WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.900 I just say again, Happy Lunar New Year and Happy New Year. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.259 It's January, it's that time of year where we look forward to the year that's been, 00:00:10.900 --> 00:00:17.080 we celebrate maybe what's been, we certainly, or the year that's coming, 00:00:17.219 --> 00:00:22.879 but also look back and reflect upon the year that's been, lessons learned, things like that. 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:26.820 Reflection, however, is not something that we tend to do, 00:00:26.820 --> 00:00:30.480 it's not something that is a habit nowadays for most people, 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:37.020 that is the ability to assess what has been, learn the lessons from it, 00:00:37.060 --> 00:00:40.659 and make the necessary changes as we move forward into the future. 00:00:41.380 --> 00:00:44.060 What we tend to do is escape. 00:00:44.620 --> 00:00:50.200 Moment of January, moment where things may be not as busy, we self-indulge, 00:00:50.260 --> 00:00:53.519 we escape into TV and movies and holidays and everything else, 00:00:53.519 --> 00:00:56.400 rather than actually pause and reflect. 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:03.600 So this series in January here is really an opportunity for us to spend some time reflecting 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:08.680 and looking forward to the year that is, 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.239 and what might it be to run the race of discipleship into 2023. 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:22.560 Now one of the things that I've always found helpful throughout my life, 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:28.060 and particularly my Christian life, is to get close to people, 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:32.040 and I'm looking at what does it look like to run the Christian life, 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:39.500 is to get really close to people who have run the race and are further down the track than I am, 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:45.379 and to learn lessons from them, even if they've been dead for 200 years. 00:01:45.379 --> 00:01:53.099 There is so many lessons to learn for those who have not just started the race, 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.699 but actually run the race all the way to the finish line. 00:01:58.539 --> 00:02:04.479 And so I want to encourage you as Christian brothers and sisters to read biography, 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:09.520 to read biography, to learn the lessons of those from the past. 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.400 And so in this January series, we're looking at, 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.020 we're really basing it on Hebrews 11, Hebrews 12, 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.420 to be people of faith and to run the race of faith, 00:02:20.819 --> 00:02:25.860 and particularly where Hebrews 11 talks about the great cloud of witnesses, 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:29.460 based on them, run the races before you. 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:35.040 And so we've tried to throw a couple of extra people into that list of Hebrews 11, 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:36.260 of great cloud of witnesses, 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:42.700 and today I want us to introduce one more person to that cloud of witnesses that have gone before us, 00:02:42.819 --> 00:02:46.020 who have run the race and finished the course. 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.560 And that is, today is John Patton. 00:02:49.939 --> 00:02:52.580 So let me pray, and I'll launch into that. 00:02:53.379 --> 00:02:56.700 Gracious Father, as we look at one life, 00:02:56.699 --> 00:02:59.639 a life redeemed by you, 00:03:00.899 --> 00:03:03.039 sovereignly guided by you, 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:04.619 empowered by you, 00:03:05.619 --> 00:03:08.839 a life lived well for your glory, 00:03:09.099 --> 00:03:12.339 I pray that you would give us the gift of reflection, 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:14.919 as we consider our own life, 00:03:15.699 --> 00:03:18.039 the choices we're making now, 00:03:18.799 --> 00:03:22.879 and whether or not it is ultimately for your glory or for our own. 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.159 And I pray, Father, 00:03:25.259 --> 00:03:29.500 that the mission of Matthew that has just been thrown in front of us 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:32.280 would be the mission that drives us, 00:03:34.099 --> 00:03:37.979 a mission to see all people come to know and to love you, 00:03:38.379 --> 00:03:39.960 and we ask it for your sake. 00:03:40.419 --> 00:03:40.740 Amen. 00:03:42.500 --> 00:03:48.539 A chain of islands in the Pacific were discovered in 1606 by Spain. 00:03:48.539 --> 00:03:53.579 They were named New Hebrides in 1773 by Captain James Cook, 00:03:54.099 --> 00:03:55.459 and in 1980, 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.719 the New Hebrides gained its independence from Britain and from France, 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:02.199 and was named Vanuatu. 