When Jesus Appears — Brother Yun

Awesome. Well, just to transition, that was family stuff. Now we're moving on to, we have special guests here, been looking forward to our guests coming. Brother Yoon and his wife and team, and they were here last night, been such a blessing.

They're coming in very fast and having to leave very fast. This is the last service, I believe, on this kind of leg of ministry in the United States. We're so privileged to have them here. You know, I tried to get this out last night, twice, and couldn't get it out, just overcome with emotion.

The thing that I so appreciate about him is that, yes, the stories are amazing. If you read the book, The Heavenly Man, which, how many people have read the book, The Heavenly Man? Wow, that's awesome.

The courage, the testimonies are all amazing. The thing that so moves our heart is I want what they have, that peace of God that they have. And I believe that when the Lord sends men and women to our midst that carry something, they leave a deposit behind.

And so I'm very, very encouraged and know that the Lord's going to leave a deposit behind in this church, in this house, because of their lives. And so it's going to be speaking through an interpreter, Pastor Ren.

And if you would, I'd like for us to welcome Brother Yin and Pastor Ren, and we'll have Dai Ling stand up and come up. Can we welcome them, please?

Hallelujah! Let's welcome Jesus to this meeting. He's already here. Amen. Amen. Amen. I just want to increase your happiness. So let's give the welcome one more time to Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. And now, say this with great confidence to everybody around you. It's so important for us to proclaim the Word of God as together, aloud, as we are gathered together, because the power is in the Word of God.

The Living Word of God and the Need for a Fresh Encounter

Hallelujah. Now, how many of you still have the same conviction as myself, Bible is the living Word of God, and only Bible can transform my life. Amen. And let's, in honoring the Word of God, let us stand up together and read the Word of God.

And so let's read from John chapter 21, and from verse 4 to 14, and let's do it in Chinese way this morning. In China, we all read aloud, at the same time, any language, any feeling, just together. I say one, two, three, and everybody will shout with fullness of their voice, the Word of God, starting from verse 4 to 14.

One, two, three. Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore. Are you reading the Bible? Okay, let's say it all over again. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, any translation, any language, just shout it out. One, two, three.

Increase. Amen. You finally got it. Praise God. Please be seated in peace. Amen. Jesus Christ is resurrected from dead. Amen. Amen. Like we said yesterday, do not allow your past to hinder to receive something new from Jesus this morning.

We all have a very clear track record about failures in our Christian life. But Jesus loves you. He knows what you are, who you are, what you have done. He still loves you, and He has been resurrected from dead for our righteousness.

My life is a field of testimony about failures, and I have let Jesus down so many times in my life, and I have been so lost in my life that, Lord, I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do. I just cannot make it.

But do not fear. Our experience in our Christian walk are very real, but they are not the truth. The truth is, when Jesus appears, everything will be changed. Amen. Hallelujah. And I hope that all of you have come to this Sunday morning meeting with expectation, I want to meet with Jesus and you this morning.

Hallelujah. And when Jesus comes to you on the surface, your circumstances, your depression, your problem looks alike, but when He says a word, that word starts to change everything in your life. Amen.

Hallelujah. And Jesus' disciples had been educated at the number one Bible school for three and a half years. They knew everything that was supposed to know of kingdom of God. And they did not have lack of living hope.

They have been living with Jesus three and a half years. They knew there is always hope with Jesus. He will help us. And they did not have any doubts in their minds anymore because twice Jesus had already appeared to them after resurrection.

They knew my Jesus is risen from dead, but they still had the desperate need to meet Him again. And I know that you know, you have memorized this story. And you know that the beginning of the story was Peter just did not see any other future.

I have to go back to fishing. I have to get some income to my life. And I'm sure the whole night Jesus was watching His disciples. They were laboring hard. They were extremely motivated for fishing. And they were throwing nets left and right, forward and backwards.

And they didn't catch anything. And it was quite amazing. The Chinese Bible says, children, do you have any fish to eat? And the answer was very honest, no. Now, whenever you have an experience about something, that truth will stick with you the rest of your life.

