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Week of November 16, 2025

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When Doing Right Costs Everything | Upside Down Kingdom Series | Part 9

November 16, 2025

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Matthew 5:3-12,

When Doing Right Costs Everything | Upside Down Kingdom Series | Part 9

November 16, 2025 / Matthew Dietz / Matthew 5:3-12 / Corona Friends Church

Main Idea:
Jesus redefines persecution not as punishment, but as partnership. While comfort can grow consumers, pressure grows disciples. The “blessed” life isn’t the easy one, it’s the faithful one that stands for righteousness even when it costs something.

True Persecution Is Costly

Read Matthew 5:3-11
Diōkō – To , hunt down, chase with hostile intent, to drive away.
How can Jesus call persecution a blessing when we’ve built entire lives designed to avoid ?
The early church didn’t grow because following Jesus was , it grew because they had that them something.
Here, persecution looks more like , cultural, relational, .

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Pressure Produces Disciples

Persecution wasn’t , it was .
Comfort grows . Pressure grows .

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Persecution Activates People

What if the moments we want to are the very ones God wants to ?
3 Practical Responses to Persecution
- for those who misunderstand or oppose you
- Stay
- Keep boldly

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