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The Reverend G. N. Gordon and his wife.

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"They went to Erromango

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on the 20th of May, 1861.

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He was working at the roofing

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of the printing office,

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and sent his lads to bring each a load

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of long grass to 
finish the roof thatching.

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Meantime, a party of Erromangon's

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from a district called Bunk Hill

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under a chief named Lovou

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had been watching him.

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They'd been to the 
mission house inquiring.

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They'd seen him send 
away his Christian lads,

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so they found him alone.

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They then hid in the bush,

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sent two of their men to the 
missionary to ask for calico.

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On a piece of wood, he 
wrote a note to Mrs. Gordon

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to give them two yards each.

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They asked him to go with 
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as they needed medicine for a sick boy

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and Lovou their chief wanted to see him.

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He tied up in a napkin a meal of food

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which had been brought 
to him, but not eaten,

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and started to go with them.

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He requested the native Narvalette

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to go on before with his companion,

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but they insisted upon his going in front.

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In crossing a streamlet,

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which I visited shortly afterwards,

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his foot slipped.

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A blow was aimed at him with a tomahawk

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which he caught.

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The other man struck, but 
his weapon was also caught.

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One of the tomahawks was then wrenched

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out of his grasp.

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The next moment, a blow on the spine

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laid the dear missionary low.

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A second blow on the neck almost severed

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the head from the body.

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The other natives then 
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began dancing around him 
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Mrs. Gordon hearing the noise

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came out and stood in 
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looking at the direction of 
her husband's working place

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wondering what was happening.

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Oben, one of the party who had run

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towards the station the 
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now approached her.

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A merciful clump of trees 
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all that had occurred.

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And she said to Oben,

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"What's the cause of that noise?"

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He replied, "Oh nothing,

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only the boys amusing themselves."

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Saying, "Where are the boys?"

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she turned around.

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Oben slipped stealthily behind her,

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sank his tomahawk into her back,

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and with another blow 
almost severed her head.

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Such was the fate of these two

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devoted servants of the Lord,

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loving in their lives and in
their deaths not divided,

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their spirits wearing the 
crowns of martyrdom

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entered glory together to be welcomed

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by Williams and Harris,

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whose blood was shed near the same

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now hallowed spot

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for the name and cause of Jesus.

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They had labored four years on Erromango

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amidst trials and dangers manifold,

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and had not been without 
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in the Lord's work.

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Never more earnest or devoted missionaries

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lived and died in the heathen field.

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Other accounts indeed have been published

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and another was reported to me

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by Mr. Gordon's Christian lads."

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And he writes this:

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"Some severe criticisms of course

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were written and published

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by those angelic creatures

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who judge all things

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from their own safe and easy distance."

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Everybody ready for this one?

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This one was sent to me 
Monday, November 26th.

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So this is very new.

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Because this is a current event -

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had John Allen Chau been killed

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as of a week ago tonight?

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When did that happen?

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(from the room)

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I think it was like the week before.

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Tim: Yeah, it seems 
like it was 10 days ago

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or a week and a half or so.

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But I take it that the question

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hadn't been submitted as of last Tuesday.

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But this is really the only one

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that I want to deal with tonight.

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And I think it is definitely worthy

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of our conversation for at 
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This was submitted by Tricia Hudson.

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She says,

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"Hi James, we've been supporters

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of your ministry and of your church

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for the last three years,

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and so appreciate your 
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We were wondering if your ministry

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and your church could address

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the truths and controversies

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around the death of John Chau

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going viral right now on social media

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and the news."

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Now, it looks like they submitted this

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to James just yesterday

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by the date on it.

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Now, I personally don't know about this.

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I mean, I know about him,

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but I don't know about the controversies

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around the death of John Chau.

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Now, I can understand

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and I can imagine what they could be,

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but as far as the "going viral right now

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on social media and the news" -

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I don't know anything about that.

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I don't know what people are saying,

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although like I say, I can imagine.

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"We believe God has used him mightily,

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right or wrong in some of his decisions -

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in the workings of the Kingdom

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because of all the fury and concern

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and hatred this has stirred up."

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So they see this as a good thing.

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And what they're wondering about

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is whether our ministry and our church

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might address this.

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So, she goes on to say this:

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"There definitely is controversy

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regarding his choice to break the law,

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and his method of getting

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to the Sentinelese people,

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but all eyes are on the 
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and there is nothing but hatred

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for white man and his Christianity

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all over the Internet.

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Christians are silent on 
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and they're not using 
this as an opportunity

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to share Christ as far as I've observed."

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(From her perspective).

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"Over all within the church,

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there is some confusion.

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Yet, we support missionaries

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as they break the law of the land

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by going to reach unreachable people

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with the Gospel every day

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to closed countries.

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Can you guys encourage the church

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through this event

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and its surrounding controversies

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with a video?

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We would love to hear 
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and heart on this.

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The Lord bless you all.

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David and Tricia Hudson, Welches, Oregon."

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Now this is an island actually

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that is in the Andaman chain,

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and I think if I've got my geography right

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it's about 700 miles from mainland India.

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So it's way out there.

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It's like a long way away from India

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for it to actually be under India's

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sovereign domain.

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And our brother actually made a trip

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to the Andaman's.

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Some of you may remember.

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And he definitely was interested

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in seeing these people evangelized.

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So are any of you familiar

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with what's happening on social media

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that she's talking about?

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Anybody seen anything?

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Okay, you have?

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What have you seen?

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(from the room)

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He paid a fisherman to shuttle him...

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Tim: No, I mean, aside from the facts

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of what he actually did,

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are you seeing any of the controversy

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she's talking about?

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(from the room)

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Yeah, I've seen people 
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I've heard things like (unintelligible)

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preach Jesus to these indigenous people,

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natives, tribal people.

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They kind of make fun of him.

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Tim: She's actually talking about

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"there's nothing but hatred..."

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When you say it like that,

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and she's got "nothing" in all caps.

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"There is NOTHING but hatred

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for white man and his Christianity

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all over the Internet."

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That makes it sound to me like

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she's privy to something.

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Now that maybe more in the circles

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she's running in.

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It may be Facebook people

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that she's aware of

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and just familiar circles to her.

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But that's interesting that 
that perspective is out there.

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Let me just ask you all personally.

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We're going to get to Scripture on this.

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But when you folks -

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does anybody not even know

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who John Allen Chau is?

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So you don't know who he is at all?

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Okay, the North Sentinel island

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is presumably the least reached portion

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on the face of the earth.

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It is an island that basically

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has been left untouched.

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And the Indian government wants it so.

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And these guys are probably

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much like John G. Paton

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would have found in his days.

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You know, basically a 
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yes, this is in the Indian Ocean,

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but it's basically, you know,

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when the Europeans came along

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to Samoa and Tahiti and Vanuatu

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which is the New Hebrides islands,

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when they came to these islands -

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well, even Hawaii -

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what you found is they were met by -

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oh, the island of Papua as well -

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you basically met with very dark skinned,

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South Pacific islanders

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that looked like they probably

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have come from Africa.

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Aboriginal type,

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some of them very cannibalistic,

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very primitive, very dark societies

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on these islands.

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And you know, back in the 1800's

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when the missionaries were being sent

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out all over the world,

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these islands were definitely targets.

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And you can read about the history there.

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But North Sentinel island,

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there's a line of islands that runs

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north to south out there in that bay

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between - if you see the map over there,

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you've kind of got the 
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on India.

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And between there and 
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Thailand and Malaysia -

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between them,

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what is that? The Bay of Bengal?

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You've got this Andaman chain.

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And then like the Nicobar islands

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are also in that chain to the south.

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Well, towards the bottom

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of the Andabar islands,

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you've got this North Sentinel.

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And basically what the Indian government

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has done is said: nobody can go in there.

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You can't touch these people.

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And the thing about it is

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you can look the North Sentinel island up

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on the Internet - YouTube search that -

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and you will find that they 
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(incomplete thought)

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A couple fisherman were washed up there

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and they came out and 
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and they buried them.

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Somebody was watching, I guess.

276
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How they knew this was happening,

277
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somebody must have been off shore watching

278
00:13:46,332 --> 00:13:48,332
or helicopters came in or something,

279
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but these two fisherman 
kind of washed up there.

280
00:13:50,923 --> 00:13:53,293
They killed them. They buried them.

281
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Then they dug them back up

282
00:13:55,152 --> 00:14:01,753
and basically propped them up.

283
00:14:01,753 --> 00:14:04,381
They tried to send a crew in there

284
00:14:04,381 --> 00:14:09,202
with somebody to make a documentary.

285
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I forget exactly who the group was

286
00:14:11,022 --> 00:14:12,543
that tried to go in there.

287
00:14:12,543 --> 00:14:14,851
And these guys rushed out of the jungle

288
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with their spears and arrows

289
00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,851
and they actually put a spear

290
00:14:19,851 --> 00:14:22,290
through the thigh of one 
of the guys in the boats.

291
00:14:22,290 --> 00:14:25,691
I don't think they ever made it to land.

292
00:14:25,691 --> 00:14:30,232
After the tsunami several years back

293
00:14:30,232 --> 00:14:35,601
that killed so many in Indonesia,

294
00:14:35,601 --> 00:14:38,982
they sent a helicopter 
in there to find out

295
00:14:38,982 --> 00:14:41,132
because that whole island

296
00:14:41,132 --> 00:14:43,016
sits relatively low,

297
00:14:43,016 --> 00:14:45,401
and they were wondering 
if anybody made it.

298
00:14:45,401 --> 00:14:47,553
And when they flew the helicopter in there

299
00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:49,722
they were met with a guy on the beach

300
00:14:49,722 --> 00:14:51,872
trying to shoot the helicopter down

301
00:14:51,872 --> 00:14:54,772
with his bow and arrows.

302
00:14:54,772 --> 00:14:58,362
And so they're hostile.

303
00:14:58,362 --> 00:15:00,090
(incomplete thought)

304
00:15:00,090 --> 00:15:02,275
And what happened was -

305
00:15:02,275 --> 00:15:05,461
this is basically the way 
you're going to get there -

306
00:15:05,461 --> 00:15:07,213
is you find a fisherman

307
00:15:07,213 --> 00:15:09,251
that will take you there.

308
00:15:09,251 --> 00:15:11,840
Obviously you have to pay him.

309
00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,423
And they know it's illegal,

310
00:15:13,423 --> 00:15:16,121
so you probably have 
to pay them pretty well.

311
00:15:16,121 --> 00:15:22,222
And he went in there with his kayak.

312
00:15:22,222 --> 00:15:24,312
The fisherman brought him fairly close

313
00:15:24,312 --> 00:15:27,103
and then dropped him in 
the water in his kayak,

314
00:15:27,103 --> 00:15:28,690
and he rode to shore.

315
00:15:28,690 --> 00:15:30,182
The fisherman was close enough

316
00:15:30,182 --> 00:15:32,112
and stayed right there and was observing

317
00:15:32,112 --> 00:15:34,512
to see him go up.

318
00:15:34,512 --> 00:15:35,561
They killed him.

319
00:15:35,561 --> 00:15:37,192
They tied a rope around his neck.

320
00:15:37,192 --> 00:15:38,941
They were dragging his body around.

321
00:15:38,941 --> 00:15:40,453
So now they're talking about

322
00:15:40,453 --> 00:15:47,441
whether they even get the body or not.

323
00:15:47,441 --> 00:15:48,952
That's the thing now

324
00:15:48,952 --> 00:15:51,652
they're trying to figure out.

325
00:15:51,652 --> 00:15:53,734
And so, you know the Indian government

326
00:15:53,734 --> 00:15:56,034
say that this is a treasure,

327
00:15:56,034 --> 00:15:57,933
this is a priceless possession.

328
00:15:57,933 --> 00:16:01,022
You know, we've got 
this untouched society.

329
00:16:01,022 --> 00:16:02,920
They roughly calculate -

330
00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,192
they say that the island is roughly

331
00:16:05,192 --> 00:16:06,923
the size of Manhattan.

332
00:16:06,923 --> 00:16:09,423
They figure there's about 150 people.

333
00:16:09,423 --> 00:16:11,001
That's just a guess at best

334
00:16:11,001 --> 00:16:12,921
because it's covered with jungle

335
00:16:12,921 --> 00:16:15,241
and they really can't see.

336
00:16:15,241 --> 00:16:17,634
They said that when the guys

337
00:16:17,634 --> 00:16:19,052
come up in boats

338
00:16:19,052 --> 00:16:21,111
or they come in helicopters or whatever,

339
00:16:21,111 --> 00:16:23,575
the people break out onto the beaches.

340
00:16:23,575 --> 00:16:24,711
They're very crude.

341
00:16:24,711 --> 00:16:28,861
They do really profane things,

342
00:16:28,861 --> 00:16:33,554
and of course, they try to kill you.

343
00:16:33,554 --> 00:16:40,273
That's just their instinctive reaction

344
00:16:40,273 --> 00:16:41,741
to anybody that comes there

345
00:16:41,741 --> 00:16:44,421
is they try to kill you.