And immediately Jesus said, throw your nets on the right side of the boat and you will find some. Now they have had the same situation three years earlier. The early walk with Jesus. And they still remember when Jesus came and He said, throw the nets in the water.

And they remember we caught two boatload of fish when we did it in obedience. So they did not negotiate about the terms. Immediately they threw the nets into the water. And the very moment they took hold of the nets in the water and they started trying to pull them into the boat, they understood that that was the biggest catch they ever got.

And immediately they said, it is the Lord. And as they came back to a shore, they were pulling the net in the water behind them. They were amazed. Where did these other fishes land on the fire? And they were waiting for them to eat.

Brothers and sisters, I just want to use this simple story in the Bible. If Jesus was that concerned about your breakfast, how concerned will He be about your lunch or your dinner? Amen. So stop worrying about your lunch or your dinner.

Jesus is in charge of your life. Now the truly obedience always requires obedience from our side. But I tell you, it's less costly to be obedient than to be disobedient. That price is even higher. Hallelujah.

Now Jesus have a deep desire always to come back to those people who have chosen to follow Him. He is committed to appear to His disciples. Now do you have that desire this morning? Oh Lord, I want to meet you again in my life.

Amen. Our nation really have to experience the resurrection power and the appearance of the resurrected Lord Jesus again. Hallelujah. Now the ending of the story was exceptional. Jesus said, now you can bring some of your catch and bring them also to the fire.

These are the ones I have prepared and now you bring some of your own fish into the fire. And one of the disciples was so curious how many big fish we caught this morning. So he was lining them on the shore and he was counting 1 to 153 fish.

One old servant of the Lord, he was 87 years old. We met him a few days ago somewhere in the U .S. And he asked me, Brother Ian, what is your understanding about this number 153? And this old servant of the Lord told me something I never heard before.

He said there are so many people who have different interpretations about this number. He said my interpretation is very simple. At the time when Jesus said this, there were 153 nations in the world. And he said, this is what God has spoken to his church in China.

You should go and catch every nation, every fish in the kingdom of God. Hallelujah! Now for me, it's not that important what was the secret behind the number. For me, the most important thing is that despite so many fishes, the net will not break.

There were so many fishes, but the net will not break. Hallelujah! There are so many media companies, television and internet companies, they really want to build a net that will draw the whole world inside their influence.

The Unbreakable Net and the Faithfulness of God

And they may have resources beyond imagination, but they have one problem. The net is not holding. It breaks. Their family, their relationship will break. The fellowship people and their co-workers will break.

Their marriage will fall apart. But when you do this in obedience to the word of God, as it comes to you and you throw the nets in the water, you will be guaranteed the net will not break. Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! This is part of my personal experience. I understand that most of you have read my life story, Heavenly Man, and some of you have read some of my sharing about living water. And if you have really understood those two books, you understand that I am not a 24 -7 super believer, an iron man of faith.

And I remember in some of those occasions, I really let the Lord down big time in life. And I said, Lord, I have nothing else to give you, unless just my failures. And the Lord said, that's good enough.

Hallelujah! You are ongoingly unfaithful, but I remain faithful, because I cannot deny myself. As you remember, last night I called, I shared about my personal calling upon my life. As a 16 years old young boy, I heard Jesus saying, Brother Aaron, stand up and be my witness, and preach the gospel to west and south.

And for the sake of the gospel, I have had the most glorious mountains of worship and praise with God, and I have the deepest valleys of disappointment, and I have let Jesus down many times. And all together, I have spent more than 10 years in different prisons, for the sake of the gospel.

Suffering for the Gospel in Chinese Prisons

In 1997, when I was third time arrested in China, and thrown to this top security prison, in the torture, early days of the imprisonment, they crushed my both legs from angles, and you're never going to walk, you're never going to escape, and on top of that, my wife was also arrested, and thrown to another prison.

It happened as we were leaders, as the leaders gathering, the authorities surrounded the place, we were all arrested, and in torture, they crushed my both legs. I knew the theological truth of Bible when this happened.

