Ten Shekels and a Shirt
Paris Riedhead
And today I
would like to speak to you from the theme, "Ten Shekels and a Shirt",
as we find it here in Judges Chapter 17. I’ll read the chapter and then I will
read a portion also from the 18th to the 19th chapter as the background might
be clear in our minds. "And there was a man of
Judges 17:1- 18:6
And there was a man of
And he said unto his mother, "The eleven hundred shekels of silver that
were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with
me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be thou of the Lord, my
son."
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother,
his mother said, "I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my
hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore I
will restore it unto thee."
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred
shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven
image and a molten image; and they were in the house of Micah.
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an
ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons,
who became his priest.
In those days, there was no king in
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-Judah, of the family of
And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehem-Judah to sojourn where he
could find a place. And he came to
And Micah said unto him, "Whence comest
thou?" And he said unto him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem-Judah, and I
go to sojourn where I may find a place."
And Micah said unto him, "Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest,
and I will give the ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel,
and thy victuals." So the Levite went in.
And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and
the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was
in the house of Micah.
Then said Micah, "Now know I that the Lord will
do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of
valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol,
to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, "Go,
search the land"; who when they came to Mount Ephraim, to the house of
Micah, they lodged there.
When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the
Levite; and they turned in thither, and said unto him, "Who brought thee
hither? And what makest thou in this place? And what
hast thou here?"
And he said unto them, "Thus and thus dealeth
Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest."
And they said unto him, "Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may
know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."
And the priest said unto them, "Go in peace; before the Lord is your way
wherein ye go."
Judges 18:14
Then the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, "Do ye know that
there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and
a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what ye have to
do."
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man, the
Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the
children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither,
and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim,
and the molten image; and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the
six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and
the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, "What do ye?"
And they said unto him, "Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth,
and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest; is it better for thee to be
a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a
family in Israel?"
And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of
the people.
So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the
carriage before them.
Well, there’s the story. This isn’t part of the actual history of the Judges,
this is a gathering together of some accounts that enable us to see the social
condition in that period when every man did as seemed right in his own eyes and
there was no king in
But you see, nevertheless, there was a desire to get along as best he could. So
he took a little bit of the world and a little bit of
So this young man didn’t like the living, and every Levite was provided for, but
he had wanderlust and an itching foot and so he started off to see if he
couldn’t do better for himself that was being done. He felt that being a Levite
was good, but there should be opportunities associated with it, and so he came
to the house of Micah. There he waited and there he was invited in and asked to
become the priest. And Micah made a deal with him. He said, "If you’ll be
my priest, be my father and priest, then I’ll give you ten shekels and a
shirt" It says a "suit", but you understand that the people of
the day wore what would be called a gelavia, a long
sort of an outsize, well I was going to say a nightgown, I don’t know if that
is exactly what it is but it is appropriate at least, something like that. And
he gave him a suit of clothes or a change of apparel and his food and ten
shekels a year.
This was pretty good living for him and so he decided that he would stay there
and enter into the mixture of idolatry and so on that was in the house of
Micah. But the people of Dan came along, they were suppose to have driven out
the Amorites, but the Amorites were too difficult, and they wanted to find
someone that was a little easier to get out. And they came to, as you’ve read,
to Micah’s house and the Levite told them to go ahead. Then you find that they
discovered that there were people after the manner of the Zidonians
at Laish. They were peaceful and no one was there to
protect them, and so they figure this would be a very good place to take some
land for themselves. When they came with the men that
were sent to conquer this area they figured that since they found the land
through the young Levite, it would be splendid to have his assistance.
And so they went into the house of Micah, took all the things that he had made
and it cost a good bit of money, because at least two hundred shekels had been
given for this one piece of furniture. And so they just took it all, made it
theirs and took the Levite. Rather hard on Micah, but you’ll notice the young
Levite was able to adjust himself to this. It was amazing how flexible he was
and how easily he could accommodate himself to such changes when there was a
little rationalization along the way - As soon as he could begin to see that it
was far more important to serve a tribe than one man’s family. And he could
minister to so many more, why he could see the wisdom of this and he could
justify it. With no real strain of conscious he could make the adjustment, hold
his hand over his mouth while they took the furniture out of the little chapel
that Micah had built. But he was a wise man nonetheless, rather than go along
at the front which put him in a place of danger or at the rear which put him in
a place of danger, I say he was a wise man, he put himself right in the middle.
