Good morning, brethren. It is good to be with you this Lord's day today is very special, in fact, I'm going to ask 2 of the elders, Alder, Fred and Elder Jim to come up because we have a special gift. For you.
This is a gift that you see on this table before you, like none other.
So let me explain it. This gift is LED. Mcculley's diary, where all you kids are sitting.
Headset right here. And so he grew up here. This is his diary, his electronic diary.
Now he didn't write as much as some of the others did.
Sometimes a couple of months would go by before he wrote. But this is his electronic diary, and I'm pleased to present this to one of the elders
Thank you, brother, and then we have another gift. This is another gift, like none other.
It's official name is Collection 721, which, of course, means nothing to us.
But this more unofficially. These are the papers of Jim Elliot's parents.
Fred and Iinerant brethren, preacher, his wife Clara.
Now here's what's interesting about this. There's about 350 documents in here.
It's 2 way communication. So it's very unique.
It wasn't just Jim writing when he was in college, and then post college on the mission field.
It's actually Jim writing and his parents writing back. And we eat a rarity.
We have a handwritten letter from LED. Mccauley, so I'm pleased to present this
To Elder Fred. Thank you, sir, thank you for your research, and you're working this whole project.
You're welcome, sir. Well, today is special, not only because of the gifts, but because today is the 67 anniversary of an event that shaped missions and rocked the evangelical world
Today we're going to run to the battle. As we look at 3 aspects from a spiritual perspective, there's a British missionary to China named Ct. Stud.
He's got a memorable phrase. I see all of these wonderful kids in the audience.
Here's a memorable phrase. Some people want to live within the sound of chapel bells.
I want to run a mission a yard from the gates of hell.
Will that be you
Would you turn in your Bibles to a very familiar verse
Ephesians, 6, 11. Most of you know it by heart.
Ephesian, 6, 11,
Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the double.
If you would leave your Bible open throughout this message, because we're going to be referring to it.
God's army. Marches on their knees, so would you bow your heads with me and pray as we go before the throne of race.
Father, we humbly and reverently approach the throne of grace.
We worship you as King of kings and Lord of lords, for there is none like the we're odd that your son Jesus paid it all all to him.
We all sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it wide as snow.
67 years ago, 5 brayman woke up to worship this Lord's day.
An isolated sandbar deep in the Amazon rainforest.
They intended to share the gospel with one of the most wicked groups on earth.
Instead, by your will they left this life. Now their faces shine with glory.
O Lord, may we learn from the lives of these committed men and women?
May we learn from your perfect word to put our full armor on and stand firm, for you have trampled down the enemy and given us the victory.
We may not be many, but we serve a mighty Lord, so let us run to the battle.
Amen!
Okay, first, we're gonna look at the war. We're gonna spend just a few minutes on that.
Talking about the war. So today, our focus is only on verse 11 put on the full armor of God so that you'll be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
So the 5 missionaries that we spotlight today knew full well they were in a spiritual battle.
The outcomes now called the Warrani, or the Wow.
For sure they weren't the enemy. They were the ones for whom Christ died.
So Ted Mccullough, a well-known speaker in this very assembly, had this to say, 9 months after his son died, quote, the men looked upon these Indians with hearts of sexual love.
Who's the enemy? Well, he's an aggressive formidable adversary, convicted, committed to you and your family's destruction.
But see Christ's resurrection, crucifixion, and resurrection for ever conquered the power of sin and death.
So the war has been one, but we still face a daily battle of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
So Christian, that's how you run to the battle fully.
Armed and standing firm. Make that your resolution this year, and if you don't care for that one, here's another one resolved to be pleasing to the Lord
Okay, so many are familiar with the basic outline of the story.
But I'll spend just a few minutes explaining that.
So in the mid 1950, s. 5, evangelical missionaries and their families sought to convert the warranty.
They were a small, indigenous tribe of roughly 200 to 600 souls, with the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ.
They were located deep in the Amazon rainforest of remote Eastern equator.
The area is one of the wettest on Earth.
16 feet of rain a year, with some of the richest biodiversity on the planet.
