Before I left Hong Kong, just a few short time before I left Hong Kong to come to Australia,在江牧师来到澳洲之前呢,他是从香港来到着的, and I received a tape sent in an envelope.他收到了一个信封,信封里面呢,有一个录音带, and for some time I didn't have time to listen to it,因为很长一段时间呢,他没有机会来听到这个录音带,应该是什么, but one day I determined I took a listen to this tape,但是有一天呢,他有机会了呢,他把这个录音带拿出来听一下,Actually I don't know who sent the tape, even now I don't know who sent the tape,直到今天呢,他都不知道是什么人把这个录音带寄给他的,But the person sent the tape because that person knew that I have also a burden to reach the Muslim people,因为呢,寄这个录音带的人呢,知道在张牧师的心底里面呢,有一个很深的愿望,是要向这些穆斯林的人查语音,and what was in this tape was a testimony of somebody who went with his whole familyto a Muslim country to bring the gospel,那么这个录音带里面是什么东西呢,是一个人的见证,他和他的全家移民到了一个穆斯林去居的地方,向他们去传福音,Now it's very difficult to preach the gospel to Muslims,向穆斯林,向回教徒传福音是非常困难的,there has to be power from God,要有神那里来的力量,才能够打扣他们的这个障碍,so when he went to this country,and the people heard that he was a Christian,coming to preach to the Muslims,nobody wanted to talk to him,当他们移民到这个国家的时候呢,旁边的人知道他们是基督徒来查语音的,没有人来听他们的,but he had such a love for these people,he wanted to bring the gospel to them,但是他对他们是充满了慈爱,他有这个愿望要向他们来查语音,so one day he stood in the middle of the town on the bridge,他有一天呢,站在这个正常的中间,站在一个墙上面,and he said,if you don't want to listen to me,then I'm going to jump into this river,他说,你如果要不听我所讲的话,我就从这个墙上跳而去掉到河里面去,he wanted to show them how desperate and how determinedhe wanted to preach the gospel to them,他要接着这个行动呢,来向这些穆斯林表现呢,他是多么迫切地希望呢,把福音传给他们,那么他们呢,就很多人就觉得这个行为是非常的奇怪,就很多人呢,围在旁边想要来听听这个有毛病的人,到底是想要讲些什么东西,so he took the opportunity as the crowds gathered around,right in the heart of the city,and began to preach to them about Jesus,那么就在这个城市的中间,就在这个之中心的地方,就有很多人聚集在他的周围呢,来听他讲主耶稣的事情,and having preached this message,he fulfilled his promise,and jumped into the river,那么他传完了福音以后呢,他就跳到河里面去了,so that he showed that he wasn't just an empty threat,he was really going to do it,他告诉他们说呢,他原来说的话呢,并不是来骗他们,要吓唬他们的,I so much want to bring you the gospel,the jumping down into the river,very dirty river,it's fine with me,他就想要告诉这些周围的人呢,说对他们来说,他要把福音传给他们更重要,跳到那个很脏的河里面呢,对他来说呢,是代表不息的,and the result was that the people began to take notice of this person,and were more and more willing to listen,那么因为这个人的这个言行举止呢,就越来越多的人呢,对他感进去,and one day the head of the local mosque,who was called an imam,challenged him to kind of debateMuslim against Christian in the mosque,那么后来呢,这个亲征寺里面呢,管制的这个人呢,就来找他,所以要跟他来辩论,since people were beginning to get interested in him,maybe the imam thought,imam thought it better to crush him in front of the mosque,of the people of the mosque,and show that Christianity is not much for Islam,因为越来越多人呢,对基督教好像感兴趣了,这个亲征寺里面这个人呢,就感到紧张了,说最好要把这个人压制下去,这样子的话,他会让他周围的人也看到呢,基督教和伊斯兰教比起来呢,是没办法比的,那么就有很多很多人呢,聚集在这个亲征寺的里面,那么这两个人呢,就开始了辩论,but then suddenly in the midst of all thistheoretical talk,talking of different religions,那么他们一开始呢,都是在谈理论上的东西,讲两个宗教有什么不同,there came a man carrying a little child in his arms,那么在这其中呢,就有一个人进来,在他手上呢,抱了一个小小的一个孩子,this child was probably no more thanthree, four years old,就小孩子呢,可能也只有三四岁左右,but it's born crippled,this little girl could never,cannot walk,但是这个小姑娘呢,从来没有走过路,因为她呢,出生的时候呢,就是残废,and he came to this picture,他来到这个基督徒的这个宣教士的面前,and said,can your Jesus heal my little girl?他说,你所讲的耶稣能不能够来医治我的女儿?Wow,that was a challenge he wasn't prepared for.这是一个很大的挑战,他完全没有做到这样的一个准备,in front of all this crowded mosque,Muslim people,the challenge was,let's not talk religion,那么在这么大一群的这个回教徒的面前,在清真寺里面,面对这个传教士的挑战是,你不要讲理论上的东西,can your Jesus heal my little girl?that's the important question for me,not all this theory going on there.那么最重要的呢,不是讲这些宗教上的事情,而是一个挑战,你所传的耶稣,有没有能力来医治这个小孩子。now this preacher never thought of himself,has any gift of healing.那么这个传教士呢,他自己根本就没有想到说,他自己会有这种能力来医治别人的。in the face of this challenge,he could only cry out,for Jesus,what am I going to do?因为在这个情况下面呢,他只能够向神来呼求,说主啊,在这个情况下面我该请他做呢。even if he could win the debate,he would have lost the day.就算他跟这个清真寺的这个管事的人,两个人辩论,就算他赢的话,他如果不能够医治这个孩子的话,他也今天就等于是输掉了。he could only cry out,and then he said,all right,I'll pray for this little girl.他就对这个父亲说呢,我会为你的孩子来做一个祷告。so in front of all these people,he prayed for this crippled girl.就站在所有人的面前,他就为这个小姑娘来祷告。after having prayed,nothing seemed to happen.那么他祷告了以后呢,好像看上去没有什么事情发生。and this,the father of this girl,very graciously,thank you,anyway,thank you,maybe this is too difficult for Jesus to do.