WEBVTT 00:00:00.898 --> 00:00:07.438 The Reverend G. N. Gordon and his wife. 00:00:07.438 --> 00:00:09.540 "They went to Erromango 00:00:09.540 --> 00:00:12.049 on the 20th of May, 1861. 00:00:12.049 --> 00:00:13.941 He was working at the roofing 00:00:13.941 --> 00:00:15.239 of the printing office, 00:00:15.239 --> 00:00:17.319 and sent his lads to bring each a load 00:00:17.319 --> 00:00:20.999 of long grass to finish the roof thatching. 00:00:20.999 --> 00:00:23.500 Meantime, a party of Erromangon's 00:00:23.500 --> 00:00:25.430 from a district called Bunk Hill 00:00:25.430 --> 00:00:27.261 under a chief named Lovou 00:00:27.261 --> 00:00:29.240 had been watching him. 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:31.462 They'd been to the mission house inquiring. 00:00:31.462 --> 00:00:33.811 They'd seen him send away his Christian lads, 00:00:33.811 --> 00:00:36.843 so they found him alone. 00:00:36.843 --> 00:00:38.201 They then hid in the bush, 00:00:38.201 --> 00:00:41.400 sent two of their men to the missionary to ask for calico. 00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:44.220 On a piece of wood, he wrote a note to Mrs. Gordon 00:00:44.220 --> 00:00:46.219 to give them two yards each. 00:00:46.219 --> 00:00:48.903 They asked him to go with them to the mission house 00:00:48.903 --> 00:00:51.120 as they needed medicine for a sick boy 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:54.161 and Lovou their chief wanted to see him. 00:00:54.161 --> 00:00:56.510 He tied up in a napkin a meal of food 00:00:56.510 --> 00:00:58.659 which had been brought to him, but not eaten, 00:00:58.659 --> 00:01:00.260 and started to go with them. 00:01:00.260 --> 00:01:02.759 He requested the native Narvalette 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.241 to go on before with his companion, 00:01:05.241 --> 00:01:08.340 but they insisted upon his going in front. 00:01:08.340 --> 00:01:10.550 In crossing a streamlet, 00:01:10.550 --> 00:01:13.382 which I visited shortly afterwards, 00:01:13.382 --> 00:01:15.002 his foot slipped. 00:01:15.002 --> 00:01:17.519 A blow was aimed at him with a tomahawk 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:18.741 which he caught. 00:01:18.741 --> 00:01:21.710 The other man struck, but his weapon was also caught. 00:01:21.710 --> 00:01:23.521 One of the tomahawks was then wrenched 00:01:23.521 --> 00:01:24.960 out of his grasp. 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:26.945 The next moment, a blow on the spine 00:01:26.945 --> 00:01:28.669 laid the dear missionary low. 00:01:28.669 --> 00:01:30.882 A second blow on the neck almost severed 00:01:30.882 --> 00:01:32.392 the head from the body. 00:01:32.392 --> 00:01:34.844 The other natives then rushed from their ambush, 00:01:34.844 --> 00:01:38.561 began dancing around him with frantic shoutings. 00:01:38.561 --> 00:01:40.069 Mrs. Gordon hearing the noise 00:01:40.069 --> 00:01:42.395 came out and stood in front of the mission house 00:01:42.395 --> 00:01:45.061 looking at the direction of her husband's working place 00:01:45.061 --> 00:01:46.911 wondering what was happening. 00:01:46.911 --> 00:01:48.809 Oben, one of the party who had run 00:01:48.809 --> 00:01:51.670 towards the station the moment that Mr. Gordon fell 00:01:51.670 --> 00:01:52.998 now approached her. 00:01:52.998 --> 00:01:55.570 A merciful clump of trees had hid from her eyes 00:01:55.570 --> 00:01:57.311 all that had occurred. 00:01:57.311 --> 00:01:58.450 And she said to Oben, 00:01:58.450 --> 00:02:00.141 "What's the cause of that noise?" 00:02:00.141 --> 00:02:01.442 He replied, "Oh nothing, 00:02:01.442 --> 00:02:03.342 only the boys amusing themselves." 00:02:03.342 --> 00:02:04.879 Saying, "Where are the boys?" 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:05.950 she turned around. 00:02:05.950 --> 00:02:08.000 Oben slipped stealthily behind her, 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.151 sank his tomahawk into her back, 00:02:10.151 --> 00:02:13.150 and with another blow almost severed her head. 00:02:13.150 --> 00:02:14.673 Such was the fate of these two 00:02:14.673 --> 00:02:16.300 devoted servants of the Lord, 00:02:16.300 --> 00:02:19.800 loving in their lives and in their deaths not divided, 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.651 their spirits wearing the crowns of martyrdom 00:02:23.651 --> 00:02:26.541 entered glory together to be welcomed 00:02:26.541 --> 00:02:28.092 by Williams and Harris, 00:02:28.092 --> 00:02:30.170 whose blood was shed near the same 00:02:30.170 --> 00:02:32.090 now hallowed spot 00:02:32.090 --> 00:02:35.091 for the name and cause of Jesus. 00:02:35.091 --> 00:02:37.820 They had labored four years on Erromango 00:02:37.820 --> 00:02:40.213 amidst trials and dangers manifold, 00:02:40.213 --> 00:02:42.761 and had not been without tokens of blessing 00:02:42.761 --> 00:02:43.992 in the Lord's work. 00:02:43.992 --> 00:02:46.092 Never more earnest or devoted missionaries 00:02:46.092 --> 00:02:48.266 lived and died in the heathen field. 00:02:48.266 --> 00:02:50.594 Other accounts indeed have been published 00:02:50.594 --> 00:02:52.052 and another was reported to me 00:02:52.052 --> 00:02:57.143 by Mr. Gordon's Christian lads." 00:02:57.143 --> 00:02:58.563 And he writes this: 00:02:58.563 --> 00:03:02.955 "Some severe criticisms of course 00:03:02.955 --> 00:03:05.313 were written and published 00:03:05.313 --> 00:03:07.774 by those angelic creatures 00:03:07.774 --> 00:03:09.812 who judge all things 00:03:09.812 --> 00:03:13.014 from their own safe and easy distance." NOTE Paragraph 00:03:18.934 --> 00:03:21.566 Everybody ready for this one? 00:03:21.566 --> 00:03:29.162 This one was sent to me Monday, November 26th. 00:03:29.162 --> 00:03:34.251 So this is very new. 00:03:34.251 --> 00:03:40.964 Because this is a current event - 00:03:40.964 --> 00:03:48.432 had John Allen Chau been killed 00:03:48.432 --> 00:03:50.744 as of a week ago tonight? 00:03:50.744 --> 00:03:51.993 When did that happen? 00:03:51.993 --> 00:03:52.764 (from the room) 00:03:52.764 --> 00:03:54.492 I think it was like the week before. 00:03:54.492 --> 00:03:56.713 Tim: Yeah, it seems like it was 10 days ago 00:03:56.713 --> 00:04:01.243 or a week and a half or so. 00:04:01.243 --> 00:04:05.073 But I take it that the question 00:04:05.073 --> 00:04:08.661 hadn't been submitted as of last Tuesday. 00:04:08.661 --> 00:04:12.133 But this is really the only one 00:04:12.133 --> 00:04:14.214 that I want to deal with tonight. 00:04:14.214 --> 00:04:19.692 And I think it is definitely worthy 00:04:19.692 --> 00:04:24.196 of our conversation for at least an hour probably. 00:04:24.196 --> 00:04:29.254 This was submitted by Tricia Hudson. 00:04:29.254 --> 00:04:30.964 She says, 00:04:30.964 --> 00:04:33.113 "Hi James, we've been supporters 00:04:33.113 --> 00:04:34.844 of your ministry and of your church 00:04:34.844 --> 00:04:36.043 for the last three years, 00:04:36.043 --> 00:04:38.533 and so appreciate your labors for the Gospel. 00:04:38.533 --> 00:04:43.117 We were wondering if your ministry 00:04:43.117 --> 00:04:45.834 and your church could address 00:04:45.834 --> 00:04:48.802 the truths and controversies 00:04:48.802 --> 00:04:51.463 around the death of John Chau 00:04:51.463 --> 00:04:54.603 going viral right now on social media 00:04:54.603 --> 00:04:59.241 and the news." 00:04:59.241 --> 00:05:03.811 Now, it looks like they submitted this 00:05:03.811 --> 00:05:06.864 to James just yesterday 00:05:06.864 --> 00:05:11.962 by the date on it. 00:05:11.962 --> 00:05:14.932 Now, I personally don't know about this. 00:05:14.932 --> 00:05:16.551 I mean, I know about him, 00:05:16.551 --> 00:05:20.015 but I don't know about the controversies 00:05:20.015 --> 00:05:21.853 around the death of John Chau. 00:05:21.853 --> 00:05:23.154 Now, I can understand 00:05:23.154 --> 00:05:26.653 and I can imagine what they could be, 00:05:26.653 --> 00:05:28.862 but as far as the "going viral right now 00:05:28.862 --> 00:05:31.101 on social media and the news" - 00:05:31.101 --> 00:05:32.884 I don't know anything about that. 00:05:32.884 --> 00:05:34.793 I don't know what people are saying, 00:05:34.793 --> 00:05:38.454 although like I say, I can imagine. 00:05:38.454 --> 00:05:42.922 "We believe God has used him mightily, 00:05:42.922 --> 00:05:45.873 right or wrong in some of his decisions - 00:05:45.873 --> 00:05:47.983 in the workings of the Kingdom 00:05:47.983 --> 00:05:51.122 because of all the fury and concern 00:05:51.122 --> 00:05:54.272 and hatred this has stirred up." 00:05:54.272 --> 00:05:56.431 So they see this as a good thing. 00:05:56.431 --> 00:05:58.993 And what they're wondering about 00:05:58.993 --> 00:06:05.614 is whether our ministry and our church 00:06:05.614 --> 00:06:08.946 might address this. 00:06:08.946 --> 00:06:13.184 So, she goes on to say this: 00:06:13.184 --> 00:06:15.522 "There definitely is controversy 00:06:15.522 --> 00:06:19.552 regarding his choice to break the law, 00:06:19.552 --> 00:06:21.695 and his method of getting 00:06:21.695 --> 00:06:24.743 to the Sentinelese people, 00:06:24.743 --> 00:06:30.923 but all eyes are on the Sentinelese people now 00:06:30.923 --> 00:06:33.082 and there is nothing but hatred 00:06:33.082 --> 00:06:35.733 for white man and his Christianity 00:06:35.733 --> 00:06:37.713 all over the Internet. 00:06:37.713 --> 00:06:41.095 Christians are silent on many YouTube sites 00:06:41.095 --> 00:06:43.654 and they're not using this as an opportunity 00:06:43.654 --> 00:06:47.293 to share Christ as far as I've observed." 00:06:47.293 --> 00:06:48.902 (From her perspective). 00:06:48.902 --> 00:06:51.104 "Over all within the church, 00:06:51.104 --> 00:06:53.832 there is some confusion. 00:06:53.832 --> 00:06:55.434 Yet, we support missionaries 00:06:55.434 --> 00:06:57.193 as they break the law of the land 00:06:57.193 --> 00:06:59.404 by going to reach unreachable people 00:06:59.404 --> 00:07:01.272 with the Gospel every day 00:07:01.272 --> 00:07:03.211 to closed countries. 00:07:03.211 --> 00:07:05.843 Can you guys encourage the church 00:07:05.843 --> 00:07:07.013 through this event 00:07:07.013 --> 00:07:09.233 and its surrounding controversies 00:07:09.233 --> 00:07:10.841 with a video? 00:07:10.841 --> 00:07:13.571 We would love to hear Pastor Tim's and your thoughts 00:07:13.571 --> 00:07:14.867 and heart on this. 00:07:14.867 --> 00:07:16.315 The Lord bless you all. 00:07:16.315 --> 00:07:27.201 David and Tricia Hudson, Welches, Oregon." NOTE Paragraph 00:07:27.201 --> 00:07:31.958 Now this is an island actually 00:07:31.958 --> 00:07:35.909 that is in the Andaman chain, 00:07:35.909 --> 00:07:39.477 and I think if I've got my geography right 00:07:39.477 --> 00:07:43.849 it's about 700 miles from mainland India. 00:07:43.849 --> 00:07:45.478 So it's way out there. 00:07:45.478 --> 00:07:48.499 It's like a long way away from India 00:07:48.499 --> 00:07:51.829 for it to actually be under India's 00:07:51.829 --> 00:07:53.590 sovereign domain. 00:07:53.590 --> 00:08:00.169 And our brother actually made a trip 00:08:00.169 --> 00:08:02.841 to the Andaman's. 00:08:02.841 --> 00:08:04.859 Some of you may remember. 00:08:04.859 --> 00:08:14.098 And he definitely was interested 00:08:14.098 --> 00:08:19.088 in seeing these people evangelized. 00:08:19.088 --> 00:08:22.420 So are any of you familiar 00:08:22.420 --> 00:08:24.480 with what's happening on social media 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:26.940 that she's talking about? 00:08:26.940 --> 00:08:30.428 Anybody seen anything? 