Stand For What You Stand For

[Book of Jeremiah]

This Music Video Song is probably the most important message the Church of today could hear and see. After just reading the Book of Hebrews and what the early church suffered I was amazed to find this song this today. The Message is powerful. The title is called Stand for What you Stand for. Watch this:

[ame=http://youtu.be/V_gsRuKH7uU]Stand For What You Stand For - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Hebrews 11: 1 - 39

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.

By faith we undertand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death, he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country, he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs of the promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

By faith Abraham, even though he was past age - and Sarah herself was barren - was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised, they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.

People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one.

Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God said to him, It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from the dead.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying blessed each of Joseph's sons, and woshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions about his bones.

By faith Moses parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as Pharoah's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the kings anger, he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised, who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword, whose weakness was turned to strength, and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.

Women received their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned, sawed in two, they went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated - the world was not worthy of them.

They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and in holes in the ground.

These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Cassie Bernall is a Christian Martyr who overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of her testimony and did not love her life unto the death. Here is a link to her testimony put up by her family in memory of her. Cassie Bernall -- Home

 

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Hand of Help Ministries - About Dumitru Duduman

In 1973 Dumitru began smuggling large quantities of Bibles over the Russian border. He had established many connections with outside missionaries who would supply him with Bibles. Through many miraculous occurrencies, God continually protected Dumitru. In one instance, God even blinded the eyes of the police so they would not see the car filled with Bibles that he was riding in. In all of his years of smuggling Bibles he was never caught. In 1979 based on information received from informants within the Christian church, Dumitru was arrested and brutally tortured for over five months. Every means imaginable were used, from electric shock to breaking nine of his ribs trying to obtain the names of people that helped Dumitru smuggle Bibles. With God's help he never broke under the severe persecution, and he never revealed the names of his Christian borthers. While Dumitru was in prison, God spoke to him through an angel, encouraging him not to fear for he still had much work to do. He was told that he would be released and that he would smuggle Bibles into Romania and into Russia for another five years. Just as the angel had said, after the death of the Colonel who was heading up the investigation, Dumitru was released and for another four years he faithfully did the work of God. Over a fifteen-year period, with God's help, Dumitru smuggled more than 300,000 Bibles and New Testaments into Russia alone, not taking into account the number of Bibles that he distributed throughout Romania.

On July 24, 1984 Dumitru and his entire family were expelled from Romania by the Communist officials. He had been given two options; either leave the country or die. It was difficult decision for Dumitru because Romanian was all that he had ever known. He would be going to unknown places where he neither spoke the language nor knew anyone who could help him. Once again, God spoke to Dumitru encouraging him and telling him that all would be well. He has yet another task to accomplish and God would be with him wherever he went.

The full story of Dumitru's testimony can be found at Hand of Help website. Dumitru served God faithfully to the end. He is another hero of the Faith.

 

[daws101]

A Critique of Dumitru Duduman's False Prophecies of America by Lori Eldridge

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Another hero of the faith is Richard Wurmbrand. He was a very close friend to Dumitru Duduman. Brother Wurmbrand's ministry continues today, "Voice of The Martyrs".

Persecution.com

Many people called him the "Voice of the Underground Church" and others referred to him as the "Iron Curtain St. Paul." This humble man who began the ministry of The Voice of the Martyrs was the Rev. Richard Wurmbrand. Richard’s life was a partnership with the equally amazing Sabina, whom he married on October 26, 1936.

Richard Wurmbrand was born the youngest of four boys in a Jewish family on March 24, 1909, in Bucharest, Romania. Gifted intellectually and fluent in nine languages, Richard was active in leftist politics and worked as a stockbroker.

After their marriage, Richard and Sabina were converted to Christ in 1938, chiefly because of the influence of a German carpenter, Christian Wölfkes. They joined the Anglican Mission to the Jews in Bucharest. Richard was ordained, first as an Anglican, and then after World War II as a Lutheran minister.

During World War II, Richard and Sabina saw an opportunity for evangelism among the occupying German forces. They preached in the bomb shelters and rescued Jewish children out of the ghettos. Richard and Sabina were repeatedly arrested and beaten and, at least once, nearly executed. Sabina lost her Jewish family in Nazi concentration camps.

