before the days when communism foul in

Eastern Europe before the time when

people could meet legally in public

gatherings and enjoy the freedom of

religious worship before that time

Christians were often arrested and kept

in prisons in dark damp underground

cells or in labor camps where the

Communists went to great lengths to

break their faith or slowly let them die

it was in the midst of this darkness

away from any human comfort that the

love of Christ shown Savior

this is the story of a family that

endured

Richard worm Brad was born the youngest

of four sons in an Orthodox Jewish

family on March 24th 1909 in Bucharest

Romania when he was still a young boy

his father moved the family to Istanbul

Turkey passionate driven and gifted

intellectually Richard grew to be a

highly motivated young man fluent in

nine languages in time Richard met

sabina Auster a young chemistry student

also of Jewish descent soon thereafter

on October 26th 1936 they married

Richard began work as a stockbroker and

the young couple spent much of their off

hours enjoying the cosmopolitan life of

Bucharest as atheists religion was the

last thing on their minds they lived in

the words of high finance so of course

they were invited to all the parties he

is a high finance in Romania they

existed only to make money and to spend

money eventually something happened that

brought the high living couple to a

standstill

Richard was diagnosed with an illness

rampant in Eastern Europe tuberculosis

order to convalesce in the countryside

the worm brands made their way to a

small village very close to the city of

brasov where they soon met Peter wolf

keys an aged and unassuming carpenter it

was an encounter that would prove to be

life-changing

wolf keys was a dedicated Christian

whose lifelong prayer had been to share

his Christian faith with Jews the

challenge was that in the remote village

in which he lived he had never

encountered any that is until he met

Richard and Sabina so he challenged them

he said you're Jewish hardly any Jew has

read about this Jew called Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ was a greatest and most

