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need to repeat it often, as well, and when

we come to this subject of opposition to the

Gospel and persecution and hatred by the

world, you cannot read a book in the New

Testament without reading about this

subject. For example, five chapters in 1 Peter

deal with the subject of the church and

persecution, and it's mentioned many times

in the book of Revelation.

Now, I have about 35 verses dealing with

persecution, and I want to give you at least

some of those. In Matthew chapter 5 is the

Sermon on the Mount, The Beatitudes,

beginning in verse 1 down through about

verse 12, and notice with me in verses 10,

11, and 12: “Blessed are they which are

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