You Can Be a Hero Alone: Islam, #2
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This book was written for the isolated Christian who is living....
In a country where Christianity is illegal.
In a community with no New Testament church.
On a military base, university campus, or prison
As a shut-in at a home.
In a community with a congregation, but has self-isolated from them.
When alone, it is easy to become discouraged and stay discouraged. This book shows how people hung on alone in Bible times for ten years, twenty years, a hundred years ~ sometimes thinking they were failures, sometimes wondering if it is all worth it, sometimes thinking of giving up. But always hanging on.
The account in this book of each isolated Bible character is in story form to make them more real to the reader. To know exactly what the Bible does say about them, applicable scriptures are included.
This book was written for new Christians and seasoned Christians who have hung on alone and who continue to hang on alone. They are all over the world, sometimes in pagan countries, and sometimes even among us but forgotten.
God bless all our isolated Christians who keep hanging on. You are our heroes!
Katheryn Maddox Haddad
Katheryn Maddox Haddad spends an average of 300 hours researching before she writes a book-ancient historians such as Josephus, archaeological digs so she can know the layout of cities, their language culture and politics. She grew up in the northern United States and now lives in Arizona where she doesn't have to shovel sunshine. She basks in 100-degree weather, palm trees, cacti, and a computer with most of the letters worn off. With a bachelor's degree in English, Bible and social science from Harding University and part of a master's degree in Bible, including Greek, from the Harding Graduate School of Theology, she also has a master's degree in management and human relations from Abilene University. She is author of forty-eight books, both non-fiction and fiction. Her newspaper column appeared for several years in newspapers in Texas and North Carolina ~ Little Known Facts About the Bible ~ and she has written for numerous Christian publications. For several years, she has been sending out every morning a daily scripture and short inspirational thought to some 30,000 people around the world. She spends half her day writing, and the other half teaching English over the internet worldwide using the Bible as textbook. She has taught over 6000 Muslims through World English Institute. Students she has converted to Christianity are in hiding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestine. "They are my heroes," she declares.
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You Can Be a Hero Alone - Katheryn Maddox Haddad
You Can Be A
Hero Alone
Survival Stories for the
Courageous Isolated Christian
Katheryn Maddox Haddad
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
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You Can Be a Hero Alone
Worship Changes Since 1st Century + Worship 1sr Century Way
The Best of Alexander Campbell’s Millennial Harbinger
Inside the Hearts of Bible Women-Reader+Audio+Leader
The Lord’s Supper: 52 Readings with Prayers
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BIBLE TEXTS
Revelation: A Love Letter From God
The Holy Spirit: 592 Verses Examined
Was Jesus God? (Why Evil)
365 Life-Changing Scriptures Day by Date
Love Letters of Jesus & His Bride, Ecclesia (Song of Solomon)
Christianity or Islam? The Contrast
The Road to Heaven
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FUN BOOKS
Bible Puzzles, Bible Song Book, Bible Numbers
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TOUCHING GOD SERIES
365 Golden Bible Thoughts: God’s Heart to Yours
365 Pearls of Wisdom: God’s Soul to Yours
365 Silver-Winged Prayers: Your Spirit to God’s
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SURVEY SERIES: EASY BIBLE WORKBOOKS
→Old Testament & New Testament Surveys
→Questions You Have Asked-Part I & II
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HISTORICAL RESEARCH BIBLE
for Novel, Screenwriter, Documentary & Thesis Writers
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HISTORICAL NOVELS & STORYBOOKS
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Series of 8: A Child’s Life of Christ
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Series of 8: A Child’s Bible Kids
Series of 10: A Child’s Bible Ladies
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GENEALOGY: Climb Your Family Tree w/o Falling Out
Volume I & 2: Beginner-Intermediate & Colonial-Medieval
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version, Copyright @ 1982
by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Copyright 2014 Katheryn Maddox Haddad
ISBN 978-1-952261-32-9
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Table of Contents
LIKE NOAH
LIKE JOB
LIKE ABRAHAM
LIKE JOSEPH
LIKE MOSES
LIKE SAMUEL
LIKE NAOMI
LIKE DAVID
LIKE ELIJAH
LIKE JONAH
LIKE JEREMIAH
LIKE DANIEL & THREE FRIENDS
LIKE MORDECAI
LIKE ESTHER
LIKE ANNA
LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST
LIKE EPANET
LIKE PAUL-I
LIKE LYDIA
LIKE AQUILA & PRISCILLA
LIKE PAUL-II
LIKE LUKE
LIKE JOHN
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LIKE NOAH
And ONLY Noah was left,
and those with him in the ark.