famous of all Jews and he gives him the

gospel actually a New Testament in the

German language my father took the New

Testament to read

being pointed to the Gospel of John he

became extremely impressed I mean more

than impressed his whole thinking went

upside down

he realized that here was somebody who

like Jesus Christ who always spoke the

truth he spoke about love

he was ready out of love to sacrifice

himself sacrifice his life and this

turned my father around reading through

the Gospels Richard began to ponder his

own life and the emptiness that had

often tugged on him eventually

Richard worm brand the atheist

pleasure-seeker humbled himself and

opened his heart to God his life was

wonderfully affected and while he

experienced joy and excitement in his

newfound faith Sabina was equally

horrified she wanted to throw herself

from the window all her hopes to lead a

life of luxury and party and good life

we're dashed because the one of the

first thing my father did when he became

a Christian was to resign from this

stock brokerage it was only natural that

Richard would want his wife to share in

his newfound joy but Sabina would have

none of his religious talk

she was a young 23 year old woman and

the last thing she wanted to do was give

up her social events and entertainment

for what she anticipated would be a

boring religious life cunning as he was

Richard sought the best way to get his

point across he accepted an invitation

to a high society party so a lot of

people got drunk and rowdy

and it was not a pretty sight and my

mother said Richard let's go home and he

said no we came to party

and then there were all kind of stupid

jokes and the party became you know just

a drunken nonsense and my mother started

crying and begging my father to take her

home and she said if you take me home I

will be baptised in the morning the

party had been a fitting and vivid

illustration of the emptiness of their

social gatherings it seems clear that

Richards words and prayers had someone a

seed in Sabinas heart she soon embraced

the faith of her husband and came to

know Christ feeling the need for both

training and guidance they joined the

Anglican mission to the Jews in

Bucharest and Richard was eventually

ordained an Anglican Minister Richard

and Sabina were both active in

evangelism eventually becoming well

known dedicated Christians among the

religious circle of Romania rumors of

war caused their message of hope and

faith to be well received eventually in

1939 on the eve of World War two they

were blessed with a son a boy they named

me hi my earliest recollections as a

child the very earliest recollection is

my mother holding my hand and running

like crazy across a field into a bomb

shelter because it was 1 or 2 the reason

I was running with my mother by the hand

to this bomb shelter my father was

nowhere in sight was because my father

purposely during all these bombing raids

he had gathered a group of six or seven

Christians most of them Jewish Christian

and he was week visiting shelter by

shelter and praying with people

that's in no way that's how he became

known in Romania World War two was

cataclysmic the Germans invaded Romania

and life was soon quite difficult and

challenging rather than only being

concerned for the survival of their own

family Richard and Sabina gave

themselves wholeheartedly to meet the

needs of others people were scared and

many suffered loss of all sorts they

needed God and comfort more than ever

the worm brands fulfilled their ministry

by continuing to preach in the bomb

shelters and rescuing Jewish children

out of the ghettos Richard and Sabina

were repeatedly arrested and beaten and

at least once were nearly executed it

was a time of hardship Sabina lost her

Jewish family in Nazi concentration

camps as did many others Romania reeled

from internal political turmoil but the

worm brands did not shirk their

responsibilities rather than being

concerned about themselves the worm

brands rushed in where the need was

greatest despite the risk and that's

exactly what they did when in 1945 the

Communists seized power and Romania was

invaded by 1 million Russian troops

Richard warned brands and he spoke Assam

8 9 10 11 languages when the Russians

invaded would walked into the Russian

army basis just walk in

and he would have a watch with him or

something and squat down on the ground

I've talked to all the Russian soldiers

like they were talking about this watch

for sale but actually down on the ground

squatting around with all of them he

would be talking about Jesus and the

Russians were incredibly hungry to know

anything about God he talked about God

about Jesus because by that time God had

been taken from their lives for 40 years

they'd been told there is no God and

they were very hungry to know what is my

life what is my life all about is there

a God and he would sit and just very

gently patiently start talking with him

about life about God and and all of them

would be very curious

although unauthorized religious meetings

were prohibited Richard and Sabina were

innovative in finding ways to gather

Christian believers on many occasions a

large get-together of families and

children would take place in a park the

worm brands would teach the adults while

the young children were given Sunday

School inevitably the police would

arrive and they were told that it was

someone's birthday the ruse worked and

the believer celebrated birthdays every

Sunday the passion the worm brands felt

for reaching their people with the

gospel was unstoppable

Sabeena rose to many on occasion

according to the need one night she rode

on the roof of a train this train was

carrying Russian troops and on the roof

of the train was Sabina with bags of

salt which the Christians could sell and

Bibles so the troops were down in the

Train to invade and take over political

control Sabina was on the roof of the

train to bring these spiritual freedom

all night on the roof she never behaved

with more love with more attention with

more dedication with more sacrifice then

with people who did her the greatest

harm

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in a difficult situation like under

