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 Jesus Has Given Us Sufficient Evidences of His Love to Enable Us to Endure Persecutions ㅡ

 “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” (2 Timothy 3:12)

 The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.

 The religion of Christ will unite in close brotherhood all who accept its teachings.

 It was the mission of Jesus to reconcile men to God, and thus to one another.

 But the world at large are under the control of Satan, Christ’s bitterest foe.

 The gospel presents to them principles of life which are wholly at variance with their habits and desires, and they rise in rebellion against it.

 They hate the purity which reveals and condemns their sins, and they persecute and destroy those who would urge upon them its just and holy claims.

 It is in this sense—because the exalted truths it brings occasion hatred and strife—that the gospel is called a sword.

 The mysterious providence which permits the righteous to suffer persecution at the hand of the wicked has been a cause of great perplexity to many who are weak in faith.

 Some are even ready to cast away their confidence in God because He suffers the basest of men to prosper, while the best and purest are afflicted and tormented by their cruel power.

 How, it is asked, can One who is just and merciful, and who is also infinite in power, tolerate such injustice and oppression?

 This is a question with which we have nothing to do.

 God has given us sufficient evidence of His love, and we are not to doubt His goodness because we cannot understand the workings of His providence.

 Said the Saviour to His disciples, foreseeing the doubts that would press upon their souls in days of trial and darkness:

 “Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.” (John 15:20).

 Jesus suffered for us more than any of His followers can be made to suffer through the cruelty of wicked men.

 Those who are called to endure torture and martyrdom are but following in the steps of God’s dear Son.

 (The Great Controversy 46, 47)

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