Let me say it differently.
A jungle missionary had as good a likelihood the Amazon would kill them as the violent tribes in the area would, and so, instead, the 5 men were violently killed.
On January eighth, 1,956, by the very tribe they sought to share.
Christ, with
5 widows and 9 children were left behind, some of them, by the way, where your age
The story became national and even international news. Not long after one of the widows and the sister of one of the went, one of the men.
They were invited to live amongst the wow, where they told this small tribe about God's carvings.
You want to hear something amazing. Eventually all 6 killers came to saving faith in Christ, as did roughly 10 to 30% of the tribe.
Amazing
The 5 men called this operation outc. Here's a fact you may not have known the warranty had the highest homicide rate of any people.
Group and recorded history. Just think about that for a moment.
It was rare to find an older person in the tribe.
They had fought off the government. The oil company, and foreigners.
If you stepped foot onto Akalan. There was a high likelihood that you wouldn't come out alive.
They killed with extreme ferocity and deadly precision.
They put multiple expertly placed hardwood spears.
Sharpened with serrated tips into victims.
So they died in agonizing pain.
They scared the daylights out of the tribe right next to them you've heard of the head shrinkers?
It's a real tribe called the Heal.
Now they're called the Schwar
So there was ongoing intra tribal conflict.
There was conflict with neighboring traits. The Kichua, the schwar.
So. In short, this small homicidal tribe was steadily becoming self extinct.
So the men prepared diligently for 4 months. They were not rookies.
One of the criticisms of them that's emerged in the last 2 decades is the men acted rashly.
I can assure you they did not, and they prepared this with a level of of military precision, details that the military who eventually investigated this was astounded by each, brought several years of jungle missions.
Experience, details, including learning, language, phrases, airdrops of gifts, gathering supplies, and so on.
Now the wives were very much involved in this preparation, but it was kept secret from nearly everyone else, including their families, back home.
Even their missions, agencies.
Now the men keenly felt the forces of darkness opposing them from the Catholic priests stirring up the people.
To reject these tools of Ldablo, the devil to the witch doctors, tribes invoking curses on them, not to mention
The dangers of an unforgiving bug filled humid climate, torrential rain, hilly terrain, poisonous snakes.
Infectious diseases, stinging naps it was.
It was trying. So imagine most everything you own being filled with mildew mold.
Ross. Just imagine trying to walk from one area to another, but we never read of whining or complaining
So how did they handle this fierce opposition? Not only the elements, but the tribes.
Well. 4 of the men had trained in the Lord
One came to saving faith as an adult. One of those men attended right where you are.
They. So they lived, Ephesian 6, 10. They were strong in the Lord, and then the strength of his might
In other words, they relied on the Lord's power.
The spirits, guidance, and the force of Biblical truth.
To change lives. So how they do it in a practical way.
Well, they treated the sick, they taught children, they witnessed to tribe elders and other adults, and they shared in their life and sufferings.
We know this from the diaries. Interviews with the widows, their colleagues, and the legacy of indigenous believers.
You want to hear something astounding. They're actually watching this video right now.
The warranty are watching this. Only God can do that
They had fervently prayed without casing for the while.
For years long before reaching them. And what's striking to me about the men and their wives as I've studied them for most of the last day intensely
They had an unwavering focus on bringing the Gospel to the lost, and particularly the warranty.
There was a level of spiritual maturity. Gravitas if you want to use that word about these men.
So they put their full armor on. So put on, indicates permanence indicating that the armor should be a Christians.
Lifelong a tire the word full in the Greek is panoplia, meaning complete, so a Roman soldier had 6 pieces of standard equipment which Paul adapts to instruct us.
Kids. You know what these are, I'm sure there's the shield of faith.
There's the belt of true. There's a breastplate of righteousness.
The feet shod with peace, and the same of the spirit sort of spirit.
In other words, you are fully armed to resist and overcome Satan's results.
Now this may surprise you, but my view is that these 5 were not uncommon for their generation.
So let me explain. They were remarkable, but not uncommon.
