Power Encounter in Papua New Guinea (Part 2) — David Sitton

If you go to those islands, the cannibals will eat you, sir.". Those words were spoken to John Patton, or Payton as some pronounce his name, shortly before he departed for the New Hebrides Islands in 1857.

Anybody remember what the classic reply of John Patton was? Isn't it great? He says, sir, you are advanced in years now and are soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms. I confess to you, sir, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms.

About this same time in the 1840s, the Gospel made its way into Fiji for the very first time. Love this story. A large number of Polynesians were converted and before long, the Lord began to give them a heart and a concern for the lost.

They wanted to take the Gospel to New Guinea because they had heard that there were cannibals in New Guinea. And they themselves in Fiji had been cannibals not very long before that themselves. And these newly converted Fijians, they understood the danger.

They had heard the gruesome stories of the headhunters and the cannibals of New Guinea. They knew that many of their number would be killed. So you know what they did? Each one of these Polynesian missionaries, they built their own coffin and they packed their belongings in these coffins and they got on these huge, what they called deep-sea canoes, and they sailed for thousands of miles across the South Pacific and they landed on the south coast of New Guinea in 1871.

One of these Polynesian evangelists, he expressed the attitude of the Polynesian missionaries as they prepared to set sail. And here's what he wrote in his journal. He said, we died before we left. And this brother, along with many others, was soon killed by those that he tried to tell about Christ.

Many of these early Fijian missionaries became missionary martyrs. And I love one story. There's many of these stories, but one of the stories tells of how a Fijian evangelist, he was killed and eaten.

And when the news got back to Fiji about the slaughter of this Fijian evangelist, one man, the brother of the cannibalized man, he stood up and he said, now I must go and take my brother's place as a missionary for Christ.

And he packed his coffin and immediately left for New Guinea to take his brother's place. There were several waves of Fijian missionaries that came into the south coast of New Guinea. Most of them were killed either by malaria, fever, dysentery, and a whole bunch of them were slaughtered by cannibals.

Eventually though, after two or three generations of these Fijians, a toehold for the Gospel was finally established on the south coast of New Guinea. Joseph Chalmers, I don't know if you've ever heard that name.

He was the first European missionary to ever make his way onto New Guinea soil. He arrived in the early 1880s. He also landed on the south coast of New Guinea. And he also was brutally beaten to death and cannibalized.

Now just a few years ago, I was able to speak at a missions conference up in the highlands of New Guinea. A very strategic conference where a whole bunch of New Guineans were coming together to be trained in order to be launched to the nations.

And I had the opportunity to be one of the speakers. And I had the greater opportunity to actually meet, I don't know if it was the great, great, great, how many greats? I'm not sure. Great-grandson of one of the men who had actually killed Joseph Chalmers.

And this brother told me that when Chalmers came into their village, that the people were afraid of him because of his white skin. Remember I talked to you about that in the last hour. A little bit about the animism of the people and their superstitious and afraid.

And sometimes they think we're gods or spirits or ancestors returned in the flesh. This happened with Chalmers. And this brother said that they were afraid of him because of his white skin and he was quickly killed and eaten.

Clothes and all. And this brother told me that even months later, the villagers were still chewing on the soles of his shoes. And as he was telling me this, he began to weep as he tried to tell me the testimony of how God in His grace and love had sent one wave of Fijian missionaries to His people and they slaughtered them.

And God had mercy and sent another wave of Fijian missionary to His people and they slaughtered them. And finally, on the third or fourth wave, believers came to Christ. And as he was telling me this and he wept, he bowed his head and he said, now, I want to be a missionary for Christ.

Missionary Martyrdom and Reckless Abandon for Christ

I told you already this morning about the five who were killed on January 4, 1956. I won't go into that whole thing again, except to re-quote Ed McCulley. Even though I did it in the first hour, I wanted to do it again.

I just think that this quote is just so powerful. It's something that I bring to my own remembrance for my own benefit. Austin. When Ed McCulley wrote Jim Elliot and they were students at Wheaton College in their early 20's, and here's what he said.

He said, Jim, I have just one desire now to live a life of reckless abandon for Christ. Do you young people hear this? Listen to this really good. You older folks too. It wouldn't hurt you to hear it too, but I'm going after the young ones.