346
00:16:44,421 --> 00:16:47,974
And the Indian government,

347
00:16:47,974 --> 00:16:51,001
they have like a two mile buffer zone

348
00:16:51,001 --> 00:16:52,862
is what I understand,

349
00:16:52,862 --> 00:16:55,023
and people are not allowed to go in there.

350
00:16:55,023 --> 00:16:57,971
They claim they've got 
this priceless possession.

351
00:16:57,971 --> 00:17:01,813
They're trying to keep it intact.

352
00:17:01,813 --> 00:17:05,123
They're afraid that if 
anybody goes in there,

353
00:17:05,123 --> 00:17:07,131
they're going to take diseases in there

354
00:17:07,131 --> 00:17:09,700
that the people are not accustomed to

355
00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:13,071
and it's going to wipe them all out.

356
00:17:13,071 --> 00:17:15,383
I think they've actually,

357
00:17:15,383 --> 00:17:16,594
like after the tsunami,

358
00:17:16,594 --> 00:17:19,240
I believe that when they 
flew that helicopter in there,

359
00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,483
they were dropping gifts,

360
00:17:20,483 --> 00:17:23,465
but they say gifts don't 
appease these people at all.

361
00:17:23,465 --> 00:17:25,271
They don't care for your gifts.

362
00:17:25,271 --> 00:17:27,023
They will just kill you.

363
00:17:27,023 --> 00:17:30,237
So there's been shipwrecks there.

364
00:17:30,237 --> 00:17:33,931
They said that a ship wrecked there

365
00:17:33,931 --> 00:17:36,411
in a storm a number of years ago

366
00:17:36,411 --> 00:17:41,931
and they were trying to 
attack those people too.

367
00:17:41,931 --> 00:17:44,401
I think they were rescued.

368
00:17:44,401 --> 00:17:48,441
I don't know if by boat or by air.

369
00:17:48,441 --> 00:17:52,242
But they needed to be rescued

370
00:17:52,242 --> 00:17:54,252
because the people were obviously

371
00:17:54,252 --> 00:17:58,665
showing themselves to be very hostile.

372
00:17:58,665 --> 00:18:06,062
So, this guy is a Christian.

373
00:18:06,062 --> 00:18:09,611
He's been thinking about

374
00:18:09,611 --> 00:18:12,413
North Sentinel island for a long time.

375
00:18:12,413 --> 00:18:14,061
It definitely has a reputation.

376
00:18:14,061 --> 00:18:20,084
I've known about it for a number of years.

377
00:18:20,084 --> 00:18:22,051
I think he might have been the one

378
00:18:22,051 --> 00:18:24,145
that first brought it to my attention

379
00:18:24,145 --> 00:18:25,943
about it being unreached,

380
00:18:25,943 --> 00:18:29,390
and he was actually thinking about

381
00:18:29,390 --> 00:18:38,232
is there a way.

382
00:18:38,232 --> 00:18:42,231
So that's to bring you folks up to speed,

383
00:18:42,231 --> 00:18:44,341
those of you that have never heard of him,

384
00:18:44,341 --> 00:18:45,871
that's what's happened.

385
00:18:45,871 --> 00:18:49,024
Now for those of you that do know

386
00:18:49,024 --> 00:18:50,323
about the account,

387
00:18:50,323 --> 00:18:53,642
how did you respond when you heard?

388
00:18:53,642 --> 00:18:55,781
Did you just not care?

389
00:18:55,781 --> 00:18:57,342
Did you think, well, that idiot,

390
00:18:57,342 --> 00:19:00,241
why did he do that?

391
00:19:00,241 --> 00:19:01,773
Those of you that do know...

392
00:19:01,773 --> 00:19:04,702
now did you not know and you did know?

393
00:19:04,702 --> 00:19:06,712
(unintelligible)

394
00:19:06,712 --> 00:19:08,592
Okay.

395
00:19:08,592 --> 00:19:12,713
But what were the thoughts?

396
00:19:12,713 --> 00:19:14,682
Did you have any thoughts

397
00:19:14,682 --> 00:19:16,882
about him doing that?

398
00:19:16,882 --> 00:19:17,884
(from the room)

399
00:19:17,884 --> 00:19:21,801
I thought, wow, praise the Lord,

400
00:19:21,801 --> 00:19:26,763
someone actually went there.

401
00:19:26,763 --> 00:19:29,278
That was my thought.

402
00:19:29,278 --> 00:19:32,532
It reminded me of Jim Elliot

403
00:19:32,532 --> 00:19:35,763
and the other four.

404
00:19:35,763 --> 00:19:38,654
Yeah, I didn't know much about it,

405
00:19:38,654 --> 00:19:41,292
but it made me think wow,

406
00:19:41,292 --> 00:19:45,202
maybe this will stir 
people up in a good way.

407
00:19:45,202 --> 00:19:46,632
Tim: You know the difference

408
00:19:46,632 --> 00:19:52,472
between Jim Elliot and John Allen Chau?

409
00:19:52,472 --> 00:19:58,703
The big difference?

410
00:19:58,703 --> 00:20:01,232
Seventy years.

411
00:20:01,232 --> 00:20:02,612
That's the big difference.

412
00:20:02,612 --> 00:20:07,773
Time makes heroes out of people.

413
00:20:07,773 --> 00:20:13,073
Listen, we look back at Elliot

414
00:20:13,073 --> 00:20:15,712
and we say: Wow!

415
00:20:15,712 --> 00:20:17,081
All the books are written,

416
00:20:17,081 --> 00:20:18,630
the movies are made.

417
00:20:18,630 --> 00:20:20,739
He's a hero.

418
00:20:20,739 --> 00:20:24,762
The five martyrs.

419
00:20:24,762 --> 00:20:26,702
But you know when he was first

420
00:20:26,702 --> 00:20:28,421
looking to go down there,

421
00:20:28,421 --> 00:20:30,222
people were trying to persuade him

422
00:20:30,222 --> 00:20:31,361
not to go down there.

423
00:20:31,361 --> 00:20:32,751
This isn't a good idea.

424
00:20:32,751 --> 00:20:34,642
You're too gifted for this.

425
00:20:34,642 --> 00:20:38,942
You need to stay here.

426
00:20:38,942 --> 00:20:40,242
These guys down there,

427
00:20:40,242 --> 00:20:44,040
they were quite gifted young men.

428
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,561
People were saying don't 
throw your gifts away.

429
00:20:46,561 --> 00:20:49,602
Don't go to these primitive people.

430
00:20:49,602 --> 00:20:51,590
Look, when it's in your day -

431
00:20:51,590 --> 00:20:55,953
it's kind of like the prophet.

432
00:20:55,953 --> 00:21:00,301
He's honored everywhere but where?

433
00:21:00,301 --> 00:21:02,681
Right, his own hometown.

434
00:21:02,681 --> 00:21:06,764
And that's so often,

435
00:21:06,764 --> 00:21:10,633
it's the same kind of principle.

436
00:21:10,633 --> 00:21:13,942
That's more of a geographical,

437
00:21:13,942 --> 00:21:18,012
but the time element is relevant as well.

438
00:21:18,012 --> 00:21:20,702
Because it's kind of like 
if you can remove him

439
00:21:20,702 --> 00:21:23,032
to another century,

440
00:21:23,032 --> 00:21:25,472
then all of a sudden, he's a hero.

441
00:21:25,472 --> 00:21:27,431
But you know if you go back

442
00:21:27,431 --> 00:21:31,501
and you actually look and you read,

443
00:21:31,501 --> 00:21:33,362
when William Carey was thinking about

444
00:21:33,362 --> 00:21:39,262
cutting loose for India -

445
00:21:39,262 --> 00:21:40,630
I heard a brother,

446
00:21:40,630 --> 00:21:42,488
I don't know where he came across this.

447
00:21:42,488 --> 00:21:45,181
I can't remember in my own mind

448
00:21:45,181 --> 00:21:46,822
actually reading this anywhere,

449
00:21:46,822 --> 00:21:48,991
but he read somewhere

450
00:21:48,991 --> 00:21:53,569
where I believe it was 
a Baptist periodical

451
00:21:53,569 --> 00:21:55,491
from William Carey's day

452
00:21:55,491 --> 00:21:57,280
and they basically wrote an article

453
00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:02,791
that said we see no hope of success

454
00:22:02,791 --> 00:22:06,132
in William Carey's venture to India.

455
00:22:06,132 --> 00:22:09,301
That's basically the way 
they summed it up.

456
00:22:09,301 --> 00:22:16,740
Uh huh. Not going to work.

457
00:22:16,740 --> 00:22:20,421
But what was the issue?

458
00:22:20,421 --> 00:22:25,300
The issue was we know William Carey.

459
00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:28,312
I mean, we know the guy.

460
00:22:28,312 --> 00:22:32,170
For us, it's far removed.

461
00:22:32,170 --> 00:22:37,072
We have the books in our library.

462
00:22:37,072 --> 00:22:40,160
You see, for people to 
jump right out and say:

463
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,871
John Chau is a martyr

464
00:22:43,871 --> 00:22:46,431
and put him in the same class,

465
00:22:46,431 --> 00:22:50,132
the same place that we put a Jim Elliot,

466
00:22:50,132 --> 00:22:51,890
people are probably very hesitant

467
00:22:51,890 --> 00:22:58,197
because they're like, well, you know,

468
00:22:58,197 --> 00:23:00,718
was he just foolish?

469
00:23:00,718 --> 00:23:04,832
We see no prospect in any success there.

470
00:23:04,832 --> 00:23:07,300
Didn't he know that if 
he went to those beaches,

471
00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:09,290
they were going to come out and kill him?

472
00:23:09,290 --> 00:23:13,371
I mean, come on, there's 
never been an exception.

473
00:23:13,371 --> 00:23:16,631
Well, was he really a Christian?

474
00:23:16,631 --> 00:23:18,482
Was he a fanatic?

475
00:23:18,482 --> 00:23:21,651
Was it just some adventure gone bad?

476
00:23:21,651 --> 00:23:25,300
Could the guy have been 
climbing Mount Everest last week

477
00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:28,091
and this was just an 
adventurous thing to try to do?

478
00:23:28,091 --> 00:23:30,668
What were they saying about 
William Carey in that day?

479
00:23:30,668 --> 00:23:35,861
What were they saying about 
John G. Paton in his day?

480
00:23:35,861 --> 00:23:37,452
You see, that's the thing.

481
00:23:37,452 --> 00:23:41,051
There's this removal of time.

482
00:23:41,051 --> 00:23:44,471
Listen, I'll tell you this,

483
00:23:44,471 --> 00:23:47,391
we have it on good authority

484
00:23:47,391 --> 00:23:51,181
that every tribe and every language

485
00:23:51,181 --> 00:23:54,041
and every people and every nation

486
00:23:54,041 --> 00:23:57,399
are going to be represented

487
00:23:57,399 --> 00:24:00,411
before the throne.

488
00:24:00,411 --> 00:24:04,361
North Sentinelese people

489
00:24:04,361 --> 00:24:07,190
are going to be there.

490
00:24:07,190 --> 00:24:13,511
Now, when that first convert is saved,

491
00:24:13,511 --> 00:24:16,282
see, by the time that happens,

492
00:24:16,282 --> 00:24:18,920
with that being one of the 
darkest places in the world,

493
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,582
who knows?

494
00:24:21,582 --> 00:24:23,490
I mean, hastening the day of His coming

495
00:24:23,490 --> 00:24:25,445
may be reaching that island.

496
00:24:25,445 --> 00:24:27,782
And when the first converts are made,

497
00:24:27,782 --> 00:24:29,953
somebody will probably look back

498
00:24:29,953 --> 00:24:32,431
at John Chau,

499
00:24:32,431 --> 00:24:36,443
and by then, it may be 75 years removed.

500
00:24:36,443 --> 00:24:37,832
It may be like Jim Elliot,

501
00:24:37,832 --> 00:24:39,093
like us looking back.

502
00:24:39,093 --> 00:24:40,530
Remember when that brave guy,

503
00:24:40,530 --> 00:24:41,541
he went up there,

504
00:24:41,541 --> 00:24:45,252
and they just came right 
out on the beaches?

505
00:24:45,252 --> 00:24:46,631
He no more than laid foot

506
00:24:46,631 --> 00:24:48,471
on the shore of that island.

507
00:24:48,471 --> 00:24:50,903
See today, you've got all your news media

508
00:24:50,903 --> 00:24:52,790
and most of them are liberal.

509
00:24:52,790 --> 00:24:56,091
And even Fox and your more conservative,

510
00:24:56,091 --> 00:24:57,741
are they really pro-Christian?

511
00:24:57,741 --> 00:25:00,312
I mean, maybe they're going 
to give it a better slant.

512
00:25:00,312 --> 00:25:03,321
I don't know what all the news 
agencies are saying about it.

513
00:25:03,321 --> 00:25:06,162
But if these folks are right,

514
00:25:06,162 --> 00:25:07,522
what's happening out there?

515
00:25:07,522 --> 00:25:09,231
The guy's being counted a fool.

516
00:25:09,231 --> 00:25:12,911
He's being counted some zealot?

