The Peoples Church, Toronto Pm — Richard Wurmbrand

Father, we are not going to ask for your presence because we sense it already. You are here and so many times we ask for your presence in our midst and you're already here. Father, I pray that you will bless this service that thou would minister to us in a wonderful way.

In Jesus' wonderful name we pray. Amen. I wonder if you...

Dear brethren, dear sisters, very, very dear children. I always say very, very dear children because during my 14 years in Communion I have never seen a child. It is for me a great privilege to see children too.

We have sung that the Africans should be brought in and the Latins and the Slavic and the Chinese. Surely not all could be enumerated. God loves all. There's somebody else who has to be brought in. Israel.

Israel and the Mission to the Jewish People

The Jews should be brought. The people whom God loved first and elected first. I am Jewish myself. My beautiful wife, she's Jewish too. You will see her at the table with books outside. A carpenter had pity on our souls.

We had not the slightest knowledge of Christ. It was in Nazi times and he was a German. And in those times Germans thought about everything except about bringing Jews to Christ. But he did it. He gave us a New Testament to read.

I really could not read it. I only could weep over it comparing continually my life with the life of Jesus. He was always pure. I am pure. He was always truthful. I am untruthful. He was always honest.

I am dishonest. I regretted my past life. I asked forgiveness. I got it. He is so glad to forgive. He runs after us with his forgiveness. And somebody must be a very fast runner to run away from his blessings.

And he accepted me as a child of God. And if I speak now on behalf of missionary work in communist countries, which are by the way one half of the population of the world, but the man who brought one Jew to Christ created now an international missionary work to the Chinese, to the Russians, to the Romanians, to the Cubans and so on.

May God help us to bring Jews to Christ too. And now I read from the Gospel according to St. Luke chapter 9 verse 23. Luke 9 verse 23. Jesus said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, let him deny his self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Denying the Self and Embracing Christ

The spoken language obviously existed before the written language. God spoke to Adam. God spoke to Noah. God spoke to many people. And then with the time they learned to put in writing what they have heard.

Now in written language you can make distinctions which don't exist in spoken language. One and the same word in written language can mean very many things according to the letters which you use. I've forgotten now what.

According to the letters which you use. But when God created Adam and Eve first, she was very beautiful, she loved him, he loved her. And they must have said to each other many words of love. The basic word which they said to each other is according to me the central verse of the Bible.

It is written in the Song of Solomon chapter 2 verse 16. She will have been in his embraces and will have said to him, My beloved is mine and I am his. And they will have extended this, not only Adam my beloved is mine, but also the one who created Adam.

And the one who when we sinned and chased us from paradise, he promised that a seed of the woman will come and will deliver our race and we love him also, he is our beloved and I am his. Now in order to say this word in Hebrew, she had to say Dodili Ve 'anilo.

Now Dodili Ve 'anilo in spoken language means two things. The biblical Hebrew is a very poor language, I told you already this morning. There are very few words and one word has many senses. She has said Dodili Ve 'anilo.

If you hear these words, they can be translated in two manners. My beloved is mine and I am his. Law means his. But it means also my beloved is mine and I am not. Because law means also not. When my beloved is mine, I am his.

But I am also not anymore. He is everything and I forget myself in his embraces. The biblical faith is an embrace. It is a desire of a kiss. In the Song of Solomon, the bride says about the Savior, Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.

She is not satisfied with anything less than that, his kiss. And when he enters in the house of Simon the Pharisee, there was very much food. A nice meal was prepared with whatever you would like. And he looked at all this and said to Simon, I have entered in your house and you gave me no kiss.

That is what he had desired. And Mary Magdalene, the sinful woman, she kissed his feet. And there was such a delight in kissing him that even Judas Iscariot, on the last evening, desired nothing else than once more to be able to kiss the one whom he betrayed.

There exists a kiss of betrayal after which you remain the traitor. But there exists another kind of kiss. Do di li, ve ani lo. My beloved is mine and I am no more. I don't count anymore. Whosoever wishes to come after me, says Jesus.

Let him deny his self, his I, his me. Most of you probably, give me a glass of water. Probably most of you have been brought up with the English language. With us, thank you. Put it down. Thank you. You are a good fellow.

