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recording.
The technical quality was deficient in the original
master, but I'm sure you'll agree that the
testimony it contains is unique in the library.
If I understand, you were hiding Jewish people
in Holland, and the Nazis or the Germans
took you, and because of this, and put
you into prison.
Yes.
How long were you in the prison?
I was 11 months a prisoner.
First four months in solitary confinement, alone in
a cell, and then in a concentration camp
in Holland, a German concentration camp, and then
in Ravensbruck, the terrible place north of Berlin.
And that's where my sister died.
She died there.
Yes.
And in that time, God somehow kept you
sweet and tender towards Him.
How did you do it?
How did you keep from being just terribly
despairing?
What kept you buoyed up at this time?
That's good, but you know what kept me
up?
Who kept me up?
Who kept you up?
I can tell you, there are circumstances that
you cannot do anything, and it was only
the Lord who has carried me through, and
that is so good that I have experienced
that.
I have always believed.
Now I know from experience that Jesus' light
is stronger than the deepest darkness, and a
child of God cannot go so deep, always
deeper than the everlasting earth.
It matters not how dark it is.
His light is always brighter.
Yes, yes.
The devil is strong, but his power is
limited, and Jesus' power is unlimited.
And you've been there, and you know.
Was His grace always sufficient?
There was never a time when His grace
was not sufficient for you.
Indeed it was always sufficient, but sometimes I
lost courage.
You did?
Yes, and I remember that once I said,
when I looked on the stars, I said,
Oh Lord, all the stars are in your
guidance, but have you forgotten your child, Corita
Mom?
And then, but I had my Bible with
me, and that was such a great joy.
The hairs of our head are numbered, and
God has the whole universe in His hands.
That means that God has a telescopic and
a microscopic interest in us.
Yes.
Did you feel at this time, how
did you get that copy of the copy?
We were, they took away everything that we
had hidden.
Send your angels, let them surround me.
But then I thought, yes, but angels are
spirits, so you can look through a spirit.
Let your angels this time not be transparent.
You can pray very unorthodox when you are.
God did it.
The woman who stood before me was searched,
and then my sister who was behind me,
and they did not see me.
And so I came in the prison with
my Bible.
But if God is actually valuable, they couldn't
see you.
We mustn't be too amazed when God does
miracles.
And his hand was built for two hundred
years.
We used to say the soul for eternity
is worth.
I cannot say that there was resistance.
The people who didn't like to hear didn't
come.
He got
my messages.
And I, and then he said, He
will lift us up into a place of
glory with no intervening suffering.
Did you believe that's the case?
The Bible tells that the Lord Jesus has
said, pray that you will be strong enough
to come through all what will happen before
my coming.
And that Jesus is coming soon?
Yes.
I think we all.
The signs of eternity we can now read
in the newspapers.
Yes.
And when these things happen, Jesus said, when
all these things happen, that generation will not
pass away before I come.
And I believe we are the generation when
these things happen.
The Bible tells that the Lord said, in
the world you will have tribulation, but be
of good cheer.
I have overcome the world.
So you think that's a promise?
Yes, yes.
There's no question about it.
And you know, we mustn't be too amazed
when we have to suffer for the Lord.
It is written in the Bible, you know,
I believe that will be translated, oh sure,
the best is yet to be.
We will meet the Lord in the air
and then we will be with him.
The best is yet to be.
But before that happens, I believe we will
have to go through a part of the
tribulation.
And there is now tribulation.
Sir, I have worked behind the Iron Curtain
and I can tell you subject that 60
% of the body of Christ is suffering.
Now, what many said, when my feet were
whipped, my hands suffered pain.
And I believe we as body of Christ
must suffer with that part that is suffering.
Now persecution is terrible.
But I was once in Ushuwara in Africa.
And I don't know the political background, but
that week every day there was a new
government and every day Christians were killed.
And I remember that I stood there in
the church and I saw that the people
were afraid.
They looked at each other.
Will he be killed?
Will he be alive next week?
Will they kill me?
And then I said, Oh God, give me
a message for these people.
And the Lord gave me 1 Peter 4
.12 from the translation of Philips.
And I read, Now dear friends of mine,
I beg you not to be unduly alarmed
at the fiery ordeals which come to test
your faith as though this were some abnormal
experience.
You should be glad because it means that
you are called to share Christ's sufferings.
One day when he shows himself in full
splendor to men, it's a great privilege
for you can be sure that God's spirit
of power, the spirit of glory is resting
upon you.
And I show these people that in heaven
there will be a martyr crowd.
What you can read in my book, when
you go to travel with a train to
Amsterdam, when do I give you the train
ticket?
Three weeks before the day that I go
to travel.
In the church, the people, some started, it
was at the end of that week.
But the spirit of glory was waiting for
years, bringing
the gospel.
