Iran: The Honor of Being Tortured

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🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The house church pastor had been arrested and tortured. Now he wanted to talk to his leader. Dr. Hormoz Shariat expected the pastor to ask how a loving God could have allowed him to suffer. The pastor would ask, and how he would answer? Instead, the young man called being tortured for his faith in Christ an honor. It is bold witnesses for Christ like this that God is using to change the nation of Iran. Listen in this week to hear Pastor Hormoz share the stories of these faithful believers and explain how persecution in Iran is different from what Christians in other Muslim nations are facing. Encourage your faith and equip yourself to pray for the church in Iran with this week's episode of VOM Radio.

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0:00.0	Imagine you're a church leader in a restricted nation and you've sent a Christian worker into harm's
0:15.2	way into the path of persecution.
0:19.1	And this time persecution happened, arrest and torture at the hands of the police.
0:25.0	Now your worker wants to talk to you.
0:27.7	What will he ask?
0:29.7	And when I was tortured, why did God allow that? Where was God then when people
0:35.0	burning cigarettes on my body and all that? Dr. Hormo's chariot leads and
0:40.0	equips house church leaders inside Iran and recently he prepared himself for that very conversation.
0:47.6	You'll find out what the tortured house church pastor really said and how different it was from what pastor hormones expected right now
0:56.2	on the voice of the martyrs radio network.
1:02.2	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
1:05.0	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
1:09.0	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
1:12.0	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles and
1:14.5	they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:18.7	Join host Todd Nettleton's we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network
1:28.9	Welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs radio. Thank you for joining us this this week I'm Todd Nettleton and
1:33.7	we're continuing our conversation with Dr. Hormose Sherryat the founder and
1:38.6	president of Iran Alive Ministries he speaks every day via satellite television to tens of
1:45.5	thousands of Iranians, both Muslims and Christians. You can hear the first half of
1:51.6	our time with Pastor
1:53.0	Hormose online at Vio.net if you missed that last week.
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