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There is no greater love than one who lays his life down for one's friends. John 15:12

Recently I was watching the link from Voice of the Martyrs, persecution.tv. In one video in India a pastor was beaten by a mob. In another video I watched a tv camera follow a group of militant Hindus in to the home of a pastor and his family. They accused him of forced conversions and then beat him with their fists, rods, and feet, all while the camera was rolling.

The news footage of the incident was broadcast on another network, displayed the story as an outrage by any community. A blemish on the broadcast company and the militants who did this. The world may cry out that this was terrible what happened to this pastor in his home before his family. A mob of masked men, armed with wood and steel rods forced their way into a mans home, past his terrifed wife and daughter. They accused him of converting local Hindus from their religion to Christianity. As they began accusing they began beating him. The man never fought back or retaliated. He did not try to defend himself. He raised his hands up in supplication to the attackers. Circling his prone body on the floor, they yelled and beat him visciously. He began to cry out the name of JESUS. A name and its meaning understood in almost any language. A name these militant Hindu men understood only too well. That is why they were beating the pastor in his home in front of his family. This at first was just another broadcast of a Christian being persectued for spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As I watched the Holy Spirit told me to not just see these beatings the way the world viewed beatings or even murder. Our brothers and sisters suffer to the point of death for love. To carry the message of Christ's love for us all. Just as Christ bore the shame, degradation, torture and death for us, our brothers and sisters, carry this message in their suffering to point to the sacrifice of Christ for us all. As I prayed, the Holy Spirit revealed to me tonight that that these are not beatings, but sermons that the persecutors would never hear except when our Christian brothers and sister sacrifice themselves. In suffering this pastor called out the name "JESUS!" for love for those men who were beating him!
12 There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12
There is no way these masked men would ever set foot in a church to hear the message of salvation. The pastors sermon to these men cost him the safety of his home, his family, a beating on his body, and almost his life. In his moment of trial he called out the very name they came to beat him for. With his body on the sacrifical altar he shared with him the very reason why he would die for them...JESUS.
There is not greater love than to lay down one's life for one' friends. John 15:13
The man answered, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind. And, 'Love your neighbor as yourself." Luke 10:27
This pastor knows that Jesus laid down his life for him. He loves God for that. Having received such a gift of love through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, he now longs to sacrifice himself before others to show what Christ did for him. I want to understand...