I understand that you all were expecting to
have one speaker here tonight, but I just
have to warn you, watch out, the Chinese
are coming, and already two came tonight.
The other brother who is here, how many
of you have read the book Heavenly Man?
How many of you felt that my faith
is challenged when I read that book?
Oh, there are more honest people here than
yesterday in Brentwood, or wherever we were last
night.
There is a man mentioned in this book,
Brother Peter Hsu.
Brother Peter Hsu is 64 years old, and
he's a fourth generation Christian persecuted during the
early years of the revolution in China, because
they had been Christians already a long time
before that.
And he became the father of the evangelical
house church families in China.
There are something between 25 to 30 million
people in his church in China.
You never have had a speaker like that
in this church before.
And he's also a spiritual father to Brother
Yun, and according to Chinese custom, the son
will never open his mouth before the father
has said what is in his heart.
So let us welcome Brother Peter Hsu to
start to share from his heart first.
I greet all the brothers and sisters in
the name of Lord Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus, and thank you, Brother Gordon
and all the people who have arranged this
meeting that you brought me to be among
these brothers and sisters tonight to bring me
to my spiritual mother's home.
As I was kneeling here and receiving your
blessing upon my life, the great presence of
the Holy Spirit come upon me, and I
was so blessed and so filled with joy,
because I received all that love which was
pouring from you to me.
And I was almost melting under this heat
of the warmth, because God, and I was
so grateful, because in the past generations, God
challenged so many people to come to my
nation as missionaries.
They brought the gospel of Jesus to my
nation.
We Chinese believers, we are descendants, we are
your spiritual sons and daughters.
So I want to, on behalf of the
believers in China, and I want to say
this to brothers and sisters here today and
to all the churches in this nation, and
I just want to express my gratitude and
thankfulness to all of you.
And because of your faithfulness, God has glorified
His presence, and He is going to even
give more glory upon your country.
And may the Lord open His heaven and
pour out His greatest blessing upon this nation,
and upon every church in this nation.
When you came to China, you were sharing
the seed of life, and that seed has
brought a hundredfold harvest into the kingdom of
God.
And all glory and honor for this belong
to our Lord Jesus.
In 1949, there were 800,000 baptized believers
in China.
But today, the most conservative figures are saying
there are more than 80 million believers in
China.
It's more than 100 fold.
And this is all because of the quality
of that seed of life which was shared
by the missionaries in China.
Even though the church had to go into
50 years of heavy persecution, and in the
beginning of the revolution, all the missionaries were
kicked out from China.
And all the believers in China were also
hunted and they were persecuting them.
And some of these believers, they died for
the gospel.
And some of them were thrown to prisons
for tens of years.
Some of them were able to escape and
go to other countries.
And even some people, they lost their faith
upon Jesus.
And even some of them, they betrayed Jesus
and betrayed the other believers.
God allowed this trial and testing to come
upon His church in China.
When this storm hit the church in China,
all the church buildings were destroyed.
But the seed of life which has been
shared by the missionaries, during these dark, cold
winter years, they were getting even more rooted
into the soil of the Chinese nation.
And one day, in darkness underground, this seed
started to grow.
Because the word of God cannot be imprisoned.
There was nobody publicly going to Christian meetings
in China anymore.
People started secretly, after midnight, in darkness, come
together in prayer.
In the middle of their distress, they were
crying out to the living God.
And as they were praying for the sick,
the sick were healed.
And as they were praying, the demon possessed
were released.
And the peace came into people's hearts.
And people started to see that the risen
Lord is alive today.
So people were encouraged and they started to
share the gospel and their own experience to
their friends and their relatives.
And the expansion of the kingdom of God
started again.
And from these new believers, started up an
army of believers who were willing to become
soldiers for God's army.
And these believers were willing to carry the
cross of persecution and pain and follow in
the footsteps of Jesus.
And they wanted to follow the footsteps of
and be like the western missionaries of a
previous generation.
They were walking on the blood-stained footsteps
of those missionaries.
And they scattered all over China and filled
China with the gospel of Jesus.
Satan tried, by using persecution, to stop the
fire of revival.
And he wanted to use water to extinguish
the fire of revival.
But the Holy Spirit was with us and
He was pouring the oil of heaven into
that fire.
And so this fire was just growing and
expanding.