但是这个小孩子的父亲呢,也很客气,他就是对他说,哎呀,多多谢你啊,麻烦你了,也许呢,对耶稣来说,这个事情太难做了,做不到。Jesus is very great,but maybe this is too much,I ask too much.耶稣也许是个很伟大的人,但是呢,今天的要求呢,耶稣是做不到的。because in the Quran,it does speak of Jesusas healing the sickand raising the dead,you see,因为在这个可兰经里面,有记载耶稣以前能够医治人,it never says that Muhammadever did anything,he never performed a miracle.但是从来没有说过,这个他们里面提到的这个,哇,莫德有这样子的能力。but I have seen,I've read the Quran myself,so I know,there it says,Jesus did mighty works,including raising the dead.那么张牧师呢,可以向你保证,他因为他自己读过这个可兰经,全部都读过,他可以告诉你,这个可兰经里面呢,有讲到耶稣呢,有医治人,叫死人活过来的能力。That was probably the reasonwhy this man brought his little girl,and since this is a preacher of Jesus,well,maybe Jesus will work through him.也许这位带小孩子来的这个父亲呢,他可能有看过可兰经,读到这一段,他想说,这个人来讲耶稣,也许耶稣呢,会看在他的份上呢,来医治他的女儿。And so seeing that nothing appeared to happen,he just graciously thanked the preacher,and walked the way,and then having walked some distance,he stopped.那么这个父亲呢,就很客气地献一切这个,这一位传教师,他就走了。Having walked the distance,he stopped and turned around.但是他没有走几步了,他就不得不回头来看一下。And he said to the preacher,Could you bless my family?他说,你可以不可以给我们全家一个祝福呢?It was remarkable.He didn't see the child healed,but he asked for blessing for the whole family.虽然他没有看到他的孩子,这个腿得到医治,但是他请这个宣教师呢,来祝福他的全家。So of course the preacher said,Yes, certainly I'm grateful for your whole family.那么这个宣教师对他说,当然可以,我会为你们祷告,祝福你们全家。So once again,the man very graciously thanked the preacherfor praying for his family,turned around and started walking away.那么这个父亲呢,就很客气地,又卸了一些这个宣教师,然后又接着走。But in his heart,he was thinking,all the people sitting here will say,this was too difficult for Jesus,to heal the church.但是可以想象的话,他心里面怎么样想,可以想象周围的那么多人,他们可能都想,说今天这个问题,这个挑战太厉害了,耶稣是做不到的。And as he walked away,the child was over his shoulder,and he saw this,the big eyes of this little girlstill looking at him.那么在他一边走着一边的时候呢,他看到这个小孩子的眼睛呢,还在盯着他看。And then he noticed,that the child was pushing the father away,as he was walking away.但是他这个父亲在一边走的时候,他感觉到他的女儿怎么会用手,一直在推他。And was kept on pushing him,as he was walking towards the door,pushing him away.他又靠近门的时候呢,他的女儿越是推他。So finally the father being pushed like that,put the child down.那么他女儿老是推老是推,他父亲没有办法,就把他放在地上了。And the child started to walk.那么这个孩子呢,就站在地上,自己开始走路了。The father looked at a glass.那么这个父亲呢,简直是目瞪口呆。This child cannot even stand,never mind walk.And yet he was standing and walking.这个孩子从前以前都没有站起来过,现在居然可以走路。The scene was almost finished,he was almost out of the door.It looked like the battle was lost.那么他已经快走到那个门口了,原来这个像耶稣发出的挑战,好像耶稣都做不到。And then the whole mosque gasped in astonishment,And began to say,Jesus is real.那么因为这件事情呢,整个清真寺里面的人,所有的人都在惊叹,哇,原来耶稣是真的。It was,This became the total turning pointof that ministry,in that Muslim country,in East Africa.那么这个是发生在非洲中部的一个,穆斯林的一个国家,也就是因为这样的一个事情呢,那个像这个穆斯林传福音的这个工作呢,就在那里展开了。As a matter of fact,even the imam himselffinally came to the Lord.那么最后呢,连清真寺,这个管事的,来跟他辩论的这个人呢,也来相信耶稣了。And they warned him thatif he started preaching the gospel,that they will kill him,and certainly the family will kill him.但是呢,其他的这些地方人呢,警告他说,你们继续在传耶稣的话,我们就会把你杀掉。The mum said,Well, go ahead.那么这个清真寺的管事的这个人呢,他现在信了耶稣,他说,没关系啊,你来杀我就杀我了。那么这一个清真寺的管事的这个人呢,他是在阿富汗接受训练的。And he said to the preacher,I want to go back to Afghanistanto my teachersand tell them about Jesus.他说,我现在呢,想要回到阿富汗,去找原来训练我的那一些伊斯兰教的老师,要告诉他们耶稣的事情。And one day when he went to look for the imam,the imam was gone.那么这个宣教师呢,有一天呢,去找这个清真寺的管事的时候呢,哎,找不到了,他已经走了。And the family told him,we've deported him.We decided not to kill him,we deported him.那他们的这个,这个管事的这个亲人呢,后来告诉这个宣教师说呢,说我们最后想一想的,还是不要杀他,但是呢,把他驱逐出去。And he asked,where did you deport him to?他说,你们把他赶到什么地方去了?Afghanistan.他说,我们把他赶到阿富汗去了。The very place he wanted to go.因为这个是,其他地方他都不想去,这个地方他才想去。那么因为这一个宣教士的努力,就有成千的人来相信耶稣。那么在几天前呢,张牧师也读到了另外一个人的这个见证,是在中国的一个女性的一个传道人。那么不管呢,每一天有多忙呢,牧师呢,都是想抽一些时间呢,来读这些方面的东西。那么他发现呢,来读这些忠心的侍奉上帝的仆人,他们的见证呢,对我们非常有这个提高。因为他总是向我们来挑战,要让我们呢,来向他们来学习。以及以及 And this woman worked all her life long, serving and preaching. And it struck me particularly, a matter of particular interest to me is that this woman was so greatly used by God, and yet I never heard of her name. In the event, I saw this woman who was a very important person, but many people didn't hear her name. All her life, she remained single, everywhere she went, preaching the gospel. And with such power and such effect, that multitudes came to the Lord. And maybe she served in the Phuken area, she was from Phuken.
