DANGEROUS TIMES
The world that the saints listed in Romans 16 served the Lord in was a terrible time in history. Some of the most memorable pages of the History of Christ’s Church are the years from AD 60 to 70. For half those years, the hatred and evils of Nero had led to the random acts of fierce persecution of Christians. Across the city of Rome, believers were killed from the arenas to the prisons. For his evening dinner guests, Nero would have the followers of Jesus dipped in tar and burned alive as torches in the Imperial Gardens. For the bloodthirsty masses at the games, Christians were wrapped in animal skins and chased to death by wild beasts.
Have you pondered how hard it must have been to be a Christian in those ten years? Yet in that dangerous time to even be a believer, Paul boldly wrote to the Romans of Jesus, the Servant Savior. And he did so while, like Peter, he had become the “Most Wanted” man of the day. Paul demonstrated the holy boldness Christ can bring into the lives of His children.
Ten generations of Christians, starting with Paul’s generation, built and inhabited the Catacombs for over 300 years. In the early centuries of the church, the catacombs served as meeting and burial places for perhaps as many as four million Christians. A standard inscription found on walls there is “The Word of God is not bound.” This hope shared by all believers was captured in the famous hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” as Martin Luther declared, “The body they may kill; God’s truth abideth still.”
(Rome#5; 220512)
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