00:04:03.180 --> 00:04:07.799 John Williams and James Harris from the London Missionary Society 00:04:07.799 --> 00:04:14.139 landed in 1839 as the first Christian missionaries. 00:04:14.139 --> 00:04:17.659 And this is what was written about them. 00:04:18.180 --> 00:04:21.019 Within a few minutes of their touching land, 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:24.839 both were clubbed to death, cooked and eaten. 00:04:25.699 --> 00:04:29.339 The London Missionary Society sent another team 00:04:29.339 --> 00:04:32.800 to the island of Tanner in 1842, 00:04:33.479 --> 00:04:38.259 and these missionaries were driven off within seven months. 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:41.620 Now, just think about that for a moment. 00:04:41.620 --> 00:04:44.240 That's just not history. 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:46.980 Just think about that. 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:51.220 Matthew just read out to us, 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:56.980 go to all nations with this discipleship message, 00:04:58.060 --> 00:05:05.280 and it's 1,800 years before that message hits the New Hebrides. 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:08.620 1,800 years. 00:05:08.620 --> 00:05:08.699 1,800 years. 00:05:11.620 --> 00:05:14.519 What was the church doing? 00:05:18.459 --> 00:05:20.459 Anyway, that's not my main point. 00:05:22.300 --> 00:05:25.139 Now, that's the remarkable missionary context 00:05:25.139 --> 00:05:27.480 of the life and the ministry of John G. Patton, 00:05:28.340 --> 00:05:30.579 a missionary to the New Hebrides 00:05:30.579 --> 00:05:36.139 who landed there 16 years after Williams and Harris. 00:05:36.139 --> 00:05:40.019 So today, if you've got your St. Paul's app, 00:05:40.379 --> 00:05:44.180 open it up, you'll see an outline for my message in there today. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.060 I want to look at the life of John G. Patton. 00:05:46.159 --> 00:05:48.259 I want to look at the courage of John Patton, 00:05:48.379 --> 00:05:51.699 and I want to look at what was the source 00:05:51.699 --> 00:05:55.519 of Patton's courage for the gospel. 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:01.979 Most of my information comes from autobiography of John Patton, 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:03.959 published in 1889. 00:06:04.599 --> 00:06:08.299 This is the 1965 edition of that. 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.859 So again, encourage you to read biography 00:06:12.859 --> 00:06:14.459 and learn from those in the past. 00:06:14.919 --> 00:06:17.439 Patton was born in Scotland in 1824. 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:20.639 He sailed for the New Hebrides via Australia 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.279 with his wife Mary in April 1858. 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.160 They reached the island of Tanner 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.920 on November the 5th of that year, 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:31.199 and four months later, 00:06:31.620 --> 00:06:34.980 both his wife and his brand-new-born son died. 00:06:35.699 --> 00:06:40.500 He served alone on the island for the next four years 00:06:40.500 --> 00:06:42.000 in constant danger 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.839 until he was eventually driven off in February 1862. 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.459 For the next four years, 00:06:49.899 --> 00:06:53.419 he travelled around Australia and Great Britain, 00:06:53.699 --> 00:06:56.599 raising awareness of the work 00:06:56.599 --> 00:06:59.219 of the Presbyterian mission in the New Hebrides. 00:07:00.219 --> 00:07:02.560 He married again in 1864. 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:05.819 He took his wife Margaret back this time 00:07:05.819 --> 00:07:08.979 to the smaller island of Anewa. 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:12.919 They laboured together there for 41 years. 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:19.900 When they came to Anewa in November 1866, 00:07:20.939 --> 00:07:24.160 the islanders in that place were destitute. 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.840 They were cannibals who had, by that time, 00:07:28.180 --> 00:07:30.240 only occasionally ate people, 00:07:30.460 --> 00:07:32.819 but it was normally their enemies that they ate. 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.060 And Christian missionaries were enemies. 00:07:36.060 --> 00:07:39.079 They practised infanticide, 00:07:39.379 --> 00:07:40.699 that is the killing of infants, 00:07:41.339 --> 00:07:42.879 widow sacrifices. 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:45.480 So if your husband died, 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:46.699 they normally killed you 00:07:46.699 --> 00:07:48.579 so that you could be with him in the afterlife. 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:51.120 They would... 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:54.319 A number of other things. 00:07:54.660 --> 00:07:57.180 He and Margaret laboured in those conditions 00:07:57.180 --> 00:07:59.560 for 41 years, hard conditions. 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.079 In the next 15 years, 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:04.120 within 15 years of his landing, 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:08.339 the entire island of Anewa turned to Christ. 