Love With Shoes On — Darrell Champlin

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Now our father we come in to die Matchless presence and we come before thee our father odd and Humbled that we have the opportunity to come before the awesome Mysterium tremendum of the universe. We don't understand our father we cannot understand that love that came out of eternity and Loved us even though We are unlovely.

We don't don't understand why you reached down And by thy grace brought us to know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior. But how we praise thee that it's true. And how we praise thee that we have the opportunity to come within the very veil and stand before thee in the Holy of Holies and pour out our souls to thee and Find grace to help in the time of need.

Our father as our brother has already prayed we ask thee once again That thou be in our midst. Thou has said where two or three are gathered together. There am I in the midst and we pray that thy blessed Holy Spirit Will open our minds and hearts.

To listen to thy voice from heaven not that of a man. But a message from off the altar alive coal from the presence of God. May it be true Exalt the matchless name of our Lord Jesus tonight. Causing to glow gleam before us Causes so God to fall down within our hearts and upon our very knees to worship and adore and magnify our matchless Savior and Send us from this place filled with ice spirit and Burning.

Oh God with a passionate love for thee That will reach out across this world to the lost beginning across the street from us and across the seas we pray with thanksgiving and Worship in Matchless name of our Lord Jesus.

Missions and the Plague of Sin

I teach in three Bible colleges in the Christian University while up here in the States. Each year coming out of the jungles and that's the first question. I asked my students in the schools in the missions classes why Missions no beloved.

We're worried a lot by a lot of different things in this world today. We're concerned about inflation we see it reached 5 Five and a quarter percent and suddenly the halls the whole financial structure of the United States starts to tremble and the The stock market begins to crash and we're trembling with fear and the fact of the matter is beloved.

But every other nation in the world would be very happy very very happy to exchange our 5 inflation for theirs. You can put your money in the bank in a Land of Brazil at a hundred percent interest and you would be a fool a Fool to put your money in a savings account in Brazil at a hundred percent per year interest.

Or by the end of the year, you'd have lost that money many times over. Argentina has inflation of a thousand percent. Suriname is running between 50 and 100 percent. You know, do you do you believe do you can understand that a can of Evaporated milk the kind that we buy downtown in any one of our stores for 49 cents or 51 or 53 cents a can.

That it can like that. By the purchase of the dollar rate in the land of Suriname now cost three dollars and 64 cents. That is inflation. And yet we're frightened by it. We're frightened by the takeover of American companies by foreign interests.

We're concerned about the the Buying of American land and the buying of American businesses and banks by foreign nations. We're concerned about AIDS. I heard the other day that one church wanted to take a group of people to the land of Africa and The moms and dads wouldn't let their teenagers go because they were afraid.

Their teenagers would catch AIDS. Or we have to admit beloved that AIDS is a problem. We have to admit that AIDS may kill its thousands may kill its millions but beloved there's a plague far greater across the land a plague across this world.

That will not kill just thousands. Not just millions. There is a plague beloved that can be spelled with three simple letters s I-N. A plague of sin that not only will kill millions. But will kill beloved tonight three billion precious souls.

Unless something is done to reach them with the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sin. Sin beloved the greatest and most terrible plague that afflicts this world is sweeps like a flood. Carrying all before sin the death angel sin.

Death and that beloved is The reason for missions. See do you realize beloved that this book this Bible is a textbook of missions? Have it if you thought that this entire Bible minus four chapters. The first two chapters of the book of Genesis and the last two chapters of the book of Revelation is filled from chapter 3 of Genesis to chapter 20 of Revelation with the message and the history of sin and a mighty powerful righteous, holy God reaching down through the blood of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ to save men from sin.

An entire Bible beloved that is nothing but a textbook of missions the history of the heartbeat of the God of heaven. Now we were. Visiting a little church in North Carolina. Elk Park, North Carolina up in the hills upon Roan Mountain coming near the Border of Tennessee and North Carolina.

I was invited to speak their special message an extra message in a conference and we just had a doubleheader that night one of our dear friends and dries for an duck worth pardon me. Stood to sing inimitable Southern boys anyone here from the South.

You know how they sing don't you there's a special way? She stood and sang before us until our hearts were broken until tears were streaming down our faces. She sang. Oh, tell me that name again, oh. Tell me that name that glorious that match that awesome that beautiful that magnificent.

