Action4Canada - December 20, 2022


Courage Under Fireļ¼š Pastor Randy Beatty


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5 minutes

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915

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In this episode, Pastor Tanya Ga talks about her stand for truth in the face of fear and the need for the church to remain open. She shares her story of how she stood for truth and how she was courageous enough to stand for the truth in a world full of lies.

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00:00:00.000 so i think if we stand our ground and stay true to the word of god and faithful to god's word
00:00:09.600 as shepherds of the flock the shepherd cannot abandon the sheep and i felt it was very important
00:00:16.380 and very essential to remain open i thought well if hospitals could be open to help physically sick
00:00:22.220 how much more important should it be that we remain open to help those that are in spiritual
00:00:27.400 need mental need emotional need and fellowship is very important uh the bible tells us that we're
00:00:34.920 together uh to pray for one another to encourage one another and spur one another onto good deeds
00:00:42.080 and uh it also says in james if you're sick hope for the elders pray for you to lay hands on you
00:00:49.740 to annoy with oil i don't know how you can do that on zoom uh lay hands on the sick i don't know how
00:00:55.420 you can do that on zoom so i felt it was very important that remain open and people came and
00:01:02.380 god honored us i want to be faithful to testify to the gospel of god's grace and i believe the grace
00:01:10.260 of god is with his people his grace will be with every pastor that will be courageous enough to stay
00:01:18.000 open and to be faithful to the word of god as we heard earlier uh these mandates we weren't breaking
00:01:26.220 the law the government was breaking the law by coming to the church and intimidating us the police showing
00:01:31.800 up with their tasers and their guns to look intimidating uh but i feel that we need to fear god
00:01:39.260 then we do need to fear man and uh the author of hebrews i wrote a couple things down as you can
00:01:46.340 tell i can ramble the author of hebrews uh in other words the holy spirit reminded the believers that
00:01:54.740 although they had suffered reproach and affliction even had their property taken away they must not
00:02:02.160 isolate themselves to avoid arrest criticism and suffering collective and corporate worship is an
00:02:09.960 essential part of our spiritual life and the risk of being arrested fined or possibly catching a cold
00:02:17.780 or the flu does not outweigh the cost of not meeting together and i i don't know where this comes from
00:02:25.760 but it must have been a pastor in the uk or maybe it was a group of pastors they wrote this to the
00:02:30.980 government it is essential for the mental and spiritual health of millions of christians for
00:02:38.100 the church to remain open it is essential for providing the nation with the hope that jesus christ
00:02:44.300 offers and it is essential for the glory of god and as paul wrote in first timothy the house of god
00:02:52.580 which is the church of the living god the pillar and ground of truth and as a result of our stand for
00:03:00.800 truth in a world full of lies the last two years we've seen our attendance more than double
00:03:07.920 many have come because of our stand for the truth and we have seen many more salvation and people being
00:03:15.300 baptized in these last two years than we've seen in the last 10 years and although we had the rcmp
00:03:21.920 rcmp show up it did not hinder people from coming out in fact we saw tremendous growth and it's been a
00:03:30.400 real privilege to have the opportunity to stand with action for canada with tanya ga who is a tremendous
00:03:37.680 example a tremendous woman of courage and i hope that this will inspire other men of god and women of
00:03:45.280 god pastors to not close their doors the next time but to remain open and remain faithful to the truth
00:03:53.740 my attitude was not one of rebellion against the government my attitude was one of obedience to god
00:04:00.440 and his word and i think that's very important i i've heard some pastors say uh recently i read some
00:04:08.240 reports that uh they felt that the church was not essential you could have church at home you could go on
00:04:14.040 zoom and and yet i was thinking well if that's the case why have we spent these billions of dollars
00:04:21.000 across north america building buildings uh if you don't feel that the building is important for the
00:04:27.520 church to gather and of course the church is god's people then if you want to sell your buildings and
00:04:33.320 send me the money i'll build a bigger building and i'll open it up for people that are hungry for worship
00:04:39.300 they're hungry to gather together they're hungry to hear the word of god being preached and to be
00:04:44.960 encouraged by our brothers and sisters in the lord and so i really pray that uh some pastors will
00:04:52.880 change their attitude will be free from fear revelations talks about cowardice that's not a good thing
00:05:01.220 for a christian we're to be uh as bold as lions we we're not to run but we're to face the enemy
00:05:08.540 in the authority of the name of jesus christ and jesus has been faithful to me throughout my life
00:05:14.940 he's been faithful to our fellowship living waters fellowship in black creek and as a result we've seen
00:05:21.700 growth we've had tremendous influence in our community and we continue to do so for the glory of god
00:05:28.140 and ultimately that's what it's all about the glory of jesus christ thank you for this opportunity to
00:05:33.940 share with you today