I be if we took these people a dropped them of in getto of houston theyd want a gun then.. its one thing to say you wouldnt defend yourself but its a whole new ball game if you actually find yourself in w life or death situation... dont get me wrong its great that yall wanna just live a life of peace but i think its kind of a niaive view... you may be able to go your whole life without being in a life or death sitiuation but milions of other people aint so lucky.
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So here we go. the getto looks like a ten yearold party if compared to the townships of South Africa in the Apartheid years. Even today with the Zenophobia, and the ungovernable gangster areas in and around cape-town, people set other's on fire just because the police cannot control the area. But it was not as bad as in the nineties.
And in those years I went into the heart of the biggest township in South Africa.... To go show the Jesus film on a soccer-field surrounded by more than a million angry black people. As we set up the film projector, generator, speakers and screen, two "impis" that is warriors of the township walked up to me, and asked me.... "Hey BOER, What do you think you are doing here?" And the one had his hand behind his back. As the other one stood in front of me and doing the talking the one with the knife, I assumed it was a knife, stoof about 45 degrees behind me. He had "DEATH" in his eyes and the other one a little bit of doubt. But just before we set up we prayed for His protection.
I looked the talker streight in the eyes, as he seemed to be the captain, and said.... "As soon as it is dark, we will show a movie with all the words translated into Suthu, so why doy you two not come back and watch the movie. If you think then that you still want to kill me, you may, I will put up no fight!" The captain looked at the other fella and shook his head in a NO manner. The other one looked a bit dissappointed and as they walked of he still pleaded to the captain to let him do it, but the captain used a bit more authority in his voice and the impi just walked off with the captain.
I had NOT even a thought that harm would come our way, let alone thinking what I would use in my defence. Faith does this to a person.... It gived you peace, and assurance, and TRUST no matter what! God said He sent His people as lambs into and amongst wolves, but they should not fear... HE IS WITH THEM and HE IS THE GOOD SHEPARD... HE WILL NOT RUN WHEN THE WOLVES COME FOR ONE OF HIS SHEEP...
A person that needs to defend himself does not have faith! PERIOD. And should a person suffer at the hands of the EVIL ones, for GOD'S Name sake, it is not a gain to defend, but to suffer. Timothy says it best...
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
As we know a lot of this persecution leads to the Godly man's death. When they sticked and whipped Paul, did he resist ONCE? Nope! Wonder why? God said he shall suffer much for His Name sake, just like ALL who live Godly in Christ.
I cannot think that anything else but God's will, will be done in the life of a godly man. Come the time when the other want to harm him, God will be there and that godly man will NOT, NOT DO THIS.
See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
God says unto ALL MEN, does that mean even the ones that wants to harm me, or kill me? YEP!!!! Doubt not that you will do this, FOR HE WILL STRENGTHEN YOU IN THIS AS WELL!!!!