Back to Jerusalem Vision — Brother Yun

The Lord’s New Day and the Call to Faith

This is the day that the Lord has made. And now with great passion, take hold of the hand of the person next to you and say in fluent Chinese, Yesu Ainiin. Jesus loves you. Yesu Ainiin. Yesu Ainiin. Amen.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. It's so simple. Chinese is so simple. Amen. Amen. What's this? English, what's this? I? What's this? Yesu? Yesu Ainiin. Jesus loves you. Amen. And so once again, practice your Chinese.

Yesu Ainiin. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Just because this is the day that the Lord has made, we should not allow anything from the past hinder us to live in the reality of this new day. Amen. Amen.

I'm so happy that I have my new translator today. He got just a new name. His name is Israel. So that's me. In the past, he was like Jacob, but then he had some problem in his knee and he had the surgery.

So now he's limping like Jacob. And I'm giving him a new name, Israel. Hallelujah. Amen. As you know, it's written in the Bible that Jesus said to his disciples that all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.

Therefore, you should go and make all nations to my disciples. And baptize them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And teaching them everything I have taught you, obey it, and I will be with you every day.

I really want you to be honest and answering to me this question. How many of you truly believe that the Bible that you have is the most important thing in your life? Amen. Amen. And how many of you believe that every promise that is in the Bible is real and is truth?

Raise up hands if you believe that the promise is real. Amen. How many of you have at least once read the Bible from cover to cover? Amen. Amen. This is the day of the Lord. It is not only important for us to understand and memorize the word of God, but also to understand the heart of our God and to be obedient to him.

The Back to Jerusalem Vision

God has given this special vision to his church to bring fulfillment to the Great Commission, to bring the gospel all the way back to Jerusalem. The church received this vision already in the 1920s and 1930s.

And there is a generation of Chinese believers who paid with their life and their blood their commitment to this vision. When I was 17 years old, the Lord Jesus appeared to me and he called me to stand up and be his witness to West and South.

And then after I was obedient to this calling and vision, I was arrested and thrown to prison two times. And the second time when I was released from the prison, I met one brother who, for the sake of this vision, he has been in prison for 42 years.

And before we started that meeting, there was a bigger audience that we have here today. And I have always loved to sing. I have been singing in the prison and I wanted to sing in the beginning of the meeting.

And I was singing a song that has the word that the heart, the eyes of the shepherd are looking forward back to Jerusalem. And as I was singing that song, an elderly brother, he had the white hair, he looked like Pastor O, something like that.

And he stood up with a tremendous force and he made his way and he walked to my face and he said, young man, you've gone astray. And he told me, brother, the song you sang was written by this elderly man.

He was living in Jerusalem and he wrote this song after the vision. And I was so surprised. I was taking off guard. Where am I going astray? Did I sing something wrong? And some of my co-workers, they came and whispered to me and they said, this brother is Simon Chow and he is the author of the song and you have changed the words on it.

And what I have been singing that the shepherd is looking forward but the song, the original song is looking west, towards west. And that's where I have gone astray. And I humbled myself before this dear brother and I was asking him, what is the story behind this song?

And he was describing, 42 years ago, Lord Jesus came to me and he opened my eyes and he said to me that the door towards west is now open and the gospel is going to go to the west of China and it's going to pass the borders to the Islamic and Hindu and Muslim world.

And as this brother was sharing his life testimony, what a high price he had to pay for his obedience to this heavenly calling. How his wife and newborn child had died in the first years of the imprisonment and we were all in tears as we were listening to his sharing.

And once again, with the right words, we started to sing this song together. And as we were singing, people were not only in tears, many of their hearts were responding to this calling and they decided, for the rest of our lives, we will serve God's purpose, we will serve back to Jerusalem.

And the calling is to carry this vision forward. And spread it out and to see even China to be involved in world mission. And the prayer coming from our hearts that China is going to arise as the missionary sending nation, sending missionaries to every corner of the world.

Persecution, Miraculous Deliverance, and a New Assignment

And not long after this meeting, I was arrested for the third time and thrown to that top security prison. And you have read my story, how in torture they crushed my both legs from ankles, I was not able to walk anymore.

And when I had lost my hope of survival and never been able to set me free, one morning Jesus came to my solitary cell and he asked me to stand up and he opened the doors and gates of the top security prison and I walked out to freedom, completely healed.

