Cannot grow without It?
The Christian faith is the only religion that increases by persecution and we see this from the first one that occurred in Jerusalem, after Pentecost. It may have been a terrible time, but from it the Church spread to Damascus in Syria and to Antioch in what is now south-east modern Turkey!
During the work of the Apostle Paul new Churches were established in Asia, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Rome and both Macedonia and Spain. Within fifty years there were Christians in Iran, N-Africa, the Arabian peninsula and India.
It is terrible today to see Chinese believers being attacked by the state, others driven from their home in the Muslim world and restrictions still placed on them throughout Roman Catholicism, apart from our own new secular humanistic societies were sin is justified as equality and human idealism?
Matthew/Levi 5:10-12, Acts 6:7, 8:1-3, 22:4, 26:11, Galatians 1:13, Revelation 5:8, 8:3-4.
Showing posts with label persecution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label persecution. Show all posts
Monday, 6 May 2019
Monday, 24 December 2018
Persecution!
The cost of being a Christian?
We tend to think of Stephen the first martyr of the Church which is mentioned in Acts 6:8-7:60, but we forget that the baby Jesus with His Earthly parents to had to take off in the middle of the night!
An Angels warned the wise men to return another way, while also telling Joseph to go down to Egypt until Herod's term was ended!
So we can see many pictures about human life from the Christmas story and that we will be persecuted and attacked for our simple faith in the death, resurrection and return of Jesus our Lord and Saviour!
Matthew/Levi 2:11-15, Hosea 11:1.
We tend to think of Stephen the first martyr of the Church which is mentioned in Acts 6:8-7:60, but we forget that the baby Jesus with His Earthly parents to had to take off in the middle of the night!
An Angels warned the wise men to return another way, while also telling Joseph to go down to Egypt until Herod's term was ended!
So we can see many pictures about human life from the Christmas story and that we will be persecuted and attacked for our simple faith in the death, resurrection and return of Jesus our Lord and Saviour!
Matthew/Levi 2:11-15, Hosea 11:1.
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Living in Denial. Part=One.
Emancipation, Genocide, Holocaust Denial?
Last evening I saw a historical programme about the Scottish influences in the Southern-States of the U.S.A. It was so sad and pathetic, that a Christian people set out from being oppressed in their native land to do the same to others in America.
They formed the Kuklux Klan to defend their fantasy dream based on classical fictitious romanticism and this lead to the many ideas that Miss Rosa Parks stood up to in the 1950's-60's in Atlanta, Georgia, that won black civil rights!
But God proves time and again that no one race of creed in this world is exempt from racism and hatred of another, black white or another colour! This has been proved over the last two-hundred years with genocides and the Nazi-German Holocaust!
Judges 12:6, Job 31:2, Matthew 2:6, 1 Corinthians 11:12, 2 Peter 2:1, 1 John 4;1, Revelation 19:20.
Last evening I saw a historical programme about the Scottish influences in the Southern-States of the U.S.A. It was so sad and pathetic, that a Christian people set out from being oppressed in their native land to do the same to others in America.
They formed the Kuklux Klan to defend their fantasy dream based on classical fictitious romanticism and this lead to the many ideas that Miss Rosa Parks stood up to in the 1950's-60's in Atlanta, Georgia, that won black civil rights!
But God proves time and again that no one race of creed in this world is exempt from racism and hatred of another, black white or another colour! This has been proved over the last two-hundred years with genocides and the Nazi-German Holocaust!
Judges 12:6, Job 31:2, Matthew 2:6, 1 Corinthians 11:12, 2 Peter 2:1, 1 John 4;1, Revelation 19:20.
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