That graceful name of Jesus again. And our hearts broke before the power of that message. Well beloved do we exult in our Lord Jesus Christ? I? See some who are accustomed to raising their hands. What are they doing?

They're letting them know that they love him. Some of us say it with our hearts others say it with our hands. They're exulting in that matchless blessed incomparable name of Jesus Christ. Why we become so filled with it that even those of us who can't sing lift up our voices and say my Jesus I love thee.

I know thou art mine for thee all the folly of sin. I resign and we turn to the world and we say please. Look upon Jesus turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full in his wonderful face and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory.

Then when our hearts beloved are so full that we have nothing more we can say nothing else. We just have to lift our hands to him and say first Lord Jesus ruler of all nature all thou of God and man the Son evil I honor Thee will I cherish thou my soul's joy Glory, or tell me I'm here tonight to remind you beloved Of those three billion who are crying.

Oh, tell me that day just once just once just once three Billion on their way to a Christless eternity who have yet to hear a single time The blessed message of the gospel which we find in that matchless Word of God.

Three billion of them now. How many is a billion? Well a mathematician would say it's a thousand million. But how do we get our minds around a thousand million perhaps is a better way? Perhaps if if we could just imagine we have the power to turn history back.

Just push the 1980s back into oblivion so they didn't exist anymore throw the 1970s in the skies as though they never happened. Push the calendar back into the 1960s 5 4 3 2 back into the 1950s begin turning the years of the calendar back 57 56 55 54 beloved when we turned history back to 1953 we would have turned history back 1 billion seconds.

That's right. It takes 36 years to accumulate 1 billion Seconds, what does that mean? That means that we have today beloved across this world. Lost souls who have yet to hear the message of the gospel for the first time crying.

No, man, care for my soul the equivalent of a hundred and eight years of Seconds and they're dying 143 a minute and they're dying of the plague of sin eight thousand five hundred and eighty an hour and They're dying of the scourge of Satan.

Amid two hundred and five thousand nine hundred and twenty a day they're dying of the wages of sin a million four hundred and forty thousand four hundred. They're dying. We love it. No, man. Why missions?

Three billion who have stood shoulder to shoulder Would circle this globe 44 times around. Three billion on their way to a Christless eternity. Do you think that's bad? Is that awesome? Is that almost mind-boggling?

Then consider this. It took until 1830 For the population of the world to accumulate from the dawn of recorded history as far as we know till 1830. To accumulate until there are 1 billion people alive on this the face of this globe at the same time.

But it took only a hundred and three years 1933 to reach two and then only 27 1960 to reach three and Then only 17 1977 to reach four and then only ten 1987 to reach five. By the year 1992 there'll be six billion people and by the year 2000 there'll be seven billion people on The face of this globe and at that time beloved unless something happens There will be five billion people across this earth that are still crying.

Oh, tell me that name again, oh Tell me that name just one. Oh, tell me that name for the first time five billion of them enough to circle this globe 77 times. Why mission. Because the lost are dying.

But there's a greater need reads and beloved. Why missions? Because we love do you realize when you take this book? This matchless Word of God. And you begin to read it begin to suffuse your life with it.

You begin to be filled with the reading and the direction and blessing of the Word of God in your life. You begin to know him and as you begin to know him You begin to grow in his likeness an amazing Matchless Lord Jesus that we meet in the scriptures becomes the object of our love.

Becomes the object of our passion. Becomes a very darling of our lives. It becomes the very root of our being the very foundation of our very existence. And as we grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ something happens to us.

The heartbeat of God begins to throb. With an hour very they I want time take time to preach a message like that to you tonight. We'll be here to midnight, but let me just summarize. When it happens young man.

When it happens to him. When it happens mom. The very heartbeat of God begins to throb within your heart and You find blazing in your heart a passion that cannot be when? You find blazing in your very being a vision That cannot begin.

And what is that vision. The vision of the glory and the exaltation? Of our Lord Jesus Christ. The vision of souls being brought out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ into the light of God.

The vision of the establishment of a kingdom throughout eternity of a saved and sanctified children of the God of heaven the family of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. And It becomes an obsession That cannot be denied and a destination the fulfillment of that task and the bringing of our souls Into the presence of the God of heaven that will not be abandoned.

