#9 Reviling?

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

The more we read our bibles and understand the word of God, the more this old world seems upside down and backwards. On this matter of persecution of the church, it is most definitely turned inside out. There are vast amounts of professing Christians here in this country, yet there is so little reviling and persecuting of Christians. We are not having to endure men saying all manner of evil against us for Christ sake. We’re just not. It’s almost non-existent in the states. I’m sure there’s some cases out there. But for the most part, we read this verse, and throw off the last three words of the verse “for my sake” and try to apply this verse to ourselves. Yet it has nothing to do with us.

Things of the Spirit, Part 8

I want to stress to you that there a lot of things that we can concern ourselves with. God told Daniel, “…even to the time of the end: may shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” (Dan12:4) There’s a lot of things out there that we can gain knowledge about. They call this the age of information. And I know sometimes, there’s things we need to concern ourselves with. But somehow, someway, we must give the things of God preeminence. We must set our minds, our hearts, our souls on the things above. In many places in the bible, we are admonished, “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all they might.” (Deut 6:5). With all our strength, with all our being, we must attend unto the things of God, the things of the Spirit. O that God would fill us with his Holy Spirit. That he would pour out his Spirit upon us. God does not give such blessings to those that don’t want it. “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:” (Isaiah 55:6)