1.21-Some things are more important than life.

1.21

Hebrews 11

23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin, 26 considering the [r]reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward. 

To choose to stand with God and with the truth regardless of the cost is a good thing.

And now, the martyrdom of John Hooper:

Edward VI died on July, 1553; and as soon as his Popish sister Mary was fairly seated on her throne, John Hooper's troubles began.  The sword of persecution having been once unsheathed, the famous Protestant Bishop of Gloucester was almost the first person who was struck at. …He was renowned all over England as one of the boldest champions of the Reformation, and most thorough opponents of Popery. His friends warned him that danger was impending, but he calmly replied, 'Once I did flee and took me to my feet. But now, because I am called to this place and vocation, I am thoroughly persuaded to tarry, and to live and die with my sheep.'

[He was imprisoned on the 29th of August, and was sentenced to death as a heretic] for holding the right of priests to marry, and for denying the doctrine of transubstantiation…

The end came at last. On Monday, the 4th of February, 1555, Hooper was formally degraded by Bishop Bonner, in the chapel of Newgate prison, and handed over to the tender mercies of the secular power. In the evening of that day, to his great delight, he was informed that he was to be sent to Gloucester, and to be publicly burned in his own cathedral city.

…[In Gloucester the next day] Sir Anthony Kingston, whom he had once offended by rebuking his sins, came to see him, and entreated him, with much affection and many tears, to consult his safety and recant. 'Consider,' he said, 'that life is sweet, and death is bitter. Life hereafter may do good.' To this the noble soldier of Christ returned the ever memorable answer: 'The life to come is more sweet, and the death to come is more bitter.' Seeing him immoveable, Kingston left him with bitter tears, telling him, 'I thank God that ever I knew you, seeing God did appoint you to call me, being a lost child. By your good instructions, when I was before a fornicator and adulterer, God hath brought me to detest and forsake the same.' Hooper afterwards said that this interview had drawn from him more tears than he had shed throughout the seventeen months of his imprisonment.

 2 Timothy 1. 1,2

Grace, mercy and peace. 

E:zk. 20,21 Certain things are righ and some wrong. 

Job 18 Too many words is bad.

Proverbs 18