[00:00] Jesus sends out his apostles in you and me to some extent like sheep in the midst of wolves going into the jungle I'm gonna face all kinds of

[00:37] dangers and wild animals and poisonous things snakes certainly we have the devils and spiritual evil to battle against and but we also have human beings that are going to oppose us and fight us and try to imprison us maybe to harm to us and it can start out with the courts hand you over to the courts

[01:13] scourge you in the synagogues so it can be our even religious if religious persecution within our ranks maybe it's possible at least some kind of a maybe misunderstandings that could happen could be brought before the state governors and Kings local state federal persecution and we have to witness for

[01:45] them of Jesus and our Christian values and when they hand us over we don't worry about what we're going to say we pray for the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit for the Holy Spirit to speak through us and we can have great confidence in that and allow our Lord to speak to us and say what he wants us to say and we cooperate with that and after that we can even be persecuted by our

[02:21] family members of a family our siblings our parents or our children brother will hand over brother to death the father his child children rise up against their parents and have them put to death you'll be hated by all because of my name isn't that wonderful that we hated by all well we if we're not hated by all

[02:56] if we don't go through this persecution in any obvious way like the Apostles had to we know we will have face we will face hardship hardship and it can come from all kinds of places and we shouldn't be surprised but we be ready and we respond with shrewdness as serpents and being simple as does not doing anything wrong but being clever not always saying things we don't need

[03:29] to say advancing the gospel in every way we can through cleverness through the Enlightenment of the Holy Spirit God Jesus our Lady and being faithful we can underline here Jesus says but whoever endures to the end will be saved whoever endures to the end will be saved so we we will face many hardships and we need

[04:03] to make it through all the way to the end of our life holding strong to Jesus our Lady and the gospel message perseverance to the end that should be always our hearkening cry faithfulness to our prayers faithfulness to doing God's will faithfulness to charity faithfulness to the to the gospel and we will meet our our Lord and he will give us his crown

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