How Is Christianity Still Relevant Today

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The instructions of our Lord are meant for our learning and growth as well as for spiritual nourishment, comfort, and hope. We will be hurt, we will be persecuted, kicked out of prideful churches, hated by those who hate Jesus who want to live their lives their way and do as they see fit. These pious fraud people will even rationalize that they are serving God and doing the right thing. These hypocrites will see their will as His by getting rid of the good people whose hearts are after Christ and whose wills are surrendered to God's. They hate them because they love sin; they want you gone and dead so their arrogant, full and puffed-up selves can lead the way, because they do not know the One, …show more content…
"Is this the way you answer the high priest?" he demanded.

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Isaiah 66:5
Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your own people who hate you, and exclude you because of my name, have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy, Yet they will be put to shame.

Daniel 11:33
"Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered."

Matthew 24:9
"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me."

Nehemiah2:15
So I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

Jeremiah 31:40
"The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished."

Matthew 26:30
When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

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