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CENTRAL THOUGHT God promotes believers who follow Him with their whole heart.   Text: Daniel 1 and 2; Daniel 1:8-21   Introduction: Promotion is the elevation or movement from one position or rank to a better or higher one. Nothing can be more frustrating than to remain on the position for a long time without any hope of being advanced. The prospect or hope that one will get promoted one day serves as an incentive to hard work, dedication and commitment. A recent promotion usually encourages the person promoted to increase his or her productivity with another promotion in view. Ordinarily, promotion is the reward of sacrifice, commitment, hard work, and conformity to the rules and regulations of the employee. In summary, a person is promoted when he satisfies his employer. It is interesting to see how people scramble and hustle in order to get promoted. Some people do all manner of indecent things, including trying to curry the favor of the people that matter. Promotion is desirable both in the secular and spiritual spheres. In fact, God does not desire that His child remain stagnant. God desires His people to be promoted. That being the case, God’s children should look up to God for promotion, since promotion comes...

CENTRAL THOUGHT All children of God would suffer persecution.   Text: Mark 13:9-13, John 15:18-25, Acts 8:1-3   INTRODUCTION The Lord Jesus Christ forewarned His disciples that since the world of His days did not love Him; did not know or accept Him, they would not love, accept or even know them. It is common to have falsehood contend with genuine. In the same way, darkness contends with light, although it cannot overpower it (John 1:4-5). In the history of Christianity, God’s children have experienced severe persecutions in the hands of kings and kingdoms, politicians, religious organizations, even Christian professors! In our days in this part of the world, anyone who would like a godly life would be persecuted in different forms (2 Timothy 3:12). Moreover, the bible warns against suffering for evil doing. The child of God should be fully convinced and aware that he is living in a place where his life pattern is not accepted in totality. In all he does, he should avoid falling into error. And we should differentiate between suffering as a result of our errors and suffering as a result of following the Lord (1 Peter 3:17, 4:15-16). There is a class of people in the church that do not look different,...