These brothers and sisters, they have come to
an understanding.
Lord Jesus gave His life for us.
And because of His great love, we understand
the depth of His love.
And we have to also be ready to
lay down our lives for salvation to our
brothers and sisters.
To proclaim the gospel and save the souls
of people.
When they threw us to prison, in the
prison, we continued to share the gospel.
And when they released us from the prison,
we did not even return back to our
homes.
We continued to share the gospel.
And in this way, very quickly, the gospel
was available again all over China.
Brother Yun and myself, we are only just
two simple representatives of these tens of thousands
of Lord's disciples in China.
I was born to a Christian family.
And we are all the fruit of the
labor of the missionaries of the past.
I have been in prison five times in
China.
And Brother Yun has been four times in
prison in China.
So when they threw me into prison, and
then when I came out, they threw Brother
Yun into prison.
I was first thrown into prison in 1965.
And the second time they threw me into
prison in 1971.
And the third time I was thrown into
prison in 1982.
And as I was just released from the
third time in prison, in 1984, they threw
Brother Yun first time into prison.
So Brother Yun was in prison four years.
He came out in 1988.
And after he was released, he came to
visit me.
After two months, in April 1988, they
threw me into prison.
And then in 1991, I was released from
prison.
A few weeks later, they threw Brother Yun
into prison.
And in 1993, Brother Yun was released from
prison.
And then finally, early 1997, they finally caught
us both together, and we ended up in
the same prison together.
And as they threw us together into that
prison, and we were heavy criminals from their
point of view, and they said we are
totally unrepentable people, we never repent.
And we have committed the most heaviest crime,
and we are anti-everything.
And the brothers and sisters around the world
were praying for us.
The church in Europe and in USA were
praying for us, because they said they are
going to execute us.
And as we were in prison, as brothers,
we were praying constantly every day.
And one day, as I was praying, the
Holy Spirit started to speak to me.
The Holy Spirit said to me, Today I
am going to set Brother Yun free.
And I said to the Lord, Lord, this
is a top security person.
There are many iron gates and doors.
And I was in my solitary cell, and
I was walking back and forth, and I
was praying, What in the world are you
saying, Lord?
And slowly I moved towards my cell door.
And my hand took hold of the handle
of my door inside.
And when I moved my hand, I was
able to open my cell door from inside.
And when I saw it, I became so
frightened, I just pushed back the door and
closed it again.
And after a few seconds, I got the
second thought, Lord, are you just about to
do a miracle to them?
And I said, Lord, what am I supposed
to do with this?
And then I took hold of the door,
and I was again able to open the
door from inside.
And I looked to the corridor from both
sides, and there was nobody there.
And I headed towards the toilet.
But I didn't have any call of nature
that morning.
I just wanted to find out whether there
are policemen around the corner in other parts
of the prison.
And I came out from the toilet, and
I saw there was nobody anywhere.
So very quickly I moved to the door
of Brother Yun's cell.
And from outside I opened his door.
I tell you a secret.
It's no miracle.
You can always open the door from outside
to a cell.
And as I looked inside the cell, Brother
Yun was still lying on the ground of
his cell.
So with my two eyes, I fixed into
his eyes.
And I told the command I have received
from the Lord.
The Lord is going to allow you to
walk out today.
And then I locked his door, and I
rushed back to my own cell.
And very quickly I lost my own cell
door.
And I was praying, Lord, move in his
heart.
Get the man moving in Jesus' name.
And after one or two minutes, I became
worried whether he had missed the opportunity.
And he was going to miss this miracle
just about to happen.
So I opened my own door and went
out again to the toilet.
And I looked, there was nobody, and I
walked to his cell door.
And then I saw that the door was
already open this much.
So I pushed the door open.
And I discovered there was nobody in that
cell anymore.
And my heart started to jump like a
rapid in my chest.
I knew that God is about to do
a great miracle this morning.
And I closed his door, and I rushed
back to my own cell, and I locked
my own door.
And I kneeled by my bed.
And I lifted the mattress of my bed,
and I covered, and I hid under my
mattress.
And the rapid was jumping in my chest,
and I was praying to the Lord.
Lord, protect my brother, he's on the way.
Lord, protect my brother.
Give him your peace.
I knew that every minute is very important
if you want to escape from prison.
