I am not calling for any type of revolt or insurrection of the people of California against their government, but I am calling for the pastors and preachers in that state to preach Jesus regardless of the cost, in spite of the cost and because of the cost. Read Acts 5 and remind yourself of the price that was paid to preach and teach the gospel of the grace of God, that price is still the same, it has not changed, it is the price of blood. Your blood. And remember, they rejoiced when they had the honor to make that payment. This is what real, true, and biblical Christianity is all about.
"And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." Acts 5:40-42 (KJB)
On this episode of Rightly Dividing, we are going back in time to the first century to pay a visit to the apostles, and see what is was like for them to live as a Christian in a time of oppression and persecution of the faith under Rome. We will be looking the apostles in the kingdom age up to the pause of that dispensation in Acts 7, and into the dispensation of the Church Age under the apostle Paul. |