Banner Cry
"He shall see of the travail of
His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall My Righteous Servant
justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities."
Isaiah 53:11 is an incredible verse, and contains the only true
motivation for missions and evangelism. I heard a marvelous, TRUE story
recently, from an old taped sermon, (speaker unknown) which I would like to
share with you, in the context of this verse...
Anonymous
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100 (+ ?) years ago, there was an island somewhere in the Atlantic, owned by a
multi-millionaire slave owner, who also happened to be an atheist. For that
reason, he would allow no Christian workers to come to his island to preach the
Gospel to his slaves.
Two young Moravian believers,
both young men barely out of their teens, were concerned that these slaves, who
were living on this island, had no opportunity to hear the Gospel. After some
thought, they decided that their only course of action would be to sell
themselves into slavery, to this man, so that they would be transported to the
island, to live and work among the other slaves, and thus have opportunity to
share the gospel with them.
Naturally, their families were quite distraught, and grief-stricken at their
decision. This was not a temporary separation. These young men knew that they
were selling themselves into a lifetime of servitude, with no hope of ever
returning home to see their families and other loved ones.
When the time came for them to leave, their families and friends stood on the
dock, weeping as they watched these two young men pull away from the dock. One
of the family members cried out the question they had been continually asking;
"Why are you going?"
After a few moments of reflection, one of the two young men cried out, at the
top of his voice, for all to hear, what has since become the banner cry of
Moravian missions:
"May the Lamb Who was slain receive the reward of His suffering"!
---Speaker Unknown
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