IRAN: Church Needs More Bibles
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🗓️ 15 August 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Omid Sabouki serves as the President and CEO of Jubal Band Ministries, helping reach Iranian Muslims with the message that Jesus is the Son of God, and that He loves us.
Omid will tell us this week about the persecution of Christians by Iran's government, including arrest, imprisonment and even assault at the hands of interrogators. He'll talk about the importance of getting more Bibles to the church in Iran—a challenge VOM is helping to meet through various Bible delivery methods. He'll explain how he and other Christian leaders are training church leaders—both inside and outside Iran—to serve the rapidly-growing number of Iranian Christians.
Omid will share the pain he feels when one of his workers inside Iran is arrested, and how he prepares workers to face persecution without losing their zeal for Christ—including sharing stories from VOM about persecuted Christians in other nations, like North Korea.
Finally, Brother Omid will equip listeners to pray for Iran and the ongoing gospel work inside the Islamic Republic.
Brother Omid shared his testimony of coming to Christ, including a dream, a taxi driver and a Bible, in the first part of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | You're sitting in church and the pastor tells everyone, |
| 0:03.3 | turning your Bibles to the book of Psalms. |
| 0:06.9 | Most of you have probably been in services like that, |
| 0:09.9 | but imagine gathering with other believers |
| 0:13.2 | and none of you even owns a Bible. |
| 0:16.8 | Or maybe there's one or two copies |
| 0:19.2 | that your whole church has to share. Brother Ahmed Sabuki says that's what it's like in house churches |
| 0:27.0 | in the Islamic Republic of Iran. |
| 0:30.0 | There are still many believers inside Iran that they don't have a Bible. |
| 0:34.4 | He says a woman called him from a village in northern Iran |
| 0:38.2 | asking for Bibles for her church. |
| 0:41.1 | She said, we have a home church, we gather together weekly and have a fellowship and |
| 0:47.3 | pray time, but we had only the one book to share the gospel in our church. |
| 0:55.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:58.0 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 1:02.0 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words |
| 1:05.6 | came true in the life of the Apostles and they're still coming true today in the lives |
| 1:10.0 | of his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories |
| 1:15.0 | and learn how we can help. |
| 1:17.0 | Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network. |
| 1:20.0 | Omen Sabuki grew up in a Muslim family inside Iran. |
| 1:25.0 | One night he had a dream in which a man dressed in white gave him a beautiful package. |
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