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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"WHEN PERSECUTION COMES, WHAT DO YOU DO?"
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT JESUS IN PUBLIC, ISN'T IT STRANGE HOW PEOPLE REACT? I CAN REMEMBER WHEN I WAS WORKING AND I WOULD MENTION JESUS, IT WAS STRANGE HOW THAT WORD, "JESUS", WOULD MAKE PEOPLE ACT. ALSO WHEN SOMEONE WAS SICK AND I WOULD ASK THEM IF I COULD PRAY FOR THEM, IT WAS THE SAME WAY. THE FUNNY THING ABOUT THIS WAS THAT THEY USUALLY SAID SURE, THINKING I WOULD SAY I WOULD PRAY FOR THEM AND THEN FORGET IT. WHAT SURPRISED THEM WAS I PRAYED FOR THEM RIGHT THERE FOR ALL TO SEE AND HEAR. THE BEST THING ABOUT DOING THIS WAS THAT SOME OF THEM GOT TO FEELING BETTER AND WHEN THEY GOT SICK AGAIN, THEY WOULD ASK ME TO PRAY FOR THEM. IT TAKES PERSISTENCE.
ANOTHER THING WAS THAT AT FIRST WHEN I WOULD WALK INTO A ROOM WHERE SOMEONE WOULD BE TELLING A DIRTY JOKE, THE JOKE WOULD STOP. THIS WAS ALRIGHT WITH ME. IT GOT TO WHEN ANYONE WOULD SAY A CURSE WORD IN FRONT OF ME, THEY WOULD IMMEDIATELY APOLOGIZE. AT LEAST THEY KNEW I WAS A CHRISTIAN.
I AM NOT TELLING YOU THIS TO MAKE YOU THINK I AM SOME "SUPER" CHRISTIAN. THERE IS NOTHING "SUPER" ABOUT ME. I AM JUST A CHRISTIAN. I AM TELLING YOU ALL THIS TO TELL YOU WHAT TODAY'S MESSAGE IS ABOUT AND THAT IS PERSECUTION. THERE WAS A LOT OF THAT GOING ON AT THE TIME. A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE IT AND SAID A LOT OF BAD THINGS ABOUT ME AND I LOST SOME CUSTOMERS BUT I DIDN'T CARE. I COULD REJOICE ONLY BECAUSE I KNEW WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT PERSECUTION. IN MATTHEW 5:12 HE SAID "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID TO PAUL (THEN SAUL) ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS? HE SAID (ACTS 9:4) "why persecutest thou me?" PAUL WAS PERSECUTING ALL THE CHRISTIANS AT THE TIME. JESUS ASK WHY HE WAS PERSECUTING HIM. WHEN PEOPLE DO PERSECUTE YOU, IT IS NOT AGAINST YOU PERSONALLY BUT AGAINST JESUS.
NO MATTER HOW BAD IT MAKES YOU FEEL OR HOW BAD IT HURTS YOUR BUSINESS, JESUS WILL MAKE IT RIGHT.
NO MATTER HOW BAD IT MAKES YOU FEEL OR HOW BAD IT HURTS YOUR BUSINESS, JESUS WILL MAKE IT RIGHT.
SO, KEEP DOING THOSE GOOD THINGS YOU ARE DOING AND MENTION JESUS EVERYWHERE YOU GO. IF PEOPLE CAN TALK ABOUT THEIR GODS OUT IN PUBLIC, WHY SHOULDN'T WE MENTION OURS. THE GOOD THING ABOUT IT IS THAT OUR GOD IS STILL ALIVE AND THEIRS IS DEAD. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THEM SOMETIMES WHICH THEY THOUGHT WAS MORE POWERFUL, OUR LIVING GOD OR THEIR DEAD STATUE?
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