00:08:30.428 --> 00:08:32.761 Okay, you have? 00:08:32.761 --> 00:08:34.390 What have you seen? NOTE Paragraph 00:08:34.390 --> 00:08:35.449 (from the room) 00:08:35.449 --> 00:08:39.186 He paid a fisherman to shuttle him... NOTE Paragraph 00:08:39.186 --> 00:08:41.268 Tim: No, I mean, aside from the facts 00:08:41.268 --> 00:08:42.571 of what he actually did, 00:08:42.571 --> 00:08:44.701 are you seeing any of the controversy 00:08:44.701 --> 00:08:46.390 she's talking about? NOTE Paragraph 00:08:46.390 --> 00:08:47.351 (from the room) 00:08:47.351 --> 00:08:53.339 Yeah, I've seen people making a mockery of him. 00:08:53.339 --> 00:08:57.870 I've heard things like (unintelligible) 00:08:57.870 --> 00:09:03.698 preach Jesus to these indigenous people, 00:09:03.698 --> 00:09:06.089 natives, tribal people. 00:09:06.089 --> 00:09:08.147 They kind of make fun of him. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:08.147 --> 00:09:10.080 Tim: She's actually talking about 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:12.870 "there's nothing but hatred..." 00:09:12.870 --> 00:09:14.390 When you say it like that, 00:09:14.390 --> 00:09:16.962 and she's got "nothing" in all caps. 00:09:16.962 --> 00:09:20.219 "There is NOTHING but hatred 00:09:20.219 --> 00:09:22.178 for white man and his Christianity 00:09:22.178 --> 00:09:23.659 all over the Internet." 00:09:23.659 --> 00:09:26.260 That makes it sound to me like 00:09:26.260 --> 00:09:29.700 she's privy to something. 00:09:29.700 --> 00:09:32.399 Now that maybe more in the circles 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:33.586 she's running in. 00:09:33.586 --> 00:09:36.469 It may be Facebook people 00:09:36.469 --> 00:09:38.859 that she's aware of 00:09:38.859 --> 00:09:44.969 and just familiar circles to her. 00:09:44.969 --> 00:09:52.652 But that's interesting that that perspective is out there. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:52.652 --> 00:09:55.347 Let me just ask you all personally. 00:09:55.347 --> 00:09:59.657 We're going to get to Scripture on this. 00:09:59.657 --> 00:10:02.672 But when you folks - 00:10:02.672 --> 00:10:05.297 does anybody not even know 00:10:05.297 --> 00:10:11.871 who John Allen Chau is? 00:10:11.871 --> 00:10:15.068 So you don't know who he is at all? 00:10:15.068 --> 00:10:21.907 Okay, the North Sentinel island 00:10:21.907 --> 00:10:30.489 is presumably the least reached portion 00:10:30.489 --> 00:10:34.100 on the face of the earth. 00:10:34.100 --> 00:10:37.240 It is an island that basically 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.891 has been left untouched. 00:10:39.891 --> 00:10:44.501 And the Indian government wants it so. 00:10:44.501 --> 00:10:47.631 And these guys are probably 00:10:47.631 --> 00:10:51.818 much like John G. Paton 00:10:51.818 --> 00:10:55.130 would have found in his days. 00:10:55.130 --> 00:10:57.331 You know, basically a South Pacific island - 00:10:57.331 --> 00:10:59.009 yes, this is in the Indian Ocean, 00:10:59.009 --> 00:11:02.628 but it's basically, you know, 00:11:02.628 --> 00:11:05.070 when the Europeans came along 00:11:05.070 --> 00:11:08.891 to Samoa and Tahiti and Vanuatu 00:11:08.891 --> 00:11:10.919 which is the New Hebrides islands, 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:12.861 when they came to these islands - 00:11:12.861 --> 00:11:14.670 well, even Hawaii - 00:11:14.670 --> 00:11:23.359 what you found is they were met by - 00:11:23.359 --> 00:11:27.550 oh, the island of Papua as well - 00:11:27.550 --> 00:11:32.549 you basically met with very dark skinned, 00:11:32.549 --> 00:11:34.605 South Pacific islanders 00:11:34.605 --> 00:11:36.730 that looked like they probably 00:11:36.730 --> 00:11:40.028 have come from Africa. 00:11:40.028 --> 00:11:44.290 Aboriginal type, 00:11:44.290 --> 00:11:48.548 some of them very cannibalistic, 00:11:48.548 --> 00:11:53.980 very primitive, very dark societies 00:11:53.980 --> 00:11:55.368 on these islands. 00:11:55.368 --> 00:11:58.337 And you know, back in the 1800's 00:11:58.337 --> 00:12:00.189 when the missionaries were being sent 00:12:00.189 --> 00:12:01.740 out all over the world, 00:12:01.740 --> 00:12:06.268 these islands were definitely targets. 00:12:06.268 --> 00:12:10.059 And you can read about the history there. 00:12:10.059 --> 00:12:12.251 But North Sentinel island, 00:12:12.251 --> 00:12:15.329 there's a line of islands that runs 00:12:15.329 --> 00:12:20.970 north to south out there in that bay 00:12:20.970 --> 00:12:24.730 between - if you see the map over there, 00:12:24.730 --> 00:12:28.330 you've kind of got the point that comes down 00:12:28.330 --> 00:12:31.470 on India. 00:12:31.470 --> 00:12:36.200 And between there and what drops down there - 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.688 Thailand and Malaysia - 00:12:38.688 --> 00:12:40.956 between them, 00:12:40.956 --> 00:12:44.090 what is that? The Bay of Bengal? 00:12:44.090 --> 00:12:46.439 You've got this Andaman chain. 00:12:46.439 --> 00:12:49.320 And then like the Nicobar islands 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:51.529 are also in that chain to the south. 00:12:51.529 --> 00:12:53.698 Well, towards the bottom 00:12:53.698 --> 00:12:56.199 of the Andabar islands, 00:12:56.199 --> 00:12:58.150 you've got this North Sentinel. 00:12:58.150 --> 00:13:00.129 And basically what the Indian government 00:13:00.129 --> 00:13:03.229 has done is said: nobody can go in there. 00:13:03.229 --> 00:13:05.360 You can't touch these people. 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:06.868 And the thing about it is 00:13:06.868 --> 00:13:09.619 you can look the North Sentinel island up 00:13:09.619 --> 00:13:13.668 on the Internet - YouTube search that - 00:13:13.668 --> 00:13:16.661 and you will find that they have made documentaries. 00:13:16.661 --> 00:13:22.181 (incomplete thought) 00:13:22.181 --> 00:13:25.459 A couple fisherman were washed up there 00:13:25.459 --> 00:13:36.761 and they came out and swiftly killed them both 00:13:36.761 --> 00:13:38.681 and they buried them. 00:13:38.681 --> 00:13:40.588 Somebody was watching, I guess. 00:13:40.588 --> 00:13:42.761 How they knew this was happening, 00:13:42.761 --> 00:13:46.332 somebody must have been off shore watching 00:13:46.332 --> 00:13:48.332 or helicopters came in or something, 00:13:48.332 --> 00:13:50.923 but these two fisherman kind of washed up there. 00:13:50.923 --> 00:13:53.293 They killed them. They buried them. 00:13:53.293 --> 00:13:55.152 Then they dug them back up 00:13:55.152 --> 00:14:01.753 and basically propped them up. 00:14:01.753 --> 00:14:04.381 They tried to send a crew in there 00:14:04.381 --> 00:14:09.202 with somebody to make a documentary. 00:14:09.202 --> 00:14:11.022 I forget exactly who the group was 00:14:11.022 --> 00:14:12.543 that tried to go in there. 00:14:12.543 --> 00:14:14.851 And these guys rushed out of the jungle 00:14:14.851 --> 00:14:16.920 with their spears and arrows 00:14:16.920 --> 00:14:19.851 and they actually put a spear 00:14:19.851 --> 00:14:22.290 through the thigh of one of the guys in the boats. 00:14:22.290 --> 00:14:25.691 I don't think they ever made it to land. 00:14:25.691 --> 00:14:30.232 After the tsunami several years back 00:14:30.232 --> 00:14:35.601 that killed so many in Indonesia, 00:14:35.601 --> 00:14:38.982 they sent a helicopter in there to find out 00:14:38.982 --> 00:14:41.132 because that whole island 00:14:41.132 --> 00:14:43.016 sits relatively low, 00:14:43.016 --> 00:14:45.401 and they were wondering if anybody made it. 00:14:45.401 --> 00:14:47.553 And when they flew the helicopter in there 00:14:47.553 --> 00:14:49.722 they were met with a guy on the beach 00:14:49.722 --> 00:14:51.872 trying to shoot the helicopter down 00:14:51.872 --> 00:14:54.772 with his bow and arrows. 00:14:54.772 --> 00:14:58.362 And so they're hostile. 00:14:58.362 --> 00:15:00.090 (incomplete thought) 00:15:00.090 --> 00:15:02.275 And what happened was - 00:15:02.275 --> 00:15:05.461 this is basically the way you're going to get there - 00:15:05.461 --> 00:15:07.213 is you find a fisherman 00:15:07.213 --> 00:15:09.251 that will take you there. 00:15:09.251 --> 00:15:11.840 Obviously you have to pay him. 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.423 And they know it's illegal, 00:15:13.423 --> 00:15:16.121 so you probably have to pay them pretty well. 00:15:16.121 --> 00:15:22.222 And he went in there with his kayak. 00:15:22.222 --> 00:15:24.312 The fisherman brought him fairly close 00:15:24.312 --> 00:15:27.103 and then dropped him in the water in his kayak, 00:15:27.103 --> 00:15:28.690 and he rode to shore. 00:15:28.690 --> 00:15:30.182 The fisherman was close enough 00:15:30.182 --> 00:15:32.112 and stayed right there and was observing 00:15:32.112 --> 00:15:34.512 to see him go up. 00:15:34.512 --> 00:15:35.561 They killed him. 00:15:35.561 --> 00:15:37.192 They tied a rope around his neck. 00:15:37.192 --> 00:15:38.941 They were dragging his body around. 00:15:38.941 --> 00:15:40.453 So now they're talking about 00:15:40.453 --> 00:15:47.441 whether they even get the body or not. 00:15:47.441 --> 00:15:48.952 That's the thing now 00:15:48.952 --> 00:15:51.652 they're trying to figure out. 00:15:51.652 --> 00:15:53.734 And so, you know the Indian government 00:15:53.734 --> 00:15:56.034 say that this is a treasure, 00:15:56.034 --> 00:15:57.933 this is a priceless possession. 00:15:57.933 --> 00:16:01.022 You know, we've got this untouched society. 00:16:01.022 --> 00:16:02.920 They roughly calculate - 00:16:02.920 --> 00:16:05.192 they say that the island is roughly 00:16:05.192 --> 00:16:06.923 the size of Manhattan. 00:16:06.923 --> 00:16:09.423 They figure there's about 150 people. 00:16:09.423 --> 00:16:11.001 That's just a guess at best 00:16:11.001 --> 00:16:12.921 because it's covered with jungle 00:16:12.921 --> 00:16:15.241 and they really can't see. 00:16:15.241 --> 00:16:17.634 They said that when the guys 00:16:17.634 --> 00:16:19.052 come up in boats 00:16:19.052 --> 00:16:21.111 or they come in helicopters or whatever, 00:16:21.111 --> 00:16:23.575 the people break out onto the beaches. 00:16:23.575 --> 00:16:24.711 They're very crude. 00:16:24.711 --> 00:16:28.861 They do really profane things, 00:16:28.861 --> 00:16:33.554 and of course, they try to kill you. 00:16:33.554 --> 00:16:40.273 That's just their instinctive reaction 00:16:40.273 --> 00:16:41.741 to anybody that comes there 00:16:41.741 --> 00:16:44.421 is they try to kill you. 00:16:44.421 --> 00:16:47.974 And the Indian government, 00:16:47.974 --> 00:16:51.001 they have like a two mile buffer zone 00:16:51.001 --> 00:16:52.862 is what I understand, 00:16:52.862 --> 00:16:55.023 and people are not allowed to go in there. 00:16:55.023 --> 00:16:57.971 They claim they've got this priceless possession. 00:16:57.971 --> 00:17:01.813 They're trying to keep it intact. 00:17:01.813 --> 00:17:05.123 They're afraid that if anybody goes in there, 00:17:05.123 --> 00:17:07.131 they're going to take diseases in there 00:17:07.131 --> 00:17:09.700 that the people are not accustomed to 00:17:09.700 --> 00:17:13.071 and it's going to wipe them all out. 00:17:13.071 --> 00:17:15.383 I think they've actually, 00:17:15.383 --> 00:17:16.594 like after the tsunami, 00:17:16.594 --> 00:17:19.240 I believe that when they flew that helicopter in there, 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:20.483 they were dropping gifts, 00:17:20.483 --> 00:17:23.465 but they say gifts don't appease these people at all. 00:17:23.465 --> 00:17:25.271 They don't care for your gifts. 00:17:25.271 --> 00:17:27.023 They will just kill you. 00:17:27.023 --> 00:17:30.237 So there's been shipwrecks there. 00:17:30.237 --> 00:17:33.931 They said that a ship wrecked there 00:17:33.931 --> 00:17:36.411 in a storm a number of years ago 00:17:36.411 --> 00:17:41.931 and they were trying to attack those people too. 00:17:41.931 --> 00:17:44.401 I think they were rescued. 