IRAN: The Biggest Love
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🗓️ 15 June 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Ali, a follower of Christ in Iran, and his family have experienced God’s rescue numerous times. First, God rescued Ali’s father from alcoholism. Then Jesus rescued Ali from drug addiction and hopelessness. They began to follow the God Who rescued them. But following Jesus in Iran is costly: persecution came quickly as Ali’s grandfather gave him one week to denounce Christ and return to Islam, or else.
Ali and his parents could never denounce the God Who’d rescued them, though, and they lost their home, their money and their support system.
God miraculously provided for their needs—including a rice bowl that never emptied. Ali and his family couldn’t help but tell everyone around them about the God who rescued people and answered prayer, and soon they’d helped 60 people meet Jesus.
Their ministry was noticed, and Ali’s father and brother were arrested; Ali had to move to a different city to avoid arrest himself. In spite of the risks, he continues to share the gospel stories of Christ, and to see Iranian hearts, sick and tired of religious duty and oppressive leaders, warmed by Jesus’ love. The biggest love, he says, is when you lay down your life for others.
Listen to Ali’s story, including how he and his wife prepare for the possibility of more persecution and specific ways you can pray for the church in Iran, this week on VOM Radio.
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| 0:00.0 | Ali grew up in the Islamic Republic of Iran following all the rules of Islam, |
| 0:05.4 | desperately wanting to earn Allah's favor. |
| 0:10.0 | Some family members had come to know Jesus, but Ali wasn't sure what he really thought about that. |
| 0:16.0 | So he prayed. So I said, Jesus, Messiah, I don't know you and I don't accept you the way that they're explaining you who you are. |
| 0:28.0 | But if you really died for me, I want to see you tonight. I went to sleep and I had a dream. |
| 0:40.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:43.0 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 0:46.5 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 0:49.4 | Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles, |
| 0:52.4 | and they're still coming true today in the |
| 0:54.3 | lives of his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear |
| 0:58.4 | their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the voice of the martyr's radio network. |
| 1:04.4 | Do you ever wonder if God still shows his power through miraculous signs? |
| 1:10.4 | Today's story is going to encourage you. God is still at work. He is still showing his power and calling people to himself. |
| 1:19.0 | Today on the voice of the Martish radio, we're going to hear an interview I recorded on the road with a |
| 1:24.1 | believer in Jesus from the nation of Iran. We're just going to call him Ali |
| 1:29.2 | for security reasons. In fact you're not even going to hear Ali's voice. You'll hear the voice of his interpreter to protect his identity as he serves the Lord inside Iran. |
| 1:41.0 | And this may be a little bit confusing. |
| 1:43.9 | Usually the interpreter is speaking in the first person |
| 1:46.8 | as if he is Ali telling the story, |
| 1:50.1 | but there were a few times where he kind of added some context so that I could understand what I was hearing |
| 1:56.1 | and so at that point he kind of switches to third person to add that context. |
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