You are a good fellow. Who will give a glass of water will not lose his revoir. Now, that's even better. Whosoever comes after me should deny his self. You, those who brought up in English, you are used to it.

We who have learned English as grown up people, we wonder very much that we learned the word you is written with a small y. The word he is a small h. The word she is a very small s. But I is always written with a capital letter.

What can be more important than I? And Jesus teaches us, whosoever wishes to come after me should deny this I. My beloved is mine. And in his embraces and receiving his ardent kiss, you forget everything.

You forget even your existence. When we were in solitary confinement, 30 feet beneath the earth, 10 meters as you say now, 10 meters beneath the earth, hungry, beaten, tortured, rejected, they put Christians on the floor forcibly.

They opened their mouth and they spat in their mouth. I wish to respect what you can take and therefore I say they spat in their mouth. Worse things than this happened. When Christians suffered terribly, sometimes we felt his nearness.

He was always near. But we did not always feel his nearness. And when we felt his nearness, the gray walls of the cell shone like diamond. There was light in the darkness. Flames were burning. And there was such a delight, such a jubilation in the heart, that if such an experience would have lasted more than a fraction of a minute, our hearts would have ran in pieces.

So great was the joy of his presence. The joy when the bride of Christ received his kiss. That is what she desires since ages. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. That is a missionary week. We think about how to do the hard work of propagating the gospel in the whole world.

Nobody can do two works well. One who practices many sports will never be a champion in that sport. You have to do one thing. You have to disappear, to deny the self, and only he should count. I can work in my factory, or in my printing shop, or in my office, or in a kitchen, or bring up children, or in a school.

But always in my heart there will be this burning desire that the love of Jesus, which I have experienced, others should experience too. And for this, the I has to disappear. I have to put away my own burdens.

Casting Aside Personal Burdens

I know many of you have your own sorrows, your own pains. There are marital problems and financial problems, and some are sick, and some have been bereft, and some have psychological problems, and some have sins which they have not conquered yet.

And so many, so many problems exist. But the I, which is the possessor of all problems, the word problem never occurs in the Bible. We are not meant to have problems. Nowhere does the Bible say, have problems.

Then why do we have problems? Never does the Bible say, have a headache. Then why do we have headaches? The Bible says, he is the head. Who is the head has a monopoly of the headaches. We are the body.

We are not meant to have headaches. We are not meant to have problems. But we have them. And we are meant to put all these aside, the burdens aside. Not the I should be. He should be. My beloved is mine, and I am his.

We have to put aside even very heavy burdens. I was called once to the deathbed of a Jew. He was aged 80. He had been a judge. He said, I don't believe in God. I asked him why. He said, if there would have been a God, there would not have been Auschwitz.

Jews would not have been burnt and gassed, six millions of them. I asked him, did you believe in God before this happened? Oh, surely. I was a practicing, a religious Jew. Well, and when the Jews were killed, you stopped believing anymore.

He said, yes. But before the Jews were killed, have you known that when the whites came to America, many tribes of redskins were killed? Do you know that whole populations in Africa had been killed? Did you know that the Armenians had been killed in Turkey in a few days, one and a half million?

Did you know about 10 millions who died in World War I, about so many atrocities which have been during the history of mankind? As long as somebody else suffered. When another nation was afflicted, this did not hinder you to have your religion.

But when you were touched, then you said there can't be any God anymore. That is wrong. We have this eye. As long as the eye is all right, I can harmonize the eye with a little bit of religion and with the existence of God.

And as the eye is touched, and the me is always touched by something, by a tragedy of my own, by a tragedy of my nation, by a tragedy of my social class, or of my party, or of my family, then these things disappear.

My beloved is mine, and I am not. I don't look at things, at my life, from the point of view of the me. But I put to myself an entirely other question. Once a Jewish boy of five with his father drove through a street in Los Angeles.

They passed by a church, and the Jewish child said to his father, let us stop and enter in the church. The father wondered and said, why should we enter in the church? And the child said, let us just enter and see how God fares today.

Let us enter and see how God fares today. You are preoccupied with what is happening with you, and with your circle. How does God fare today? How would you fare if your children would be tortured? That is how God fares today.

The Suffering of Persecuted Christians

I will not think only about what is happening in communist countries. In India, fanatic Hindus in the state of Tamil Nadu have killed many Christians. Nepal is Buddhistic. In the whole of Nepal, only a few hundred Christians, fifty are in prison.

