{"id":8155,"date":"2026-09-09T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:03:22","slug":"mistreated-disgraced-rewarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8155","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;MISTREATED&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;DISGRACED&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;REWARDED&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does it really mean to follow Jesus ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>respectable addition to my life<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>fire insurance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>avoid tribulation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>escape &#8220;great tribulation&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>good for business<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>good P\/R, mostlyl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>NO !<br>THAT&#8217;S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it really mean to follow Jesus ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(1)Choice<br>(2)Consequence<br>(3)Conclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you make the (1)Choice to sincerely follow Jesus&#8212;give up the temporary pleasures this sinful world offers . . .\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will experience the (2)Consequence of that decision&#8212;<br>&#8212; MISTREATED like other persecuted Christians (around the world today, and through history).<br>&#8212; DISGRACED for being a &#8216;Jesus follower&#8217;, hated by everyone, everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; REWARDED, by Jesus, with Jesus, seeing Jesus&#8212;greater than anything in the world.<br>You see the goal, the (3)Conclusion of your choice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>By faith Moses \u2605chose\u2605 to be \u2605mistreated\u2605 with God&#8217;s people, rather than enjoy the &#8220;pleasures of sin&#8221;\u00bf for a season in Egypt, as adopted son of pharoah&#8217;s daughter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it really mean to follow Jesus ? NO !THAT&#8217;S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ! What does it really mean to follow Jesus ? (1)Choice(2)Consequence(3)Conclusion If you make the (1)Choice to sincerely follow Jesus&#8212;give up the temporary pleasures this sinful world offers . . .\u2022 You will experience the (2)Consequence of that decision&#8212;&#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,3,4,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-family","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155"}],"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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}