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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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"DYING FOR JESUS" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
ARE YOU READY TO DIE FOR JESUS? IF SOMEONE HELD A GUN TO YOUR HEAD AND TOLD YOU THAT THEY WOULD KILL YOU IF YOU DIDN'T DENY JESUS, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I WOULD HOPE THAT WE ALL WOULD HAVE THE COURAGE TO NEVER DENY HIM. THERE ARE PLACES IN THIS WORLD THAT THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING EVERY DAY. WE ARE SO BLESSED THAT WE CAN STUDY GOD'S WORD WITHOUT THE THREAT OF BEING KILLED. THE SAD THING IS THAT THERE ARE SOME CHRISTIANS THAT DON'T EVEN READ THEIR BIBLE EVERY DAY AND OTHERS NOT AT ALL. HOW SAD IS THIS?
I WAS READING ABOUT STEPHEN THIS MORNING AND FOUND A FEW THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HIM. I KNEW THAT HE HAD BEEN STONED BUT DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THE FIRST MARTYR OF CHRISTIANITY. HE WAS A DEACON IN THE EARLY CHURCH AT JERUSALEM AND CAUSED MUCH HOSTILITY AMONG THE MEMBERS OF VARIOUS SYNAGOGUES BY HIS TEACHINGS OF JESUS. HE WAS ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY AND AT HIS TRIAL HE MADE A SPEECH DENOUNCING THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES WHO WERE JUDGING HIM AND THEY STONED HIM TO DEATH. HE DIED FOR JESUS.
DO YOU BELIEVE STEPHEN FELT ANY OF THOSE STONES HITTING HIM? I DON'T AND THIS IS JUST MY OPINION. LOOK WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THE STONING. IT SAYS IN ACTS 7:55-56 "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, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." I BELIEVE THAT BY THE TIME THE FIRST STONE HIT HIM, HE WAS IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS. WE ALL KNOW THAT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JESUS IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD BUT THIS SAYS HE WAS STANDING UP FOR STEPHEN. I BELIEVE JESUS WOULD DO THE SAME FOR US IF WE DIDN'T DENY HIM AND DIED BECAUSE OF IT.
PAUL IS ANOTHER ONE THAT WAS NOT AFRAID TO DIE FOR JESUS. LOOK WHAT HE SAYS IN ACTS 21:13 "Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." SO, I ASK YOU AGAIN, ARE YOU READY TO DIE FOR JESUS?
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