But now, to come to the communist countries, nobody can say how many tens of thousands of Christians are in prisons today. Just two weeks ago, it was published by Associated Press, a secular press agency, that in one small communist country, in North Korea, there are 104 ,000 in prison.

Not all Christians. Many of them Buddhists. Probably the majority Buddhists. But a Buddhist should also not be in prison for his faith. But among these, surely also many thousands. Nobody knows how many there are in Vietnam, in Red China, in Russia, in my homeland, Romania, in Ethiopia, in Angola, in Mozambique, in Cuba, and now in Nicaragua, which has been taken over by the communists just recently, we have already the names of brethren sentenced to 30 years of prison.

I was in jail only 14 years. Brother Khrapov, a Baptist pastor in the Soviet Union, is in jail since 27 years. Don't think that this is too much, because Brother Paulitis, from Soviet Lithuania, is in jail for his faith since 35 years.

Don't believe that this is too much, because Brother Mikhail Shov is in jail since 43 years. Most of you were not born yet, when he was already in manacles and beaten and hungry and deprived of son and deprived of all the amenities of life, because he believed in the Savior.

How does God fear? How would you feel if you would know your children in the hands of kidnappers who would do them harm? How would you feel if you would know that your children are beaten? How would you feel if you would pass through this tragedy?

How does God fear today? My beloved is mine and I am his. Nothing counts. Nothing else than what is to my beloved, and my beloved suffers today. He suffers with those who suffer in prison. He suffers also about something else.

There are some who are in the outer darkness, in a suffering beyond description, in hell since thousands of years without any chance of ever escaping from there. And every day, every day, every second, others enter into this jail, not because of their sins, not because of their crimes, but only because they don't know the name of Jesus.

I know about a criminal. I have been much with criminals in prison. I know the world of criminals better than the world of gentlemen. There was a criminal who had killed a man. He had strangled him. And then he heard his heartbeat getting softer and softer.

Then it stopped. He knew now he has finished. He buried him under the floor somewhere. Now he had escaped. And then he heard from under the floor, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. And years passed.

He never ceased to hear the heartbeat of the man whom he had killed. Conscience spoke to him. And there are in hell thousands over thousands who hear continually the weeping of the victims of their lives and their sighs and their cries and their heartbeat, and there exists no escape.

And there was a certain Joe, a fisherman, who lay once on the heart of Jesus, and he heard his heartbeat tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. Come unto me, even if you have committed crimes. Come unto me, even if you are the chief of sinners.

I ask you about nothing. Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Just listen. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. How quietly, how softly a divine heart of love beats. And it makes a whole difference for an eternity if somebody will have to hear always the heartbeat of his victim accusing him, or if in the embrace of Jesus he will forget what has been, even his evil deeds.

St. Paul, after having been converted, says, leaving behind, forgetting what has been, and there have been crimes in his life behind, but these have passed, and for all eternity to rest at the bosom of Jesus.

How does God feel? How does God feel about the fact that so many go to hell today? It is said that when our Lord Jesus returned to heaven, after everything which he experienced on earth, Archangel Michael was the first to see him and asked him what happened on earth.

It is a legend. And so Jesus told him what happened. And what is with these wounds which you have on your hands and on your feet? Well, these wounds were made to me by those whom I loved. And was there nobody to believe in you?

Yes, I left behind eleven apostles, and I told them to go into the whole world and to tell them about my salvation. And Michael asked, and what if these eleven will not go? Jesus said, there exists no other possibility than this.

How does God feel when he sees that souls remain unsaved? How does God feel when he sees all these atrocities which are happening in communist countries, in Islamic countries, and in so many other places of the world?

I told you about Paulitis and Khrapov and the others who are in jail since so many years. Some are in jail together with their children. Ritikov, one of the Baptist leaders of Russia, he is with his son in prison.

I have been together with men who were in the same cell with their own sons, one with four sons of his. This man never ate, I think. He always said, I don't feel well today, I can't eat. In order to give a little bit more bread or a little bit more gruel to these children, he died because of hunger to make his child live a little bit longer.

When we say about our brethren who are in jail there, really we don't communicate saying the word jail because you have in mind a Canadian jail. I've been in a Canadian jail, I visited it. If anyone wishes to have a nice vacation which should cost him no money, he should do something and go to jail.

