THE PERSECUTION TEST
Free, free, free, everything is free. Which is better cheap or free. If
cheap means of little value, what does free mean? Did you know that in 52
countries, My word is extremely valuable, because it's illegal and no longer
free. In some place its so coveted and rare that single pages are secretly
passed from hand to hand and memorized, at the risk of prison or execution.
Those that possess My word, knowing the risk, are true believers, because they
are passing the test of persecution.
The test of persecution is an individual test that you inwardly prepare
for. Early persecution pop quizzes take place without you even knowing it. If
you are embarrassed to mention My name in front of anyone, you will fail the
persecution test. In a nation that has never known persecution, and religion is
more than cheap, it's free, the depth of commitment is an unknown! Masses of
people called believers, will fail the persecution test and you will be shocked
at who they are!
"Don't be deceived, before I return a great apostasy will take place first.
Unless the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be
Christians has come, and the antichrist is revealed, who is the son of doom (of
perdition)," you will not know the true believers. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 As I
promised I will separate the wheat from the chaff. Persecution is the final and
great threshing floor, that does the separating.
After you are arrested for having a illegal bible, "when they take you to
court and put you under arrest, do not be anxious beforehand about what you are
to say nor even meditate about it; but say whatever is given you in that hour
and at the moment, for it is not you who will be speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
[12] Threat of persecution will cause brother to hand over brother to death, and
the father his child; and children will take a stand against their parents and
have them put to death." Mark 13:11-12 AMP The gospel will no longer be free,
you will pay for it with your life.
Some of you, right now, are showing signs of failing the persecution test,
because you want to move on to a happy clappy subject. You don't want to hit
like, on this persecution stuff, because your religion has always been free,
with no cost involved. Is your commitment deep or cheap? Only persecution will
reveal it! That's why you can "consider it wholly joyful, whenever you are
enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.
[3] Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out
endurance and steadfastness and patience. [4] If you let endurance and
steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, you will be a
people perfectly and fully developed with no defects, lacking in nothing," and
you will pass the persecution test! James 1:2-4 AMP
Let Me leave you with this final life saving thought: If you are ashamed
of Me and My words, here and now in this adulterous (unfaithful) and
preeminently sinful generation, I assure you that I will be ashamed of you when
I come in the glory (splendor and majesty) of My Father with the holy
angels." Mark 8:38 AMP Ashamed now, means persecution failure in the coming
days, where you would report turn in your own mother for having a bible, to save
your own neck!
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