00:17:44.401 --> 00:17:48.441 I don't know if by boat or by air. 00:17:48.441 --> 00:17:52.242 But they needed to be rescued 00:17:52.242 --> 00:17:54.252 because the people were obviously 00:17:54.252 --> 00:17:58.665 showing themselves to be very hostile. 00:17:58.665 --> 00:18:06.062 So, this guy is a Christian. 00:18:06.062 --> 00:18:09.611 He's been thinking about 00:18:09.611 --> 00:18:12.413 North Sentinel island for a long time. 00:18:12.413 --> 00:18:14.061 It definitely has a reputation. 00:18:14.061 --> 00:18:20.084 I've known about it for a number of years. 00:18:20.084 --> 00:18:22.051 I think he might have been the one 00:18:22.051 --> 00:18:24.145 that first brought it to my attention 00:18:24.145 --> 00:18:25.943 about it being unreached, 00:18:25.943 --> 00:18:29.390 and he was actually thinking about 00:18:29.390 --> 00:18:38.232 is there a way. 00:18:38.232 --> 00:18:42.231 So that's to bring you folks up to speed, 00:18:42.231 --> 00:18:44.341 those of you that have never heard of him, 00:18:44.341 --> 00:18:45.871 that's what's happened. NOTE Paragraph 00:18:45.871 --> 00:18:49.024 Now for those of you that do know 00:18:49.024 --> 00:18:50.323 about the account, 00:18:50.323 --> 00:18:53.642 how did you respond when you heard? 00:18:53.642 --> 00:18:55.781 Did you just not care? 00:18:55.781 --> 00:18:57.342 Did you think, well, that idiot, 00:18:57.342 --> 00:19:00.241 why did he do that? 00:19:00.241 --> 00:19:01.773 Those of you that do know... 00:19:01.773 --> 00:19:04.702 now did you not know and you did know? 00:19:04.702 --> 00:19:06.712 (unintelligible) 00:19:06.712 --> 00:19:08.592 Okay. 00:19:08.592 --> 00:19:12.713 But what were the thoughts? 00:19:12.713 --> 00:19:14.682 Did you have any thoughts 00:19:14.682 --> 00:19:16.882 about him doing that? 00:19:16.882 --> 00:19:17.884 (from the room) 00:19:17.884 --> 00:19:21.801 I thought, wow, praise the Lord, 00:19:21.801 --> 00:19:26.763 someone actually went there. 00:19:26.763 --> 00:19:29.278 That was my thought. 00:19:29.278 --> 00:19:32.532 It reminded me of Jim Elliot 00:19:32.532 --> 00:19:35.763 and the other four. 00:19:35.763 --> 00:19:38.654 Yeah, I didn't know much about it, 00:19:38.654 --> 00:19:41.292 but it made me think wow, 00:19:41.292 --> 00:19:45.202 maybe this will stir people up in a good way. NOTE Paragraph 00:19:45.202 --> 00:19:46.632 Tim: You know the difference 00:19:46.632 --> 00:19:52.472 between Jim Elliot and John Allen Chau? 00:19:52.472 --> 00:19:58.703 The big difference? 00:19:58.703 --> 00:20:01.232 Seventy years. 00:20:01.232 --> 00:20:02.612 That's the big difference. 00:20:02.612 --> 00:20:07.773 Time makes heroes out of people. 00:20:07.773 --> 00:20:13.073 Listen, we look back at Elliot 00:20:13.073 --> 00:20:15.712 and we say: Wow! 00:20:15.712 --> 00:20:17.081 All the books are written, 00:20:17.081 --> 00:20:18.630 the movies are made. 00:20:18.630 --> 00:20:20.739 He's a hero. 00:20:20.739 --> 00:20:24.762 The five martyrs. 00:20:24.762 --> 00:20:26.702 But you know when he was first 00:20:26.702 --> 00:20:28.421 looking to go down there, 00:20:28.421 --> 00:20:30.222 people were trying to persuade him 00:20:30.222 --> 00:20:31.361 not to go down there. 00:20:31.361 --> 00:20:32.751 This isn't a good idea. 00:20:32.751 --> 00:20:34.642 You're too gifted for this. 00:20:34.642 --> 00:20:38.942 You need to stay here. 00:20:38.942 --> 00:20:40.242 These guys down there, 00:20:40.242 --> 00:20:44.040 they were quite gifted young men. 00:20:44.040 --> 00:20:46.561 People were saying don't throw your gifts away. 00:20:46.561 --> 00:20:49.602 Don't go to these primitive people. 00:20:49.602 --> 00:20:51.590 Look, when it's in your day - 00:20:51.590 --> 00:20:55.953 it's kind of like the prophet. 00:20:55.953 --> 00:21:00.301 He's honored everywhere but where? 00:21:00.301 --> 00:21:02.681 Right, his own hometown. 00:21:02.681 --> 00:21:06.764 And that's so often, 00:21:06.764 --> 00:21:10.633 it's the same kind of principle. 00:21:10.633 --> 00:21:13.942 That's more of a geographical, 00:21:13.942 --> 00:21:18.012 but the time element is relevant as well. 00:21:18.012 --> 00:21:20.702 Because it's kind of like if you can remove him 00:21:20.702 --> 00:21:23.032 to another century, 00:21:23.032 --> 00:21:25.472 then all of a sudden, he's a hero. 00:21:25.472 --> 00:21:27.431 But you know if you go back 00:21:27.431 --> 00:21:31.501 and you actually look and you read, 00:21:31.501 --> 00:21:33.362 when William Carey was thinking about 00:21:33.362 --> 00:21:39.262 cutting loose for India - 00:21:39.262 --> 00:21:40.630 I heard a brother, 00:21:40.630 --> 00:21:42.488 I don't know where he came across this. 00:21:42.488 --> 00:21:45.181 I can't remember in my own mind 00:21:45.181 --> 00:21:46.822 actually reading this anywhere, 00:21:46.822 --> 00:21:48.991 but he read somewhere 00:21:48.991 --> 00:21:53.569 where I believe it was a Baptist periodical 00:21:53.569 --> 00:21:55.491 from William Carey's day 00:21:55.491 --> 00:21:57.280 and they basically wrote an article 00:21:57.280 --> 00:22:02.791 that said we see no hope of success 00:22:02.791 --> 00:22:06.132 in William Carey's venture to India. 00:22:06.132 --> 00:22:09.301 That's basically the way they summed it up. 00:22:09.301 --> 00:22:16.740 Uh huh. Not going to work. 00:22:16.740 --> 00:22:20.421 But what was the issue? 00:22:20.421 --> 00:22:25.300 The issue was we know William Carey. 00:22:25.300 --> 00:22:28.312 I mean, we know the guy. 00:22:28.312 --> 00:22:32.170 For us, it's far removed. 00:22:32.170 --> 00:22:37.072 We have the books in our library. 00:22:37.072 --> 00:22:40.160 You see, for people to jump right out and say: 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:43.871 John Chau is a martyr 00:22:43.871 --> 00:22:46.431 and put him in the same class, 00:22:46.431 --> 00:22:50.132 the same place that we put a Jim Elliot, 00:22:50.132 --> 00:22:51.890 people are probably very hesitant 00:22:51.890 --> 00:22:58.197 because they're like, well, you know, 00:22:58.197 --> 00:23:00.718 was he just foolish? 00:23:00.718 --> 00:23:04.832 We see no prospect in any success there. 00:23:04.832 --> 00:23:07.300 Didn't he know that if he went to those beaches, 00:23:07.300 --> 00:23:09.290 they were going to come out and kill him? 00:23:09.290 --> 00:23:13.371 I mean, come on, there's never been an exception. 00:23:13.371 --> 00:23:16.631 Well, was he really a Christian? 00:23:16.631 --> 00:23:18.482 Was he a fanatic? 00:23:18.482 --> 00:23:21.651 Was it just some adventure gone bad? 00:23:21.651 --> 00:23:25.300 Could the guy have been climbing Mount Everest last week 00:23:25.300 --> 00:23:28.091 and this was just an adventurous thing to try to do? 00:23:28.091 --> 00:23:30.668 What were they saying about William Carey in that day? 00:23:30.668 --> 00:23:35.861 What were they saying about John G. Paton in his day? 00:23:35.861 --> 00:23:37.452 You see, that's the thing. 00:23:37.452 --> 00:23:41.051 There's this removal of time. 00:23:41.051 --> 00:23:44.471 Listen, I'll tell you this, 00:23:44.471 --> 00:23:47.391 we have it on good authority 00:23:47.391 --> 00:23:51.181 that every tribe and every language 00:23:51.181 --> 00:23:54.041 and every people and every nation 00:23:54.041 --> 00:23:57.399 are going to be represented 00:23:57.399 --> 00:24:00.411 before the throne. 00:24:00.411 --> 00:24:04.361 North Sentinelese people 00:24:04.361 --> 00:24:07.190 are going to be there. 00:24:07.190 --> 00:24:13.511 Now, when that first convert is saved, 00:24:13.511 --> 00:24:16.282 see, by the time that happens, 00:24:16.282 --> 00:24:18.920 with that being one of the darkest places in the world, 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.582 who knows? 00:24:21.582 --> 00:24:23.490 I mean, hastening the day of His coming 00:24:23.490 --> 00:24:25.445 may be reaching that island. 00:24:25.445 --> 00:24:27.782 And when the first converts are made, 00:24:27.782 --> 00:24:29.953 somebody will probably look back 00:24:29.953 --> 00:24:32.431 at John Chau, 00:24:32.431 --> 00:24:36.443 and by then, it may be 75 years removed. 00:24:36.443 --> 00:24:37.832 It may be like Jim Elliot, 00:24:37.832 --> 00:24:39.093 like us looking back. 00:24:39.093 --> 00:24:40.530 Remember when that brave guy, 00:24:40.530 --> 00:24:41.541 he went up there, 00:24:41.541 --> 00:24:45.252 and they just came right out on the beaches? 00:24:45.252 --> 00:24:46.631 He no more than laid foot 00:24:46.631 --> 00:24:48.471 on the shore of that island. 00:24:48.471 --> 00:24:50.903 See today, you've got all your news media 00:24:50.903 --> 00:24:52.790 and most of them are liberal. 00:24:52.790 --> 00:24:56.091 And even Fox and your more conservative, 00:24:56.091 --> 00:24:57.741 are they really pro-Christian? 00:24:57.741 --> 00:25:00.312 I mean, maybe they're going to give it a better slant. 00:25:00.312 --> 00:25:03.321 I don't know what all the news agencies are saying about it. 00:25:03.321 --> 00:25:06.162 But if these folks are right, 00:25:06.162 --> 00:25:07.522 what's happening out there? 00:25:07.522 --> 00:25:09.231 The guy's being counted a fool. 00:25:09.231 --> 00:25:12.911 He's being counted some zealot? 00:25:12.911 --> 00:25:15.739 Some white guy bringing his white religion 00:25:15.739 --> 00:25:17.759 and trying to press it upon other people 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:20.333 and probably saying he deserved it. 00:25:20.333 --> 00:25:23.541 Serves him right. NOTE Paragraph 00:25:23.541 --> 00:25:28.131 Well, I went and dug my copy 00:25:28.131 --> 00:25:30.202 of John G. out, 00:25:30.202 --> 00:25:37.400 (incomplete thought). 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:40.831 John G. Paton went - 00:25:40.831 --> 00:25:43.379 it's called Vanuatu today. 00:25:43.379 --> 00:25:45.169 This is a string of islands 00:25:45.169 --> 00:25:52.880 off the east coast of Australia. 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:55.368 In that day, they were called the New Hebrides. 00:25:55.368 --> 00:25:57.918 The Hebrides are actually some islands 00:25:57.918 --> 00:25:59.721 up near Scotland 00:25:59.721 --> 00:26:02.839 where revival broke out at another time. 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:05.088 These were the New Hebrides islands. 00:26:05.088 --> 00:26:07.069 John G. Paton, 00:26:07.069 --> 00:26:11.770 a Scottish Presbyterian. 00:26:11.770 --> 00:26:15.612 Listen, "When it became known 00:26:15.612 --> 00:26:17.601 that I was preparing to go abroad 00:26:17.601 --> 00:26:19.939 as a missionary, nearly all 00:26:19.939 --> 00:26:23.810 were dead against the proposal." 00:26:23.810 --> 00:26:26.531 Okay, Chau. 00:26:26.531 --> 00:26:29.102 You think a lot of people were against it? 00:26:29.102 --> 00:26:31.101 By the reaction on social media, 00:26:31.101 --> 00:26:34.030 what do you think? 00:26:34.030 --> 00:26:39.231 I even remember when a brother 00:26:39.231 --> 00:26:40.890 was just looking at going to visit 00:26:40.890 --> 00:26:42.378 the Andaman islands, 00:26:42.378 --> 00:26:44.417 and there were the naysayers. 00:26:44.417 --> 00:26:46.261 You shouldn't go. You shouldn't do it. 00:26:46.261 --> 00:26:47.259 He's not equipped. 00:26:47.259 --> 00:26:49.126 He's going to bungle this thing. 00:26:49.126 --> 00:26:53.408 (incomplete thought) 00:26:53.408 --> 00:26:54.940 And you do wonder. 00:26:54.940 --> 00:26:57.772 We do want to have some sense, 00:26:57.772 --> 00:26:59.528 well, okay, is this God's will? 00:26:59.528 --> 00:27:00.940 We don't want to be foolish. 00:27:00.940 --> 00:27:03.172 We don't want to be presumptuous at this point. 00:27:03.172 --> 00:27:04.290 But you know, there's always somebody 00:27:04.290 --> 00:27:06.117 that's going to believe you're being presumptuous. 00:27:06.117 --> 00:27:08.209 There's always somebody that's the naysayer. 