So that if Micah had sent any of his servants to get him he
was safe with soldiers on every side.
What can we call this and how will it apply to our days
generation? Would I be out of line if I were to talk to you for a little while
about utilitarian religion and expedient Christianity? And a
youthful God? I would like to call attention to the fact that our day is
a day which the ruling philosophy is pragmatism. You understand what I mean by
pragmatism. Pragmatism means if it works it’s true –
if is succeeds it’s good. And the test of all practices, all principles, all
truth, so called all teaching, is do they work? Do they work? Now – according
to pragmatism, the greatest failures of the ages have been some of the men God
has honored most.
For instance, whereas Noah was a mighty good ship builder, his main occupation
wasn’t ship building, it was preaching. He was a terrible failure as a
preacher. His wife and three children and their wives are all he had. Seven
converts in 120 years you wouldn’t call particularly effective. Most mission
boards would have asked the missionaries to withdraw long before this. I say as
a ship builder he did quite well, but as a preacher, he was a failure. And then
we come down across the years to another man by the name of Jeremiah. He was a
might effective preacher, but ineffective as far as results were concerned. If
you were to measure statistically how successful Jeremiah was, he would
probably get a large cipher. For we find that he lost out with the people, he
lost out with royalty, even the ministerial association voted against him and
wouldn’t have anything to do with him. He had everything fail. The only one he
seemed able to please was God……but otherwise he was a distinct failure. And
then we come to another well known person, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was a
failure from judging all the standards. He never succeeded in organizing a
church or denomination. He wasn’t able to build a school. He didn’t succeed in
getting a mission board established. He never had a book printed. He never was
able to get any of the various criteria or instruments that we find and are so
useful; I’m not being sarcastic at all, they are useful. And our Lord preached
for three years, healed thousands of people, fed thousands of people, and yet
when it was all over there were 120….500 to whom he
could have revealed Himself after His resurrection. And the day that He was
taken, one man said, "If all the others forsake you, I’m willing to die
for you." He looked at this one and said, "Peter, you don’t know your
own heart. You’re going to deny me three times before the cock crows this
morning." So all men forsook Him and fled. By every standard of our
generation or any generation, our Lord was a single failure.
The question comes then to this, what is the standard of success and by what
are we going to judge our lives and our ministry? And the question that you are
going to ask yourself, "Is God an end or is He a
means?" And you have to decide very early in your Christian life whether
you’re viewing God as an end or a means. Our generation is prepared to honor
with single honor anyone that’s successful regardless of whether they settled
this problem or not. As long as they can get things done or get the job done,
or, "It’s working, isn’t it?", then our generation is prepared to say,
"Well, you’ve got to reckon with this."
And so we’ve got to ask ourselves at the very outset of our ministry, and our
pilgrimage, and our walk, "Are we going to be Levites who serve God for
ten shekels and a shirt?" Serve men perhaps in the name of God, rather
than God. For though he was a Levite and performed religious
activities, he was looking for a place. A place which would give him
recognition, a place which would give him acceptance, a place which would give
him security, a place where he could shine in terms of those values which were
important to him. His whole business was serving in religious activities so it
had to be a religious job. He was very happy when he found that Micah had an
opening. But he had decided that he was worth ten shekels and a shirt, and he
was prepared to sell himself to anyone that would give that much. If somebody
came along and gave more, he would sell himself to them. But he put a value
upon himself and he figured his religious service and his activities were just
a means to an end and by the same token God was a means to an end.
Now in order to understand the implications of that in the twentieth century,
we’ve got to go back 150, 100 years at least, to a conflict that attacked
Christianity. Just after the great revivals in
Well, what was the effect of this? The philosophy of the day became humanism.
