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Persecution and Perseverance

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      We often think of persecution as a matter external to the church, as something inflicted on the church; however, persecution is often — and these days most often — a matter within the church — the persecutors, the goats and the wolves, claim outward fellowship with the sheep. Persecution has almost always been a part of the Christian life, even if it has waxed and waned over the centuries (and some who lived under Christendom enjoyed relative peace). Today, we are faced with a period of increasing persecution; in fact, it is already in full swing.

      If we, as Christians, are not prepared to face persecution, to persevere in the face of it, then we will almost certainly fall away from the faith when the persecution rises in intensity. There is a great apostasy that has been underway for decades, and now the world and the devil are earnestly seeking to persecute and destroy what remains of the Church on Earth, and they are aided in this by goats and wolves posing as sheep. The persecution of today, as has been the case with so much of the persecution of the past, comes largely from within the church, not from without her.

      And yet persecution is not a cause for despair or even for worry — it is a reason to act. If we are to persevere, to run the race successfully, then we must spend time in the Word of God, be confident in our faith, and secure in our knowledge that God is always true to His promises, not least of all:

      ‘Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.”

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      0:00.0

      The

      0:07.0

      The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still woe. On today's Stone

      0:44.8

      Choir, we're going to be talking about persecution and perseverance. We talked last week about loyalty

      0:50.6

      and specifically when loyalty is not due, when duty doesn't attach. This week we're not

      0:56.4

      really talking about honor as it's connected to these things. So we already decide we're going

      1:00.7

      to title this one, persecution and perseverance. Because as we look at the state of the church,

      1:05.2

      as we look at the state of the world, as we look at the state of many of our lives, it's clear

      1:09.8

      that there is a persecution that is taking

      1:12.1

      place in isolated areas. And more broadly, there's persecution at large that we're collectively

      1:18.7

      facing. And at the largest scale, there's persecution that's been going on for as long as there's

      1:24.8

      been a church. And so today we're going to be focusing very heavily

      1:28.8

      on scripture on looking at the places where persecution occurs from what quarters does that

      1:37.1

      persecution come. And then how do Christians persevere not only in the faith, but simply,

      1:43.8

      well, it is persevering in the faith,

      1:45.6

      but remaining in the faith means also persevering in the moment. So it's not simply a question of,

      1:51.9

      you know, saying the Lord's prayer and confessing the creeds. However you want to specifically

      1:56.0

      define maintaining your faith, draw the line wherever you want. There's more to perseverance than that,

      2:02.4

      because to some degree, it's easy for that to be lip service.

      2:06.0

      The actual perseverance is continuing to show up,

      2:09.2

      even when it doesn't look like it has anything to do with Christianity.

      2:13.2

      So we're going to talk today about the Old Testament, the New Testament.

      2:17.4

      Touch a little bit on history and the church, but overall the point that we want to to talk today about the Old Testament, the New Testament, touch a little bit on

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