Have you ever noticed that the greatest defiance is to live. Simply living your life with determination is the greatest way to defy something. The Jewish people, from their beginning, have been hunted, hated, and persecuted. By simply living, they have out lived, achieved more, and are remembered by history. The nations that fought against them are mostly forgotten in the records and memories of men. Christians, in most areas of the world are persecuted. yet Christianity grows in persecuted areas, the harder a people try to extinguish Christianity, the larger the flame grows.

The greatest defiance is to live committed to your principles. As Christians, the greatest defiance to a world that is sinful is to live committed to christ. Human nature is almost always self preservation. people expect people to change when faced with death. when something does not go as planned, people become scared because you are not following the rules of humanity. If you live, if you are committing yourself to any principle, you are defying something. To live and honor your principle, if you life to honor christ, you are defying something at the greatest level. your very life is a defiance to the sinful world we live in.