{"id":3793,"date":"2024-04-18T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackaby.net\/members\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2024-04-11T21:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:20:38","slug":"inevitable-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/2024\/04\/18\/inevitable-persecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Inevitable Persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you intend to live a trouble-free life, following Christ may not be for you! Few people have followed Christ more fervently or whole-heartedly than did the apostle Paul. Yet his life provides a litany of the numerous ways First-Century Christians could experience persecution and opposition. He was plagued by it his entire Christian life.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did people disagree with Paul, they tried to kill him! They filed false charges. They incited mobs to riot against him. Rarely was someone indifferent to the apostle!<\/p>\n<p>Yet Paul warned that all those who desired to live a godly life, <em>would<\/em> suffer persecution. It is inevitable. That\u2019s because we live in an extremely ungodly world. Darkness loathes light. Wickedness despises godliness. Don&#8217;t be surprised when people take offense because you behave like Christ. Paul predicted that would happen, 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra\u2014what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yes and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.   2 Timothy 3:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15172,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/15172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}