What causes martyrs to be willing to give their lives and yet most Christians today won't give an extra hour or two of their lives? Let's examine the apostles and why they left everything and gave their lives for Jesus.
3. Why did they?Peter – Crucified upside down
Andrew – Crucified on an X-shaped cross
James – Beheaded
John – Natural death. Plunged into boiling oil but didn’t die.
Philip – Stoned to death
Nathanael – Tied in a sack and tossed into the sea
Matthew – Burned at the stake
Thomas – Speared
James – Stoned/Beaten to death
Thaddeus – Crucified
Simon - Crucified
5. Matthew 11:2-5
2 And when John had heard in prison
about the works of Christ, he sent two of
his disciples 3 and said to Him, “Are You
the Coming One, or do we look for
another?”
6. Matthew 11:2-5
4 Jesus answered and said to them, “Go
and tell John the things which you hear
and see: 5 The blind see and the lame
walk; the lepers are cleansed and the
deaf hear; the dead are raised up and
the poor have the gospel preached to
them.
8. Romans 5:8,9
8 But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more
then, having now been justified by His
blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through Him.
10. Romans 1:3,4
3 …concerning His Son Jesus Christ our
Lord, who was born of the seed of David
according to the flesh, 4 and declared to
be the Son of God with power according
to the Spirit of holiness, by the
resurrection from the dead.
13. Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is
no longer I who live, but Christ lives in
me; and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave Himself for me.