communism in Romania we had many enemies

we had many people who would be mean and

do you was the most abject hardened I

mean without second thought this would

be the people who would be invited to

our home this would be the people when

we early we had something precious or

special this would be the gifts to these

people happy food is the greatest harm

such was an occasion when the worm

brands were visited in the middle of the

night by the very man who had been

responsible for the deaths of many

members of Sabinas family the man was in

terrible anguish of conscience he

started crying and all that and it was

late in the night maybe past midnight

and my father woke up my mother and

explained who this person was and my

mother passed midnight embraced him told

him she forgives him and started setting

up the table and they had some wonderful

meal

needless to say one cannot fathom how

difficult that must have been for her

but she poured all of God's love into

the man by daybreak he was kneeling with

the worm Brants in prayer having arrived

a tormented man he walked away a

forgiving Christian and she would say to

be a Christian he's not like you are a

weight lifter or a sportsman between

2:00 and 4:00 every afternoon you go to

the gym and you train to be a Christian

you have to take the opportunity right

when is the most difficult to be a

Christian that's when you have to be a

Christian

between 1945 and 1947 the worm brands

distributed 1 million Gospels to Russian

troops the books often disguised as

communist propaganda Richard also

smuggled Gospels into Russia

in 1945 Richard and Sabina attended the

Congress of the cult's organized by the

Romanian communist government and

attended by four thousand delegates

Congress was publicized but beyond being

published and was broadcast in the

entire nation and priest after priest

and pastor after pastor stood up and

explained how they obtained light from

Stalin and from the calmness and what

freedoms they enjoy and like that the

government was saying you can no longer

have Sunday school and many of these

Christian things and the hundreds or

maybe thousands of pastors sitting there

said nothing maybe they were afraid of

the government and Sabina told Richard

why don't you stand up and watch this

shame off the face of Jesus Richard took

the podium and to the dismay of the

communist officials began to denounce

communism as an evil not to be tolerated

communism has made martyrs of our

brothers how could it be praised by the

church he boldly proclaimed this was a

catalyst in arousing other believers to

take rise to their feet while some tried

to drown Richards message out others

were yelling let the pastor speak let

the pastor speak it was a chaotic scene

so the broadcast was interrupted the

company stood up asking that he be cut

from speaking the whole Congress was

finished rising in there

Richard was relentless and his zeal to

preach the gospel as well as denounced

the evils of communism eventually the

government made a move to silence him

it was a Sunday morning a winter Sunday

morning and my father lives the house

and he walked it was like eight minutes

ten minutes walk to the church the

church was not far from where we was

around the corner from where we live

some car of the secret police was

waiting for him and they overpowered him

and took him in a car and he disappeared

the first suit which came into my mind

when I was in the hands of the Communist

jurors was that in the Bible the words

don't be afraid of you 366 times once

for every day of the year and because

that is the extra day of the leap here

it is not 365 but 366 times

I knew that evening the ban of the

secret police I am in the hands of the

Almighty God and this gave quite to my

heart just after two weeks three weeks I

kept asking where is father

Varis father I saw my mother crying you

know then I realized what had happened

Sabina continued trying to locate

Richard but to no avail

she now knew he had been taken by the

police but had little idea to where and

for how long

she would not see Richard for many many

years

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she never knew if I'm a life or death

she was totally that I am dead men were

sent to see the life that they are

released prisoners and that they have

attended my burial and my wife continued

to wait for me his rate dropped to 90

pounds in a matter of three months he

received four for long periods lice of

bread a day that was peaceful was my son

and the wonderful thing about it is my

father recalls that as he was angry and

like that his prayers he was praising

the Lord

Richard was interrogated and beaten

relentlessly hung upside down from

shackles his feet were beaten until they

bled then he was forced to walk in

circles around his small cell without

permission to stop or sit down to sit

just like this to close your eyes was a

crime 17 hours a day you have to sit

like this and he'll retreat suffered

unspeakable treatment from his captors

and their efforts to extract information

about other Christians the isolation and

physical and emotional torture were

grueling it went on for years he had

scarce in his body that you could put

your son

[Music]