No free Romanian or Russian who works the whole day in the factory could dream to eat what I have seen in Canadian prison being the food of the prisoner. And they have library, and they have color television, and they have vending machines where they push a button and they can have ginger ale, and they can have I don't know what, root beer.

And if they know to push the button very well then also there is some alcoholic beverage and there is a vending machine for cigarettes and for whatever they like. I speak to you about jail, about communist jail.

We had nothing. We never saw our families. My wife was also in a jail, in another jail. I did not see her all these 14 years. Never seeing your children, being deprived of everything. Being deprived, I will not begin to tell you much, but we were deprived of air.

After the years of solitary confinement, we were in cramped cells. In the cells there were sometimes 100 or even 200 prisoners. The cells were heated only in summer. In summer they heated the cells so as to suffocate us.

We were naked in these cells. We sweated. We could not have a little bit of air. We breathed like this. And I have seen Christians breathing like this and speaking about Christ to a fellow prisoner of theirs.

And fellow prisoners were converted. And we remembered and we said to each other, What? It is too hot for us here? How was it for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? They were right there in the fire. But they knew they are not alone.

There is another one with them. And his look is like the look of the Son of God. And if they could bear it, we can bear it. And we can remain faithful to the end. We have prisoners who are now in jails.

We have prisoners who are in psychiatric asylums, in straitjackets and gagged. You will find in one of my books, I have written, In God's Underground and Torture for Christ, a new book has just appeared, Where Christ is Tortured Still, where we give the proofs from the Soviet press.

They say that in one single town, on one single day, they have put 82 Christians in an asylum for insane, these having given proofs of madness by prolonged prayer. Prolonged prayer is a sign of madness.

If ever God beware, Canada will be taken over by the Communists. The mainstream denomination of Canada can be absolutely quiet. None of them will ever be put in a psychiatric asylum because they don't know prolonged prayer.

Prayer must be very short. In Russia, they pray, they like it to speak with their beloved. And for speaking with your beloved long time, no bride would look to the watch how often she should receive the kisses and then stop five minutes apart.

And for prolonged prayer, we have Christians who are now in psychiatric asylums. That is under European Communism. God beware of Communism in Africa. Today I spoke with an Ethiopian brother. He's right here in town.

In Ethiopia, the Christians, when they were beaten and tortured, some of them said to the Communists, we don't mind, we see the glory of the Lord. And the Communists sawed their eyes. In Mozambique, preachers who continue to preach, though it was forbidden to them, some of them had their lips cut off.

In Ethiopia, to come back there, many had been shot. And when the families asked for the corpses, they had to pay for the bullet. And somebody examined how many bullets have passed through the body of this Christian.

And for as many bullets, you had to pay the respective price. Only now, when there is a little bit of a liberalization in China, now we hear what has happened in the time when Mao Zedong reigned, how Christians had to kneel before a picture of Mao Zedong, and they had to slap themselves.

That was demanded from them. They should slap themselves for recognizing anybody else than this great genius, this great benefactor, this great criminal, Mao Zedong. And such things have happened and continue to happen in the Communist world.

In Cuba, the President Valladares and Gomez and Nobel are in jail since 21 years, and so on and so on. But I have not come to tell you the story about how much Christians suffered, but about how much they loved.

Love as the Measure of Christian Faithfulness

At the last judgment, nobody will be asked, how much did you suffer? But did you love? Because even if you gave your body to be burnt on a stake for Christ's sake, and if you did not love, it is worth just nothing.

I will tell you immediately about love. When we were in jail, we were doped. First of all, we were surely very hungry. And then we were doped with drugs which would destroy our minds. And because of this doping and the hunger and all the circumstances, we forgot more and more.

I forgot my whole theology. I don't mind, because much of it was not right. But then I forgot also, one evening, one evening, I remembered that I am a Lutheran pastor. But what in the world does the word Lutheran mean?

I had forgotten who Luther has been. What does it mean? I could not know. I did not know who Luther was. That was one of the most beautiful evenings of my life. I made a big discovery that you can be a Christian without knowing who Luther has been.