He not only opened the doors of the top security prison, he also closed the doors of the Chinese prison. And the same God who opened the prison doors, he closed the doors for me to continue my ministry to spread the gospel in China.

And he appeared to me and said, I'm going to transfer you to totally other circumstances, to another nation where you don't even understand the word what the people are speaking to you. And the Lord spoke to me, you go and you greet the people with my living word and you bring them joy into their lives.

Isaiah’s Promise to Enlarge the Tent

And I just want to share a little message from a book of Isaiah chapter 54 and the verses from the beginning. Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child, burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor, because more are the children of that woman than those who have a husband, says the Lord.

Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back, lengthen your cord, strengthen your stakes, for you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your descendants will dispose these nations and settle in their desolated cities.

Amen. The Lord has taught me a very important thing. It's not only that we are supposed to receive the vision and keep it in our hands, we are called to go and move with it, to enlarge, to go to reach to others.

And the Lord spoke to me that the door for the gospel work for you in China is closed for you, you are not ever going to be pregnant anymore. You are not going to give birth to any spiritual babies in China anymore, but you should be joyful and you will be going to other situations.

Hallelujah. And now I ask a very crucial question. How many of you have never yet led one person to Jesus in your life? Can you raise up your hand? Are there any others who have never led any person to Jesus?

Don't be afraid brothers and sisters, you are going to be very powerful evangelists for Jesus. Amen. You have to be burst into song and shout for joy and sing to the Lord because God is going to bring a change.

Amen. Don't allow your past to hinder you to reach to a new reality, to a new future. Come on. Let us all proclaim together, raising up our hands, I believe that the promises of God are unchangeable. Amen.

The great commission is unchanged. Amen. It is not that you are born that you cannot give birth to children, you are going to be the mother and the father of a prophet and prophetess. Amen. I know who was the target of this Bible verse, it was referring to Abraham and Sarah and their situation, but it is a very important message for us today.

It is so important because Sarah had to learn a lesson, she learned a lesson, she made a mistake. See, even though the Lord has told her that you are going to be a mother of a nation and you are going to give birth to a child, she did not really want to wait, so she led one of her slaves to be with Abraham.

And what was born from that relationship has been an ongoing curse on the life of Abraham. Amen. So this was said by the Lord and the great commission is also coming from the same Almighty God, that you are to go and make all the nations to the disciples of Jesus.

Amen. And not only that you are going to give birth to spiritual babies, you also have to enlarge your house, you are going to go to a construction work, you have to build a bigger place, a bigger house for all these people God is bringing in.

And because your children will be so plentiful, so you have to enlarge your tent and strengthen the ropes of your tent. Amen. Amen. Don't hinder, don't stop it from happening in your life. Don't allow your age or your skin color or anything from your past to hinder this from happening in your life.

You have no right to decide which country you were born in, and you have no right to decide who your parents are. This is not important. But you were never given a chance to make a decision what country you are going to be born into and who became your parents.

That was not your choice. Amen. And Jesus loved you and He saved you and you can decide today, I will follow Him. Amen. So you have to strengthen your tent curtains wide and lengthen your cord and strengthen your stakes.

Expanding the Kingdom for the Next Generation

Amen. Amen. And it's very important, I'm so happy that there are no flowers in this church. We don't need flowers in the church, we need these stakes that are really firmly hit into the ground that they will hold the place together.

Amen. And that we will stand close to the Holy Spirit, close to the river of God and receive the strength from that river into our lives. Amen. And that's why the Lord is calling, this is not for you alone.

It has to do with the next generation. For the needs of the next generation, you will expand the kingdom of God forward and left and right. Everywhere you are, you are bearing more fruit to the kingdom of God.

Amen. And after you have been called by God, do not allow any religion to hold you back, any organization to hinder you to be faithful to that calling you have received from God to your life. And you are involved in many things in your life.

The Bible has a story about, because you have received the inheritance from the Lord. It has been given. We have received the diners from the Lord according to our own number. If you go and you just bury your diner into the ground and you never share with anyone about it, one day it's going to be very difficult for you.

Jesus was sharing a very well known story. In one situation Jesus was sharing a story about there was one person who had been cleansed and the demons had been dismissed from his life and his entire life was completely clean inside.

But if you don't understand why God has cleansed your heart, cleansed your inside and you just sit there all alone, you don't finish your house and you just are alone. It's just a clean house, there is no activity, there is nothing happening.