I have experienced so many supernatural miracles in my life, I have been an eyewitness when God's kingdom have hit the earth, I have been there, I knew this all. And I had seen the living hope, that the carriers of this prison, who had spent 10, 20, 30, 40 years in the prison, as they came out, they became the living hope for me, God is able to sustain me in the prison.

But just because they crushed my both legs, that was too much. I said, Lord, it looks like you have totally forsaken me. I am never going to be able to continue to be obedient to your calling in my life.

And one night, the pressure in my soul was so, so bad, and I just fell with this hopelessness, and this discouragement, and I lost all my hope for survival. And the only words I was able to shout was, Why God?

Why in the world, God, that you allow this to happen to me? Lord, where did I let you down? What was my mistake? Tell me, Lord, I want to repent. And I became so mad on myself, and even on God. I said, God, you have cheated me.

It's never going to happen anymore in my life. Unless I was shouting this in the agony of my soul, all the wardens who were monitoring my cell 24 -7, they all came to outside my cell door, and they said, We told you, your God does not exist, and he is not able to help you.

And they all said to one another, Now this preacher has lost his mind. He is mad on his own God. He has just lost his mind. All that I could not think about, the pain, my wife is in a prison, my 80-year-old mother, nobody is looking for her, my children are orphans outside, and I was so, so discouraged.

And when I shouted, Why? Why? Why? And the authorities, the policemen, the guards, they were mocking my God. Suddenly I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit Turn around 180 degrees and fix your eyes upon me.

It was almost impossible because of the pain in my body. I was lying on the floor of my cell, but I just turned around on the floor, and I just started to look up towards the back wall of my solitary cell.

And I started to say, God, look at my enemies, they are so many, and they say that you are not able to help you. Where are you, my God? But you, God, you are my rock. And you are my glory. And you will raise me up from my bed, and you will establish me on that rock.

When I turned around and I started to say this, I experienced the power and I started to believe again, God is my rock, He is my salvation, He is my Lord. Do not fear. Do not fear. Only He will raise you up, so that you can stand upright and your head up straight.

Let's say this to one another. Do not fear. God will raise you up. Now, of course, the authorities who were monitoring said, now he has been totally gone crazy. He was mad in his God, and now he is praising his God again.

So he has totally lost his mind. And they said, you are just a waste. Nobody cares about you. Nobody loves you. You are just going to die in this cell, and they left me. And the Holy Spirit took hold of one word, they said to me, you have lost your mind, you are crazy.

Suddenly I remembered what happened with King David in his life, and I said, okay, if they say I am crazy, I am going to behave like a crazy. And they said, nobody loves you, nobody cares about you. And the Holy Spirit said, when they say nobody loves you, there is always one who loves you, and his name is Jesus.

And I started to sing, Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you. The greatest treasure in your life is the fact that Jesus eternally loves you. Amen. Brothers and sisters, remember that when you feel nobody cares about me, nobody loves me, there is one, he is always loving you, his name is Jesus.

Waiting for the Dawn of Deliverance

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I said, Jesus, if you love me so much, when is this darkness going to disappear? When is there going to be a dawn of a new day for my life? When is the darkness going to pass? When is the light coming into my darkness?

When I was expecting the Lord, I was expecting his word to come to my rescue. I was expecting the Lord. I was like a watchman waiting for a new day to dawn. I said, Lord, I am expecting you to send your word to my rescue.

When is the new day going to come to me? If we, when we are under distress, we call upon the Lord, he will come to our rescue. And he will never forsake you when you are calling seriously him. And the Lord will answer to you when you are in the greatest distress of your life, you call upon his name, he will come to your rescue.

This is my personal experience. Because after I said this, suddenly Jesus walked into my solidary cell. He said, Brother Yun, now is a new day, it has started, it's dawn for you. All the doors have been opened for you, stand up and walk out from this prison.

It wasn't a dream. It was just before 8 o 'clock in the morning, in daylight. I was in the top security prison in my solitary cell, and Jesus walked into my cell. And his command was very clear, door has been opened for you, stand up and walk out.

