Why Some Christians Suffer While Others Don't
I was given signs to write about this.
Why some believers in Christ suffer and others don't.
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Firstly the believers who have money, homes a good life and no real problems:
The true believers: These people believe in Christ. Everything seems to work out well for them and they go places and do things that satisfy them.
What is their secret?
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
They chose to BELIEVE. They didn't say anything else.
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Now for those who suffer or who have suffered for a long time:
The short answer is, you decided to pick up your cross and follow Christ.
In the easiest way to explain it, you chose to become a MONK!
Matthew 19:21
Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
This is one reason why the other believers have happier lives than those who became like monks.
Online dictionary says about a monk:
a member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
The poverty, obedience and suffering are to purify you and change you internally so you are not like a regular believer or like the rest of the world. Your suffering is supposed to be for a time. It could be 2 years, 7 years, 15 years 20 years or in my case 28 years. Can you imagine what I know that others don't and what I have suffered that others haven't?
There are 2 outcomes that the monk type believers will receive as rewards.
a) They may get their reward in heaven and not on earth.
b) They may become rich in this world while they are still alive on earth.
1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Matthew 19:29
And anyone who gives up his home, brothers, sisters, father, mother, wife, children, or property, to follow me, shall receive a hundred times as much in return, and shall have eternal life.
When you go through this level of suffering you no longer are labelled a Christian (unless you want to be). I have no such label.
The problem that has caused a lot of confusion and frustration for years for the monk type believers is you watched some TV evangelists talk too much about the prosperity gospel and getting houses and cars now. This was not for the monk type believers right away. You were on a different journey.
Some of the prosperity gospel type preachers would never speak about the fact that you would have to suffer and suffer for a long time. Some of these TV evangelists are going to be shocked when they die and be rejected by Christ.
Matthew 7:22-23 Living Bible.
22 At the Judgment many will tell me, ‘Lord, Lord, we told others about you and used your name to cast out demons and to do many other great miracles.’ 23 But I will reply, ‘You have never been mine. Go away, for your deeds are evil.’
So, in obedience to the other dimension, I wrote what you have just read as I was led to do it.
I wonder what this means? Did someone need to see this or is it time for the monk type believers to become rich and the promise that was said by Christ is to happen now? A hundred times more than what you had before?
We will see.
K STONE (Peter Hutchinson)
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