What Could the King Do?

 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 4
Listen from:
Matthew 6:19-21; Luke 12:34; Philippians 1:21;
Colossians 3:3; Matthew 19:29; Mark 10:29-31;
Hebrews 13:5
In the second century a Christian was brought before a king. This king wanted him to recant and give up Christ and Christianity, but the man spurned the proposition. So the king said, “If you don’t do it, I will banish you.”
The man smiled and answered, “You can’t banish me from Christ, for He says He will never leave me nor forsake me.”
The king got angry and said, “Well, I will confisĀ­cate your property and take it all from you.”
The man replied, “My treasures are laid up on high; you cannot get them.”
The king became still more angry and said, “I will kill you.”
“Well,” the man answered, “I have been dead forty years! I have been dead with Christ, dead to the world, and my life is hid with Christ in God, and you cannot touch it.”
“What are we going to do with such a fanatic?” sighed the king.