My wife and I don't go see many movies (I may write on entertainment some day), but last night we made a date out of going to see "End of the Spear." The movie is a true story of five missionaries who went to the "Woadani" (wod-on-e) group of people in Ecuador. The five were all speared/macheted to death after the second day of their arrival and personal contact with the people. The movie is very powerful and it should move the American church to embrace suffering and shame in the name of and for the cause of Christ. I see it in my own life all too often, the fear of man. These five missionaries; Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming were simply obeying their Lord Jesus... And I say we should too.
Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
-Matthew 5:11-12
Strange words aren't they, "rejoice and be glad because of persecution and slander?"
Christ knew that:
For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison
-2 Corinthians 4:17
Christians, we have a treasure waiting for us in heaven and His name is Jesus Christ. O that we might risk the temporal to gain the eternal! Amen.
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