The very heartbeat of God a passion that cannot be quenched. An obsession that cannot be denied. A vision that cannot be dimmed. A Destination the enthronement of our matchless God. With a people to worship him for eternity.

Conformity to Christ and Love With Shoes On

And beloved, that's why I'd like to talk with you tonight for a little while about love. Because it begins right there not a pumped-up love, but a love that comes from being immersed in this Glorious book and allowing the Spirit of God to accomplish In my life and in yours that which God has determined in as Mentioned here in the book of Romans a verse with which we're all very familiar Romans chapter 8 and verse 29 for whom he did foreknow.

He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. That he might be the firstborn among many Brethren when the passion of God begins to burn in our hearts. Then you young men one after another filled with a passion that cannot be quenched.

Lighted with a vision that cannot be dimmed. He's with an obsession that cannot be denied. Filled with the destination of the exaltation of your God will march across this world as an army. And you young ladies will be by their sides and you dads and moms will be on your knees crying out for the power of God upon them and Pouring out of the resources God gives you to send the gospel across the world because you love your Lord Jesus, that's where it begins and that's where we begin tonight in chapter 21 of the book of John and verse 15.

John chapter 21 and verse 15 so When they had dined Jesus saith to Simon Peter Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me more than these. They saith unto him yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him feed my lambs.

Say it to him again the second time Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me and he saith unto him yea Lord Thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him feed my sheep. Verse 17 he saith unto him the third time Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me.

Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time lovest thou me. He said unto him Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him feed My sheep. Now listen closely beloved to verse 18 and 19 for they are the key I believe to understanding that about which the Lord Jesus was speaking to Peter.

Verily Verily I say unto thee When thou wast young thou girdest thyself and walkest where thou wouldst. When thou shalt be old thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not.

This speak he Signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he has spoken this he saith unto him follow me and we love it in the Time that I've had the joy of preaching the gospel since I was 17 years old 40 years ago beginning.

Well, maybe before that time remember when I was 12 I was called to be a missionary at 12 years of age saved when I was 9 I Remember age of 12 standing on the street corners and preaching the gospel to the neighborhood boys and girls.

My doctrine wasn't too good. I Didn't believe Jesus right now the sidewalk was going to open up and swallowed it. Yeah, my doctrine wasn't good, but I had the right idea. Starting 17 began to preach and had the joy of seeing souls saved and church started.

When I was 17 and 18 went out to Las Vegas, Nevada and was instrumental in getting a Church started there and then Louise Louise. She Robbed the cradle. When I was 19, we got married and we're on a honeymoon over in Jerome, Idaho and some folks there wanted to have David a daily vacation Bible school and event Julistic services in a Grange Hall and and they wanted us to hold them.

And so we did and out of that group came the Grace Baptist Church of Twin Falls, Idaho. And so while still a teenager we saw God bless in the salvation of many many folks mostly white folks although we did go to a little place called evergreen a suburb of Los Angeles and.

That was all the black folk. And we'd gather big crowd on buses and what had bus them in and and I preached to him and I learned there how to sing in the African manner nice through Steely as as our people just enjoy singing.

But most of the folks we saw say before going to the mission field were white. I believe we've seen a number of different colors of folks who've come to Christ as their Savior over in Africa. God gave us several thousand came to him as their Savior.

Back there in the deep jungles saw God give us 13 churches and and Seven schools and 36 preachers to train from reading and writing right up from scratch to serve and glorify him. We were just jungle rings.

I Mean we lived in mud and stick house dirt floors. No screens or glass just holes in the wall for windows and and a big opening in the back for a back door. Ten billion, I don't know how many billion or trillion termites that were eating us out of house and home.

And we had two resident snakes. We watched those snakes crawl across the top of the walls. Looked more pretty good we just we decided they were more danger to the cockroaches and the centipedes and the scorpions and the tarantulas and and the rest of the things crawling around our house than they were to Us now we did kill the Cobras when they came in the living room.

And we killed the ten-foot vipers when they came in the kitchen and we took care of the snakes in the pots. But we couldn't do anything about the leopard to come and stand and look through the bedroom window at us while we were.

While we're asleep on our bed, just jungle rats lived on $28 a month for six years. I bought enough flour to break bake one a loaf of bread a week. We bake it on Saturdays on Sunday. We bought palm oil that heavy yellow fatty oil.

