Page 38 - The Promise of Persecution

we've been back home maybe doing a

funeral or witnessing to those folks, but I

threw them all away. We have a lot of

Christian kinfolk too, but we have a lot of

relatives who hate the Gospel of Jesus

Christ, and they take their hatred out on us.

Notice how this persecution is played

out in the book of Acts. We're going to see

that what Jesus said in the Sermon on the

Mount and what He said in the upper room

is literally coming to pass in the book of

Acts. I made a point to highlight, underline,

or make a list of certain Bible verses on

persecution so that I don't lose sight when I

experience opposition or when I see people

reject the truth and they want to hurt you

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