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Thinking today of Acts 9 .4, it says, And he

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fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to

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him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

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Jesus is speaking to Saul, and he claims the

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hurt. He says that the things that Saul has been

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doing to the Christian, to all the Christians,

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are actually against his person. The church is

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the body of Christ, and we are collectively more

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him than we know. This would also mean that with

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so -called believers, when they walk away from

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the church, that they are in some very real sense

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abandoning him. lie to the church and you are

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deceiving him or trying to. He is still God,

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the Son, and he knows all truth, is the truth,

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and he more than takes injustice toward believers

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seriously. He sees those injustices as directed

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at him personally. I pray for those who have

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persecuted the church, even those who live yet

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today, persecuting the church in some way or

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speaking bad about the church or refusing to

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be part of the church. I pray that God will bless

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those people and draw them unto himself. Forgive

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them, Lord, for they know not what they do.