Anybody wants to post a Bible verse ?

[Fidei Defensor]

“In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” (2 Timothy 3:12) 

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[Refresher]

2 hours ago, Fidei Defensor said:

“In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” (2 Timothy 3:12) 

Thanks for.posting Bro, I can relate.

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[Fidei Defensor]

2 hours ago, Refresher said:

Thanks for.posting Bro, I can relate.

You are most welcome. There teachers who claim that if you live a Christ-like life everything will be easy, you will become wealthy, and great in your society. Scripture paints a different picture, that the more we try to follow Christ’s example the more we face persecution and suffering. For Christ said pick up your cross, which rang clear as a bell to all who heard that it meant suffering, “Then he said to them all: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23). And look at what Peter says if we suffer for Christ’s sake, “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin” (1 Peter 4:1).  

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[Refresher]

1 hour ago, Fidei Defensor said:

You are most welcome. There teachers who claim that if you live a Christ-like life everything will be easy, you will become wealthy, and great in your society. Scripture paints a different picture, that the more we try to follow Christ’s example the more we face persecution and suffering. For Christ said pick up your cross, which rang clear as a bell to all who heard that it meant suffering, “Then he said to them all: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23). And look at what Peter says if we suffer for Christ’s sake, “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin” (1 Peter 4:1).  

I'd rather to be a Disciple of Jesus Christ and follow HIM...this world is nothing..... than the Spirit of the Lord is in us.

[Fidei Defensor]

26 minutes ago, Refresher said:

I'd rather to be a Disciple of Jesus Christ and follow HIM...this world is nothing..... than the Spirit of the Lord is in us.

Indeed. For we have been called out the world by Him, “If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” (John 15:19). The apostles also tell us not to be captives to the world, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect,” (Romans 12:2), “Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone should love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,” (1 John 2:15), “You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God,” (James 4:4), and “Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ. All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.” (Philippians 3:8, 15).