Episode 54: Blessing your Persecutors

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So let's get into today's topic and I'm going to quote scripture

as we always do, Romans chapter 12 verse 14 and I think this is

Romans 12:14

a one of those difficult asks, one of those difficult

obligations that we have the, you know, the Many things we

read in the scriptures. It's like when we read them, we

get this feeling year. I don't know if I can do that.

That's not very easy. That's, that's not realistic.

Well, that's not fair, you know, but you know what, it's not

about being realistic and it's not about being easier.

It's not about being fair, it's about the statutes the

Commandments of God. And through the scripture

through the holy scriptures for the teachings of the church, the

church fathers that we must always be prepared to adhere to

and to fulfill to the best of our capability and the best of

our knowledge. Knowledge through prayer and the

intervention of the holy spirit. So Romans chapter 12, verse 14

Romans 12:14

commands bless your persecutors. So some of you are now probably

slam the break. If you're driving like what

bless my persecutors. Yeah.

And Paul goes on to say bless and do not curse.

Do not cuss, do not curse basically bully up in a Syrian.

Now, this is an extension to Christ's commandment himself,

Matthew chapter 5 verses 43, 246.

Matthew 5:43

You have heard that it has been said in the law, which was given

by God, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

Yes. Now, this is being realistic,

this sits so beautifully to the heart, right?

Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

But Jesus says, even the demons do that.

So if we love our neighbors and I hate our enemies.

We are on par with the demon that's repent, but I say, who is

this? I know Jesus, because he is,

God, praise and glory to his name, but I say to you, love

your enemies and bless him, that curses you, or he would go.

Again, those difficult obligations and

responsibilities, that we have love your enemies and bless him,

that curses you and do good to him, that hate you and pray for

them that lead you in bonds. And that person You.

Now this is all because of Faith.

Obviously Jesus is talking about those who have been persecuted

for their faith. Not being persecuted because of

their own foolishness and fault. You know, we have no credit for

that, you know, when you make a mistake, you know, you reap what

you sow, the, the repercussions of your mistakes are your own

fault is in Port st. Peter writes this in his first

epistle, chapter 2, verse 20, but what Anna, what honor is.

A to those who in do suffering because of their foolishness.

But when you do what is good and they flicked you and you endure,

then it magnifies your honor with Artisan to these guys.

It magnifies your honor with God.

You want to have honor ikarra with God, you want to have

aquatic is Allah with Allah, right?

Be afflicted for good. So, when Jesus is saying bless

your purse, Secutor Xin your enemies and st.

Paul reiterates, that as well. He's talking about our Pursuit

persecution because of our faith, our persecution because

of our humility because of our faith, our persecution, because

of our love, because of our faith.

So to better understand the term bless.

We need to refer to the author of blessings and who is that?

Heavenly Father God, through his son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus

Christ, and the Holy Spirit, and we need to reflect that same

blessings. Do as Jesus did Dhat do as Jesus

did question, what is the greatest blessings that you and

I receive from God? One that we pray would never

end. You know, I mean, I'm sure

everyone has their own blessings that they thank God for every

day is it only good health. Is it wealth?

Is that knowledge is that understanding?

Is it a great Curry? Beautiful children, a great

lifestyle, friends family. Well, personally, the greatest

blessings that I receive from God and I asked and beseech that

he would never end regardless of my foolishness.

Is the blessings of God's patience with me long suffering.

There is a prayer in the old Inn in the early morning prayers.

We say every day I promise that I will repent.

Days pass. And my sins are still standing.

Oh Lord, have mercy on me, be patient, be long-suffering.

And why is because God does not want me to die in my sins.

God's desire is for me to repent.

To repent and to live. So that when I'm living in

Christ in his son, I will then live eternally.

I will be saved and live eternally in the Kingdom of

Heaven. Ezekiel chapter 18, verse 23,

Ezekiel 18:23

and we recite this in the diaconate litany.

God said, I do not desire. The death of a sinner, says the

Lord of lords, but that he would return from his evil way.

And he will live. That's patients.