And you could define humanism this way: Humanism is a philosophical statement
that declares the end of all being is the happiness of man. The reason for
existence is man’s happiness. Now according to humanism, salvation is simply a
matter of getting all the happiness you can, out of life. If you’re influenced
by someone like Nietzsche, who says that "The only true satisfaction in
life is power and that the power is its own justification", and that after
all, the world is a jungle. And it is therefore up to the man to be happy, to
become powerful, and become powerful by any means he can use. For it is only in
this position of ascendancy or as we saw in the worship of Molech
that one can be happy. This would produce in due course, a Hitler who would
take the philosophy of Nietzsche as his working, operating, principles and
guide, and would say of his people, that, "We are destined to rule the
world." Therefore any means that we can use to achieve this is our
salvation.
Somebody else turns around and says, "Well, no. The end of being is
happiness, but happiness doesn’t come from authority over people, happiness
comes from sensual experience." So you would have the type of existentialism
that characterizes
Now religion then had to exist because there were so many people that made
their living at it, so they had to find some way to justify their existence. So
back about the time in 1850, the church divided into two groups. The one group
was the liberals, who accepted the philosophy of the humanism and tried to find
some relevance by saying something like this to their generation, "Ha,
Ha….we don’t know there’s a heaven; we don’t know there’s a hell. But we do
know this – that you’ve got to live for 70 years! We
know there’s a great deal of benefit from poetry, from high thoughts and noble
aspirations. Therefore it’s important for you to come to church on Sunday, so
that we can read some poetry, that we can give you
some little adages and axioms and rules to live by. We can’t say anything about
what’s going to happen when you die, but we’ll tell you this, if you’ll come
every week and pay and help and stay with us, we’ll put springs on your wagon
and your trip will be more comfortable. We can’t guarantee anything about what’s
going to happen when you die, but we say that if you come along with us, we’ll
make you happier while you’re alive." And so this became the essence of
liberalism. It has simply nothing more than to try and put a little sugar in
the bitter coffee of their journey and sweeten it up for a time. This is all
that it could say.
Well now, the philosophy of the atmosphere is humanism; the chief end of being
is the happiness of man. There’s another group of people that have taken hum bridge with the liberals; this group are my people, the
fundamentalists. They say, "We believe in the inspiration of the Bible! We
believe in the deity of Jesus Christ! We believe in hell! We believe in heaven!
We believe in heaven! We believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ!"
But remember, the atmosphere is that of humanism. And humanism says the chief
end of being is the happiness of man. Humanism is like a miasma out of a pit;
it just permeates everyplace. Humanism is lie an
infection, an epidemic – it just goes everywhere. So it wasn’t long until we
had this, that the fundamentalists knew each other because they said, "We
believe these things!" They were men for the most part that had met God.
But you see, it wasn’t long until having said,
"These are the things that establish us as fundamentalists!" The
second generation said, "This is how we become a fundamentalist! Believe
the inspiration of the Bible! Believe in the deity of Christ! Believe in His
death, burial, and resurrection! And thereby become a fundamentalist!" And
so it wasn’t long until it got to our generation, where the whole plan of
salvation was to give intellectual assent to a few statements of doctrine. And
a person was considered a Christian because he could say, "Ah hah" at
four or five places that he was asked. If he knew where to say "Ah
hah", someone would pat him on the back, shake his hand, smile broadly,
and say, "Brother, you’re saved!" so it had gotten down to the place
where salvation was nothing more than an assent to a scheme or a formula, and
the end of this was that salvation was the happiness of man, because humanism
has penetrated. If you were to analyze fundamentalism in contrast to liberalism
of a hundred years ago, as it developed, for I am not pinpointing it in time,
it would be like this: The liberal says the end of religion is to make man
happy while he’s alive, and the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to
make man happy when he dies. But again! The end of all of the religion it was
proclaimed was the happiness of man. And where as the liberal says, "By
social change and political order we’re going to do away with funds, we’re
going to do away with alcoholism and dope addiction and poverty. And we’re
going to make Heaven on earth and make you happy while you’re alive! We don’t
know anything about after that, but we want you to be happy while you’re
alive!" They went ahead to try and do it only to be brought to a
terrifying shock at the first World War and utterly staggered by the second
World War, because they seemed to be getting no where fast.
