When we think of the Beatitudes, we often think about the meek, the peacemakers, and the poor in spirit. Rarely do we think about the persecuted. See, when we begin to acknowledge the expected persecution of the Church, it becomes uncomfortable for many, so we like to pretend persecution isn’t for us, but for someone else. But what does the Bible say? What did Jesus say? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he goes through the last of the Beatitudes in his sobering message, Heaven’s Values, Earth’s Calling Pt. 8: Blessed Are The Persecuted.
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Heaven’s Values, Earth’s Calling
Blessed Are The Persecuted
God’s Unbroken Promise
3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. 4 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. 5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. 6 I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, 7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
Isaiah 43:3-7
35 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of hosts is His name: 36 “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the Lord, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.”
37 Thus says the Lord: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the Lord.”
Jeremiah 31:35-37
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