And my immediate reaction was, Lord, this is a top security prison, you don't walk out from places like this. And the Holy Spirit knew what was going on in my mind, and he said, your prison is real, but I'm alive, I'm the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And as I was still considering the offer, the Lord wanted to encourage me, so I saw a vision. In a fraction of a second, I saw that my wife was running towards me, and stopped just outside my cell door.

And the Lord wanted to encourage me, so she rushed to my cell, and she said, why have you allowed them to lock you in, come out! Now my mind said, but she is in another person. It was just something I saw, maybe one or two seconds, and the power of God and the obedience came upon me.

And I wanted my only answer, honey, have they released you? And before I said it, she disappeared. I knew in my guts, if I'm obedient this time, I have to pay a high price for my obedience. But my past experience was strong enough to testify, if you are disobedient, your misery will be just worse, so you better obey.

And I said, Lord, I have decided to obey, and if they shoot me, and receive my spirit, I'm coming home. And the Lord was working, and there was another pastor, who also got the message from the Lord, that he's going to set me free, the Lord is going to set me free this morning.

And finally, I decided to be obedient, and as I walked towards those four pairs of closed doors, one after the other, they were supernaturally opened for me, and none of the wardens asked, where am I going?

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I didn't have any electronic keys to open those locks of the prison, and none of the wardens I passed by asked anything from me. And there were more than 30 wardens lining up, it was shift change at the prison, 8 o 'clock in the morning.

So I passed 30 policemen, and nobody asked anything, then I went to the main gates, and they were open for me, and as I walked out from the prison, there was a taxi with open door, waiting for me outside.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Who opened the doors for me? Who ordered the taxi to wait for me outside? Amen! Many people have problems with this, they said, who did that? Who did this? And when you were healed, I didn't know, but I just obeyed, I forgot that I cannot walk, so I walked out from the prison, and the doors were opened for me.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And I was asking, many years after this, I was still confused, as in, how did this all come together? And one time I was in prayer, and the Lord said to me, do you remember the Bible says that the angels are servants for those who are obedient to the Lord?

It was your guardian angels who make the way for you, and they were the ones who called to the taxi station, and ordered a taxi to wait for you. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! As I was sitting on the back seat of the taxi, and we were speeding up on the highway, there was a key hanging from a chain, and from the mirror of the taxi, and the Holy Spirit spoke to me through that moving key, and He said, I'm the truly, I'm the Holy One, and I have keys of David in my hand, the doors that I open, no man is able to shut.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Remember, Jesus has keys to all locked doors in this universe. And something happened in my soul, and in my heart that morning. I started to believe, and I knew, this Jesus, who was able to rescue me from number one security person in China, is going to open all the doors for the Gospel of Jesus Christ at the end time.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And He reminded me, about something I had received 13 years earlier, when I was first time in the prison, and the Lord, when I was at the lowest point of my life, He said, Son, I know all your suffering, that you're going through right now, see, I am going to open a door for you, no man is going to be able to shut.

And now, I was walking into fulfillment of that 13 year old vision. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Now, some of you may think, but brother, here in this country, you don't end up in the prison, just because you are faithful to the Gospel.

The Prison of Lukewarm Christianity

But I have experience. I have great expectation in my heart when I came to the West. I thought that the Western Church is as much on fire for Jesus as we are in China. And then I started to travel all over the body of Christ in the West, and I discovered all these guys, they are living a life in the jail.

And then when I started to travel to Central Asia, Middle East, I discovered there is a horrible prison of religion that has jailed entire nations of the world. People were so busy in their religious activities, but none of them had the true freedom in Christ.

And they are so thirsty, they are so hungry, and they are expecting God to speak to them. And then I discovered that there is a huge prison throughout the Western Hemisphere, and that's the prison of lukewarm Christianity.

Jesus is saying to us this morning, if somebody is thirsty, come to me and drink. It's only Jesus who can fulfill the thirst of your soul. Maybe the sickness in your life, maybe cancer has become your prison.

Maybe your marriage situation has become your prison. You are a follower of Jesus, you know all the theological truth about the Bible, but you are not free. But the Lord is in our midst this morning, and He wants to appear before you.

