Are You WIlling to Suffer?

[Apostolic Unity Outreach]

After reading this weeks blog post I was mystified to discover that the gospel is now viewed as hate speech! Our society has become so loose that we have no desire or respect for what is real and what is pure. Now more than ever we need to stand up and declare this generation, but doing so in this day and time poses serious risk. How do you weight the consequences of standing up for truth in a time when it has become outlawed in some areas. Are you TRULY willing to suffer for the name of Jesus. And I don't mean taunting or verbal ridicule I'm talking about mortal danger or the kind of punishment the apostles suffered.

[Victor]

The weight to die for my Faith is very, very heavy. What strengthens me to die for my Faith is seeing the 100K dead in the Myanmar tsunami, or 60K dead in the China earthquake, or 5M dead in the Holocaust, or 400K dead in the Sudan genocide, or 3M yearly deaths from AIDS, or 8M yearly deaths from cancer, or 800K tutsis dead in the Rwanda genocide, or 37M dead in WWI, or 72M dead in WWII, and the list goes on and on. Death, the greatest enemy, and hate are intertwined with these sort of catastrophes. Either nature is taking its bloody evolutionary course or somebody really, really hates us. I know hate all too well; not hate from men, but from the powers of the air, who we know to be Satan. Paul said it best, if our Faith is false, we're all going to perish, period. When I think about Rwanda, Darfur, and death in general I'm filled with anger and rage. Somebody is to blame. And I'm not talking about men, I'm talking about the powers of the air who implant their wicked wills into the hearts of men. Plain and simple, we are fortunate to have free practice of our Faith. I would never let men turn back my Faith because other men are in the same wretched state as I am and with the same end. When yea comes to nea, no man on earth has power over death. I whole heartedly believe that the grace of God is the only reason I'm alive and well today. No doubt in my mind Satan has wanted to kill me. Praise be to God for His kindness. I hope and pray through Jesus Christ that our Faith is true and right with a blessed end for us all.