Earthly Suffering, Eternal Fruit

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The Voice of the Martyrs

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 January 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Turn on the news and you'll see upheaval in every corner of the world, including attacks on our Christian brothers and sisters. But Cole Richards, Executive Vice President at The Voice of the Martyrs, reminds us that in the midst of this earthly suffering God is producing eternal fruit every single day. Listen as Cole shares some of the ways God has allowed VOM to help persecuted believers in the past 12 months—especially Christians displaced by ISIS. He'll also give listeners a preview of an exciting new way YOU can be involved to directly help Christians facing persecution, as well a new book coming soon from The Voice of the Martyrs.

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0:00.0	For the last 10 years Cole Richards has been meeting with believers around the world
0:05.6	who are undergoing intense persecution for their faith and the one thing that stands out to
0:11.5	him above everything else about these believers is their simple obedience.
0:17.0	Christ said share the gospel and they do that period.
0:22.0	They don't wait until they have the right program
0:25.0	or they don't wait until they have the right training.
0:28.0	They just simply do it.
0:30.0	And it's amazing what God does with that.
0:32.0	A lot of these people don't... And it's amazing what God does with that.
0:32.8	A lot of these people don't know half as much knowledge
0:37.4	about the scripture as any American evangelical.
0:41.8	So based on limited information about the faith, but based on
0:45.4	tremendous personal commitment and devotion to Christ and to what he said, they
0:50.5	just do it. Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:55.0	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
0:59.0	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
1:02.0	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles and
1:05.1	they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:09.2	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the
1:15.2	voice of the Martyrs radio network.
1:18.4	Welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio as we kick off 2016. We are looking ahead today with Cole Richards. He's the Executive Vice President of the
1:27.6	Voice of the Martyrs. He has overseen our international work. He's also the Executive editor of a book project that we have
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