Ep. 185 - Jim and Elisabeth Elliot’s Extraordinary Sacrifice
The Living Waters Podcast
Living Waters
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And so, you know, they spent about three years with a people that were known as the Quikuz, |
| 0:07.5 | or the Quikukuz, I don't know how to even say that. |
| 0:11.0 | And then after that, you know, they had to start reaching them, they started coming to the |
| 0:14.3 | Lord, and then his ultimate goal of reaching the Akas was realized. |
| 0:20.0 | And so they start flying over there, and I got to remember, these people were hardly touched |
| 0:24.8 | by civilization. |
| 0:25.9 | So while he got, when Jim and Elizabeth Elliott and the rest of the crew got to Ecuador, |
| 0:31.0 | at first they were just there to reach lost people in general. |
| 0:34.0 | And in the process of learning the language and understanding the land, they hear about |
| 0:39.5 | sort of almost like old wives' tales, that there's this tribe out there, that nobody |
| 0:44.3 | can get to, that nobody can reach, that if you get close, they'll attack you. |
| 0:49.0 | And his response, while everyone else is like, stay away from them, like the Elliott's |
| 0:53.3 | response was, that's where the Lord wants us. |
| 0:56.6 | Not away from danger, but into danger, not because they were adrenaline junkies, but because |
| 1:02.2 | what they heard were there are people out there who are lost. |
| 1:10.0 | You guys are obviously familiar with the, where are they now, articles, and documentaries |
| 1:16.1 | that regularly pop up online. |
| 1:17.1 | They can be very cruel, annoyingly so sometimes, yeah. |
| 1:20.5 | But my mind recently went on a, where is it now, journey, like where's that funky little |
| 1:26.6 | outfit that I wore in that picture of me at Disneyland when I was five years old, the |
| 1:29.6 | one that had the apples on it, looked like a matching pair of underwear and undershirt |
| 1:33.7 | that my mom dressed me up in. |
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