WHAT IS A MARTYR?
Cassie Bernel
(a modern day martyr)
Only the spiritually blind have missed the symbolism in Cassie's death, as Vice President Al Gore, Evangelist Franklin Graham and many news reports have focused on her final words. Preaching from a rough outline scribbled on four note cards, her youth pastor told the 2,000-plus gathered at her funeral that she was a witness before her death, in her death and, now, in the lives she has touched. In a video taped days before her death, Cassie simply said her goal was to be "A good example to non- believers and also to Christians.''
-TERRY MOTTINGLY (gospelcom.net)
MANY YOUNG BELIEVERS ARE CONTINUEING TO GATHER FOR, "SEE YOU AT THE FLAG POLE PRAYERS" AND GROWNING IN NUMBERS. BIBLE MEETINGS AT SCHOOL ARE STARTING TO TAKE ON A FORM OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AMONGST THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN HIGHSCHOOLS. BRINGING BIBLES AND SAYING GRACE BEFOR LUNCH MEALS IS NO LONGER SUCH A TABOO IN SCHOOL, DESPITE THE BANNING OF PRAYERS IN SCHOOL, THERE IS STILL A REMNANT THAT WON'T BOW DOWN TO THE CORRUPT LAWS OF THE LAND . I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE, MY NEPHEW BEING "ALEJANDRO (ALEX) VELEZ" IS A WITNESS IN THESE LAST DAYS. HE HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING PRAYER AND AN AWARENESS OF GOD BACK TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I TIP MY HAT OFF TO YOU ALEX AS YOUR AUNTIE AND HONER YOU, AS WE ARE TO GIVE "HONER TO WHOM HONER IS DUE". -BIBLE -
STAY TUNED AS WE UPDATE THIS PAGE TO LET YOU KNOW WHEN MY NEPHEW ALEJANDRO VELEZ'S TEEN T.V. CHRISTIAN SHOW, WILL BE AIRING SOON, THROUGHOUT THE PALM BEACHES, IN SOUTH FLORIDA!
-EVANGELIST SALLY F.C. MINISTRIES
WE ARE MADE FRUITFUL IN SUFFEREING.
SOME OF THE WORSE PERSECUTIONS HAVE PRODUCED THE GREATEST HARVEST OF SOULS.
-SFC MINISTRIES Genesis 41:52
The second son he named Ephraim and said, "It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."
JUST LOOK AT THE SUFFERING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS OF CALVERY. HIS PERSECUTION AND SUFFERING AND FINAL DEATH GAVE BIRTH TO THE CHURCH AS THE FINAL SPEAR PUNCTURED HIS CHEST, BRINGING FORTH "BLOOD AND WATER"
(LIFE AND CLEANSING), BIRTHING "THE CHURCH" OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH)
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Isaiah 53:6-8 (in Context) Isaiah 53 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 11:19
I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."
Jeremiah 11:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 11 (Whole Chapter)
Acts 8:32
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Acts 8:31-33 (in Context) Acts 8 (Whole Chapter)
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REVELATIONS CHAPTER 6
9. When the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I saw at the foot of the altar the souls of those whose lives had been sacrificed for [adhering to] the Word of God and for the testimony they had borne.
10. They cried in a loud voice, O [Sovereign] Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood upon those who dwell on the earth?(C)
11. Then they were each given a [b]long and flowing and festive white robe and told to rest and wait patiently a little while longer, until the number should be complete of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Revelation 20:4
Amplified Bible (AMP)
4.Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those to whom authority to act as judges and to pass sentence was entrusted. Also I saw the souls of those who had been slain with axes [beheaded] for their witnessing to Jesus and [for preaching and testifying] for the Word of God, and who had refused to pay homage to the beast or his statue and had not accepted his mark or permitted it to be stamped on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived again and ruled with Christ (the Messiah) a thousand years.
Revelation 2:10
Amplified Bible (AMP)
10. Fear nothing that you are about to suffer. [Dismiss your dread and your fears!] Behold, the devil is indeed about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested and proved and critically appraised, and for "TEN"(COMPLETION), days you will have affliction. Be loyally faithful unto death ("UNTIL THE END" even if you must die for it), and I will give you the crown of life. WHY "TEN DAYS", BECAUSE TEN IS GOD'S NUMBER OF COMPLETION!
(WE HAVE TO ENDURE UNTIL THE END, UNTIL THE THE COMPLETION OF OUR SUFFERING, THEN FRUIT IS CERTAIN.)
IT IS WHEN THE OLIVE IS PRESSED COMPLETELY THAT IT PRODUCES THE PUREST FORM OF ANNOINTING OIL.
HE WILL PRESS US, BUT NOT TO KILL US BUT TO PRODUCE THE GREATEST ANNOINTING FOR THE HARVEST OF SOULS. ALGHOUGH FOR SOME OF US, THAT PUREST FORM OF ANNOINTING THAT BRINGS A GREAT HARVEST OF SOULS, IT MAY VERY WELL COST US EVERYTHING! YES, AND EVEN TO SOME,OUR VERY OWN LIVES THAT GOD MAY BE GLORIFIED.
"WE ARE ALL LED TO THE SLAUGHTER ALL DAY LONG"
IN THE CASE OF MARTYRS, THEY ARE SEWN INTO THE GROUND AS A SEED THAT WILL PRODUCE AN AWESOME HARVEST TOO MANY TO NUMBER.
IT IS A HIGH HONER. WE GIVE HONER TO THOSE WHO HAVE RISKED THEIR LIVES OR LAYED THEIR LIVES ALL AROUND THE WORLD WILLINGLY FOR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST! AMEN
PRAISE GOD FOR HE IS WORTHY!
WE ARE,
"A LIVING SACRIFICE UNTO HIM!"
PAUL SAID, " TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN!" -APOSTOL PAUL
"THOSE WHO SEW IN TEARS WILL REAP IN JOY!"
-BIBLE
ONE DAY ALL OF OUR SUFFERING WILL PALE IN COMPARRISON TO THE BEAUTY OF HIS MAJESTY THAT WE WILL ENHERIT! BE ENCOURAGED AND I SAY THIS TO ME FIRST.
THANK YOU LORD FOR COUNTING ME WORTHY TO SUFFER WITH YOU AND IDENTIFY WITH YOU MY SAVIOR AND LORD! YOU ARE WORTHY OF SO MUCH MORE AND I LOVE YOU!
-EVANGELIST SALLY F.C.
"EYE HAS NOT SEEN NOR EAR HAS HEARD THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM..." -BIBLE