Have
No Fear
No
matter how much others desire to make it so, Christianity has never
been, nor is meant to be a private religion. It was meant to spread
like the fire with which Jesus would baptize His disciples (Matthew
3:11)
Spreading
the fire of Christ requires the Spirit of Christ, which knows not
fear(2 Timothy 1:7) but power and love.
“And do not fear
those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul."
To truly follow Christ is to place His person over all
others. What those around us do, must, in our minds, be secondary to
His pleasure.
“but whoever denies me before men, I also will
deny before my Father who is in heaven.”
Jesus says it simply, and controversially to our day:
we are either with Him or not. There are no maybe Christians. As
Revelation 3:16 makes clear, the lukewarm will be spewed out. If they
can't survive the stress and persecution, they can't handle the
reward.
To be the world's friend is to be God's enemy(James
4:4).
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