Which actually is the province where my father comes from. Although she did also go to other parts of the country. And one time she worked with that great servant of the Lord, John Song. And one time she worked with that great servant of the Lord, John Song. And one time she worked with that great servant of the Lord, John Song. In fact, she was his translator by preference.
He preferred to have her whenever possible as a translator. And as a result, she was able to witness God's power working through this remarkable servant of the Lord. So when I read of this account, I heard of this account on the tape about what happened in the mosque.
Then when I read of this sister's testimony, she recorded a similar account. In fact, there were so many accounts of what the Lord did. I would be talking all afternoon just about the wonders that Jesus worked through his servants, but I was mentioning only one. So the people who did the things that Jesus did was too many.
If we were to talk about the things that Jesus did, we would say that in one occasion, John Song, who actually never claimed to have a healing ministry, So this woman said that this woman was a day to go to the church. And he never said that he could heal people. His ministry was to preach the gospel, but he prayed for anyone who was in need. And every time there would be hundreds of people after a meeting who would come to him to pray for prayer about physical or spiritual matters. So every time there would be a few hundred people who would come to the church.
And all kinds of amazing things were happening because Jesus is the living Lord. So the Lord did the holy things that Jesus did, and one of these things that the sister records, after John Song had prayed for the people, in fact, for hundreds of people to be prayed for, he could only spend a moment for each person as they just passed by in front of him. In one occasion, a child, well, a young person, a young man was pushed in a wheelchair, this time not walking on a wheelchair in front of him. And John Song prayed for him as for all the others, just anointing him with a little oil and praying in the name of the Father, Son, and Spirit. So the Lord did the holy things that Jesus did, and he was pushed further along.
And the sister said to him, well, you have been prayed for, now get out of that wheelchair. Get out of that wheelchair. That's the same thing. That's the same thing. That's the same thing. That's the same thing.
That's the same thing. That's the same thing. Yeah, exactly. Why are you still sitting there? Didn't you hear that he prayed for you? He didn't hear that he prayed for you?
Eighteen, eighteen years. He was born crippled, that never walked in his life. He got no muscles on his legs to walk with. This young man, he was still sitting there. He didn't hear that he prayed for you. But the sister, full of faith, said, stand up.
And this sister's heart is just so big. She said, she already asked you to pray for you. She said, she had to stand up. And he stood up. That's the young man, he stood up. He stood up.
He started to jump up and down on the platform. And the whole congregation were amazed. And the whole congregation were amazed. And the whole congregation were amazed. He was jumping, walking, running. That's her description of it.
And that's the act of creation. You see, you can't jump without no muscles in your legs. And if you don't use your muscles, you know it atrophies. It's just gone. And eighteen years in that nature. 因为这是神的完全的重新的創造. 因为他生下来的时候,腿上就没那么多肌肉, 也没有那么多的能力来,站起来,能够跳来跳去. Now why am I saying all this? 为什么我们今天呢,说到这些事情呢?