Why, so here's some history immediately following World War Ii.
There were, roughly 150 missions agencies that started names like Send Mission aviation fellowship.
The navigators Far East Broadcasting Company and world vision.
All started right then. So many of these new organizations were filled with Christian veterans who had seen the horrors of war.
They brought a sober minded view with high evangelistic urgency.
Roger, Youidarian, is a great example. Christian campuses.
We're filled with these veterans. So there was a high interest.
Admissions. We're a couple of the men, went Jim Elliot.
Nate saint for one year, and LED Macaulay, Wheaton College, want to know what the most popular campus group on on campus was.
FM. F. Foreign missions, fellowship. So then, late 1,900 fortys was the golden age of missions.
There were many faithful saints like the 5 Couples in that generation.
They ran to the battle. Now back to Ephesians.
The last part of that verse. The schemes of the devil in the Greek the word schemes is methadia, or literally deceptive methods with evil in intent.
So what are Satan steams? Well, you see that in your sermon notes he tempts Genesis 3.
He perverts God's word. Matthew 4.
He opposes God's work. Zechariah 3.
He hinders God's servants. Second, Thessalonians, too.
He tries to restrict the proclamation of the Gospel by blinding the minds of the people like the headhunters.
The Hebrew, now called the schwar, Second Corinthians. 4.
He snares the wicked like the warranty.
First Timothy 3. He deceives the nation's revelation, 16 and 20.
How's he doing through the pagans who make up the temporary system?
He will world system that Satan rules over. So today the battle is being wasted.
5 key areas. In my opinion, don't have time to develop this.
But there's a note in the sermon. Notes.
Mention, this one is Media. How many of you have been impacted by social media?
How much is that a part of your lives, education, you see, in the 1,900 fiftys?
It was more subtle now. This ideology, Satan, is coming after your children, your grandchildren, in a very overt way.
LED. Government is a third way business. Even the church, in the idyllic 1,900 fiftys, the 5 that the 5 couples lived in it gave way to the turbulent 1,900 sixtys.
And beyond. So today, it's the same spiritual battle. But now it's more intense because evil is growing.
So that's Matthew 2412. The church is weaker, and your family is under unrelenting assault.
Here's something to think about. It took just 6 decades for a stunning reversal of morality and culture.
It's unfolding in society before our eyes. If you are looking, if you are confused, troubled, grieved by what you see in our world today, here's a verse for you, Isaiah, 5. 20.
You may want to memorize it.
Those who call evil good and good evil. Okay. Next, we're gonna learn about these warriors, for the Lord.
So now we get to the warriors. Okay, so here's our Powerpoint that we're gonna walk through.
This is based on original research. I may even ask the kids particular.
Those in the front row? Some questions. So, as the Bible says, Gird your loins alright, so let's look at the determinant soldier.
We'll look at background family distinctives very briefly then we'll look at the creative pilot.
Then the bold Radical. Can you guess who that one is?
Fourth, the praying scholar. This one's gonna be surprising for you.
And then last, the smooth leader. Okay, let's go to the determined soldier
Okay. So his name is Roger. You Darian
He did not come from a Christian family. He was the youngest of 7.
It came to know the Lord as a paratrooper in World War 2.
In fact, he fought in the battle of the Bulge
But what I want you to get is feel zoom in on the section right here.
I want you to notice this man's determination. Notice, I will.
I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit.
I will begin to ask God to put me in a service of constant circumstances where to live.
Christ. I must die to sell. I will be alive unto the Lord.
This gives you a powerful sense of who this man was, and it could zoom out. Please
And now we go to the next slide
His wife, Barbara, 98 years old, still living. She's one of the only 2 widows who are living.
They had 2 kids. And, by the way, when her husband passed away, no, she did.
She continued serving on the mission field for 30 years with Gospel Missionary Union.
Amazing. And on our third slide for Roger
Just a few points about him. He took his faith in Christ seriously.
You heard last year at this time a message with Dave Howard, who, by the way, went to be with the Lord.
This past May and Dave spoke very aptly about Roger.
