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Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.

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Early in the morning our song shall rise

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to Thee.

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Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty.

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God in three persons, blessed Trinity.

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I am missionary Richard Yerby in Japan, coming

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to you to preach everlasting truth to you.

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Lord, may the Lord help us to hear

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and obey as for all eternity.

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The title of this sermon is Almighty Safety,

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continuing in my series of sermons titled Safety,

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Rest, and Quiet.

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As I preach about the perfect and upright

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man named Job, what an example, what a

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believer to follow up on and aspire after.

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In the early 1980s, a Christian friend of

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mine in North Carolina, a young wife and

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mother of small children was killed in an

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automobile accident.

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Such a tragedy is difficult on family members,

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of course, bringing sorrow.

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But at that time, her Christian mother said

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of God, he had done all things well,

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as we find recorded in Mark chapter 7,

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verse 37.

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What great glory God received from that testimony

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of hers.

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May God help all of us believers to

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have such a testimony.

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Listen to Job's victorious declaration in Job chapter

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19, verses 25 and 26.

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For I know that my Redeemer liveth and

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that he shall stand at the latter day

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upon the earth.

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And though after my skin worms destroy this

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body, yet in my flesh shall I see

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God.

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Old Testament Saint Job believed in a bodily

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resurrection.

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I also believe in that.

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We too should also live in that afterlife

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as much as we live in this present

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life, or possibly even more so, knowing that

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at any second we could be transferred in

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our flesh into the very presence of God

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when Christ raptures his body of believers out

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of this troubled world.

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Yes, there is going to be a bodily

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resurrection.

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And this earthly corrupted being of ours is

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going to be transformed into a heavenly incorruptible

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perfected being to dwell with God forever in

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his holy heaven.

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That is where our affection should be.

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This morning, I awoke to my brother calling

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me on the phone from the States and

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telling me that our elder sister had just

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passed away a few hours before.

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She was getting close to her 86th birthday.

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She had been fighting illnesses and pain for

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months.

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She was a Christian believer.

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Now she never again suffers any more pain.

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Perfected forever.

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And soon I'm going to see her and

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many others there.

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And most of all, my Lord and Savior,

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Jesus Christ, set your affection on things above,

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not on things on the earth.

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Colossians 3, 2.

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That is a command from God, not a

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suggestion.

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Therefore, it would behoove all of us to

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obey it.

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Let's pray.

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Lord God, help me to obey this command

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and to set my affection on thee and

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on thy glorious eternal heaven, which awaits those

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who believe on Christ in this life.

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Please give me a new vision of thy

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great glory and give me a greater love

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for thee.

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I want thee to be first in my

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life and in my affections.

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I want to love thee with all my

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heart.

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So please help me to do this and

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help Brother Richard and all other Christians to

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do this also.

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Amen.

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As long as we are living in the

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will of God, just where, why and how

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God chooses to cause us to depart this

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life shouldn't be any cause of worry for

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us.

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If you desire to be most profitable to

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God, then you must take on Job's attitude,

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Though he slay me, yet will I trust

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in him.

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And do not forget just whom it was

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that started the battle that got Job into

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all that trouble.

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We are prone to think that the devil

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started it because of his hatred for that

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perfect and upright believer.

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But that is not the case.

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God started that battle by taking the devil

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and saying, Has thou considered my servant Job?

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God said to the devil that, and that

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was the very start of Job's great trouble.

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The devil didn't like to think about Job,

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no doubt.

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Job's holy, righteous life is such a thorn

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in Satan's flesh that he doesn't want to

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consider it at all.

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He despises to even think about Job as

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he goes walking to and fro into earth.

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The devil always shies away from Job because

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he even cringes just to see that giant

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of a saint.

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And on this day, when he comes to

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present himself before the Lord, he certainly isn't

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going to say anything about Job.

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Likely he wants to completely forget Job, and

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he so hopes that God will not bring

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up the subject of that perfect man.

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Of course, God knows what misery Job's obedient

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existence brings to the devil.

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And since the devil would never bring up

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the subject, God just delights to rattle his

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chain and say, Has thou considered my servant

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Job?

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Then Satan retorts with, Doth Job fear God

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for naught?

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Put forth thine hand now, and touch all

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that he hath, and he will curse thee

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to thy face.

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That's in Job 1.9 and also Job

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1.11. And the battle is on with

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perfect and upright Job being the pawn that

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gets used and abused.

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But it didn't start with the devil.

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It started with God, almighty God, being a

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man of war.

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Delighted to get that battle going.