What has God got to do with the heart for China? 这个跟新谓中华有什么关系呢? 因为我为新谓中华有什么关系呢? 因为我为新谓中华只有一个原因。 因为耶稣是真的,是活的。 我并不对宗教感什么兴趣。 因为宗教都是人所创造的。 我的信仰不是建立在宗教上面, 而是建立在这个又真又活的主身上。 Now if you do not know him as the living Lord, 如果你不认识这个又真又活的主, How would you have a heart for China? 你怎么可能有一个未中华的心呢? You don't have a living Jesus, a living Lord to bring to China. So if you have a heart for China, it would be for personal reasons, Maybe making money or something else. 如果你不认识这个又真又活的主的话, 你不能够带给中华同胞的话, 一个又真又活的主, 你去也是没有用。 So when we speak of a heart for China, We are talking about the deep concern and compassion For these people who do not know Jesus. 当我们说到新卫中华的时候, 是这一些认识这位又真又活的主, 他们心里面最真切的愿望是, 也让同胞们也来认识这个主。 还有一个原因。 因为时间不够用。 时间不够用。 时间越来越不够用了。 时间越来越不够用了。 最近我曾经在航空船上飞行, 拿起一个报纸来看。 这个报纸上的标题呢, 它说, 因为时间不够用。 时间不够用。 时间越来越不够用了。 时间越来越不够用了。 最近我曾经在航空船上飞行, 拿起一个报纸上飞行, 然后我曾经在航空船上飞行, 拿起一个报纸来看。 最近一段时间牧师有一次坐在飞机上面的时候呢, 拿起一个报纸来看。 这个报纸上的标题呢, 就引起他的注意。 它说, In the year 2002, That is last year, One million Chinese people died of smoking related diseases. 说在2002年, 也就是去年呢, 有一百万的同胞, 因为死, 死于因为抽烟这样的一个事情。 For this one million people, not the time isn't short, It's already gone. 对这一百万人来说, 在过去的一年里面呢, 不是说没有机会, 他们的机会早就已经没有了。 There are one million people we are never going to reach. 那么是这一百万呢, 在过去的一年里面就失去了。 When we started, When we first bought the radio station, That is now broadcasting into China every day for four and a half hours. 那么在这个牧师呢, 他们最开始建立一个这个福音的广播站。 那么这个广播站呢, 现在是像中国的每一天, 这个播送四个半小时的这个福音节目。 那么在当年他们开始这个工作的时候呢, 这个播音站呢, 是提前两天完工的。 那么这个同工说, 哎呀我们提前两天完工, 还有两天, 还有两天, 我们要不要等两天, 然后再开始播音呢? 牧师问他说, 评两天, 你知不知道在中国每一天有多少同胞会死掉? 明天会不会太远。 对我们的东西。 对我们的一些同胞来说, 明天也许可能就太迟了。 就没有机会再听到这个福音。 如果主祝福我们给我们提前两天完工的话, 那我们就要招紧时间提前两天把福音传到中国去。 。 。 。 。 。 。 。 。 。 。 那么去年一年里面就一百万因为抽烟有关的病症死掉。 。 。 。 那么这个报纸说呢, 到两千一一年到两千十五年的时候呢, 每一年中国有两百万人要因为抽烟, 还有跟这个方面有关的事情要去死掉。 。 。 。 。 。 。 那么西尼的人口有多少? 我们西尼有三百万,四百万的人口。 。 那么今年全血利有四分之一的人口就因为抽烟就死掉。 。 那么就是说按照这个比例来说的话, 那么今年全血利有四分之一的人口就因为抽烟就死掉。 。 。 。 。 。 。 。 。 。 So, over to the last year, the Chinese people have been dying for the whole population of Australia.
There are two thousand million people. That's about the whole population of Australia. There are more than 100 million people who have been dead for all sorts of other reasons, cancer, car accident, whatever you name it, some twenty million or more will be dead. So, every year, the Chinese people have been dying for the whole population of the world. So, the people who have been born are too young for you to reach for many years to come. So, the people who have been born are too young for you to reach for many years to come.
There is an unspeakable feeling in my heart for this reason. When I talk to Christians, don't you think they'd be concerned? When they say that, the people who have been born are too young for the whole world.
I still got this first to do and that first to do and everything first to do. And by the night they finished all the first things they need to do, well, too many million would have passed. And maybe by then they wouldn't go anywhere. I mean, the person who is still waiting would never go anywhere. And the people who are still waiting would never go anywhere. And the people who have been born are too young for the whole world.
They say that they have to do this thing. They have to do this thing. Every day I'm thinking, Lord, how do we reach more people? How do we do it?
Please, tell me. So now we're developing a film project so that by movie we can reach more people, with VCDs to reach people because VCDs got so little, we can just distribute them. By whatever means under the sun, we have to reach them. Now we're starting to use movies, because in the film we can reach many people.
Now VCDs are very便宜, we can use VCDs to transmit the gospel. But if we can use what kind of way, if we can make more people hear the gospel, we should do it. I'm concerned to produce a movie about Jesus in Chinese, with Jesus as a Chinese person. So that people can realize that Jesus is not East, West, North, South.
He is for everyone, including, and especially now for us, the Chinese. We can put that on VCDs. We can distribute it all over China and all over the world. Are we not reaching a lot of people over the radio? Yes, we are reaching over the whole of China by radio. But you can only reach those who turn on their radios.
So that's still a small proportion. We need not just air power as it over the air, we need ground troops. We don't only need to use the sound of the air from the sky to China, but we need to be able to reach the ground troops to China. We have some maybe 200 full-time workers.
So we have 200 people in China. These are not all in China. Some proportion of them are in China. But what is 200 full-time workers for a country of that size? It's scarcely a drop in a bucket. But in China, there are 200 people in China.
It's very anxious. It's very anxious. It's anxious. So I'm very anxious.
It's very anxious. Very anxious. It's very anxious. It's very anxious. So he's so anxious.
Oh yeah, maybe anxious. So he's so anxious. 所以说牧师说他的心急如火。 嗯,真的好。 谢谢。 谢谢。 Now, think of this. If somebody here has a heart attack, or has a car accident, exactly what happens? 如果我们中间的话,如果我们中间的话,如果有一个人突然发心脏病的话,或者突然遇到车祸。 Oh, somebody rings an emergency, an ambulance comes, and everybody rushes there, and there is so much pain. 然后有很多动作, and then you have all these screaming sirens, and they rush him off to the hospital, and a whole team of doctors are waiting there to revive or do whatever is necessary for this person. 那么如果遇到这样的情况的话,我们这里肯定就会慌坐一团,有的人赶快打电话去叫救护车来,然后就会听到救护车的喇叭响,然后赶快把这个人送到医院去,就会有一大群的医生和护士来抢救他,想要把他救护过来。 All this, can I call it fuss? Sorry, YouTube, for one older person, maybe like myself, who's going to be passing on before too long anyway, But all this emergency to keep him alive for a couple of more days, more hours, who knows, or even a few months. 那么你能够说这样的这么忙乱,这么多的力量花在这样一个人身上是瞎忙一场吗? 也许你可能这一场的功夫只能够给他多活几天,多活几年,你能够说这是没有用的吗? All this activity, this dedication, which is to be admired, but all of this, not to mention the expenses involved, Sometimes they have to fly the patient by helicopter to another place if this hospital cannot deal with it. All that expense involved just to keep somebody like me alive for another year or two, maybe even if that much. 牧师说想一想看,如果是像他这样子七十几岁的老人家,如果是发生这样的事情的话, 花这么多的这个金钱,这么多的力量,就是抢救一个人,也许呢,多活两年。 其实还没到七十岁。 还没到七十岁。 什么人跟我讲的, I'm so sorry. 没有问题。 Is the physical life so important that no energy and no expense must be spared to keep us alive? 为了抢救一个人的生命,我们是不期待家的。 And yet, out there are a billion people.
