Would You Study The Bible If You Got Hung For It?

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How much is the word of God worth to me and would I be willing to die to be able to read it? This is the question I ask myself. And should the time come when I risk death to read God's word, I hope I have the faith and love for God's word that this maidservant had.

September 7, 2010
Would You Study the Bible If You Got Hung For It?

In the sixteenth century, King Philip II took a hard line against those who would try to interpret Scripture for themselves. Anyone found studying the Bible during this time was hanged, burned at the stake, drowned, torn in pieces, or buried alive.

The inquisitors from the king were sent to inspect the house of the mayor of Brugge to see if any Bible studies were taking place there. In their search, they discovered a Bible. All present denied knowing anything about it. Then a young maidservant came in. When asked about the Bible, she declared, “I am reading it!”

The mayor sought to defend her saying, “Oh, no, she doesn’t know how to read.”

But the maidservant did not wish to be defended by a lie. “It is true, this book is mine. I am reading from it, and it is more precious to me than anything!”

She was sentenced to die by suffocation, sealed in the city wall. Just before her execution, she was asked by an official, “So young and beautiful and yet to die?”

She replied, “My Savior died for me. I will also die for him.”

When finally one single brick remained to complete the wall, she was told again, “Repent! Just say a single word of repentance!”

Instead she voiced her single desire to be with Jesus and added, “O Lord, forgive my killers!”

To some it is simply a book—a bestseller for years running at that. To others it is merely a family tradition—given at weddings, births, and funerals. Still to others, it is God’s holy and inspired Word. These believers cling to the words as if they were letters from a lover, pouring over them again and again. What do they see in the truth of God’s Word? What makes them willing to risk death to read it? Ask God for the answer. If its truths remain a mystery to you, ask God to open your eyes to see his words more clearly. Without his help, the words will remain marks on a page. But God can bring them to life.

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How much is the word of God worth to me and would I be willing to die to be able to read it? This is the question I ask myself. And should the time come when I risk death to read God's word, I hope I have the faith and love for God's word that this maidservant had.

September 7, 2010
Would You Study the Bible If You Got Hung For It?

In the sixteenth century, King Philip II took a hard line against those who would try to interpret Scripture for themselves. Anyone found studying the Bible during this time was hanged, burned at the stake, drowned, torn in pieces, or buried alive.

The inquisitors from the king were sent to inspect the house of the mayor of Brugge to see if any Bible studies were taking place there. In their search, they discovered a Bible. All present denied knowing anything about it. Then a young maidservant came in. When asked about the Bible, she declared, “I am reading it!”

The mayor sought to defend her saying, “Oh, no, she doesn’t know how to read.”

But the maidservant did not wish to be defended by a lie. “It is true, this book is mine. I am reading from it, and it is more precious to me than anything!”

She was sentenced to die by suffocation, sealed in the city wall. Just before her execution, she was asked by an official, “So young and beautiful and yet to die?”

She replied, “My Savior died for me. I will also die for him.”

When finally one single brick remained to complete the wall, she was told again, “Repent! Just say a single word of repentance!”

Instead she voiced her single desire to be with Jesus and added, “O Lord, forgive my killers!”

To some it is simply a book—a bestseller for years running at that. To others it is merely a family tradition—given at weddings, births, and funerals. Still to others, it is God’s holy and inspired Word. These believers cling to the words as if they were letters from a lover, pouring over them again and again. What do they see in the truth of God’s Word? What makes them willing to risk death to read it? Ask God for the answer. If its truths remain a mystery to you, ask God to open your eyes to see his words more clearly. Without his help, the words will remain marks on a page. But God can bring them to life.

Christian Persecution Blog: Would You Study the Bible If You Got Hung For It?

Good thoughts. We in America are very fortunate to be allowed to read the Bible with pursecution , anyone read or see the movie "The Hiding Place" a story about Corrie Ten Boon and he family in the Nazi concentration Camps. How her and her sister managed to conceal a small New Testament Bible pass the German Gaurds with God's help. Knowing if they where caught mutilating of arms and even death would occur. I was told of a girl in China conducted bible study in her home with just one page of the Gospel, because it would be easy to conceal when police would search for the Word of God, How the people in the Bible Study treasured that one page. The chinese pastor who was tortured for refusing to denonce Christ. Each time he refused they would chop a finger off, and they choped all his fingers off. There are many stories of this happening in oppressed countries. Mainly those in government posistions know the Gospel is true, and in many cases could cause a revolt. In the early churches many times only the clergy was allowed to interprpret the Gospel, I think in many of those cases was to keep truth from the people they are supposed to serve. Those who dared to make the Gospel available to the common man were burnt at the stake, their land taken by the church, families forced into servetude, Some of these churches are held in high esteem today by the world. Yes we owe much to The Lord for the priviledges we enjoy here in America, how well the church in America could stand up to such pursecution remains questionable.
 

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That would be hard to answer.

First, I get up to 8 hours a day in the word, so I'd miss it terribly if I couldn't. However, I do have many days sprinkled here and there where I don't get into it. After years of this, there is a familiarity with the whole of it that is hard to explain to those who are not so fortunate as to get so much time in it.

Often the Lord just brings scripture to mind for me, and I can meditate on it, so reading it or hearing it is not an issue for me.

For that reason, I probably not on a regular basis read it, due to the familiarity with it, yet I'd really miss it then, so I don't know. If I absolutely couldn't even get my hands on it, or hear it, for years, that'd be fine, too, as God speaks to His children, and He brings to mind His word even when I'm not "in it". This is a constant thing, so I don't really know what I'd do. I'd cross that bridge when I came to it. But I really don't think that it would be all that big a deal for me, as I wouldn't be starved for His word which is in me due to so many years in it for so many hours.