Posted on 12/13/2018 8:19:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Jesus never said to spread the word by breaking and entering which was what he was doing.
Arrogance and stupidity and millennial “I can do what I want, where I want and at any time I want and no one can tell me I can’t” mentality.
An all-seeing & all-knowing GOD knew EXACTLY where those natives were & how they were surviving.
They didn’t need any interference from an evangelist.
It is a pretty large world to go traipsing around in without demanding access to an island which is PROTECTED from outsiders.
“All authority in heaven and on earth
has been given to Me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always,
to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20
Jim Elliot was killed along with his missionary friends attempting to spread the Gospel to similarly detached tribes in South America.
He is famous, among other things, for saying, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
As a result of Jim’s death many young Christians decided to become missionaries. They were inspired by his willingness to risk everything to serve Christ.
Today, even on a conservative, faith-friendly forum, more than half of the participants are saying, “To what purpose was this waste?” If you don’t recognize this quote, it is from Judas before he betrayed Jesus and had been stealing money that was designated for charity.
For a man to give his life to spread the Gospel is something that should be respected. I fear for the naysayers here who are not even trepidatious to slander a faithful martyr of Christ while they get on their high horse of moral superiority about the right of natives to be left alone and how these savages should not be exposed to diseases from outsiders. That’s nuts. Sound like a bunch of liberal anti-Christian ninnies. We would not enjoy the blessing of this great nation if it weren’t for men similar to this one who came here with a desire to serve God according to their consciences and not according to the dictates that others sought to impose on them.
It is this anti-Christian mentality that exists even HERE on FR that is why we are losing this great nation. We are losing it because, as a whole, we don’t deserve to keep it.
God may decide to find some other nation or group of people to bestow his blessings on since our nation has essentially told God to go away and leave us alone.
Quite frankly it is more disgusting that the Democrats and RINOs that get their much deserved criticism here.
Yep.
(I was also playing on the Super Chicken theme, but yes, no one knows what will come of this).
Amen! Freedom of speech among mankind is different from freedom of speech with God. We aren’t free to say whatever is in our hearts and to expect Him to be pleased with us. Instead we have to seek His will in everything, as He has instructed us in His Word, and speak accordingly.
“If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:11
When we speak, we’re to make every effort to speak as the oracles of God.
It’s Satan who speaks his mind from his own resources.
“When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:44
Those who deny Christ hate what John Allen Chau was trying to do. Likely what he was trying to do, too, was made all the more difficult by the growing spirit in this time to live for life in this world. To live a Christian life as described in the Bible is considered a type of suicide according to this thinking. No doubt all the time Noah put into building the ark seemed like the waste of his life, too, to those who refused to listen to God.
And do even Christians fall for the idea that the people on this island are guarding some idyllic life from the trespasses of the modern world, and in particular, “evil” Christianity. Everywhere the Gospel has ever been taken, it’s always been received by some as the Good News that it is. Do some professing Christians forget that it’s blissful freedom to the soul of many because it’s such “old news” in the West? If you really believe in Jesus Christ, then you find in Him true love, joy and peace, and know that you can find them in Him only.
Those islanders are so fierce to outsiders because they are so fierce among themselves. I remember hearing a missionary who’d taken the Gospel to a previously unreached people on an Indonesian island. The only way in was by helicopter and the missionary had to wonder at first if he’d be murdered. He wasn’t, and little by little, he was able to learn the natives’ language and bring them the Gospel. Some became Christians, and one new Christian lost his infant son shortly afterward to an illness. Under the circumstances of the child’s death, tribal tradition called for him to kill his wife. The missionary talked to the man to try to talk him out of it, but he ended up killing his wife anyway. Eventually, though, he grew more in Christ and in his understanding of his faith and repented of having committed the murder of his wife. And that is the sort of thing that has to be going on where Satan is fully in control of a people. The most vicious demons rule the people on that island. They are in spiritual bondage and cannot have or know true love, joy and peace. Although Chau died in the process, he did for a brief time point them in the direction of Christ. In the Church, then, we can all pray that some in their hearts will respond to the love of God, that light, that Chau briefly brought to them.
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