00:08:09.939 --> 00:08:10.539 Remarkable. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.219 That in itself is remarkable. 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.360 To go from cannibalism to life in Christ 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:20.860 is remarkable. 00:08:24.860 --> 00:08:28.000 Margaret died in 1905 in Kew, Victoria. 00:08:28.479 --> 00:08:30.159 Patton outlived her another two years. 00:08:30.259 --> 00:08:31.659 He died in Canterbury, Victoria. 00:08:31.660 --> 00:08:33.660 In January 28th, 1907. 00:08:34.540 --> 00:08:35.879 Both are buried in Kew, Melbourne. 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.500 You can visit their tombs today. 00:08:41.700 --> 00:08:42.800 This coming Sunday... 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:44.360 Sorry, this next Sunday 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:49.759 will be 116 years since his death. 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.720 And his legacy is remarkable. 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.759 Vanuatu nowadays has a population 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.460 of around 250,000 people. 00:09:01.659 --> 00:09:06.079 Around 94% of that population 00:09:06.079 --> 00:09:08.079 are confessing Christians. 00:09:08.500 --> 00:09:11.719 73% claim to be Protestant Christians 00:09:11.719 --> 00:09:13.819 with the largest group, 00:09:14.459 --> 00:09:15.860 the Presbyterian Church. 00:09:17.779 --> 00:09:22.100 With 550 congregations 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:25.519 with over 70,000 people affiliated 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:27.699 with that denomination. 00:09:27.700 --> 00:09:31.040 That's more than Sydney Anglicanism. 00:09:33.379 --> 00:09:35.320 And a large part of it, 00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:38.800 they track it back to John G. Patton. 00:09:41.460 --> 00:09:43.300 So, that's his life. 00:09:43.500 --> 00:09:44.200 That's his legacy. 00:09:44.800 --> 00:09:45.879 Let's look at his courage. 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.620 One of the things that stands out 00:09:48.620 --> 00:09:50.679 as you read his life 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:56.080 is that he was a man of just incredible courage 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:57.299 for the cause of Christ. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:59.120 Incredible courage. 00:09:59.939 --> 00:10:02.080 And I've got a few things I want to mention. 00:10:02.439 --> 00:10:05.519 He had courage to make the advancement 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:07.120 of the gospel, 00:10:07.439 --> 00:10:10.639 his greatest and highest priority of life, 00:10:11.179 --> 00:10:13.659 even as a teenager. 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:16.319 Mark that. 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:18.019 Even as a teenager. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:19.679 In his teens, 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:20.500 he had an opportunity 00:10:20.500 --> 00:10:22.779 to further his career prospects 00:10:22.779 --> 00:10:23.740 as a surveyor, 00:10:24.079 --> 00:10:24.460 which was, 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:25.240 you know, 00:10:25.299 --> 00:10:26.519 in his day and age, 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:27.899 that was unheard of. 00:10:27.899 --> 00:10:29.779 This guy did not come 00:10:29.779 --> 00:10:30.480 from some, 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:30.959 you know, 00:10:31.079 --> 00:10:32.699 wealthy connected family. 00:10:33.959 --> 00:10:34.639 And so, 00:10:34.740 --> 00:10:36.679 this was a remarkable opportunity 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:38.620 for effectively a peasant boy. 00:10:39.699 --> 00:10:41.519 He was called into the boss's office 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.199 and was promised promotion 00:10:43.199 --> 00:10:44.980 and special training 00:10:44.980 --> 00:10:47.860 entirely at the government's expense. 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:51.779 And the only condition was 00:10:51.779 --> 00:10:52.539 that he signed 00:10:52.539 --> 00:10:55.259 a seven year engagement contract. 00:10:57.899 --> 00:10:59.659 This is what he wrote 00:10:59.659 --> 00:11:00.759 about that moment. 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:04.159 Thanking him most gratefully 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:05.500 for his kind offer, 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:07.579 I agreed to bind myself 00:11:07.579 --> 00:11:09.559 for three years or four, 00:11:09.819 --> 00:11:10.899 but not for seven. 00:11:12.539 --> 00:11:13.299 Excitedly, 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:14.419 he said, 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:15.199 why? 00:11:16.259 --> 00:11:17.679 Will you refuse an offer 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:19.299 that many gentlemen's sons 00:11:19.299 --> 00:11:20.360 would be proud of? 00:11:22.460 --> 00:11:23.620 I said, 00:11:24.319 --> 00:11:25.819 my life is given 00:11:25.819 --> 00:11:27.620 to another master. 