An Archbishop from that ‘other’ church, said recently that Christianity was in great danger of being eliminated from the face of the earth. Well I think I can ease this fearful man’s concern. Had he gone to the final authority, in all matters of time and eternity, he would have seen how ludicrous such a statement is.
Jesus said His people are not headed for extinction but rather distinction. Our Master plainly told us we were going to inherit the earth, with both the New Jerusalem and Heaven thrown in, to boot. We are told in scripture our Lord is going to return to earth with ten-thousands of His saints. It is the children of this world who are going to be absent.
No amount of persecution, suffering, or martyrdom can snuff out the existence of God’s beloved children. Pharaoh found this out the hard way. He discovered that the more he attempted to decrease their number, the more they increased in number.
Christianity thrives on, “...trial[s] of cruel mockings and
scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth...God having provided some better thing for us.”
As my dear old friend, Mark Andrews, likes to say, “Ain’t it great being on the winning team!”
Richard. D. Sandlin
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