MARTURIA

Read: Acts 5: 38-42

And we are witnesses of all things, we and the Holy Spirit, which is God given to all who obey Him (acts 5: 32)

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Bible in a year: 2 Samuel 19-21

The word "witness" in Biblical language Indonesia we are direct translations of the word martus Greece language or martur. This word means someone stating what she can see, hear, or know about. The word is also derived the word martyr in the United Kingdom, which means a person who carries the testimony through his death. Witness and martyrdom has its roots and history that very closely.
Nowadays, the term "testify" associated with activities to communicate the Gospel privately. At the time of the Bible, which was one of his story we read in part, "testify" is more of a statement in public in the middle of the challenge and persecution. Believers arrested, insulted, threatened, on trial, disesah, persecuted. Instead of being difficult, they just may suffer because Christ rejoices (paragraph 41). Instead of stopping, they continue to teach and preach the Gospel every day (v. 42). History records that the recognition and the sacrifices people trust at first this greatly affects people at that time. Kink in their suffering also establish how bernilainya their truth preached. It could be that this would later cause many priests also gave himself up and believe (6: 7).
The Church is called to continue to be a witness to the ends of the Earth, until all the tribes received a Royal Highness preaching of the Gospel. The previous generation, the Apostles and the early Church, has given the example of fidelity to our follow. May the generations after us will also find us faithful in the same struggle and obedience. -JOO

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