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And if while you are following close to

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God, monumental disaster comes your way, it just

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may be not because the devil was chasing

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hard after you.

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He may have been running away from you

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as hard as he could.

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And the Lord stopped him with, Has thou

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considered my servant Robert?

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Has thou considered my servant Alice?

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Then the fight is on.

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And from there on, the story of your

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life may read like the book of Job.

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What about it?

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Are you willing to let God allow you

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to be treated like that in return for

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you being the best servant he has?

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If you would gladly submit yourself to receive

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even that kind of treatment, and if God

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wills it, what great delight and glory you

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will bring to God and what sorrow, defeat,

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and frustration you will bring to God's enemy,

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the devil.

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Will you settle it in your heart right

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now that you will be like Job and

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be willing to let God bring any disaster

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upon you that will glorify him.

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I was not in safety.

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Oh Lord, do help us all to be

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like Job.

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Let's pray it.

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Almighty God, by thy infinite power, please help

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me not to draw back from being willing

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to allow thee to do anything to me

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and to my family that thou desires to

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do.

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Give me godly courage.

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Make me as bold as a lion like

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Job.

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Help me to glorify thee as Job did.

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Help me to fear thee and serve thee

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for not.

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If my life wholly dedicated to thee brings

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me only disaster and adversity, please help me

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to endure it as a good soldier for

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thy great namesake.

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I pray this for brother Richard and for

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all other Christians also.

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Amen.

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I want to read 1 Corinthians 4, verse

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2.

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Moreover, it is required in stewards that a

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man be found faithful.

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How is it that a pastor can continue

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to keep his pulpit afire, plainly naming and

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denouncing the sins prevailing around him while the

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devil's gang is cursing him, slashing his cars,

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tires, and those of the church buses, setting

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his house and the church house on fire,

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threatening his life and his family on the

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phone several times a week, arresting him and

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throwing him into jail and such?

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And on top of all that, his pastor

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friends come to him saying, Take it easy.

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Black off, son.

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You're going to get hurt if you keep

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on like this.

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And they make themselves into miserable comforters, just

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as Job's friends did.

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Why are certain preachers so bold?

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Because they are like Job.

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They are not considering their own safety.

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How can missionaries take the gospel to cannibals

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and kill them and eat them in return

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for their love?

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How can they allow their wives and children

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to be so grossly mistreated and suffer so

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severely in the heathen land?

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It's because they are more concerned about the

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eternal safety of those pagan souls than they

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are concerned about their own earthly physical safety.

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In 1975, I sat in the church in

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Japan listening to a giant man of God

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tell his missionary experiences in India in the

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1950s and 1960s.

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One day he went into a customs office

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there in a town in India with a

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slip of paper in his hand to pick

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up a package of his that had been

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sent to him from the States, medicine that

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he desperately asked to be sent to him,

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medicine that he hoped and prayed would keep

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his precious little daughter from dying.

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Presently, she was gravely ill.

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When he presented the slip of paper to

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the customs official to pick up his own

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possession, that man of India looked at the

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slip of paper, then looked at Brother Jim

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and said, I'm not going to let you

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have it.

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Now, if Brother Jim had chosen to stay

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in the States, it is most likely that

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his daughter would have never contracted that disease

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that was killing her.

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She was dying because her father was in

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India, giving the lives of his family for

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the salvation of that custom official and other

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Indian souls.

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So he told the man, my little girl

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is deathly sick, and it looks like she

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may not make it if we don't get

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that medicine to her.

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He thought that would touch the man's heart

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if he had any heart at all and

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make the man give him the medicine, which

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rightly belonged to Jim anyway.

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But upon hearing that, the customs official turned

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and spat out his betel nut juice, and

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with that red juice dripping down his chin

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and the inside of his mouth, bright red

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from chewing that betel nut, with a scornful

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smile of delight, he turned to that missionary

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and sneered, this world would be a better

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place to live if another white person were

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never born into it.

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And that customs official illegally refused to give

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that missionary his package of medicine.

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That man of God left that customs shack

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without his medicine, went back to the hospital

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and into the room where his girl lay.

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When his wife saw him, she knew instantly

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that he was refused their medicine.

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So he and his wife stood there helplessly

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by the bed, watching that precious little girl

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die, the fruit of their own bodies, slowly

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die.

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Soon after, Jim took some wooden boards and

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nailed them together, making her a small coffin

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by himself.

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He went out and dug her grave all

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along.

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He and his wife washed and dressed the

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precious little body.

