Luke 24: 45-48 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.48 You are witnesses of these things.
Matthew 28:18-20 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Acts 1:8 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
About are the verses of the Great Commission. I do not see preach to all people except for: Homosexuals, Muslims, Atheists, and so on. All means all people. It doesn't matter what language you search ALL MEANS ALL.
The Great Commission is also to be carried out even at the risk or injury and even death. This preacher suffered for the Name that is above all names doing what His Lord and my Lord commands His children to do. Are not homosexuals also in need of salvation or is that something to be reserved for "lesser" sins like murder, theft, adultery, and so on?
How many missionaries have sacrificed everything, even there own lives to bring the Word of God to a lost and hurting world. Should they have not "bothered" those people? Should they have left them to die in their sin and face judgement? To those seeming to applaud the actions of the people that beat this preacher, should we leave you to die in yours knowing full well what happens to a person still lost to sin?
You say this man of God shouldn't have bothered them. The Apostles bothered the Sanhedrin by preaching Jesus in the Temple courts, should they not have bothered the Sanhedrin too?
My response to such people comes strait from Scripture so if you have a problem with it, take it up with the Author of all Scripture: Acts 1:19 19 But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!
In Christ,
Bishop SEH