00:27:08.209 --> 00:27:10.219 I guarantee you, Jim Elliot heard it. 00:27:10.219 --> 00:27:12.470 I guarantee you that William Carey heard it. 00:27:12.470 --> 00:27:14.690 I guarantee you John G. Paton heard it. 00:27:14.690 --> 00:27:16.189 I guarantee you Hudson Taylor - 00:27:16.189 --> 00:27:18.139 all you've got to do is read the biographies. 00:27:18.139 --> 00:27:19.933 In their day, when they weren't 00:27:19.933 --> 00:27:22.180 the largely acclaimed, 00:27:22.180 --> 00:27:24.561 centuries old missionary 00:27:24.561 --> 00:27:26.540 who's books are on our shelf, 00:27:26.540 --> 00:27:27.740 when it's not that, 00:27:27.740 --> 00:27:30.040 when it's the guy that you know, 00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:31.870 then people look at him as the prophet 00:27:31.870 --> 00:27:33.910 as he's not with honor 00:27:33.910 --> 00:27:36.040 right there in his own hometown, 00:27:36.040 --> 00:27:37.199 in his own home church, 00:27:37.199 --> 00:27:38.510 and among his own generation 00:27:38.510 --> 00:27:40.290 where the people know him, they can look at him, 00:27:40.290 --> 00:27:42.659 and they recognize, well, he's a guy with flaws. 00:27:42.659 --> 00:27:44.949 See, we look back now and we say, 00:27:44.949 --> 00:27:46.591 well, of course it was God's will 00:27:46.591 --> 00:27:48.668 for Hudson Taylor to go to China. 00:27:48.668 --> 00:27:51.112 But you see, in his day when he was going, 00:27:51.112 --> 00:27:52.573 when he first got on that ship 00:27:52.573 --> 00:27:53.910 and was sailing over there, 00:27:53.910 --> 00:27:57.040 there weren't big crowds out there on the shore. 00:27:57.040 --> 00:27:58.959 He was kind of going off as a nobody. 00:27:58.959 --> 00:28:01.959 He was going off quietly. 00:28:01.959 --> 00:28:04.149 It's much the same way with all these guys. 00:28:04.149 --> 00:28:06.382 It's like, well, we don't give much prospect 00:28:06.382 --> 00:28:08.688 of any success for this missionary endeavor. 00:28:08.688 --> 00:28:10.601 "When it became known I was preparing 00:28:10.601 --> 00:28:12.051 to go abroad as a missionary, 00:28:12.051 --> 00:28:17.011 nearly all were dead against the proposal." 00:28:17.011 --> 00:28:21.880 He said, "...Except Dr. Bates and my fellow student. 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:23.750 My dear father and mother, however, 00:28:23.750 --> 00:28:26.280 when I consulted them characteristically replied 00:28:26.280 --> 00:28:29.010 that they had long since given me away to the Lord 00:28:29.010 --> 00:28:31.935 and in this matter also would leave me to God's disposal. 00:28:31.935 --> 00:28:34.399 From other quarters, we were besieged 00:28:34.399 --> 00:28:40.503 with the strongest opposition on all sides." 00:28:40.503 --> 00:28:42.193 And here's the thing, 00:28:42.193 --> 00:28:44.263 if he would have gone straight over there 00:28:44.263 --> 00:28:48.267 and died setting his foot on that beach, 00:28:48.267 --> 00:28:49.844 well, then they would have said: 00:28:49.844 --> 00:28:55.582 see, this thing was ill-advised from the beginning. 00:28:55.582 --> 00:28:57.883 See, it's one thing if Chau goes there 00:28:57.883 --> 00:29:02.646 and he gets huddled into one of their huts 00:29:02.646 --> 00:29:04.783 and he actually survives, 00:29:04.783 --> 00:29:07.348 and everybody looks at this like 00:29:07.348 --> 00:29:08.991 it's a miracle of God! 00:29:08.991 --> 00:29:10.846 He got there and they didn't kill him! 00:29:10.846 --> 00:29:11.969 I mean, they kept him. 00:29:11.969 --> 00:29:15.262 And he actually got off the island, 00:29:15.262 --> 00:29:17.036 then everybody says it's a miracle. 00:29:17.036 --> 00:29:20.026 God must have been in it. 00:29:20.026 --> 00:29:21.658 But you see, when he died, 00:29:21.658 --> 00:29:23.669 and he died so quickly, 00:29:23.669 --> 00:29:25.564 then it's like, well, you know, 00:29:25.564 --> 00:29:27.271 it's just like the two fishermen. 00:29:27.271 --> 00:29:30.163 It could have been anybody. NOTE Paragraph 00:29:30.163 --> 00:29:32.434 James: You know, he did make a trip there, 00:29:32.434 --> 00:29:35.040 and survived, and then came back the next day. 00:29:35.040 --> 00:29:36.068 (from the room) 00:29:36.068 --> 00:29:42.501 Yeah, his Bible got shot by an arrow the first day, right? NOTE Paragraph 00:29:42.501 --> 00:29:43.799 Tim: He said, 00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:47.299 "I replied that my mind was finally resolved 00:29:47.299 --> 00:29:49.359 that though I loved my work and my people, 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:50.996 yet I felt that I could leave them 00:29:50.996 --> 00:29:52.281 to the care of Jesus 00:29:52.281 --> 00:29:53.603 who would soon provide them 00:29:53.603 --> 00:29:55.479 a better pastor than I, 00:29:55.479 --> 00:29:58.479 and that with regard to my life amongst the cannibals, 00:29:58.479 --> 00:30:00.270 as I had only once to die, 00:30:00.270 --> 00:30:01.910 I was content to leave the time 00:30:01.910 --> 00:30:06.150 and place and means in the hands of God." 00:30:06.150 --> 00:30:08.992 So, I mean, he went there. 00:30:08.992 --> 00:30:11.937 Who's to say that this Chau 00:30:11.937 --> 00:30:14.438 was not of the exact same mindset? 00:30:14.438 --> 00:30:18.810 Trusting the Lord. NOTE Paragraph 00:30:18.810 --> 00:30:22.168 Let's just ask this question: 00:30:22.168 --> 00:30:25.842 The two times in the book of Acts 00:30:25.842 --> 00:30:28.048 that we love to go to 00:30:28.048 --> 00:30:31.379 (incomplete thought). 00:30:31.379 --> 00:30:33.788 We use these two texts in Acts 00:30:33.788 --> 00:30:35.737 when we talk about any time 00:30:35.737 --> 00:30:41.949 it's appropriate to violate authority, 00:30:41.949 --> 00:30:46.547 to go against authority in our lives; 00:30:46.547 --> 00:30:49.879 when submission to Christ 00:30:49.879 --> 00:30:52.799 trumps whatever lesser authority. 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:55.408 We go to two texts very commonly 00:30:55.408 --> 00:30:58.106 in Acts 4 and Acts 5. 00:30:58.106 --> 00:31:02.945 Now, we will go to those two 00:31:02.945 --> 00:31:05.055 when we're talking about 00:31:05.055 --> 00:31:08.036 when it may be appropriate to obey Christ 00:31:08.036 --> 00:31:10.235 even when we have to disobey 00:31:10.235 --> 00:31:13.278 government authority. 00:31:13.278 --> 00:31:16.468 But if we're all honest, 00:31:16.468 --> 00:31:21.543 look at the two texts that I'm talking about. 00:31:21.543 --> 00:31:32.206 Although they definitely have a broader application. 00:31:32.206 --> 00:31:34.807 Acts 4. 00:31:34.807 --> 00:31:37.371 The very specific situation 00:31:37.371 --> 00:31:38.993 that we're confronted with 00:31:38.993 --> 00:31:43.355 has to do with evangelism. 00:31:43.355 --> 00:31:50.978 It has to do with taking the Gospel to the nations. 00:31:50.978 --> 00:31:55.982 It accords with the Great Commission. 00:31:55.982 --> 00:31:57.484 What do we find? 00:31:57.484 --> 00:32:02.137 We find that in Acts 4 00:32:02.137 --> 00:32:04.335 we know that Peter and John get hauled in 00:32:04.335 --> 00:32:07.147 before the council. 00:32:07.147 --> 00:32:11.517 And when they did, 00:32:11.517 --> 00:32:13.978 you remember the situation. 00:32:13.978 --> 00:32:17.537 That lame man was healed 00:32:17.537 --> 00:32:21.628 at Beautiful Gate and it caused a stir. 00:32:21.628 --> 00:32:24.085 And they were in there preaching the Gospel. 00:32:24.085 --> 00:32:25.639 These guys get hauled in. 00:32:25.639 --> 00:32:27.507 They're before the Sanhedrin. 00:32:27.507 --> 00:32:30.835 In verse 16, these guys are beside themselves. 00:32:30.835 --> 00:32:35.547 They told the disciples to leave 00:32:35.547 --> 00:32:38.099 so that they could confer with one another. 00:32:38.099 --> 00:32:40.327 Verse 16, "What shall we do with these men? 00:32:40.327 --> 00:32:42.486 For that a notable sign has been performed 00:32:42.486 --> 00:32:43.956 through them is evident 00:32:43.956 --> 00:32:45.758 to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 00:32:45.758 --> 00:32:47.637 We cannot deny it. 00:32:47.637 --> 00:32:49.977 But in order that it may spread no further 00:32:49.977 --> 00:32:51.725 among the people, let us warn them 00:32:51.725 --> 00:32:53.925 to speak no more to anyone in this name. 00:32:53.925 --> 00:32:55.807 So they called them, charged them 00:32:55.807 --> 00:32:57.791 not to speak or teach at all 00:32:57.791 --> 00:32:59.879 in the name of Jesus." 00:32:59.879 --> 00:33:01.637 And here's the classic text. 00:33:01.637 --> 00:33:03.157 "Peter and John answered them, 00:33:03.157 --> 00:33:05.057 'Whether it's right in the sight of God 00:33:05.057 --> 00:33:07.616 to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge. 00:33:07.616 --> 00:33:10.938 For we cannot but speak 00:33:10.938 --> 00:33:13.478 of what we have seen and heard.'" 00:33:13.478 --> 00:33:15.220 And then you have a similar passage 00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:22.146 over in chapter 5:29. 00:33:22.146 --> 00:33:25.146 Again, the apostles were arrested. 00:33:25.146 --> 00:33:31.458 They were brought before the officials. 00:33:31.458 --> 00:33:33.188 You remember what happened. 00:33:33.188 --> 00:33:38.045 They supernaturally were not in prison anymore. 00:33:38.045 --> 00:33:39.468 Showed up in the temple. 00:33:39.468 --> 00:33:41.527 They were teaching. 00:33:41.527 --> 00:33:43.696 Verse 26, "The captain and the officers 00:33:43.696 --> 00:33:45.640 went and brought them, not by force, 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:48.161 for they were afraid of being stoned by the people. 00:33:48.161 --> 00:33:49.348 When they had brought them, 00:33:49.348 --> 00:33:50.526 they set them before the council 00:33:50.526 --> 00:33:51.860 and the high priests questioned them, 00:33:51.860 --> 00:33:53.998 saying, 'We strictly charged you 00:33:53.998 --> 00:33:55.498 not to teach in this name. 00:33:55.498 --> 00:33:58.429 Here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching. 00:33:58.429 --> 00:34:01.397 You intend to bring this man's blood upon us.' 00:34:01.397 --> 00:34:03.539 Peter and the apostles answered, 00:34:03.539 --> 00:34:11.040 'We must obey God rather than men.'" 00:34:11.040 --> 00:34:17.169 And so, listen, did Jesus give us a commandment 00:34:17.169 --> 00:34:19.882 to take the Gospel to all the nations? 00:34:19.882 --> 00:34:28.734 Can anybody tell me how it's worded in Mark 15? 00:34:28.734 --> 00:34:31.174 (from the room) Preach the Gospel to every creature. 00:34:31.174 --> 00:34:33.563 Preach the Gospel to every creature. 00:34:33.563 --> 00:34:34.844 And you know what? 00:34:34.844 --> 00:34:37.365 That was one of the passages 00:34:37.365 --> 00:34:42.623 that gripped John G. Paton. 00:34:42.623 --> 00:34:46.984 And you know the story. 00:34:46.984 --> 00:34:55.770 He said concerning this opposing influence, 00:34:55.770 --> 00:34:58.120 he said, "They proved to be a heavy trial to me." 00:34:58.120 --> 00:35:02.164 All the opposition that he was facing. 00:35:02.164 --> 00:35:04.450 But he said with all the opposition, 00:35:04.450 --> 00:35:06.500 "they tended to confirm my determination 00:35:06.500 --> 00:35:08.584 that the path of duty was to go abroad. 00:35:08.584 --> 00:35:10.273 Amongst many who sought to deter me 00:35:10.273 --> 00:35:12.200 was one dear old Christian gentlemen..." 00:35:12.200 --> 00:35:13.169 You've heard this - 00:35:13.169 --> 00:35:15.143 "...Who's crowning argument always was: 00:35:15.143 --> 00:35:16.131 'The cannibals! 00:35:16.131 --> 00:35:18.073 You'll be eaten by the cannibals!' 00:35:18.073 --> 00:35:20.401 At last I replied, 'Mr. Dixon, 00:35:20.401 --> 00:35:21.883 you're advanced in years now 00:35:21.883 --> 00:35:23.581 and your own prospect is soon to be 00:35:23.581 --> 00:35:24.752 laid in the grave, 00:35:24.752 --> 00:35:26.471 there to be eaten by worms. 