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Then at the funeral, he bore that little

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coffin out in his own arms, large muscle

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man that he was.

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He was the only pallbearer.

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He and his wife alone sang the songs

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for the funeral.

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He preached the funeral message for his little

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daughter.

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He prayed the prayers that were prayed for

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the funeral.

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And when it was all over, he himself

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lowered that little coffin down into the grave.

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He had dug there in India to receive

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it.

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Then he took the shovel and put every

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clod of dirt on the grave that was

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placed on it.

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And he and his wife walked away from

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that fresh grave, leaving their little daughter as

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a Christian martyr under the soil there in

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India.

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That little missionary girl was planted there in

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India as a seed, which bore plenty of

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spiritual fruit.

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The local Hindu people stood at a distance,

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keenly observing.

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Some among them who had thus far shunned

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and opposed Jim's missionary family, later one by

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one came around commenting on how greatly impressed

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they were with the fortitude of Jim and

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his wife.

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Likely no weeping or scant, well-controlled tears,

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whereas Hindus howled to the moon at their

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Hindu services.

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Her parents' reaction to her death opened hearts

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to Bible teaching.

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How could that missionary and his wife do

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that?

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One simple reason, they were like Job.

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When God told them to go preach the

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gospel in India, they didn't consider their own

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safety or the safety of their family.

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They obeyed God by going where he commanded

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them to go.

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They glorified and pleased God, and by doing

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so, they received more eternal treasure than you

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can fathom.

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Let's pray, Heavenly Father.

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I pray for myself and for all Christians.

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Help us all to be just as willing

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as this missionary couple to make such a

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sacrifice for thee.

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So few of us believers have such love

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for thee in our hearts, so please help

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us to love thee more than we love

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our own lives.

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I pray for my Christian brothers and sisters

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throughout the world who are serving thee in

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places where their lives are in danger.

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Please be near and dear to them, and

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give them all the divine love, help, and

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courage that they need.

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Lord, I also pray for all the children

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of the devil throughout the world who are

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like that customs official in that they hate

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thee enough to desire the death of and

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delight in the death of thy messengers and

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their families.

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Please have mercy on their wicked, sinful, murderous

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souls.

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Wake them up as to what awful eternal

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fate awaits them because of their terrible, sinful

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rebellion against thee.

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Please grant them a heart of repentance and

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cause them to forsake their awful sins and

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receive Christ.

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Grant this, dear Lord, I only pray.

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Amen.

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Sowers of gospel seed who go to frozen,

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barren regions in search of lost souls suffer

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frostbite from the cold and malnutrition from lack

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of fresh foods.

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Others in many poor nations lack proper food

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and nutrition for their families, yet they gladly

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endure such for their master and his cause.

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Why is it?

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Because they are being like Job and not

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being in safety.

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In 1975, fellowshipping with newly met missionaries here

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in Japan, I noticed that one of the

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men wore thick lens eyeglasses, and from his

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actions I could tell that he had very

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poor eyesight.

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The next day, another missionary and I, walking

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together, met him on the sidewalk in town

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as he walked by us as if he

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didn't even see us.

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This man with me said to me, that's

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Joe so-and-so.

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He's an MK missionary kid.

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His father was a missionary years ago in

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Korea, and the souls there were in sure

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poverty.

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So Joe grew up in Korea where good

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food was a scarce commodity.

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Not getting proper nourishment as a child resulted

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in his eyesight deteriorating badly.

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He didn't even recognize us as he walked

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by us.

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Why did Joe suffer from such poor physical

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vision?

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Because his daddy was like Job.

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His daddy had a clear spiritual vision of

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souls in Korea perishing without the saving gospel

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message.

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If family's health has to suffer badly to

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see Korean people rescued from hell fire, then

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that would just have to be.

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And the missionary man to Korea, his son

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Joe, is also like Job.

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When Joe would be in the States taking

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it easier because of his handicapped vision, here

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he is in Japan going all out to

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win pagan Japanese people to Christ.

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He may not have very clear physical eyesight,

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but he sure does have clear spiritual vision.

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I was not in safety.

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And what joy unspeakable it will be to

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Joe when the trumpet sounds and he instantly

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receives perfect eyesight.

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Oh, hallelujah.

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And the first sight he will behold with

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that perfect vision will be his savior smiling

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face saying, well done and commending him for

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suffering so even as a child for the

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cause of Christ.

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And I suppose the next sight those perfected

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eyes will behold will be the many souls

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his father's family and then his own family

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led to Christ in the lifetime.

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What a wonderful sight that will be to

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faithful Joe.