We're not talking about losing physical life alone, be no eternal life for them. A billion people, that is one thousand million, if you know what a billion is. 如果是为了抢救一个肉体的生命,我们都花这么大的代价。 在中国的土地上面有十三亿人,他们不仅仅肉体的生命有一天要灭亡。 如果听不到福音的话,他们的灵魂也要灭亡。 There's no great concern, is there? 没有比这个更值得我们去思考,更值得我们去努力的。 Do we really believe that Jesus is real? 我们真的相信主耶稣是真的吗? Do we really believe that time is short for every one of us, even if we manage to live to seventy? 就像神给我们七十年的时间的话,你的时间够用吗? You know, from the vantage point of seventy, it's really amazing when you look back, And you find that fifty years disappeared, nine years, it's just one blink and fifty years have disappeared. 如果你到了七十岁的话,你回头一看的话,你前面的五十年也不过是一眨眼就过去了。 Time is precious for ourselves, it is precious. 对我们自己来说是很宝贵的。 But what about others? 那么对其他人呢?
Now as for time, let me dwell very briefly on another aspect. 那么现在我们讲到时间上面呢,牧师在讲另外一个方面的问题。 I don't know if you have heard of the Bible code. Do you have heard of the Bible code? 比如说有没有人听到这样的一个事情,叫做圣经密码。 对。 Now it is said that in the Bible there is a hidden code. 那么有些人说了在圣经里面呢,有一个隐藏的密码。 Which records every significant event that has happened or is happening or will happen in this world. 说我们这个世界上已经发生过的,还有将要发生的这个重大的事情呢,都在这个密码里面。 那么很有趣的呢,他们这个,说找到这个密码的这些人呢,并不是基督徒。 是犹太人的数学家找到的。 In fact, mathematicians and computer experts. 是用这个数学家还有这个搞电脑的这些专家呢发明的。 And they said that actually this code could not be discovered until the use of computers. 说了这个,你找不到这个里面的密码,除非你用电脑的话。 Therefore this code could only be discovered in this present time when advanced computers become very common. 说只能够在这个现在这个时代,当有很多很多先进的电脑的时候呢,才能够找到。 These computers process the whole Bible, especially the Old Testament. 那么这些电脑呢,来把这个圣经里面,尤其是旧约里面的很多信心进行处理。 And on the basis of this discovery, a certain New York Times reporter, who is also himself a Jew, not a Christian. 那么根据这些里面所找到的东西呢,纽约时报里面的一个犹太人的一个记者呢,写了一些东西。 He warned the then Prime Minister of Israel that according to the Bible Code, he would be assassinated at a particular time. 它说呢,根据这个里面的这个密码呢,他警告这个以色列当时的这个总理说呢,他会被人暗杀的。 Because in the Bible Code, he saw the name of this Prime Minister, 它说在这个密码里面呢,他找到了这个以色列的总理的名字。 Crossed by another word, assassination. 找到了,在他旁边呢,说是暗杀。 So he urgently wrote to the Prime Minister, Rabin, and said, you are going to be assassinated. 他就很急切地向这个以色列的总理拉宾呢,写去了,说你将要在什么什么时候被谋杀掉。 但是这个拉宾总理呢,没有相信他这个。 他说,哎呀,这些是什么东西啊? 他从来没听说过。 它说,我该做的我就要去做了。 剩下来的呢,我们大家都知道, Rabin 是被谋杀的。 是有一个犹太人呢,从后面上来,开枪的把他打死了。 这个犹太人呢,杀他的犹太人呢,说他对这个巴勒斯坦人呢,太客气了。 然后你现在看到了这个犹太人,现在有一个犹太人。 现在我们现在看见了,因为他的死呢,在以色列呢,现在有很强硬的人,来对付这个巴勒斯坦的人。 来对付这个巴勒斯坦的人。 那么写这本书的,写这个《圣经密码》这本书的这个人呢。 呢,他几个月前呢,又写了另外一本书。 他写这本书呢,是为什么呢? 因为这个911的这个事情。 那么当时呢,这个人呢,是住在这个纽约的曼哈顿区。 他听到了一个,一天早上听到了一个很巨大的这个爆炸的声音。 那么他从此去看的时候呢,看见这个世贸大厦的这个两座楼呢,在着火了。 首先呢,先看到的是一个塔,在着火。 然后他跑到他的电脑里面呢,去找。 然后他跑到他的电脑里面呢,去找。 他说找到了这个,在这个电脑里面呢,9月11号的一天。 它说呢,这个东西呢,是在他以前呢,没有找到的。 那一天呢,他看见了这个,这个双塔的这个事情。 跟这两个,这个世贸大厦的两个塔连在一起的字呢,是什么?是讲的飞机。 那么这个呢,是在这个圣经密码第二这本书里面。 这本书里面呢。 但是从那里,他说,他说,根据他的这个预测呢,我们现在这个世界呢,这个末日呢,快要来了。 然后他说,根据他的这个预测呢,这个末日呢,快要来了。 他给了这个世界末日的哪一年,他说这个用犹太人的这个算法是哪一年。 然后他说,是2006年。 然后他说,是2006年。 然后他说,是2006年。 根据这个人的预测呢,他说呢,2006年呢,可能就是世界的末日。 然后他说,如果真的是2006年的话,我们已经一半已经过去,还剩下一半了。 然后他说,如果真的是2006年的话,我们已经一半已经过去,还剩下一半了。 