I had not known it before. And you can be a Christian without knowing who Calvin has been and who the Pope has been and who the Pope is and who the author of the patriarch is and who the Baptist preacher is, as long as you don't forget the one name which is above every name.

This name, happily, we never forgot. Just one Bible verse, we forgot. We forgot everything. This is the time we forgot the Bible. We forgot even the Lord's Prayer. We forgot. Rarely came out of oblivion just one Bible verse or a fraction of a Bible verse.

And I remember that in that time I remembered a few words from a verse which you will find in Numbers, chapter 19, verse 14. Numbers, chapter 19, verse 14. This is the law. When a man dies in a tent, all that come into the tent and all that is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.

This I did not remember. I remembered only the first words of this verse. And they were so important for me. The first words were, This is the law. When a man dies. If a man is not ready to die for a law, he does not have this law.

Not everyone is called to be a martyr, to die a physical death somewhere in a prison, or shot. But every Christian is meant to die. To die to sin, to die to this world, to die to its habits, and to become an entirely new creature from another species.

Instead of being a simple man, you are now a child of God. You belong to the family of the Creator. This is the law. If a man dies. It is not the law that you sin, not what you declare, not what you give for.

That is your law. That is your religion. What you are ready to die for. When I came to the United States and to Canada, I saw a habit which we don't have in our country because our church is underground.

But there are such big meetings, Billy Graham and I don't know many others, smaller ones and bigger ones. It's not always those who have the bigger crowds who are the biggest ones. Also those with smaller crowds can be very good pastors.

And then at the end, they make what is named an altar call. And pushing each other, some come forward or some slip their hands up and so on, showing that they are converted. Now an altar call is a call to death.

Because on the altar of Jerusalem, every lamb, every ram, every bullock, every dove which was brought on the altar, that was its last day. And a call to Jesus is a call to death. Not everyone will die a physical death because of it.

But every one of us is meant to die to this ugly I. To this ugly self. Do di li ve 'ani lo. My beloved is mine. And I, I am not. I am his. I have forgotten about myself. I deny the self. Only one thing counts for me.

How does my God fare? Is he happy? How does my Savior fare? I have been asked very often what has been my preferred verse in the Bible. You will find it. It was, in any case, my preferred verse when I was in jail.

It is in the prophet Zephaniah. Chapter 3, verse 17. Look here. Zephaniah, chapter 3, verse 17. The Lord your God in the midst of you is mighty. He will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love.

He will rejoice over you with singing. Now I like it when congregations sing to God. I like it when such splendid choirs or these Samuel songs, when they sing to God, there exists one thing better. To make God to sing.

It is here written that we can make God to rejoice singing. God sits on his throne. He has to create and to rule universes. He has to care about billions of men and not only about men, but about trees and flowers and animals and sparrows.

Everything is his. And about angels. And at certain moments, his face begins to shine and he begins to sing. And the angels say, but what has happened? Why are you singing? What are you so happy about?

Just look down to the people's church in Toronto. Really, it makes me to sing. It makes me to rejoice when I see how they forget themselves. The many troubles which they surely have. And Dodi-li, the Ani-lo, their beloved is theirs and they are no more.

They have forgotten the self. And the only question which they put to themselves is how do I fare? How does Christ fare? Is my son still tortured? Do my creatures do they still go millions after millions to hell and nobody tells them the one word which can save them for all eternity?

As a carpenter told me this word, Jesus, the word which saves from all sins, which cleanses you from everything wrong which you have ever done in your life. God showed himself on earth in the person of his son Jesus Christ.

We saw how God is. And Isaiah seeing this Messiah in a vision said, I saw him as a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. That is how God is. His pain is the pain of everyone persecuted innocently as so many of our brethren are.

And his pain is every soul which passes into eternity being unsaved. Let us forget our troubles. I know for some of you that very earnest I speak to you not from an easy life. I have had a very, very difficult life from childhood on.

I have been an orphan child, a hungry orphan child. In my whole childhood I have never eaten chocolate. When others ate chocolate, I licked the paper after them. I have been hungry in my youth. I have passed through many things.

We have passed through Nazi persecution. A great part of our family has been killed. We lost both parents, three sisters, a brother of my wife, and so on and so on. I have been through worse and worse in these communist years, and I have sufferings even today.

