PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE

THURSDAY, 9TH JUNE, 2022

Topic: PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE 

MEMORIZE:  “Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” Matthew 5:12.

SCRIPTURE READING:  Matthew 5:10-12.

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” 

EXPOSITION: 

Those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, are happy. This is the greatest paradox of all, and peculiar to Christianity and therefore it is put last, and more largely insisted upon than any of the rest. This beatitude, like Pharaoh's dream, is doubled, because hardly credited, and yet the thing is certain and in the latter part there is change of the person, "Blessed are ye - ye my disciples, and immediate followers. This is that which you, who excel in virtue, are more immediately concerned in for you must reckon upon hardships and troubles more than other men" Observe here, The case of suffering saints described and it is a hard case, and a very piteous one…

They are persecuted, hunted, pursued, run down, as noxious beasts are, that are sought for to be destroyed as if a Christian did bear a wolf's head, as an outlaw is said to do--any one that finds him may slay him, they are abandoned as the offscouring of all things fined, imprisoned, banished, stripped of their estates, excluded from all places of profit and trust, scourged, racked, tortured, always delivered to death, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter. This has been the effect of the enmity of the serpent's seed against the holy seed, ever since the time of righteous Abel. It was so in Old-Testament times, as we find, Hebrews 11:35. Christ has told us that it would much more be so with the Christian church, and we are not to think it strange, 1 John 3:13. He has left us an example 

PRAYER POINT:

Lord, I receive grace to stand with you in my moments of hard time and bring glory to you in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Psalm 48-50.

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