Ee Taow

 Greetings to  you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     First John 5:4 says, “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”

     I wasn’t one who had fanch sneakers when i was a kid.  I usually got what was the cheapest type of Keds around.  There wasn’t any consideration of purchasing a “fancy brand” name sneaker.  Summer time would find us running barefoot anyway.  Later on in life, we became missionaries and one of the requirements was to have a good reliable camera.  Money was a restriction o nce again, so I settled on a Minolta SLR camera.  I couldn’t afford a Canon or a Nikon.  Brand names sometimes have a special meaning to hem as in the case of Nikon and Nike.  Both of them refer to  being a conqueror or one who comes in first place or has the best shoe or camera.  

     The word is also used in the Scripture, especially in the Book of Revelation.  The word is translated as “overcometh.”  Each one of the letters to the seven churches has a mention of one that overcomes or who is the victor or who conquers.  Verse 5 goes on to say, “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”  If a person desires to be an overcomer then they have to know the Lord Jesus christ.  It involves a personal relationship with Christ and not simply to know about Christ, but to know Him in a personal way.  One may ask, “How can we, living 2,000 years after Christ walked upon the earth in His ministry in Israel?  Again, we go to the passage involving either the Phhilippian jailor or the Ethiopian eunuch.  Both came to a point where they had to “believe” in Christ for their salvation.  No work is going to accomplish that act.  It is going to be the time when the “lights came on.”   Thee was a documentary video about a tribe in Papua, New Guinea whee the gospel was being preached to them chronologically and after they went through the crucifixion, one man stood up and shouted, “Ee Taow.”  The light had come on and he kept shouting the same words and then another and another would stand up and yell out the same words.  They got it!   They understood the message of salvation and how Christ had suffered and died on the cross for our sins and then was buried and then rose from the dead and walked out of the tomb.    The tribe then began to dance up and down, jumping and shouting “Ee Taow” and it lasted for over thirty minutes.  They were now “overcomers.:  They believed that Jesus was the Son of God.  This is the message that we take to a lost and dying world, that they too can have eternal life  and be a victor.  Praise God today for the victory that we have in Christ.