One day the same demon will come with seven even stronger demons and they will destroy your life. So what is this house? What is the Bible talking about? That is you, that is your heart, it's your church, it's your business, that is all, it's a house.

Spiritual Renewal and the Empty House

And God wants to clean it, but he also wants to fill it up from inside. You are Americans here today and I understand that you at least think that you know America, you know everything about this country.

What has happened in this nation is very significant. In hundreds of years ago the blood of Jesus cleansed this nation and the Bible was the authority over this nation. But then now the house is empty inside, it has been cleansed and now all kind of darkness and demons are coming into this house.

You know this famous university, Harvard University, these very famous universities were established by Christian committed believers, pastors and brothers, they established the educational system in this country.

And today the transformation has been remarkable. These universities who were standing on the solid biblical foundation are today opposing Christianity and denying the power of the Word of God. The Holy Spirit is urging my heart to go and proclaim, God has a vision for this nation, the vision to bring the gospel all the way back to Jerusalem.

A Missionary Calling to the Nations

And that is why he sent me to come to the West as a proclamator. And my departure was very easy because the Lord has closed all the doors for me in China. I could not preach the gospel in China anymore.

And I decided that I am going to be the heaviest pregnant person on this earth and I am going to give birth to so many people whose lives are totally transformed by the power of God. In the name of Jesus Christ, I encourage you to enlarge your tent and strengthen your ropes and I will strengthen the stakes of my tent.

So I will go and proclaim and expand the kingdom of God to left and right to the ends of the world. And my prayer for this day is that you do not only receive a burden, you are concerned about what we are talking about here.

I am asking God to give you a heaven given vision into your life. Many people come to me and say, oh brother, I have such a heavy burden to go back to Jerusalem. I say, your burden comes and your burden goes.

Do you have a vision from God? Amen. Last year in October, I got the invitation to go and share my testimony to former President George Bush and his wife. And of course, it does not matter who the people I am going to go to meet with, I always have my Bible with me.

God’s Unchanging Power and Miraculous Rescue

And when they introduced me to the President, they said, this is a heavenly man. And he was kind of thinking, what a strange name for a person, heavenly man. And they were sharing, not sharing my story, this heavenly man being several times in the prison, in torture, they crushed his both legs from angles and God healed him.

And he was getting more and more surprised about the introduction. Now, how many of you believe that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever, that he never changes? Amen. And if you believe this, your faith is greater than President Bush.

And he had a problem with part of my testimony. He said, I can't believe that when the President told me, I believe that if you are praying for a person, that person can be healed. But I have difficulty to believe that you have walked out from number one top security person in China and they haven't stopped you.

And they said, can't you share the story? And of course, when I started, it took half an hour just to share that short version of my testimony. And I was very honestly sharing with the President, I said, it wasn't that I was a very firm, stainless steel believer.

I had lost all hope for survival and I was complaining and I was very upset to God. Why am I here? That was my condition when Jesus walked into my church. And you know, if you are talking with Jesus, it's very important not always to ask why.

It's always very important just to obey what he tells you to do. I was asking Lord, when is this darkness going to pass away? When do I see a dawn of a new day in my life? And I reminded Lord, your word promises that you are going to help me in the morning.

Your help will come from the Lord. You will rescue me in the morning. And as I was sharing this, President Bush's tears were flowing from his eyes. And I told him, in that moment when I had lost my hope of survival, Jesus walked into my solitary cell and he very with compassion and love said, Brother Yun, stand up and walk out.

This is the day of your rescue. And of course President Bush had his own interpretation. He said, how many officials did you bribe so that they opened the door for you? And I said, no it was the Lord.

No man gave me any help. The Lord opened the doors. I walked out and he brought me all the way so that I am standing here in front of the President of the United States. And when he finally got the point and he understood what I was saying, he was squeezing me and he was pressing me towards his chest and he was shouting, this is the book of Acts.

A Call to Partner in the Gospel Mission

This is the book of Acts. That was the only thing he was repeating again and again. The book of Acts. And when we were talking about going back to Jerusalem, I said, what the Muslim world is waiting for, they need to have an encounter with the power of the living God.

And that will change them. No political power are able to change them and challenge them but the power of living God. Are you willing to do this? Do you want to be a partner with Lord Jesus in this mission?

I ask you to stand up and respond in prayer. And in the name of Jesus, I call all of you to come forward here. And together with the Chinese brothers, we will lay our hands and we will pray for you. Come forward here and we will pray for you.