So maybe three minutes passed by.
Under my mattress, I heard that somebody opened
my cell door and looked into my cell.
And I knew that it's a policeman, and
he was looking for somebody.
Because he had discovered that Brother In was
not in his cell anymore.
And he was thinking maybe he has gone
to somebody else's cell.
And after he saw Brother In was not
in my cell, he opened all those cells
in that floor.
And he saw that he was nowhere.
And I heard his footsteps, he was running
to the next floor of the prison.
And by this way about five minutes went
by.
And finally he came to understanding that this
man has truly escaped, and he has to
report this to the authority.
He has to tell this truth to the
director of the prison.
We were the most precious criminals in that
prison.
So the prison director had his apartment in
our department.
He was living in our midst.
And this policeman knocked the door of the
apartment of the director of the prison.
And when the man came to the door,
he reported, the crippled man has escaped.
And I took that as a proclamation about
the miracle what has just happened.
How in the world can a crippled man
escape anywhere?
Because we all knew that both of legs
of Brother In had been crushed in torture.
And the reason they leave because he insisted,
if there is a chance he will continue
to share the gospel.
Every time they brought him to questioning and
torture, another brother had to carry Brother In
on his back.
How in the world can a crippled man
escape?
This is a miracle, brothers and sisters.
I was waiting that this prison director is
going to be really, really angry and mad.
But he didn't say a word.
He was totally speedless.
I knew that they are going to announce
an alarm, and they are going to go
look for after Brother In.
And I was continuing, I was praying and
crying out to the Lord.
And as I was praying in my cell,
the windows of heaven were open, and the
heaviest rain ever happening in that city hit
that very prison and place.
And they could not go, leave the house,
they have to start to look for raincoats
and boots in order to be able to
go outside to look for the crippled man.
And I was comforted by the Holy Spirit.
And that time one word of the Bible
came to me.
I will make the rainclouds to my servants.
I was saying, Lord, protect my brother, protect
your co-worker.
I was comforted because of what God has
been doing.
I stayed in that same prison for an
additional three years.
Year 2001, 23rd May, I was released from
that very same prison.
I was praying for Brother Yun every day
as I was those three years in prison.
But I did not receive any reports, where
had he escaped, where is he living.
I was in complete isolation, they did not
allow anybody to visit me and to speak
to me.
So for the last three years, I did
not know anything what has been happening in
my church or outside.
Then when I was released, the brothers and
sisters who came to meet me outside, and
they started to report all what has been
happening in the church in past years when
I have been in prison.
And they started to share that there is
this Brother Liu, he has escaped and he
is now living in Germany.
And he is sending greetings, he is calling
back to China and sending greetings to you.
But I did not understand who Brother Liu
has gone to Germany.
And I thought it was a British English
teacher with name Liu living in Xi'an.
It is only after two days I came
to understand it is Brother Yun who has
another name Liu who had gone to Germany.
And I was just filled with grace and
thanksgiving to the Lord.
Because my brother became like that little flat
stone in the hands of David and God
just threw him out.
Out not only from that prison that day,
but few months later also to overseas to
Europe.
To be proclaimed what God is doing in
China today.
And to proclaim back to Jerusalem vision.
So that all those who have been called
into kingdom of God will come up to
full number.
So that the pride of Jesus will be
fully ready to receive the coming bridegroom.
And the day when the kingdom of our
world will become the kingdom of our Lord
Jesus.
And he will be the eternal king and
ruler on this earth.
God has given this commission to his church.
That we are called to lay down our
lives for this calling to bring the gospel
back to Jerusalem.
And to bring fulfillment to the great commission
of Jesus.
And to connect together the church in west
and east for this challenge.
And to go for mission work and to
make all the nations to become disciples of
Jesus.
And fulfill the salvation plan of our God.
There is still persecution going on in China.
But in the middle of the persecution the
revival is the message of hope.
In January 24th this happened in China.
My younger sister Deborah was arrested in China.
My younger sister is 58 years old.
She was born again when she was 17
years old.
And she got the calling for ministry right
there.
And she was praying before the Lord and
she said to the Lord.
Lord, you love me so much.
How can I repay your grace?
I am willing to serve you with all
my life.
And the Lord listened to her prayers.
She never got married.
Forty-five years she has been serving the
Lord all over China.
