"Repent means to return. What should I return to? To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?" he asked.
"To the religion of your ancestors, Islam," the judge reportedly replied.
"I cannot," Nadarkhani responded.
Ping
FWIW, think of this Pastor's faith the next time you hesitate to explain The Gospel.
May the Presence of the Lord surround him and his loved ones, so that there is no doubt as to the reality of the one and only true and living God.
This pastor is such an inspiration. I just heard that there is an unconfirmed report that the death sentence has been overturned (http://aclj.org/iran/breaking-christian-pastor-death-sentence-overturned). I wish I knew if it would help to write letters to someone about it. Does anyone know? I’ve heard that we need to keep the pressure on Ahmadinijab, but where and how?
This is a true hero, a true martyr. Not a watered down “heroes” that US papers talk about or an Islamic zealot who perverts the word “martyr” by claiming to be one by killing people.
Just sent the following to DRUDGE. It needs to be posted there big time.
Where is zero?
Pastor again refuses to recant as pressure builds on Iran to halt execution
Iran is under increasing pressure from leaders around the world to halt the execution of Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who on Wednesday refused for the fourth and final time to recant his faith and could be executed at any time.
In the U.S., Speaker of the House John Boehner released a statement urging Iran to spare the pastor’s life and release him. Overseas, British Foreign Secretary William Hague also called on Iran to overturn the sentence.
Observers say external pressure could be critical in preventing the Iranian government from performing its first apostasy execution since 1990.
Arrested in 2009, Nadarkhani was told by an Iranian court this year that he would be executed unless he converted to Islam. The court gave him four chances to recant Christianity, and he refused to do so on four consecutive days this week, the final being Wednesday,...
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=36211
If they murder this innocent man, then it would be my pleasure if somehow a big old bomb winds up right in the middle of the Imam’s mosque that charged him, or the court that sentenced him. Ka-Boom...one strike for freedom from this death cult...Ka-Boom...one strike for justice for the innocent.
Here is Spirit's intercession promise for us for today's prayers, for this grace believer saint:
Romans 8:26: Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Romans 8:27: And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
II Corinthians 1:3: Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
II Corinthians 1:4: Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Ephesians 1:2: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Ephesians 1:4: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ephesians 1:5: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians 1:6: To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Ephesians 1:7: In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 1:8: Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Ephesians 1:9: Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Ephesians 1:10: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Ephesians 1:11: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Ephesians 1:12: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Ephesians 1:13: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 1:14: Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
rev 6:9
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
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And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
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And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
First religion of his ancestors was paganism and animism. Christ predated the Moon Rock pedophile by nearly 7 centuries