What Are U Willing To Do For God???
You must make your choice. Either this man Jesus was
and is the Son of God: or else a madman or something
worse. You can shut Him up as a fool, you can spit at
Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His
feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come
with any patronizing nonsense about Him being a
great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.
He did not intend to.
 C.S. Lewis
        This is for all who have died for the truth of Jesus...


    *Matthew (once a tax collector)-Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword
    wound.

    *Mark- Died in Alexandria, Egypt, after being dragged by horses through the streets
    until dead.

    *Luke- Was hanged in Greece, as a result of his tremendous preaching to the lost.

    *John-Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in a huge basin of oil during a wave of
    persecution in Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered from death. John was
    then sentenced to the mines in the prison island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic
    book of Revelation on Patmos. The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve
    as bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey. He died as an old man, the only apostle to die
    peacefully.

    *Peter-Was crucified upside down on an X-shaped cross, according to church tradition
    because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die in the same position that
    Jesus Christ had died. The tradition of the early church recorded that as Peter was
    being led to his crucifixion he was heard to say," None but Christ, none but Christ."

    *James(the Just)- The leader of the church in Jerusalem, was dropped more than a
    hundred feet down the southeast pinnacle of the temple when he refused to deny his
    faith in Christ when they discovered that James survived the fall, his enemies beat him
    to death with a fuller's club.(this pinnacle was where Satan had taken Jesus years
    earlier during the temptation.

    *James(son of Zebedee)-Was a fisherman  by trade when Jesus called him to a lifetime
    of ministry. As a strong leader of the Church, James was ultimately beheaded at
    Jerusalem. The roman officer who guarded James watched in amazement as James
    defended his faith at his trial. Later, the officer walked  beside James to the place of
    execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and knelt
    beside him as James  was beheaded for being a Christian.

    *Bartholomew,- also known as Nathanael, was a missionary to Asia, in present day
    Turkey. Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia when  he was flayed
    to death by a whip.

    *Andrew- was crucified on an X-shaped cross in Patras, Greece, after being whipped
    severely by seven soldiers. The soldiers tied Andrew's body to the cross with cords to
    prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross,
    Andrew saluted it in these words:"I have long desired and expected  this happy hour.
    The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it." He continued to
    preach to his tormentors for two days until he died.

    *Thomas- was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to
    establish the Church in the subcontinent.

    *Jude-, the brother of Jesus, was killed with arrows when he refused  to deny his faith
    in Christ.

    * Matthias-, the apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and
    then beheaded.

    *Barnabas-, one of the group of seventy disciples, wrote the Epistle of Barnabas. He
    preached throughout Italy and Cyprus. Barnabas was stoned to death at Salonika.

    * Paul- was tortured and then beheaded by the Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67 Paul
    endured a lengthy imprisonment, which allowed him to write his many epistles to the
    churches he had formed throughout the Roman empire. These letters, which taught
    many of the foundational doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New
    Testament.