00:11:27.899 --> 00:11:29.199 And so, 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:30.600 I cannot engage 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:31.579 for seven years. 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:33.600 He asked sharply, 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:34.500 to whom? 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:36.699 I replied, 00:11:37.620 --> 00:11:38.579 to the Lord Jesus. 00:11:39.899 --> 00:11:41.139 And I want to prepare 00:11:41.139 --> 00:11:42.759 as soon as possible 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:44.039 for his service 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:45.039 in the proclaiming 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:45.659 of the gospel. 00:11:47.019 --> 00:11:48.539 In great anger, 00:11:48.699 --> 00:11:50.539 he sprang across the room, 00:11:51.019 --> 00:11:52.159 called the paymaster 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:52.960 and exclaimed, 00:11:53.259 --> 00:11:54.379 accept my offer 00:11:54.379 --> 00:11:56.039 or you are dismissed 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:56.879 on the spot. 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.799 His anger 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:00.879 made him unwilling 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:01.639 or unable 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:02.299 to comprehend 00:12:02.299 --> 00:12:03.100 my difficulty. 00:12:04.500 --> 00:12:06.000 The drawing instruments 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:07.139 were delivered up, 00:12:07.779 --> 00:12:09.120 I received my pay 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:10.679 and I departed 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:12.340 without further parley. 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:16.259 Secondly, 00:12:16.500 --> 00:12:17.460 he had courage 00:12:17.460 --> 00:12:18.279 to overcome 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:19.179 the criticism 00:12:19.179 --> 00:12:20.340 that he received 00:12:20.340 --> 00:12:21.879 from respected elders 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:23.019 for in fact 00:12:23.019 --> 00:12:24.879 going to the New Hebrides 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:25.460 New Hebrides 00:12:25.460 --> 00:12:26.559 as a missionary. 00:12:28.340 --> 00:12:29.879 A Mr. Dickinson 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.360 who he described 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:33.080 as a dear 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:34.360 old Christian gentleman 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.659 tried to deter him 00:12:37.659 --> 00:12:38.820 from the New Hebrides. 00:12:40.419 --> 00:12:41.340 The cannibals! 00:12:42.179 --> 00:12:43.120 You'll be eaten 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:44.039 by cannibals! 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:48.299 Now remember, 00:12:48.459 --> 00:12:49.179 Williams and Harris 00:12:49.179 --> 00:12:49.659 were eaten 00:12:49.659 --> 00:12:50.299 by cannibals 00:12:50.299 --> 00:12:51.399 19 years earlier. 00:12:53.839 --> 00:12:54.819 Patton's response. 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:56.620 I love it. 00:12:57.219 --> 00:12:58.019 Let me read it to you. 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:00.279 I'll put my tone on it. 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:01.240 I'm not sure 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:02.079 it's Patton's tone 00:13:02.079 --> 00:13:03.740 but I can't read it 00:13:03.740 --> 00:13:04.539 with any other tone. 00:13:05.379 --> 00:13:06.240 Mr. Dickinson, 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:07.159 you are advanced 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:07.959 in years now 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:09.780 and your own prospect 00:13:09.780 --> 00:13:10.800 is soon to be laid 00:13:10.800 --> 00:13:11.480 in the grave 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.759 there to be eaten 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:14.680 by worms. 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:18.580 I love the moxie 00:13:18.580 --> 00:13:19.160 of this guy. 00:13:19.420 --> 00:13:20.420 I really do. 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:22.560 I confess to you 00:13:22.560 --> 00:13:24.139 that if I can live 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:26.180 but live and die 00:13:26.180 --> 00:13:27.440 serving and honouring 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:28.240 the Lord Jesus 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:29.680 it will make 00:13:29.680 --> 00:13:30.940 no difference to me 00:13:30.940 --> 00:13:31.740 whether I'm eaten 00:13:31.740 --> 00:13:32.639 by cannibals 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:33.860 or by worms. 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:36.300 And in the great day 00:13:36.300 --> 00:13:37.700 my resurrection body 00:13:37.700 --> 00:13:38.540 will rise 00:13:38.540 --> 00:13:40.040 as fair of yours 00:13:40.040 --> 00:13:41.500 in the likeness 00:13:41.500 --> 00:13:43.300 of the risen Redeemer. