BIBLE SMUGGLING: "We Didn't Come Here To Be Safe"
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 20 February 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
"Joe" was in prison in the United States—justly, he says. As a young man his life was filled with drugs and crime. A fellow prisoner gave Joe a Bible, and Joe's life was transformed as he found forgiveness and surrendered his life to Jesus Christ.
Having seen the power of God's Word first-hand, Joe committed his life to getting Bibles to as many people as possible. He and his wife, "Dawn," are now part of a team delivering Bibles into the Islamic Republic of Iran. It's dangerous work, but Joe and Dawn have counted the cost and answered God's call.
Joe will tell his story of salvation, and share about the work he's doing today—including how God allowed Bibles to be delivered throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Dawn will explain how she thinks about the danger her family is in—including making peace with the fact that her children are at risk.
They'll also help equip listeners to pray for Bible delivery work into Iran and also around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Every parent knows what it's like to worry about their children. |
| 0:05.0 | So when Don was called to go and work in dangerous places in the Middle East, |
| 0:10.8 | it was a huge commitment. She shares Jesus alongside her husband and their children. |
| 0:18.5 | In places where being a Christian can get you killed. |
| 0:22.2 | My thoughts can go crazy, but in the moment when I need God to show up, he does. |
| 0:29.5 | And he has given us that piece. We want to be the kind of family that says, |
| 0:34.3 | even if just like Shadrat, Meshachin, and Vennego, even if we are not delivered from the fire, |
| 0:41.6 | we are not going to bow down and worship anything other than Jesus Christ. |
| 0:48.1 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world |
| 0:53.8 | would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life of the |
| 0:59.9 | apostles, and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:04.9 | Join host Todd Nettleton. We hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now |
| 1:10.4 | on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:14.9 | My name is Todd Nettleton, and we are in our studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. |
| 1:20.0 | We have two guests. We are not going to use real names, as we often don't hear on Vom Radio, |
| 1:26.7 | because they are involved in some highly secretive and even dangerous work in the Middle East. |
| 1:33.2 | We're simply going to call them Joe and Don. Joe and Don, welcome to Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:39.3 | Thank you. Joe, I understand you took what we might call a sort of non-traditional pathway |
| 1:46.2 | to ministry and missions. I wish we could spend our whole time together talking about your story, |
| 1:51.5 | but just give our listeners sort of a nutshell version of how God saved you. |
| 1:57.7 | I grew up in the Dallas Fort Worth, Texas area. At a young age, I started making really |
| 2:03.3 | poor decisions, and that led me down a path of drugs and sin and immorality, and I became a criminal |
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