Monday, August 6, 2012

Don't Fear the Fire

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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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