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Addendum: A Testimony of a Dying Son

(July 2008)

his addendum continues the history that leaves off in the last chapter of the book. It is
Toffered for those who have written to ask me what has occurred in our lives since the
book was completed. The trials have continued, and so has the grace of God and His
supernatural intervention. He has not spared His people from suffering, but He has never
left our side.

I Corinthians 15:31
I die daily.

Luke 9:23-24
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his
life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.”

Yesterday, a Christian sister from the West Coast wrote to me and inquired as to how
I am doing. We have corresponded often, and I am knowledgeable of her many trials, as she
is of mine. I understood that her question was more than mere politeness when she asked,
“How are you doing?”
Yesterday had its own set of specific trials, including a letter from a lawyer threatening
legal action and sanctions. The threat was a direct result of my walking a path that the Spirit
of Christ has led me down. The Spirit of Christ has put me in peril’s way. Such a thought is
foreign to most Christians today, and it would even produce a rebuke from more than a few.
“Surely,” they would contest, “the Lord will bless the man who is a true servant of God. God
would not bring His obedient children into reproach and disrepute.”
In a recent writing I shared that since 1999, when I completely surrendered to the
leading of the Lord in my life, God has led me down much more difficult pathways than
when my own will was the determinant. He has led me to experience more trials, more
reproaches, more rejection from Christian brothers and natural family, more perilous
situations, more perplexity, and more fear than when I was still holding the reins of my life.
This was certainly the experience of the apostles when they fully yielded control of their
lives to God.

Romans 8:36-37
Just as it is written, "For Thy sake we are being put to death all day long; we were
considered as sheep to be slaughtered." But in all these things we overwhelmingly
conquer through Him who loved us.

II Corinthians 4:8-13
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about
in the body the dying of Yahshua, that the life of Yahshua also may be manifested in
our body. For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Yahshua's
sake, that the life of Yahshua also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death