You're supposed to die from cholesterol from that supposed to be one of the worst. Didn't kill us. We we ate the leaf of one of the plants a cassava plant that's their substitute for potatoes. We ate that leaf.

They called it a pond out there. We ate it six days seven days a week for six years running. That was our vegetable and I shot all the meat. We ate everything pit from pigeons to elephant could tell you all kinds of horrifying stories of elephant Leopard and snakes and things like that, but that's not our purpose here tonight.

Just jungle rats. What a tremendous time seeing black folk come to know Christ seeing churches established and Trained glorious time. So we've seen a number of black folk but then in 1965 Went down to the land of Suriname South America down there.

We have a church that has five races in it. We have blacks from Africa yellows from Asia browns from India. Reds the Amerindians out of the jungles and a few whites in that one church red brown yellow black and white just like the little Chorus we sing.

Jesus loves the little children all the children of the world red brown yellow black and white. They're precious in his sight. So we've seen beloved a number of different colors of Christians, but I think we've only seen two kinds.

I Like to call one of those kinds psalm 23 Christians, you can take psalm 23 and put it as a circumference around their entire life. If you ask them their testimony they speak of the joy of of knowing God as their father.

Of knowing the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. The Holy Spirit is their comforter and guide. They talk about God's super in times of sorrow they talk about his strength in times of weakness. They talk about his supply in times of need all of those glorious experiences that we have 33 Miraculous things beloved that happened in the life of everyone who is truly born again into the family of God.

I like to describe it to the people in South America's a great lake deep and wide filled with the love and mercy and majesty and Blessing of the God of heaven but damned by our sin. And then Jesus hangs upon Calvary's cross and cries He's finished and God reaches down a mighty fist and breaches that dam and God's love and mercy begin to pour through the dam begins to crumble and last that breach topples the entire dam and we're caught up in the flood of the blessing and mercy of God.

The Events happened I believe once described as the water spouts of God. Glorious glorious experience. But I'm here beloved to remind you that that's not all. But there's another kind of Christianity.

And you read of it in Psalm 24 and about verse 6 Lift up your heads. Oh We gaze and be lift up the everlasting doors and the King of glory Shall come in. Who is this King of glory. The Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battle.

And then it seems to seem shifts. Our Lord is hung upon Calvary's cross. He's been buried and raised again for our justification and now He said it back to glory through the realm of the principality of the powers of the air and Satanic forces Descend upon him and he cast them from himself in my triumph.

Now he's approaching the ramparts of glory and there the angels by the myriad are assembled and they lift up the shop. Lift up your heads. Oh He gates and being us up the everlasting doors and our King our King of glory Shall come in and the question echoes.

Who is this King and the answer thunders the Lord of hosts Jehovah Sabbath General of the hosts of the universe. He is our king of glory. And that's beloved is what Jesus was bitter. Satan attacked me in the 14th chapter of Isaiah.

He stood and declared to the universe by blasphemous. I will Summarize them in the fifth Which he said I will be as the most high God. I will dethrone Eleon Master of the universe and I'll reign on his throne.

Of course the Lord threw him out and war began to rage and now our Lord Jesus had died upon Calvary's Cross and now the first salvo their first return Salvo of the God of heaven was being fired. Peter.

We're going I say to you Peter. I'm looking down through the corridor of the time of your life. I say to if you take up the gauntlet of caring for my land if you take up Responsibility of feeding my sheep is going to be scored ridicule hatred and Persecution in fact Peter.

I'm looking down toward the end of your life. That's verse 18 and 19 is or not. I'm looking down toward the end of your life Peter. They're going to take hold of you and they're going to tell you where you would not go.

They're going to do with you that which you would not have done. In fact Peter. They're going to kill you for my name's sake now Peter. Do you love me for he asked Peter you see in verse 15? Simon son of Jonas.

Lovest thou me. Now your Bible taught congregation and You already know likely that the word the Lord Jesus when he asked used when he asked Peter. Do you love me? It's not the same word that Peter used when he said yes, Lord.

I love you two different words both correctly translated love. But two different kinds of we learned the definition of the kind of love Jesus was asking Peter for way back there in school. We call it commonly today of agape love.