517
00:25:12,911 --> 00:25:15,739
Some white guy bringing his white religion

518
00:25:15,739 --> 00:25:17,759
and trying to press it upon other people

519
00:25:17,759 --> 00:25:20,333
and probably saying he deserved it.

520
00:25:20,333 --> 00:25:23,541
Serves him right.

521
00:25:23,541 --> 00:25:28,131
Well, I went and dug my copy

522
00:25:28,131 --> 00:25:30,202
of John G. out,

523
00:25:30,202 --> 00:25:37,400
(incomplete thought).

524
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,831
John G. Paton went -

525
00:25:40,831 --> 00:25:43,379
it's called Vanuatu today.

526
00:25:43,379 --> 00:25:45,169
This is a string of islands

527
00:25:45,169 --> 00:25:52,880
off the east coast of Australia.

528
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,368
In that day, they were 
called the New Hebrides.

529
00:25:55,368 --> 00:25:57,918
The Hebrides are actually some islands

530
00:25:57,918 --> 00:25:59,721
up near Scotland

531
00:25:59,721 --> 00:26:02,839
where revival broke out at another time.

532
00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:05,088
These were the New Hebrides islands.

533
00:26:05,088 --> 00:26:07,069
John G. Paton,

534
00:26:07,069 --> 00:26:11,770
a Scottish Presbyterian.

535
00:26:11,770 --> 00:26:15,612
Listen, "When it became known

536
00:26:15,612 --> 00:26:17,601
that I was preparing to go abroad

537
00:26:17,601 --> 00:26:19,939
as a missionary, nearly all

538
00:26:19,939 --> 00:26:23,810
were dead against the proposal."

539
00:26:23,810 --> 00:26:26,531
Okay, Chau.

540
00:26:26,531 --> 00:26:29,102
You think a lot of people were against it?

541
00:26:29,102 --> 00:26:31,101
By the reaction on social media,

542
00:26:31,101 --> 00:26:34,030
what do you think?

543
00:26:34,030 --> 00:26:39,231
I even remember when a brother

544
00:26:39,231 --> 00:26:40,890
was just looking at going to visit

545
00:26:40,890 --> 00:26:42,378
the Andaman islands,

546
00:26:42,378 --> 00:26:44,417
and there were the naysayers.

547
00:26:44,417 --> 00:26:46,261
You shouldn't go. You shouldn't do it.

548
00:26:46,261 --> 00:26:47,259
He's not equipped.

549
00:26:47,259 --> 00:26:49,126
He's going to bungle this thing.

550
00:26:49,126 --> 00:26:53,408
(incomplete thought)

551
00:26:53,408 --> 00:26:54,940
And you do wonder.

552
00:26:54,940 --> 00:26:57,772
We do want to have some sense,

553
00:26:57,772 --> 00:26:59,528
well, okay, is this God's will?

554
00:26:59,528 --> 00:27:00,940
We don't want to be foolish.

555
00:27:00,940 --> 00:27:03,172
We don't want to be 
presumptuous at this point.

556
00:27:03,172 --> 00:27:04,290
But you know, there's always somebody

557
00:27:04,290 --> 00:27:06,117
that's going to believe 
you're being presumptuous.

558
00:27:06,117 --> 00:27:08,209
There's always somebody 
that's the naysayer.

559
00:27:08,209 --> 00:27:10,219
I guarantee you, Jim Elliot heard it.

560
00:27:10,219 --> 00:27:12,470
I guarantee you that 
William Carey heard it.

561
00:27:12,470 --> 00:27:14,690
I guarantee you John G. Paton heard it.

562
00:27:14,690 --> 00:27:16,189
I guarantee you Hudson Taylor -

563
00:27:16,189 --> 00:27:18,139
all you've got to do 
is read the biographies.

564
00:27:18,139 --> 00:27:19,933
In their day, when they weren't

565
00:27:19,933 --> 00:27:22,180
the largely acclaimed,

566
00:27:22,180 --> 00:27:24,561
centuries old missionary

567
00:27:24,561 --> 00:27:26,540
who's books are on our shelf,

568
00:27:26,540 --> 00:27:27,740
when it's not that,

569
00:27:27,740 --> 00:27:30,040
when it's the guy that you know,

570
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,870
then people look at him as the prophet

571
00:27:31,870 --> 00:27:33,910
as he's not with honor

572
00:27:33,910 --> 00:27:36,040
right there in his own hometown,

573
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,199
in his own home church,

574
00:27:37,199 --> 00:27:38,510
and among his own generation

575
00:27:38,510 --> 00:27:40,290
where the people know him, 
they can look at him,

576
00:27:40,290 --> 00:27:42,659
and they recognize, 
well, he's a guy with flaws.

577
00:27:42,659 --> 00:27:44,949
See, we look back now and we say,

578
00:27:44,949 --> 00:27:46,591
well, of course it was God's will

579
00:27:46,591 --> 00:27:48,668
for Hudson Taylor to go to China.

580
00:27:48,668 --> 00:27:51,112
But you see, in his day when he was going,

581
00:27:51,112 --> 00:27:52,573
when he first got on that ship

582
00:27:52,573 --> 00:27:53,910
and was sailing over there,

583
00:27:53,910 --> 00:27:57,040
there weren't big crowds 
out there on the shore.

584
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,959
He was kind of going off as a nobody.

585
00:27:58,959 --> 00:28:01,959
He was going off quietly.

586
00:28:01,959 --> 00:28:04,149
It's much the same 
way with all these guys.

587
00:28:04,149 --> 00:28:06,382
It's like, well, we don't 
give much prospect

588
00:28:06,382 --> 00:28:08,688
of any success for 
this missionary endeavor.

589
00:28:08,688 --> 00:28:10,601
"When it became known I was preparing

590
00:28:10,601 --> 00:28:12,051
to go abroad as a missionary,

591
00:28:12,051 --> 00:28:17,011
nearly all were dead 
against the proposal."

592
00:28:17,011 --> 00:28:21,880
He said, "...Except Dr. Bates 
and my fellow student.

593
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,750
My dear father and mother, however,

594
00:28:23,750 --> 00:28:26,280
when I consulted them 
characteristically replied

595
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,010
that they had long since 
given me away to the Lord

596
00:28:29,010 --> 00:28:31,935
and in this matter also would 
leave me to God's disposal.

597
00:28:31,935 --> 00:28:34,399
From other quarters, we were besieged

598
00:28:34,399 --> 00:28:40,503
with the strongest 
opposition on all sides."

599
00:28:40,503 --> 00:28:42,193
And here's the thing,

600
00:28:42,193 --> 00:28:44,263
if he would have gone straight over there

601
00:28:44,263 --> 00:28:48,267
and died setting his foot on that beach,

602
00:28:48,267 --> 00:28:49,844
well, then they would have said:

603
00:28:49,844 --> 00:28:55,582
see, this thing was ill-advised 
from the beginning.

604
00:28:55,582 --> 00:28:57,883
See, it's one thing if Chau goes there

605
00:28:57,883 --> 00:29:02,646
and he gets huddled into one of their huts

606
00:29:02,646 --> 00:29:04,783
and he actually survives,

607
00:29:04,783 --> 00:29:07,348
and everybody looks at this like

608
00:29:07,348 --> 00:29:08,991
it's a miracle of God!

609
00:29:08,991 --> 00:29:10,846
He got there and they didn't kill him!

610
00:29:10,846 --> 00:29:11,969
I mean, they kept him.

611
00:29:11,969 --> 00:29:15,262
And he actually got off the island,

612
00:29:15,262 --> 00:29:17,036
then everybody says it's a miracle.

613
00:29:17,036 --> 00:29:20,026
God must have been in it.

614
00:29:20,026 --> 00:29:21,658
But you see, when he died,

615
00:29:21,658 --> 00:29:23,669
and he died so quickly,

616
00:29:23,669 --> 00:29:25,564
then it's like, well, you know,

617
00:29:25,564 --> 00:29:27,271
it's just like the two fishermen.

618
00:29:27,271 --> 00:29:30,163
It could have been anybody.

619
00:29:30,163 --> 00:29:32,434
James: You know, he did make a trip there,

620
00:29:32,434 --> 00:29:35,040
and survived, and then 
came back the next day.

621
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,068
(from the room)

622
00:29:36,068 --> 00:29:42,501
Yeah, his Bible got shot by 
an arrow the first day, right?

623
00:29:42,501 --> 00:29:43,799
Tim: He said,

624
00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:47,299
"I replied that my mind 
was finally resolved

625
00:29:47,299 --> 00:29:49,359
that though I loved my work and my people,

626
00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:50,996
yet I felt that I could leave them

627
00:29:50,996 --> 00:29:52,281
to the care of Jesus

628
00:29:52,281 --> 00:29:53,603
who would soon provide them

629
00:29:53,603 --> 00:29:55,479
a better pastor than I,

630
00:29:55,479 --> 00:29:58,479
and that with regard to 
my life amongst the cannibals,

631
00:29:58,479 --> 00:30:00,270
as I had only once to die,

632
00:30:00,270 --> 00:30:01,910
I was content to leave the time

633
00:30:01,910 --> 00:30:06,150
and place and means in the hands of God."

634
00:30:06,150 --> 00:30:08,992
So, I mean, he went there.

635
00:30:08,992 --> 00:30:11,937
Who's to say that this Chau

636
00:30:11,937 --> 00:30:14,438
was not of the exact same mindset?

637
00:30:14,438 --> 00:30:18,810
Trusting the Lord.

638
00:30:18,810 --> 00:30:22,168
Let's just ask this question:

639
00:30:22,168 --> 00:30:25,842
The two times in the book of Acts

640
00:30:25,842 --> 00:30:28,048
that we love to go to

641
00:30:28,048 --> 00:30:31,379
(incomplete thought).

642
00:30:31,379 --> 00:30:33,788
We use these two texts in Acts

643
00:30:33,788 --> 00:30:35,737
when we talk about any time

644
00:30:35,737 --> 00:30:41,949
it's appropriate to violate authority,

645
00:30:41,949 --> 00:30:46,547
to go against authority in our lives;

646
00:30:46,547 --> 00:30:49,879
when submission to Christ

647
00:30:49,879 --> 00:30:52,799
trumps whatever lesser authority.

648
00:30:52,799 --> 00:30:55,408
We go to two texts very commonly

649
00:30:55,408 --> 00:30:58,106
in Acts 4 and Acts 5.

650
00:30:58,106 --> 00:31:02,945
Now, we will go to those two

651
00:31:02,945 --> 00:31:05,055
when we're talking about

652
00:31:05,055 --> 00:31:08,036
when it may be appropriate to obey Christ

653
00:31:08,036 --> 00:31:10,235
even when we have to disobey

654
00:31:10,235 --> 00:31:13,278
government authority.

655
00:31:13,278 --> 00:31:16,468
But if we're all honest,

656
00:31:16,468 --> 00:31:21,543
look at the two texts 
that I'm talking about.

657
00:31:21,543 --> 00:31:32,206
Although they definitely 
have a broader application.

658
00:31:32,206 --> 00:31:34,807
Acts 4.

659
00:31:34,807 --> 00:31:37,371
The very specific situation

660
00:31:37,371 --> 00:31:38,993
that we're confronted with

661
00:31:38,993 --> 00:31:43,355
has to do with evangelism.

662
00:31:43,355 --> 00:31:50,978
It has to do with taking 
the Gospel to the nations.

663
00:31:50,978 --> 00:31:55,982
It accords with the Great Commission.

664
00:31:55,982 --> 00:31:57,484
What do we find?

665
00:31:57,484 --> 00:32:02,137
We find that in Acts 4

666
00:32:02,137 --> 00:32:04,335
we know that Peter and John get hauled in

667
00:32:04,335 --> 00:32:07,147
before the council.

668
00:32:07,147 --> 00:32:11,517
And when they did,

669
00:32:11,517 --> 00:32:13,978
you remember the situation.

670
00:32:13,978 --> 00:32:17,537
That lame man was healed

671
00:32:17,537 --> 00:32:21,628
at Beautiful Gate and it caused a stir.

672
00:32:21,628 --> 00:32:24,085
And they were in there 
preaching the Gospel.

673
00:32:24,085 --> 00:32:25,639
These guys get hauled in.

674
00:32:25,639 --> 00:32:27,507
They're before the Sanhedrin.

675
00:32:27,507 --> 00:32:30,835
In verse 16, these guys 
are beside themselves.

676
00:32:30,835 --> 00:32:35,547
They told the disciples to leave

677
00:32:35,547 --> 00:32:38,099
so that they could 
confer with one another.

678
00:32:38,099 --> 00:32:40,327
Verse 16, "What shall 
we do with these men?

679
00:32:40,327 --> 00:32:42,486
For that a notable sign has been performed

680
00:32:42,486 --> 00:32:43,956
through them is evident

681
00:32:43,956 --> 00:32:45,758
to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

682
00:32:45,758 --> 00:32:47,637
We cannot deny it.

