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PaulWest
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 Radical Martyrs

May these reports inspire us to more fully abandon our flesh and serve our glorious King in a radical way. I will try to add more reports periodically. You are welcome add some of your own! I believe God allowing a believer to shed his/her blood for the gospel's sake has got to the one of the greatest bestowals of His favor this side of eternity! The Bible speaks of a "martyr's crown" to be given to these privileged men and women. How beautiful and richly ornamented these ones will be, gleaming in the eternal blaze of Jehovah's holiness! Here are some of their testimonies:

There was a converted Hindu Christian martyr whose skin was slashed and filled with salt and chili powder. He said to his tormentors, "Formerly Satan wounded me with his fiery darts. The blood of Jesus healed those wounds. The suffering caused by your wounds are not much." Enraged by these words, they started to skin him alive. "I thank you for this," he said. "Tear off the old garment! I shall soon put on Christ's garment of righteousness." He was finally burned praying for his persecutors.

- From "A Book of Protestant Saints" by Ernest Gordon


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Paul Frederick West

 2006/8/24 19:55Profile
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 Re: Radical Martyrs

Then there was Alan Cameron, one of the "covenanters" of the great Scottish persecutions, who was shown the head and hands of another covananter, his own son Richard. They asked him the cruel question, "Do you know them?" He kissed them, saying, "I know them...I know them. They are my son's, my own dear son's. It is the Lord. Good is the will of the Lord, who cannot wrong me or mine, but has made goodness and mercy to follow us all our days."

- From "Fair Sunshine" by Jock Purvis


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Paul Frederick West

 2006/8/24 20:03Profile
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Paul,
Whenever I read accounts like you posted, I always wonder how moderns would react in a similar situation...considering that we complain so quickly and easily over minor discomforts. When our technology malfunctions, when someone is late, when the child comes in the house with dirty shoes, and on, and on and on....

Me thinks Americans are spoiled rotten and whatever is rotten stinks! :-P

ginnyrose


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Sandra Miller

 2006/8/24 20:22Profile
PaulWest
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Hi Ginny,

I'll tell you how I think we'd react: "This isn't of God! I'm supposed to prosper and be blessed!"

Have you heard the story of the young Huguenot women who were imprisoned for 30 years in tower because they refused to deny Christ? The Roman Catholic church locked them up until their liberators were able to set them free (thirty years later). During the thirty years, all they had to say was "I adjure" and they would be set free. But they refused to say this one word, and as a result spent the next 30 years of their life in a tower. When their liberators entered the tower, they saw the word "resistance" written over and over again, in the bricks.

Now, I don't know about you, but I'd wager that most modern "Christians" would find a multitude of reasons to say "I adjure" in this situation. And not only that, but that they would find ways to deem themselves holy and right and spiritually justified to say "I adjure." Take for instance:

"I adjure!" (I have to take care of my family. I can't spend the next [i]thirty years[/i] of my life locked away in some tower!)

"I adjure!" (God knows that I don't really [i]mean it[/i]. Besides, it's just a word.)

"I adjure!" (This can't be of God; God wouldn't want to separate me from my church family and pastor. Besides, how can He use me in a tower? Who will teach children's church or Sunday school?)

And I think there's a host of other excuses. Didn't Alexander Solzhinytsin say that man will come up with a thousand and one glib reasons as to NOT sacrifice himself? I think Christians today are of a different batch from the Christians of the reformation. We're too fat and lazy and prosperous. We've got our books, we've got our Parallel Greek bibles, we've got our Matthew Henry commentaries and Puritan classics and Ravenhill collections and a host of Christian websites and blogs and CDs and DVDs - but we're dead in the water. Impotent. Ravenhill called our Christianity a "paper tiger". It's all in the books and on the computer screens. Theology of yesteryear and the stories of the men through whom it God [i]worked[/i] it.

Well, why doesn't it work for us the same way? You would think with all our posting and analyzing and knowledge of Greek and different Bible versions and plethora of classic sermons and EM Bounds books we would be turning our cities upside down. But alas...

"I adjure!" (I can't go out and preach repentance in my city! People know me! Plus, I'm not "called" for this.)

"I adjure!" (I can't clothe the naked and feed the hungry; I don't have the money or the resources or the time for something like that.)

"I adjure!" (I can't stay up all night tonight and pray. I need to work tomorrow!)

"I adjure!" (There's nothing "bad" about watching this stupid, christless TV program. I'll read the scriptures when it's over.)