so you can imagine the type of torture

at times he was angry he would shout and

beat on the door of his cell saying give

me back Mihai Mihai as his son they

would actually place children in cells

around them to make noises in the cells

around his wife also so they would miss

their children yes we will kept everyone

alone in a Cell never have you seen

never have you seen a man except the

interrogators who beat and tortured when

after many years I had to write again I

did not remember how to write a capital

V life had to continue and Sabina

perhaps hiding her own grief did her

best to continue to work among the

underground church she instructed Mihai

to do his best at school as a witness to

others I was studying and learning very

well so they came to make the first

communist organization among the

children they were called young pioneers

you were given a red tie you were given

a badge and as a child you had free

access to swimming pools hobby making

clubs lots of incentive for kids and I

said I will not wear the necktie awful

regime that keeps my father in jail and

who denies the existence of God and it

was total cost our nation I totally

destroys the whole festivities of

festivity at that moment was a journey

they wanted to throw me out of school

reisender think of it I was in fifth

grade

Richard continued to endure torture in

prison without a formal trial finally

approximately two and a half years after

his disappearance

a very ill Richard was brought into a

small room for a hearing when asked if

he had anything to say in his defense he

was so sick all he could answer was I

love God the hearing lasted ten minutes

Richard was sentenced to 20 years

outside the prison life had become

difficult for Sabina and Mihai soon

their small apartment was taken over by

the government and they were left to

live in only one small room not long

thereafter in 1950 a new incident

further affected his circumstances I was

not in Bucharest when six o'clock in the

morning seven eight secret policemen

came to my mother's home where we lived

by that time we were in one room they

asked my mother to dress in front of

them they took her straight out of bed

they made an inspection a house search

which was not much of houses was one

room searched and she disappeared Sabina

was taken prisoner and once later

assigned to work with other captives

building the Danube canal this they did

by carrying the rocks with their bare

hands in the freezing cold the prisoners

were provided no warm clothing only what

they came into prison with many

prisoners died she disappeared in the

communist prison system she was never

told whether she's in for a day for a

month for a year she was she never was

taken to a judge a few times they

in order to frighten her or frighten the

other people's is threw her into the

Danube River River and Fisher back up

and so Z turns a prison cell

we decided that Linds mornings when you

open your eyes preparing yourself for

the field to go to the work console ever

you see yoga waiting will be give thanks

to the Lord for he is good and His mercy

endures forever

dear dear sisters and deal veteran I

could not describe inverts Vance's new

greetings made in our prison cell

sometimes during the night

some political prisoner would come to

one of the Christians please teach me

your greetings they were ashamed to come

during the day thieves and troubles

have learned to repeat those words if

thanks to the Lord for his good and His

mercy endures forever

and the hell was changed completely

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by divert of God

by giving thanks to the Lord even in the

most difficult circumstances the hunger

in those prisons was incredible and

literally the women's US prison he'd

tree bark and in grass in order to

sustain themselves she fasted one day a

week through entire prison she always

fasted one day a week her entire life

but one day a week she fasted in prison

not content with a torture they were

inflicting on Richard and unsatisfied

with his lack of cooperation

Richard was placed in solitary

confinement in a small cell deeper

underground

the guards wore felt sold shoes and no

noise was permitted the silence being a

way to further destabilize the prisoners

who not long afterwards began to lose

notion of day or night and would long

for some familiar sound in this type of

situation with little food and oft

beatings men would despair it was mental

torture a situation he would have to

endure for several years my whole night

I passed walking to and fro through the

cell with I didn't have shoes every

night I began by meditating on the Word

of God the verses which I remembered by

heart I meditated so much then I would

pass hours praying praying for the whole

bird I traveled in my spirit from one

country to other to another every night

I would pray for America for Britain for

Africa Australia New Zealand Germany

France every night I would deliver a

sermon there was no visible audience but

a French to God I preached to the Angels

they are also interested to know

what I think and what I have to say I

would prepare a regular sermon and they

deliver it then able to sit down

sometimes and out of a very primitive

think I had made a chess play and I

would play chess with myself and then

again I would walk around free and speak

to God this for the time but afterwards

