They Persecute Me Without Cause

Jesus Christ taught us that we are blessed when we are persecuted for righteousness’ sake. We are blessed when others revile us and persecute us and utter all kinds of evil against us falsely on the Lord’s account, on account of our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord and to his will and purpose for our lives. We are to rejoice and be glad, for our reward is great in heaven. And we are to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us.


But who was “the world” who hated and persecuted Jesus? They were his own people, of his own faith, and they were his brothers, and they were the rulers and the teachers of the Scriptures in the temple of God. They were all people who claimed to believe in God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but who refused to believe in Jesus Christ, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (same God, not a different God).

And if we are truly following Jesus Christ with our lives today, in surrender to his will and purpose for our lives, in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living, and no longer as slaves to sin, we will be hated, rejected, and persecuted even by others who profess faith in Jesus Christ, and even by leaders in the church and teachers of the Scriptures who are altering the gospel to make it more appealing to human flesh and to the ungodly.

Persecution: [Matthew 5:10-12,44; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

But we are not to let such persecution take us out, or to cause us to stumble, or to dishearten and discourage us in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. We must remain steadfast in faith and in our walks of obedience to God, and we must keep pressing forward in being his witnesses and in sharing the truth of the gospel in the same way in which Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught it, in truth and in righteousness.

For we are to be those who love the Word of the Lord and the testimonies of Christ and of his New Testament apostles. We are to love righteousness and truth, and we are to desire his commands to do them. And we should be those who hate lies and who expose the lies for what they are so that others do not follow after the lies, but so they will seek out the truth, to do it. And many lies are being spread today in the name of Christ and of truth.

So many are believing and/or they are teaching that faith in Jesus Christ is just something we profess with our lips but which requires nothing of us beyond that. Many are teaching that God no longer requires death to sin and walks of obedience to his commands, and so they are leading many people to a false hope of salvation based in a lie, and so they continue in their sins and not in walks of obedience to God, and it will not end well for them.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Higher Ground

By Johnson Oatman, Jr. / Charles H. Gabriel

I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I’m onward bound,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”

My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where those abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.

I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.

I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till heav’n I’ve found,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”

Lord, lift me up and let me stand,
By faith, on Heaven’s tableland,
A higher plane than I have found;
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.


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They Persecute Me Without Cause
An Original Work / August 25, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love