Sacrificial Love and the Missionary Life

Listen to this definition. Love is a desire for and a delight in the well-being of the one loved leading to active and self sacrificing. Listen again love Is a desire for and a delight in the well-being of the one loved leading to active and self Sacrificing efforts on their behalf.

There's a church down in Chillicothe, Ohio. It has a tremendous ministry amongst the students on the campus of Athens and also at Ohio State at Columbus. They go on that campus and hold Bible studies in the dorms.

They get the students together and teach them the Bible and they see the campus prostitutes saved and They see the dope addicts saved and they see the hippies saved and they see those that are doomed to death through drugs alcohol saved and they bring them out assembled together each year by the hundreds and Have a Bible conference.

Dr. French of Grace Theological Seminary was the Bible teacher one year and I was the missionary speaker. Dr. French went back into the book of 1st John. He took this same love agape and he defined it this way.

Love with shoes on love. With shoes on Peter there's war. I had a score ridicule. Beatings and stonings and jail and death ahead Peter. I'm looking for soldiers. I'm looking for a man who will suffer.

I'm looking for men who will sacrifice. I'm looking for men who will separate themselves from the dream of this world. I'm looking for men who subject themselves to my will. I'm looking for men who will serve.

I'm looking for a man Peter who will soldier. Now Peter, will you get on your boots and will you march for me? And it happened in chapter 4 as soon as Peter had taken up the gauntlet of the service of the God of heaven.

He was arrested in Acts chapter 5. He's arrested again and beaten and In Acts chapter 12, he's in prison now awaiting beheading in the morning. God's people are at the house of John Mark crying out. Oh God.

Oh God you let them kill James, please Please Lord don't let them kill Peter. Please Lord deliver Peter and God hears and sends an angel in the middle of the night and leads Peter out through locked walls.

Peter there's war ahead. Now will you get on your boots? Peter is there a man here who will subject himself to the will of God? Peter is there a man here who will suffer for the God of heaven? Peter will you sacrifice?

Will you separate from the things of the world? Will you soldier Peter? Do you love me? With shoes on. And Peter's response Yes, Lord Jesus, I love you with a warm-hearted affection again. And again and again our matchless Lord comes to us and says my daughter my son.

Do you love me. And again and again and again? We give him Peters. When it's time to separate from the things of the world. When it's time to sacrifice. When it's time to subject ourselves to the will of God.

When it's time to serve. When it's time to soldier. So often beloved we give him Peters. I've been thinking back on our experience for the past many years on the mission fields of Africa and South America the past 35 years ourselves.

And I'd like to just bring Some of those experiences to you where our Lord has come to us and asked us. Do you love me? Do you love? Back in 1979 we had a prayer card something like the ones that are on the back table there.

We had a prayer card across the top of which were written the words three generations of missionaries from 1917 to 1979 and I'd see young people pick up that card and they'd look at it and they'd look at me.

And they'd look at it again, and I could see the wheels turning. They're trying to figure out if that old geezer went all the way back to 1917. Huh, I plead innocent that was my father-in-law daddy Green's.

1917 he sailed for the land of Zaire Africa then the Belgian Congo. On that same ship was a young lady Who was to be his wife? After three years they were married and they began to raise the family back in the deep jungles that beloved.

Situations that even we who have lived in primitive situations really cannot imagine. Virtually no money living off the lands traveling on foot and bicycle through the dark Infested jungles of Zaire and they continued that ministry until the late 1920s and then returned to the United States for furlough and There in Lynn Haven, Florida.

My wife was born while daddy Green's as he was called was helping Bob Jones senior established the first campus of Bob Jones University. Then in 1933 the Lord spoke to daddy Green's said it's time to go back to Africa and They looked until they found an old wooden sailing ship a four mastered schooner, and they boarded that ship.

It had no radio. It had no auxiliary power nothing but sails it had no refrigeration. They took live animals and chickens on board eat on the way over and they set sail. And for two months they tapped their way back and forth Following where they could get the wind until at last after two months.

They were 200 miles off the coast of Africa. And they were filling with water so badly the captain came to them and said we are leaking and our pumps are frozen and We're going to sink you better pray.

For three days they prayed. And on the third day that ship was listing so heavily that the great Mass of the ship were almost touching the water and they were in danger of turning turtle and the captain said we've got to get off today no radio.