Why is that?
And I said, Your friends, they're all killed.
Oh!
When I heard that, I was so sad.
And she said, she laid her hand on
my shoulder and she said, But Corrie, they
are promoted ahead of us.
Do you know?
I said, And you?
Do you go back?
She said, Immediately after Congress I go back.
Oh no!
It can mean that I will be killed.
But I'm not afraid.
Do you see?
This woman had not a spirit of fear,
but of power.
For times of tribulation, it's in the promises
of the Bible.
And the Lord will give us strength.
And that's the great joy.
There the Lord was with secure.
And you know, when all fall away, then
it's the security in the Lord.
One of the new translations, And
then son of
privilege.
And who is it that overcomes the world?
He that believes that Jesus is the Son
of God.
Terrible thing.
I'll tell you something.
These people were in sick.
And Betsy said, Here
was an
old, stout young woman.
Pray for your, pray.
Oh, I
don't know how to pray.
Yes, this man is a prayer warrior.
And they are praying.
And then I always say, what is written
in Romans 8, that the Spirit Himself will
teach us how to pray.
There was a little boy.
And they said to him, You must pray.
He had never prayed before.
And he went home.
And he was sitting in the corner of
his room.
And he knew one thing.
When you pray, you fold your hands and
you close your eyes.
And his mother was in the same room.
And she heard suddenly that he said, A,
B, C, D, E, F, G, A.
And the mother said, What am I doing?
He said, Mom, I, they say I must
pray, but I've never prayed before.
I don't know how to do it.
So I said, Jesus, I give you all
the letters of the alphabet.
Now you must make a good prayer.
But Paul said, The Spirit will teach you
how to pray.
Also you.
It's very important.
There has never been such...
In the Bible it says that before Jesus
comes, those who are clean will be cleansed.
Those who are filthy will be filthier.
Everything goes through.
There's nothing in between.
And oh, what is there a terrible hatred.
And the love of many.
There was called, the Bible says, And now
you and I, we are called to represent
God's love in this world.
And the Bible says, Live your lives in
love.
The same sort of love which Christ gives
us and which he perfectly expressed when he
gave himself as a sacrifice to God.
You know, there is, there is a love
that never fails.
That is not human love.
That is God's.
And that is not only God's love in
his heart, but the love of God is
shed abroad into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit who is given to us.
And that love, we must live.
And there is written, He has made us
welcome into the everlasting love he bears for
his Son.
We are accepted in the beloved.
This is a new translation.
Did you ever doubt your love for God?
I doubted mine.
For Jesus?
Never.
And into that love you and me have
been made welcome.
Isn't that tremendous?
And we can represent that love of God
in this world that is in the grip
of hatred and of fear.
And that love is available through the Holy
Spirit.
And there is one thing that is written
in the Bible when we know that Jesus
is coming very soon, we must be sure
that we are at peace with God and
men.
How is that possible?
At peace with God.
Our sins come between God and us.
But the Bible tells us very clear what
to do with our sins.
There are two ways to know your sins.
When the devil tells you your sins, he
says, and so you are.
And you are proud, and you are unfaithful.
That's exactly your character, and there's no hope
for you, and you will always remain like
that.
Quite different is it when the Holy Spirit
shows us our sins.
It is always in the floodlight of the
cross of Jesus.
And the Holy Spirit says, for these sins
of yours, Jesus died at the cross.
And the Bible is very clear what He
will do with our sins when we confess
it.
He cast it into the depths of the
sea, forgiven and forgotten.
It is not in the Bible, but I
always think there comes a sign, no fishing
allowed.
He brought Him out like clouds.
Did you ever see a cloud for the
second time?
Never.
When a cloud is away, it disappears.
And that's what God will do with our
sins.
So when we bring our sins to the
Lord, He forgives and cleanses our heart.
And heart cleansed by the Holy Spirit, He
fills, cleansed by the blood of Jesus.
It's love, peace, kindness, goodness, self-control, just
opposite of our sins.
You know, I like that little poem of
John Bunyan.
He said, John, run, the law commands, but
gives us neither feet nor hands.
Far better news the gospel brings, it makes
us fly and gives us wings.
Isn't that good?
And what is it?
He says, love your enemies.
When Jesus tells you that, He gives you
the love that He demands from you.
And that is how to be at peace
with men.
We have to forgive.
I was not, I was not at peace
with men.
There was hatred in my heart.
When God will call for my friends and
for Betsy and me, became such a hatred
in my heart.
Oh, and then I learned to take the
promise of Romans 5.5. Thank you,
Jesus, that you have brought through the Holy
Spirit what was given to me.
And thank you, Father, that your love in
me a
long time ago secured experience
that I was set free.
And after the war, I started to go
over the world.
68 countries.
And what it
means to go through terrible suffering with Jesus.