Church persecution

Pastor Eduardo preached: Church persecution

1-Nowadays we find more persecutions, it is possible to perceive clearly, on the part of the press and opinion leaders, a clear prejudice against those followers of Christ. In this perspective, it has become common to find on TV, radio and cinema, accents and debauches of the most varied possible, whose ultimate goal is the demoralization of all those who profess their faith in Jesus. Otherwise, those who, in the name of the secular state, want to restrict the action of evangelicals to their meetings and temples grow

Luke 21:12 But before all these things, they will lay hold on you and persecute you, delivering you to synagogues and prisons and leading you to the presence of kings and governors, for my name's sake. 13 And it will happen to you for testimony. 14 Propose, therefore, in your heart not to foresee how you will respond, 15 because I will give you a mouth and wisdom that you will not be able to resist, or contradict all who oppose you. 16 And even by parents, and brothers, and relatives, and friends, you will be delivered; and they will kill some of you. 17 And you will all be hated because of my name. 18 But not a hair on your head will perish. 19 In your patience, you possess your soul.

2-Many Christians, upon hearing these words from Jesus, demonstrate doubts about whether they will actually happen. At most, they think, the persecution will be milder than in the early days of the Church and will probably not be long-lasting. However, the passage presented in the Gospel is extremely current and true. Never, in two thousand years of history, has the Christian community been so persecuted: in China, the most populous country on the planet, there is persecution of Christians; in many Islamic countries, there is no room for Christians, who are still considered liable to persecution, for being judged as "infidels"; in other countries in general, where secular humanists stand out, so proud of their intellectual capacity, the negativists, who with greater perversions persecute Christians, severely and subtly contradicting our values ​​that are considered backward, invalid and false.

 "Then you will be given over to torments, they will kill you and you will be an object of hatred for all nations because of me." (Mt. 24, 9)

"And you will be hated by everyone because of my name." Marcos. 13.13)

3-“But you will not lose a hair on your head." Men may even want to kill us, but they do not take away the grace of God that is in us. My brother, my sister, in the midst of persecutions, stand firm in the faith, not denying the Lord, knowing that, as the Lord Jesus said, with your perseverance you will win your souls. Do not be discouraged, therefore, what happens to you is normal, just and useful. May the Lord have mercy on his Church and keep us from evil.