Can we show perseverance without opposition?<\/p>\n
Can we show bravery without fear?<\/p>\n
Can we show faith without flack?<\/p>\n
Can we follow Jesus without persecution?<\/p>\n
Jesus said no.<\/p>\n
“If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you.”<\/p>\n
“All who live Godly in Christ Jesus will<\/span> suffer persecution.”<\/p>\n “And when the fight is fierce, the warfare long,<\/p>\n Steals on the ear the distant, triumph song.<\/p>\n And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christians, look to the Bible for authentic, historical Christianity—not to the Cinderella honeymoon we’ve had in America, dramatically coming to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can we show perseverance without opposition? Can we show bravery without fear? Can we show faith without flack? Can we follow Jesus without persecution? Jesus said no. “If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you.” “All who live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” “And when the fight is fierce, the warfare long, Steals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}