John 16:2-4
2 They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. 3 And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. 4 But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them. “And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.
Followers of Jesus were excommunicated from the synagogues because of the testimony of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ Alone, apart from the works necessary in keeping the Law. Through time His followers were burned at the stake and drowned as witches for not adhering to church laws; yet they stood firm in God's grace in Christ when church leaders thought they did service to God in their religion. So we look back as the apostles to remember that Jesus said these things will happen. We stand valiant for the truth before Rome and others like them.
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