VOM President: Inspired By Examples Of Persecuted Christians

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“As we commit daily to being Christ’s witnesses to a lost world, we must understand that we will be opposed. In fact, the more faithful we are, the more serious the opposition.”

Cole Richards, President of The Voice of the Martyrs, joins VOM Radio this week to talk about helping Christians in free nations, like the United States, discover what it means to follow Christ when it’s unpopular or even costly—something Christians living in restricted nations and hostile areas deal with every day. We’ll also introduce a new resource from The Voice of the Martyrs to inspire believers to learn about and develop a faith worth suffering for.

Cole recently wrote a series of editorials in The Voice of the Martyrs free monthly magazine on the topic, “Prepared for Persecution.” The Bible promises opposition (John 16:33) and persecution (II Tim. 3:12) when we live out our faith as biblical disciples of Christ. If Christians in free nations don’t learn these scriptural truths, we will be unprepared to face persecution when it comes.

Cole and Todd will also discuss The Sabina Group Study, a new resource from The Voice of the Martyrs offering inspiring examples of Christians who have taken up their crosses and followed Christ in spite of opposition, persecution, suffering and pain. Examples in the study come from the lives of VOM’s founders, Pastor Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, and also from seven “modern-day Sabinas,” women who endured intense persecution as faithful witnesses for Christ in our day.

A FREE copy of this brand-new video resource, including the full-length Sabina feature film and six video study sessions, is available right now to anyone who makes a donation to The Voice of the Martyrs.

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0:00.0	Cole Richards, the president of the Voice of the Martyr, says self-preservation comes naturally to
0:06.0	every person. But Jesus calls us to do something unnatural. He calls us to pick up our cross and
0:14.4	follow Him even when that involves suffering and hardship. That takes a great level of intentionality,
0:21.5	so it can't be our goal to eliminate opposition and suffering and difficulty because we will
0:27.4	fail to obey Christ. We need to make sure that we won't let anything stop our faithfulness.
0:34.7	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world
0:40.4	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life of
0:46.3	the apostles, and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
0:51.5	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
0:56.4	Right now on The Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome again to The Voice of the Martyrs
1:01.0	Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton. We are in the studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with
1:05.4	Cole Richards. He is the president of The Voice of the Martyrs. He's my boss here, has been the
1:09.8	president here for about the last five years. Cole, welcome back to Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
1:15.2	Todd, thank you. And I feel like, as we start, I just want to thank you. You have been so
1:20.0	supportive of VOM Radio helped us grow, helped us add more stations and more listeners and more
1:24.8	people. And I am very appreciative of that. So I want to start by just saying thank you.
1:29.9	Well, praise God. It's intended to be a benefit for the whole body of Christ and the whole
1:34.8	missions community, not just our organization. And so to think of all the wonderful Christian
1:39.2	leaders that have been on the air with us over the years, it's just a blessing. It's pretty amazing
1:43.8	when you look back. Cole, VOM has ministered for years in hostile areas and restricted nations.
1:49.8	We minister in places where if you're a Christian, you expect difficulties and hardships
1:55.5	and persecution. That's part of following Christ. We've had some discussions internally over
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