The Rebel's Guide to Joy - The Life of Horatio Spafford

Horatio Spafford was no stranger to suffering and tragedy - a life marked by the loss of 6 of his 8 children among other calamities. In midst of his greatest sorrows he penned the words "...whatever my lot though hast taught me to say it is well with my soul", words which encourage us to fight for joy in Christ even when death itself threatens to overtake.

This clip is taken from the sermon "The Rebel's Guide to Joy in Death," preached by Pastor Mark Driscoll at the Mars Hill Church Ballard campus in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 2007. It is the 4th sermon in our sermon series on the book of Philippines.

To watch the full sermon, visit: http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/rebels-guide-to-joy/the-rebels-guide-to-j...

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[MsMiyaDvs]

It is well with my soul. I heard in in church growing up but never heard the story behind it. It is truely a song for the soul.

[Danthious]

@MrMittendorf ah ok, I was just assuming you may have read up on the History of Sapfford with first hand historical resources.

[MrMittendorf]

@Danthious I'm not exactly sure how I can let you see my copies unless you live nearby me, but my primary source for my claims and my play that I've written on the subject is the memoirs of Bertha Spafford Vestor, Horatio's and Anna's 5th daughter, the first of their children to survive childhood. These memoirs are called "Our Jerusalem" and they are available through The American Colony in Jerusalem; this is the ministry that the Spafford's founded when they moved to Jerusalem in 1881.

[Danthious]

@MrMittendorf I know you havn't visited this video in a long time but I would like to see some of the resources for your claims if you don't mind.

[EnterHisRest1]

The United States is also warned that it too may lose two-thirds of its country for how it has cursed Israel.... Israel curses itself in Gaza and Bush and the New World Order begin the Last Days

[eatshitandchokenoair]

religion pulls you from your nature and closes many of lifes important doors

[MrMittendorf]

Finally, Horatio Spafford, despite the retelling of the tragedies associated with the famous hymn, was a far more powerful believer than people give him credit for. If I were to suffer a hint of what he did, I would never be able to withstand at this point in my walk. His wife, Anna, was no spiritual slouch either. "Only a robust Christianity," she wrote, "would carry me through." Wow. Come on everyone. When you remember Horatio, remember Anna, too.

[MrMittendorf]

Bertha Spafford Vestor's memoirs, called "Our Jerusalem" are available for purchase through The American Colony in Jerusalem. Bertha was Horatio and Anna's 6th child. These memoirs chronicle the events from the Chicago Fire and several years of the Spafford's life in Jerusalem. The Chicago Newspapers perpetuated a story that Bertha knew about, but she clearly tells a different story than the Tribune did. You'll have to decide for yourselves which more likely to be true.

[MrMittendorf]

I am glad that the writer, who clearly can't count, at least didn't perpetuate the myth, instigated by the press, that Spafford went insane and moved to Jerusalem under the delusion that he was the 2nd incarnation of the Messiah. Actually, he moved because his own body of believers near Chicago suggested that Horatio and his wife, Anna, had sinned so severely that their daughters' deaths were God's punishment. Leave it to the Church to kick brothers and sisters when they're down.

[MrMittendorf]

H. Spafford had seven children, not 8. Five of them died, not 6, and the narrator even says that Spafford's four daughters and one son die. Let's count, people! Further, Spafford died in Israel in 1880 long before his ministry there, The American Colony, could aid anyone in WWI. The ministry is still there today, too, and has helped thousands during its 130 year life span.

If you're going to produce a video, do some editing or at least some math.