A promise is something good you give a person, yet persecution is promised!
If the Bible is correct, and I believe it is because God had it written, then we are going to encounter persecution!!! It is a good thing, a promise, but it is hard to understand how it is a good thing. We don't battle with people, but with powers, principalities, and the dark forces of this world. And if we, those who know the Lord Jesus Christ (King of kings) personally, then how about those who don't know Him. Are they not totally bind to what is happening around them in the spiritual/heavenly realm.
Anyway, I was a retail manager telling people at work about Jesus Christ. He was walking and talking with me and He was also doing miracles in our midst. He had healed one ladies wrist, and healed another so she was again having her time of the month. He had me talking to many employees about Him, and according to the laws of the USA you talk to employees about Him. If that makes them feel uncomfortable in their own mind (and where to spirits work?) then I could be fired for it. I could actually talk to them about pretty much anything else but religion, with the possible exception of sex.
I was going to get fired, but isn't telling people Him worth it. I did try a be nice about it. And if anyone didn't want to talk about Him it was ok by me. In fact that lady who had listen to me about praying to Jesus and had gotten healed by Him after she did, later asked if I would not talk to her about Him again. So I never did again.
So towards the end of my time at that store He started giving me parables and sayings. At the next store He would only have me speaking in parables and saying, and even though most figured out that I was telling them about Jesus Christ, any report evil spirits made through the employees didn't go any where. That is what Jesus has to do when we decide we are not going to listen to Him.
There are other places I can and have used some on this site but they are also part of my testimony about Him; that he uses parables because we don't want to listen to Him.
In The Dark:
There once was an animal that lived in a cave. So all its life it had been in the dark. It knew there were other things that lived in the cave with him, but because it couldn’t see them, it didn’t know how big they were. After a while the animal got to thinking that he was the biggest, strongest, and smartest animal in the cave.
Then came a rumbling.
AHHH
(Oh my thought the animal)
And the noise grew.
AHHHHHH
(Oh no thought the animal)
And then.
AHHHH… CHOOO!!!
Instantly a strong wind blew the animal out of the cave.
In the light the animal could see that he wasn’t big at all. Wow, he was so small. He was just a microbe, and he felt sad.
After a little while he realized that it was ok that he was a microbe, because he was still him. You know it’s ok if you’re a microbe, because even a microbe has a purpose.
If the Bible is correct, and I believe it is because God had it written, then we are going to encounter persecution!!! It is a good thing, a promise, but it is hard to understand how it is a good thing. We don't battle with people, but with powers, principalities, and the dark forces of this world. And if we, those who know the Lord Jesus Christ (King of kings) personally, then how about those who don't know Him. Are they not totally bind to what is happening around them in the spiritual/heavenly realm.
Anyway, I was a retail manager telling people at work about Jesus Christ. He was walking and talking with me and He was also doing miracles in our midst. He had healed one ladies wrist, and healed another so she was again having her time of the month. He had me talking to many employees about Him, and according to the laws of the USA you talk to employees about Him. If that makes them feel uncomfortable in their own mind (and where to spirits work?) then I could be fired for it. I could actually talk to them about pretty much anything else but religion, with the possible exception of sex.
I was going to get fired, but isn't telling people Him worth it. I did try a be nice about it. And if anyone didn't want to talk about Him it was ok by me. In fact that lady who had listen to me about praying to Jesus and had gotten healed by Him after she did, later asked if I would not talk to her about Him again. So I never did again.
So towards the end of my time at that store He started giving me parables and sayings. At the next store He would only have me speaking in parables and saying, and even though most figured out that I was telling them about Jesus Christ, any report evil spirits made through the employees didn't go any where. That is what Jesus has to do when we decide we are not going to listen to Him.
There are other places I can and have used some on this site but they are also part of my testimony about Him; that he uses parables because we don't want to listen to Him.
In The Dark:
There once was an animal that lived in a cave. So all its life it had been in the dark. It knew there were other things that lived in the cave with him, but because it couldn’t see them, it didn’t know how big they were. After a while the animal got to thinking that he was the biggest, strongest, and smartest animal in the cave.
Then came a rumbling.
AHHH
(Oh my thought the animal)
And the noise grew.
AHHHHHH
(Oh no thought the animal)
And then.
AHHHH… CHOOO!!!
Instantly a strong wind blew the animal out of the cave.
In the light the animal could see that he wasn’t big at all. Wow, he was so small. He was just a microbe, and he felt sad.
After a little while he realized that it was ok that he was a microbe, because he was still him. You know it’s ok if you’re a microbe, because even a microbe has a purpose.