Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

In our beloved country, we know very little about real persecution.

And yet, around the world, at this very present hour, there are believers who are suffering

and even dying for their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, that's nothing new.

As a matter of fact, persecution has always

been connected with the gospel. And we've come now to two books near the end of our New

Testament that are written to persecuted believers. Hebrew Christians, Jews, who had been

dispersed because of persecution.

And Peter is the one writing to both of them in these letters known as First and Second Peter.

Now, one of the things that these two letters have in common is that they are in time books.

They deal of how to live in light of the soon return of Jesus Christ.

Now, I believe this.

I believe the near we get to the return of Christ, the more persecution believers are going to face. Just expect it. Don't be surprised at it. And yet God,

don't you love this, God has given us two beautiful books in the New Testament that

explained to us how to live in victory in the midst of persecution.

Now they're written by the Apostle Peter, and Peter knew something about persecution.

He knew something about both the sufferings of Christ and the sufferings of Christians.

The New Testament gives more biographical information on Peter than any other apostle.

There's no other Peter in the New Testament.

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