What Would You Do?
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You are the Levite
You are the Levite
Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
what are you going to do?
as a Christian
you are not going to pull the equalizer out of the closet, you don’t even have one
We Are Not Our Own
We Are Not Our Own
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.
For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
As Jesus Taught
As Jesus Taught
(Nathanael)
This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.
there was 3 other people in that house in danger
Acts 4 23-41 willing to lay down their lives for the unsaved
Matt 6 25-34 be anxious for nothing
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.
Some Old Testament Examples
Some Old Testament Examples
Now when Daniel realized that the document was signed, he went to his house (now he had windows in his upper room that were open toward Jerusalem), and three times daily he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave praise before his God, just as he had been doing previously.
And Abraham said to his servants, “You stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go up there. We will worship, then we will return to you.”
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, “We have no need on this matter to present a defense to you. If it is so, our God, whom we serve, is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire. And from your hand, O king, let him rescue us. And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, and the statue of gold that you have set up we will not worship.”
The attendant of the man of God arose early and went out, and look, the army was surrounding the city with horses and chariots. His servant said to him, “Oh no, my master! What shall we do?” And he said, “Don’t be afraid, for more are with us than are with them.” Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Yahweh, please open his eyes that he may see,” and Yahweh opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw, and look, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. They came down to him, and Elisha prayed to Yahweh and said, “Please strike this people with blindness,” so he struck them with blindness as Elisha had spoken. Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the way and this is not the city. Come after me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” Then he brought them to Samaria.
Then the men reached out with their hands and brought Lot in to them, into the house, and they shut the door. And the men who were at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, both small and great, and they were unable to find the entrance.
But, I’m Just Me
But, I’m Just Me
I’m no angel, great hero of faith,
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much. Elijah was a human being with the same nature as us, and he prayed fervently for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the earth produced its fruit.
Conclusion
and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
we live by faith our body and lives belong to the King
by faith we step out boldly
by faith we put ourselves into Gods hands
by faith we ask for the impossible
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.
we are citizens of heaven we do things differently than the world
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose,
Annie Gowan
The Washington Post
On Instagram, John Chau came off like a carefree young adventurer - climbing mountain peaks and exploring jungles. But in reality, the missionary harbored a deadly obsession with an isolated tribe in India he'd first read about as a teen. Chau spent years planning to travel illegally to remote North Sentinel Island on a mission to convert its residents to Christianity. Though he knew the islanders had long violently resisted outsiders, he conducted a covert mission to the protected island this month. Shortly after he arrived, the tribe killed him, and police say they have yet to recover his body.
"God, I don't want to die," Chau scrawled in his journal while sitting in a fishing boat off the coast of the island where the North Sentinelese people live, shortly before he was killed. "WHO WILL TAKE MY PLACE IF I DO?"
Chau confided that he was avoiding romantic attachments because of his planned mission. "He knew of the dangers of this place," Ramsey recalled. "He didn't want any hearts to get broken should something go wrong. He was very much aware of what he was doing. He also knew it wasn't exactly legal." That year, Chau joined forces with All Nations, a missionary group based in Kansas City, Missouri, that sends Christian missionaries to 40 countries. The group provided him training and support, according to Mary Ho, its international executive leader. She was surprised by the "soft-spoken, very gentle young man" who had a very "radical call" to find "unreached groups." "You could see that every decision he has made, every step he has taken since then was driven by his desire to be among the North Sentinelese people," Ho said. He planned to live there for years and hoped to learn their language. Ho said the group was aware that Chau had traveled to India as a tourist, without the proper missionary visa, because missionary visas "aren't easy to come by." Ho insisted that Chau had not violated any laws, though authorities in India said he clearly did. Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, says Chau violated the country's aboriginal and forest protection laws as well as cultural norms. "He repeatedly trespassed on this island, and they lost their patience with him," Chellaney said. "There is faith, and there is mental illness. . . . He didn't understand the line between faith and doing something that's absolutely nutty." Chau's diary, which his family provided to The Washington Post, unfolds like the adventure novels he once read. He arrived in the Andamans on Oct. 16 and paid fishermen to take him by boat at night to the island on Nov. 14, evading the lights of patrols on the way. When the sun broke, Chau drew near the tribe. The women began "looing and chattering," he wrote, and he was faced by men armed with bows and arrows. "My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you," he shouted before retreating. The second day, he kayaked to the island and tried to offer the tribe small gifts - fish, scissors, cord and safety pins. A man in white with a crown, possibly made of flowers, shouted at him. He responded by singing "worship songs and hymns," and the tribe fell silent. A juvenile fired an arrow at him, piercing his waterproof Bible. Chau fled on foot through the mangroves. "Lord, is this island Satan's last stronghold where none have heard or even had the chance to hear your name?" he wrote. By the third day, he became convinced he was going to die. "Watching the sunset and it's beautiful - crying a bit . . . wondering if it will be the last sunset I see," he wrote. He asked the fishermen to drop him on the beach. They returned the next day and saw the tribesmen dragging Chau's body. Those fishermen have been arrested, as has a friend of Chau's who helped organize the boat trip. Police do not yet have a strategy to retrieve his body or confront the islanders, Pathak said. Chau's friends from the islands are still grieving and mystified by the whole episode. "He lost his mind, definitely," Snoeij said.
The Post's Joanna Slater and Farheen Fatima in New Delhi contributed to this report.