The Hiding Place

And he certainly never gave Corrie a big head.

And as she began to travel the world after it was all over and tell of her experiences, and the Billy Graham Organization picked it up and made a film called The Hiding Place of It.

And books were written about her.

And everywhere she went, auditoriums were overflowing with people that wanted to hear her.

Oh my gosh.

So The Hiding Place you need to read by Corrie ten Boom.

Everybody that is listening needs to read this.

This is a woman that was in the Holocaust, am I saying that right?

That power will be found in unexpected, dare I even say, unwanted places.

Can I give you an example that maybe some of you will be familiar with? If I say the name Corrie Ten Boom, you know what I'm talking about, The Hiding Place.

1944, having done a work of faith to hide Jews from the Gestapo, Corrie and her sister Betsy have been placed in a concentration camp, and it's a horrible place.

It's not a very good advert for trying to act in faith, is it? Bad things happen to people who are trying to serve the Lord.

I mentioned this in the Inspired Homeschool.

That there's a book called Night by Eli Wiesel, I don't know if I pronounced that right, about the Holocaust, or there's books like Man's Search for Meaning or The Hiding Place.

And so some books about the same subject are going to be more uplifting and hopeful than others.

You know, there's a book called Slaughterhouse-Five that I think they used to read in high school.

So this was like a graphic, a very graphically...

it was a novel that depicted graphically the horrors of World War II.

Or you could read something like Devil at My Heels, which also depicted the horror of World War II, or The Hiding Place also depicted the horror of the Holocaust.

But those books are so much more hopeful.

It is in the sense that we are God-fearing, but it is through that one fear that the strength is gained to stand before man fearless or maybe fearful, but doing it anyways.

So I often recall this situation from The Hiding Place.

This is something that often comes to my mind when I think about obedience to government, obedience to God, and how we sort that out and where our obedience actually comes from and lies, um, and where morality then is derived from.

Um, it's from The Hiding Place, the Corrie ten Boom story, where her father is speaking with a pastor, and he comes into their home, and the family was, that they were hiding had an infant, a baby, and he tried to get the pastor to take the baby.

And I think it sticks in my mind so much because I just remember this scene from the movie, but, um, it, it's just, it's there, and I was like, "This is such a good example." The, he tries to get the pastor to take the baby, and the pastor says, "No, it's against the law.

I can't take the baby." But Corrie ten Boom's father said, "There are times in which man's law is against God's law, and it must be broken because God's law is superior." And so we have to remember That our obedience ultimately lies with God, and that our morality is not just there because we are so good.

Abigail and I together have been reading a book that many of you may have heard of before.

It's called The Hiding Place.

It's by a lady named Corrie ten Boom.

She's a Dutch woman who lived through the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

And as I thought about it, perhaps almost my favourite sort of reading is reading a good Christian biography, a testimony of someone or about someone and how God has worked in and through their lives.

And two of my favourite Christian biographies, and here are two book recommendations for me, you might be able to guess the first one if you know me well, it's The Hiding Place.

which is the story of Corrie ten Boom, who was a middle-aged Dutch lady during the time of the Second World War and she and her family helped smuggle Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied Holland and get them to freedom.

But as part of that, she was betrayed and she and her sister and her father were captured by the Germans.

She and her sister ended up in a Nazi concentration camp.

And The Hiding Place is the story of those events.

It's a very interesting book.

Another one is a book called God Smuggler, that was another Dutch person, a guy called Brother Andrew, who used to smuggle Bibles into communist Eastern Europe and Russia during the time of when all those communist governments were in power, behind the Iron Curtain, really interesting stuff.

Do you remember Corrie Ten Boom? Oh, sure.

In The Hiding Place? Mm-hmm.

She has an amazing story about giving thanks.

They got captured for hiding Jews in their home in north of Amsterdam and the Netherlands during World War II.