然后他说,我们可以说,我们可以像拉宾总理这样说呢,说还剩下这些东西,只不过是这些人下猜吧。 那么,我已经在这些问题上完全不同的角度。 其实我之前在读了《宗教证证》的证明文,也还在读了《宗教证证》。 牧师说,他读到这个圣经立马这两本书之前呢,他也想到过这个世界末日的这个事情。 但是从另外一个角度来想。 因为圣经理告诉我们呢,我们不需要去知道,到底是哪一年,哪一天,世界的末日会来。 然后在莫德里面说,我说了,这个时间是完全不可计算的,因为神的爱情,他不想要有人死。 牧师说了,上一次在加拿大一个讲道里面,他也提到过,说这个世界末日呢,是我们没有办法去预测哪一天的。 世界没有来临,是因为神的恩典,他希望世界上的人呢,都有机会能够得救。 如果,when Jonah went to Nineveh to predict that Nineveh was going to be destroyed, it didn't come to pass because the people who repented. 那么在这个圣经里面,旧约里面记载呢,先知这个,这个,啊,约拿跑到这个,尼尼威去向他们讲他们的末日要来临的时候呢,他们的末日最后没有来临。 因为呢,整个城市的人呢,都悔改了。 但是呢,当我们想到,如果是在末日来临的时候,全世界都像尼威一样悔改的话,恐怕不是那么乐观的吧。 。 and biblical time.这个下大雨的时候,诺亚的时候也是四十天四十夜。我们今天没有时间来对比诺亚大洪水的事情和主耶稣再来的事情。因为主耶稣说呢,人子再来的时候会是怎么样呢?跟诺亚当年大洪水来的时候是一样的情形。那么这个四十天四十夜下大雨的事情又出现了。但是对以色列来说呢,我们怎么样来算这些年代呢?我稍微有点关注。我非常熟悉的是以色列,第一次有学到那里,然后有很多次回到那里。牧师呢,在以色列从前学习过,而且呢,也去过以色列很多次,所以对以色列呢,是很熟悉的。因此,当我第一次去学习在以色列,我住在一个厨房子,我住在一个厨房子,正在向前的古城城。那么他最早第一次去以色列的时候呢,是住在一个地方呢,这个地方正好是面对着以色列的旧城。那么他呢,从他的房间里面呢,越过一个峡谷呢,可以看到对面呢,就是以色列旧城的城墙。那么那个时候呢,耶路撒冷呢,还是在这个阿拉伯人的手里面,以色列还没把它拿回去。那么在这个东墙,西墙交界的地方呢,那个地方呢,有一个,当时呢,有这个重型的这个机关枪,反面那个地方。那么这个机关枪呢,只好是对着他的房间。那么他每天找他一起来呢,就可以看到这个机关枪是对着他的。因为这个南墙和西墙的墙角呢,正好是对着他的这个家里面。那么他当时呢,跟这个以色列人说,说你们现在,啊,占有这个以色列的周围的土地,可是呢,你们没有这个耶路撒冷。Jerusalem, they told me, is the head of the body.So, if Israel does not have Jerusalem, it's like a body without a head.那么这个,啊,犹太人呢,跟别人说呢,说以色列呢,对以色列来说,耶路撒冷就好像人的头一样。如果没有耶路撒冷呢,好像一个没有头的人。So, that was in 1962.那么那时候呢,是哪一年呢?是1962年的时候。When I came back from Israel, I predicted that very soon, Israel would take Jerusalem. Very very soon.那么他离开以色列之后呢,他就说呢,以色列人呢,很快就会去占领这个耶路撒冷。1967, they took Jerusalem.1967年,以色列呢,占领了这个耶路撒冷。Exactly as I expected they would.那么他正式像他当年所想象的。
# Heart for China: God's Purpose for China in the Last Days (Part 2)
So now Israel was complete, body and head. Now if you add forty years, the figure so connected to Israel, what do you get? You get 2007. You get 2007. So the Bible code says 2006.
I figured probably more likely 2007. So the Bible code says 2006. But when I reconsidered the matter, I realized we were talking about the same year. Because I said that his date is based on the Jewish date. And the Jewish year starts in what is our end of the year. That is around September, October.
That means it starts in 2006 towards the end of 2006 and goes on to 2007. That means it starts in 2006 towards the end of 2006 and goes on to 2007. So I was somewhat shocked or surprised to find that my approach from a completely different direction for completely different reason ends up with the same conclusion.
And so I impressed with the beyond 2007. But we will be deceived ourselves, if you think 2007 years ago will still be a lot of time. Now when we have a heart for China, a country of that size, and we are looking at four years if 2007 is right.
If we have 2007 years is right, then we will have only 4 years to ask our fellow friends. How can we not be anxious? How can we not be anxious? 1.3 billion people, and we got 4 years.
And everybody is sitting back very very relaxed. Well, I am the only crazy person around here, because I am not relaxed at all. 13 million people, if we want to make it easy to face, how can we do it easy to face? Is it only one person is so nervous?
