Facing Persecution
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
As we continue in our series, “Forged,” JP reminds us that Christians must lean closer to God in times of suffering because He is sanctifying us. JP looks to 1 Peter to show us five things we should not do in suffering. As we seek to become more like Christ, we must rejoice in suffering because our Savior suffered for us on our behalf.
1 Peter 4:12-19
1) Do not be surprised in suffering
2) Do not be discouraged in suffering
3) Do not be guilty in suffering
4) Do not be ashamed in suffering
5) Do not suffer outside of God’s will because our Savior suffered for us on our behalf.
Life Group Questions:
1. JP shared that approximately 13 Christians are killed each day for sharing their faith. How can you be diligent to pray for those who are being persecuted for their faith? How can you grow in sharing your faith with others?
2. What is a spiritual discipline that you have seen growth in after experiencing a time of suffering?
3. Has there been a time when you suffered because of sin? How have you experienced God’s grace as you’ve fully surrendered your sufferings to the Lord?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, here's Creek, how we doing? |
| 0:02.3 | Let's go. |
| 0:03.1 | Hey, if you're a guest with us, welcome home or to a home away from home. |
| 0:06.6 | If you're visiting Waco this weekend, we're so glad that you would entrust us with your Sunday morning. |
| 0:11.2 | If we haven't met, my name is JP or Jonathan Becluda and I have the privilege of serving this incredible church. |
| 0:17.1 | And so I'm curious how many of you, like your conversion was public. And what I mean by that is like you responded to an altar call or raise your hand or stood up. You know, you came forward. There was something where like you said, you made this kind of public profession and there was kind of a celebration around that. Anybody here that's a part of your story? I imagine, right? |
| 0:37.8 | I imagine that that's a part of a lot of our stories. I can, it was a part of my story a few |
| 0:42.3 | times. And so I can remember, I grew up in a small town, South Texas. I grew up Catholic, |
| 0:48.6 | and my mom was Luther and I would kind of bounce back and forth between those two churches. |
| 0:52.5 | But the only church in our town that really |
| 0:54.7 | did anything to reach and disciple and equip the youth was First Baptist Quiro. So I would go to the |
| 1:00.6 | youth group there called Teen Time. And they, that's where it was, you know, there was fun. They would |
| 1:08.4 | do events after the football games. That's where the good snacks were, |
| 1:12.1 | you know, teen time. And so they were going to take a bus to Corpus Christi for a Christian |
| 1:17.7 | conference. I've never been to one called Dawson McAllister. And so I'm like, I'm in. |
| 1:23.4 | You know, we all load up on the bus. We go travel down south to Corpus Christi. We stop at |
| 1:29.2 | Wendy's on the way. It's a great time. We go into this kind of conference center auditorium thing. |
| 1:35.2 | Thousands of kids my age, this is great. Great music, great energy, lots of, you know, just fun things |
| 1:42.6 | happening. And really great worship. I'm emotionally stirred, you know, just fun things happening and really great worship. I'm emotionally |
| 1:46.9 | stirred, you know, my heart is moved, my crush is there, you know, and so it's all good. And they, |
| 1:53.9 | you know, this guy says something. I don't remember what he said, but it was something that I |
| 1:58.6 | remember like, hey, and if you don't want to go to hell and you want to live forever in paradise with God, come forward. |
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