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.140 That is a remarkable 00:13:48.140 --> 00:13:49.560 perspective on life. 00:13:52.280 --> 00:13:53.320 He writes that 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:54.240 another objection 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.020 came up 00:13:55.020 --> 00:13:55.680 was this. 00:13:56.800 --> 00:13:57.140 He said 00:13:57.140 --> 00:13:59.160 the rejection is 00:13:59.160 --> 00:13:59.980 there are heathen 00:13:59.980 --> 00:14:00.840 here at home. 00:14:01.680 --> 00:14:02.180 Why on earth 00:14:02.180 --> 00:14:02.700 would you leave 00:14:02.700 --> 00:14:03.259 Chatswood 00:14:03.259 --> 00:14:04.080 for goodness sake? 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:06.100 Let us seek 00:14:06.100 --> 00:14:06.980 and save 00:14:06.980 --> 00:14:07.779 first of all 00:14:07.779 --> 00:14:08.560 the lost ones 00:14:08.560 --> 00:14:09.300 perishing at our 00:14:09.300 --> 00:14:10.100 very doors. 00:14:11.899 --> 00:14:12.980 This I felt 00:14:12.980 --> 00:14:14.200 to be most true 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:16.480 and an appalling 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:17.060 fact. 00:14:18.659 --> 00:14:19.659 But I 00:14:19.659 --> 00:14:20.560 unfailingly 00:14:20.560 --> 00:14:21.200 observed 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:21.759 that those 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:22.360 who made 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:23.200 this retort 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.019 neglected 00:14:24.019 --> 00:14:25.180 these home 00:14:25.180 --> 00:14:25.639 heathens 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:26.259 themselves. 00:14:27.560 --> 00:14:27.920 And so 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:28.600 the objection 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:29.920 as from them 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:30.899 lost all 00:14:30.899 --> 00:14:31.639 its power. 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:33.139 They would 00:14:33.139 --> 00:14:34.039 ungrudgingly 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:34.919 spend more 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:35.759 on a fashionable 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.080 party at dinner 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:38.439 or tea 00:14:38.439 --> 00:14:39.960 on concert 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:41.480 or balls 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:42.539 or theatres 00:14:42.539 --> 00:14:44.080 or on some 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:45.179 ostentatious 00:14:45.179 --> 00:14:45.960 display 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:47.340 or worldly 00:14:47.340 --> 00:14:48.279 and selfish 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:49.120 indulgent 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:50.600 ten times more 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:51.799 perhaps in a 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:52.559 single day 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:53.639 than they would 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:54.799 give in a year 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.059 or in half 00:14:56.059 --> 00:14:56.899 a lifetime 00:14:56.899 --> 00:14:58.620 for the conversion 00:14:58.620 --> 00:14:59.879 of the heathen world 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:00.819 either here 00:15:00.820 --> 00:15:02.740 or abroad. 00:15:03.520 --> 00:15:04.140 I do 00:15:04.140 --> 00:15:04.980 and always 00:15:04.980 --> 00:15:05.400 did 00:15:05.400 --> 00:15:06.520 only pity 00:15:06.520 --> 00:15:06.860 them 00:15:06.860 --> 00:15:08.220 as God's 00:15:08.220 --> 00:15:08.560 stewards 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:09.460 making such 00:15:09.460 --> 00:15:10.300 miserable 00:15:10.300 --> 00:15:11.820 use of time 00:15:11.820 --> 00:15:12.960 and money 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:13.680 entrusted 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:14.500 to their care. 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:16.700 Can you see 00:15:16.700 --> 00:15:17.420 why I'm doing it? 00:15:19.920 --> 00:15:21.060 It's an opportunity 00:15:21.060 --> 00:15:21.840 for the Holy Spirit 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:22.480 to speak to each 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:22.960 one of us 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:23.700 about our time 00:15:23.700 --> 00:15:24.500 and our priorities 00:15:24.500 --> 00:15:25.600 our talents 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:26.200 our treasures. 00:15:29.540 --> 00:15:29.980 Thirdly 00:15:29.980 --> 00:15:30.620 he had courage 00:15:30.620 --> 00:15:31.320 to risk losing 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:32.179 his loved ones 00:15:32.179 --> 00:15:33.039 for the cause 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:33.620 of the gospel. 