I have just one desire now. Is this your desire? To live a life of reckless abandon for Christ and I'm putting all of my strength into it. And then he said, maybe the Lord will send me someplace where the name of Christ is unknown.

And four years later, as I told you this morning, he did it. He was willing to give his life for a handful of Indians. Well, all of that to be sort of an introduction to a story that has happened recently in New Guinea and the effects of it continue even to this day.

We have been dealing with a tribe called the Chambri tribe and I want to tell you their story. But to tell you their story, I need to read to you a few verses out of Psalm 86. You don't really need to turn there.

You can if you like. This is representative of dozens and dozens of passages in the Old Testament that I could have chosen. But this is the one I like the most. Psalm 86, 8, 9, and 10. Among the gods, there is none like You, O Lord.

No deeds can compare with Yours. All of the nations You have made... What did we say about nations in the first hour? What is a biblical nation? Ethnicity. Not a country, right? All of the ethnicities You have made will come and worship before You, O Lord.

They will bring glory to Your name, for You are great and You do marvelous deeds. You alone are God. What an encouraging text for those of us who believe in our sovereign God, right? It reminds us that His works are incomparable.

His deeds are unmatchable. And He has promised, God has promised that He will see to it and He will bring representatives for His name's sake out of all of the nations and tribes and tongues and peoples.

He's ordained it, it says in Psalm 86. And so we read a passage like that and we almost come out of our shoes really, right? Just in wanting to worship this great God whose deeds are so great and works are so incomparable and He's a sovereign God, a great God.

No other God like Him in all of the universe. It just causes us and prompts us to worship. And yet, this same text, when I read it in New Guinea to Chambri villagers or any of the other tribes as well for that matter, this same passage will strike terror into their hearts.

And before I tell you the Chambri story, if I can just kind of step back and try to help put you into the tribal Chambri worldview mindset, if I can for a moment, to help you understand why this passage would make them fear and tremble.

If you are a tribal person, and it doesn't matter if it's New Guinea or North American Indian tribe or an Eskimo or an Australian Aborigine or a Maori, it doesn't matter. African, it doesn't matter. South America, all over the world.

This is true. If you are a tribal person, you are a spirit worshiper. That's the word animism. You worship the spirits of your ancestors. You fear the spirits that live in the river. You tremble when you think of the spirits that live in the jungle.

You're terrified of the spirits that roam over the swamps. And in fact, as a tribal person, your entire life is spent looking back over your shoulder and you're wondering, did I do everything just right at just the right time in just the right way?

All of the sacrifices, all of the rituals, all of the things that are required of me, did I do it just right to keep the spirits happy? Because if I didn't, the spirits are going to get me. They're going to take revenge upon me in some way.

For the tribal person, and it's not really just superstition. This is really true. And we're going to get into that a little bit as I go through the story. But this is not just superstition. How many of you know that demonic spirits have power?

Good. I see just about every hand go up. I don't have to do any convincing here. That's good, because they do. And these people believe that the spirits have power over all of their life. They can make, even in practical ways, they can make your fishing to be successful or unsuccessful.

They can make your hunting excursions to be successful or unsuccessful. They can even cause death. Premature death. And so, the spirits are going to get you if you don't do all of these things that you're supposed to do.

That's a horrible way to live. And for thousands of years, the lives of these tribal people have been lived under these strict ancestral traditions and customs. And I'll tell you, sorcerers and witch doctors in Papua New Guinea are almost as common as the trees in the forest.

I mean, they're everywhere. Every tribe has many, many people who are able, men and women, who are able to deal in white magic and black magic. And they know how to get in touch with the spirits. They know how to manipulate the spirits with all kinds of rituals.

And they have these kinds of dealings with the spirit realm, I'd say, on a daily basis. It's not something just once in a while. It's common. This is the common way of life for tribal peoples. Fears and phobias of every kind make up your existence.

And so, when a missionary comes traipsing into your village, preaching about a god from Psalm 86, that here is the god I'm speaking of, a god who is unlike all other gods. He's greater than all of the other gods.

It makes us rejoice. It makes them tremble. Because they hear that and they don't know if you're telling them the truth or not. They're thinking to themselves, well, what if this god that the missionary is bringing to us, what if he's not more powerful than all of our gods and ancestral spirits?

And we give our allegiance to this god. We're going to be wiped out as a people. And how are they going to be convinced if he is or if he isn't? They don't have the Word of God. And by the way, tribal people are power-oriented anyway.