683
00:32:47,637 --> 00:32:49,977
But in order that it may spread no further

684
00:32:49,977 --> 00:32:51,725
among the people, let us warn them

685
00:32:51,725 --> 00:32:53,925
to speak no more to anyone in this name.

686
00:32:53,925 --> 00:32:55,807
So they called them, charged them

687
00:32:55,807 --> 00:32:57,791
not to speak or teach at all

688
00:32:57,791 --> 00:32:59,879
in the name of Jesus."

689
00:32:59,879 --> 00:33:01,637
And here's the classic text.

690
00:33:01,637 --> 00:33:03,157
"Peter and John answered them,

691
00:33:03,157 --> 00:33:05,057
'Whether it's right in the sight of God

692
00:33:05,057 --> 00:33:07,616
to listen to you rather than 
to God, you must judge.

693
00:33:07,616 --> 00:33:10,938
For we cannot but speak

694
00:33:10,938 --> 00:33:13,478
of what we have seen and heard.'"

695
00:33:13,478 --> 00:33:15,220
And then you have a similar passage

696
00:33:15,220 --> 00:33:22,146
over in chapter 5:29.

697
00:33:22,146 --> 00:33:25,146
Again, the apostles were arrested.

698
00:33:25,146 --> 00:33:31,458
They were brought before the officials.

699
00:33:31,458 --> 00:33:33,188
You remember what happened.

700
00:33:33,188 --> 00:33:38,045
They supernaturally were 
not in prison anymore.

701
00:33:38,045 --> 00:33:39,468
Showed up in the temple.

702
00:33:39,468 --> 00:33:41,527
They were teaching.

703
00:33:41,527 --> 00:33:43,696
Verse 26, "The captain and the officers

704
00:33:43,696 --> 00:33:45,640
went and brought them, not by force,

705
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,161
for they were afraid of 
being stoned by the people.

706
00:33:48,161 --> 00:33:49,348
When they had brought them,

707
00:33:49,348 --> 00:33:50,526
they set them before the council

708
00:33:50,526 --> 00:33:51,860
and the high priests questioned them,

709
00:33:51,860 --> 00:33:53,998
saying, 'We strictly charged you

710
00:33:53,998 --> 00:33:55,498
not to teach in this name.

711
00:33:55,498 --> 00:33:58,429
Here you have filled 
Jerusalem with your teaching.

712
00:33:58,429 --> 00:34:01,397
You intend to bring this 
man's blood upon us.'

713
00:34:01,397 --> 00:34:03,539
Peter and the apostles answered,

714
00:34:03,539 --> 00:34:11,040
'We must obey God rather than men.'"

715
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:17,169
And so, listen, did Jesus 
give us a commandment

716
00:34:17,169 --> 00:34:19,882
to take the Gospel to all the nations?

717
00:34:19,882 --> 00:34:28,734
Can anybody tell me 
how it's worded in Mark 15?

718
00:34:28,734 --> 00:34:31,174
(from the room)
Preach the Gospel to every creature.

719
00:34:31,174 --> 00:34:33,563
Preach the Gospel to every creature.

720
00:34:33,563 --> 00:34:34,844
And you know what?

721
00:34:34,844 --> 00:34:37,365
That was one of the passages

722
00:34:37,365 --> 00:34:42,623
that gripped John G. Paton.

723
00:34:42,623 --> 00:34:46,984
And you know the story.

724
00:34:46,984 --> 00:34:55,770
He said concerning 
this opposing influence,

725
00:34:55,770 --> 00:34:58,120
he said, "They proved to 
be a heavy trial to me."

726
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:02,164
All the opposition that he was facing.

727
00:35:02,164 --> 00:35:04,450
But he said with all the opposition,

728
00:35:04,450 --> 00:35:06,500
"they tended to confirm my determination

729
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:08,584
that the path of duty was to go abroad.

730
00:35:08,584 --> 00:35:10,273
Amongst many who sought to deter me

731
00:35:10,273 --> 00:35:12,200
was one dear old Christian gentlemen..."

732
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,169
You've heard this -

733
00:35:13,169 --> 00:35:15,143
"...Who's crowning argument always was:

734
00:35:15,143 --> 00:35:16,131
'The cannibals!

735
00:35:16,131 --> 00:35:18,073
You'll be eaten by the cannibals!'

736
00:35:18,073 --> 00:35:20,401
At last I replied, 'Mr. Dixon,

737
00:35:20,401 --> 00:35:21,883
you're advanced in years now

738
00:35:21,883 --> 00:35:23,581
and your own prospect is soon to be

739
00:35:23,581 --> 00:35:24,752
laid in the grave,

740
00:35:24,752 --> 00:35:26,471
there to be eaten by worms.

741
00:35:26,471 --> 00:35:28,913
I confess to you that if 
I can but live and die

742
00:35:28,913 --> 00:35:30,892
serving and honoring the Lord Jesus,

743
00:35:30,892 --> 00:35:32,452
it will make no difference to me

744
00:35:32,452 --> 00:35:34,730
whether I'm eaten by 
cannibals or by worms.

745
00:35:34,730 --> 00:35:35,740
And in the Great Day,

746
00:35:35,740 --> 00:35:38,303
my resurrection body will 
arise as fair as yours

747
00:35:38,303 --> 00:35:41,742
in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.'"

748
00:35:41,742 --> 00:35:44,392
(incomplete thought)

749
00:35:44,392 --> 00:35:47,811
These are the people in his own church.

750
00:35:47,811 --> 00:35:50,510
These are the Christians closest to him.

751
00:35:50,510 --> 00:35:54,510
"My dear Green Street 
people grieved excessively

752
00:35:54,510 --> 00:35:56,133
at the thought of my leaving them

753
00:35:56,133 --> 00:35:59,112
and daily plead with me to remain.

754
00:35:59,112 --> 00:36:01,089
Indeed, the opposition was so strong

755
00:36:01,089 --> 00:36:03,100
from nearly all and many of them

756
00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:04,890
warm, Christian friends

757
00:36:04,890 --> 00:36:06,652
that I was sorely tempted to question

758
00:36:06,652 --> 00:36:08,734
whether I was carrying out the divine will

759
00:36:08,734 --> 00:36:13,012
or only some headstrong wish of my own."

760
00:36:13,012 --> 00:36:15,221
You see, that's going 
to be the accusation.

761
00:36:15,221 --> 00:36:17,862
Headstrong wish. It was just an adventure.

762
00:36:17,862 --> 00:36:19,190
He launched out there.

763
00:36:19,190 --> 00:36:21,321
By what authority did he do this?

764
00:36:21,321 --> 00:36:24,131
What missionary society sent him?

765
00:36:24,131 --> 00:36:25,872
See, that's always the questions.

766
00:36:25,872 --> 00:36:27,483
There's got to be some authority.

767
00:36:27,483 --> 00:36:29,800
Well, he's got to be sent 
by the right people.

768
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,891
Or he's got to be sent 
by the right church.

769
00:36:31,891 --> 00:36:33,931
What right did he have to go over there?

770
00:36:33,931 --> 00:36:35,773
What right did he have to do this?

771
00:36:35,773 --> 00:36:40,514
Throw his life away like that?

772
00:36:40,514 --> 00:36:42,931
He said, "This also caused 
me much anxiety,

773
00:36:42,931 --> 00:36:45,481
drove me close to God in prayer."

774
00:36:45,481 --> 00:36:52,193
See, we don't know how 
much he prayed about this.

775
00:36:52,193 --> 00:36:53,942
He said, "Conscience said louder

776
00:36:53,942 --> 00:36:55,483
and clearer every day:

777
00:36:55,483 --> 00:36:58,212
leave all these results 
with Jesus, your Lord,

778
00:36:58,212 --> 00:37:00,333
who said, 'Go ye into all the world;

779
00:37:00,333 --> 00:37:02,523
preach the Gospel to every creature,

780
00:37:02,523 --> 00:37:05,311
and lo, I am with you alway.'

781
00:37:05,311 --> 00:37:07,212
These words kept ringing in my ears.

782
00:37:07,212 --> 00:37:09,062
These were our marching orders."

783
00:37:09,062 --> 00:37:10,914
Who is going to say

784
00:37:10,914 --> 00:37:13,831
it's not the marching orders of Christians

785
00:37:13,831 --> 00:37:17,017
to take the Gospel to 
North Sentinel island?

786
00:37:17,017 --> 00:37:18,842
It is our marching order

787
00:37:18,842 --> 00:37:22,112
from the risen Christ to take the Gospel

788
00:37:22,112 --> 00:37:26,125
into every nation and 
preach it to every creature.

789
00:37:26,125 --> 00:37:29,712
That does not exclude 
North Sentinel island.

790
00:37:29,712 --> 00:37:33,042
And here is a man who 
put his life on the altar.

791
00:37:33,042 --> 00:37:35,739
He was willing to lay his 
life down to go do it.

792
00:37:35,739 --> 00:37:37,673
And are we going to rise up and say

793
00:37:37,673 --> 00:37:40,951
well, he was wrong?

794
00:37:40,951 --> 00:37:42,730
"Some retorted to him,

795
00:37:42,730 --> 00:37:44,462
'There are heathen at home.

796
00:37:44,462 --> 00:37:46,701
Let us seek and save first of all

797
00:37:46,701 --> 00:37:49,269
the lost ones perishing at our doors.'

798
00:37:49,269 --> 00:37:50,829
This I felt to be most true

799
00:37:50,829 --> 00:37:52,084
and an appalling fact,

800
00:37:52,084 --> 00:37:53,606
but I unfailingly observed

801
00:37:53,606 --> 00:37:57,546
that those who made this retort

802
00:37:57,546 --> 00:38:01,043
neglected these home heathen themselves.

803
00:38:01,043 --> 00:38:02,781
And so the objection has from them

804
00:38:02,781 --> 00:38:04,412
lost all its power.

805
00:38:04,412 --> 00:38:06,151
They would ungrudgingly spend more

806
00:38:06,151 --> 00:38:09,994
on a fashionable party at dinner or tea,

807
00:38:09,994 --> 00:38:12,063
on a concert or ball or theatre,

808
00:38:12,063 --> 00:38:14,833
or on some ostentatious display

809
00:38:14,833 --> 00:38:16,663
or worldly and selfish indulgence

810
00:38:16,663 --> 00:38:19,441
ten times more perhaps in a single day

811
00:38:19,441 --> 00:38:21,245
than they would give in a year

812
00:38:21,245 --> 00:38:22,433
or in half of a lifetime

813
00:38:22,433 --> 00:38:24,991
for the conversion of the 
whole heathen world

814
00:38:24,991 --> 00:38:26,605
either at home or abroad.

815
00:38:26,605 --> 00:38:28,336
Objections from such people

816
00:38:28,336 --> 00:38:30,815
must of course always count for nothing

817
00:38:30,815 --> 00:38:33,909
among men of whom 
spiritual things are realities.

818
00:38:33,909 --> 00:38:35,406
For these people themselves

819
00:38:35,406 --> 00:38:38,037
I do and always did only pity them

820
00:38:38,037 --> 00:38:40,478
as God's stewards making such a miserable

821
00:38:40,478 --> 00:38:41,738
use of time and money

822
00:38:41,738 --> 00:38:45,907
entrusted to their care."

823
00:38:45,907 --> 00:38:55,927
So, listen.

824
00:38:55,927 --> 00:38:57,307
Let me tell you something

825
00:38:57,307 --> 00:39:00,867
that you may not know.

826
00:39:00,867 --> 00:39:04,968
John G. Paton -

827
00:39:04,968 --> 00:39:11,597
he went to these islands

828
00:39:11,597 --> 00:39:14,453
and they didn't kill him.

829
00:39:14,453 --> 00:39:20,395
But they thought to and they schemed to.

830
00:39:20,395 --> 00:39:25,866
But I want to tell you 
something about his going

831
00:39:25,866 --> 00:39:29,406
back in the 1800's -

832
00:39:29,406 --> 00:39:42,011
a hundred and sixty, seventy years ago.

833
00:39:42,011 --> 00:39:45,523
In his autobiography, he says this:

834
00:39:45,523 --> 00:39:47,872
"A glance backwards over the story

835
00:39:47,872 --> 00:39:49,663
of the Gospel in the New Hebrides

836
00:39:49,663 --> 00:39:52,331
may help to bring my readers into touch

837
00:39:52,331 --> 00:39:56,270
with the events that are to follow.

838
00:39:56,270 --> 00:40:01,055
The ever famous names 
of Williams and Harris

839
00:40:01,055 --> 00:40:03,281
are associated with the earliest efforts

840
00:40:03,281 --> 00:40:06,132
to introduce Christianity 
among the group of islands

841
00:40:06,132 --> 00:40:08,332
in the South Pacific Seas.

842
00:40:08,332 --> 00:40:11,813
John Williams and his young 
missionary companion Harris,

843
00:40:11,813 --> 00:40:15,323
under the auspices of the 
London Missionary Society

844
00:40:15,323 --> 00:40:17,651
landed on Erromango

845
00:40:17,651 --> 00:40:21,723
the 30th of November, 1839.