a narcotics which we are putting our

food had effect upon our minds and we

could not really pray is usual sense of

the world anymore it was one of the most

desperate moments in my life when I

tried one evening to say the Lord's

Prayer that I found out that I had

forgotten it I said our Father which art

in heaven hallowed be thy name and I

didn't know what follows and then for a

long time I prayed only so much Jesus I

love you Jesus I love you

he seems that is fair enough and then I

could not concentrate my mind evening on

that and my only prayer would be the

beating of a loving heart sometimes we

would be overcome by such a joy of the

presence of the Lord that we would have

to dance and we danced like this this

shows this love of singing Don will

encounter Lysa

my multitouch am i free you would feel

that your heart-wrenching pieces if you

would not dance for joy so great was the

joy of the presence of the Brethren

sometimes we would be handcuffed to his

handcuffs like this to the back the

hands tied to the back we could not move

them food was brought to us we have to

lap it exactly like the dogs like it

we could not move our hands so the human

body has many necessities the hands were

tied to the back day and night but we

can tie a soul the soul can fly to the

Lord it has not even to fly because the

Lord is everywhere we forgot that we are

with our hands tied and repeated the

Communists they have killed many

Christians minions they have tried to

kill earth not stupid

they can kill only bodies we are not

bodies we are spirit and the spirit

can't be killed to die for Christ loving

Christ means to go to glory means to

Christ time during the present life we

won for Christ our fellow prisoners even

in the years of solitary confinement in

the great silence

you could hear during the night very

discrete noises through Morse code

through the wall from one cell to the

other we preach the gospel and souls

have been brought to Christ and the head

before me the impose declared communist

officer we confessed to them about

Christ and we converted them I myself

had before me a communist officer with a

rubber truncheon in his hand and they

told him about the love of Christ I told

him about

about God he put his rubber truncheon

aside he asked me mr. hood not how can

you love me I would never love somebody

who puts me in prison and beats me and I

told him about the new character about

the new heart which Christ gives to men

and they become embodied love and he

became our brother in prison for having

taken our defence Sabina endured her own

torture haven't been put into a car sir

on several occasions a small closet in

which one can only stand and which is

fitted with spikes so is not to allow

movement many prisoners were placed

there for an entire night

she was allowed to see me high just once

and only briefly enough to encourage him

not to abandon the faith but there was

also wonderful fruit in the midst of

suffering even though it would take

months or years the neighbor children

there mentioned immediately tears were

on the face of their mothers behind

locked doors behind iron bars we didn't

know anything about our children and

here the children we are mentioned you

sign a statement you deny your God and

you will be with your children who could

answer who could stand it

who could ever refuse to start to sign

the statement in order to be with the

child no mother could no mother could

ever but Jesus has promised I will be

with you always and Jesus keeps his

promise and just to mention in Hebrew

always means call young all the days but

it means all the days the whole day not

that he comes to visit us for 10 minutes

as we go to somebody visiting he

promised he will be with us all the days

the whole day eventually in 1953 after

three years of incarceration Sabina was

released but not before she was informed

by the authorities that Richard had died

in prison she went home in her mind a

widow to uncertainty however what Sabina

was told was not true Richard was alive

and remained in prison experiencing both

despair as well as glories of a God who

had not abandoned him

before in history just as a flower when

you bruise her under your feet rewards

you with her perfume the moment we were

mocked the more we were tortured repeat

it and beloved

those who torture us it must be clearly

understood

we hate communism from all our art this

devilish system of militant atheism

which must be defeated if the Christian

Church wishes to live but we loved the

man and we asked ourselves how to win

these men for Christ and when we were in

the depths of this remorse and of the

Spain at once words of the cell began to

shine like diamonds I have been open in

my life I've seen California I have seen

Napoli I have seen many beautiful things

never have I seen beauties which I have

seen in the dark cell beneath the earth

such beautiful music as a third day the

King of Kings Jesus was with us we saw

his understanding his loving eyes he

wiped away from our eyes our tears he

set wise words of love and words of

forgiveness we knew everything which had

been

in Our Lives has passed away being

forgotten by God now that came wonderful

days the bright rose in the arms of the

bridegroom we were with Christ we didn't

know that we were in prison sometimes we

were taken to interrogatories we were

beaten we were tortured just a st.