They took everything flammable Piled it on the deck of that ship and soaked it in kerosene. And then they tied long ropes to the two little inadequate lifeboats one of them was just a rowboat in order to keep those boats from drifting too far from the blazing signal that they were about to set and They got into those lifeboats.

And they set fire to that ship and that on that column of smoke going up into the sky was their only hope of rescue. And it was getting dark and the waves were huge and they were bailing for their lives.

The water was swamping their boats. They were too heavy even just them with nothing nothing. But they're closed and they were sinking and they were dying and in the dark. They were crying out to God when at last just at the last glimmer of twilight They saw the mast of a ship on the horizon.

They prayed God that it was headed their way. They bailed and they battled and they died until They're in the pillows of that ocean. They heard the rumble of that Dutch ship Hercules engines. Then he hoped to and he began to play his beam Spotlight over that billows and located still near that burning hulk of the ship those two little lifeboats.

And it took him aboard and they asked him How did you find us? He said three days ago. Such a strong wind began to blow on the bow of my ship that I couldn't maintain the course and I changed it and that Whip can't wind kept thrusting against me and I changed it again and it kept on pushing and I changed it again.

It brought me right to you and they stood on the deck of that ship and watched everything they had In this world burn up and go as ashes to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Tragedy. No. Just the Lord Jesus looking down upon a missionary family and asking them Do you love me?

Do you love that ship brought them all the way back to Puerto Rico going the wrong direction? And now they were back where they had started and they had nothing but the clothes on their backs. And mama gring said daddy Maybe God doesn't want us in Africa anymore, but daddy said yes mom He wants us there, but he didn't want us there with all that baggage.

He wanted light so we can go out rich people who've never been raised with the gospel before and they sold again. Beloved with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Tragedy. No. Just a missionary family looking into the face of the God of heaven.

Crying oh God. Oh my lord. We love you with shoes and they made it the second time and They trekked a thousand miles back in the jungle and sometimes and they built themselves a little bark house stripped the bark off the trees and flattened it out and Tied it with vines to the stakes driven in the ground with big cracks.

The floor was dirt. In the center was a pit where they tried to store things and where daddy gring's was bitten by a poisonous snake. The bedrooms were on top of a reed mat that was tied reeds tied across to make a ceiling so that the the Leopard and the hyenas and the snakes and the other things that prowl at night couldn't get them up there.

And that was home and for the next three years They trekked that jungle land hundreds of miles on foot Preaching the gospel in every village and after three years not. One soul had come to Christ and then the Lord Jesus came to them once again.

And asked them. Do you love me? Mrs. Green became ill With malaria. And it turned into black water fever so-called because you bleed to death through your kidneys and your urine is black with blood. They were 30 days March from the nearest doctor and she died.

They had no boards with which to make a coffin and so they took a hollowed-out log in which they've been catching rainwater off their thatch roof and They cleaned it up and they laid the body of their beloved mother in that hollow log and they covered her with banana leaves.

And the people of that area were terrified. This was the first white woman and the first white children they had ever seen and they were petrified. And they came to watch but afraid to help. And they watched as that woman's sons dug the grave for their own mother.

They watched as that woman's husband held Burial service for his own wife. They watched as my wife then eight years old stood on the edge of her mother's grave and said I'm not afraid of death. My mommy knew Jesus and she's up there in heaven.

And I know him too and someday I'm going to see her up there in heaven. And the next morning five young men came and said missionary. We want to be Christians. Oh Why did you wait so long? We were watching you missionary and The message you preached sounded like it was good for living, but we weren't sure it was good for dying now we know.

It's good for dying tragedy. Nah, just the blessed Lord Jesus looking down To a missionary family and Asking them once again. Do you love me? Then letters began to come daddy Grings. You can't raise five children in the jungle without a mother and He got the children together, you know, they let us like that come on it every time there's trouble on the mission field.

Every time there's war and we've lived through three of them. All of the villages within a 50-mile radius of where we live in the jungle have been shot to ribbons. They're there. I wanted to say Wu stain.

They are wilderness. They're ghost towns. We're the only village left in a whole 50-mile area in the terrible war that we've been having to overthrow a Marxist military dictatorship that took over nine years ago and the letters come it's too dangerous out there.

And they forget that we're serving Jehovah Sabbah general of the host of the universe. It wasn't too dangerous for Daniel in the lion's den. It wasn't too dangerous for Shadrach Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace.