fallen angels. Are we any better? We need to take another look at what we believe, trust and have faith in. Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father except by me. If we love God like we say then we are willing to obey his Commandments and all that He tells us to do. He that wins souls is wise. God often goes against the grain of what man think ought to be or not. Fear not them which kill the body but fear God that can destroy both the body and soul in hell. With men there are impossibilities, but with God all things are possible. We err not knowing the Scriptures or the power of God. All power was given to Jesus in heaven and earth. This is the power of God for those persecuted for the Kingdom of God. We know we will be hated of men for the name sake of Jesus Christ but we don’t have to fear; not one hair of your head shall perish. God gave Jesus power over all flesh and Jesus has given us that same power if we use it properly. What are uppermost in our minds are God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost.

What an awesome team to be on. Go, Grow, and Flow. Go in God, grow in Christ and flow in the Holy Ghost. It’s time we elevate in the Kingdom of God. If we say we love God then we should not be ashamed of the gospel. Whosoever be ashamed of Jesus and the Word, He will be ashamed of us. Our loins must be girt about with truth and our lights need to be burning at all times. If we are among sinners, then we being Christians our talk and actions are still that of the Lord Jesus Christ. We want to be ready when Jesus come knocking that we immediately open up and let Him in. We are on watch daily for the Kingdom whether it comes in the day watch or the night watch. If Jesus comes in the third watch we would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Therefore we are to be ready also; for the Son of man cometh at an hour when we think not. Jesus will come in a day when we look not for Him or when we are not aware that He is there. We must keep our watch at all times, persecuted or not we must be ready. Jesus suffered many things at the hand of men that thought they knew God. God sent the Messiah to them and they knew it not. They cut the blessing God gave them in sunder and they have their portion appointed to them with the unbelievers that have their part under the Kingdom of Heaven. We to must suffer persecutions but woe to the one that is used to bring about the evil attached to God’s children.

Jesus was rejected in the days of his earthly life; we too will be rejected of men. Luke 21:8 take heed that ye be not deceived; for many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ. The time draws near now and we are not to run after these lying wonders. We are to be able to discern the spirits of these people and not allow them to penetrate our spirit and pull us away from God. God sent his Son that we may be planted in the Word, allowing the Word to be rooted in us and we grow as the Word says unto salvation. Man’s Salvation is dependent on the Word and Holy Ghost for its longevity. Jesus prayed in St. John 14:16 to the Father that he would give us a Comforter that would be with us abiding forever. The Comforter which is the Holy Ghost which God would send in Jesus name shall teach us all things, and bring things to our remembrance whatsoever Jesus have said to us. The Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth will testify of Jesus. Jesus sent the Holy Ghost to us to continue the work He started in the beginning. God spoke the Word and the Holy Ghost moved at the Word and brought peace and order to a chaotic world. When we being full of the Holy Ghost speak; it is the Spirit of the Father that speaks through us. For the Holy Ghost in that same hour will give us what we ought to say. St. John 6:63 it is the spirit that quickens, the flesh profits nothing; the words that Jesus spoke to us are spirit and they are life.

When the Holy Ghost comes He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. He will use our mouths to speak and we are shutting Him out! The sinner won’t believe because we aren’t speaking. We don’t tell the sinner that there is hope for the hopeless situation they are in. We don’t tell them that the prince of this world is rejected and cannot go to the Kingdom of heaven. We have the spirit of truth but what truth are we propagating? REPENT

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