846
00:40:21,723 --> 00:40:25,142
Alas, within a few minutes 
of their touching land,

847
00:40:25,142 --> 00:40:26,982
both were clubbed to death

848
00:40:26,982 --> 00:40:29,111
and the savages proceeded to cook

849
00:40:29,111 --> 00:40:31,182
and feast upon their bodies."

850
00:40:31,182 --> 00:40:33,323
You remember those two names.

851
00:40:33,323 --> 00:40:35,412
Williams and Harris.

852
00:40:35,412 --> 00:40:37,546
They set foot on Erromango

853
00:40:37,546 --> 00:40:47,041
and they were dead and eaten like that.

854
00:40:47,041 --> 00:40:53,272
See, it's all perspective.

855
00:40:53,272 --> 00:41:00,242
Listen to Paton's assessment of this:

856
00:41:00,242 --> 00:41:04,932
"Thus were the New Hebrides baptized

857
00:41:04,932 --> 00:41:07,511
with the blood of martyrs,

858
00:41:07,511 --> 00:41:11,563
and Christ thereby told 
the whole Christian world

859
00:41:11,563 --> 00:41:18,083
that He claimed these 
islands as His own.

860
00:41:18,083 --> 00:41:22,003
His cross must yet be lifted up

861
00:41:22,003 --> 00:41:23,491
where the blood of His saints

862
00:41:23,491 --> 00:41:26,240
has been poured forth in His name.

863
00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:29,404
The poor heathen knew not

864
00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:34,062
that they had slain their best friends,

865
00:41:34,062 --> 00:41:38,356
but tears and prayers ascended for them

866
00:41:38,356 --> 00:41:41,092
from all Christian souls

867
00:41:41,092 --> 00:41:44,373
wherever the story of the 
martyrdom on Erromango

868
00:41:44,373 --> 00:41:46,124
was read or heard."

869
00:41:46,124 --> 00:41:48,542
And you know what's interesting?

870
00:41:48,542 --> 00:41:53,302
I just happened about 
two or three years ago,

871
00:41:53,302 --> 00:41:56,742
I just happened to find -

872
00:41:56,742 --> 00:41:59,262
I don't even remember how I found it -

873
00:41:59,262 --> 00:42:03,515
I happened to find a news reel

874
00:42:03,515 --> 00:42:08,313
that the 170th anniversary

875
00:42:08,313 --> 00:42:12,434
of the killing of these two guys

876
00:42:12,434 --> 00:42:18,735
was being celebrated 
in Vanuatu, Erromango.

877
00:42:18,735 --> 00:42:21,303
And you know what was amazing?

878
00:42:21,303 --> 00:42:26,234
The descendants of Williams and Harris

879
00:42:26,234 --> 00:42:29,975
came to Erromango to meet

880
00:42:29,975 --> 00:42:32,864
the descendants of the people

881
00:42:32,864 --> 00:42:39,462
who killed and ate their ancestors.

882
00:42:39,462 --> 00:42:45,693
These British descendants 
of Williams and Harris

883
00:42:45,693 --> 00:42:48,772
didn't even seem like they 
were genuine Christians -

884
00:42:48,772 --> 00:42:52,814
probably very formal, religious, but cold,

885
00:42:52,814 --> 00:42:56,443
and I doubt they were Christians.

886
00:42:56,443 --> 00:42:58,874
These Erromangons came out -

887
00:42:58,874 --> 00:43:02,014
they were so full of joy.

888
00:43:02,014 --> 00:43:07,142
It's like, wow, 170 years later

889
00:43:07,142 --> 00:43:08,833
and the descendants of these people

890
00:43:08,833 --> 00:43:13,043
are probably just atheists

891
00:43:13,043 --> 00:43:16,083
or stale, dead religionists,

892
00:43:16,083 --> 00:43:18,163
and the Erromangons seem like

893
00:43:18,163 --> 00:43:21,750
they were just full of the joy of the Lord

894
00:43:21,750 --> 00:43:23,032
is what it seemed like.

895
00:43:23,032 --> 00:43:27,063
You could probably find that somewhere.

896
00:43:27,063 --> 00:43:34,782
Listen, if we've got the right perspective

897
00:43:34,782 --> 00:43:36,992
and Christ put something in this guy

898
00:43:36,992 --> 00:43:39,102
and he was willing to lay down his life

899
00:43:39,102 --> 00:43:42,452
that Christ be proclaimed 
to every creature;

900
00:43:42,452 --> 00:43:44,193
he felt it his responsibility -

901
00:43:44,193 --> 00:43:45,652
and if you hear the stories,

902
00:43:45,652 --> 00:43:48,274
it was burning inside of 
him for some time.

903
00:43:48,274 --> 00:43:53,052
Like he's been talking 
about this for years.

904
00:43:53,052 --> 00:43:56,842
Then can we not say the same thing?

905
00:43:56,842 --> 00:44:01,313
I mean, Sunday, I actually heard

906
00:44:01,313 --> 00:44:08,641
it being strategized in our own church

907
00:44:08,641 --> 00:44:10,650
how somebody in our own church

908
00:44:10,650 --> 00:44:15,042
could now reach it.

909
00:44:15,042 --> 00:44:16,821
(incomplete thought)

910
00:44:16,821 --> 00:44:19,354
You know, the text that comes to my mind

911
00:44:19,354 --> 00:44:22,063
is the one that I know 
James dealt with in Philippians,

912
00:44:22,063 --> 00:44:24,925
that some preach the Gospel

913
00:44:24,925 --> 00:44:26,272
for the right reasons;

914
00:44:26,272 --> 00:44:28,873
some out of envy and jealousy

915
00:44:28,873 --> 00:44:33,773
were preaching the Gospel -

916
00:44:33,773 --> 00:44:36,282
no, actually right before that

917
00:44:36,282 --> 00:44:38,234
he's talking about his suffering,

918
00:44:38,234 --> 00:44:43,634
and he's talking about 
how it made people bold -

919
00:44:43,634 --> 00:44:45,853
even though he's suffering,

920
00:44:45,853 --> 00:44:47,372
it's making other people bolder

921
00:44:47,372 --> 00:44:48,784
to proclaim the Gospel.

922
00:44:48,784 --> 00:44:50,093
Then he goes on to say

923
00:44:50,093 --> 00:44:51,842
some do it for the right reasons,

924
00:44:51,842 --> 00:44:53,907
and some for not the right reasons.

925
00:44:53,907 --> 00:44:58,472
But I think that that's 
what's going to happen here.

926
00:44:58,472 --> 00:45:01,402
I think that what this is going to do -

927
00:45:01,402 --> 00:45:04,603
look, if we've got people 
strategizing in our church -

928
00:45:04,603 --> 00:45:06,033
people who you would not think

929
00:45:06,033 --> 00:45:08,812
would be thinking about going

930
00:45:08,812 --> 00:45:12,291
to Mexico, let alone

931
00:45:12,291 --> 00:45:14,473
going to North Sentinel island,

932
00:45:14,473 --> 00:45:15,792
they're there strategizing.

933
00:45:15,792 --> 00:45:17,063
It just made me think,

934
00:45:17,063 --> 00:45:18,601
you know what, that's happening

935
00:45:18,601 --> 00:45:21,633
all over the world among 
God's people right now.

936
00:45:21,633 --> 00:45:23,396
And what this is going to do

937
00:45:23,396 --> 00:45:27,012
is undoubtedly, if this was

938
00:45:27,012 --> 00:45:28,803
one of God's people,

939
00:45:28,803 --> 00:45:32,002
and that blood was spilled there,

940
00:45:32,002 --> 00:45:34,444
believe me, it won't be in vain -

941
00:45:34,444 --> 00:45:37,783
any more in vain than Williams and Harris,

942
00:45:37,783 --> 00:45:41,993
because somebody's got to 
put their foot on the shore.

943
00:45:41,993 --> 00:45:45,215
Somebody's got to be the 
first one to do it.

944
00:45:45,215 --> 00:45:49,903
Look, how do people get saved?

945
00:45:49,903 --> 00:45:53,514
I mean, we recognize,

946
00:45:53,514 --> 00:45:57,041
we recognize the truths of Romans 10.

947
00:45:57,041 --> 00:46:00,153
We recognize that they 
are not going to call

948
00:46:00,153 --> 00:46:03,485
upon a Lord, a Christ, 
that they don't believe in.

949
00:46:03,485 --> 00:46:05,252
And they're not going to believe

950
00:46:05,252 --> 00:46:06,505
unless they hear.

951
00:46:06,505 --> 00:46:08,642
And listen, they're not going to hear

952
00:46:08,642 --> 00:46:10,811
unless somebody is preaching.

953
00:46:10,811 --> 00:46:13,915
And not anybody is going to 
set a foot on there to preach

954
00:46:13,915 --> 00:46:15,143
unless they're sent.

955
00:46:15,143 --> 00:46:17,710
And whether they're sent by the Spirit

956
00:46:17,710 --> 00:46:22,572
without any other kind 
of missionary enterprise

957
00:46:22,572 --> 00:46:28,694
or missionary association,

958
00:46:28,694 --> 00:46:31,453
but somebody's got to go.

959
00:46:31,453 --> 00:46:34,943
(incomplete thought)

960
00:46:34,943 --> 00:46:36,873
People are thinking:

961
00:46:36,873 --> 00:46:39,005
Well, maybe we could communicate with them

962
00:46:39,005 --> 00:46:41,403
in a pictorial fashion.

963
00:46:41,403 --> 00:46:44,454
Listen, here's the 
thing that is a reality:

964
00:46:44,454 --> 00:46:47,153
From the time that somebody lands -

965
00:46:47,153 --> 00:46:51,061
look, you can only 
go so far with pictures.

966
00:46:51,061 --> 00:46:53,434
You've got to learn their language.

967
00:46:53,434 --> 00:46:54,813
And you know what happens

968
00:46:54,813 --> 00:46:59,285
during the time you're 
learning the language?

969
00:46:59,285 --> 00:47:09,895
Things often don't go well.

970
00:47:09,895 --> 00:47:11,912
"May 1861"

971
00:47:11,912 --> 00:47:15,583
Let me tell you something about Erromango.

972
00:47:15,583 --> 00:47:17,093
Others came afterwards.

973
00:47:17,093 --> 00:47:19,223
Now, John G. Paton didn't go to Erromango.

974
00:47:19,223 --> 00:47:22,674
He went to Tana at first.

975
00:47:22,674 --> 00:47:24,802
He went somewhere else later.

976
00:47:24,802 --> 00:47:33,553
But the Gordons - this is May, 1861.

977
00:47:33,553 --> 00:47:36,704
Remember, Harris and Williams died in '39.

978
00:47:36,704 --> 00:47:40,343
So we're talking 22 years later.

979
00:47:40,343 --> 00:47:42,152
"May 1861 brought with it

980
00:47:42,152 --> 00:47:44,222
a sorrowful and tragic event

981
00:47:44,222 --> 00:47:46,953
which fell as the very shadow 
of doom crossed our path."

982
00:47:46,953 --> 00:47:49,065
Because even the people that came later,

983
00:47:49,065 --> 00:47:51,472
they were able to set 
their foot on the shore.

984
00:47:51,472 --> 00:47:55,383
They weren't immediately 
clubbed and eaten.

985
00:47:55,383 --> 00:47:58,451
But in the time it takes 
to learn the language

986
00:47:58,451 --> 00:48:01,323
to where you're going to 
try to impart that language

987
00:48:01,323 --> 00:48:05,382
and communicate the Gospel to the people,

988
00:48:05,382 --> 00:48:07,214
that takes some time.

989
00:48:07,214 --> 00:48:09,273
And even when you're trying to communicate

990
00:48:09,273 --> 00:48:11,082
the Gospel to the people,

991
00:48:11,082 --> 00:48:12,613
you've got to understand,

992
00:48:12,613 --> 00:48:14,901
these people have been in darkness.

993
00:48:14,901 --> 00:48:16,731
They're demonically controlled.

994
00:48:16,731 --> 00:48:18,271
There are witch doctors.

995
00:48:18,271 --> 00:48:24,027
There are forces at work.

996
00:48:24,027 --> 00:48:26,672
The Reverend G. N. Gordon

997
00:48:26,672 --> 00:48:31,113
and his wife.

998
00:48:31,113 --> 00:48:35,341
They "went to Erromango on 20th May, 1861.

999
00:48:35,341 --> 00:48:37,192
He was working at the roofing

1000
00:48:37,192 --> 00:48:38,673
of the printing office,

1001
00:48:38,673 --> 00:48:40,363
and had sent his lads to bring each

1002
00:48:40,363 --> 00:48:44,462
a load of long grass to 
finish the roof thatching.

1003
00:48:44,462 --> 00:48:46,623
Meantime, a party of Erromangons

1004
00:48:46,623 --> 00:48:48,761
from a district called Bunk Hill

1005
00:48:48,761 --> 00:48:51,007
under a chief names Lovou

1006
00:48:51,007 --> 00:48:53,027
had been watching him.

1007
00:48:53,027 --> 00:48:55,202
They'd been to the 
mission house inquiring.