Again in 2nd Peter 3:9, the Lord God does not delay his promises

as people considered delay but he is patient for your sakes and

because he is not willing that any person would perish but that

every person would come to conversion.

So patience is the characteristics of the blessings

of God is the greatest blessing as far as I'm concerned.

Everyone has their own Racing's. So when the scriptures are

committed when Christ and the scriptures are commanding us to

bless our persecutors, be patient with them.

Be patient. Understand wait.

The patient more with the Lord because the Lord can see and

allow the Lord to intervene and the Lord to take Vengeance.

Vengeance, is mine says the Lord, give place to the Lord

Vengeance. So bless your persecutors off

the bat be patient with them. Another Blessing.

That we receive. Continuously.

And without past partiality less pelted patter.

Is that God understands? He understands why we are where

we are? He understands there is a reason

why people do what they do. He is God, we must to understand

that there is always a reason why people are who they are, say

what they say and do what they do.

And I always bring these example, when I watch those

shows that they're about the, you know, the prison shows and

they're interviewing the prison the inmates.

And, you know, I remember watching an interview with a

young lady. I think she was in her late 20s,

and she was in jail for murder. But when I heard her lifestyle,

what she went through, I didn't begin to justify the murder in

the scene, but I started to And I started to have compassion to

sympathize that, well, maybe if I had this same difficult

treacherous lifestyle, I may have ended up where this person

has ended up. So there is a reason, you know,

sometimes we say, why do people do this was a, because they

stupid, right? They're idiots.

That's a reason. Someone is stupid.

What do you do with someone? That's stupid?

You try to help that person. You know, you, you be patient.

I ain't with that person and understand that this person is

doing this because of this, my persecutors are persecuting me

for my faith or whatever it is because of this be

understanding, because our God is understanding with us.

God knows exactly why we do what we do.

You know I love the verse. In Psalm chapter verse 4 in

Psalm chapter 2. He who sits in heaven will laugh

Psalms 2 · chapter mention

and the Lord God will mock them. Not that guy.

God loves with his cheeks. As one of the fathers is

commenting or expresses mockery with his nose.

But rather through his Saints, when we laugh at something, that

is pretty puny stupid. That's like God is But we must

understand that there is a reason why this person is like

this. So to bless your persecutors is

to be patient to understand that they must be a reason.

You know, that reason may be me. Maybe my ignorance, my self

confidence self righteousness. That my persecutors doing what

they doing to me. So blessings again, patience

understanding. And to know that we are weak, we

are frail, you know, God knows that we are weak, that's why

he's extends his invitation through his son in Matthew

Matthew 11:28

11:28. Come on, to me all of you.

Not only those, you know, let's read it carefully.

Come on to me all of you. Every one of you.

Is laboring and is forced to Bear burdens, come on.

To me all of you are labored and are forced to Bear burdens and I

shall give you rest because he understands he knows our

weakness. So to we need to understand and

this will help us bless our persecutors.

These are some of the hints on how we can come to a position,

get to a point where we really do bless our persecutors.

It's a And it's not comport, it's not a multiple choice.

It's compulsory. You must do it.

Because Jesus has commanded it. It's not for negotiation.

It's not whether you like it or not, how it appeases, you how it

sits right with you in your heart, and your mind and your

understanding and your intellect know you do it.

Why? Because Jesus has commanded it,

because he did what a blessing to all his persecutors.

Beloved, he's on the cross. He's in pain, he's in agony.

His flesh is being torn with every breath that he takes.

Listen to this. Stop pull over stop washing your

dishes. Stop vacuuming.

Listen to this. He's he's on the cross.

His wounds that, you know, there must have been his human being,

he sweated. His wounds are being being, you

know, what is it? But the other, you know, that

he's suffering with his wounds and yet, look at the blessings.

Father, forgive them for, they do not know what they're doing.

Father, forgive them for the day.

They do not know what they're doing in a way, because he knew

why they're doing this. He knew that it had to happen.

So we too have to know. We have to have some sort of an

understanding, we have to have some sort of a passion

compassion, and patience for our persecutors.

To know that we're all Sinners. We are all week if I am

persecuted, rest assured, be assured that.