There are. If you had to think about a spectrum kind of draw a line we have on one side Nate, Saint and Roger Edgarian, very serious
Then we have, on the other hand, we had LED Macaulay and Jim Elliot, so he took his face seriously.
He had. I interviewed one person in Minnesota some years ago, and he said you did not know joke about the things of the Lord with him.
He had a grim determination, was the words he used.
Virtual gift was helping, maybe leading or teaching. So he did things that I know you can't probably see these in the back.
But he did some things which are pretty amazing. He built a hospital with the help of his friends, he cleared jungle runways.
Imagine clearing a jungle runway, using no power tools, using labor and hand tools.
He supervised native work crews. In fact, he's well known, for he ran, jogged, walked 18 miles in just under 6 h, through dense jungle.
Wow, amazing. And this also impresses me he had an urgency to reach the lost for Christ.
He had an urgency even beyond other missionaries. You see, he's the only one of the 5 who didn't have a permanent home.
He lived in a bamboo shack. The others had modest but comfortable homes.
He did not he, and Barbara lived in basically a bamboo shack.
He did not waste time on trivial or insignificant, significant in significant things.
He pushed himself. Even other missionaries. He pushed himself hard to reach the lost, for Christ.
Honestly. His life is. What a beautiful example for all of us on the bottom of this!
If you could zoom in, some of you with an interest in this.
This is the tribe that they ministered to, that is the gruesome practice of Sansa head shrinking, that is the head of an enemy, and the belief was when you captured that enemy shrunk the skull down hung it on your door that was a talisman.
Of power. You captured that enemy's spirit, and by doing that it gave you power.
That's the evil that Roger and Barbara were working to overcome with the Spirit's help.
And if you would zoom out and then go to the next slide, please
Now we come to the creative pilot. Nate came from a Christian family.
He was a interesting. He did something as a teenager that I don't think any of you parents would allow.
He took his parents, allowed him to take the family car and remove the engine from it and take it apart, and then apparently, I guess he put it back together I don't know if it worked, but and then if you would go into the bottom left and Zoom, in, please this gives you a sense of this
Pilot, and people who knew that do not, who do not know.
The Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries, they forget that they, too, are expending their lives, and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted he had an internal perspective, and if you would then
Go to the next slide
His wife, Marge manned the radio controls. The lady in the upper right, you probably never heard her name.
Or few, maybe a few of you can have. Well, when her brother died she went to live with the outcomes from 1,958 to 1995.
In fact, she's buried out there, and amazing, and the family, the 3 kids were very much impacted by this.
And then, if we can go to the next slide, please
Here's a sense of who Nate was now the Lord gave him.
We have spiritual gifts, we have natural abilities. His spiritual gift was mercy.
He was passionate about reaching Los Angeles. You know what was great about him.
He viewed the plane as a tool to gain precious time, giving the word to primitive people
He was a highly skilled mechanic and pilot. He was friendly and engaging, so when he arrived he didn't simply bring supplies to these remote stations.
He encouraged.
And on the top of that we see. He came up with a bucket drop.
Did you know? The Us. Military spent several years trying to research this very thing?
And they came up with it on his own. He came up with a dual injection engine for jungle work.
Let me mention how the final way in which Roger and Nate ran to the battle.
Roger had been trained in the military. His final act of service for our Lord was this, when the attack unfolded, he had the presence of mind to run around the plane to the right side of the plane.
He opened the door he was reaching in to grab the radio.
He brought the radio to his mouth, and there he received one or multiple spears to the back and his hip, and Nate Saint.
The warranty believed him to be the leader. Here is his final act of service.
How he ran to the battle
There were 2 groups that attacked Nate. Saint received a spear through his right temple.
He was then. He then received a machete to the back of the head.
That's how he ran to the battle they were so committed to reach the lost
On the next slide we come to. What are the start of what's called the brethren boys.
That's how they were known. So the bold Radical is GM.
Elliot. I had just several minutes, so Go provided a gift.
The papers are Fred and Clara Elliot.
