LIVING AS CHRISTIANS 2022: Week from December 19 to 25, "Persecuted but happy", Video, We can be happy despite persecution, Analysis and Answers.

LIVING AS CHRISTIANS  2022: December 19-25, 2022, Video, We can be happy despite persecution, Analysis and Answers.

"Persecuted but happy" (8 min.): Analysis with the audience. Play the video We can be happy despite the persecution.

What does Brother Bayenov's experience teach you about the importance of the following points?

Read the Bible every day.

In the case of the brother, he tells that for 2 months he did not have any Bible, so he decided to make one, and in a notebook he wrote every day all the biblical texts that he remembered. The brother mentions that when he already had 500 written texts, they gave him a Bible that he read completely in 4 months. This teaches us the importance of perseveringly reading the Bible, because perhaps when the work is prohibited in our country, we cannot count on one, and that is where we will need to remember biblical passages to continue strengthening our spirituality, and thus not falter under circumstances. adverse.

Have the help of our brothers.

The help of our brothers is fundamental because in a situation their help or encouragement did not remember that we have a huge and great spiritual family, for example, the brother says, that he wrote them letters and they responded to him. Which made him feel that he was very close to them, it was so encouraging that he came to feel that it was as if they were in the cells next door, which made our brother never feel alone despite being imprisoned.

Pray a lot.

Something very nice that the brother says is that we may be isolated from everyone, alone in a cell, but the truth is that they can never take us away from Jehovah, since we can pray as much as we want and wherever we are. The brother says that in his case it is a list of the things that I asked Jehovah and he was marking the ones that he gave him, which convinced him more and more that God was very close to him.

Sing the songs of the Kingdom.

The brother says that he sang the songs of the Kingdom and when he was alone in the cell, he sang them at full volume, and without a doubt this strengthened his condition to maintain integrity. So this teaches us that we can also set ourselves the goal of learning several songs of the kingdom, since if at any moment they take away our biblical publications we can continue strengthening our faith, singing the songs of the Kingdom.

Tell others about our beliefs.

Our brother also tells us that whenever he could he preached and talked about topics as different as tattoos or how the king of the North was. So let's never back down. That is why, whatever the circumstance we are going through, we continue to bear witness to the truth.

ANALYSIS OF OTHER ADDITIONAL POINTS OF THE VIDEO.

Our brother said that he was very afraid because he did not know how they were going to treat him in jail, because an agent threatened him and told him that he was going to find him guilty, if he did not give him the names of the brothers and also told him that if he did not, his situation would worsen. This situation makes us think about what is going to happen very soon in the time of the end, since, as Jesus said, they will persecute us and we will be the object of ridicule and threats. This encourages us to be ready when the time comes to show loyalty to Jehovah, when those in authority threaten us and ask us to betray our fellow believers.

The brother also mentioned that he never felt alone, since his friends were there with him when he was in pretrial detention. But later when they imprisoned him, they separated him from his brothers in faith. However, the brother said that the brothers could separate him, but he was fully certain that he would never feel alone, because it was impossible to separate or isolate him from Jehovah, these words apart from being very beautiful, are very true, this world They can deprive us of many things, but they can never take away our love for Jehovah and the love Jehovah has for his loyal servants.

In addition, the Brother said that although he prayed many times during the day, he wanted it to come at night because everything was dark and everyone was in bed and he could talk to Jehovah as much as he wanted, because he took advantage of the moments when he was alone in the cell to get on his knees and pray to Jehovah and he did it with tears in his eyes. This teaches us that despite the circumstances that we may be going through, we can give ourselves time to be able to pray to Jehovah with heartfelt prayers expressing all our concerns as how our brother Konstantin Bayenov did it.

Finally the brother said that in the end he realized that he had no reason to worry me so much. He was detained for 343 days and did not lose a single hair on his head, since it was the most interesting year of his life, fort hat this situation helped him refine his spiritual qualities and he had never felt so close to Jehovah, for it was a great honor for him to support God's sovereignty.