Hard Sayings of Jesus - Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted

In this message, Pastor Jimmy Hicks continues our Sunday PM series examining the "Hard Sayings of Jesus." In Matthew Chapter 5, Jesus began the "Sermon on the Mount" with the Beatitudes. The very last of these found in Matt 5:10-12 Jesus teaches the disciples that persecution, insults and slander thrown toward them would be blessings to them. He  told them when people threw evil their way to "Rejoice and Be Glad"  Now, if that's a sales pitch, it wasn't a very good one. Thankfully, it's not a sales pitch, but rather words of comfort from our Savior, who knew as followers we would hit times of rejection.  Through this message we take a look "who should rejoice over rejection," "when we should rejoice over rejection," and "why we should rejoice over rejection."