In 1945 Romanian Communists seized power and a million "invited" Russian troops poured into the country. Pastor Wurmbrand ministered to his oppressed countrymen and engaged in bold evangelism to the Russian soldiers..........

read more at Persecution.com link
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Richard was considered a modern day Paul the Apostle much like Dumitru Duduman. Both men were considered among the greatest heroes of the faith to live in this century. Richard Wurmbrand is the author of Marx & Satan. In his book he exposes the truth about satanism inside the Communist Party - he and Dumitru Duduman are greatly despised by the Communists to this very day - even after their deaths! What a testimony!

 

[Dude111]

This is a very nice thread,thank you sweetheart!

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Another Hero of the Faith - Brother Andrew - The Bible Smuggler - another close friend of Dumitru Duduman's - Michael Boldea Jr.'s grandfather. To this day the Communists cannot stand to hear even the names of these humble servants of God mentioned! What a great company of Believers! Heroes of the Faith!

Brother Andrew's Story | Open Doors USA

God led Andrew into a lifetime of adventures, like the one he describes below:

During the height of the Cold War, Communist countries were keeping a tight control on their borders, but God had called Brother Andrew to help the Christians behind that Iron Curtain.
"When I pulled up to the checkpoint on the other side of the Danube, I said to myself, "Well, I'm in luck. Only half a dozen cars. This Romanian border crossing should go swiftly."
"But when it took forty minutes to inspect the first car, I began to worry...literally everything that family was carrying had to be taken out and spread on the ground.
"Every car in line was put through the same routine. The fourth inspection lasted well over an hour. The guards took the driver inside and kept him there while they removed hub caps, took his engine apart, removed seats.

"Dear Lord," I said, as at last there was just one car ahead of me, "what am I going to do? Any serious inspection will show up these Romanian Bibles right away.
"Lord," I went on, "I know that no amount of cleverness on my part can get me through this border search. Dare I ask for a miracle? Let me take some of the Bibles out and leave them in the open where they will be seen. Then, Lord I cannot possibly be depending on my own stratagems, can I? I will be depending utterly upon You."

Brother Andrews full story can be found at link - Open Doors Ministry..

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Another Hero of the Faith still Preaching the Gospel today - Michael Boldea Jr. - grandson of Dumitru Duduman who began his ministry to the Lord at the age of 12 as a translator for his grandfather, Dumitru Duduman who spoke Romanian.

Hand of Help Ministries - About Michael Boldea

Mike Boldea was born in a small northern Romanian Village. At the age of nine, his entire family was deported from Romania for smuggling Bibles. His grandfather, Dumitru Duduman started an outreach ministry called "Hand of Help" of which Mike is now Chairman.
Mike has traveled internationally with Dumitru for over 11 years acting as Dumitru’s translator. They shared their testimonies, as well as an important message God gave Dumitru for the United States.
Recently Mike has translated the book entitled "Life In Christ" which Dumitru had penned prior to his death. The testimonies of those that were persecuted for their faith must live on to build up the body of Christ. Mike continues to operate in his gift as an Evangelist to exhort the body of Christ to present itself with a garment clean before our Lord.

Michael has a strong Christian heritage coming from a line of 4 generations of Christians. In the village of Hinceste Romania his Great grandfather was one of the first Christians converted there and his grandfather was a pastor and his father pastors the "Messiah" church in Botosani Romania with over 800 members. Their family worked with Richard Wurmbrandt, Harlan Popoff, and brother Andrew taking bibles to the underground Church.
Michael has seen the presence of God in accomplishing the work that his family was called to. In the face of great persecution and opposition thousands of bibles were given to the Christians of Romania even though it was punishable by imprisonment if caught. His grandfather Dumitru Duduman did suffer greatly being imprisoned for his faith. Under extreme torture he never recanted his faith and stands as a witness of faithfulness to this day in Romania.

 

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Non-profit organization serving Persecuted Christians Suffering Church

This is the link to Door of Hope International - Founder - Harlan Popov

The name Haralan I. Popov is deeply revered around the world. He has become a symbol of Christian courage to millions whose faith continues to be under attack by oppressive governments and religious extremists.

Born in Bulgaria, a land called “Little Russia,” he was the pastor of the largest Protestant church in the nation, and was one of his country’s foremost spiritual leaders. After the Communist occupation of Bulgaria, his very prominence as a devoted Christian brought him severe physical and spiritual torture at the hands of the Soviet KGB and their Bulgarian puppets.

In 16 different prisons and slave camps, Pastor Popov continued his work for God despite the suffering he knew he might have to endure. After the miracle of surviving 13 years and two months in Communist prisons, he was finally released. Despite threats of re-arrest, he continued organizing secret church services and Bible teachings because the official church had been infiltrated and had fallen under total Communist control.