And has been training the new generation of
workers for the church.
Proclaiming about the vision of back to Jerusalem.
And the authorities have always hated her.
And because of their hatred they finally were
able to catch her.
We don't know where they have put my
sister.
We have no information.
And when some of the brothers and sisters
went to the authorities and they were asking
about this.
The bullies just said don't ask anything about
that person.
And they said we don't give any information
about her case.
I have been so touched in my heart
for last month.
I have that pain what is said in
the Bible.
When one part of the body is suffering
the whole body is in pain.
When one part of the body is glorified
the whole body will be glorified.
Jesus said to those who were standing on
the right hand side.
When I was hungry you gave me something
to eat.
When I was thirsty you gave me something
to drink.
And when I was naked you came and
clothed me.
When I was in prison you came to
visit me.
When I was sick you came and visited
me.
And these people on the right hand said
Lord when have we done this to you?
And Jesus replied whatever you have done to
these least of my brothers you have surely
done to me.
There are still multitudes of Chinese believers in
Chinese labor camps and prisons.
And God wants to challenge the global church
to go in intercessory prayer on their behalf.
And the purpose of our prayers are not
that they will be immediately released from prison.
But the prayer is that the God's presence
and miracles will be with them.
So that the Lord himself will stand on
the right hand side of them, beside them.
So that they can have a victorious life
in the middle of their suffering.
So that the name of the Lord will
be glorified in their suffering.
So that those who are persecuting and torturing
their lives may be changed.
So that their souls will be saved from
eternal destruction.
May the Lord be with every one of
these suffering brothers and sisters.
When I came to this point I remembered
the testimony of one widow sister.
And this happened in 1995.
And this sister, her name was Sister In
and she was a widow.
And because she was always busy for the
gospel that means that she was always arrested
for the gospel.
Every time she ended up in the prison
she wanted to demonstrate the love of Jesus
by washing all the clothes of the inmates
and the wardens.
And whenever there was a possibility she was
sharing about the love of Jesus.
And she was always in prayer.
And one day when she was praying the
Spirit of God came upon her.
And the Lord gave her a new song.
And these are the words of this song.
The Lord gave his life for me, he
died for me.
What can I give back to him?
I can only give him a loving heart.
A heart filled with love.
And I have a feeling in my heart
to sing this simple song to you tonight.
Only a loving heart.
The Lord gave his life for me.
What can I give back to him?
I only have one loving heart.
A heart filled with love.
This loving heart brought this sister to share
the gospel to everybody.
And this loving heart brought her into all
this suffering and pain for the gospel.
This loving heart brought her to be laboring
for salvation for those who are lost.
And this loving heart brought her to the
place where he surrendered her life and laid
it at the feet of Jesus.
And the Lord answered to her cry and
prayer.
And took her back home to heaven.
And she finished her earthly walking.
But she left a wonderful testimony after she
was executed.
And she's only one of these tens of
thousands of missionaries in China.
And the wheat of seed, if it does
not die in the soil.
It's only after the day it can give
a big harvest.
So her testimony has become a great witness
to challenging many other believers in China.
To bring the gospel and fill the whole
China with the gospel.
And to bring it to all the people
all over the world.
All the way back to Jerusalem.
To bring the gospel to the Buddhist nations,
to India and to the entire Islamic world.
To use the fire water of the gospel.
To extinguish the fire of evil which is
burning in our world.
And to use the sword of truth and
destroy the presence of principalities.
So that all the principalities who are hindering
people to come into the kingdom of God
will be destroyed.
So that the hearts of the people will
be open for the gospel.
It's only Jesus who can save China.
It's only Jesus who can save mankind.
And let us all kneel and worship this
Lord Jesus.
And may all proclaim Him as the Lord
of Lords and King of Kings.
And may the whole world be filled with
glory and knowledge of our God.
This is all the seed which you have
planted in our hearts.
And may the Lord give a heart for
mission back to His church in UK.
So that you are willing to partner with
your spiritual sons and daughters in China.
To bring fulfillment to the great commission of
Jesus.
So that the heaven and earth will be
filled with God's glory.
May the Lord richly bless each one of
you.
Bless the church of Jesus in England.
And bless all the people of UK.
I still have one feeling.
And also bless the Queen of England.
May the Lord bless you all.
Amen.