The Total Blessing

98 Pages·1995·6.145 MB·English

by  Richard Wurmbrand

the total blessing
RICHARD WURMBRAND
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THE TOTAL BLESSING
Other books by Richard Wurmbrand:
The Overcomers (Monarch Publications 1993)
From the Lips of Children (Hodder & Stoughton 1986)
Where Christ Still Suffers (Marshall Pickering 1985)
Little Notes which Like Each Other (Hodder & Stoughton 1976)
Sermons in Solitary Confinement (Marshall Morgan & Scott 1969)
Reaching Towards the Heights (Marshall Morgan & Scott 1985)
Tortured for Christ (Marshall Morgan & Scott 1983)
In God's Underground (Hodder & Stoughton 1969)
My Correspondence with Jesus (Monarch Publications 1990)
Marx: Prophet of Darkness (Marshall Morgan & Scott 1986)
From Torture to Triumph (Monarch Publications 1988)
Alone with God (Hodder & Stoughton 1988)
If Prison Walls Could Speak (Hodder & Stoughton 1972)
Richard Wurmbrand
THE TOTAL
BLESSING
First published in Great Britain 1995
Triangle Books
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Holy Trinity Church
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Copyright © Richard Wurmbrand 1983, 1995
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ISBN 0-281-04875-4
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CONTENTS
Introduction to the Author i
1 The Total Blessing 7
2 God Speaking in Dreams 9
3 What Is Truth? 12
4 Self-denial 14
5 The Conscious and the Unconscious 17
6 What Truth Is Jesus? 20
7 Prayers 22
8 The Simplicity of Moral Problems 24
9 The Sin of Consistency 27
10 The Commandment to Be One 29
11 About Being Narrow-minded and
Broad-minded 32
12 The Little We Know about God 35
13 We and Our Enemies 38
14 The Matter of Compromise 40
15 The Search for Truth 43
16 About Suffering 46
17 The Angels of Suffering 48
18 Sharing His Divinity 50
19 Attitude towards Law 53
20 Not Acting 56
21 Right Actions 59
22 Having Jesus at His Best 62
23 Influence God 64
24 God Who Evolves 66
25 Are You Ready to Die? 69
26 One Trinitarian God 71
27 A Few Thoughts about the Devil 74
28 Problems of Faith in God 77
29 In the Name of Jesus 80
30 Reason and Sentiment 83
31 Why Evil in the World of a Good Father? 85
32 God's Characteristics 87

Introduction to the Author
A book by Geoffrey Hanks appeared in 1992 in Britain with
the title, 70 Great Christians Changing the World (Christian
Focus Publications). Among others it names Peter and Paul,
Ignatius, Polycarp, martyrs of old; world-renowned teachers
such as Jerome, Augustine, Columbus; Patrick, apostle of
the Irish; Francis of Assisi; Wycliffe, Luther, Tyndale; John
Knox, Scottish reformer; Ignatius of Loyola; Carey, the
father of modern missions,- Hudson Taylor, Livingstone,
founders of missions in Asia and Africa; Barnardo, founder of
orphanages; William Booth of the Salvation Army; Spurgeon
and Moody, the great evangelistic preachers.
In this book one chapter is about Richard Wurmbrand. He
is counted among the 70 greatest. This tops good, but also
very bad reports about him in the world press. Below are a
few of these:
No contemporary person has meant so much for the opening
of the eyes of the West to what is going on in the Communist
camp — except the much decried Wurmbrand. Before
Wurmbrand came, we spoke to deaf ears.
The Revd Michael Bourdeaux, Director of the Institute for
the Study of Religion and Communism, London
Wurmbrand irritates, but opens our eyes... Wurmbrand has
got the world to hearken, even if he has sacrificed himself.
He has shouted the cry of the martyrs.
The Revd Ingemar Martinson
General Secretary of the Slavic Mission, Sweden
Wurmbrand is an Iron Curtain Paul. He is the most author-
itative voice of the Underground Church, more than a living
martyr.
Underground Evangelism
Since the Sermon on the Mount v?as delivered, no one has
preached with love like Richard Wurmbrand.
Haratta, Finland
Wurmbrand has brought to the universal Church a new
dimension, reminding it about the martyrs.
Church Times, London
Wurmbrand burst like a fireballa cross the cool complacency
of some.
USA Congressional Record
We were hit by a hurricane called Wurmbrand.
Tablet, New Zealand
We have checked and can say with almost certainty that
there has never been a Pastor Wurmbrand in Romania.
Finnish Communist newspaper
The manifestations of Wurmbrand are determined by high
emotions, they are without compromise and often naive . ..
His judgements about church politics prove a terrifying
narrowness . . . The danger of Wurmbrand's grotesque dis-
tortions consists in the fact that he calls Christian groups in
Eastern Europe to resistance until death ...
Gerhard Simon in The Churches in Russia
In the present Communist regimes strong powers for the
humanization of society lie hidden... Wurmbrand
becomes really dangerous.
Van de Heuwell, then Director of Public Relations, the
World Council of Churches
Pastor Richard Wurmbrand possesses a bordello and nine
night clubs in the USA.
From the Soviet film, The Emissaries, which had as its
target the smuggling of religious literature into the
USSR, organized by 'Jesus to the Communist World'
Wurmbrand is the devil's mouthpiece.
Arbeiterzeitung, Switzerland
Wurmbrand is a new St John the Baptist... a voice crying in
the wilderness.
Christianity Today, USA