And then the fundamentalists, along the same line, are now tuning in along this
same wavelength of humanism. Until we find it something like this: "Accept
Jesus so you can go to heaven! You don’t want to go to that old, filthy, nasty,
burning hell, when there is a beautiful heaven up there! Now come to Jesus so
you can go to heaven!" And the appeal could be as much to selfishness, as
a couple of men sitting in a coffee shop, deciding they are going to rob a bank
to get something for nothing! There’s a way that you can give an invitation to
sinners, that just sounds for all the world like a
plot to take up a filling station proprietor’s Saturday night earnings without
working for them. Humanism is, I believe, the most deadly and disastrous of all
the philosophical stenches that’s crept up through the
grating over the pit of Hell. It has penetrated so much of our religion. And it
is in utter and total contrast with Christianity! Unfortunately, it’s seldom
seen. And here we find Micah, wants to have a little chapel, and he wants to
have a priest, and he wants to have prayer, and he wants to have devotion,
because, "I know the Lord will do me good!" AND THIS IS SELFISHNESS!
AND THIS IS SIN! And the Levite comes along and falls right in with it! Because
he wants a place! He wants ten shekels and a shirt and his food! And so in
order that he can have what he wants, and Micah can have what they want, They sell out God! For ten shekels and a shirt! AND THIS IS
THE BETRAYAL OF THE AGES! And it is the betrayal in which we live. And I don’t
see how God can revive it! Until we come back to Christianity. As in direct and
total contrast with the stenchful humanism that’s
perpetrated in our generation in the name of Christ.
I’m afraid that it’s become so subtle that it goes everywhere. What is it? In
essence it’s this! That this philosophical postulate that the end of all being
is the happiness of man, has been sort of covered over with evangelical terms
and Biblical doctrine until God reigns in heaven for the happiness of man,
Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the angels exist in
the…..Everything is for the happiness of man! And I submit to you that this is
Unchristian! Isn’t man happy? Didn’t God intend to make man happy? Yes. But as a by-product, and not a prime-product.
It was that good man that’s so admired by the fuzzy thinkers of our day, out
there in
Now here was a man that believed his philosophy, reverence for life. Utterly
committed to it! Utterly consistent! Even when it came to the
matter of cockroach or microbe. Do you see? This is humanism, this is
consistency.
Now I ask you; What is the Philosophy of Missions? What
is the Philosophy of Evangelism? What is the Philosophy of a Christian? If
you’ll ask me why I went to
(Brother Paris speaks with great passion in this paragraph) I went out their
motivated by humanism. I’d seen pictures of lepers, I’d seen pictures of
ulcers, I’d seen pictures of native funerals, and I didn’t want my fellow human
beings to suffer in Hell eternally after such a miserable existence on earth.
But it was there in
Do you see? Let me epitomize, let me summarize. Christianity says, "The
end of all being is the glory of God." Humanism says, "The end of all
being is the happiness of man." And one was born in Hell, the deification
of man; and the other was born in heaven, the glorification of God! And one is
a Levite serving Micah, and the other is a heart that’s unworthy serving the
living God, because it’s the highest honor in the universe.