00:35:26.471 --> 00:35:28.913 I confess to you that if I can but live and die 00:35:28.913 --> 00:35:30.892 serving and honoring the Lord Jesus, 00:35:30.892 --> 00:35:32.452 it will make no difference to me 00:35:32.452 --> 00:35:34.730 whether I'm eaten by cannibals or by worms. 00:35:34.730 --> 00:35:35.740 And in the Great Day, 00:35:35.740 --> 00:35:38.303 my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours 00:35:38.303 --> 00:35:41.742 in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.'" 00:35:41.742 --> 00:35:44.392 (incomplete thought) 00:35:44.392 --> 00:35:47.811 These are the people in his own church. 00:35:47.811 --> 00:35:50.510 These are the Christians closest to him. 00:35:50.510 --> 00:35:54.510 "My dear Green Street people grieved excessively 00:35:54.510 --> 00:35:56.133 at the thought of my leaving them 00:35:56.133 --> 00:35:59.112 and daily plead with me to remain. 00:35:59.112 --> 00:36:01.089 Indeed, the opposition was so strong 00:36:01.089 --> 00:36:03.100 from nearly all and many of them 00:36:03.100 --> 00:36:04.890 warm, Christian friends 00:36:04.890 --> 00:36:06.652 that I was sorely tempted to question 00:36:06.652 --> 00:36:08.734 whether I was carrying out the divine will 00:36:08.734 --> 00:36:13.012 or only some headstrong wish of my own." 00:36:13.012 --> 00:36:15.221 You see, that's going to be the accusation. 00:36:15.221 --> 00:36:17.862 Headstrong wish. It was just an adventure. 00:36:17.862 --> 00:36:19.190 He launched out there. 00:36:19.190 --> 00:36:21.321 By what authority did he do this? 00:36:21.321 --> 00:36:24.131 What missionary society sent him? 00:36:24.131 --> 00:36:25.872 See, that's always the questions. 00:36:25.872 --> 00:36:27.483 There's got to be some authority. 00:36:27.483 --> 00:36:29.800 Well, he's got to be sent by the right people. 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:31.891 Or he's got to be sent by the right church. 00:36:31.891 --> 00:36:33.931 What right did he have to go over there? 00:36:33.931 --> 00:36:35.773 What right did he have to do this? 00:36:35.773 --> 00:36:40.514 Throw his life away like that? 00:36:40.514 --> 00:36:42.931 He said, "This also caused me much anxiety, 00:36:42.931 --> 00:36:45.481 drove me close to God in prayer." 00:36:45.481 --> 00:36:52.193 See, we don't know how much he prayed about this. 00:36:52.193 --> 00:36:53.942 He said, "Conscience said louder 00:36:53.942 --> 00:36:55.483 and clearer every day: 00:36:55.483 --> 00:36:58.212 leave all these results with Jesus, your Lord, 00:36:58.212 --> 00:37:00.333 who said, 'Go ye into all the world; 00:37:00.333 --> 00:37:02.523 preach the Gospel to every creature, 00:37:02.523 --> 00:37:05.311 and lo, I am with you alway.' 00:37:05.311 --> 00:37:07.212 These words kept ringing in my ears. 00:37:07.212 --> 00:37:09.062 These were our marching orders." 00:37:09.062 --> 00:37:10.914 Who is going to say 00:37:10.914 --> 00:37:13.831 it's not the marching orders of Christians 00:37:13.831 --> 00:37:17.017 to take the Gospel to North Sentinel island? 00:37:17.017 --> 00:37:18.842 It is our marching order 00:37:18.842 --> 00:37:22.112 from the risen Christ to take the Gospel 00:37:22.112 --> 00:37:26.125 into every nation and preach it to every creature. 00:37:26.125 --> 00:37:29.712 That does not exclude North Sentinel island. 00:37:29.712 --> 00:37:33.042 And here is a man who put his life on the altar. 00:37:33.042 --> 00:37:35.739 He was willing to lay his life down to go do it. 00:37:35.739 --> 00:37:37.673 And are we going to rise up and say 00:37:37.673 --> 00:37:40.951 well, he was wrong? 00:37:40.951 --> 00:37:42.730 "Some retorted to him, 00:37:42.730 --> 00:37:44.462 'There are heathen at home. 00:37:44.462 --> 00:37:46.701 Let us seek and save first of all 00:37:46.701 --> 00:37:49.269 the lost ones perishing at our doors.' 00:37:49.269 --> 00:37:50.829 This I felt to be most true 00:37:50.829 --> 00:37:52.084 and an appalling fact, 00:37:52.084 --> 00:37:53.606 but I unfailingly observed 00:37:53.606 --> 00:37:57.546 that those who made this retort 00:37:57.546 --> 00:38:01.043 neglected these home heathen themselves. 00:38:01.043 --> 00:38:02.781 And so the objection has from them 00:38:02.781 --> 00:38:04.412 lost all its power. 00:38:04.412 --> 00:38:06.151 They would ungrudgingly spend more 00:38:06.151 --> 00:38:09.994 on a fashionable party at dinner or tea, 00:38:09.994 --> 00:38:12.063 on a concert or ball or theatre, 00:38:12.063 --> 00:38:14.833 or on some ostentatious display 00:38:14.833 --> 00:38:16.663 or worldly and selfish indulgence 00:38:16.663 --> 00:38:19.441 ten times more perhaps in a single day 00:38:19.441 --> 00:38:21.245 than they would give in a year 00:38:21.245 --> 00:38:22.433 or in half of a lifetime 00:38:22.433 --> 00:38:24.991 for the conversion of the whole heathen world 00:38:24.991 --> 00:38:26.605 either at home or abroad. 00:38:26.605 --> 00:38:28.336 Objections from such people 00:38:28.336 --> 00:38:30.815 must of course always count for nothing 00:38:30.815 --> 00:38:33.909 among men of whom spiritual things are realities. 00:38:33.909 --> 00:38:35.406 For these people themselves 00:38:35.406 --> 00:38:38.037 I do and always did only pity them 00:38:38.037 --> 00:38:40.478 as God's stewards making such a miserable 00:38:40.478 --> 00:38:41.738 use of time and money 00:38:41.738 --> 00:38:45.907 entrusted to their care." NOTE Paragraph 00:38:45.907 --> 00:38:55.927 So, listen. 00:38:55.927 --> 00:38:57.307 Let me tell you something 00:38:57.307 --> 00:39:00.867 that you may not know. 00:39:00.867 --> 00:39:04.968 John G. Paton - 00:39:04.968 --> 00:39:11.597 he went to these islands 00:39:11.597 --> 00:39:14.453 and they didn't kill him. 00:39:14.453 --> 00:39:20.395 But they thought to and they schemed to. 00:39:20.395 --> 00:39:25.866 But I want to tell you something about his going 00:39:25.866 --> 00:39:29.406 back in the 1800's - 00:39:29.406 --> 00:39:42.011 a hundred and sixty, seventy years ago. 00:39:42.011 --> 00:39:45.523 In his autobiography, he says this: 00:39:45.523 --> 00:39:47.872 "A glance backwards over the story 00:39:47.872 --> 00:39:49.663 of the Gospel in the New Hebrides 00:39:49.663 --> 00:39:52.331 may help to bring my readers into touch 00:39:52.331 --> 00:39:56.270 with the events that are to follow. 00:39:56.270 --> 00:40:01.055 The ever famous names of Williams and Harris 00:40:01.055 --> 00:40:03.281 are associated with the earliest efforts 00:40:03.281 --> 00:40:06.132 to introduce Christianity among the group of islands 00:40:06.132 --> 00:40:08.332 in the South Pacific Seas. 00:40:08.332 --> 00:40:11.813 John Williams and his young missionary companion Harris, 00:40:11.813 --> 00:40:15.323 under the auspices of the London Missionary Society 00:40:15.323 --> 00:40:17.651 landed on Erromango 00:40:17.651 --> 00:40:21.723 the 30th of November, 1839. 00:40:21.723 --> 00:40:25.142 Alas, within a few minutes of their touching land, 00:40:25.142 --> 00:40:26.982 both were clubbed to death 00:40:26.982 --> 00:40:29.111 and the savages proceeded to cook 00:40:29.111 --> 00:40:31.182 and feast upon their bodies." 00:40:31.182 --> 00:40:33.323 You remember those two names. 00:40:33.323 --> 00:40:35.412 Williams and Harris. 00:40:35.412 --> 00:40:37.546 They set foot on Erromango 00:40:37.546 --> 00:40:47.041 and they were dead and eaten like that. 00:40:47.041 --> 00:40:53.272 See, it's all perspective. 00:40:53.272 --> 00:41:00.242 Listen to Paton's assessment of this: 00:41:00.242 --> 00:41:04.932 "Thus were the New Hebrides baptized 00:41:04.932 --> 00:41:07.511 with the blood of martyrs, 00:41:07.511 --> 00:41:11.563 and Christ thereby told the whole Christian world 00:41:11.563 --> 00:41:18.083 that He claimed these islands as His own. 00:41:18.083 --> 00:41:22.003 His cross must yet be lifted up 00:41:22.003 --> 00:41:23.491 where the blood of His saints 00:41:23.491 --> 00:41:26.240 has been poured forth in His name. 00:41:26.240 --> 00:41:29.404 The poor heathen knew not 00:41:29.404 --> 00:41:34.062 that they had slain their best friends, 00:41:34.062 --> 00:41:38.356 but tears and prayers ascended for them 00:41:38.356 --> 00:41:41.092 from all Christian souls 00:41:41.092 --> 00:41:44.373 wherever the story of the martyrdom on Erromango 00:41:44.373 --> 00:41:46.124 was read or heard." 00:41:46.124 --> 00:41:48.542 And you know what's interesting? 00:41:48.542 --> 00:41:53.302 I just happened about two or three years ago, 00:41:53.302 --> 00:41:56.742 I just happened to find - 00:41:56.742 --> 00:41:59.262 I don't even remember how I found it - 00:41:59.262 --> 00:42:03.515 I happened to find a news reel 00:42:03.515 --> 00:42:08.313 that the 170th anniversary 00:42:08.313 --> 00:42:12.434 of the killing of these two guys 00:42:12.434 --> 00:42:18.735 was being celebrated in Vanuatu, Erromango. 00:42:18.735 --> 00:42:21.303 And you know what was amazing? 00:42:21.303 --> 00:42:26.234 The descendants of Williams and Harris 00:42:26.234 --> 00:42:29.975 came to Erromango to meet 00:42:29.975 --> 00:42:32.864 the descendants of the people 00:42:32.864 --> 00:42:39.462 who killed and ate their ancestors. 00:42:39.462 --> 00:42:45.693 These British descendants of Williams and Harris 00:42:45.693 --> 00:42:48.772 didn't even seem like they were genuine Christians - 00:42:48.772 --> 00:42:52.814 probably very formal, religious, but cold, 00:42:52.814 --> 00:42:56.443 and I doubt they were Christians. 00:42:56.443 --> 00:42:58.874 These Erromangons came out - 00:42:58.874 --> 00:43:02.014 they were so full of joy. 00:43:02.014 --> 00:43:07.142 It's like, wow, 170 years later 00:43:07.142 --> 00:43:08.833 and the descendants of these people 00:43:08.833 --> 00:43:13.043 are probably just atheists 00:43:13.043 --> 00:43:16.083 or stale, dead religionists, 00:43:16.083 --> 00:43:18.163 and the Erromangons seem like 00:43:18.163 --> 00:43:21.750 they were just full of the joy of the Lord 00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:23.032 is what it seemed like. 00:43:23.032 --> 00:43:27.063 You could probably find that somewhere. 00:43:27.063 --> 00:43:34.782 Listen, if we've got the right perspective 00:43:34.782 --> 00:43:36.992 and Christ put something in this guy 00:43:36.992 --> 00:43:39.102 and he was willing to lay down his life 00:43:39.102 --> 00:43:42.452 that Christ be proclaimed to every creature; 00:43:42.452 --> 00:43:44.193 he felt it his responsibility - 00:43:44.193 --> 00:43:45.652 and if you hear the stories, 00:43:45.652 --> 00:43:48.274 it was burning inside of him for some time. 00:43:48.274 --> 00:43:53.052 Like he's been talking about this for years. 00:43:53.052 --> 00:43:56.842 Then can we not say the same thing? 00:43:56.842 --> 00:44:01.313 I mean, Sunday, I actually heard 00:44:01.313 --> 00:44:08.641 it being strategized in our own church 00:44:08.641 --> 00:44:10.650 how somebody in our own church 00:44:10.650 --> 00:44:15.042 could now reach it. 00:44:15.042 --> 00:44:16.821 (incomplete thought) 00:44:16.821 --> 00:44:19.354 You know, the text that comes to my mind 00:44:19.354 --> 00:44:22.063 is the one that I know James dealt with in Philippians, 00:44:22.063 --> 00:44:24.925 that some preach the Gospel 00:44:24.925 --> 00:44:26.272 for the right reasons; 00:44:26.272 --> 00:44:28.873 some out of envy and jealousy 00:44:28.873 --> 00:44:33.773 were preaching the Gospel - 00:44:33.773 --> 00:44:36.282 no, actually right before that 00:44:36.282 --> 00:44:38.234 he's talking about his suffering, 00:44:38.234 --> 00:44:43.634 and he's talking about how it made people bold - 00:44:43.634 --> 00:44:45.853 even though he's suffering, 00:44:45.853 --> 00:44:47.372 it's making other people bolder 00:44:47.372 --> 00:44:48.784 to proclaim the Gospel. 00:44:48.784 --> 00:44:50.093 Then he goes on to say 00:44:50.093 --> 00:44:51.842 some do it for the right reasons, 00:44:51.842 --> 00:44:53.907 and some for not the right reasons. 