Believers Will Suffer Terrible Things For The Sake Of Jesus' Name
When every appeal and emotional blackmail failed to get him to change his mind about becoming a Christian, Kartar Singh was not only disowned but was stripped naked before being sent away from home by his own father. But Katar was resolute, and though he left home physically naked, he knew he was covered in God's love!
Following excerpt from 57% into The Cross is Heaven, The Life and Writings of Sadhu Sundar Singh by A. J. Appasamy
This young man was the son of Sundar Hamam Singh of Patiala. When his father heard that he was about to become a Christian, he made every possible effort to prevent it. The son's reply was: "Everywhere have I sought a Deliverer, but found him nowhere; and now at last through His Word God has revealed to me that the Saviour is the Lord Christ, and now I shall not leave Him who, in my stead, gave His life to save me." Then his father called his betrothed wife, whom he dearly loved. This girl, named Bhagwan Kunwar, was beautiful and well-behaved. She came and said, “Oh fortune-favoured one, have you no concern for your comfort or youth or position? Consider well, otherwise you will regret afterwards."
"Do not become a stumbling block to me; comfort, youth and position are transitory, but Christ has given me an everlasting kingdom and the right to become a child of God. Dost not thou desire to have this privilege along with me?”
"I have already given my heart to thee; wilt thou not give thy heart to me?”
“Oh Bhagwan Kunwar, in my breast there is but one heart, and that I have already given to one (that is, Christ). Nowhere can I get another heart to give thee. Better is it that thou shouldst withdraw thy heart from me and give it to Him.”
Bhagwan Kunwar, hearing this, went away weeping and told everything to his father. The father in a burst of anger called Kartar Singh and ordered him to put off all his clothes and to leave the house, and to renounce all connection with him from that time, that is to say, in the month of December and at night-time. There was no help for it. He could only obey. So he took off his clothes and laid them at his father's feet and said to his father, “I am not ashamed to-day to divest myself of these clothes, because the righteousness of Jesus Christ has covered all my nakedness and sin." And then, according to his father's order, he left the house, praying as he did so.
For two or three days he lived in the forest, though he was tormented with hunger and cold, but his heart was full of peace. Just imagine what this experience must have been, to one reared in a palace in luxury. To him poverty and trouble had been entirely unknown. Now he was without any means of livelihood. On the third day he went to a certain person and, doing laborious work for him, was able to purchase for himself a turban and a coat; and then adopting the style of a Sadhu, he went to Tibet to preach the Gospel of the crucified Christ.
"Do not become a stumbling block to me; comfort, youth and position are transitory, but Christ has given me an everlasting kingdom and the right to become a child of God. Dost not thou desire to have this privilege along with me?”
"I have already given my heart to thee; wilt thou not give thy heart to me?”
“Oh Bhagwan Kunwar, in my breast there is but one heart, and that I have already given to one (that is, Christ). Nowhere can I get another heart to give thee. Better is it that thou shouldst withdraw thy heart from me and give it to Him.”
Bhagwan Kunwar, hearing this, went away weeping and told everything to his father. The father in a burst of anger called Kartar Singh and ordered him to put off all his clothes and to leave the house, and to renounce all connection with him from that time, that is to say, in the month of December and at night-time. There was no help for it. He could only obey. So he took off his clothes and laid them at his father's feet and said to his father, “I am not ashamed to-day to divest myself of these clothes, because the righteousness of Jesus Christ has covered all my nakedness and sin." And then, according to his father's order, he left the house, praying as he did so.
For two or three days he lived in the forest, though he was tormented with hunger and cold, but his heart was full of peace. Just imagine what this experience must have been, to one reared in a palace in luxury. To him poverty and trouble had been entirely unknown. Now he was without any means of livelihood. On the third day he went to a certain person and, doing laborious work for him, was able to purchase for himself a turban and a coat; and then adopting the style of a Sadhu, he went to Tibet to preach the Gospel of the crucified Christ.
The Cross is Heaven, The Life and Writings of Sadhu Sundar Singh
by A. J. Appasamy
| Genre: | Evangelist biography |
| Subject: | Sadhu Sundar Singh |
| Publisher: | Lutterworth Press |
| Year: | 1956 |
| Location: | London |
| Library: | Carey S. Thomas Library |
| Online: | https://archive.org/details/thecrossishe... |
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The sun was already setting, when Sadhu Sundar Singh, who was given wrong directions by a group of Christian-hating villagers, found himself in the middle of nowhere with a river before him that he could not cross. But in his moment of despair, a man came and helped him cross over. It was only after they has crossed that he realized that he had been helped—not by a man—but by an angel of the Lord.
Sundar Singh was threatened with jail time by an officer he preached the gospel to. But rather than chicken out, Sundar made it clear that so long as he was alive, he would continue to preach Jesus, and not prison or even death will stand in his way!
He came with the intention to rob the Sadhu but he left a penitent, completely changed and born again man!
When every appeal and emotional blackmail failed to get him to change his mind about becoming a Christian, Kartar Singh was not only disowned but was stripped naked before being sent away from home by his own father. But Katar was resolute, and though he left home physically naked, he knew he was covered in God's love!
On the orders of a Lamar, Kartar Singh was put to death for preaching the gospel. But for Kartar, death was no foe to be feared, and until he breathed his last, this was his position!