It doesn't matter where you are, you are watching this on television or on internet. Jesus knows where you are, and He wants to change your life. All the tears of your eyes in darkness, He has counted them, and He wants to comfort you and set you free.

Surrendering to the Resurrection Power of Jesus

It's impossible for you, but be sure that Jesus has not forsaken you, He wants to change you. Let us all stand up before the Lord. Jesus loves you. He has not forsaken you, He loves you. And He is expecting you to have a new encounter with His resurrection power.

You don't need to talk a lot. Just surrender your life to Jesus again. You cannot save your husband or your wife or your children. But Jesus calling upon your life is unchanging, but you are chosen. He knows your future, He knows the financial challenges of your life, He knows everything about everything.

And I am really inviting you to present yourself again to Jesus and receive the fullness of His kingdom. The Lord wants you to show truly obedience to Him. Come before Him. Let us all kneel down and present our lives to the Lord again, together.

Lord, I am willing. Lord Jesus, I am willing. Hallelujah. Yeah, you can just pray. I know that Jesus wants to set you free from your jail, whether it's sin or anything else. As you have come before Him, and you will be set free.

The truth will set you free. And as I am praying, you repeat after me. Resurrected Lord Jesus, I want to repent before you. I want to become the most obedient disciple. Thank you Lord that you know everything about my life.

Lord, open my ears. Open the doors of my heart. I put my trust upon you right now. Speak to me. Speak to my family. I want to be obedient to your calling upon my life. Resurrected Lord Jesus, we set free all these people from their disappointments, from their failures.

They will be set free, and living hope will dwell in their hearts. And right now you reach out your right hand, and you do miracles in our lives. Lord, your mighty word will rescue them from their past, from the disappointments of their past.

Lord has called some of you to obedience, and he has talked to you about what he has in store for you. But until today, you have not obeyed that calling. Lord wants you to be instrumental, to bring his presence to different situations, and different parts of this nation, and to the nations of the world.

Lord Jesus, may your kingdom come upon us today. And may your will be done in our lives as it is done in heaven. We pray this in the name of Jesus. You are set free in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, you are free.

And now stand up and say aloud to one another, do not fear, Jesus is resurrected from dead. Amen. Hallelujah.

Okay, could you guys be seated just for a second? Eugene, are you here? One of the things that we wanted to do is, these guys, they're on a mission, obviously. But they have a real call and a heart to touch the folks living in the 1040 window.

And I'm going to ask Eugene, so what I want to do is, like for everyone who would like to give towards this project, we're going to get, go ahead and hand out the envelopes now. Make your checks out to return back to Jerusalem, Inc.

I-N-C, not I-N-K. Incorporated, so.

Anyway, this is Eugene. Eugene, could you tell us about this? Okay, we are hoping that you guys had an amazing morning. I'm not going to keep you for too long, but I just want to tell you what it is that you guys are donating to.

Distributing Bibles in Restricted Nations

Right now, we have Chinese that have just gone into a closed country that we can't mention just because there's so few Chinese going into that area. They just went in two days ago. Everything that we raise money for on this trip will go to three countries.

Iran, North Korea, and China. These are three countries that are considered to be enemies of the U .S. and Israel. Right now, we have been focusing on getting Bibles into all three of these countries.

I was just in North Korea not too long ago, and we have this cool little device that we have been using there. I'm going to explain it a little bit different than what it actually is, but it's the same idea.

This little device right here is actually a part of a keychain. On this keychain, we have a digital photo. On this digital photo, there's three buttons. If you go to a border area and somebody sees your keychain, they see the photo on there.

They try to push the buttons. Nothing happens except for they see a photo. I've heard it said, I don't know if it's true, but the uglier the person is in the photo, the less time people take looking at it.

If you know the sequence to those three buttons, a Bible will appear. That Bible that appears, you can read it and surf through it. If anybody comes in, you push two buttons, and the Bible disappears.

Here's the cool thing. It works off the same digital idea as your watch. Because of that, this one Bible does not need to be charged. It does not need a new battery for five years. We made it ourselves because we live in China.

