The description of the sufferings of God's saints in Hebrews 11:35-38 is just as properly applied to New Testament saints -- historic Baptists like the Donatists, Albigenses and Waldenses -- as it is to heroes of the Old Testament. This message recounts how such ancient Baptists, as in that passage, "...were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth..." |