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Likely he will next see a gigantic mansion

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with his name engraved in gold and studded

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diamonds over the door.

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And that huge mansion filled with eternal treasures

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that his sufferings earned him is to enjoy

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forever and ever.

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Oh, hallelujah.

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How blessed and rich heaven is going to

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be for you if you are like Joe.

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Oh, to be like Joe.

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Some missionaries take the good news to the

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steaming tropics and track in a fungus growth

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on their skin for which doctors know not

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any cure.

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And they have to endure the itching, irritation

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and unsightliness of it for the rest of

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their lives.

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From the dirty food and water some of

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them get amoeba and bacteria in their stomach

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and intestines that cannot be gotten out or

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killed completely.

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And it makes them weaker for the rest

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of their lives occasioned by stomach cramps, pains,

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diarrhea, et cetera.

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Why is it?

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For one simple reason, they were not in

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safety.

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And God has it on their record that

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they are like Joe.

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And God will certainly reward them in proportion

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of being like him.

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He'll also reward you in like manner if

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you will be like Joe.

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For many years, I had rich fellowship with

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Brother Ray another former Marine.

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We fellowshiped on Guam.

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He am pastoring a church there as a

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missionary.

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In 1984, he, his wife and daughter went

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from Guam to the island of Truk, T

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-R-U-K to do missionary work there.

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Soon after going to that primitive island he

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became deathly sick.

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Later in December, 1984, his wife sent me

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a letter that said in part, Ray did

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have food poisoning.

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He also has either cholera or amemic dysentery.

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He almost died November 24th.

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He had diarrhea and vomiting for 23 days,

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lost over 20 pounds the first 11 days.

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He's still not well.

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The doctors won't let me bring him to

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the hospital because if he has cholera, they

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don't want it to be spread around.

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Brother Dennis had cholera and amoeba medicine.

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He got in the Marshall Islands.

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I believe that's what saved Ray's life.

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Plus a lot of prayer.

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The hospital won't even let me bring in

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a stool specimen to be analyzed because it

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may be cholera.

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No wonder so many died here and are

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still dying from cholera.

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Picture Brother Ray lying in that most simple

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shelter of a house in the jungle, wasting

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away and near death, refused any and all

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help by the hospital because he may have

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a highly contagious disease.

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Brother Ray is from Kansas.

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In many ways, his family is like your

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family or any of your neighbors.

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Had he stayed home in Kansas, it is

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unthinkable that he would have ever suffered any

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of those sicknesses described above.

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Also, while on truck, his wife was once

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terribly abused by local lewd men when Brother

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Ray was not around.

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Why did such suffering come their way?

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The answer is simple.

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They were like Job.

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They were not in safety.

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Therefore, they reached souls for Christ that would

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probably have perished had this family considered their

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own safety and therefore stayed home in Kansas.

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Oh, to be like these giants of the

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faith.

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Now it sets me on fire to read

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Richard Wurmbrand's book titled Tortured for Christ.

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Let me read from chapter one of that

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book.

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The communists convened a congress of all Christian

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bodies in our parliament building.

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There were 4,000 priests, pastors, and ministers

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of all denominations.

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Those 4,000 priests and pastors chose Joseph

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Stalin as honorary president of this congress.

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At the same time, he was president of

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the World Movement of the Godless and a

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mass murderer of Christians.

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One after another, bishop and pastors arose in

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our parliament building and declared that communism and

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Christianity are fundamentally the same and could co

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-exist.

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One minister after another said words of praise

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toward communism and assured the new government of

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the loyalty of the church.

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My wife and I were present at this

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congress.

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My wife sat near me and told me,

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Richard, stand up and wash this shame.

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Wash away this shame from the face of

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Christ.

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They are spitting in his face.

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I said to my wife, if I do

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so, you lose your husband.

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She said, I don't wish to have a

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coward as a husband.

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Then I arose and spoke to this congress,

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praising not the murderers of Christians, but Christ

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and God, and said that our loyalty is

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due first to Him.

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The speeches at this congress were broadcast in

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the whole country, but here proclaimed from the

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rostrum of the communist parliament, the message of

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Christ.

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Afterward, I had to pay for this, but

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it had been worthwhile.

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Glory for Richard Wurmbrand's testimony.

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And I'm out of time, and I have

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to close.

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And I want to continue right here the

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next time with more of what was said

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between Richard Wurmbrand and his wife.

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God bless you richly and do you ever

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so much good.

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I earnestly pray for you.

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I earnestly pray for you.