ETHIOPIA: Persecution Purifies

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🗓️ 14 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Brother Semeone is a church leader from Ethiopia—a country with a long Christian history, but where persecution can come from different directions, often beginning with members of a new convert’s own family.

Learn some of the history of the church in Ethiopia—including how persecution and hardship have helped the gospel spread. “Persecution,” he says, “has its own way of purifying the church.”

Semeone will also share how the church—within Ethiopia and around the world—steps in to help Ethiopian Christians in times of trouble, and what it means to him to be a part of the extended family of God.

We’ll also continue our commemoration of the five-year anniversary of VOM Radio this month by looking back at another powerful moment from the past five years as “Dr. Andrew” shares about the terror he feels when police detain or interrogate him—and how he overcomes that fear by focusing on Who God is. You may want to go back and listen online to our full conversation with Dr. Andrew. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2.

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0:00.0	Brother Simone says when you see persecution against the church start to rise
0:05.3	You can expect to see some people fall away
0:09.1	Persecution has its own way of purifying the church. If you are not a serious believer, you don't want to be persecuted for something you don't believe in.
0:18.0	So it's, you know, the quality of faith and the spiritual life of those people who are
0:24.4	it's just purifies the church and when it's our problem is when we have too much
0:30.1	freedom the church loses its testimony, the quality of spiritual life declines.
0:35.8	But these are serious Christians, you know, the only ones that are left through the persecution
0:40.8	are the ones who truly believe the Lord
0:43.0	and who have committed their lives to him.
0:47.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:50.0	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
0:53.8	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:56.7	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles,
0:59.6	and they're still coming true today
1:01.4	in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:03.8	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
1:08.6	Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network.
1:11.7	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyr's Radio.
1:14.0	In just a minute, we're going to meet a brother of ours from Ethiopia,
1:18.0	but first, in the month of September, we're celebrating five years of the Voice of the Martyrs Radio and so each
1:24.8	week through this month we're listening to a highlight from the first five years
1:29.3	of VOM radio broadcast we're gonna go back in the archives and listen to one of those
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