Peace Child (1974)

By Don Richardson

A Powerful Work of God in the midst of a Cannibal Culture

The peace child, reveals a secret. There is a seed deeply planted in every culture around the world. When watered, that seed will reproduce an eternal harvest in that culture. God has ordained it to be so. My ancestors are from Norway. The Norwegian culture produced and reproduced, one of the most violent, merciless raiding, raping, plundering, murderous, and cannibalistic fearful people that Europe has ever known, known as the Vikings. Today, it is one of the most safe, loyal, civilized, intelligent, hard-working, prosperous, kind and generous cultures in all of the world. What caused that change? it was the peace child that came to my ancestors and changed them one by one.

Who is the “Peace Child”?  Even in a dark and wicked culture, where cheating and lying are highly honored; and eating, people is a luxurious delicacy–even in the midst of such darkness, God has provided a light to the gentiles, that they may know God, and come to know the one who created them for a purpose, to bring glory to the name of his one, and only he gotten his son.

God uses even selfish interests, and carnal men to bring self-willed sinners out of the darkness, into the light.

1 Corinthians 3:5-8 (KJV)

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

1. I have planted,
2. Apollos watered;
3. but God gave the increase.

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one:

and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

“Never the Same”  Trailer

Matthew 13:44 (KJV)

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field;

the which when a man hath found, he hideth,

and for joy thereof

1. goeth and
2. selleth all that he hath, and
3. buyeth that field.

“Never the Same”  short movie (15 minutes)

The son of Don Richardson returns to the Sawi after 50 years

Matthew 13:45-46 (KJV)

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:

Who, when he had found one pearl of great price,

1. went and
2. sold all that he had, and
3. bought it.

Can you see a repeating pattern here?

I know that I am an ignorant man, but even in my own ignorance and foolishness, I can see that there is a repeating pattern here.

When we read the word of God, and we ignorantly stumble into a pattern that is repeating itself, that is actually the voice of God, emphasizing his principles and prophetic challenges to the heart and mind of a man, willing to see from God’s perspective.

Patterns in scripture are like prophetic preachers, hitting us over and over again, until we wake up, and begin to understand. Until we begin to see from God’s perspective, and then we go out and share his repeating patterns, so that others may see, even what we see, even though we are as dull as door knobs–if we simply pay a little attention to God’s Heavenly Prophetic Patterns our lives will be ruined for worldly pursuits, and worldly pleasures. Why? Because the Glory of God and the Majesty of His Kingdom will greatly out shine this world’s rusty, fake, and temporary glitter. Such faint and temporary shiny things will no longer hold, nor captivate our attention. When we grasp God’s repeating patterns, we can become wise as serpents, gentle as doves, and tenacious as bulldogs–never again letting goes of the treasures of God, and never again enticed by the dullness of men’s devices.

When we embrace His call, we will:

Never Be the Same!

Short summary:

Matthew 21:28-32 (KJV)

But what think ye?

A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

1. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
2. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. 

Whether of them twain did the will of his father?

They say unto him, The first.

Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

Matthew 13:3-23 (KJV) And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying,

Behold, a sower went forth to sow [his seed–into 4 different types of Soil];

1. And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
2. Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
3. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
4. But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear:

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not; neither do they understand.

14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

1. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
2.  But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon [immediately] with joy receiveth it; 21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth [endures] for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
3. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
4. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.