Matt 10:39 #daily devotions # bible studies # word of God
Whoever loses their life for my sake
will find it.
Jesus tells
His disciples that in their Christian life it would not be the same as before,
when they chose to follow Him they have turned away from the world and no
longer live like the world. The values of the world are not the same as the
values of the Kingdom of God. What the world values are what the Kingdom of God
deters.
The vales of
the world consist of selfishness, pride, greed, unforgiveness, jealousy,
slander, gossip and all the evil traits of human behaviour. A little while ago
I was watching a documentary on the TV about the rise of the 45th
President of the US. Just five years before this the sitting President was
insulting the President elect at a gala function publicly.
There was so
much pride, hatred, jealousy in the sitting President who is the most powerful
man in the world. He did not even behave decently or politely but was
slanderous in his word, attacking and accusing the President elect at that time
who is a prominent tycoon in the US.
What I am
pointing out is that the world is cruel and evil and even the most powerful man
on earth politically is evil and do evil things that is because he does not
have Jesus Christ. He is controlled by his master who is the enemy of God. In
fact all men in the world who do not have Jesus Christ are controlled by the
enemy and do what the enemy dictates them to do.
This is
where the difference lies, we the believers of Jesus Christ would do what he
taught us to do and that is all contrary to what the evil one taught his
children to do. Look at the world today and the countries in the world, most of
them are controlled by evil politicians who in turn are controlled by the enemy
of Christ. Like their master, they go against the children of God and persecute
them or try and destroy them
Today in
Paris, 72 countries are gathered to decide and pass a resolution under the
auspices of the UN to divide Israel and Jerusalem. Israel is a sovereign nation
on its own. How unfair it is for third party nations to determine its fate and
to pass a resolution to divide it. But this is how the evil world works, the UN
is controlled by Antichrist nations and they have an agenda to destroy the
apple of the eye of God which is Israel.
Secondly
these Antichrist nations want to destroy all Jews first and then all
Christians. In fact all these are already prophesied and recorded in scriptures
and we are seeing biblical prophecies being fulfilled right before us. Very
soon the political scenario in the world would lead to a global war and many
children of God will see and experience tribulation which again is prophesied
in the bible.
As such the
Christians must be strengthened and be prepared to face tribulation just as
some of the Christians in Antichrist nations are going through right now. But
we know the end from the beginning, we will not lose, we will be on the winning
side. The promise is that though for a short time we may even have to pay the
ultimate price of laying down our lives for Christ, there is a great reward
waiting for us in heaven. Jesus Christ had promised that He has gone to prepare
a place for us, if it were not so, He would have told us.
Similarly
Paul said in Phip 1:25 For to me to live
is Christ, and to die is gain. This is the truth that all the apostles knew
and they were focused on attaining their due reward in heaven. We too must be
like them and to prepare to receive the reward and inheritance that Jesus had
gone ahead to prepare for us.
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