Some of you would wonder how much I can suffer even today. But all these things have to be forgotten. Not I live, but he lives. Christ lives in me. My beloved is mine, and one thing counts, that he should be crowned, that he should be happy.

A God who has such a burden, he should have one moment of respite. There is a dark part, I would not say a dark line, in the face of God, his sadness about man's sin. We say in the benediction at the end very often, let God shine his face upon us.

Now why do we say let his face shine? Probably it does not shine always when he sees human sin and humans being lost. There is a dark line in his face, and I can make it disappear by his grace. I can make my God to rejoice singing.

Splendid, this brother who has organized such an orchestra and such a choir. I travel to many countries, I have not heard such choirs and such orchestras. Splendid, this Samuelson. Splendid, such a congregation which sings.

But let it be your aim. I wish to make God to sing, and his angels will accompany him. I have a granddaughter of nine. Once she said, when I will be big, I will be a doctor. Now she has a brother of four.

He also wished to say what he will be, but he did not know what a doctor means, what an engineer means. He did not know what to say. So when she said, I wish to be a doctor, he was asked, and what do you wish to be?

He replied, I wish to be a man who will make my mother happy. And very splendid. At the age of four, it is beautiful to wish to make your mother happy. I would like that many of us should have this aim, to make their mothers happy.

And you can make her happy by a caress, by a good word, just a phone call. What is it? Just nothing. I wish to tell you I love you. You make her happy. But there exists also something more than that. The aim of such missionary conventions is one, to make God happy.

To make God rejoice singing. And I wish to this church and to its pastors, and I wish to this missionary convention, that you should have this result. Make God to rejoice singing. You have your sadnesses.

Forget them. There is one great aim. You have been told in Russia there are these secret printing presses. I speak as a representative of a mission, Jesus to the communist world. It exists in Canada, in the United States, in many European countries, in Australia, in Japan, and so on.

Supporting the Underground Church and Missionary Work

And from everywhere we smuggle in Bibles and Christian literature into communist countries. We help the families of Christians who are in prison. But now we think that better than to smuggle Bibles is, if you can, to smuggle printing presses.

And printing presses have been smuggled into several communist countries. Some of them have been discovered. Every pickpocket is discovered once. Every thief is discovered once. A secret printer is also discovered once.

But then others were made, and others. And you were told such a printing press costs $30 ,000. So you can see about four or five such printing presses. Not about one. There exist these printing presses.

And our brethren there, our sisters, if I could describe to you how young these sisters are, how young these brethren. And they renounce everything. Once they enter in the printing press, which is usually somewhere in a cellar, they never leave the cellar.

It is jail, taken upon themselves freely, out of love. As I have not seen the sun during years in jail, they never see the sun, they never see the moon. They live there, three girls apart, two or three boys in another room.

They have none of the amenities of life. They don't have Russia or China, or I don't know which other such communist countries. They don't have everywhere a bathroom. They don't have none of the things which we consider to be so necessary.

They renounce everything because they love Christ. And the eye with its desires has disappeared. They are happy with what is the greatest joy in life. And I would ask you, and with this I finish, seek the foremost joy.

I have known not only much trouble and sadness in life, I have known joys too. And the greatest joy which I have ever had, and which I wish to share with you, a human soul can receive the kiss of Jesus Christ.

The bride prays for this since years, just sing the song of Solomon. The Jews say all the books of the Bible are holy, but the song of Solomon is the most holy. It contains the most holy prayer. I will never be satisfied with less than let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.

When we were engaged, when we courted, my wife used to write to me multitude of nice letters. And I said, when will she finish writing letters? And being my embraces, I am not interested in her letters.

I wish to have her, not her letters. And we can have the embrace of Jesus. We can have his kiss. He desires our kisses. He entered into the house of Simon. Why did you not give me a kiss? We should not get this reproach.

It is not compulsory to be a shallow Christian, to be a lukewarm Christian. There exists a possibility of being an ardent Christian. A bride in love to paroxysm for her bridegroom, forgetting everything in his embraces.

And only one thing should count. How does my beloved fare? Today he still suffers terribly. That is the title of my last book, where Christ is still tortured. He is tortured by what is happening in countries where there is persecution.

He is tortured by the whole state of the world in which millions pass into eternity unsaved. Put it as your aim in life, whatever you are calling otherwise in the civilian life. Put it as your last aim.