FATAL ASSUMPTION- EXPOSING THE MYTH THAT GODLY PEOPLE DON'T SUFFER (23 OF 30)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-22
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Fatal Assumption- Exposing the Myth that Godly People Don't Suffer (23 of 30)
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 3:18-22
The South Pacific Islands called Vanuatu consists of four main islands with additional 80 islands surrounding these. Approximately 220,000 people live on the islands today. The islands are around 1,000 miles from Australia itself and were first explored by Captain James Cook. 450 miles long, the islands had no Christian influence prior to 1839. It was then that two missionaries came to what was then known as the New Hebrides, John Williams and James Harris, both from the London Missionary Society. Within minutes of going ashore, they were clubbed to death, cooked, and eaten in the face of the ship that was still offshore. Three years later, the London Missionary Society sent another team to the Islands in 1842, and these missionaries were driven off within seven months of arriving on the islands. John G. Paton sailed for the New Hebrides (via Australia) with his wife Mary on April 16, 1858, at the age of 33. In the next year after they arrived, both his wife and his newborn son died of the fever. He would suffer from the same fever fourteen times during his stay on the islands, each time fearing he would die, as did his wife and child. He served alone on the island for the next four years under incredible circumstances of constant danger until he was driven off the island in February, 1862. The natives were cannibals and occasionally ate the flesh of their defeated foes. They practiced infanticide and widow sacrifice, killing the widows of deceased men so that they could serve their husbands in the next world. He married again in 1864, and took his new wife, Margaret, back this time. The two labored together for 41years. So much of Paton's life was based on finding courage in Christ in order to hope. Even before he left for the islands, he found the need for courage. When a Mr. Dickson discovered Paton was heading off to the islan ...
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 3:18-22
The South Pacific Islands called Vanuatu consists of four main islands with additional 80 islands surrounding these. Approximately 220,000 people live on the islands today. The islands are around 1,000 miles from Australia itself and were first explored by Captain James Cook. 450 miles long, the islands had no Christian influence prior to 1839. It was then that two missionaries came to what was then known as the New Hebrides, John Williams and James Harris, both from the London Missionary Society. Within minutes of going ashore, they were clubbed to death, cooked, and eaten in the face of the ship that was still offshore. Three years later, the London Missionary Society sent another team to the Islands in 1842, and these missionaries were driven off within seven months of arriving on the islands. John G. Paton sailed for the New Hebrides (via Australia) with his wife Mary on April 16, 1858, at the age of 33. In the next year after they arrived, both his wife and his newborn son died of the fever. He would suffer from the same fever fourteen times during his stay on the islands, each time fearing he would die, as did his wife and child. He served alone on the island for the next four years under incredible circumstances of constant danger until he was driven off the island in February, 1862. The natives were cannibals and occasionally ate the flesh of their defeated foes. They practiced infanticide and widow sacrifice, killing the widows of deceased men so that they could serve their husbands in the next world. He married again in 1864, and took his new wife, Margaret, back this time. The two labored together for 41years. So much of Paton's life was based on finding courage in Christ in order to hope. Even before he left for the islands, he found the need for courage. When a Mr. Dickson discovered Paton was heading off to the islan ...
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