00:15:34.500 --> 00:15:34.840 I've already 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:35.360 mentioned this 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:36.039 he and his wife 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:37.720 first wife Mary 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:38.720 arrived on the 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:39.419 island of Tanna 00:15:39.419 --> 00:15:40.080 in November 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:41.200 1858 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:42.720 their baby 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:43.480 was born 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:43.980 February 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:45.820 1859 00:15:45.820 --> 00:15:46.779 four months 00:15:46.779 --> 00:15:47.240 later 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:48.639 yeah 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:49.019 four months 00:15:49.019 --> 00:15:49.360 later 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:50.860 Mary then 00:15:50.860 --> 00:15:51.539 died within 00:15:51.539 --> 00:15:52.500 a few weeks 00:15:52.500 --> 00:15:53.120 of the birth 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:53.639 of the baby 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:54.340 on the 3rd 00:15:54.340 --> 00:15:54.840 of March 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:56.279 the baby boy 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:56.940 died less 00:15:56.940 --> 00:15:57.740 than three weeks 00:15:57.740 --> 00:15:58.460 later on the 00:15:58.460 --> 00:15:59.500 20th of March 00:15:59.500 --> 00:16:01.480 Patton himself 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:02.980 dug the graves 00:16:02.980 --> 00:16:03.419 with his own 00:16:03.419 --> 00:16:03.960 hands 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.840 right beside 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:07.379 the house 00:16:07.379 --> 00:16:07.919 the little 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:09.000 sort of shack 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:09.639 that he had built 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:10.120 for them 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:10.799 as a family 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:12.879 and 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:14.200 to add 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:15.059 to his grief 00:16:15.059 --> 00:16:16.419 he slept 00:16:16.419 --> 00:16:17.600 on their graves 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:19.120 to protect 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:19.720 them from being 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:20.240 dug up 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:21.259 by the 00:16:21.259 --> 00:16:21.720 cannibals. 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:26.100 you see 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:26.620 the courage 00:16:26.620 --> 00:16:27.320 to risk 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:28.019 the loss 00:16:28.019 --> 00:16:29.200 of a loved 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:29.860 one is one 00:16:29.860 --> 00:16:30.240 thing 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.879 the courage 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:33.920 to experience 00:16:33.920 --> 00:16:34.580 the loss 00:16:34.580 --> 00:16:37.000 and to press 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.019 on alone 00:16:38.019 --> 00:16:38.700 with the same 00:16:38.700 --> 00:16:39.080 mission 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:39.940 is remarkable 00:16:39.940 --> 00:16:42.100 I felt her 00:16:42.100 --> 00:16:42.759 loss beyond 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:43.740 all conception 00:16:43.740 --> 00:16:44.639 or description 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:46.220 in that 00:16:46.220 --> 00:16:47.300 dark land 00:16:47.300 --> 00:16:48.580 but feeling 00:16:48.580 --> 00:16:49.759 immovably 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:50.500 assured 00:16:50.500 --> 00:16:51.039 that my 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:51.500 God 00:16:51.500 --> 00:16:52.120 and Father 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:52.679 was too 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:53.200 wise 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:53.899 and loving 00:16:53.899 --> 00:16:54.519 to err 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:55.299 in anything 00:16:55.299 --> 00:16:56.399 that he 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:56.840 does 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:57.620 or permits 00:16:57.620 --> 00:16:58.779 sovereignty 00:16:58.779 --> 00:16:59.360 of God 00:16:59.360 --> 00:16:59.840 goodness 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:00.399 of God 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:01.620 I looked 00:17:01.620 --> 00:17:02.159 up to the 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:02.360 Lord 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:02.899 for help 00:17:02.899 --> 00:17:03.799 and I 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:04.160 struggled 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:04.480 on 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:05.039 in his 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:05.440 work 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:08.079 he had 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:08.480 the next 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:08.640 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