I finally saw the crux of my problem.

It turned out that my faith was based on my feelings.

It turned out that my faith was based on my experience.

It turned out that my faith was based on my knowledge.

It turned out that my faith was based on my determination.

Now I know that that is not true faith.

Whether it's one percent or one hundred percent, it's not true faith.

True faith is the belief that nothing is possible in the Creator.

True faith is faith in the faithfulness of the Creator.

True faith is the belief that what is intended to be done by the purpose of creation will be accomplished.

True faith is the assurance that everything you do is in accordance with the will of your Creator.

In a nutshell, true faith is centered on the Creator.

In a nutshell, true faith is the complete elimination of self-centeredness.

Gideon smiled when he saw the change in me.

said: "You now, understand. ”

He smiled like a child.

I suddenly felt lighter.

This place, which was like a demon cave, now seems to be as beautiful as heaven.

This 1814 is my 1814.

Because I have completely changed myself.

Not because of the end of the Second War of Independence.

Not because of the arrival of the battleship USS Wasp.

It has nothing to do with that Anderson either.

It's because of the Gideon shepherds.

His preaching of the truth opened my heart.

Since then, I have been like a different person, living a meaningful life every day.

One of the things I did the most was running around with Gideon.

For Kaiwi the Great opened a net to Gideon, allowing him to go everywhere and preach the truth as he pleased.

So I also had the opportunity to go to the places where pirates lived.

There are some things out there, pirate secrets, that are not on the outside, but I'm not interested in them.

What I want to do is help Gideon preach.

In fact, I became his disciple.

It's not about age.

Even though he was fine, Gideon called my uncle uncle short.

Those pirates, except for not allowing us to participate in their interactions with the outside world, are relatively free in this special space, as long as they don't go to the place where we go, we can do whatever we want.

The best thing about it is that there is no shortage of food and drink.

I don't know how they arrange it, there are fresh fruits all year round, especially oranges, which I can't eat.

Also, strawberries can also be supplied.

The end result of simple treatment for those on the Insurrection was that about fifty people were disabled for life and incapacitated to work.

Others are fine, or the disability is not severe, or they have regained their health.

With the addition of the Uprising and the Picarin in front, there are already 560 people.

For these people, the pirates did not have strict requirements, that is, they could work for all the people who could, and the main job was to chisel down stones one meter square in a piece of submarine seamount rock.

Right now, Gideon was especially busy.

His affair was divided into three pieces.

One is the original Wasp guys.

He was their military pastor, and of course knew their state of faith.

He gave them classes every evening, which was similar to a normal Sunday school class.

Lao Ban Yang sometimes went to listen to it, but found that most of the time he couldn't understand it.

Even Anderson said that the faith courses they took were roughly equivalent to the secular graduate classes.

The second is the men aboard the Insurgents and the Picardin, whom Gideon regarded as catechumens.

Regular preaching to them is the content of the Creator's incarnation to save the world and to believe in the Creator for eternal life.

Every time he preached, he said it was a complete gospel truth.

Only by knowing the Creator, knowing that man himself is a sinner, and repenting of his sins and acknowledging that the Creator is his master, can he be saved.

He emphasized that salvation is a gift from the Creator and the greatest blessing, but it does not mean that you can sit back and enjoy it after believing in the Lord.

Especially if you are currently under the control of pirates, you are likely to be persecuted for believing in the Creator.

Why did he preach like that, he had to remind his listeners of the persecution they would face, he told me.

He said that he was preaching the truth, not a lie.

The incarnate Creator, who had suffered all kinds and died on the cross, had no way of being a disciple of his disciple and trying to live a comfortable life.

There is no possibility, but you say that it is the advantage of being a disciple of the Lord, that is deception, and the truth will depart from you.

In that way, even if you deceive more people, when you encounter wind and rain, you will disperse like birds and beasts.

Therefore, what he wants to do is to preach the full gospel, gather true disciples for the Lord, and follow the Lord steadfastly in the future, no matter what difficulties he encounters.

Those are the people who have true faith.

Since he adhered to this strict standard, not many people recognized his preaching above the insurgents and Picarin.

Even if someone expresses that wish, he has to ask them questions seriously, and if he doesn't hit the wrong person, he won't approve it.

Only when he gave satisfactory answers to his questions did he baptize them and let them confess that they had confessed to the Lord and would henceforth be faithful disciples of the Creator for the rest of their lives.

After about three months, a total of ten people have made this step, and I have to count myself.

I don't think there are many people, but Gideon is satisfied.

He felt that it was a great victory for the Creator to accept ten elite soldiers under his command.

The third piece is the pirates and their families.

I followed Gideon to the place where the pirates lived, and I really got to know how they lived.

Don't look at them fierce and savage outside, but here everyone has a complete family.

This was a big surprise to me.

Even Gideon, who was devoted to preaching without distractions, expressed amazement.

I am reminded of the full moon celebration for one of the children of the Emperor Kaiwi, and his explanation of the institution of marriage for pirates.

It turned out that they used this way to guarantee the origin of natural pirates.

They didn't allow people who weren't born into pirate families to join pirates, and if they didn't produce their own, wouldn't pirates be extinct?

At the very least, their pirates will become extinct.

And the entire ancient industry of piracy is not carried forward and maintained by pirates with a long history and authenticity like them, and even some sporadic and irregular pirate stragglers are considered extinct.

Sure enough, these pirates were all in keeping with the marriage customs described by Kaiwi the Great.

It is a brother and sister who become husband and wife.

If this condition is not met, a matching boy or girl is found among the younger generations of the siblings.

Of course, this marriage pairing is also finalized at the time of the full moon.

