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Israel Folau breaks down in tears as he encourages church members to stand up for their faith

by Eno Adeogun

The Wallabies player is facing a code of conduct hearing on Saturday to determine whether his $4 million contract will be terminated for posting on social media a warning about all those destined for hell.

In the video, first revealed by The Daily Telegraph in Australia and shown on Channel 9 breakfast TV programme 'The Today Show', Folau referred to the book of Daniel where three men stand up for their beliefs with the threat of death.

"At some stage, each and every one of us will face our own fiery furnace, and some of us may have already faced that," Folau told members of Sydney's Truth of Jesus Christ Church.

"In your workforce, if they're telling you something that will compromise your faith, this is a test of faith in which you're going to be put in a challenge, and the question is - what are you going to do?

"With these guys, they were challenged and it was a matter of life and death, physical death. But they understood their treasures were stored up in heaven, not here on earth.

 

"As the scriptures say, 'don't set your mind on things below, but set it on things above'.

"We all know as born again believers in Christ, that everything we have here is all temporary.

"And it says in the word, 'For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?'"

 

Folau will be tasked with convincing his employers that the social media post (above) did not breach their Professional Players' Code of Conduct.

The 30-year-old's post read: "Drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists, idolaters - hell awaits you!"

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