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what he said right before his death: "The fire

you threaten burns for a time and then is

extinguished, but there is a fire you know

nothing of, the fire of eternal judgment, the fire

reserved for the ungodly."

Again, I went through some church

history when I preached on this subject back

in 2009, and I mentioned to you John

Bunyan, William Tyndale, Tertullian. Tertullian

is the one, I believe, who said, "The blood of

the martyrs is the seed of the church." In other

words, the church took root through the

blood that was shed. William Tyndale was

burned at the stake so that we could have a

Bible. He's supposed to have said in prison,

"Lord, open the king of England's eyes," and he

was then strangled and burned to ashes. So

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