Jesus said the indisputable evidence of His deity would be that “As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so would He be in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40) Regardless of how it is calculated, it is impossible to get three days and three nights from Friday to Sunday, and yet, that religious tradition has been accepted by the majority of believers since 325 AD.
“The Indwelling Christ” John 15:1-8
Communion Service
The next seven days are the most important days in the life of every Christian.
Without the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, there is no Christianity. Unless Jesus was God’s Passover Lamb, slain to take away the sins of the world, He died as a martyr, and not our Savior, and we are still facing God’s eternal judgment for our sins.
The Scriptures are clear. Believers who dare to live as devoted disciples of Christ will suffer at the hands of those who hate Christ. However, the epistle of James says, “Count it all joy when you fall into various trials!”
“No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.” From, My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers, my quiet-time companion since 1974.
“To find something worth living for, find something worth dying for!” Martin Luther King was among those given credit for this quote, or a paraphrased version of it, but it is an apt description of how Jesus described the Christian Faith.
“He is no fool, to give up what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose!” That very convicting statement was made by Jim Elliott, a Plymouth Brethren missionary who was one of five young men who were killed, trying to get the gospel to the Auca Indians of Ecuador.
Christians in America are about to experience the same level of persecution as our brothers and sisters in Christ in the other parts of the world. According to the stated goals of the United Nations, the soft-persecution of limiting our corporate worship will soon progress into the cancelation of the Christian Church as being the “enemy of human rights.”
While these powerful winds of persecution will appear to be based upon the hatred of man for God, they are, in fact, allowed by God to bring this age to a close, and to prepare us for the Rapture of the Church. Beloved, we are where we are, because this is where we need to be on God’s prophetic calendar!
The caller asked: “Pastor, why do you think God is allowing Christians in America to suffer persecution?” I answered, “To bring the American church to its knees!”
To View our Sermon Guide – How Should We Then Live “With A Clear Conscience” 1 Peter 3:8-17
https://theheritagechurch.org/sermon/with-a-clear-conscience-1-peter-38-17/
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