1008
00:48:55,202 --> 00:48:57,550
They'd seen him send 
away his Christian lads

1009
00:48:57,550 --> 00:49:00,379
so they found him alone.

1010
00:49:00,379 --> 00:49:01,669
They then hid in the bush,

1011
00:49:01,669 --> 00:49:03,538
sent two of their men to the missionary

1012
00:49:03,538 --> 00:49:05,146
to ask for calico.

1013
00:49:05,146 --> 00:49:06,828
On a piece of wood, he wrote a note

1014
00:49:06,828 --> 00:49:09,131
to Mrs. Gordon to give 
them two yards each.

1015
00:49:09,131 --> 00:49:11,038
They asked him to go with them

1016
00:49:11,038 --> 00:49:12,068
to the mission house

1017
00:49:12,068 --> 00:49:14,701
as they needed medicine for a sick boy,

1018
00:49:14,701 --> 00:49:17,519
and Lovou their chief wanted to see him.

1019
00:49:17,519 --> 00:49:19,861
He tied up in a napkin a meal of food

1020
00:49:19,861 --> 00:49:22,280
which had been brought 
to him, but not eaten,

1021
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:23,771
and started to go with them.

1022
00:49:23,771 --> 00:49:25,960
He requested the native Narvalette

1023
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,800
to go on before with his companion,

1024
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,821
but they insisted upon his going in front.

1025
00:49:31,821 --> 00:49:34,171
In crossing a streamlet,

1026
00:49:34,171 --> 00:49:36,562
which I visited shortly afterwards,

1027
00:49:36,562 --> 00:49:38,582
his foot slipped.

1028
00:49:38,582 --> 00:49:41,041
A blow was aimed at him with a tomahawk

1029
00:49:41,041 --> 00:49:42,073
which he caught.

1030
00:49:42,073 --> 00:49:43,925
The other man struck, but his weapon

1031
00:49:43,925 --> 00:49:44,972
was also caught.

1032
00:49:44,972 --> 00:49:46,973
One of the tomahawks was then wrenched

1033
00:49:46,973 --> 00:49:48,099
out of his grasp.

1034
00:49:48,099 --> 00:49:50,520
The next moment, a blow on the spine

1035
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,123
laid the dear missionary low.

1036
00:49:52,123 --> 00:49:53,530
A second blow on the neck

1037
00:49:53,530 --> 00:49:55,749
almost severed the head from the body.

1038
00:49:55,749 --> 00:49:58,109
The other natives then 
rushed from their ambush,

1039
00:49:58,109 --> 00:49:59,862
began dancing around him

1040
00:49:59,862 --> 00:50:01,842
with frantic shoutings.

1041
00:50:01,842 --> 00:50:03,563
Mrs. Gordon, hearing the noise,

1042
00:50:03,563 --> 00:50:05,921
came out and stood in 
front of the mission house

1043
00:50:05,921 --> 00:50:08,654
looking at the direction of 
her husband's working place

1044
00:50:08,654 --> 00:50:10,362
wondering what was happening.

1045
00:50:10,362 --> 00:50:11,523
Oben, one of the party,

1046
00:50:11,523 --> 00:50:13,371
who had run towards the station

1047
00:50:13,371 --> 00:50:15,040
the moment that Mr. Gordon fell,

1048
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:16,483
now approached her.

1049
00:50:16,483 --> 00:50:19,122
A merciful clump of trees 
had hid from her eyes

1050
00:50:19,122 --> 00:50:20,780
all that had occurred.

1051
00:50:20,780 --> 00:50:21,819
And she said to Oben,

1052
00:50:21,819 --> 00:50:23,370
'What's the cause of that noise?'

1053
00:50:23,370 --> 00:50:24,882
He replied, 'Oh, nothing,

1054
00:50:24,882 --> 00:50:26,730
only the boys amusing themselves.'

1055
00:50:26,730 --> 00:50:28,201
Saying, 'Where are the boys?'

1056
00:50:28,201 --> 00:50:29,281
she turned around,

1057
00:50:29,281 --> 00:50:31,231
Oben slipped stealthily behind her,

1058
00:50:31,231 --> 00:50:33,551
sank his tomahawk into her back,

1059
00:50:33,551 --> 00:50:36,602
and with another blow 
almost severed her head.

1060
00:50:36,602 --> 00:50:38,100
Such was the fate of these two

1061
00:50:38,100 --> 00:50:39,768
devoted servants of the Lord,

1062
00:50:39,768 --> 00:50:41,151
loving in their lives

1063
00:50:41,151 --> 00:50:43,339
and in their deaths not divided,

1064
00:50:43,339 --> 00:50:46,840
their spirits wearing 
the crowns of martyrdom,

1065
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,051
entered glory together to be welcomed

1066
00:50:50,051 --> 00:50:51,601
by Williams and Harris

1067
00:50:51,601 --> 00:50:53,940
whose blood was shed near the same

1068
00:50:53,940 --> 00:50:55,544
now hallowed spot

1069
00:50:55,544 --> 00:50:58,510
for the name and cause of Jesus.

1070
00:50:58,510 --> 00:51:01,189
They had labored four years on Erromango

1071
00:51:01,189 --> 00:51:03,661
amidst trials and dangers manifold,

1072
00:51:03,661 --> 00:51:06,021
and had not been without 
tokens of blessing

1073
00:51:06,021 --> 00:51:07,412
in the Lord's work.

1074
00:51:07,412 --> 00:51:09,623
Never more earnest or devoted missionaries

1075
00:51:09,623 --> 00:51:11,802
lived and died in the heathen field.

1076
00:51:11,802 --> 00:51:14,011
Other accounts indeed have been published

1077
00:51:14,011 --> 00:51:15,471
and another was reported to me

1078
00:51:15,471 --> 00:51:20,310
by Mr. Gordon's Christian lads."

1079
00:51:20,310 --> 00:51:22,021
And he writes this:

1080
00:51:22,021 --> 00:51:27,111
"Some severe criticisms, of course,

1081
00:51:27,111 --> 00:51:28,880
were written and published

1082
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,019
by those angelic creatures

1083
00:51:31,019 --> 00:51:33,233
who judge all things

1084
00:51:33,233 --> 00:51:37,391
from their own safe and easy distance."

1085
00:51:37,391 --> 00:51:40,151
It was the same in that day.

1086
00:51:40,151 --> 00:51:41,743
You've got all sorts of people

1087
00:51:41,743 --> 00:51:45,252
from a long way away.

1088
00:51:45,252 --> 00:51:47,139
They're the armchair quarterback,

1089
00:51:47,139 --> 00:51:50,239
and they're going to find fault.

1090
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,162
And see, it's just like he said.

1091
00:51:53,162 --> 00:51:54,891
Well, why don't you stay at home?

1092
00:51:54,891 --> 00:51:56,381
You know, there's needs here.

1093
00:51:56,381 --> 00:51:57,612
The people that say that,

1094
00:51:57,612 --> 00:52:00,428
they're not reaching out to 
the people who have needs here.

1095
00:52:00,428 --> 00:52:01,370
People can talk.

1096
00:52:01,370 --> 00:52:09,429
People are full of lots of talk.

1097
00:52:09,429 --> 00:52:13,521
The truth is that it sounds like

1098
00:52:13,521 --> 00:52:18,242
some of the people -

1099
00:52:18,242 --> 00:52:20,591
they're just bent out of shape.

1100
00:52:20,591 --> 00:52:22,029
It's a white man

1101
00:52:22,029 --> 00:52:25,988
and he's bringing the 
white man's religion.

1102
00:52:25,988 --> 00:52:28,621
White man and his Christianity

1103
00:52:28,621 --> 00:52:33,239
it sounds like.

1104
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:39,880
Listen, this started among the Jews -

1105
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:41,439
not white men.

1106
00:52:41,439 --> 00:52:45,880
It started in the Middle East.

1107
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,071
And the thing about the Gospel

1108
00:52:48,071 --> 00:52:49,779
is it's not a tribal religion.

1109
00:52:49,779 --> 00:52:52,020
It's not just a white man's religion.

1110
00:52:52,020 --> 00:52:55,091
Paul is very careful to 
trace the real problem

1111
00:52:55,091 --> 00:52:57,197
all the way back to Adam.

1112
00:52:57,197 --> 00:52:59,711
Our problem is not a white problem,

1113
00:52:59,711 --> 00:53:02,717
a black problem, a red problem,

1114
00:53:02,717 --> 00:53:03,699
a yellow problem.

1115
00:53:03,699 --> 00:53:05,890
It's a problem that's traced

1116
00:53:05,890 --> 00:53:07,690
all the way back to the fact

1117
00:53:07,690 --> 00:53:11,709
that we are offspring of Adam's.

1118
00:53:11,709 --> 00:53:13,379
There's no distinction.

1119
00:53:13,379 --> 00:53:14,881
All have sinned and come short

1120
00:53:14,881 --> 00:53:19,579
of the glory of God.

1121
00:53:19,579 --> 00:53:21,211
You've got the Indian government.

1122
00:53:21,211 --> 00:53:22,919
Well, we need to leave them alone.

1123
00:53:22,919 --> 00:53:24,319
You don't want to introduce

1124
00:53:24,319 --> 00:53:25,717
all these diseases to them.

1125
00:53:25,717 --> 00:53:26,792
It will wipe them out.

1126
00:53:26,792 --> 00:53:28,409
You know what's wiping them out?

1127
00:53:28,409 --> 00:53:31,689
Sin is wiping them out.

1128
00:53:31,689 --> 00:53:37,000
Years ago, we had back before the DVD age,

1129
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,869
we had a number of videos.

1130
00:53:39,869 --> 00:53:42,731
I think we bought 
everything that we could buy

1131
00:53:42,731 --> 00:53:44,729
from New Tribes Missions.

1132
00:53:44,729 --> 00:53:51,142
And I'll never forget,

1133
00:53:51,142 --> 00:53:56,919
there was one that I believe

1134
00:53:56,919 --> 00:54:04,500
was specifically about an 
island in Indonesia.

1135
00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:08,392
And of course, you know 
the New Tribes approach.

1136
00:54:08,392 --> 00:54:12,395
They walk the people all the way

1137
00:54:12,395 --> 00:54:14,657
through the Scriptures 
from the Old Testament

1138
00:54:14,657 --> 00:54:15,515
all the way.

1139
00:54:15,515 --> 00:54:18,146
They build and build and build

1140
00:54:18,146 --> 00:54:21,015
and they come to the cross.

1141
00:54:21,015 --> 00:54:23,795
And this village -

1142
00:54:23,795 --> 00:54:25,713
they actually have footage -

1143
00:54:25,713 --> 00:54:28,756
when they preached the cross

1144
00:54:28,756 --> 00:54:31,686
and that this was God's answer for sin,

1145
00:54:31,686 --> 00:54:37,415
like the vast majority 
of this remote village

1146
00:54:37,415 --> 00:54:41,915
embraced Christ spontaneously.

1147
00:54:41,915 --> 00:54:44,755
They were so full of joy.

1148
00:54:44,755 --> 00:54:47,244
They jumped up and down,

1149
00:54:47,244 --> 00:54:49,874
hugging each other en masse.

1150
00:54:49,874 --> 00:54:52,875
They did this for hours!

1151
00:54:52,875 --> 00:54:54,955
But then you know what the missionary said

1152
00:54:54,955 --> 00:54:57,145
and what he observed?

1153
00:54:57,145 --> 00:54:59,254
He said the people would go

1154
00:54:59,254 --> 00:55:05,695
from rejoicing to uncontrolled wailing,

1155
00:55:05,695 --> 00:55:07,584
back to rejoicing,

1156
00:55:07,584 --> 00:55:10,046
back to wailing.

1157
00:55:10,046 --> 00:55:13,835
Do you know why they wailed?

1158
00:55:13,835 --> 00:55:18,685
With the understanding of the Gospel

1159
00:55:18,685 --> 00:55:22,355
and their own receiving of it

1160
00:55:22,355 --> 00:55:26,895
and their own salvation,

1161
00:55:26,895 --> 00:55:28,456
they would suddenly be overcome

1162
00:55:28,456 --> 00:55:34,953
with the reality that all who had 
gone before them perished.

1163
00:55:34,953 --> 00:55:37,435
And you know what, 
often these missionaries

1164
00:55:37,435 --> 00:55:41,710
were asked by the new converts:

1165
00:55:41,710 --> 00:55:47,494
why didn't you come before now?

1166
00:55:47,494 --> 00:55:49,994
Sometimes they would ask questions like -

1167
00:55:49,994 --> 00:55:52,334
you know the cogs would start moving -

1168
00:55:52,334 --> 00:55:56,955
how long have you had Christianity

1169
00:55:56,955 --> 00:56:00,687
where you're from?

1170
00:56:00,687 --> 00:56:04,083
Oh, for centuries!

1171
00:56:04,083 --> 00:56:07,456
You know, it almost makes 
the missionary feel guilty

1172
00:56:07,456 --> 00:56:10,246
because then the people 
would look at him like:

1173
00:56:10,246 --> 00:56:14,558
and you're only coming now?