They're not truth-oriented. They don't care about your nice little three-point Bible outline. They don't care about truth in that way. The thing that they want to know is who is more powerful, your god or our god, and that's the god we want to follow.

But how are you going to convince them of that god if they don't even have the Scriptures? That is a big thing you need to be aware of when you go into tribal situations. They are power-oriented and we've got to learn how to deal with these people on the basis of power.

The Apostle Paul said that I did not come with persuasive words only, but with a demonstration, right? A demonstration of the Spirit's power. We're not very good on that in our circles, are we? We're much better with the three-point outline and trying to convince people with rational arguments.

But that's not going to go very far with a tribal person who doesn't have Scripture and who has a power-oriented mindset. He doesn't care about your arguments. And so, power is at the bottom line in these tribal societies.

Praying for a Demonstration of God's Power

And sometimes, not very often, I mean, the story I'm about to tell you is a really radical story, but this kind of thing has only happened to me maybe three or four times in 27 years. This is not something that happens a lot, but it's something that we pray for a lot.

I pray often, Lord, would You orchestrate some sort of a situation? Would You do something? Somehow, in some way, Lord, would You show Yourself to be powerful? Show Yourself to be more powerful than the gods and the deities of this tribe?

Show Yourself. Show Your mighty hand, Lord. Would You do it in some way? Now, I would differ from some, some charismatics who would go in and try to orchestrate their own situations. We don't do that.

I think that's presumptuous and dangerous. But I do pray and I say, Lord, would You do it? Would You do something? So, with all of that as a background, let me just tell you their story as quickly as I can.

Leo Wasi and the First Gospel Witness Among the Chambri

It's a story that started all the way back in 1988. My wife and I and children, we were living in the town of Wiwak up on the north coast of New Guinea. It's even on your map that you have here. Our little town is right on your map.

Right on the Indonesian border, but still on the side of Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea. And my wife had a very strange desire. She had a desire to learn how to play the guitar back in 1988.

I don't know where that came from. She had never had that desire before and she hasn't pursued it since. But she wanted to learn how to play the guitar. And so I went out into our little town of Wiwak and I found a fella who could really play the guitar.

And I brought him into our home. And we learned that he was from the Chambri tribe. Now, we had never heard of the Chambri tribe at this time in 1988. But as he's beginning to teach my wife guitar, we're beginning to teach him gospel.

And the Lord converts this guy. I mean, radically puts a hold on him for the gospel. I mean, radically converted. One of maybe only six or seven guys like this that have been so radically converted. I mean, it's like they've become like an Apostle Paul lookalike.

I mean, this guy just was radical and wanted to go back to his people with the gospel immediately. Now, in the town of Wiwak, there was a little compound of Chambri people, maybe 80 or 90 people from Chambri who would live outside of town.

They're coming and going. These days with canoes and airplanes and all of that, there's a lot of tribal peoples that are always coming to town, but they don't stay. They come and they look around and then they'll go back.

And so you have people coming and going all the time from these villages. But they're very superstitious. They're very much afraid of other tribes. And so they don't intermingle even in the towns. So they'll come to a town and they'll stay with their group.

And so there's a Chambri compound even in the town of Wiwak of about 80 people. And so as Leo, Leo Wasi is this young man that was converted. As he's learning gospel and as he's telling me he wants to take the gospel back to his people, I said, well, Leo, here we've got 80 or 90 of your own people right here in town.

I said, let's go to them. He was so excited and I was teaching him even how to put a testimony together, just the basics of how to share the gospel. And he was really excited. He built himself a little pulpit out of bamboo.

He had it all set up. Had a lamp and he had his notes. He had his Bible. I mean, he was ready. We went out that first night there in the Chambri compound and he began to try to share with the people what Christ had done for him in saving him.

One of his favorite verses is the one about being translated from darkness to light. That's one of Leo's favorite verses. And he was using that text and the people didn't like it at all. In fact, they got angry and some of the men came up.

One of them came up and kicked the pulpit. And so the pulpit went flying, the notes went flying, notes scattered, Bible, you know, lamp broke. End of meeting. But we got back to my house and Leo said, no, brother, we're going back tomorrow.

It's going to be different. He said, this is great. This is great. He said, they're going to hear. They'll listen. Well, it was different. All right. The next night we went back, this time with no pulpit.