These are those papers, and that's that's them.
The parents
If you would zoom in, please. Jim was highly quotable.
And, by the way, most of the quotes that you read about in the journals of Gemini, most of those occurred right after college when he had some time on his hands, and he was thinking about his next career.
Step, father, make of me a crisis, man, bring those eye contact to decision.
Let me not be a mile post on a single road.
Make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
And over here. Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a god.
And then there God send me soon to the outcomes he'd pray for years.
By the way, on that, on the next slide
One more note that I forgot to mention. His brother. Burt was a missionary to Peru for 62 years
Okay, so Elizabeth, Elliot is the best known of the 5 women.
She died in 2015,
They had one child, Valerie, and here are some pictures of them.
Jim became the best known of the 5 men by far.
We'll talk more about that in a couple of minutes, and then on our next slide, just some characteristics about Jim.
He knew his Bible very well. He'd majored in Greek and college, graduated summa cum laude.
He had a vast knowledge of Scripture. If I had to rank those who knew the most amongst the 5 men of Scripture, I think it would be a virtual tie between Pete Fleming and Jim Elliot.
But Jim struggled with pride, and he could act rashly.
You heard last year at this time that he wanted to just go march right into those alcohols
So, sometimes he was so self-confident. It was to the point of pride, tough to change his mind. And I'll tell you something humorous about his first date with Betty, as she was known at the time.
Betty! How
He took her to a place in Wheaton College campus, where they both attended, called the Stoop.
So it's a little like ice cream shop. And there, on their first date, he took her to task for being so standoffish, for being so aloof.
The classic gym
He had a spiritual gift of exhortation. He spoke at least 100 to 200 times.
No, brethren. He died at age 28, to do a little math on that. You can see he is a speaking machine.
He held unconventional views, certainly was controversial.
He was highly skilled in drafting and construction.
Let me tell you about how he died. Jim ran to the battle, and he had a pistol to his side, but they had committed as a group that they.
They were ready for heaven. So we're running. We're on.
We're not. He apparently raised it, fired off 2 shots.
One hit the windshield of the plane. He's not aiming at people.
By the way. One of them he he held in the air, and one of the Indians jumped in front, raised his forehead, and apparently later died of his woman's
On the next one
We come to the praying scholar, the prank scholar Pete, came from a Christian family.
His brother Ken is 92 years old, missionary to the Zulus, and now we go to the next one.
Olive lifel is the other surviving widow.
She's 92 years old, and this man right here, Chemo
He had by his own words. Dozens of killings under him, about under his belt, which which puts him.
You look at the most notorious serial killers in the United States, he and one or 2 of the others would be up there in the rankings.
But look what God did. This is ken Fleming, putting his arms around the man who killed his brother.
Only the Lord can do that on the next slide
Pete had a deep knowledge of Scripture. He came to saving faith at age 13.
By the way, and there he got involved in Youth camp, and he knew 1,000 Bible versus exactly, and the citation
He loved, to teach, but he struggled with insecurity he didn't know how to put up a building.
Jim did. Roger did so. We struggled with insecurity, called himself more intellectual than practical, and, by the way, that hymn know that you have in front of you, it said that Pete knew all the verses to 500 hymns in the inter varsity hymnal wow!
On the final slide for him. We have something that is astounding.
This is his perilous. I have never in my life come across a believer who had nearly 500 names on his per list.
Christian? How many do you have on yours? Do you even have a per list?
This is convicting for me. I have at most, maybe maybe 50.
This is convicting
Here's how Pete ran to the battle. He was the last one of them killed the other 4 were dead or dying along the Kerry River.
A sandbar far eastern Ecuador. He was alive.
He had apparently run to the other shore, he started walking towards them towards the killers.
He started calling with his Limited, while
I am your friend.
And in return he received a hardwood spear through his heart.
That's how he ran to the battle
On the next one we come to the smooth leader. Your very own Edinburgh.
Here's a little bit about him, came from a Christian family, part of the brethren you attended here, as we've mentioned several times.
