How To Stay Out Of Trouble

The Apostle John tells us that anyone who imitates Jesus, who lives as Jesus lived, will be harassed, mistreated, insulted or abused. You will be in trouble with the world, they will hate you.

Why will you be in trouble, facing persecution if you follow Jesus? It’s because you live in a world that doesn’t follow Jesus.

As a person who follows God in an ungodly world, you’re going to stick out. You aren’t going to look like everyone else. You’re going to be different. You aren’t going to be accepted. You’re going to be in trouble. But if you’re being persecuted, if you’re in trouble with the world, you’re doing something right.

If you don’t want to be in trouble, then go ahead, live as the ungodly world around you does; then no one will bother you.

You watch… You wait… You’ll see.

• Pastor Dale Campfield