A letter from Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani

Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani is facing execution for apostasy in Iran. He wrote this letter from prison in January 2011, a few months after receiving the written verdict confirming his death sentence. He remains imprisoned in Rasht, under threat of an execution that could happen any time.
 13/03/2012

"Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2

When someone internalizes the revelation of the Truth, he will be willing to share it with others and future generations. We are indebted to the people who, in the past, fought for the Truth, allowing us to have access to this glorious revelation of Jesus Christ. These believers understood the richness and the beauty of the revelation and they were ready to fight in order to pass down the fruit of the revelation.

How can we bear similar fruit for eternal life? It depends on the way we choose. First we have to close our ears to the voice of the darkness as it is written in the first psalm:

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. Psalm 1:1

The second thing is to open our ears to the Voice of the Spirit speaking through the Word of God, as it is written:

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:2 the rest

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