Roms 8: 35
Who shall separate us from the love
of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or
danger or sword?
Paul reminds
us that when we become a believer in Jesus Christ there will be much challenge
that we would face. As long as we live in this world and as long as we make a
stand for Jesus Christ, the enemy will make all kinds of attacks to try and
give up our faith and to turn away from our Lord and saviour.
Paul did not
hide anything from the Church. He mentioned that there shall be trouble or
hardship that would come against them. These troubles can be in many forms like
persecution from Antichrist authorities and Antichrist societies around us.
Look at the example of the Jews in the nation of Israel, they want to live in
peace but the enemy would not want to give them peace.
Their
citizens are being targeted everywhere they go and every day of their lives.
There is always the danger of terrorist attacks against them. They want to live
in peace with all men but not all men want to live in peace with them.
What about
the Christians in the Antichrist nations? They are also being targeted and
harmed on a daily basis; some of the Christian women and girls are captured and
sold as sex slaves. I watched a video where a Christian woman was so distraught
because her young and beautiful daughter of 24 years old and qualified as a
doctor was kidnapped and sold off as a sex slave by the Antichrist followers.
Paul
continued saying that some other troubles we will face is lack of financial
capabilities, many would be faced with the reality of losing financial earnings
and will face much difficulties. This will lead to abject poverty and recently
I am seeing more and more people on the streets losing their jobs and their
homes. Many had no money to pay for their rental and have been ejected onto the
streets. Some of these are young couples. I see the road side increasingly
lined with new homeless.
Again when
these are helpless, they would face other dangers and harm that would come
their way. These would be attacked or humiliated by others and some may even
face threats to their lives. These are
real conditions in the world today. We are living just like in the NT days
where Paul and the other Christians went through such challenges in their lives
as well.
The early
disciples had no place they called home, they traveled and preached the word
everywhere and anywhere to all men. They stayed in homes of some kind believers
who took them in and other times they had to live on the streets too.
Global instability
and insecurity is coming, the Antichrist religion is boldly declaring that they
are above the laws of countries around the world and they are boldly committing
crime as though they are above the laws and persecution of the countries they
have illegally migrated to.
These
terrorists of the Antichrist religion are targeting Christians to persecute.
This is not new because throughout history, Christians have been the target of
the devil that uses evil men to do his work.
Paul is
saying, yes, though we will face all these challenges but we know that our God
will never forsake us. When we hold fats to Him, He will hold fats to us and
even if we are martyred, we will inherit the kingdom of heaven the next second.
There is nothing to lose but everything to gain in Christ.
Like our
brethren in the Middle East nations today, even when they were threatened to
renounce Jesus, they were more than happy to become martyrs for Jesus Christ and
be with Him the next moment they give their lives for HIM.
This must be
our stand today as followers of our Lord and Saviour.
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