(Genesis 7:21c)
It seemed that Noah was a failure. By human standards he was. But by God’s standards he was a hero.
Noah was the only one among his family members who believed in and followed Jehovah God. He was especially disappointed in his father, Lamech, and grandfather, Methuselah (Genesis 5:25-26).
It was a very lonely life for him in many ways. His relatives and even his friends and neighbors were always thinking of ways to give themselves power over other people, or make them feel good, or make them look richer than anyone else. Noah wasn’t like that.
The Bible in Genesis chapter six, verse eight (6:8) says, The Lord saw that people thought only about evil things all the time. Remember, these were Noah’s friends and relatives.
Not only were Noah’s friends and relatives sinning all the time, but they liked doing it. Satan leads us to believe that, if we’re having a good time when we do something, it cannot possibly be evil. Satan has always deceived people; he is like a dangerous wolf disguised as a gentle sheep (Matthew 7:15).
NOAH IS DIFFERENT
In Noah’s time, people did know who God was, and good people were supposed to pray to him, worship him, and try to be like him. But Noah was the only one who even tried to be good.
While Noah’s friends and relatives were bragging to each other how important they were, Noah was at home humbly praying to God, asking forgiveness for his sins, and promising to try to do better. While Noah’s friends and relatives were pursuing sexual conquests, eating all the time, or making their bodies wonderful to look upon, Noah was quietly teaching his children to love and honor God, take care of the sick, and work for an honest living. While Noah’s friends and relatives were building bigger and better houses, riding on faster animals than anyone else, and making fine clothing and jewelry, Noah was offering sacrifices of whatever he had in loving adoration for his Maker.
Genesis 6:11 explains, God looked at the earth, and he saw that people had ruined it. Violence was
everywhere—{people had become evil and cruel} and had ruined their life on earth.
Noah’s lifestyle and moral standards were definitely different than those around him. It wasn’t any fun being different than other people. Those other people must have taunted Noah with sarcasm, calling him names and saying things to him like, You think you’re better than the rest of us!
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GOD CAN ONLY DWELL WITH GOOD
All the bad things going on among people made God very sad and very angry. God is all goodness. Therefore, God cannot dwell with bad and still be God.
The Bible says God is Love. He created the world because Love must have someone to love. It is the same when people marry and have children. Parents do not have children so the children will admire them, but so the parents can have someone special to love. Parents have children knowing those children may turn against them someday. But parents long so much to love, that they have the children anyway. God is the same way. Love requires free will. God did not create people to be robots. If robots did good all the time and said they loved someone all the time, it wouldn’t be true goodness and true love.
It broke God’s heart to see everyone turn to evil all the time. But there was a hero in this true story.
The Bible says in Genesis 6:8-9, But there was one man on earth that pleased the Lord—Noah. Noah
was a good man all his life. Noah always followed God.
God decided to protect Noah and get him away from the evil people. How was that possible? By destroying everyone who purposely did evil all the time and enjoyed doing it. God decided to give the world a bath
, to flood the world and wash away its sins.
GOD TAKES CARE OF NOAH’S HEART LONELINESS
Noah must have been very lonely with very few friends. Imagine what it is like to be the only one standing up for right while everyone else is mad at you for not being sinful like them.
Whenever Noah was around his relatives and friends talking about things they shouldn’t, or doing things they shouldn’t, or planning things that never should have entered their mind, Noah had two choices: (1) He could remain silent and feel left out. (2) He could speak out against what they were doing and be mocked.
As long as Noah remained silent, he remained lonely. So God took care of his loneliness by the only alternative: Talking. Heroes don’t become heroes by doing nothing. They do not become heroes running from challenges.