He had his Bible here and he had his notes and he had a flashlight instead of a lamp so they couldn't break it. And he began to try to go through that whole thing again and sharing his testimony and trying to share the Gospel.

And this time they were really enraged that we had come back for a second night. They said, we told you we didn't want to hear this message. We told you not to come back and here you are. They beat him up.

They beat both of us up, but they broke his nose and eventually some days later they burned his house down. And they told us, if you persist in bringing this message to our people, we're going to get you.

We will kill you. Well, it may be of some interest for you to know that these people a generation ago were headhunters. Some of the men that are still living in the village today participated in headhunting as children.

It's been some years since they've done it, but it's still very real. Just the belief in it. And there's still a very radical, arrogant, sometimes violent group of people as a tribe. And it's interesting too, if you know where to look when you walk through the Chambree villages, if you know where to look, you'll still see human heads on the sticks and up in the rafters of the huts.

So it's still very much, even though they're not harvesting heads recently, it's still within the memory of some of the people who are still living. In fact, in the villages, when you get out actually to the swamp where their main tribe is, there are five stones that are like six foot tall.

And these stones are the place where when they would go out on their tribal raids and they would kill the men, they would chop the heads off the men and throw it into a bag and keep the head. And then they would bring the bodies and they would drape the bodies over these stones and they would dance and chant and sing and it'd just be a worship to the spirits and to the ancestral spirits.

Just a worship really of tribal victory and worship to their spirits with these dead bodies being sacrificed to their gods. Those stones still stand and are still bloodstained even to this day. And so it's a visual reminder that when these people say, we're going to get you, these are people that could get you.

That's okay. I feel the same way sometimes. Well, Leowasi though is not one to be deterred even with a broken nose. And so by this time he was saying, okay, if they don't want to hear the message here in the Chambree compound, let's go out to the swamp.

He said, my mom is still out there and I've got a hut and that's where I'm from. And so let's just go out to the swamp. And so I went and tried to pick him up on a day with my four wheel drive truck and we were going to drive six hours to the river and then get in a canoe, a dugout canoe and go to the village.

We were trying to load his gear into the truck but the men were just really enraged that we were going to... They said, we told you not to go to our people. We told you we're going to get you if you attempt it.

And it's kind of humorous now when you look back on it because here I'm trying to load Leo's stuff into the back of my truck and one of their guys gets up into the truck and is throwing things out. So it's a little difficult to load a truck that way.

And one of the guys actually came right up to me. I don't know if you've ever heard of a beetle nut. Anybody here a beetle nut? That's nasty stuff. It's a nut that they mix with lime that becomes bright red and they chew it and over time it becomes black.

And so their teeth are just caked in this red black. It's nasty. And it gives them a sort of the same kind of a high as a smoking pot would. They use it a lot for painkillers, for all kinds of ailments.

But anyway, this one fellow as he's throwing the bags of Leo out of my truck, he's got the stuff, gobs of it in both cheeks and he just spat it right into my chest. And he said, I told you, we don't want this message and if you take this message to our people, we will get you.

Well, Leo, once again, he just said, forget them. We threw our bag and we shook loose from them and here we go. Well, we got to the river. We got into a 36 foot long canoe. It's a dugout canoe, very traditional, except I'm not like the old time missionaries.

I put a 25 horsepower motor on the back of mine and we made our way, you know, up the Sepik River and then across the Chambree lakes and finally arrived late at night to the Chambree village. It's actually three villages.

The Chambree tribe is not that big. 1700 people is all that makes up this tribe. They live in three villages on one island out in the middle of this swamp. We got there and it was late at night and it was raining and mosquitoes were everywhere.

It was a muddy mess and it was a blessing. It was a blessing because we were able to sneak into the village without the people knowing we were there. And we got into Leo's hut and he said, brother, in the morning we're gonna go preach at the market.

This guy doesn't give up. The next morning, sun was up and we start walking to the market and the people see that we're there. They know who we are and they know why we're there and they are yelling at us.

They're cussing us, threatening our lives. They're throwing rocks at us. Even the children, they get on the edge of the jungle with, what do you call them? Catapult, slingshots, yeah. And they're shooting rocks at us with slingshots.

