[This recording begins in the middle of Scripture reading. We apologize for its abrupt beginning.]

We serve the triune God. Even as Jesus teaches on the topic of persecution, the trinitarian nature of God emerges because the only true and living God is indeed triune. When the world rejects the preaching of Christ, they do not merely reject the preachers, Christ, or even the Father, they reject the Holy Spirit who has made Christ known in this age. Moreover, Jesus assures us that we ought not to flinch in the face of persecution, for nothing befalls Christ of His people apart from the plan and the purpose of our sovereign God.