00:44:53.907 --> 00:44:58.472 But I think that that's what's going to happen here. 00:44:58.472 --> 00:45:01.402 I think that what this is going to do - 00:45:01.402 --> 00:45:04.603 look, if we've got people strategizing in our church - 00:45:04.603 --> 00:45:06.033 people who you would not think 00:45:06.033 --> 00:45:08.812 would be thinking about going 00:45:08.812 --> 00:45:12.291 to Mexico, let alone 00:45:12.291 --> 00:45:14.473 going to North Sentinel island, 00:45:14.473 --> 00:45:15.792 they're there strategizing. 00:45:15.792 --> 00:45:17.063 It just made me think, 00:45:17.063 --> 00:45:18.601 you know what, that's happening 00:45:18.601 --> 00:45:21.633 all over the world among God's people right now. 00:45:21.633 --> 00:45:23.396 And what this is going to do 00:45:23.396 --> 00:45:27.012 is undoubtedly, if this was 00:45:27.012 --> 00:45:28.803 one of God's people, 00:45:28.803 --> 00:45:32.002 and that blood was spilled there, 00:45:32.002 --> 00:45:34.444 believe me, it won't be in vain - 00:45:34.444 --> 00:45:37.783 any more in vain than Williams and Harris, 00:45:37.783 --> 00:45:41.993 because somebody's got to put their foot on the shore. 00:45:41.993 --> 00:45:45.215 Somebody's got to be the first one to do it. 00:45:45.215 --> 00:45:49.903 Look, how do people get saved? 00:45:49.903 --> 00:45:53.514 I mean, we recognize, 00:45:53.514 --> 00:45:57.041 we recognize the truths of Romans 10. 00:45:57.041 --> 00:46:00.153 We recognize that they are not going to call 00:46:00.153 --> 00:46:03.485 upon a Lord, a Christ, that they don't believe in. 00:46:03.485 --> 00:46:05.252 And they're not going to believe 00:46:05.252 --> 00:46:06.505 unless they hear. 00:46:06.505 --> 00:46:08.642 And listen, they're not going to hear 00:46:08.642 --> 00:46:10.811 unless somebody is preaching. 00:46:10.811 --> 00:46:13.915 And not anybody is going to set a foot on there to preach 00:46:13.915 --> 00:46:15.143 unless they're sent. 00:46:15.143 --> 00:46:17.710 And whether they're sent by the Spirit 00:46:17.710 --> 00:46:22.572 without any other kind of missionary enterprise 00:46:22.572 --> 00:46:28.694 or missionary association, 00:46:28.694 --> 00:46:31.453 but somebody's got to go. 00:46:31.453 --> 00:46:34.943 (incomplete thought) 00:46:34.943 --> 00:46:36.873 People are thinking: 00:46:36.873 --> 00:46:39.005 Well, maybe we could communicate with them 00:46:39.005 --> 00:46:41.403 in a pictorial fashion. 00:46:41.403 --> 00:46:44.454 Listen, here's the thing that is a reality: 00:46:44.454 --> 00:46:47.153 From the time that somebody lands - 00:46:47.153 --> 00:46:51.061 look, you can only go so far with pictures. 00:46:51.061 --> 00:46:53.434 You've got to learn their language. 00:46:53.434 --> 00:46:54.813 And you know what happens 00:46:54.813 --> 00:46:59.285 during the time you're learning the language? 00:46:59.285 --> 00:47:09.895 Things often don't go well. NOTE Paragraph 00:47:09.895 --> 00:47:11.912 "May 1861" 00:47:11.912 --> 00:47:15.583 Let me tell you something about Erromango. 00:47:15.583 --> 00:47:17.093 Others came afterwards. 00:47:17.093 --> 00:47:19.223 Now, John G. Paton didn't go to Erromango. 00:47:19.223 --> 00:47:22.674 He went to Tana at first. 00:47:22.674 --> 00:47:24.802 He went somewhere else later. 00:47:24.802 --> 00:47:33.553 But the Gordons - this is May, 1861. 00:47:33.553 --> 00:47:36.704 Remember, Harris and Williams died in '39. 00:47:36.704 --> 00:47:40.343 So we're talking 22 years later. 00:47:40.343 --> 00:47:42.152 "May 1861 brought with it 00:47:42.152 --> 00:47:44.222 a sorrowful and tragic event 00:47:44.222 --> 00:47:46.953 which fell as the very shadow of doom crossed our path." 00:47:46.953 --> 00:47:49.065 Because even the people that came later, 00:47:49.065 --> 00:47:51.472 they were able to set their foot on the shore. 00:47:51.472 --> 00:47:55.383 They weren't immediately clubbed and eaten. 00:47:55.383 --> 00:47:58.451 But in the time it takes to learn the language 00:47:58.451 --> 00:48:01.323 to where you're going to try to impart that language 00:48:01.323 --> 00:48:05.382 and communicate the Gospel to the people, 00:48:05.382 --> 00:48:07.214 that takes some time. 00:48:07.214 --> 00:48:09.273 And even when you're trying to communicate 00:48:09.273 --> 00:48:11.082 the Gospel to the people, 00:48:11.082 --> 00:48:12.613 you've got to understand, 00:48:12.613 --> 00:48:14.901 these people have been in darkness. 00:48:14.901 --> 00:48:16.731 They're demonically controlled. 00:48:16.731 --> 00:48:18.271 There are witch doctors. 00:48:18.271 --> 00:48:24.027 There are forces at work. 00:48:24.027 --> 00:48:26.672 The Reverend G. N. Gordon 00:48:26.672 --> 00:48:31.113 and his wife. 00:48:31.113 --> 00:48:35.341 They "went to Erromango on 20th May, 1861. 00:48:35.341 --> 00:48:37.192 He was working at the roofing 00:48:37.192 --> 00:48:38.673 of the printing office, 00:48:38.673 --> 00:48:40.363 and had sent his lads to bring each 00:48:40.363 --> 00:48:44.462 a load of long grass to finish the roof thatching. 00:48:44.462 --> 00:48:46.623 Meantime, a party of Erromangons 00:48:46.623 --> 00:48:48.761 from a district called Bunk Hill 00:48:48.761 --> 00:48:51.007 under a chief names Lovou 00:48:51.007 --> 00:48:53.027 had been watching him. 00:48:53.027 --> 00:48:55.202 They'd been to the mission house inquiring. 00:48:55.202 --> 00:48:57.550 They'd seen him send away his Christian lads 00:48:57.550 --> 00:49:00.379 so they found him alone. 00:49:00.379 --> 00:49:01.669 They then hid in the bush, 00:49:01.669 --> 00:49:03.538 sent two of their men to the missionary 00:49:03.538 --> 00:49:05.146 to ask for calico. 00:49:05.146 --> 00:49:06.828 On a piece of wood, he wrote a note 00:49:06.828 --> 00:49:09.131 to Mrs. Gordon to give them two yards each. 00:49:09.131 --> 00:49:11.038 They asked him to go with them 00:49:11.038 --> 00:49:12.068 to the mission house 00:49:12.068 --> 00:49:14.701 as they needed medicine for a sick boy, 00:49:14.701 --> 00:49:17.519 and Lovou their chief wanted to see him. 00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:19.861 He tied up in a napkin a meal of food 00:49:19.861 --> 00:49:22.280 which had been brought to him, but not eaten, 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:23.771 and started to go with them. 00:49:23.771 --> 00:49:25.960 He requested the native Narvalette 00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:28.800 to go on before with his companion, 00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:31.821 but they insisted upon his going in front. 00:49:31.821 --> 00:49:34.171 In crossing a streamlet, 00:49:34.171 --> 00:49:36.562 which I visited shortly afterwards, 00:49:36.562 --> 00:49:38.582 his foot slipped. 00:49:38.582 --> 00:49:41.041 A blow was aimed at him with a tomahawk 00:49:41.041 --> 00:49:42.073 which he caught. 00:49:42.073 --> 00:49:43.925 The other man struck, but his weapon 00:49:43.925 --> 00:49:44.972 was also caught. 00:49:44.972 --> 00:49:46.973 One of the tomahawks was then wrenched 00:49:46.973 --> 00:49:48.099 out of his grasp. 00:49:48.099 --> 00:49:50.520 The next moment, a blow on the spine 00:49:50.520 --> 00:49:52.123 laid the dear missionary low. 00:49:52.123 --> 00:49:53.530 A second blow on the neck 00:49:53.530 --> 00:49:55.749 almost severed the head from the body. 00:49:55.749 --> 00:49:58.109 The other natives then rushed from their ambush, 00:49:58.109 --> 00:49:59.862 began dancing around him 00:49:59.862 --> 00:50:01.842 with frantic shoutings. 00:50:01.842 --> 00:50:03.563 Mrs. Gordon, hearing the noise, 00:50:03.563 --> 00:50:05.921 came out and stood in front of the mission house 00:50:05.921 --> 00:50:08.654 looking at the direction of her husband's working place 00:50:08.654 --> 00:50:10.362 wondering what was happening. 00:50:10.362 --> 00:50:11.523 Oben, one of the party, 00:50:11.523 --> 00:50:13.371 who had run towards the station 00:50:13.371 --> 00:50:15.040 the moment that Mr. Gordon fell, 00:50:15.040 --> 00:50:16.483 now approached her. 00:50:16.483 --> 00:50:19.122 A merciful clump of trees had hid from her eyes 00:50:19.122 --> 00:50:20.780 all that had occurred. 00:50:20.780 --> 00:50:21.819 And she said to Oben, 00:50:21.819 --> 00:50:23.370 'What's the cause of that noise?' 00:50:23.370 --> 00:50:24.882 He replied, 'Oh, nothing, 00:50:24.882 --> 00:50:26.730 only the boys amusing themselves.' 00:50:26.730 --> 00:50:28.201 Saying, 'Where are the boys?' 00:50:28.201 --> 00:50:29.281 she turned around, 00:50:29.281 --> 00:50:31.231 Oben slipped stealthily behind her, 00:50:31.231 --> 00:50:33.551 sank his tomahawk into her back, 00:50:33.551 --> 00:50:36.602 and with another blow almost severed her head. 00:50:36.602 --> 00:50:38.100 Such was the fate of these two 00:50:38.100 --> 00:50:39.768 devoted servants of the Lord, 00:50:39.768 --> 00:50:41.151 loving in their lives 00:50:41.151 --> 00:50:43.339 and in their deaths not divided, 00:50:43.339 --> 00:50:46.840 their spirits wearing the crowns of martyrdom, 00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.051 entered glory together to be welcomed 00:50:50.051 --> 00:50:51.601 by Williams and Harris 00:50:51.601 --> 00:50:53.940 whose blood was shed near the same 00:50:53.940 --> 00:50:55.544 now hallowed spot 00:50:55.544 --> 00:50:58.510 for the name and cause of Jesus. 00:50:58.510 --> 00:51:01.189 They had labored four years on Erromango 00:51:01.189 --> 00:51:03.661 amidst trials and dangers manifold, 00:51:03.661 --> 00:51:06.021 and had not been without tokens of blessing 00:51:06.021 --> 00:51:07.412 in the Lord's work. 00:51:07.412 --> 00:51:09.623 Never more earnest or devoted missionaries 00:51:09.623 --> 00:51:11.802 lived and died in the heathen field. 00:51:11.802 --> 00:51:14.011 Other accounts indeed have been published 00:51:14.011 --> 00:51:15.471 and another was reported to me 00:51:15.471 --> 00:51:20.310 by Mr. Gordon's Christian lads." 00:51:20.310 --> 00:51:22.021 And he writes this: 00:51:22.021 --> 00:51:27.111 "Some severe criticisms, of course, 00:51:27.111 --> 00:51:28.880 were written and published 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.019 by those angelic creatures 00:51:31.019 --> 00:51:33.233 who judge all things 00:51:33.233 --> 00:51:37.391 from their own safe and easy distance." 00:51:37.391 --> 00:51:40.151 It was the same in that day. 00:51:40.151 --> 00:51:41.743 You've got all sorts of people 00:51:41.743 --> 00:51:45.252 from a long way away. 00:51:45.252 --> 00:51:47.139 They're the armchair quarterback, 00:51:47.139 --> 00:51:50.239 and they're going to find fault. 00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:53.162 And see, it's just like he said. 00:51:53.162 --> 00:51:54.891 Well, why don't you stay at home? 00:51:54.891 --> 00:51:56.381 You know, there's needs here. 00:51:56.381 --> 00:51:57.612 The people that say that, 00:51:57.612 --> 00:52:00.428 they're not reaching out to the people who have needs here. 00:52:00.428 --> 00:52:01.370 People can talk. 00:52:01.370 --> 00:52:09.429 People are full of lots of talk. 00:52:09.429 --> 00:52:13.521 The truth is that it sounds like 00:52:13.521 --> 00:52:18.242 some of the people - 00:52:18.242 --> 00:52:20.591 they're just bent out of shape. 00:52:20.591 --> 00:52:22.029 It's a white man 00:52:22.029 --> 00:52:25.988 and he's bringing the white man's religion. 00:52:25.988 --> 00:52:28.621 White man and his Christianity 00:52:28.621 --> 00:52:33.239 it sounds like. 00:52:33.239 --> 00:52:39.880 Listen, this started among the Jews - 00:52:39.880 --> 00:52:41.439 not white men. 00:52:41.439 --> 00:52:45.880 It started in the Middle East. 00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:48.071 And the thing about the Gospel 00:52:48.071 --> 00:52:49.779 is it's not a tribal religion. 00:52:49.779 --> 00:52:52.020 It's not just a white man's religion. 