People, all Christians, religious folks, church folks, religious leaders, and people who desire to be true servants of GOD want this disciple job!
But not many people can even make it through the job interview, because all they heard about was the benefits that come with the job, the blessings of GOD, the prosperity of GOD, the inheritance of GOD, and the miracles. But no one told them about the suffering for JESUS name sake!
No one told them about being hated by all men for JESUS name sake!
No one told them that many of the true servants of GOD will willingly die for JESUS name sake, and they will be honored to die for JESUS name sake!
No one told them that many of their own Christian brothers and sisters will persecute them, hate them, betray them, and even kill them for JESUS name sake!
No one told them that they will be despised, betrayed, hated, ostracized, and persecuted, by their own people for JESUS name sake! People, no one gets a job in society, the world, or in the kingdom of GOD, unless they make it through the job interview, and they accept all the duties, hardships, sufferings, trials, and tribulations that come with the job of being a true disciple of JESUS CHRIST!
People, if you thought being a disciple of JESUS CHRIST was all about prosperity, blessings, peace on earth, peace with all men, money, material possessions, and miracles, then you didn’t get the job, and you most definitely didn’t make it through the interview!……….lol!
(MATTHEW 10:22-27) And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, You shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak you in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
(LUKE 6:22-23) JESUS SAYS, Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
(JOHN 15:17-25) JESUS SAYS, These things I command you, that ye love one another.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
He that hates me hates my Father also.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
(JOHN 16:1-4) JESUS SAYS, These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time cometh, that whosoever kills you will think that he doeth God service.
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
(MATTHEW 24:34-35) JESUS SAYS, Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
People, GOD’S true disciples in the real CHRIST JESUS knows, that the blessing of GOD’S inheritance, & the suffering for JESUS name sake goes hand in hand, and you cannot have one without the other in the real kingdom of GOD!