Noah, a plain farmer and carpenter (Genesis 6:14-16 and Genesis 9:20) became a preacher, an imam, a rabbi, a priest, a monk, a prophet. II Peter 2:5 in the Bible explains, Noah was a man who told people about living right. Apparently, every spare moment Noah had, he preached. Did his friends and relatives like it? No. They didn’t want to change their way of living. But Noah kept on preaching.
GOD TAKES CARE OF NOAH’S PHYSICAL LONELINESS
God gave Noah a second thing to do to take care of his loneliness. He told Noah to build a very large boat, sometimes called an ark. It is all explained in Genesis 6:12-13, 14-17, 18:
So God said to Noah, "All people have filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth. Use cypress wood and build a boat for yourself. Make rooms in the boat, and cover the boat with tar.
"This is the size I want you to make the boat: 300 cubits* long, 50 cubits* wide, and 30 cubits* high. Make a window for the boat about 18 inches* below the roof.* Put a door in the side of the boat. Make three floors in the boat; a top deck, a middle deck, and a lower deck.
"Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die. I will make a special agreement with you. And you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives will all go into the boat.
Can you imagine how much Noah’s neighbors must have made fun of Noah building a huge boat far away from any large body of water? His sons must have been made fun of at school. His wife must have been made fun of at the market. But they stayed physically busy and it helped get their minds off the bad way people treated them.
HOW WAS NOAH ABLE ENDURE THIS ALONE?
God did not give Noah time to brood and feel sorry for himself. He put him to work preaching and building, preaching and building, preaching and building. It took Noah 100 years to build his big boat, and during that time he preached to his neighbors, his friends, his relatives.
Did they like someone preaching to them all the time? Of course not. Did Noah like it when they insulted him in order to get him to stop? No. He must have gone to bed many a night week after week, month after month, year after year feeling like a failure.
But he couldn’t stop. Why? Because God loved everyone in the world and did not want to see any of them perish. Noah loved whoever God loved ~ Noah’s neighbors, friends and relatives. His love was so strong, nothing could stop him from going to them over and over begging them to change their ways. Their insults hurt, of course, but he kept going back to them. Oh, how God loved these evil people and wanted them to change; God did not want to destroy them. Oh, how Noah loved these people and wanted them to change; Noah did not want God to destroy them.
Eventually, after giving everyone chance after chance after chance to escape death, the cleansing had to come. For righteous Noah’s good, the cleansing had to come. After all, Noah was just human. God needed to protect him and help him. So, he sent the flood to destroy everyone who was not on the boat. Only Noah and his family went into the boat.
Noah endured because of love: Love for God and love for others. His heart never centered on himself and the rejection he felt. Because of this, after the flood, Noah’s family went out and repopulated the earth. Because of Noah’s faith, mankind got another chance. Rejected Noah was a hero.
IN REVIEW:
1. Noah’s relatives, friends and neighbors were always thinking of ways to
a. make themselves happier
b. make others happier
c. make God happier
2. Noah’s relatives, friends and neighbors sinned all the time because
a. they were forced to
b. they didn’t know the difference in right and wrong
c. they enjoyed sinning
3. Why did God create man?
a. So he would have people to love.
b. So they would to be his slaves.
c. So he would have someone to worship him.
4. God told Noah to
a. Go to war against all those sinners.
b. Call God’s curse down upon all those sinners.
c. Preach to all those sinners to try to get them to return to God and being good.
5. Noah was able to preach to them because
a. He had a better education than them
b. He loved the sinners.
c. He was taller and stronger and forced people to listen
6. Noah preached to them
a. 1 year
b. 10 years
c. 100 years
7. During that time, Noah was building a large boat on his land, and the people probably
a. Helped him
b. Made fun of him
c. Asked if they could ride the boat with him when it was done
8. After standing for God alone for such a long time, Noah
a, Finally gave up and quit building the boat so he could be friends with everyone again.
b. Decided to continue standing for God alone.
c. Quit his religion.
9. Finally, God caused everything on earth to be covered with floodwaters so that he could
a. Make Noah’s new crops grow.
b. Create some new rivers and lakes.
c. Protect Noah from the bad people.
10. How many other people decided to believe in God and join Noah’s family on his boat?