What about you? Why did you repent? I’d like to see some people repent on
Biblical terms again. George Whitefield knew it. He stood on Boston Commons
speaking to twenty thousand people and he said, "Listen sinners – you’re
monsters – monsters of iniquity! You deserve Hell! And the worst of your crimes
is that criminals though you’ve been, you haven’t had the good grace to see
it!" He said, "If you will not weep for your sins and your crimes
against a Holy God, George Whitefield will weep for you!" That man would
put his head back and he would sob like a baby. Why? Because
they were in danger of Hell? No! But because they were "monsters of
iniquity", that didn’t even see their sin or care about their crimes. You
see the difference? The difference is, here is
somebody trembling because he is going to be hurt in Hell. And he has no sense
of the enormity of his guilt! And no sense of the enormity of his crime! And no
sense of his insult against Deity! He’s only trembling because his skin is
about to be singed! He’s afraid and I submit to you that where as fear is good office work in preparing us for grace, it’s no place to
stop. And the Holy Ghost doesn’t stop there. That’s the reason why no one can savingly receive Christ until they’ve repented. And no one
can repent until they’ve been convicted. And conviction is the work of the Holy
Ghost that helps a sinner to see that he is a criminal before God and deserves all of God’s wrath. And if God were to send him to the
lowest corner of a devil’s Hell forever and ten eternities, that he deserved it
all! And a hundred fold more. Because he’s seen his crimes.
This is the difference between twentieth century preaching and the preaching of
John Wesley. Wesley was a preacher of righteousness that exalted the holiness
of God. When he would exalt the holiness of God, and the law of God, and the
righteousness of God, and the justice of God, and the wisdom of His
requirements! And the justice of his wrath and his anger! Then he would turn to
sinners and tell them of the enormity of their crimes and their open rebellion
and their treason, and their anarchy. And the power of God would so descend upon
the company, that on one occasion it is reliably reported that when the people
dispersed there were 1800 people lying on the ground, utterly unconscious!
Because they had a revelation of the holiness of God and in the light of that
they’d seen the enormity of their sins and God had so penetrated their minds
and hearts that they had fallen to the ground! It wasn’t only in Wesley’s day;
it was also in
But there was a difference! It wasn’t trying to convince a "good" man
that he was in trouble with a "bad" God. But that it was to convince
Bad men that they had deserved the wrath and anger of a Good God! And the
consequences were repentance, that lead to faith, and
lead to the life. Dear friends, there’s only one reason - one reason for a
sinner to repent: and that’s because Jesus Christ deserves the worship and
adoration and the love and the obedience of his heart. Not because he’ll go to
heaven. If the only reason you repented, dear friend, was to keep out of Hell,
all you are is just a Levite serving for ten shekels and a shirt! That’s all!
You’re trying to serve God because He’ll do you good! But a repentant heart is
a heart that has seen something of the enormity of the crime of playing god and
denying the just an righteous God the worship and
obedience that He deserves!
Why should a sinner repent? Because God deserves the obedience and love that
he’s refused to give Him! Not so that he’ll go to heaven. If the only reason he
repents is so that he’ll go to heaven, it’s nothing but trying to make a deal
or a bargain with God.
Why should a sinner give up all his sins? Why should he be challenged to do it?
Why should he make restitution when he’s coming to Christ? Because God deserves
the obedience that He demands!
I have talked with people that have no assurance that sins are forgiven. They
want to feel safe, before they’re willing to commit themselves to Christ. But I
believe that the only ones whom God actually witnesses by His Spirit and are
born of Him, are the people, whether they say it or not, that come to Jesus
Christ and say something like this, "Lord Jesus, I’m going to obey you,
and love you, and serve you, and do what you want me to do, as long as I live,
even if I go to Hell at the end of the road, simply because you are worthy to
be loved, and obeyed and served, and I’m not trying to make a deal with
you!"
Do you see the difference? Do you see the difference? Between
a Levite serving for ten shekels and a shirt or a Micah building a chapel
because God will do you good, and someone that repents for the glory of God.
Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death with
Christ? Why should a person be willing to go, in identification, down to the
cross and into the tomb and up again? I’ll tell you why – because it’s the only
way that God can get glory out of human being! If you say it’s because he’ll
get joy or peace or blessing or success or fame then it’s nothing but a Levite
serving for ten shekels and a shirt. There is only one reason for you to go to
the Cross, dear young person – and that’s because until you come to the place
of union with Christ in death, you are defrauding the Son of God of the glory
that He could get out of your life. For no flesh shall glory in His sight. And
until you’ve understood the sanctifying work of God by the Holy Ghost taking
you into union with Christ in death and burial and resurrection, you have to
serve in what you have and all you have which is under the sentence of death:
human personality, and human nature, and human strength, and human energy. And
God will get no glory out of that! So the reason for you to go to the cross
isn’t that you’re going to get victory – you will get victory. It isn’t that
you’re going to have joy – you will have joy. But the reason for you to embrace
the cross and press through until you know that you can testify with Paul,
"I am crucified with Christ.." (Galatians
2:20) It isn’t what you’re going to get out of it, but what He’ll get out of
it, for the glory of God. By the same token, why aren’t you pressed through to
know the fullness of the Holy Spirit? Why aren’t you pressed through to know
the fullness of Christ? I’ll tell you why – Because the only possible way that
Jesus Christ will get glory out of a life that He’s redeemed with His precious
blood, is when He can fill that life with His presence and live through it his
own life.
The genius of our faith wasn’t that we were going to go through the motions
like a Levite that was hired to serve God. No, No! The genius of our faith was
that we’d come to a place where we knew we could do nothing, and all we could
do would be to present the vessel and say, "Lord Jesus, you’ll have to
fill it. And everything that’s done will have to be done by You
and for You." But oh, I know so many people that are trying to know the
fullness of God, so that they can use God.
A young preacher came to me down in
He was like a fellow driving up in a big Cadillac, you know, to someone
standing at the filling station, saying "Fill her up, bub,
with the highest octane you’ve got!" Well, that’s the way it looked. He
wanted power for his program. God is not going to be a means to anyone’s end. I
said, "I’m awfully sorry, I don’t think that I can help you." He
said, "Why?" I said, "I don’t think you’re ready." I said,
"Well, suppose you consider yourself coming up with a Cadillac. You’ve
talked about your program, you’ve talked about your radio, you’ve talked about
your Sunday School and church. It’s very good. You’ve
done wonderfully well without the power of the Holy Spirit." That’s what
the Chinese Christian said, you know, when he got back to
It will never work. Never work. There’s only one reason for God needing you and
that’s to bring you to the place where, in repentance, you’ve been pardoned for
His glory. And in victory you’ve been brought to the place of death that He
might reign. And in the fullness, Jesus Christ is able
to live and walk in you. Your attitude is the attitude of the Lord Himself, who
said, "I can do nothing of Myself" (John
8:28) I can’t speak of myself. I don’t make plans for myself. My only reason
for being is for the glory of God in Jesus Christ. If I were to say to you,
"Come to be saved so you can go to Heaven, come to the Cross so that you
can have joy and victory, come for the fullness of the Spirit so that you can
be satisfied," I would be falling into the trap of humanism. I’m going to
say to you dear friend, if you’re out here without Christ, you come to Jesus
Christ and serve Him as long as you live whether you go to Hell at the end of
the way Because he is worthy!
I say to you Christian friend, you come to the cross and join Him in union, in
death, and enter into all the meaning of death to self in order that He can
have glory. I say to you dear Christian, if you do not know the fullness of the
Holy Ghost, come and present your body a living sacrifice, and let Him fill
you, so that He can have the purpose for His coming fulfilled in you and get
glory through your life. It’s not what you’re going to get out of God, it’s what He is going to get out of you.
Let’s be done, once for all, with utilitarian Christianity that makes God a
means, instead of the glorious end that He is. Let’s resign. Let’s tell Micah
we’re through. We’re no longer going to be his priests serving for ten shekels
and a shirt. Let’s tell the tribe of Dan we’re through. And let’s come and cast
ourselves at the feet of the nail pierced Son of God and tell Him that we’re
going to obey Him, and love Him, and serve Him, as long as we live, because HE
IS WORTHY!
Two young Moravians heard of an island in the
Two young Moravians heard about it. They sold themselves to the British planter
and used the money they received from their sale, for he paid no more than he
would for any slave, to pay their passage out to his island for he wouldn’t
even transport them. As the ship left it’s pier in the
river at