NARBERTH BAPTIST FELLOWSHP - week ending 21/06/2008
Pastor Roland, a French Huguenot living in the perilous times of 17th century France, knew the cost for faithfulness in proclaiming the gospel.
When French dragoons stormed his house to torture, afflict, and arrest him for preaching Christ, Pastor Roland slipped into a hidden opening in a china cabinet that dropped into the sub floor. With scarcely enough space for a small teener, he waited for the soldiers to rummage through his home so that he could surface again, only to go through the same process over and over.
He knew what it was to escape to the mountains with his flock of believers so that he might preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to them. He knew what it was to preach from a pulpit disguised as a wine barrel so that his people might not suffer loss if discovered for attending gospel preaching.
At the moment anyone can call themselves a Christian but Jesus told his followers to receive the power of the Holy Spirit and with the divine strength give to be committed and related to Himself to and invest themselves in the work of His Kingdom on earth.
Pastor Roland and his Huguenot flock are merely a few out of many through the centuries that have proved faithful to Christ even when it demanded everything of them. When the story of Christianity is finally complete, and recounted for the redeemed to give praise to the Lord, alongside holiness and love, the quality that will mark believers is faithfulness.
NBF meets 6.30pm Sundays in the chapel at Pant-y-Gorphwys Farmhouse on the main A478 from Penblewin to Narberth - do visit.
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