Sunday Sermon by Dr Ng On-Ee on 20 Mar 2016 at SSMC

1. Jim Elliot, October 28, 1949
Lived: October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956

2. Jim Elliot, October 28, 1949
Lived: October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956

4. Love Above All
Performed by Mount Carmel Bible-
Presbyterian Church, Singapore
The story of Jim and
Elisabeth Elliot
Other videos taken from
‘Beyond the Gates of
Splendor’, a video on the
life of Nate Saint and his
family

5. Love Above All
Performed by Mount Carmel Bible-
Presbyterian Church, Singapore
The story of Jim and
Elisabeth Elliot
Other videos taken from
‘Beyond the Gates of
Splendor’, a video on the
life of Nate Saint and his
family

6. College at Wheaton (1945)
 Majored in Greek
 President of Student Foreign
Missions Fellowship
 Met and was interested in
Elisabeth Howard
 Attended Camp Wycliffe
(1950)
 Met a former missionary to the
Quechua people in Ecuador

7. Choosing Ecuador over local
service
 Parents wanted him to be a youth minister
 “The church here is well-fed”
 Planned to go with Bill Cathers (1951)
 Planned to go with Ed Mccully (1951)
 Finally went with Pete Fleming (1952)

8. Move to Quito, then Shandia
 Studied the Quechua language
 Ed and Marilou McCully joined him
there (Sep 1953)
 Married Elisabeth in 1953
 Daughter Valerie born in 1955

9. Secret planning to reach
Auca (Operation Auca)
 Former missionary had told
him about a “Stone Age
tribe”
 Nate Saint was recruited to
help locate them
 Studied the 5 missionaries
killed by the Ayores in
Bolivia (1944)
 To avoid the same result

10. A Village Found

11. Start by Bearing Gifts
 The pilot Nate Saint had had an ingenious idea in college

12. Gifts From Above
Jim Elliot
Nate
Saint
Edward
McCully
Roger
Youderian

13. A Gift Returned

14. A Gift
Returned
This was taken
as a sign of
friendship, and
they decided it
was time to
make contact

15. Jan 3, 1956 – Palm Beach

16. Waiting at Palm Beach
 The missionaries waited
for some of the Auca to
come to see them

17. Jan 6, 1956 – Visitors at last
 Two women (Gimade, Mintaka) and one man (Nenkiwi)
 Nenkiwi was brought for two plane rides
 All three were very curious

18. Jan 6, 1956 – Visitors at last

19. Jan 7, 1956 – Waiting again
 Gimade and Nenkiwi left abruptly
 Mintaka stayed till late at night
 The missionaries continued to wait…

20. Jan 7, 1956 – Waiting again

21. During the last war we were
taught to recognize that, in order
to achieve our objective, we had
to be willing to be expendable…
Yet when the Lord Jesus asks us to
pay the price for world
evangelism, we often answer “it
costs too much!”
Nate Saint’s journal, Dec 18
Final radio contact said
“we are hoping for visitors
at about 2:30, I’ll call you
again at 4:35”
All 5 men were speared to
death on Jan 8th, 1956 by
Gikita, Dyuwi, Nampa,
Mincaye, Kimo and Nenkiwi

22. What does Scripture say?
Matthew 16:24-26
Then Jesus said to his disciples,
“Whoever wants to be my
disciple must deny themselves
and take up their cross and
follow me. For whoever wants to
save their life will lose it, but
whoever loses their life for me will
find it. What good will it be for
someone to gain the whole
world, yet forfeit their soul? Or
what can anyone give in
exchange for their soul?
John 12:25-26
Anyone who loves their life will
lose it, while anyone who hates
their life in this world will keep it
for eternal life. Whoever serves
me must follow me; and where I
am, my servant also will be. My
Father will honor the one who
serves me.

23. Today is Palm Sunday
Palm Beach
 Auca territory, willingly entered
 Betrayal by self-serving lies
 Attacked and killed
 Refused to retaliate
Jerusalem
 Jewish leader’s stronghold,
willingly entered
 Betrayal by Judas
 Arrested and sentenced to death
 Did not save Himself

24. Giving your life for the
Kingdom of God

25. Giving your life for the
Kingdom of God
 Palm Sunday
 Jesus was welcomed to Jerusalem
 Holy Wednesday
 Jesus was betrayed
 Good Friday
 Jesus was crucified
 Easter Sunday
 Jesus rose from the dead
That was not the
end of the story
That was not the
end of the story
That was not the
end of the story
That was not the
end of the story

26. What did the families do?

27. What did the families do?
Marilou McCully, Barbara Youdarian (Jerry), (Stephen), Marjorie Saint (Philip), Olive Fleming, Elisabeth Elliot

28. Dayuma’s life
 Fled after her father was speared
 Ran with cousins Aepi and Omi
 Rescued by Quechua Indians
 Sister to Gimade and Nampa
 Accepted Christ while teaching Rachel Saint the Huaorani
language
 Taught the other missionaries the language in secret

29. Dayuma visited
 In 1958, two Huaorani women emerge from the jungle, looking
for Dayuma
 Mintaka (elder woman from Palm Beach)
 Mankamo (sister of leader of the attack)
 They wanted her to return to her mother, Akawo
 After some months, she follows the women back into the
jungle

30. Dayuma returns
 3 weeks later, a Huaorani
delegation comes with an
invitation
 “But will your people spear us
too?”
 No, because you are friends!
 Rachel Saint, Elisabeth Elliot, and
Valerie enter the tribe

31. Entering the jungle

32. Dayuma preaches
 The Huaorani believed in a creator God – Waengongi
 Dayuma told her people Waengongi had marked a trail with
carvings
 Following those carvings would lead them to His house when they
died
 These carvings said they should not kill
 Dawa (Kimo’s wife) and her husband the first to accept
 Dayuma would gather the tribe on Sunday for Bible Study
 In the week she would learn from Rachel

33. Living your Life for the
Kingdom of God

34. Baptism of Stephen Saint
Stephen Saint
Kimo
Dyuwi
Kathy Saint

35. Friendship of Mincaye and
Jesse Saint
 Nate Saint’s grandson
 Bonded with Mincaye,
called him grandfather
 Both cried when Jesse left
to go to college
 Mincaye attended Jesse’s
graduation on Jesse’s
request

36. Big problems
 Land grabs (legal and otherwise) for oil
 Intermarriages with other tribes enables encroachment
 Influx of disease
 Low educational achievement (50% are in school)
 Rampant drug abuse
 Dependency on aid
 Tagae’s group retreated into the jungle
 A large protected zone around them to prevent killings

37. Big problems

38. Positive results
 A Huaorani church, led by their own community
 Some have university-level education
 Ancestral lands recognised by government
 Being trained to self-dependence

39. Tementa

40. God’s Kingdom will
advance

41. Dan 2:44 – Daniel interpreting
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream

42. Closing

43. Practical suggestions
One or more of the following:-
 Draw up an annual/weekly schedule
 Keep accounts on spending
 Keep a journal, with notes on how you react to things that
happen
 Grade the effort you put into your actions
Does it tally with your priorities?

44. Is that all?
Whoever wants to
be my disciple must
deny themselves
and take up their
cross daily, and
follow me
Whoever wants to
be my disciple must
deny themselves
and take up their
cross daily, and
follow me

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50. Give me all! I don’t want so much of your time, so
much of your talents and money, and so much of
your work. I want you! C.S. Lewis

52. Jesus Christ, Saviour, Lord