Myth, 82

 ~ As a Christian Your Life Will Be Easier ~

Popular Myth  ~  Some televangelist teach a wealth and health Gospel which is not Biblical.  Unfortunately, it propagates and reinforces this error. 

Scripture  ~  Jesus said, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.  Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you” (Matthew 5:10-12).  “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’  If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you” (John 15:20-21a).

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.  We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed — always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.  For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh” (2 Corinthians 4:7-12a).

Quote  ~  “Those who say, ‘If you become a Christian your troubles will be over,’ have no clue what a Christian is – for that’s when the war really begins.”  –Burk Parsons

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

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