"Losing Jesus' Language"

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Shlama Akhay Paul & Dan,

God has been bringing the Assyrian peoples and their language to the attention of the West via Mel Gibson and the toppling of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. I was greatly encouraged with the response of Assyrians and Muslims in Iraq turning to the churches there for prayer , encouragement and the gospel message recently.

The West has been sinfully ignorant and negligent of Eastern Christendom and its peoples for two millennia;
may God forgive us and restore us to understanding, love and unity with each other , East and West , and thus with Himself , for what we have done to one of these His brethren, we have done it unto Him.

The devil is very angry, "for he knows his time is short" (See Rev. 12:12). See how many nations have reacted to U.S. victory in Iraq over Saddam and over Bin Ladin in Afghanistan.

We in the West who have liberty must use that liberty to aid and support our brothers in bondage "as being bound with them" , for "if one member of the body suffers, the whole body suffers with it". The body of Christ is East and West, North and South. There are no boundaries, except to the very narrow minds of some.

We are living in great times, and we are playing a part for good. May we always take the Lord's side and see His hand at work in our time, unlike the Pharisees of the first century
who did not understand their times ,and that The Lord God had become flesh and stood before them !

What a fearful prospect it is to call oneself His friend while being truly His enemy at heart who would murder Him with mockery , pride and hate, condemning Him as a heretic and deceiver.

I praise Him for His mercy and longsuffering toward us. I thank Him for not requiting evil with evil , but overcoming evil with good.

I look for His glory to increase in the world as Satan goes down into the abyss kicking and screaming, bound hand and foot.

Amen & Amen,


Dave Bauscher