MacArthur’s Shortest Exposition (Heb. 13:3)│My Uncle Jack Tackled Johnny Mac (Prison Pulpit #39) [China Compass]
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
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Summary
I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, recording today in the little Thai town of Betong, on the border with Malaysia. Follow and/or message me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I post (among other things) daily reminders to pray for China.You can also email me @ bfwesten at gmail dot com. Lastly, to learn more about our ministry endeavors or get one of my missionary biographies, visit PrayGiveGo.us!
Why did I begin this weekly Prison Pulpit series?
To remind us all to pray for persecuted pastors and believers (such as Pastor Wang Yi) as Hebrews 13:3 teaches us to do (“as bound with them”), by sharing from his own published writings in China, as well as more prison stories and sermons from others like the late Richard Wurmbrand.
Here’s my humble attempt at expositing Hebrews 13:3:
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/remember-my-chains
But today it dawned on me that there was an opportunity to honor John MacArthur and keep mostly to the topic of this mid-week podcast, reminding us to pray for the persecuted church.
Before sharing the John MacArthur preaching clip from 1973 on Hebrews 13:3, I briefly talk about the following topics…
My first MacArthur memory: Scary Nursing Home Book Stand
My best MacArthur memory: Titus exposition (via mp3) from Istanbul to Sophia, Bulgaria
My only visit to Grace Community Church: Random Tuesday in 2012
My favorite MacArthur sermon: https://www.gty.org/sermons/GTY104/the-tale-of-two-sons
My closest connection to John MacArthur: My late Uncle Jack
Read the written version of today’s podcast on my Substack:
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/macarthurs-shortest-exposition-ever
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to yet another episode |
| 0:04.0 | than the last year |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to yet another episode of the Prison Pulpit series |
| 0:13.0 | on the Fight Lafeece Network's China Compass podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm your China Travel Guide missionary band recording today in the little Thai, little Thailand, |
| 0:24.9 | Thai town of Betong on the border with Malaysia. We are still traveling and we are in this little |
| 0:32.0 | tiny, beautiful mountain town here on the border with Malaysia on the Thai side of the border. |
| 0:36.9 | This town is known for a lot of |
| 0:38.2 | things. Some of them good, some of them not so good. I won't go into too many details about that. |
| 0:42.4 | That's a topic for another podcast someday. You can follow or message me on and or message |
| 0:47.9 | me on Twitter X at China Adventures at China Adventures where I post daily reminders to pray for |
| 0:53.6 | China. I just did our daily post a few moments ago. This is, let's see, it's Wednesday evening here in Thailand. It would be Wednesday morning as I'm recording this back in the West. And if you're in other parts of the world, I know there's some of you out there. I have no idea what time it is for you, at least not off the top of my head. You can also email me at BFWestton at gmail.com. BF.Westton at gmail.com. Last, to learn more about our ministry endeavors or get one of the missionary biographies that I've helped to publish in the last year or two, visit pray, give, go. U.S. All the links, as always, are in the show notes. |
| 1:30.7 | I apologize for the echo out, but there's a little bit of an echo today where I'm sitting here in this particular lodging place where we're staying. |
| 1:34.1 | This weekly prison pulpit series, as I say most weeks, I started it to remind all of us |
| 1:39.7 | to pray for persecuted pastors and believers, such as Pastor Wang Yi in China, as Hebrews 133 teaches |
| 1:46.4 | us to do as bound with them by sharing from the writings of Pastor Wangi, as well as other |
| 1:53.0 | stories and sermons from people like the late Richard Wormbrand. Last week, I talked about my |
| 1:58.3 | friend in China, Brother Bai. I'm a little disappointed that that |
| 2:02.2 | from the stats so far, that episode's gotten a little bit less traction than most. And I love |
| 2:09.1 | Brother By to death. And I wish everyone could hear his story, could have met him like we had a chance |
| 2:14.1 | to do. And I hope to see him again someday, if not here, definitely in heaven. |
| 2:18.3 | And so do go back and listen to last week's episode, if you haven't already, about my friend, Brother, by there. |
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