Stephen while they threw stones at him

did not see his murderers did not see

the stones so heaven open and Jesus

standing at the right hand of the Father

so we didn't see any more succumbing

torturers we didn't see that we are in

prison we were surrounded by angels we

were with God

after years of barbaric treatment

Richard became extremely ill and was

transferred to a room known as the death

room the area were those without any

hope of recovery were simply sent to die

but Richard prayed and little by little

to the amazement of his captors he began

to recover he used the opportunity of

being with other prisoners to minister

to and help them the men would pray

together they would sing hymns while

using their shackles and chains as

instruments and one by one each man came

to Christ then one day in 1956 eight

years after Richard had been taken there

was a news after eight years

it so happened that he turned around a

very high official in the secret police

my team Lucretia

he's so witness to this guy he came back

from one of the interrogatories and told

his wife this well said I met today a

man like I didn't think that existed on

the surface of this earth I am sick I

want to go into bed and he went to bed

and then he made a plan how to free my

father from prison and this secret

policeman happened to be the immediate

helper or secretary of the top secret

police leader or if he was called the

Minister of the Interior and this meant

that my father turned around him and

witness to abort the love of Christ and

like that and said you live hate your

whole life is full of hate you torture

people you hate us you hate me you hate

everybody one day you will turn around

you'll hate your own wife your hate your

own children what kind of life is that

you and he witness about Jesus Christ

and he was Jewish he turned the Jewish

secret policeman into a Christian he

made a plan how to free my father

so what he did he he introduced and

there's a hundreds of paper he usually

gave to the Minister of Interior to sign

every morning he was the guy who would

give him hundreds of papers to sign

official stuff he introduced one paper

that said free Richard Wurman it was a

dick a degree a decree of pardon for

each of them he had no idea what he was

saying

hundreds of papers he's saying that and

one day my father was freed out of

prison after eight years of prison a

frail Richard suddenly found himself out

of prison he had nothing no clothes no

money but he had his freedom a blessing

he could not but praise God for it was

through the help of local people who

recognized him as a freed prisoner and

took pity that he got enough coins to

take buses back to his old home seeing

Richard again was a shock for Sabina she

thought he was dead it was a joyous

reunion

the first thing Richard did was to kneel

with his family and give thanks to God

not long thereafter he began to minister

again he was re-arrested in 1959 through

the conspiracy of an associate and

sentenced to 25 years he was accused of

preaching ideas

contrary to communist doctrine due to

increased political pressure from

Western countries

Richard was granted amnesty and released

in 1964 some churches in the West had

paid a ransom for their family of ten

thousand dollars and letters from

different officials I think this was

from a group in Norway and during this

time after one of his releases from

prison and it was felt he would be more

valuable in the West in the free

countries to share the message of

persecuted Christians sort of tried to

keep him alive and get him out of

Romania at that time and so they flee

from Romania to a refugee camp in Italy

and eventually made their way to America

God had a plan for him but after having

tuberculosis bones broken many things in

prison he continued to live perhaps to

bring that message out to to the rest of

the world

Richard began his ministry of being a

voice for persecuted Christians in

England with Reverend Stewart Harris

where he also wrote his testimony in the

book tortured for Christ

later the worm brands moved on to the

United States and in 1965

Richard appeared before a US Senate

Internal Security subcommittee he took

his shirt off in front of the Senate

showing them the scars that that these

different forces around the world that

opposed Christians in his case communism

are real they tried to do physical

damage to their body out in the West we

will reward us by creating a mission to

the community his story spread rapidly

leading to more and more speaking

engagements in 1967 the worm brand's

officially began a ministry committed to

serving the persecuted Church called

Jesus to the Communist world and later

named the voice of the martyrs the worm

brands poured their heart and soul into

the ministry which in turn helped to

open the eyes of many people to the

plight of persecuted Christians around

the world

Richard and Sabina never forgot their

time in prison and prayed desperately

for those who continue to experience

hardship in Romania the Beloved Country

they had never expected to return to

until a change of events opened a door

in 1989 a revolutionary wave that began

in Poland swept across the communist

countries of Central and Eastern Europe

resulting in the fall of Soviet style

regimes one by one countries once under

the rule of communism began to collapse

the Romanian head of state Nicolae

Ceausescu a dictator since 1965

stubbornly clung to power until an

unprecedented revolt by his own

countrymen toppled him in Timisoara the

people gathered in the public square and

prayed the Lord's Prayer the gathering

itself was considered illegal and even

much more so the fact that so many

people were praying in public and

chanting communism is dead God is alive

the cry was heard across the country and

not long thereafter the suppressive

communist government of Romania came to

an end what a time of jubilation it was

and what a triumph for those who had

endured such torment for so long after

25 years of exile and continually

upholding their country in prayer

Richard and Sabina returned to their

beloved Romania the country where they

had given their hearts to Christ and

labored so fervently for him it was a

memorable and emotional occasion and

they were warmly received Christians met

him at the airport with flowers saying

he spoke in many large churches they

returned two maybe three times the

Christians the government the media they

had opened doors across the country many

things in Romania had changed since the

worm brand's departure constructed on

top of the deep underground cell where

Richard had suffered the tortures of

solitary confinement there stood a new

building the thousand room palace that

the former dictator Ceausescu had built

for himself it now stood empty The

Dictator now dead

but beneath in some of the areas where

the cells had once stood Richard and

Sabina were now able to store Bibles and

Christian literature which would be

openly available to their countrymen

Richard's place of torture where he had

labored quietly in prayer was now used

for the service of his Savior arrogant

communism was gone and in its place God

now began his work

although happy to be back in Romania the

worm brands did not settle they had a

mission to continue when we lived in the

same house with him for some seven eight

years we only really saw them about two

months a year because they lived out of

a suitcase they had five or six

suitcases and they spoke in 10,000

churches in America they stayed active

as long as they could even editing and

writing from their hospital beds so they

lived their faith their love right up

until the last moment on earth Sabina

went to be with her Lord in August 11th

2002 months later in February 17th 2001

both left a legacy rich in devotion to

Christ and His Church

their talks books instant form of

witnessing and their courage in the face

of so much spiritual and physical

adversity remain a lasting example for

Christians everywhere

they brought a depth of love and mercy I

think to many Christians in America that

were unused to this aggressive love in

the face of evil this was something that

caused many people to say what where

does this strength come from well the

first time for me to a large extent I

understood how we went through it was

when I saw the Sequoias in the Sequoia

National Park it turns out to be that

the secret of the non gvt of this

Sequoia and it says that these trees

have very thin bark extremely thin bark

it's very easy for insects and for pests

to penetrate this part but this bark

excretes a substance called tanning that

kills all these insects and all these

pests they cannot penetrate this thick

bark because unlike other trees it has

this substance that would kill the moans

on touch and that's the nature of the

Christian faith you have seen skin like

everybody else and you suffer if you

have the face and the knowledge from the

gospel no communist propaganda thing

no no idea can penetrate tell you my

last confirmation class in Romania I am

a Lutheran pastor and I took a group of

10 15 boys and girls on Sunday morning

to the zoological garden before the den

of lions and tigers and there I told

them your forefathers in face the throne

before the

beasts for the love to Christ and they

died gladly for their Savior you also

may be arrested maybe beaten or killed

decide here and now if you wish to be

Christians or not they had tears in

their eyes when they said yes and then

we didn't bother them anymore

asking them Bible verses they didn't

know them we have no Bible then they

they are arrested every scene was taken

from us everything everything even our

clothes we were put in a prisoner

uniform but what we had gathered in our

heart nobody could take it away nobody

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