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This message continues the study of the section of Jesus’ Spiritual Tabernacle that belongs to the head realm and reviews the first Beatitude or Blessed that Jesus gave in Matthew 5:11 and 12. This lesson also covers what the Apostles said for us to do in persecution. The Apostle Peter said: “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:” (First Peter 4:12), and the Apostle Paul said: “Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not” (Romans 12:14). In First Corinthians, chapter 4, he told us to suffer persecution. He said that we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to Angels, and to men; we are fools for Christ’s sake; we are weak, and we are despised. We both hunger and thirst, are naked, and are buffeted, and we have no certain dwellingplace. We are reviled; yet, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it. We are persecuted, but are not forsaken. We are cast down, but are not destroyed.
When we live by faith and not by feeling, we know that we are not forsaken in our persecutions. When we learn to have that kind of faith, God elevates us in our spiritual education and takes us into this realm where we are able to take pleasure in the Humility of Jesus. Our going on for Jesus is our having the spiritual Mind of Jesus developed in us so that we can think as He thinks, and we can have patience and faith in all of our persecutions and tribulations that we endure. God uses persecutions and circumstances to press us down because in the low place of persecution is where we find Christ’s Glory, Strength, Power, and Might in ways that we have never known before. In Second Corinthians 12:10, the Apostle Paul said: “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.” If God be for us, who can be against us. We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us, and nothing shall be able to separate us from the Love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.