00:52:52.020 --> 00:52:55.091 Paul is very careful to trace the real problem 00:52:55.091 --> 00:52:57.197 all the way back to Adam. 00:52:57.197 --> 00:52:59.711 Our problem is not a white problem, 00:52:59.711 --> 00:53:02.717 a black problem, a red problem, 00:53:02.717 --> 00:53:03.699 a yellow problem. 00:53:03.699 --> 00:53:05.890 It's a problem that's traced 00:53:05.890 --> 00:53:07.690 all the way back to the fact 00:53:07.690 --> 00:53:11.709 that we are offspring of Adam's. 00:53:11.709 --> 00:53:13.379 There's no distinction. 00:53:13.379 --> 00:53:14.881 All have sinned and come short 00:53:14.881 --> 00:53:19.579 of the glory of God. 00:53:19.579 --> 00:53:21.211 You've got the Indian government. 00:53:21.211 --> 00:53:22.919 Well, we need to leave them alone. 00:53:22.919 --> 00:53:24.319 You don't want to introduce 00:53:24.319 --> 00:53:25.717 all these diseases to them. 00:53:25.717 --> 00:53:26.792 It will wipe them out. 00:53:26.792 --> 00:53:28.409 You know what's wiping them out? 00:53:28.409 --> 00:53:31.689 Sin is wiping them out. NOTE Paragraph 00:53:31.689 --> 00:53:37.000 Years ago, we had back before the DVD age, 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.869 we had a number of videos. 00:53:39.869 --> 00:53:42.731 I think we bought everything that we could buy 00:53:42.731 --> 00:53:44.729 from New Tribes Missions. 00:53:44.729 --> 00:53:51.142 And I'll never forget, 00:53:51.142 --> 00:53:56.919 there was one that I believe 00:53:56.919 --> 00:54:04.500 was specifically about an island in Indonesia. 00:54:04.500 --> 00:54:08.392 And of course, you know the New Tribes approach. 00:54:08.392 --> 00:54:12.395 They walk the people all the way 00:54:12.395 --> 00:54:14.657 through the Scriptures from the Old Testament 00:54:14.657 --> 00:54:15.515 all the way. 00:54:15.515 --> 00:54:18.146 They build and build and build 00:54:18.146 --> 00:54:21.015 and they come to the cross. 00:54:21.015 --> 00:54:23.795 And this village - 00:54:23.795 --> 00:54:25.713 they actually have footage - 00:54:25.713 --> 00:54:28.756 when they preached the cross 00:54:28.756 --> 00:54:31.686 and that this was God's answer for sin, 00:54:31.686 --> 00:54:37.415 like the vast majority of this remote village 00:54:37.415 --> 00:54:41.915 embraced Christ spontaneously. 00:54:41.915 --> 00:54:44.755 They were so full of joy. 00:54:44.755 --> 00:54:47.244 They jumped up and down, 00:54:47.244 --> 00:54:49.874 hugging each other en masse. 00:54:49.874 --> 00:54:52.875 They did this for hours! 00:54:52.875 --> 00:54:54.955 But then you know what the missionary said 00:54:54.955 --> 00:54:57.145 and what he observed? 00:54:57.145 --> 00:54:59.254 He said the people would go 00:54:59.254 --> 00:55:05.695 from rejoicing to uncontrolled wailing, 00:55:05.695 --> 00:55:07.584 back to rejoicing, 00:55:07.584 --> 00:55:10.046 back to wailing. 00:55:10.046 --> 00:55:13.835 Do you know why they wailed? 00:55:13.835 --> 00:55:18.685 With the understanding of the Gospel 00:55:18.685 --> 00:55:22.355 and their own receiving of it 00:55:22.355 --> 00:55:26.895 and their own salvation, 00:55:26.895 --> 00:55:28.456 they would suddenly be overcome 00:55:28.456 --> 00:55:34.953 with the reality that all who had gone before them perished. 00:55:34.953 --> 00:55:37.435 And you know what, often these missionaries 00:55:37.435 --> 00:55:41.710 were asked by the new converts: 00:55:41.710 --> 00:55:47.494 why didn't you come before now? 00:55:47.494 --> 00:55:49.994 Sometimes they would ask questions like - 00:55:49.994 --> 00:55:52.334 you know the cogs would start moving - 00:55:52.334 --> 00:55:56.955 how long have you had Christianity 00:55:56.955 --> 00:56:00.687 where you're from? 00:56:00.687 --> 00:56:04.083 Oh, for centuries! 00:56:04.083 --> 00:56:07.456 You know, it almost makes the missionary feel guilty 00:56:07.456 --> 00:56:10.246 because then the people would look at him like: 00:56:10.246 --> 00:56:14.558 and you're only coming now? 00:56:14.558 --> 00:56:15.617 You know what's true 00:56:15.617 --> 00:56:20.356 about these people on North Sentinel island? 00:56:20.356 --> 00:56:23.595 100% of them are perishing. 00:56:23.595 --> 00:56:24.957 They're dying. 00:56:24.957 --> 00:56:28.896 Every single one of them is perishing. 00:56:28.896 --> 00:56:35.285 Perishing. 00:56:35.285 --> 00:56:39.225 So what does it take? 00:56:39.225 --> 00:56:41.376 Well, we need families like the Gordons 00:56:41.376 --> 00:56:43.866 who pour four years of their life in 00:56:43.866 --> 00:56:47.556 and then about have their heads taken off. 00:56:47.556 --> 00:56:49.316 But before that, you've got to have 00:56:49.316 --> 00:56:50.704 the Williams' and the Harris' 00:56:50.704 --> 00:56:54.025 that are just willing to put their foot 00:56:54.025 --> 00:56:57.713 on the beach. 00:56:57.713 --> 00:57:02.626 We need John Allen Chau's. 00:57:02.626 --> 00:57:07.124 And you know what, his name will just be lost. 00:57:07.124 --> 00:57:09.055 Very likely. 00:57:09.055 --> 00:57:12.363 Very likely, there's not going to be a book like this. 00:57:12.363 --> 00:57:15.064 Well, there's not a book like this 00:57:15.064 --> 00:57:17.745 about Williams and Harris. 00:57:17.745 --> 00:57:18.867 Why? 00:57:18.867 --> 00:57:23.704 Because how many pages do you need? 00:57:23.704 --> 00:57:25.526 They landed on the beach. 00:57:25.526 --> 00:57:27.918 They were clubbed. They were eaten. 00:57:27.918 --> 00:57:30.183 I mean, you could say that different ways 00:57:30.183 --> 00:57:31.414 and maybe fill a chapter 00:57:31.414 --> 00:57:34.175 if you go back and talk about some of their early lives. 00:57:34.175 --> 00:57:40.398 What I find is that Williams 00:57:40.398 --> 00:57:44.255 actually labored on other islands before, 00:57:44.255 --> 00:57:46.725 so there is more about him. 00:57:46.725 --> 00:57:51.089 Harris - he was a young man 00:57:51.089 --> 00:57:52.426 probably like Chau, 00:57:52.426 --> 00:57:57.252 and you can't find hardly anything about him. 00:57:57.252 --> 00:58:00.128 Who was he? I don't know. 00:58:00.128 --> 00:58:04.665 Just somebody that put his foot down there 00:58:04.665 --> 00:58:17.616 and is gone. 00:58:17.616 --> 00:58:25.296 So, you know, what he was willing to do - 00:58:25.296 --> 00:58:27.116 he said he didn't want to die. 00:58:27.116 --> 00:58:30.456 He didn't have a death wish. 00:58:30.456 --> 00:58:35.045 But he was willing to risk his life 00:58:35.045 --> 00:58:43.924 to be good to the Great Commission. 00:58:43.924 --> 00:58:46.166 We don't know all of his motives, 00:58:46.166 --> 00:58:49.286 but what he says is that 00:58:49.286 --> 00:58:53.354 he desired to take the Gospel 00:58:53.354 --> 00:58:56.906 to these people. 00:58:56.906 --> 00:58:59.874 Does somebody else have a better plan? 00:58:59.874 --> 00:59:01.066 Or do we just say, 00:59:01.066 --> 00:59:04.617 well, it's illegal, and so we shouldn't go there? 00:59:04.617 --> 00:59:10.195 That wasn't the attitude of the early disciples. 00:59:10.195 --> 00:59:12.135 They said you be judge. 00:59:12.135 --> 00:59:15.106 Should we obey you? Or should be obey God? 00:59:15.106 --> 00:59:18.485 Has God told us to go? 00:59:18.485 --> 00:59:22.745 Because these people that wrote this are right. 00:59:22.745 --> 00:59:24.815 When it comes to closed countries, 00:59:24.815 --> 00:59:29.804 we don't say that because some human government 00:59:29.804 --> 00:59:31.574 says we can't enter that country 00:59:31.574 --> 00:59:32.735 with the Gospel, 00:59:32.735 --> 00:59:34.335 we don't take that as: 00:59:34.335 --> 00:59:36.445 okay, therefore we can't. 00:59:36.445 --> 00:59:39.827 In fact, that idea of closed country - 00:59:39.827 --> 00:59:43.525 that's a man-made term. 00:59:43.525 --> 00:59:45.865 The Bible never talks about closed countries. 00:59:45.865 --> 00:59:47.314 Jesus said go. 00:59:47.314 --> 00:59:49.205 He never said: 00:59:49.205 --> 00:59:53.184 Go only to the "open" countries. 00:59:53.184 --> 00:59:54.835 No. 00:59:54.835 --> 00:59:56.383 Every tribe. 00:59:56.383 --> 00:59:58.634 Every tongue. 00:59:58.634 --> 01:00:00.006 Every people. 01:00:00.006 --> 01:00:02.064 Every nation. 01:00:02.064 --> 01:00:03.599 Every creature. 01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:06.865 Take the Gospel to them all. 01:00:06.865 --> 01:00:08.304 Somebody's got to go. 01:00:08.304 --> 01:00:10.545 Somebody's got to go. 01:00:10.545 --> 01:00:13.145 The promise of God's Word 01:00:13.145 --> 01:00:15.436 is there will be North Sentinelese 01:00:15.436 --> 01:00:17.914 there at the throne. 01:00:17.914 --> 01:00:19.413 There will be converts. 01:00:19.413 --> 01:00:22.665 The Gospel will reach them. 01:00:22.665 --> 01:00:27.954 Despite all the Hindu Indian government; 01:00:27.954 --> 01:00:30.835 despite man's laws, 01:00:30.835 --> 01:00:33.667 somebody's got to say: Yes, Lord. 01:00:33.667 --> 01:00:36.466 Somebody's got to hear that, just like John G. 01:00:36.466 --> 01:00:40.508 heard this when it came to going 01:00:40.508 --> 01:00:43.226 to the New Hebrides islands. 01:00:43.226 --> 01:00:47.065 Cannibals, cannibals! You'll be eaten by the cannibals! 01:00:47.065 --> 01:00:48.975 North Sentinelese! North Sentinelese! 01:00:48.975 --> 01:00:52.435 You'll be shot by their arrows! 01:00:52.435 --> 01:00:54.004 Well, maybe. 01:00:54.004 --> 01:00:57.077 But you know a hundred years from now, 01:00:57.077 --> 01:00:58.267 will it really matter 01:00:58.267 --> 01:01:02.097 that you lived a little bit longer than Chau? 01:01:02.097 --> 01:01:04.299 And you know, sometimes, 01:01:04.299 --> 01:01:07.076 it's like it's been said - 01:01:07.076 --> 01:01:09.817 nobody knows about Jim Elliot's brother 01:01:09.817 --> 01:01:11.845 who labored on the mission field 01:01:11.845 --> 01:01:14.550 till he was well into his 80's. 01:01:14.550 --> 01:01:18.869 Anybody ever heard about him? 01:01:18.869 --> 01:01:25.963 The thing is he didn't go down in glory. 01:01:25.963 --> 01:01:27.485 He plugged away 01:01:27.485 --> 01:01:31.787 decade after decade after decade 01:01:31.787 --> 01:01:35.006 laboring pretty much unknown. 01:01:35.006 --> 01:01:38.437 The unknown brother of Jim Elliot. 01:01:38.437 --> 01:01:43.616 And yet, he gave his whole life on the mission field. 01:01:43.616 --> 01:01:45.954 You know, the reality is 01:01:45.954 --> 01:01:53.589 sometimes martyrdom is the easy path. 01:01:53.589 --> 01:01:57.627 They laid it all on the altar. 01:01:57.627 --> 01:01:59.324 You know, there is a parable 01:01:59.324 --> 01:02:03.156 that talks about finding a treasure 01:02:03.156 --> 01:02:05.496 and selling everything. 01:02:05.496 --> 01:02:06.869 And who's going to say 01:02:06.869 --> 01:02:09.708 that this guy didn't sell everything? 01:02:09.708 --> 01:02:12.975 I mean, are we going to find fault with him? 01:02:12.975 --> 01:02:15.248 He gave. He gave all that he could. 01:02:15.248 --> 01:02:19.477 As I was out today, I was thinking about Mary. 01:02:19.477 --> 01:02:22.207 Do you remember they found fault with her? 01:02:22.207 --> 01:02:24.808 This isn't just something in John G. Paton's day. 01:02:24.808 --> 01:02:26.988 This is something that goes all the way back. 01:02:26.988 --> 01:02:28.325 Go all the way back to Mary. 01:02:28.325 --> 01:02:29.538 Remember, she comes out 01:02:29.538 --> 01:02:34.357 and she's doing what? 01:02:34.357 --> 01:02:38.008 She's doing what she can. 01:02:38.008 --> 01:02:39.947 And Jesus said that: 01:02:39.947 --> 01:02:42.446 she's doing what she can. 01:02:42.446 --> 01:02:45.607 He did what he could. 01:02:45.607 --> 01:02:48.405 I mean, he gave what he had. 01:02:48.405 --> 01:02:52.134 You don't have more to give Christ than your life. 01:02:52.134 --> 01:02:55.215 He laid it all on the altar. 01:02:55.215 --> 01:02:58.068 I'm not finding fault with that. 01:02:58.068 --> 01:03:00.214 In fact, something in me jumps, 01:03:00.214 --> 01:03:04.724 like okay, this is setting something in motion 01:03:04.724 --> 01:03:08.584 in the spiritual realm. 