A God-Sized Vision for China
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
"Brother Joel" continues the conversation we left off last week about God's work in China, work which continues in spite of an ongoing wave of Christian persecution and the coronavirus pandemic. Brother Joel helps VOM distribute Bibles in every part of China. He'll give us an update on current challenges for Bible efforts in China—including Chinese Christians currently in prison simply for providing people—including children—access to God's Word.
Joel will tell us how new laws in China affected foreign Christian workers, including thousands who found their visas cancelled and were forced to leave China, sometimes almost immediately. He'll also talk about a current project to complete a new translation of the Bible into Chinese—a translation more favorable to Communist Party and socialist principles.
Yet in spite of persecution, the virus and the other challenges facing China's church, Joel says Chinese Christians are encouraged and excited about what God is doing in their nation. He'll equip listeners to pray with current, specific needs of the church in China.
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| 0:00.0 | 35 years I've worked in communist countries, 20 years in mainland China. |
| 0:07.0 | I believe I have never seen a time where the Christians who I know have more of a deep settled peace and joy and hope |
| 0:19.2 | than they do right now. Their happiness seems more genuine. Their peace is beyond what I |
| 0:25.8 | could have and they just committed themselves to the fact that I might have to suffer for Christ, but that's okay. |
| 0:35.0 | It's like the Lord has told them I'm sending release for your nation and I'm sending it soon. |
| 0:43.5 | Many of them believe that. |
| 0:45.5 | I've never seen this at any time in China |
| 0:49.0 | in greater reality than it is right now. |
| 0:51.2 | And we need a God-sized vision for the nation of China. We need to |
| 0:55.4 | feel what God feels. We need to see as God sees. And we need to act to do what God |
| 1:02.2 | tells us to do. |
| 1:04.4 | Because there are 1.3 billion lost souls in that country. |
| 1:09.4 | And our job is not finished yet. |
| 1:12.3 | We cannot be afraid of the coronavirus. is not be |
| 1:13.0 | be afraid of the coronavirus. |
| 1:15.0 | We cannot be afraid of communist oppression. |
| 1:18.0 | We only have to fear not doing what the Lord has asked us to do. |
| 1:23.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 1:28.0 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 1:31.0 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true |
| 1:35.7 | in the life of the Apostles and they're still coming true today in the lives of |
| 1:39.7 | his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories |
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