Welcome to China. The price is about the same price as a Happy Meal. Making things inside China is what we do, and it's what we do best. I still live in China. I've been living there for about 14 years.

We make all this stuff in our backyard, and I have the lungs to prove it. I was just in Iran about a few weeks ago, right before we started this tour. And I was using another device, this right here. It's something that we are calling the Gospel Cloud.

You've probably never seen it before because we actually designed it. We designed it and made it, and it's something that's special that we've been using inside of Iran. What is it? It gives out a Wi-Fi signal.

Wherever we are, we try to mimic that area. If we are in an airport, we'll call it airport free Wi-Fi. If we're at the bus stop, we'll call it bus stop free Wi-Fi. Cafe, train station, wherever people spend time looking at their phones, their mobile devices, and are looking for free Wi-Fi.

Many places in Iran are looking for free Wi-Fi. The number one trading partner of Iran today is China. And China is bringing in a lot of their mobile devices, and the young people where we are seeing the biggest impact, and the most number of people coming to the Lord in Iran is between the ages of 18 and 28.

Most of them have mobile devices. When they connect, they are actually not connected to the Internet. They're not going to www .whatever. Whenever they put in facebook .com, youtube .com, google .com, they only go to our page.

This also acts as a server. So it is a Wi-Fi unit and a server. So on this server, we have free Bibles, free videos, and free music for people to download onto their phone and take it home. It is also a battery pack, so it lasts for about 24 hours, which means that I can walk into a park, set it under a rock, go into a cafe, put it in the plant, and then walk away.

It's there all day, giving out a signal. I can sit on a bus all day long, or put this on a bus all day long, and it sends out a signal to everybody that comes and goes, and I don't have to be there. And we make it at a price point where it is disposable, meaning that if you can't get it for security reasons, you leave it.

It's not going to be the end of the day. We're really excited about this, but here's the cool part. We have a chat bar, and the chat bar is completely anonymous, meaning that somebody can write to another person and say, hey, how are you, starting a dialogue, and begin to share the gospel all anonymously.

That means that I can sit beside a female that I'm not related to in a Muslim context, I would not be able to engage her in conversation. But now I can minister to her, share the gospel with her, give these items for the free Bible, the free music, the free videos, tell her how she can download that without ever moving my lips.

Amen? This means that men can engage females, females can engage males, all in a Muslim setting, and here's where we want to use it the most. At the mosque. Do you know how many people go to the mosques because they feel like if I'm zealous enough, if I show myself religious enough, I can get promoted at my job?

But they don't care. They're just there because they want people to think, most of the time that they're sitting there, they're playing with their phone. They're playing games or they're looking for free Wi-Fi.

We want to give them free Wi-Fi. We have a vision to start sending these on the Hajj between Medina and Mecca so that those that are on the Hajj but are not really paying attention or are engaged with their mobile devices, we can now engage them.

When you donate, this is what you're donating to. We are going to be using those in those three countries, Iran, North Korea, China. Thank you guys so much for your support. We praise the Lord that we were able to be here with you guys today.

We hope that it blessed your socks off. Amen? Praise God.

Supporting Global Gospel Outreach

All right. So the ushers, if you guys could go ahead and begin to pass buckets. The checks are made out to Back to Jerusalem Incorporated. So interesting, isn't it, Grace Center, that just when we think we've got one country kind of on our radar, the Lord continues to pour into this house.

It's because this house is called to have a global vision. One of the things that we've said out loud is that we are partnering with the God of the impossible so it shouldn't catch us off guard when he asks us to do the impossible.

So, Lord, we just bless everything that is going on, everything that is going out, everything that you're bringing here, everything that you're bringing before us. Lord, we say yes and amen. Yes and amen.

Yes and amen. Yes and amen. Yes and amen. Yes and amen. Lord, don't ever allow us to look at our lack and determine what you're asking us to do. Lord, we repent of that. We repent of it. We are serving the God of the impossible, and we bless you and thank you for including us in what you're doing.

In Jesus' name, amen. Alright, well thank you guys for coming. You can stand up. Be dismissed. Say hello to someone beside you. Bless them. And we will see you next week.