ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 95

                                          ONE HEARTBEAT           AWAY

       PART 95


(copied from Mark Cahill's Book)

First we are told that we can't lose by 
walking away from our worldly possessions
for Jesus' sake. That is, if it's a choice between
keeping close to Jesus or keeping close to our
family, friends, and possessions and we choose
Jesus - He will restore everything we lost to 
us - and more. 

Many have seen and experienced
this. And He will do it - "now in this time."
We don't hate our family and friends, or want to 
lose our stuff, but if it is a choice between them
and Jesus - and its odd how the world often
confronts believers with these choices - Jesus
will see to it that we are blessed with much 
more than what we lost: "houses and brethren,
and sisters, and mothers and children and 
lands."

One way this is fulfilled is that when you are 
born into the Body of Christ, everyone already 
in it becomes your brother, sister, mother, 
father etc. and their homes, in a sense become
your homes. Read the Bible and see how often
it says godly people were visiting and dining
with people not of their family.  Life in Jesus is
a life of abundant provision. Not money in the
bank so that we can say, "Hey, look what I've
got!" But a sure supply of all we need.

So where does the 

difficulty come from? 
Re read that passage 
and notice that little       phrase, "with
persecutions."  What 
does that mean?  It 
means that people who
are on the broad path that leads to destruction, spoken of by Jesus, will be raised up against us.

persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me
at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystria; what 
persecutions I endured : but out of them all 
the Lord delivered me.
Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ
Jesus, shall suffer persecution. 
(2nd Timothy 3: 11-12)

Not everyone, all of the time, but from time to time, it happens. The more we live life as unto God, the more our lives are a testimony as to
the goodness of God, and the wickedness of
people who hate God. Though we can expect people to reject us because of our faith, we can
also expect God to protect us and rescue us.  


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