Later, with the help of his family living in Sweden and many praying Christians, he was miraculously given permission to reunite with them after 15 years of separation. From there he focused all his energy to awaken society to the plight and the needs of imprisoned Christians suffering for their faith.
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Harlan Popov was a very close friend of Dumitru Duduman's as well. His ministry carries on today as does Duduman's and Richard Wurmbrand's. These humble servants of Christ were greatly feared by the Communists - even after their deaths - they are still greatly feared. What a testimony!

 

[HenryBHough]

Throw a dime upon the drum and you'll be saved! (song title from the good old days)

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Not these servants of God, Henry. Not one of them every preached for filthy lucre. They all did time in Communist prisons - many years - tortured for Christ - their life stories are documented, they smuggled millions of bibles into communist nations -never stopped preaching inside communist nations when under threat of death to themselves and their families - their ministries live on today. These men are greatly despised by the communists because they lived holy lives and did not compromise. They did not preach for money like so many preachers do today. I do believe that America's churches have already been infiltrated by the communists and that is why the true Gospel is no longer preached in so many churches here.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Communist Goals - 1963 Congressional Record

Here is the list of Communist goals to take over America. Infitrating the churches is no. 27. See for yourself, Henry.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

This is one of the ways we can identify the Churches taken over by the communists / socialists. They preach a "social" religion. Jesus is not mentioned, instead they use the name "God" and leave Jesus Christ and the Gospel out of their message line.

They are always introducing some new "idea", new "teaching", new age philosphy which has nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and replaces truth with lies. There is no message of suffering, persecution or Christ crucified in their sermons.

It is very subtle how it happened - I first noticed the infiltation of new age philosophy and socialism and the tolerating of a Jezebel spirit within the mainstream churches perhaps 15 - 20 years ago. It was about that time they stopped preaching holiness, repentance, obedience to Christ, keeping the commandments and replaced it with a new teaching that there is no such thing as repentance and grace covers everything.

I have even met Communist pastors who do not believe in Christ and teach the wealth and prosperity gospel in order to gain huge crowds. They preach a false Christ and very few are the wiser. I am told their main agenda is to collect the names of all the christians in the community, their locations, where they hold their prayer meetings, etc. They are basically the spies within the church. If any christian within their church begins to speak up and expose the false teachings they are targeted for slander and persecution.

 

[daws101]

False Prophets and False Teachers | Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

 

[Chuckt]

A Critique of Dumitru Duduman's False Prophecies of America by Lori Eldridge

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[Chuckt]

False Prophets and False Teachers | Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

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[theword]

This Music Video Song is probably the most important message the Church of today could hear and see. After just reading the Book of Hebrews and what the early church suffered I was amazed to find this song this today. The Message is powerful. The title is called Stand for What you Stand for. Watch this:

Stand For What You Stand For - YouTube

We saints weren't used by God to find sinners to listen to. God chose believers ( sinners ) to listen to the gospel ( voice of God ) that we preach to them. Unbelievers ( religious Christians, Romans and Jews ) were chosen by our God to reject the gospel and have us saints killed.

Revelation 6
9: When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne;

Christian sinners need other Christian sinners to help them support their lies ( buying and selling in the beast ). We saints are all alone in our destined preaching of the only true gospel that exists, which is the voice of God where our Creator can be heard by believers. Most Christian sinners weren't chosen to be believers during this first age before it's destroyed by us.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Here is a great hero of the faith. Her name is Corrie Ten Boom and she and her family hid the Jews from the Germans and also worked the underground saving young boys also. They did a very great work for the LORD and later were arrested and taken to the the death camps. Corrie survived and continued on in her work for the LORD until she went to on to be with Him in heaven. This is her story about the Secret Room.


[ame=http://youtu.be/KA3i71G-A1g]Corrie Ten-Boom The secret Room (Full Length) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Another Hero of the faith.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Official homepage

Apr. 9, 1945 - Bonhoeffer (age 39) hanged at Flossenburg; Dohnanyi killed at the Sachsenhausen Camp; one of four members of his immediate family to die at the hands of the Nazi regime for their participation in the small Protestant resistance movement - two sons (Dietrich and Klaus) and two sons-in-law (Hans von Dohnanyi and Rudiger Schleicher).
The letters he wrote during these final two years of his life were posthumously published by his student and friend, Eberhard Bethge, as Letters and Papers from Prison.