What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce. And today, by the title of the episode, whether you're watching or listening, we're going to be talking about persecution today. What happens when people hate you for your faith? What happens when you deal with hostile people? What that looks like? How do we navigate that? How do we even persevere? What does it look like when you're discouraged when people hate you for your faith? So we're going to actually talk about that today.

If you're discouraged when people hate you for your faith?

So we're going to actually talk about that today. If you're watching right now, you can tell we're

in a different location. And that is right. This is now going to be our permanent podcast studio.

We have been building this thing. My friends, Chris and McKenna, and their whole team have graciously built us a studio and helped us.

And so this will be where we will be recording from now on.

We're super excited unless we're traveling, of course.

But we're going to get into this.

We're going to bounce around scripture.

Talk about persecution.

Talk about being hated for your faith.

If you guys got your Bibles,

you can flip with me to Matthew chapter 5. We'll actually start in Matthew chapter 5. We're going to cover a few different scriptures here today. It's going to be amazing. Now, I just want to

preface something here before we dive into the scriptures. Jesus Christ himself, who was a perfect human being, fully God,

fully man, Jesus Christ himself lived a perfect, sinless life in this world, and the number one

persecution he faced was being misunderstood. And because he was misunderstood, this caused people to

persecute him. If a perfect man was able to be persecuted in this world, then you and I,

as immature and imperfect human beings, should expect people to not understand, disagree,

maybe even become hostile at times towards us because of our

faith. This will happen. This is a guarantee. Jesus himself says, hey, if the world hates you,

which it's going to, if the world hates you, just remember, it hated me first. The statement

Jesus is making there saying, look, look, when people hate you for your faith,

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