Notice this. He came up with this quote, if you could zoom in here, this is his best known quote.
I have decided to live a life of reckless abandon, putting all my energy and strength into a service.
You know, when he came up with that, 2 eventful things happen.
If you go to the next slide, one is that he'd had a near fatal head on accident immediately after college in this area Jim and I were just talking about that.
The second is, he had been convicted by reading the Book of Nehemiah
This little guy here, min Kaye
He was a lean, powerful killer in his twenties.
He, too, had apparently dozens of kills under his bell.
Only the Lord can do a work like that
On the next slide, final one for add
He had a presence about him. He exuded confidence and warmth when he talked with you.
He looked right at you. You were the focus of his attention.
He won the Hearst National Oratorical contest. In other words, he was the best.
Speaker in the United States, in college, very smooth. He was a skilled negotiator, right?
So we have Nate and Roger on one hand, saying, Let's be cautious, then we have saying, then we have Jim saying, Let's go march right into their huts.
He's they're in the middle as a negotiator.
Here's how. Here's ads final act for our Lord.
Here's how he ran to the battle. He saw that either Nate or Jim we're being attacked and dying.
He apparently ran to one of their aid, and then, in return, he received one or multiple spears to the back
His body was chopped in half. Only 2 things were found is watch and a size 13 and a half shoe.
That's how we ran to the battle. We are done with this section.
Now we come to the aftermath, the aftermath, so war always brings death and destruction.
But this story is different. Death brought new life. So here are some final points for you to consider.
God chooses the humble, the lowly, the meek, and the week.
So there's never any question about the source of their power when they're lives.
Change the world, test. Pastor John Macarthur. The 5 men and their wives are proof.
Second, though we live in an age which is increasingly evil, and what's evil is called good, and what's good is called evil.
If you know God's Word, you'll always know what to say to the culture
Third, the problem of sin is not primarily the world around us.
It's the worldiness within us
Just a pointer to, as mentioned, all 6 of the killers came to saving faith in Christ.
You might be interested to know that 3 of them became pastors and evangelists to their very own tribe.
Roughly 10 to 20% of the tribe of the roughly 2,500 are now Christians.
They've now passed on that legacy of faith, just as you're doing here.
This remembered service is where we're passing on the truce of the phase.
Remembering these 5 brave men and women.
They've now passed it on to their children, their grandchildren, their great grandchildren.
They now have the New Testament. It took 14 years for some dedicated linguists at Wickliffe to translate the New Testament for them.
How about the impact on the church? So now we're looking nationally and even internationally.
The impact on the church has never been measured. We don't know how many lives have been impacted
It's commonly accepted that there have been thousands, if not tens of thousands, impacted
There have been roughly 25 plus books written on Jim Elliot.
Couple of languages, roughly, 10 books written on the pilot, Nate Saint, 2 books on the Spring Scholar, Pete Flemley.
But notice this, 0 and, Roger, you're daring 0 on your very own.
LED. Mccullough.
So the story. If I, if I summarize this, the story, which was very prominent 6 decades ago.
It's now declined to the point where very, few, very few, know. This
There are a few embers. Let me share a couple of embers.
There is a full length movie screen play that was approved by all 5 widows.
It's been in the works for some 20 years.
That screenplay the person who wrote it. A woman in her eighties.
She is looking for a Christian, a Christian company that will be true to the message without altering it.
So that's one ember of hope, another ember of hope is the Elizabeth Elliott Foundation has put all the work and the ministries of Jim Elizabeth and Valerie under one umbrella, and that's a second number there's a couple.
There's a a couple more, and I'll show these to you.
If you are interested in learning more about this subject, here's what I will encourage you to do, regardless of your age.
I would encourage you to read this first. This was written in 1957. It's in perennial bestseller through gates of splendor.
This is what started that explosion of interest
Second, I would urge you to read in this order, olive Fleming, Lifefeld's book, Unfolding Destinies.
Think you would find it fascinating you'll learn more about the dynamics that are going on.