Every day, every day people are passing away. We are rushing around with ambulances to rescue some folk that might not live for very long. And these people, eternal life is at stake here. All eternity is at stake. And who cares? Every day, there are many people who will lose the life forever.
But we are still waiting for some other things. I can only conclude that most Christians don't believe that time is short. So, they can only do such a decision. The most people is the most important of the Christian is not long. Even more seriously, they don't believe that Jesus is real, that He is alive, that He is the Savior of mankind. So many of the Christian Christians also believe in the world that is the Lord.
When we talk about people, not only we are talking about eternal life, we are saying that Jesus can do something for you in this life as well, not just in eternity. Now, when we say that we say that we are not only able to give them the opportunity for the people of God, and that we can give them the opportunity for the people of God. I just use those two examples of cripples to show you that the spiritual lesson of it is that we are all crippled, born crippled, and it is Jesus who in this life can fix us up spiritually so that we can live in the fullness of life. In the beginning, we talked about the two examples. Two are two born-born people. So, this is the one that represents us all of the people.
We are in the spirit of the Holy Spirit, and we are in the spirit of the Holy Spirit. So, the Holy Spirit is able to give us the whole life of the Holy Spirit. Now, have you experienced what Jesus can do in your life? Have you experienced what Jesus can do in your life? If you don't experience anything that Jesus can do in your life, then obviously you've got nothing to give to China. So, obviously, even if you are concerned, there's nothing you can do.
You've got nothing to give. Because if you haven't experienced it, then you've got nothing to give us the whole of the world. You may have nothing to give us the whole of the world. You may have nothing to give us the whole of the world. And the Holy Spirit is no one of the things that Jesus can do in your life. He can take your crippled life, my crippled life with one touch, and we are made whole.
Jesus can take our non-functional lives, sitting in a wheelchair, unable to function freely. And He makes new people in this life, not just in eternity in heaven sometime. He can take our own life, not just in eternity in heaven sometime. And He can take our own life, and we can give our own life. And in the last few days here in Sydney, I've been sharing my own experiences of what God has done with me. I know His power in my life.
So in the past few days, the Lord has been sharing my own life. Even healing the sick is something by the grace of God I have also done, though I rarely talk about it. So in the past few days, the Lord has been sharing my own life.
So through me and I claim no healing gifts, tumors have vanished into thin air after prayer. The existence of those tumors were confirmed on X-ray, and people were already booked in for the operation. When it came a few days later for the operation, there was no tumor to operate on. But God has been able to do that. That's when He has been praying for the operation. That's when He has been praying for the operation.
Some of those patients, there were no tumors to operate on. But God has been able to heal these patients. After that, when He has healed these patients, the body has gone through the operation. When He has healed these patients, the body has gone through the operation. There are two x-ray sheets. This one, two weeks ago, this one, and there's no tumors.
One of them is so large in the abdomen of an elderly woman, just vanished into thin air. One of them is so large in the body of an elderly woman. One of them is so large in the body of an elderly woman. Two weeks later, the body of an elderly woman will be gone through the operation of an elderly woman. Jesus, He can do something for us in every respect. Physically, mentally, spiritually.
The people in China need Him. So, Jesus is so large in the body of an elderly woman. He can do so large in our body of an elderly woman. He can do so large in our body of an elderly woman. The people in the body of an elderly woman need Him. The time is fast going and I have to conclude this.
We have to conclude this. Maybe the only thing I have time left to speak about is how is this... What is the purpose of this operation to bring the gospel to China?
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We... So for many of them, only now they begin to recognize China as a country to which they belong. And many Chinese people born overseas don't recognize China as their own country at all, because they know nothing about China. And that's why they are in the world of foreign countries. That includes our daughter. She grew up in England and Canada.
She doesn't know China. So when we went to Sweden in Hong Kong, we brought our daughter along. To her is completely foreign. So when they went to Hong Kong to Sweden, her daughter just came to Hong Kong, she felt all the things were very strange.
As a matter of fact, she didn't like it. She kept saying, when did we get back to Canada? She said, what's the time we can go to Canada? Well, there is difficulty. So why would such people be interested in bringing the gospel to China?
So why would such people be interested in bringing the gospel to China? They why would such people be interested in bringing the gospel to China? So, let's just say, China is the key to world evangelism. We are not evangelizing China just for its own sake.
So, that's why we are not evangelizing China just for its own sake. So, that's why we are not evangelizing China just for its own sake. If my observations are not entirely incorrect, then I would say that in this last day or these last days, God has China as the means for world evangelism. So, if you see, if we read the situation, like in Deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 7, the Lord said to Israel, I chose you not because you're a great nation. So, in the 7th chapter 7, the 7th chapter 7, the Lord said to Israel, I chose you not because you're the strongest, the smallest, the fewest of the peoples of the earth. Because you're the smallest, the most small, the most small, the most small.
They were chosen not because they were exceptional in size or any other respect. It's just because they were so insignificant in the world. So, Israel, this is the principle in which the Lord works. He takes people who seem to be insignificant and He makes them the channel of His life to people. Because, the Savior of the world, in God's purpose, came from this insignificant little people. So, the world's world's world's people.
So, the world's world's world's people. So, the world's world's world's people. Now, we're in the last days. Now, we're in the last days. Now, we're in the last days. And I have watched how God has prepared China for the task.
Now, the largest nation in the world is going to be given the task of bringing the gospel to the rest of the whole world, because time is short and you need many. Now, the impressed impressed with the impressed impressed with the Everything is turned over and over and over again. How much suffering, how much pain. And I've looked through a whole big section of that, I can tell you, as eye witness of it. And this is the one who's been watching the war right on the streets in front of my place. I've seen soldiers march in, march out right through the street in front of our apartment.
