MY STATEMENT CONCERNING JOHN CHAU:
I had the great privilege to meet John at a missionary base. After I preached, he came up and asked for prayer telling me his heart to minister to unreached people groups. I laid hands on him praying that God would use him. I’ve prayed for so many people through the years but I remember this time with John so clearly because of the weightiness of God’s presence upon his life and and an assuredness in my heart that God was going to use him as a fire brand. John also went to school with my wife and was also a resident of our city. We are saddened by his death but rejoice because he paid the ultimate price to reach those that hadn’t heard about the wonderful name of Jesus!
Hear my words, he did not die in vain. First of all, God takes the death of His martyrs very seriously and rewards them accordingly. Second, his blood will cry out for redemption for the Sentinelese people and they will come to know their Messiah. Thirdly, God is using this to wake up a fast asleep church lulled to sleep by self-centeredness. So ultimately, his death will be used by God as Stephen’s (whose martyrdom account I placed below), to cause boldness to rise in the hearts of the remnant, causing a wave of revival and harvest in the body of Christ.
And when they had called the apostles, and beaten them… they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. Acts 5:40-41
His death has truly revealed the complete disregard the American church has for the Great Commission. The comfort Laodicean gospel, that says “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing” has so infiltrated the body of Christ that we don’t even know how “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” we are. Rev. 3:17 That has been very apparent by the comments from many Christians, criticizing this fire brand from the comfort of their pampered lives here in the West.
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he (Stephen), being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Acts 7:54-60
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