In a day where most hold such little regard for God's Word; where even many of God's own have yet to learn of its worth, today's post is a wonderful reminder of its intrinsic value. Oh the immeasurable height, depth, and the breadth of God's word. It has cost many wonderful Saints their precious lives in order that future generations have God's Word in their hands, to read with their own eyes and to understand it....let us also contemplate the cost of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we might have His Father's Word living in our hearts.
"Let it not make thee despair, neither yet discourage thee, O reader, that it is forbidden thee in pain of life and goods, or that it is made breaking of the king's peace, or treason unto his highness, to read the Word of thy soul's health—for if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes."
-- William Tyndale
William Tyndale could speak seven languages and was
proficient in ancient Hebrew and Greek. He was a man whose intellectual gifts
and disciplined life could have taken him a long way in the church—had he not
had one compulsion: to teach English men and women the good news of
justification by faith.
Tyndale was tried for heresy and in early August 1536,
Tyndale was condemned as a heretic, and delivered to the secular authorities
for punishment.
He was brought to the cross in the middle of the town square
and given a chance to recant. That refused, he was given a moment to pray.
English historian John Foxe said he cried out, "Lord, open the King of England's
eyes!"
Then he was bound to the beam, and both an iron chain and a
rope were put around his neck. Gunpowder was added to the brush and logs. At
the signal of a local official, the executioner, standing behind Tyndale,
quickly tightened the noose, strangling him. Then an official took up a lighted
torch and handed it to the executioner, who set the wood ablaze.
How do we respond to so great a sacrifice?
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How do we respond to so great a sacrifice?
