Willie Robertson

Why would anybody die like that for something that wasn't true?

And he became known as kind of the father of the Christian martyrs.

And one of the things Justin Martyr did was he was one of the key figures that argued that Jesus was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament.

I mean, that was one of his big—he was kind of an apologist, and so he's making the case for this.

And I was just watching a thing.

I don't know why it's been popping up on my feed.

Maybe this is an anniversary of it, but—

you remember the Coptic Christians that were beheaded a few years back.

And, and you, you think about like the, this kind of persecution is still going on in the world.

And, and, and,

Think about, I saw one of the pastors had a picture of those terrorists, and they had all the Coptic Christians on their knees, 23 or 21 of them on their knees, and they were basically said, you renounce your faith or your head comes off.

And every one of them

Every single one of them died a martyr's death.

They went to their death proclaiming the Lord Jesus Christ.

And there was one guy standing behind them who was dressed different than the rest of them.

And this pastor was like, that's Saul giving the instructions to kill Christians.

And he was talking about how no one is beyond the grace of God.

And he was thinking about it.

So it just hit me in this moment, like these forces of evil have come against the church.

We have an ancient faith.