1174
00:56:14,558 --> 00:56:15,617
You know what's true

1175
00:56:15,617 --> 00:56:20,356
about these people on 
North Sentinel island?

1176
00:56:20,356 --> 00:56:23,595
100% of them are perishing.

1177
00:56:23,595 --> 00:56:24,957
They're dying.

1178
00:56:24,957 --> 00:56:28,896
Every single one of them is perishing.

1179
00:56:28,896 --> 00:56:35,285
Perishing.

1180
00:56:35,285 --> 00:56:39,225
So what does it take?

1181
00:56:39,225 --> 00:56:41,376
Well, we need families like the Gordons

1182
00:56:41,376 --> 00:56:43,866
who pour four years of their life in

1183
00:56:43,866 --> 00:56:47,556
and then about have their heads taken off.

1184
00:56:47,556 --> 00:56:49,316
But before that, you've got to have

1185
00:56:49,316 --> 00:56:50,704
the Williams' and the Harris'

1186
00:56:50,704 --> 00:56:54,025
that are just willing to put their foot

1187
00:56:54,025 --> 00:56:57,713
on the beach.

1188
00:56:57,713 --> 00:57:02,626
We need John Allen Chau's.

1189
00:57:02,626 --> 00:57:07,124
And you know what, 
his name will just be lost.

1190
00:57:07,124 --> 00:57:09,055
Very likely.

1191
00:57:09,055 --> 00:57:12,363
Very likely, there's not going 
to be a book like this.

1192
00:57:12,363 --> 00:57:15,064
Well, there's not a book like this

1193
00:57:15,064 --> 00:57:17,745
about Williams and Harris.

1194
00:57:17,745 --> 00:57:18,867
Why?

1195
00:57:18,867 --> 00:57:23,704
Because how many pages do you need?

1196
00:57:23,704 --> 00:57:25,526
They landed on the beach.

1197
00:57:25,526 --> 00:57:27,918
They were clubbed. They were eaten.

1198
00:57:27,918 --> 00:57:30,183
I mean, you could say that different ways

1199
00:57:30,183 --> 00:57:31,414
and maybe fill a chapter

1200
00:57:31,414 --> 00:57:34,175
if you go back and talk 
about some of their early lives.

1201
00:57:34,175 --> 00:57:40,398
What I find is that Williams

1202
00:57:40,398 --> 00:57:44,255
actually labored on other islands before,

1203
00:57:44,255 --> 00:57:46,725
so there is more about him.

1204
00:57:46,725 --> 00:57:51,089
Harris - he was a young man

1205
00:57:51,089 --> 00:57:52,426
probably like Chau,

1206
00:57:52,426 --> 00:57:57,252
and you can't find hardly 
anything about him.

1207
00:57:57,252 --> 00:58:00,128
Who was he? I don't know.

1208
00:58:00,128 --> 00:58:04,665
Just somebody that put his foot down there

1209
00:58:04,665 --> 00:58:17,616
and is gone.

1210
00:58:17,616 --> 00:58:25,296
So, you know, what he was willing to do -

1211
00:58:25,296 --> 00:58:27,116
he said he didn't want to die.

1212
00:58:27,116 --> 00:58:30,456
He didn't have a death wish.

1213
00:58:30,456 --> 00:58:35,045
But he was willing to risk his life

1214
00:58:35,045 --> 00:58:43,924
to be good to the Great Commission.

1215
00:58:43,924 --> 00:58:46,166
We don't know all of his motives,

1216
00:58:46,166 --> 00:58:49,286
but what he says is that

1217
00:58:49,286 --> 00:58:53,354
he desired to take the Gospel

1218
00:58:53,354 --> 00:58:56,906
to these people.

1219
00:58:56,906 --> 00:58:59,874
Does somebody else have a better plan?

1220
00:58:59,874 --> 00:59:01,066
Or do we just say,

1221
00:59:01,066 --> 00:59:04,617
well, it's illegal, and so 
we shouldn't go there?

1222
00:59:04,617 --> 00:59:10,195
That wasn't the attitude 
of the early disciples.

1223
00:59:10,195 --> 00:59:12,135
They said you be judge.

1224
00:59:12,135 --> 00:59:15,106
Should we obey you? Or should be obey God?

1225
00:59:15,106 --> 00:59:18,485
Has God told us to go?

1226
00:59:18,485 --> 00:59:22,745
Because these people 
that wrote this are right.

1227
00:59:22,745 --> 00:59:24,815
When it comes to closed countries,

1228
00:59:24,815 --> 00:59:29,804
we don't say that because 
some human government

1229
00:59:29,804 --> 00:59:31,574
says we can't enter that country

1230
00:59:31,574 --> 00:59:32,735
with the Gospel,

1231
00:59:32,735 --> 00:59:34,335
we don't take that as:

1232
00:59:34,335 --> 00:59:36,445
okay, therefore we can't.

1233
00:59:36,445 --> 00:59:39,827
In fact, that idea of closed country -

1234
00:59:39,827 --> 00:59:43,525
that's a man-made term.

1235
00:59:43,525 --> 00:59:45,865
The Bible never talks 
about closed countries.

1236
00:59:45,865 --> 00:59:47,314
Jesus said go.

1237
00:59:47,314 --> 00:59:49,205
He never said:

1238
00:59:49,205 --> 00:59:53,184
Go only to the "open" countries.

1239
00:59:53,184 --> 00:59:54,835
No.

1240
00:59:54,835 --> 00:59:56,383
Every tribe.

1241
00:59:56,383 --> 00:59:58,634
Every tongue.

1242
00:59:58,634 --> 01:00:00,006
Every people.

1243
01:00:00,006 --> 01:00:02,064
Every nation.

1244
01:00:02,064 --> 01:00:03,599
Every creature.

1245
01:00:03,599 --> 01:00:06,865
Take the Gospel to them all.

1246
01:00:06,865 --> 01:00:08,304
Somebody's got to go.

1247
01:00:08,304 --> 01:00:10,545
Somebody's got to go.

1248
01:00:10,545 --> 01:00:13,145
The promise of God's Word

1249
01:00:13,145 --> 01:00:15,436
is there will be North Sentinelese

1250
01:00:15,436 --> 01:00:17,914
there at the throne.

1251
01:00:17,914 --> 01:00:19,413
There will be converts.

1252
01:00:19,413 --> 01:00:22,665
The Gospel will reach them.

1253
01:00:22,665 --> 01:00:27,954
Despite all the Hindu Indian government;

1254
01:00:27,954 --> 01:00:30,835
despite man's laws,

1255
01:00:30,835 --> 01:00:33,667
somebody's got to say: Yes, Lord.

1256
01:00:33,667 --> 01:00:36,466
Somebody's got to hear 
that, just like John G.

1257
01:00:36,466 --> 01:00:40,508
heard this when it came to going

1258
01:00:40,508 --> 01:00:43,226
to the New Hebrides islands.

1259
01:00:43,226 --> 01:00:47,065
Cannibals, cannibals! 
You'll be eaten by the cannibals!

1260
01:00:47,065 --> 01:00:48,975
North Sentinelese! North Sentinelese!

1261
01:00:48,975 --> 01:00:52,435
You'll be shot by their arrows!

1262
01:00:52,435 --> 01:00:54,004
Well, maybe.

1263
01:00:54,004 --> 01:00:57,077
But you know a hundred years from now,

1264
01:00:57,077 --> 01:00:58,267
will it really matter

1265
01:00:58,267 --> 01:01:02,097
that you lived a little bit 
longer than Chau?

1266
01:01:02,097 --> 01:01:04,299
And you know, sometimes,

1267
01:01:04,299 --> 01:01:07,076
it's like it's been said -

1268
01:01:07,076 --> 01:01:09,817
nobody knows about Jim Elliot's brother

1269
01:01:09,817 --> 01:01:11,845
who labored on the mission field

1270
01:01:11,845 --> 01:01:14,550
till he was well into his 80's.

1271
01:01:14,550 --> 01:01:18,869
Anybody ever heard about him?

1272
01:01:18,869 --> 01:01:25,963
The thing is he didn't go down in glory.

1273
01:01:25,963 --> 01:01:27,485
He plugged away

1274
01:01:27,485 --> 01:01:31,787
decade after decade after decade

1275
01:01:31,787 --> 01:01:35,006
laboring pretty much unknown.

1276
01:01:35,006 --> 01:01:38,437
The unknown brother of Jim Elliot.

1277
01:01:38,437 --> 01:01:43,616
And yet, he gave his whole 
life on the mission field.

1278
01:01:43,616 --> 01:01:45,954
You know, the reality is

1279
01:01:45,954 --> 01:01:53,589
sometimes martyrdom is the easy path.

1280
01:01:53,589 --> 01:01:57,627
They laid it all on the altar.

1281
01:01:57,627 --> 01:01:59,324
You know, there is a parable

1282
01:01:59,324 --> 01:02:03,156
that talks about finding a treasure

1283
01:02:03,156 --> 01:02:05,496
and selling everything.

1284
01:02:05,496 --> 01:02:06,869
And who's going to say

1285
01:02:06,869 --> 01:02:09,708
that this guy didn't sell everything?

1286
01:02:09,708 --> 01:02:12,975
I mean, are we going 
to find fault with him?

1287
01:02:12,975 --> 01:02:15,248
He gave. He gave all that he could.

1288
01:02:15,248 --> 01:02:19,477
As I was out today, 
I was thinking about Mary.

1289
01:02:19,477 --> 01:02:22,207
Do you remember they found fault with her?

1290
01:02:22,207 --> 01:02:24,808
This isn't just something 
in John G. Paton's day.

1291
01:02:24,808 --> 01:02:26,988
This is something that 
goes all the way back.

1292
01:02:26,988 --> 01:02:28,325
Go all the way back to Mary.

1293
01:02:28,325 --> 01:02:29,538
Remember, she comes out

1294
01:02:29,538 --> 01:02:34,357
and she's doing what?

1295
01:02:34,357 --> 01:02:38,008
She's doing what she can.

1296
01:02:38,008 --> 01:02:39,947
And Jesus said that:

1297
01:02:39,947 --> 01:02:42,446
she's doing what she can.

1298
01:02:42,446 --> 01:02:45,607
He did what he could.

1299
01:02:45,607 --> 01:02:48,405
I mean, he gave what he had.

1300
01:02:48,405 --> 01:02:52,134
You don't have more to 
give Christ than your life.

1301
01:02:52,134 --> 01:02:55,215
He laid it all on the altar.

1302
01:02:55,215 --> 01:02:58,068
I'm not finding fault with that.

1303
01:02:58,068 --> 01:03:00,214
In fact, something in me jumps,

1304
01:03:00,214 --> 01:03:04,724
like okay, this is setting 
something in motion

1305
01:03:04,724 --> 01:03:08,584
in the spiritual realm.

1306
01:03:08,584 --> 01:03:10,845
And I have a feeling that it's doing that

1307
01:03:10,845 --> 01:03:14,606
in the hearts of Christians

1308
01:03:14,606 --> 01:03:17,684
all over the world.

1309
01:03:17,684 --> 01:03:19,966
Now, I can imagine the Indian government

1310
01:03:19,966 --> 01:03:22,237
is going to crack down, 
at least for a while.

1311
01:03:22,237 --> 01:03:27,005
They'll double their coast guard

1312
01:03:27,005 --> 01:03:29,977
two mile perimeter or whatever.

1313
01:03:29,977 --> 01:03:31,523
But then they'll get lax again

1314
01:03:31,523 --> 01:03:32,838
when this thing blows over,

1315
01:03:32,838 --> 01:03:35,195
but I have a feeling 
Christians are strategizing,

1316
01:03:35,195 --> 01:03:39,234
people are thinking.

1317
01:03:39,234 --> 01:03:41,524
We shouldn't count it a strange thing.

1318
01:03:41,524 --> 01:03:43,684
This isn't some white man's thing.

1319
01:03:43,684 --> 01:03:45,836
This is Christ's agenda

1320
01:03:45,836 --> 01:03:47,713
to evangelize the world.

1321
01:03:47,713 --> 01:03:50,803
We shouldn't count it a strange thing -

1322
01:03:50,803 --> 01:03:53,203
look, that island,

1323
01:03:53,203 --> 01:03:59,153
it cannot escape prophecy.

1324
01:03:59,153 --> 01:04:02,484
It cannot escape the fact

1325
01:04:02,484 --> 01:04:05,544
that the bull's eye is on it.

1326
01:04:05,544 --> 01:04:08,215
You can't be the least reached place

1327
01:04:08,215 --> 01:04:11,073
on the face of the earth 
and remain that way.

1328
01:04:11,073 --> 01:04:13,244
Because Jesus Christ who said

1329
01:04:13,244 --> 01:04:14,876
all authority is given unto Me

1330
01:04:14,876 --> 01:04:18,523
is the Christ behind that missionary call.

1331
01:04:18,523 --> 01:04:19,575
Be sure of this:

1332
01:04:19,575 --> 01:04:20,974
He sits on the throne.

1333
01:04:20,974 --> 01:04:23,264
He is high. He is exalted.

1334
01:04:23,264 --> 01:04:25,846
He is lifted up. He has all authority.

