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1992 Missions Conference Talk - Part 3
Richard Wurmbrand

Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001). Born on March 24, 1909, in Bucharest, Romania, to a Jewish family, Richard Wurmbrand converted to Christianity in 1938 after meeting a German carpenter, Christian Wolfkes, in a remote village. Initially an atheist and businessman, he became an ordained Lutheran pastor, ministering in Romania’s underground church under Nazi and Communist regimes. Arrested in 1948 by the Communist government for his faith, he spent 14 years in prison, including three in solitary confinement, enduring torture for preaching Christ. Released in 1964 after a $10,000 ransom paid by Norwegian Christians, he and his wife, Sabina, who was also imprisoned, emigrated to the U.S. in 1966. In 1967, they founded Voice of the Martyrs (originally Jesus to the Communist World), advocating for persecuted Christians worldwide. Wurmbrand authored 18 books, including Tortured for Christ (1967), In God’s Underground (1968), and The Overcomers (1998), detailing his experiences and faith. A powerful speaker, he testified before the U.S. Senate, baring scars to highlight persecution. Married to Sabina from 1936 until her death in 2000, they had one son, Mihai, and he died on February 17, 2001, in Torrance, California. Wurmbrand said, “It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners, so it was understood that whoever was caught doing it got beaten—but we preached anyway.”
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This sermon delves into the topic of abortion, urging listeners to consider the perspective of the fetus and the sanctity of life. It emphasizes the need to listen to God's guidance and the importance of love towards children and women. The sermon draws insights from biblical figures like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Levi to highlight the divine connection even before birth, and reflects on the miraculous events surrounding the fetus of Job the Baptist and Jesus Christ in the womb.
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I believe that we have to listen also to the discussion of abortion. First of all, I think we should listen to God. It is written in many parts of Scripture that if you read the Old Testament, which in fact the Gospels reject anyway, it says in many parts of Scripture that God made the woman a virgin. Perhaps I should try and just drop from the many verses we have. I have some there. I will look at it. First, of John 4, 17. No? No? Also, the preacher should not make such mistakes, but not the preacher of the age. He is about to make a mistake soon. Job 31, 15. Job 31, 15. In Job 31, 15. Job 31, 15. Did not God, who made me as a woman, make also other men? Did not the sin of my passion make me as a woman? God made me as a child, as a woman. The seed is in my father, the womb is in the mother. But He loves us, not in creature yet, but in the father of the mother. The abortion is in God. And what is this paternalist aspect in woman and God? God is this woman, the woman is this man. And we need to give love, all the love. Love to the children, and to the women. The six requirements are followed. We should give each other love. To the girls, we give love. Girls, which are tempted to give milk, they were for 20 years stupid like a child. Should you not give milk to these girls, otherwise they will not forgive you. But they think the woman is created something for after 20 years. So what comes with this, that the woman will live until the age of 20. Before committing an abortion, it would be good to ask the creator, was he sincere about it? This is not good, we do not take our time to listen. And the one about whom it would be very interesting to know his advice, or our advice, is the futurist. But the futurist tends to say a lot about what is planned for him. But can we know something about what the futurist thinks, does he think, does he really believe? How do we know about it? It is written in the Bible, not in the chapter of verse 3, but we can find out later on. It is written, we were chosen by God, before the creation of the world. You might remember that it is written. We were chosen before the creation of the world. But we don't need this for a census. If there is a census, we live. Before the creation of the world, we live. And we are being with the history, with the Roman history. Before the creation of the world, we live. Now you can interpret it, there is a plan of God, there is a source of God, you can interpret it, we live. Somewhere, somehow, we live. So we are a being which comes, sincerely. Then it is written in the Bible, that there was a certain believer by the name of Abraham. And he had a son by the name of Isaac. And Isaac had a son by the name of Jacob. And Jacob had a son by the name of Levi. So the fourth generation. And now Abraham once met a priest who made a great impression upon him. And he gave him gifts. Tithes, as we say. And after thousands