And Leo says, don't worry about them. Let's go, we're gonna preach. Well, he started preaching and I started trying to preach and we didn't get anywhere. I mean, within 10 minutes, it was a riot. About 50, 60 people just circled us and were yelling at us and threatening our lives.

And this went on for like two and a half, three days that we stayed there trying to preach, getting nowhere. The only result we got was rocks. On the third day, we got in our canoe and we left and we're coming back and I taught Leo on the way back to rejoice because we were a success.

And he says, how were we a success? Nobody believed. All we got was rocks. I said, no, we were a success. Because for the first time ever in history, the name of our God was proclaimed on Chambree Island.

Remember this morning, the very first sentence that came out of my mouth when I stood here was our great God will be preached and He will be praised among all nations. This was step one. He was preached.

He wasn't praised yet by anybody, except us. But He was preached. For the first time ever in history, our God, Jesus Christ was proclaimed on that island. Never happened before in history. That's a success.

That's awesome. That's something only a Calvinist can say. You know, the Arminian goes away and defeat in those situations. But I can say, you know what? Even if nobody ever believes, my God, He deserves to be proclaimed in that place.

It was a success. I said, Leo, rejoice with me. And we did. We rejoiced. Well, it was about that time, and I've got to hurry through the story. This is like 16 years of ministry here. We lost our visas.

We couldn't live in New Guinea anymore. We had to come home and base our ministry in the States. Long story. God was in it all the way, as you might imagine. But I made continuous trips back to New Guinea.

You know, in those days, back in the early 90s, I was going two and three times a year, taking teams with me, medical teams, and just all kinds of teams, preaching teams. And we'd show the Jesus film.

And, you know, every year, there would be lots and lots of persecution and a little bit of progress. And so 1990 and 1991 and 92 and 93, this is the way it was. I would take teams with me. We'd make a little progress.

But, you know, long story short, after six years, all we had was four believers and a whole lot of persecution every time we went. And these four believers were really getting it bad. One of the two of the four were women.

And one of the four was and is still to this day being continually beaten up and raped by the Chambree men because of her faith. Something that's been going on for a lot of years. And the others have been beaten up and it's just been a major, major hardship.

And yet here we're praying all along, Lord, would You do something? They won't listen. They won't listen to our messages. Lord, would You do something to show Your power? Demonstrate Your sovereignty and Your superiority over the spirits?

Lord, do something. Well, in 1995, I think it was 94 or 95, I had a team of 12. And we're going back and going to do the same old thing again. We chartered an airplane this time and we landed on the grass airstrip at Chambree.

And 30 minutes later, after our arrival, a woman died. Her name was Antonia. And she happened to be one of the four believers. So now we have three after six hard years. Well, here's another thing that tribal people believe.

Well, they don't believe that... Well, they believe that anyone who dies, they die for a reason. There's no such thing as premature death, especially for a young person. Anyone who dies, they assume it's because of black magic or sorcery.

Somebody was responsible for it. And they've got a ritual that they perform to find out who was responsible for the death of that person. And they've got to avenge it to keep the spirits happy. See, everything is entwined with this animism.

And I'd heard about this ritual. I'd never seen it, but I'd heard of it. It's called the walking bamboo ritual. It means the shaking of the bamboo. And what they do is the initiated men... And by the way, tribal initiation for men, all it is is a systematic way of becoming willingly demon possessed so that you have access to the knowledge and power of the spirits.

That's what tribal initiation is. And so you've got these... And you go through all of these skin cuttings and torture really. All these things that you go through to become an initiated man. But the initiated men will go into the spirit house and they have like a six foot long piece of bamboo.

And they will begin to dance and chant and sing. You've probably seen this on the Discovery Channel. You know, tribes that get all loud and radical and they're dancing. You know what they're doing when they do that?

They believe that they're demon possessed, but not always. The spirits only are activated when they need them. And when they don't need them, they believe that the spirits just kind of go to sleep. And so they do these loud dancings and chantings and all of that as a way to wake up the spirits.

That's what they're doing. They're waking up the spirits because they have a task for them to perform. And they'll do this for hours and hours. Dancing and chanting and singing and holding this bamboo and asking for the spirits to come into the bamboo.

And the spirits eventually come into the bamboo and begin to move and they let go of it. And I'm telling you, you can believe it or not believe it, but this bamboo begins to bounce around under the power of spirits.

And eventually it will point out someone, an individual or someone from a clan, and that person will be killed. How many of you know the devil's a liar? How many thousands of innocent people over the years have been killed?