Third, if you're interested in learning more about the tribes, you want to learn more about those famous headhunters and about the Kitchua, about the Alka, now called the Wow, you want to learn more about Rachel and Elizabeth this Maniculus, you researched book is called
god in the rainforest by a now retired Wheaton professor named Dr.
Katherine line. She spent, I believe, 12 years working on this book
If you want to know more about Jim Elliot, this is his biography Shadow of the Almighty, worth a read.
If you want to learn more about that creative pilot. Nice, sane jungle pilot by Russell hit. If you want to learn more about the five-year romance between Jim and Elizabeth Eliot staying pure until marriage seeking God's will
Read devotedly by Valerie Elliot, Shepherd, and then I do recommend this book as well, becoming Elizabeth Elliot.
It's the first in a two-part series by New York Times.
Bestselling author, Ellen B. She's busy at work on Volume 2.
So there are a few embers of hope. These books are available for you.
If you wanted to take a look at them. Following the service.
I'm sorry that we don't have more time to go through this, but I wanted to show that show.
You try to cover the whole panorama of what has happened with this amazing story
Thank you for the opportunity to present this
Yeah, I will close this in prayer if you don't mind.
Let's go to Lord in that in prayer
Father? How do we explain? How do we describe your love? Goes from east to west, and runs as deep as it does wide?
5 men hope to reach a lost tribe with your gospel almost 7 decades ago, and instead, their dust for your name, reach the them, and countless more how we thank you for such amazing grace to them and to us, for we're not worthy though we call you Lord, we must confess
We're often strangers to your Holiness. Oh, Lord, please forgive us, for we have so much of the world within us.
Create enough, a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within us, so that we can run to the battle fully armed and standing firm for you, and though our world calls evil, good and good evil on every front, we do not we will be proclaim your name and run on mission a yard from the gates of
hell, for you have trampled down the enemy and give us the victory.
In the precious name of Jesus. Hey, man, thank you.
Okay, you take a mic, and you could take a mic and bring it around to.
Okay, okay, can I answer any questions for you on this whole subject?
Question is immediately file their death. How did that next generation were they able to connect with the warranty?
Okay, it came about because of that woman, Rachel. And then Elizabeth.
So the 6 Killers, they actually helped build the homes for Rachel and Elizabeth.
And you know what also happen. God was working on their heart, and so God's word was penetrating them, and one by one, not all at once, one by one, took a couple years the 6 killers came to saving faith, and they in turn as I mentioned 3 of them became pastors, and evangelists.
but it was really through the witness of Rachel and Elizabeth, and I suppose little Valerie.
So there's this tribe. There's this tribe of 200 to 600, and then there's this little white girl running around with them, and I I suspect Valerie had
Was part of that evangelistic effort as well. Does does that answer?
It? Okay? Can I answer any more questions for you?
So there are several Dvds that are out. One of them is through gates of splendor.
There's beyond the gates of splendor. There is one that I I do not recommend, which is called end of the spear.
It is not accurate, and it tilts the story too much in favor of the creative pilot.
The story itself. I will just add this, the story itself, over 6, 7 years, has become inbalanced it's become imbalanced because it's an Elliot centric and saint-centric story.
But despite human failings, the Lord worked through them. So there are several Dvds out.
There has been nothing new. By the way, in the last number of years there is talk about this very month about a a documentary starting, but it's just at this point.
Talk.
Is there any final question I can answer
Yeah, so so a missions executive from mission aviation fellowship is in regular contact with the Walran.
This message has been recorded, and my understanding is that the warranty in Ecuador plan to watch this.
Isn't that cool? It's amazing.
Yeah.
Dan is still a pastor. In fact, I just was communicating with him last month, and he, Dan, and his late wife, Beth.
We're obviously impacted by this, Barbara and as I mentioned, she lives in Orlando, Florida.
She lives across from her son Jerry. I tried to interview her roughly.
7, 8 years ago. And and they decided not to allow that interview.
But she's remained faithful to the Lord, as has Olive.
Olive lives in the western suburb of of Chicago.
Thank you all for attending. I appreciate this. Lord bless each one of you!
Thank you.