LIBYA: She Forgave Her Husband's Killers
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 20 November 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On December 5, 2013, Ronnie Smith was shot and killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi. Within days, Ronnie's wife, Anita, spoke on national TV in the US about her love for the Libyan people and about forgiving her husband's murderers. She also did interviews—in Arabic—that were broadcast all over the Middle East.
Listen to Anita Smith share the story—the story of her grief, but also the story of how God was present in those days, and in the years since.
She'll talk about how God inspired her and Ronnie to pursue overseas gospel work—and how they prayed as they moved to Benghazi just months after the US consulate was overrun by Islamist fighters. She'll tell how their neighbors welcomed and adopted them—and about the day she received the terrible phone call that Ronnie had been killed.
Listen next week for Part 2 of our conversation with Anita Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you remember hearing news reports about the fall of Moore-Marc Gaddafi in Libya? |
| 0:05.8 | The country was full of unrest during that power vacuum not long after the American consulate in Benghazi was attacked |
| 0:14.9 | In the middle of the unrest that followed a need of Smith arrived in Benghazi with her husband Ronnie and their young son |
| 0:24.4 | They knew it was dangerous |
| 0:27.3 | But they also knew that God had opened the door |
| 0:31.2 | This is the way they prayed Jesus. I am afraid we have an infant if this is what you will for us |
| 0:39.9 | Of course we want you to protect us |
| 0:42.6 | But we want to trust in you and do this for you and we know |
| 0:47.3 | When you do follow Jesus out of obedience, there is reward |
| 0:51.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path in fact |
| 0:56.6 | He told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves |
| 1:02.6 | Jesus's words came true in the life of the apostles and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world |
| 1:09.8 | Join host Todd Nettleton's we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the voice of martyrs |
| 1:16.2 | Radio network when you hear the word martyr |
| 1:19.3 | What picture comes to your mind |
| 1:21.8 | Maybe a stoic character standing amidst the lions in the Roman Colosseum |
| 1:28.1 | My name is Todd Nettleton today. We're going to get a picture of a martyr in our day |
| 1:34.2 | Picture a regular person a high school chemistry teacher someone just like you or me serving the Lord |
| 1:41.6 | Working at their job loving their family and trying to share Christ with their neighbors |
| 1:47.7 | Our guest is Anita Smith and the instead of a long introduction |
| 1:52.0 | I'll just let you get to know her by hearing her amazing story |
| 1:57.1 | Anita and her husband began ministering to refugees in the Austin Texas area through their church |
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