Well, I knew that they were going to do this ritual on this woman who had died because they were going to find out who was responsible for her death. But I went to Elias. See, Leo is no longer in the picture.

Leo is living in another town. He teaches guitar. That's what he does for a living. But we had this other fellow who I'm now training to be the pastor. Elias Saron. And so I went to Elias and I said, Elias, you and I both know they're going to do that ritual on Antonia.

I said, brother, I said, we need to go down there at the end of the airstrip in this little clearing where they're going to do that ritual. We need to go down there and rebuke them. And he said, oh no, brother, we couldn't do that.

He said, we'd do that. They'll kill us. This ritual is not for outsiders. This is only for our tribe. I said, Elias, we have been praying for six years that God would do something. Maybe this is the time when God will show His power and superiority over the spirits.

I said, come on, Elias, let's do it. Let's go down there. And the reason I was so persistent is because this was a Christian sister. You know, I felt like I had sort of a right to go down there. I mean, they're going to be trying to call up her spirit from the grave to get that spirit to give them information.

That is forbidden in Scripture. And I don't know, all I can say is that the Spirit of God was prompting me. Can I say that here? That kind of thing? I mean, I believe that that's what was happening to me in the moment.

Because I've been in other situations where I didn't pursue it, but I was pursuing it this time. I just felt like we needed to. And yet, I'm training this young guy to be the pastor, be one of the pastors.

We believe in plurality of pastors like you have here. Glory to God, amen. And so, I'm teaching him to be one of the pastors. And so, I'm wanting to even be submissive to him somewhat. You know, we're trying to work through all of those issues.

I'm saying, Elias, if you just don't want to do it, I won't do it. But I said, please, think it through. You know, maybe this is the time when God... Well, bottom line, I was able to convince him. You know, he wasn't very happy about it, but I was able to convince him that this is what we should do.

So, I had a group of 10 young people, 10 or 12 young people, from churches just like this from all over the country. And I explained to them the situation and what we were about to do. And it's a dangerous situation.

I don't know what's going to happen. I've never seen this ritual. I don't know what the outcome's going to be. All I know is that we're going to go down there and rebuke them in Jesus' name. Isn't that foolish?

Even as I say it right now, it just makes me laugh. You know, how crazy the things God calls us to do sometimes are. So, we had a time of worship and praise with our team. And then we walked to the end of the airstrip and there was this big, long log laying there.

And I just sat down on the log to demonstrate to the people that I wasn't leaving, that I was there. And whatever was going to happen, we weren't leaving. I told my team to sit down. And they all did.

And the people were angry. They were yelling at us and cussing us and telling us to go. But bottom line, it's getting dark now and they have no choice but to begin the ritual. And one thing you also need to know about the Chombri, they are very arrogant.

One of the most arrogant tribes I've ever come across. They have been telling me at this time in the story, they've been telling me, oh, it's so easy to call up the spirits and to get the spirits to do things for us.

It's so easy even our children can do it. And it's true. They teach their children from the womb how to manipulate spirits. And even at early, early ages, teaching them how to do little white magic and black magic rituals to begin learning how to manipulate the spirits.

And as they get older, it becomes more and more serious. Even our children can do it, they say. Well, as it's getting dark now and they've got to get on with it, these two young men, they stood up and they picked up this long six foot piece of bamboo and the guy on the back end of it began tapping on it with a human bone.

The other guy is holding the front and the guy on the back is tapping on it with this human bone. And he begins to chant. And he's talking to Antonia, the spirit of Antonia. And he says, Antonia, Antonia, you come on top of the mat, come on top of the mat and I'll talk Shavuot to you.

Who said he'd kill you if you died? Come up from the grave, Antonia. Come up from the grave and tell us who's responsible for your death and we will avenge it. Well, it's getting really dark now and I can't see and I don't know what to do.

And so I move up really close so I can be close and see what's going on. I'm praying in my heart, Lord, show me what to do. I don't know what to do. But can I say this also? I don't know another way to say it other than to say the Spirit of God just came on me and begins to give you... first He gives you boldness, but then He gives you words.

Didn't Jesus promise to do that? He did, didn't He? Oh, it's awesome when it kicks in and really begins to happen. And also, another thing that kicked in was anger. I was angry because these guys, they are so confident.