Unless, at that time, there is no suitable spouse, that is, a suitable boy or girl.

At first, Gideon and I were only amazed in our hearts, but when we got acquainted with them, we asked why they did what they did, not like the outside world, where marriage had to be done three times and had to wait until a certain age.

Surprisingly, they said they were doing something in line with the Old Testament!

They learned from their godly forefathers in strict accordance with the Old Testament in dealing with this issue.

In particular, they give examples of Cain, Abraham, and Jacob.

Among them, Cain could only marry his sister.

Both Abraham and Jacob were daughters of their father's generation.

In general, they are all consanguineous marriages.

When Gideon went back, he checked the Old Testament, and it was really not bad at all.

It left him speechless.

It turns out that I am not as familiar with the Old Testament as pirates.

This left him silent on the subject.

Since then, Gideon has devoted himself to preaching, that is, to prepare the full gospel of the truth and wait for the results of the Creator's work.

During this time, they went to the house of Kaiwei the Great many times and saw the two children.

The two little ones were both dressed in pink makeup, and they were very kind to Gideon when they saw him, and they were very clingy to him.

Probably Gideon was happy every time he saw a child, so the child's childlike innocence was not deceived and he felt that this person was friendly.

It was also a coincidence that the two had just arrived at his house, and the two children pounced on Gideon with joy, just as Emperor Kaiwei returned, and immediately stopped the children.

Although Emperor Kaiwei did not restrict Gideon, he did not want his two children to be too close to him.

Isn't it in vain that his purpose is to cultivate the Pirate Emperor and become a disciple of the Creator?

That's why he stopped the kid.

But who was Gideon?

He is single-minded and will never treat others as masters, even if you are the pirate king.

As soon as he saw the child being stopped, he drank Kaiwei the Great: "Let go of the child, don't stop it, let them come, people have to be like children, they can't enter the kingdom of heaven!"

Emperor Kaiwei is a father after all, although he is dedicated to cultivating the Pirate King, but the child is good, and he can't pull it back!

As soon as my heart sank, I let go of the child.

From then on, his two children also became Gideon's schoolboys.

With their leader in this way, the other pirates naturally followed suit, and let their children learn from Gideon.

Gideon was pleased.

Although more tired.

Because there were so many children, about forty or fifty, he opened another nursery class.

The textbook he uses seems to be called a small catechism.

I only remember the first question – what is the primary purpose of man?

The standard answer is to glorify the Creator and rejoice with the Creator.

There are a lot of them in the future, and although I think it's important, I can't go to class with those kids.

Therefore, it is not recorded here.

To be honest, I think it should all be copied here, because those things are the basic beliefs.

In this way, Gideon's affairs grew bigger and bigger, and I followed him blindly, and my life was still very fulfilling.

I forgot in a trance that I was a prisoner of pirates, locked up in their pyramid.

However, it was during this time that my knowledge of the Creator was firmly grounded.

Speaking of which, this must be grateful.

If you don't enter here, at most, you can only run two more transportation trips and earn more money and jujubes, which is still a confused life.

As the number of converts to the Creator increases, an inescapable contradiction becomes apparent.

That is the contradiction between their faith and their pirate profession.

One of the basic principles of conversion to the Creator is to do good, because a good life must bear good fruit.

But once they do good, they must not continue to be pirates, because pirates are killing people for their profession.

In the beginning, Emperor Kaiwi allowed Gideon to preach on the condition that it not interfere with his pirate business.

At that time, it is estimated that no one predicted that the number of converts to the Creator would soon reach a certain scale that would affect the piracy business.

In fact, very few of the first-line pirates converted to the Creator, no more than a tenth at most.

But their wives, their children, the proportion of converts is very large.

And their wives and children were determined to do good after they converted, and even though the pirates were very patriarchal and macho, they still had a great influence on them.

Let's not talk about the pillow wind or anything, they used to bring back some good things to their wives and children when they came back from a pirate trip, and it was the best time for them to have fun.

But now, he has been rejected by his wife and children.

Even if they didn't say anything, it would be enough for the pirate man to be uncomfortable.

If you change your life, you must change your outlook on life and values, and how can you have the same mood when you treat the ill-gotten gains of those pirates?

Those pirates whose families had such problems all came to Kaiwei the Great to complain.

They were reasonable and did not complain about their wives and children, but this phenomenon made them very uncomfortable, and they asked the boss to find a way.

How do they know that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and the one in the boss's house is even more difficult.

It turned out that his two wives and even their children were the backbone of their own Bible study classes, and they learned better than the average person, and of course their understanding of the truth was more profound.

Therefore, the pressure on Kaiwei the Great is even greater.

Of course, his two wives were virtuous and his children were filial, and they did not change their attitude towards him, but he could still deeply understand the difference from his attitude towards the pirate industry.

In the past, even his wife didn't care what he did, after all, it was a painful scar.

The two children adored their father.

After all, when a pirate and especially a pirate king, there is a lot to brag about.

But now, that attitude has directly turned into disgust.

Not in words or in direct action, but in the furnishings of the home.

He was a very attentive man, and found that some valuable things that had been shot from others were missing, whether in his own room or in the room of his two children, and they kept them out of sight.

Probably all received Gideon's warning, and everyone remained tacitly aware of such a gap in values, at least now is not the time to openly contradict and force agreement.

With such a crisis in his own family, how can Kaiwei solve the problem for his subordinates.

He had to promise that he would come forward, find Gideon, and negotiate a solution.

Gideon had anticipated such a problem, and now it was a matter of how to wisely come up with a solution.

Because I've been following Gideon, I've been the one I've been invited.

I didn't have Gideon's faith, and I went to the house of Kaiwei the Great with trepidation.

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