01:03:08.584 --> 01:03:10.845 And I have a feeling that it's doing that 01:03:10.845 --> 01:03:14.606 in the hearts of Christians 01:03:14.606 --> 01:03:17.684 all over the world. 01:03:17.684 --> 01:03:19.966 Now, I can imagine the Indian government 01:03:19.966 --> 01:03:22.237 is going to crack down, at least for a while. 01:03:22.237 --> 01:03:27.005 They'll double their coast guard 01:03:27.005 --> 01:03:29.977 two mile perimeter or whatever. 01:03:29.977 --> 01:03:31.523 But then they'll get lax again 01:03:31.523 --> 01:03:32.838 when this thing blows over, 01:03:32.838 --> 01:03:35.195 but I have a feeling Christians are strategizing, 01:03:35.195 --> 01:03:39.234 people are thinking. 01:03:39.234 --> 01:03:41.524 We shouldn't count it a strange thing. 01:03:41.524 --> 01:03:43.684 This isn't some white man's thing. 01:03:43.684 --> 01:03:45.836 This is Christ's agenda 01:03:45.836 --> 01:03:47.713 to evangelize the world. 01:03:47.713 --> 01:03:50.803 We shouldn't count it a strange thing - 01:03:50.803 --> 01:03:53.203 look, that island, 01:03:53.203 --> 01:03:59.153 it cannot escape prophecy. 01:03:59.153 --> 01:04:02.484 It cannot escape the fact 01:04:02.484 --> 01:04:05.544 that the bull's eye is on it. 01:04:05.544 --> 01:04:08.215 You can't be the least reached place 01:04:08.215 --> 01:04:11.073 on the face of the earth and remain that way. 01:04:11.073 --> 01:04:13.244 Because Jesus Christ who said 01:04:13.244 --> 01:04:14.876 all authority is given unto Me 01:04:14.876 --> 01:04:18.523 is the Christ behind that missionary call. 01:04:18.523 --> 01:04:19.575 Be sure of this: 01:04:19.575 --> 01:04:20.974 He sits on the throne. 01:04:20.974 --> 01:04:23.264 He is high. He is exalted. 01:04:23.264 --> 01:04:25.846 He is lifted up. He has all authority. 01:04:25.846 --> 01:04:28.706 He's in charge. He stirs His people. 01:04:28.706 --> 01:04:31.437 Those people are - 01:04:31.437 --> 01:04:34.144 it's just a matter of time. 01:04:34.144 --> 01:04:39.026 I mean, it's like the Gospel train 01:04:39.026 --> 01:04:41.134 is thundering down the tracks, 01:04:41.134 --> 01:04:43.307 and it's coming for that island. 01:04:43.307 --> 01:04:46.135 It may be this year. It may be next year. 01:04:46.135 --> 01:04:47.773 It may be six years. 01:04:47.773 --> 01:04:51.854 It may be sixty years, but it's coming. 01:04:51.854 --> 01:04:54.866 Whatever demons are there, 01:04:54.866 --> 01:04:56.857 they know. 01:04:56.857 --> 01:04:58.564 They know the Scripture. 01:04:58.564 --> 01:05:00.636 And we can shout it out. 01:05:00.636 --> 01:05:03.265 Every tribe and every tongue! 01:05:03.265 --> 01:05:05.685 And that includes that island. 01:05:05.685 --> 01:05:08.766 The Gospel's coming there. 01:05:08.766 --> 01:05:11.937 Some of God's people are going to take it there. 01:05:11.937 --> 01:05:14.166 The next people might be like the Gordon's. 01:05:14.166 --> 01:05:15.715 They might make it a little ways 01:05:15.715 --> 01:05:18.036 before they die. 01:05:18.036 --> 01:05:19.746 And it might keep going like that. 01:05:19.746 --> 01:05:21.237 In fact, if you read this book, 01:05:21.237 --> 01:05:23.285 do you know how much death is in here? 01:05:23.285 --> 01:05:25.846 The fact that John G. Paton lived 01:05:25.846 --> 01:05:28.008 is a miracle in the midst of all of this, 01:05:28.008 --> 01:05:30.246 and they tried to take him out, 01:05:30.246 --> 01:05:32.626 and God supernaturally preserved him, 01:05:32.626 --> 01:05:34.913 but a lot of the people died. 01:05:34.913 --> 01:05:38.104 A lot of the people died. 01:05:38.104 --> 01:05:39.746 But you know what? 01:05:39.746 --> 01:05:41.765 After that martyr's blood was spilled, 01:05:41.765 --> 01:05:44.545 eventually some of these islands - 01:05:44.545 --> 01:05:47.034 the second island he went to, 01:05:47.034 --> 01:05:49.965 and the name is escaping me right off - 01:05:49.965 --> 01:05:51.774 but the second island he went to 01:05:51.774 --> 01:05:55.014 was almost entirely converted. 01:05:55.014 --> 01:05:58.655 This is no easy believism preaching. 01:05:58.655 --> 01:06:01.835 We're talking a Scotch-Presbyterian 01:06:01.835 --> 01:06:04.854 Calvinist, believed in real, 01:06:04.854 --> 01:06:06.456 legitimate being born again, 01:06:06.456 --> 01:06:08.465 and in his estimation, 01:06:08.465 --> 01:06:14.254 almost the entire island was converted. 01:06:14.254 --> 01:06:17.166 That Gospel's coming for that island. 01:06:17.166 --> 01:06:19.814 There's no escape. 01:06:19.814 --> 01:06:22.766 And if this is the time 01:06:22.766 --> 01:06:25.425 and martyr's blood has been spilled, 01:06:25.425 --> 01:06:26.535 watch out. 01:06:26.535 --> 01:06:29.608 Whatever dark forces you are that are there 01:06:29.608 --> 01:06:32.005 and inhabiting those people, 01:06:32.005 --> 01:06:33.654 keeping those people in fear, 01:06:33.654 --> 01:06:35.725 keeping those people in bondage, 01:06:35.725 --> 01:06:38.763 your days are numbered. 01:06:38.763 --> 01:06:41.356 And God may be working in the hearts of some right now 01:06:41.356 --> 01:06:43.394 that will be the next ones to go there. 01:06:43.394 --> 01:06:45.874 I have a feeling that's the case. NOTE Paragraph 01:06:45.874 --> 01:06:46.803 (from the room) 01:06:46.803 --> 01:06:49.047 You brought up at the beginning 01:06:49.047 --> 01:06:54.154 the issue of to obey the law or not. 01:06:54.154 --> 01:06:57.634 You brought up the response 01:06:57.634 --> 01:06:59.875 of the one who's actually breaking the law 01:06:59.875 --> 01:07:01.545 in Acts 4 and 5. 01:07:01.545 --> 01:07:03.455 What stood out to me was the posture 01:07:03.455 --> 01:07:05.315 that the church took. 01:07:05.315 --> 01:07:08.664 And if you consider what they're actually praying 01:07:08.664 --> 01:07:10.864 when they come together, they said, 01:07:10.864 --> 01:07:12.814 "Grant Your servants to continue 01:07:12.814 --> 01:07:14.746 to speak Your Word with all boldness." 01:07:14.746 --> 01:07:16.985 You could even say the church 01:07:16.985 --> 01:07:18.894 after that happened, the church prayed: 01:07:18.894 --> 01:07:21.896 allow them to continue what they law just said not to 01:07:21.896 --> 01:07:24.474 because we're convinced that's what You want. 01:07:24.474 --> 01:07:25.913 So I kind of take that like: 01:07:25.913 --> 01:07:27.165 if you're not going to go, 01:07:27.165 --> 01:07:29.456 I don't think Christians should be on the fence 01:07:29.456 --> 01:07:31.313 as far as what they should side with. 01:07:31.313 --> 01:07:32.674 If it's the Lord's command, 01:07:32.674 --> 01:07:34.506 we ought to be praying for God 01:07:34.506 --> 01:07:36.865 to lift up more people to oppose such laws 01:07:36.865 --> 01:07:38.036 and send them out there. NOTE Paragraph 01:07:38.036 --> 01:07:39.734 Tim: That's how we're going to end 01:07:39.734 --> 01:07:41.605 with Bobby praying that the church 01:07:41.605 --> 01:07:42.785 would have boldness. 01:07:42.785 --> 01:07:44.624 Because they needed it then. 01:07:44.624 --> 01:07:46.715 Listen, it's a reality. 01:07:46.715 --> 01:07:48.876 When you're standing against the government 01:07:48.876 --> 01:07:50.760 and they're threatening you with the sword, 01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:52.515 they're threatening you with imprisonment - 01:07:52.515 --> 01:07:54.008 which they threw them in prison - 01:07:54.008 --> 01:07:55.254 when they're threatening you - 01:07:55.254 --> 01:07:57.344 they stoned Paul - 01:07:57.344 --> 01:07:59.085 people died. 01:07:59.085 --> 01:08:01.135 Jesus never said we wouldn't. 01:08:01.135 --> 01:08:03.005 That's what we need. We need boldness. 01:08:03.005 --> 01:08:04.305 But isn't it interesting? 01:08:04.305 --> 01:08:06.148 This is what I was mentioning before. 01:08:06.148 --> 01:08:10.245 Throw Paul in prison and what did it do? 01:08:10.245 --> 01:08:12.796 It emboldened God's people. 01:08:12.796 --> 01:08:13.765 You might think: 01:08:13.765 --> 01:08:18.357 Well, hey, they throw the top dog into jail, 01:08:18.357 --> 01:08:20.965 you'd think kind of like Jesus, 01:08:20.965 --> 01:08:22.525 you know when they arrested Him, 01:08:22.525 --> 01:08:24.274 all the disciples went scattering. 01:08:24.274 --> 01:08:26.484 Yeah, but that was before the Spirit - 01:08:26.484 --> 01:08:29.335 this missionary Spirit was poured upon the church. 01:08:29.335 --> 01:08:30.919 When that happened, 01:08:30.919 --> 01:08:33.083 it did just the opposite. 01:08:33.083 --> 01:08:34.164 What? 01:08:34.164 --> 01:08:35.405 Throw Paul in prison, 01:08:35.405 --> 01:08:38.663 and now it encourages the people of God 01:08:38.663 --> 01:08:42.746 to break forth with boldness and preach. 01:08:42.746 --> 01:08:45.964 I mean, I'm telling you, 01:08:45.964 --> 01:08:50.114 Sunday, we've got people in the church, 01:08:50.114 --> 01:08:51.486 and I'm not kidding you. 01:08:51.486 --> 01:08:53.996 I don't think you'd get them to go to Mexico, 01:08:53.996 --> 01:08:56.064 and I went outside between services, 01:08:56.064 --> 01:08:58.937 and he starts talking to me 01:08:58.937 --> 01:09:01.016 and strategizing about how 01:09:01.016 --> 01:09:03.025 not just somebody from our church 01:09:03.025 --> 01:09:04.947 could take the Gospel to North Sentinel, 01:09:04.947 --> 01:09:06.918 how he could! 01:09:06.918 --> 01:09:09.346 I thought... 01:09:09.346 --> 01:09:11.534 that's good. 01:09:11.534 --> 01:09:12.936 That's good. 01:09:12.936 --> 01:09:15.554 And it made me think 01:09:15.554 --> 01:09:18.844 there's a lot of Christian people out there 01:09:18.844 --> 01:09:23.295 who are thinking like him. 01:09:23.295 --> 01:09:25.347 Well, go ahead and pray, brother. 01:09:25.347 --> 01:09:28.918 Boldness. NOTE Paragraph 01:09:28.918 --> 01:09:30.665 Bobby: Father, we thank You 01:09:30.665 --> 01:09:32.294 for allowing us to even know 01:09:32.294 --> 01:09:34.439 of such a plan that took place 01:09:34.439 --> 01:09:36.614 that gives us reason to rejoice 01:09:36.614 --> 01:09:39.115 in what You've done 01:09:39.115 --> 01:09:40.356 when You sent Your Son 01:09:40.356 --> 01:09:42.615 as the propitiation for our sins, 01:09:42.615 --> 01:09:43.885 and not only for ours, 01:09:43.885 --> 01:09:45.654 but for Your elect people 01:09:45.654 --> 01:09:48.626 that You've told us in Your Word 01:09:48.626 --> 01:09:51.148 are in the world now. 01:09:51.148 --> 01:09:54.536 We just pray that You would blow on Your people, 01:09:54.536 --> 01:09:57.515 that Your Spirit would light a fire 01:09:57.515 --> 01:09:59.657 that can't be extinguished. 01:09:59.657 --> 01:10:02.589 And Lord, that the history that we see, 01:10:02.589 --> 01:10:05.026 it wouldn't just be something that we read about, 01:10:05.026 --> 01:10:08.485 but it would take place in the here and now. 01:10:08.485 --> 01:10:09.857 As my brother said, 01:10:09.857 --> 01:10:12.469 we don't know when You would have it to take place, 01:10:12.469 --> 01:10:15.325 but whoever Your chosen vessels are 01:10:15.325 --> 01:10:17.325 that are fit for Your use - 01:10:17.325 --> 01:10:21.865 even fit to have their blood spilt so quickly, Father, 01:10:21.865 --> 01:10:25.254 I just ask that You would call them, 01:10:25.254 --> 01:10:26.374 equip them, 01:10:26.374 --> 01:10:29.106 and blow Your Spirit on them to do Your will 01:10:29.106 --> 01:10:32.376 that the Lamb would truly receive the reward of His suffering 01:10:32.376 --> 01:10:35.467 and that Christ would be exalted. 01:10:35.467 --> 01:10:38.166 And may Christ be exalted in our hearts 01:10:38.166 --> 01:10:40.615 more as we speak about His Kingdom 01:10:40.615 --> 01:10:42.376 advancing into this world. 01:10:42.376 --> 01:10:44.127 I pray that His Kingdom would be 01:10:44.127 --> 01:10:46.906 advancing even in our own lives. 01:10:46.906 --> 01:10:48.695 In His name we ask, Amen.