of years, Paul says, Levi, when he was in the womb of Abraham, the fourth generation, he gave tithes to this priest who participated in what his great grandfather did. We know now from science, that Levi, in the fourth and the fifteenth generation, gave the remains of the father in the form of gifts. And participating in the life of the great grandfather, in either paid tithes or in unpaid tithes, he did good things, bad things, before their birth. That is what the Bible says. So he was a being who existed. And he did some things. That is written in the Bible. You may not believe it, but that is what is written in the Bible. The Bible teaches us about a fetus in the mother's womb. His name afterwards was Job. Job the Baptist. And when he was a fetus in the mother's womb, and he finished, he was too small, that much we know about, a lady entered in the house. The name of that lady was Mary Magdalene. And she greeted her relatives and visitors. That's all. And the child heard a voice. He could distinguish. He heard many voices. But this voice was something different. But this lady, when she speaks, it's another matter of being. That was a lady we are having an encounter with an archangel. And this showed in what she spoke, in how she spoke. And the child jumped for joy. So the child knew to distinguish. Mary entered in that house, but the child did not jump for joy. But when this child, when this mother, when Mary entered, the child jumped for joy. So the child knows something. It's also the Holy Tissues. Notice the child. And he knows certain things. And there were learned scientists and Indian gurus, as we see in the modern times, for speaking about the language of beings who will be considered to be dead. He spoke about the language of plants, the language of trees, how trees understand what we speak. How plants, if you speak in English, they do not know. How trees shiver, with no fire in them. He made the same movements of plants, of flowers, of branches of trees. How they react to our being. They play, they are not only plants, are animals. They play in stages, musically. And when they play the Mozart or Bach, beautiful music, not only animals play it. They give more milk to cows. But plants, they play beautiful music because then the plants, English is not a target of English. They know their sense to what's new, to give you better. And they will play rock and roll, although it's metal music. They try to flee, they stay here, not to stay here. They may receive another price for this. So it is not a little thing. So we must ask ourselves, what have the fetuses to say to what we do? None of them would like to be killed in this terrible manner in which we have seen that they have been killed. We don't listen to them. And there is one policy now. They should have the right to vote. The question of running away, if you want to vote for a president, for a renaissance movement, they are not allowed to say their opinion in such a witty metaphor themselves. And then they made up somebody else, a new fetus, Jesus Christ, not a new fetus. And when he was a fetus, his mother was cold, because she was a virgin, and now she was pregnant. And she loved. And then the next, when he was a fetus, he heard words spoken to his mother, that is not another thing. Jesus, when he was a fetus, heard words spoken to the Virgin Mary. And to the Virgin Mary, many very bad words were said, because he did not understand about verbal words. And he anticipated that all these bad words, all these good words, is that during the 90s, also he learned.
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Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001). Born on March 24, 1909, in Bucharest, Romania, to a Jewish family, Richard Wurmbrand converted to Christianity in 1938 after meeting a German carpenter, Christian Wolfkes, in a remote village. Initially an atheist and businessman, he became an ordained Lutheran pastor, ministering in Romania’s underground church under Nazi and Communist regimes. Arrested in 1948 by the Communist government for his faith, he spent 14 years in prison, including three in solitary confinement, enduring torture for preaching Christ. Released in 1964 after a $10,000 ransom paid by Norwegian Christians, he and his wife, Sabina, who was also imprisoned, emigrated to the U.S. in 1966. In 1967, they founded Voice of the Martyrs (originally Jesus to the Communist World), advocating for persecuted Christians worldwide. Wurmbrand authored 18 books, including Tortured for Christ (1967), In God’s Underground (1968), and The Overcomers (1998), detailing his experiences and faith. A powerful speaker, he testified before the U.S. Senate, baring scars to highlight persecution. Married to Sabina from 1936 until her death in 2000, they had one son, Mihai, and he died on February 17, 2001, in Torrance, California. Wurmbrand said, “It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners, so it was understood that whoever was caught doing it got beaten—but we preached anyway.”