Persecution (EP 183)

Bryce Crawford· Host0:00

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, by the title of the episode, whether you're watching or listening, we're gonna be talking about persecution today. What happens when people hate you for your faith? What happens when you deal with hostile people? What that looks like. How do we navigate that? How do we even persevere? I, I... What, what does it look like when you're discouraged, when people hate you for your faith? So we're gonna actually talk about that today. If you're watching right now, you can tell we're in a different location, and that is right. This is now going to be our permanent podcast studio. We have been building this thing. My, my friends, uh, Chris and McKenna, and their whole team have graciously built us a studio and helped us. And so this will be where we will be recording from now on. We're super excited. Um, unless we're traveling, of course. But we're gonna get into this. We're gonna bounce around scripture, talk about persecution, talk about being hated for your faith. If you guys ha- got your Bibles, you can flip with me to Matthew chapter five. We'll actually start in Matthew chapter five. We're gonna cover a few different scriptures here today. It's gonna be amazing. Now, I, I, I just want to preface something here before we dive into the scriptures. Jesus Christ himself, who was a perfect human being, fully God, fully man, Jesus Christ himself lived a perfect, sinless life in this world, and the number one persecution he faced was being misunderstood. And because he was misunderstood, this caused people to persecute him.