Joe Rigney

You've abandoned him.

You've killed the righteous one.

You've murdered him.

And then they rush upon them and they stone him to death.

And so when you look at that escalation in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, and then I'm sitting here reading the newspaper and going,

history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

And when you think about the last 20 years and the escalating collisions we've seen in our country, you know, about say sexuality and people being harassed just because they won't bake a cake or because they won't, you know, do flowers for a gay wedding.

And you see that kind of escalating collision as Christians just try to live faithfully, faithful lives.

And then it bubbled over.

And in the fall we saw, we found an American Steven essentially.

um in in charlie kirk like that's that's what happened as the left killed him and and then so you're so i read that and i go okay well what should we expect next if that's if the history is rhyming what comes next in the story and if you read the book of acts right after stephen is stoned it says a general persecution breaks out against the christians

The lawlessness spreads.

And now it doesn't matter if you're a leader or not.

It doesn't matter if you're prominent or not.

You could just be what?

Normal people going to church on a Sunday in an American town.

And now you're going to be harassed and intimidated.

And so this is precisely on cue.

And I think, and I'm encouraged by what the Bible tells us to do in that case.

Because what those people did after that persecution broke out is they were driven out of their homes.