Okay, I'll step down from the soapbox. You know the rest.

Bless you sister,

Brother Paul



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Paul Frederick West

 2006/8/24 21:10Profile









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Thankyou for your reply Paul, you speak the truth.

Brother Paul #2 or,

paul mcgrade :)

 2006/8/25 1:18
Mekdi
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This is not what I read. It is the testimony of persons I know personally.

When my country was following the communist ideology, persecution was the food and water of Christians. (I was a child by that time and was not converted but was well aware of what was going on all around me) One brother told me that he and his Christian friends were forced to take off all their cloths and roll on pointed broken glasses until all their body were torn apart! The communist man torturing them would say would you deny Christ now? But the brothers will answer no “Yesus Geta New!!!” means “JESUS IS LORD!” Then he will make them do more of the rolling- he torments them psychologically too. He said that “his feet were healed when one of the “Pentecostal” prayed for him in Jesus name (there were a great healing and gospel revival on the land at that time that even the communists couldn’t stop-the underground church prevailed) and the tormentor continued “even I deny Christ after he healed my feet-what did he do for you? Nothing! you’re lying here like dead dogs but you still proclaim him Lord!” The brothers prevailed in their confession of The Lord- I don’t know how the others ended but the brother who told me this lived to this day surviving miraculously-many others were martyred in those prisons for their faith.

This is the personal account I heard from one military man- They were ordered to surround the house where Christians were praying and shoot them with a machinegun. The military man told me he and his comrades surrounded the house with out the Christians being aware- they were praying. And he gave the sign for the other comrades to shoot at them all starting equally. But he said that there were at least ten men with him to shoot and while they tried to shoot all the triggers of the machineguns locked!!! They tried and tried but their machineguns locked!!! Then he shouted “Their God is fighting for them lets run!” and he said that they run in panic- they came in one way but run in ten ways!!!

Lord bring back those days!!!AMEN!!!

Your sis. Mek.


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Mekdes Tsige

 2006/8/25 4:16Profile
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Ive been thinking about what people are saying about pesecution on here.

I think that one of the reasons that people today dont witness is that they have no real conviction from the Holy Spirit due to the fact that they dont really have Him.

The Holy SPirit convicts people to witness for Christ (including persecution). Yet people today dont seem to have that stirring.

The only reason i can see this happening is that they dont really have the Lord in their lives. Yes, they say they know God and know Jesus but do they really.

Many today say "Lord Lord" yet have no real conviction to do things for him, its more like "Lord, Lord do this and that for me".

I just pray that the Lord will pour out His Spirit on His people to stand under conviction for HIm

Dave G


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Dave

 2006/8/25 6:19Profile
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You don't have to do much in this county to receive a small amount of persecution--just stand on truth. Of course, you will probably not be martyred, YET. But you will be hated. Went to a "Christian" rock concert this week with 3 other brothers in the Lord. Two were escorted out by security be/c their shirts had scripture on them: 2 Thess 2 (dealing with apostasy) and Mt 7 (dealing with those who say 'Lord, Lord'). I made it through with "Christians depart from sin!" based on 2 Tim 2:19.

As we preach the truth, the very Words of God, we will get persecution--promises abound. Problem is that the majority of persecution that I have faced (which is very small compared to brothers and sisters in other nations and at other times) is from professing "Christians."

John 8:47 "Anyone whose Father is God listens gladly to the words of God. Since you don't, it proves you aren't God's children."

American church is soaked in relativism, apathy, apostasy and false worship. God's church obeys His commands. America needs to quit treating God as a whore and more like Husband, King and Lord.


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Neil Long

 2006/8/25 10:57Profile
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your words are very true, nlong!

thanks paul for sharing the beautiful testimonies of the faithful. very encouraging! i love hearing such testimonies! how beautiful are the ones who are dead to self and ALIVE to Christ!

Psalm 116:15

15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
Is the death of His saints.


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Lisa

 2006/8/25 11:35Profile
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This is a great thread. I'm going to email to some people. Your right, most of the persecution comes from comfortable Christians. I don't know the bible like they so it's hard to get my point across but I do know God. And I'm realizing persecution weeds out the men from the boys. I always wonder why were not living like the book of Acts. I thought that's what a normal Christian Biblical Christian is supposed to be like. But it seems I get shot down by our fellow brother's and sisters. I'm very excited about this website to find other people with like minded thoughts. Praise the LIVING GOD!!!


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