1335
01:04:25,846 --> 01:04:28,706
He's in charge. He stirs His people.

1336
01:04:28,706 --> 01:04:31,437
Those people are -

1337
01:04:31,437 --> 01:04:34,144
it's just a matter of time.

1338
01:04:34,144 --> 01:04:39,026
I mean, it's like the Gospel train

1339
01:04:39,026 --> 01:04:41,134
is thundering down the tracks,

1340
01:04:41,134 --> 01:04:43,307
and it's coming for that island.

1341
01:04:43,307 --> 01:04:46,135
It may be this year. It may be next year.

1342
01:04:46,135 --> 01:04:47,773
It may be six years.

1343
01:04:47,773 --> 01:04:51,854
It may be sixty years, but it's coming.

1344
01:04:51,854 --> 01:04:54,866
Whatever demons are there,

1345
01:04:54,866 --> 01:04:56,857
they know.

1346
01:04:56,857 --> 01:04:58,564
They know the Scripture.

1347
01:04:58,564 --> 01:05:00,636
And we can shout it out.

1348
01:05:00,636 --> 01:05:03,265
Every tribe and every tongue!

1349
01:05:03,265 --> 01:05:05,685
And that includes that island.

1350
01:05:05,685 --> 01:05:08,766
The Gospel's coming there.

1351
01:05:08,766 --> 01:05:11,937
Some of God's people are 
going to take it there.

1352
01:05:11,937 --> 01:05:14,166
The next people might 
be like the Gordon's.

1353
01:05:14,166 --> 01:05:15,715
They might make it a little ways

1354
01:05:15,715 --> 01:05:18,036
before they die.

1355
01:05:18,036 --> 01:05:19,746
And it might keep going like that.

1356
01:05:19,746 --> 01:05:21,237
In fact, if you read this book,

1357
01:05:21,237 --> 01:05:23,285
do you know how much death is in here?

1358
01:05:23,285 --> 01:05:25,846
The fact that John G. Paton lived

1359
01:05:25,846 --> 01:05:28,008
is a miracle in the midst of all of this,

1360
01:05:28,008 --> 01:05:30,246
and they tried to take him out,

1361
01:05:30,246 --> 01:05:32,626
and God supernaturally preserved him,

1362
01:05:32,626 --> 01:05:34,913
but a lot of the people died.

1363
01:05:34,913 --> 01:05:38,104
A lot of the people died.

1364
01:05:38,104 --> 01:05:39,746
But you know what?

1365
01:05:39,746 --> 01:05:41,765
After that martyr's blood was spilled,

1366
01:05:41,765 --> 01:05:44,545
eventually some of these islands -

1367
01:05:44,545 --> 01:05:47,034
the second island he went to,

1368
01:05:47,034 --> 01:05:49,965
and the name is escaping me right off -

1369
01:05:49,965 --> 01:05:51,774
but the second island he went to

1370
01:05:51,774 --> 01:05:55,014
was almost entirely converted.

1371
01:05:55,014 --> 01:05:58,655
This is no easy believism preaching.

1372
01:05:58,655 --> 01:06:01,835
We're talking a Scotch-Presbyterian

1373
01:06:01,835 --> 01:06:04,854
Calvinist, believed in real,

1374
01:06:04,854 --> 01:06:06,456
legitimate being born again,

1375
01:06:06,456 --> 01:06:08,465
and in his estimation,

1376
01:06:08,465 --> 01:06:14,254
almost the entire island was converted.

1377
01:06:14,254 --> 01:06:17,166
That Gospel's coming for that island.

1378
01:06:17,166 --> 01:06:19,814
There's no escape.

1379
01:06:19,814 --> 01:06:22,766
And if this is the time

1380
01:06:22,766 --> 01:06:25,425
and martyr's blood has been spilled,

1381
01:06:25,425 --> 01:06:26,535
watch out.

1382
01:06:26,535 --> 01:06:29,608
Whatever dark forces you 
are that are there

1383
01:06:29,608 --> 01:06:32,005
and inhabiting those people,

1384
01:06:32,005 --> 01:06:33,654
keeping those people in fear,

1385
01:06:33,654 --> 01:06:35,725
keeping those people in bondage,

1386
01:06:35,725 --> 01:06:38,763
your days are numbered.

1387
01:06:38,763 --> 01:06:41,356
And God may be working in 
the hearts of some right now

1388
01:06:41,356 --> 01:06:43,394
that will be the next ones to go there.

1389
01:06:43,394 --> 01:06:45,874
I have a feeling that's the case.

1390
01:06:45,874 --> 01:06:46,803
(from the room)

1391
01:06:46,803 --> 01:06:49,047
You brought up at the beginning

1392
01:06:49,047 --> 01:06:54,154
the issue of to obey the law or not.

1393
01:06:54,154 --> 01:06:57,634
You brought up the response

1394
01:06:57,634 --> 01:06:59,875
of the one who's actually breaking the law

1395
01:06:59,875 --> 01:07:01,545
in Acts 4 and 5.

1396
01:07:01,545 --> 01:07:03,455
What stood out to me was the posture

1397
01:07:03,455 --> 01:07:05,315
that the church took.

1398
01:07:05,315 --> 01:07:08,664
And if you consider what 
they're actually praying

1399
01:07:08,664 --> 01:07:10,864
when they come together, they said,

1400
01:07:10,864 --> 01:07:12,814
"Grant Your servants to continue

1401
01:07:12,814 --> 01:07:14,746
to speak Your Word with all boldness."

1402
01:07:14,746 --> 01:07:16,985
You could even say the church

1403
01:07:16,985 --> 01:07:18,894
after that happened, the church prayed:

1404
01:07:18,894 --> 01:07:21,896
allow them to continue what 
they law just said not to

1405
01:07:21,896 --> 01:07:24,474
because we're convinced 
that's what You want.

1406
01:07:24,474 --> 01:07:25,913
So I kind of take that like:

1407
01:07:25,913 --> 01:07:27,165
if you're not going to go,

1408
01:07:27,165 --> 01:07:29,456
I don't think Christians 
should be on the fence

1409
01:07:29,456 --> 01:07:31,313
as far as what they should side with.

1410
01:07:31,313 --> 01:07:32,674
If it's the Lord's command,

1411
01:07:32,674 --> 01:07:34,506
we ought to be praying for God

1412
01:07:34,506 --> 01:07:36,865
to lift up more people to oppose such laws

1413
01:07:36,865 --> 01:07:38,036
and send them out there.

1414
01:07:38,036 --> 01:07:39,734
Tim: That's how we're going to end

1415
01:07:39,734 --> 01:07:41,605
with Bobby praying that the church

1416
01:07:41,605 --> 01:07:42,785
would have boldness.

1417
01:07:42,785 --> 01:07:44,624
Because they needed it then.

1418
01:07:44,624 --> 01:07:46,715
Listen, it's a reality.

1419
01:07:46,715 --> 01:07:48,876
When you're standing 
against the government

1420
01:07:48,876 --> 01:07:50,760
and they're threatening 
you with the sword,

1421
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:52,515
they're threatening 
you with imprisonment -

1422
01:07:52,515 --> 01:07:54,008
which they threw them in prison -

1423
01:07:54,008 --> 01:07:55,254
when they're threatening you -

1424
01:07:55,254 --> 01:07:57,344
they stoned Paul -

1425
01:07:57,344 --> 01:07:59,085
people died.

1426
01:07:59,085 --> 01:08:01,135
Jesus never said we wouldn't.

1427
01:08:01,135 --> 01:08:03,005
That's what we need. We need boldness.

1428
01:08:03,005 --> 01:08:04,305
But isn't it interesting?

1429
01:08:04,305 --> 01:08:06,148
This is what I was mentioning before.

1430
01:08:06,148 --> 01:08:10,245
Throw Paul in prison and what did it do?

1431
01:08:10,245 --> 01:08:12,796
It emboldened God's people.

1432
01:08:12,796 --> 01:08:13,765
You might think:

1433
01:08:13,765 --> 01:08:18,357
Well, hey, they throw 
the top dog into jail,

1434
01:08:18,357 --> 01:08:20,965
you'd think kind of like Jesus,

1435
01:08:20,965 --> 01:08:22,525
you know when they arrested Him,

1436
01:08:22,525 --> 01:08:24,274
all the disciples went scattering.

1437
01:08:24,274 --> 01:08:26,484
Yeah, but that was before the Spirit -

1438
01:08:26,484 --> 01:08:29,335
this missionary Spirit was 
poured upon the church.

1439
01:08:29,335 --> 01:08:30,919
When that happened,

1440
01:08:30,919 --> 01:08:33,083
it did just the opposite.

1441
01:08:33,083 --> 01:08:34,164
What?

1442
01:08:34,164 --> 01:08:35,405
Throw Paul in prison,

1443
01:08:35,405 --> 01:08:38,663
and now it encourages the people of God

1444
01:08:38,663 --> 01:08:42,746
to break forth with boldness and preach.

1445
01:08:42,746 --> 01:08:45,964
I mean, I'm telling you,

1446
01:08:45,964 --> 01:08:50,114
Sunday, we've got people in the church,

1447
01:08:50,114 --> 01:08:51,486
and I'm not kidding you.

1448
01:08:51,486 --> 01:08:53,996
I don't think you'd get 
them to go to Mexico,

1449
01:08:53,996 --> 01:08:56,064
and I went outside between services,

1450
01:08:56,064 --> 01:08:58,937
and he starts talking to me

1451
01:08:58,937 --> 01:09:01,016
and strategizing about how

1452
01:09:01,016 --> 01:09:03,025
not just somebody from our church

1453
01:09:03,025 --> 01:09:04,947
could take the Gospel to North Sentinel,

1454
01:09:04,947 --> 01:09:06,918
how he could!

1455
01:09:06,918 --> 01:09:09,346
I thought...

1456
01:09:09,346 --> 01:09:11,534
that's good.

1457
01:09:11,534 --> 01:09:12,936
That's good.

1458
01:09:12,936 --> 01:09:15,554
And it made me think

1459
01:09:15,554 --> 01:09:18,844
there's a lot of Christian 
people out there

1460
01:09:18,844 --> 01:09:23,295
who are thinking like him.

1461
01:09:23,295 --> 01:09:25,347
Well, go ahead and pray, brother.

1462
01:09:25,347 --> 01:09:28,918
Boldness.

1463
01:09:28,918 --> 01:09:30,665
Bobby: Father, we thank You

1464
01:09:30,665 --> 01:09:32,294
for allowing us to even know

1465
01:09:32,294 --> 01:09:34,439
of such a plan that took place

1466
01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:36,614
that gives us reason to rejoice

1467
01:09:36,614 --> 01:09:39,115
in what You've done

1468
01:09:39,115 --> 01:09:40,356
when You sent Your Son

1469
01:09:40,356 --> 01:09:42,615
as the propitiation for our sins,

1470
01:09:42,615 --> 01:09:43,885
and not only for ours,

1471
01:09:43,885 --> 01:09:45,654
but for Your elect people

1472
01:09:45,654 --> 01:09:48,626
that You've told us in Your Word

1473
01:09:48,626 --> 01:09:51,148
are in the world now.

1474
01:09:51,148 --> 01:09:54,536
We just pray that You 
would blow on Your people,

1475
01:09:54,536 --> 01:09:57,515
that Your Spirit would light a fire

1476
01:09:57,515 --> 01:09:59,657
that can't be extinguished.

1477
01:09:59,657 --> 01:10:02,589
And Lord, that the history that we see,

1478
01:10:02,589 --> 01:10:05,026
it wouldn't just be something 
that we read about,

1479
01:10:05,026 --> 01:10:08,485
but it would take place 
in the here and now.

1480
01:10:08,485 --> 01:10:09,857
As my brother said,

1481
01:10:09,857 --> 01:10:12,469
we don't know when You 
would have it to take place,

1482
01:10:12,469 --> 01:10:15,325
but whoever Your chosen vessels are

1483
01:10:15,325 --> 01:10:17,325
that are fit for Your use -

1484
01:10:17,325 --> 01:10:21,865
even fit to have their blood 
spilt so quickly, Father,

1485
01:10:21,865 --> 01:10:25,254
I just ask that You would call them,

1486
01:10:25,254 --> 01:10:26,374
equip them,

1487
01:10:26,374 --> 01:10:29,106
and blow Your Spirit on 
them to do Your will

1488
01:10:29,106 --> 01:10:32,376
that the Lamb would truly receive 
the reward of His suffering

1489
01:10:32,376 --> 01:10:35,467
and that Christ would be exalted.

1490
01:10:35,467 --> 01:10:38,166
And may Christ be exalted in our hearts

1491
01:10:38,166 --> 01:10:40,615
more as we speak about His Kingdom

1492
01:10:40,615 --> 01:10:42,376
advancing into this world.

1493
01:10:42,376 --> 01:10:44,127
I pray that His Kingdom would be

1494
01:10:44,127 --> 01:10:46,906
advancing even in our own lives.

1495
01:10:46,906 --> 01:10:48,695
In His name we ask, Amen.