You two have persecuted. Someone some some way or

another. you know, this is what The old oldest son in the

parable of the prodigal of. The parable of the Prodigal Son,

all I call it a parable of the merciful father in Luke 15:11 to

Luke 15:11–32

32. He didn't understand, he didn't

understand that. Everything the father had is his

anyway. He still in the household, he's

a part of the household, but the child, his brother had left.

And that's why his father says, listen, you must understand

this. That is why I am blessing.

That is why I'm having compassion that this brother was

lost in his found, his dead and he now lives.

So bless your persecutors with patience and understanding their

issues. Lastly God, blesses us with

compassion and pity from the Liturgy of the Assyrian Church.

The Liturgy of the Holy Quran in truth O.

My Lord. We sing three times.

See you have persecuted. Got through your sins.

One more time, you have crucified Jesus, because of your

sins, we do this each time that we sin, but yet we come so

confidently and we sing in truthful.

My Lord, we are not worthy much Lara, Marla Wynne and right in

truth. All my Lord.

We are not worthy. Have pity on us O My Lord though

we are not worthy even though we are not worthy.

Have Pity on us through our Frailty because of our many

sins. We need to have compassion and

pity even if the prosecutor is not worthy.

But we need to because this is what we ask God.

You know Jesus said if you don't forgive if you don't have

compassion, if you don't show Mercy, then I will not show

Mercy. The prayer of the try Segi and

the holy God. Holy Mighty.

Paddy Sharda. Addition Tana listen to what the

the the priest is praying. Holy glorious.

Mighty and Immortal. Whose will dwells and rests

content in the Saints turn. Oh, I Lord and PT and have mercy

upon us as you are accustomed to do at all times O.

Lord of all Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever.

Amen, compassion Petey. On 20 load of hosts, the priest

prays we supplicate and asked, fulfill with us your grace and

pour through pour forth through us.

That is the priesthood. Your gift and made a mercies and

compassion of your godhead be for the pardon of the debts of

your people. And for the Forgiveness of the

sins of all the flock of your pasture whom you have chosen for

yourself in your grace and mercies oh good, one and lover

of mankind. Laudable, Father and Son and

Holy Spirit forever. Amen.

Yes, we Dare to ask this. We dare to pray for this but do

we extend it to our brother? To our sister.

And to our persecutors, James chapter 2 verse 13 for judgment

James 2:13

is, without Mercy to him that shows, no mercy.

So why do we have to do this? Why are we asked to bless our

persecutors apart from Christ? And God God, the Father God, the

son, God the Holy Spirit are at every time bestowing their

compassion that page. Actions that knowledge, the

understanding and their PT. This is Christianity beloved

second, Timothy 3:12 but also all those who choose to leave in

the worship of God in Jesus, the Christ are persecuted.

We will be persecuted and we bless our persecuted to close

off with is because of this, I encourage myself.

I teach myself as the most unworthy servant of Christ to

do, persecutor to them. Not to persecute my persecutors

to do. Bless my persecutors is as

though. I'm saying, thank you because

you are increasing my reward in the Kingdom of Heaven.

You are increasing my honor with my heavenly father.

Persecuting me, is giving me greater Our honor in the eye of

God, my father, the world persecutes Christianity.

The world is persecuting Christ today, why?

Because Jesus said a John 15:18, if the world hates, you know,

John 15:18

that it hated me before you. So prepare yourselves for

persecution, severe persecution, emotional persecution, personal

persecution, spiritual persecution, physical

persecution, Just be prepared. And what should our response be

God? Forgive God, bless God.

Have compassion. God have pity.

So when Paul is reiterating Christ Commandments that we must

bless our persecutors. We Begin by being patient with

try this. And if it's hard and if it's

undoable, if it's incomprehensible, if it is most

difficult. It's only because we don't want

to, they take that first step. If we commit in prayer and ask

the Lord to help us Lord, You've committed commanded me to place

my persecutions. Give me the same heart.

Give me the same love. Give me the same compassion that

you possess. So I too can then extend it on

my persecutors. So at the end of the day God is

glorified and man is saved, praise and glory be to the name

of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now not all times and for

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