CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
2 Timothy 3:12
“Indeed all who delight in piety and are determined to live a devoted and godly life in Christ Jesus will meet with persecution [will be made to suffer because of their religious stand].”
Dear people of God, today’s lead Holy Bible text is one majority of Christians are not willing to identify with. This is the reason they roundly and loudly condemn terrorist attacks by Islamist militants.
These days on a regular basis, we see, read and hear of the atrocities these Islamist terrorists are committing against Christians whose only crime is to preach the Gospel of Christ Jesus to them to take them out of darkness into Light.
It is right to condemn the terrorist attacks because nobody has a right to take another’s life he did not create.
It is also right as a Christian preacher of the Gospel to remember what the Word of God says about resistance to the truth of God’s Word as we see in today’s lead text.
Sadly too, we see across many homes all over the world where the family is practising Islam and once God shows mercy and a member of the family converts to Christianity, all fury is let loose against the Christian convert by other family members.
Not only are they ostracised, but many are even tortured through starvation, physical and emotional abuse as well and in some cases executed for their new found faith!
Some governments of Arab Islamic nations even take part in these persecutions against new Christian converts in their domains by hounding and jailing them.
The truth is that satan is the one who is really fighting against people coming to know that in Jesus Christ ALONE is salvation found and in Jesus Christ ALONE can anyone ever get to God Almighty or enter heaven at the end of life here on earth.
However, satan has found a willing tool in the hands of the Islamist terrorists whose end is hell fire unless they repent and come to Jesus Christ sincerely.
Christians are therefore called upon not to hate, not to be afraid and not to retaliate because God’s Word has said those who live a godly life in Christ Jesus will meet with persecution.
What a Christian should pray for is the grace to overcome all attacks of satan and his human agents. A Christian should also exercise his spiritual authority over satan and his human agents in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ – Luke 10:19.
At the end of life here on earth, eternal life in heaven with Jesus is assured because God has said so in His Word and God cannot lie – Numbers 23:19.
I therefore encourage Christians all over the world to continue to live right not according to your own beliefs and ideas but according to the infallible Word of God.
Let us in our daily prayers remember those who are persecuted for their faith in Christ Jesus and let us also pray for the lost souls who are carrying out these attacks for they do not know what they are doing.
Jesus Christ our Lord clearly tells us in John 16:3, And they will do this (evil to Christians) because they have not known the Father or Me (Jesus).
For those who are yet to understand that Jesus Christ alone is the Way, the Truth and the Life, I call on you to come to Jesus before it is too late.
May the good Lord bless you as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus’ Most Merciful Name, Amen.
Gabriel Ama.
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