I'm on the house top, in this building, refusing to sleep so I could watch the battle for Shanghai all night. I can see the military in front of Shanghai all night. I've heard the screaming of artillery shells. I've watched bombs coming right down in front of my eyes as they went down to Shanghai北站. The north, the railway station, killing thousands as the bombs came down. I've seen this, the天上掉下来的炸弹,炸死在上海北站那个地方,成千的人.
All this I've watched the people suffer. This one, he's seen the people suffer. I watched the naturalist soldiers retreat out of Shanghai, marching in demoralized formation out down the streets. The war in Japan in the war, the war in the war. And the communist army coming in. The war in the war, the war in the war.
Being foolish and foolhardy, I went out in the street when the fighting was still going on. Because I wanted to have a closer look. He wanted to see the war in the war. He also wanted to see the war in the war. He had to see the war in the war. There was a pillbox, a concrete defense position at the crossroad just outside.
Because in the war in the war, the十字路口 had a碁. and pretty nearly got myself shot. So I saw the suffering from the Japanese invasion, from the civil war and all these things. Our own family was torn to pieces as a result. I can say quite frankly I have never known family life. In the years he was a child's life. My father being a patriot was off to the war against Japan.
He was a communist soldier, he was going to fight for Japan. When he came back, I didn't recognize him. I didn't know this was my father, and most of my youth had passed by then. We spent more or less a few months together before the civil war, and war, Is there some purpose in this? We are so many苦难, so many of the suffering, there is no purpose in this?
When I met the great servant of the Lord, whom I had the privilege to live with for a few months, when he met me, he said, you know, Brother Chang, the Lord knows what he is doing with China. When he met me, he said, you know, Brother Chang, the Lord knows what he is doing with China. When he met me, he said, you know, Brother Chang, the Lord knows what he is doing with China. He said, China is God's vineyard. This is his place.
He said, China is God's vineyard. This is his place. He said, China is God's vineyard. He said, God's country. In fact, that's a Chinese name for China, which was not invented by Christians, by the way. We're from the Chinese, by the way.
We're from the Chinese, the name is God's vineyard. Indeed. And he said, Now God has let all the missionaries go. There are no more missionaries in China. Now he is going to raise up a generation of his people in China.
That's what he said. So, when the people came here, he said, the people who are going to go to the people of China. The people who said, you know, God is going to be in the Chinese people of China. He said, you know, God is going to be in the Chinese people of China. When the missionaries left China, and around 1950, I think the last missionary I knew left in 51, there were about two million Christians in the whole of China.
In 1950, 1951年的时候,所有的外来的产教士都被赶走了.当时中国有大概200万的基督徒. After 50 years of suffering, what are the number of Christians in China in China? The estimated number of Christians today in China is between 50 and 80 million. So,按照今天的这个计算,在中国我们有5000万到8000万的基督徒. And they are increasing every day, every day more people are coming to the Lord.在中国基督徒的人数是天天都在增长,有更多更多的人来信业族. Not to mention, Party members, Communist Party members are coming to the Lord in large numbers.很多共产党党员都来信耶稣.
Including my cousin.他的一个,一个,唐弟,也是共产党员,也来信耶稣. In fact, he wanted to be publicly baptized, even of danger to him. He said, No, I'm not going to do it in secret. I want to be baptized where I can be seen.那么他洗礼的时候,他要公开地洗礼,虽然很危险,他说他不怕,他要公开地接受洗礼.
Multitudes are turning to the Lord, but there is nobody to lead them, nobody to teach them. She without a shepherd. 那么在中国呢,有成千上万的人来信耶稣. 但是呢,在他们中间呢,能够领导他们,能够带领他们的人太少了,就好像羊群没有牧羊人一样. It is a very urgent situation. 是一个非常非常急迫的一个事情.
I think our time is gone, I need to close. 那么时间快到了,我们要结束了. There is one thing more briefly, is that the Chinese people are rather like the Jews. That's comparison. Jews may be the smallest nation, China the biggest nation, but they have so much in common. It's surprising. 我跟犹太人比起来, 实际上我们中国人呢, 是跟他们非常相像的. 虽然我们呢, 是全世界最大的一个民族, 他们是最小的一个民族. 我们有很多很多共同的地方. I sometimes wonder whether somehow secretly we back far away, we came from the same race, from the same stock. 我有时候想一想呢, 说是不是也许可能很久很久以前呢, 实际上我们可能是不是也是犹太人呢, 从他们那一组分过来的呢?
As I mentioned, I lived in Israel for a time as a student. I've been there many times. And I noticed that there are strong similarities between them and us. 那么对于这个, 她说当时她在以色列念书的时候, 还有后来每一次回去的时候, 仔细地观察都发现了 我们中华民族呢, 跟犹太民族呢, 真的是有很多很多相像的地方. Let's take one example, Doing business.
Wherever there is business to be made, There will be Jews, 甚至更多 Chinese. 那么说这个经商的能力, 只要世界上能够有赚钱的地方, 那个地方一定有犹太人, 但是呢, 比犹太人更多的就是中国人, 一定会有中国人在赚钱. The one place the Jews cannot make much money is in China. 那么, 这些犹太人呢, 有一个地方赚不到钱呢, 就是在中国犹太人赚不到钱. Because they run into their own communities. 那么, 因为呢, 崩潰实在是太像了, 竞争太强了. You know, The Jews love to study.
They like to do all, You know, They just study, So do the Chinese. 比犹太人呢, You look out here, All these are Chinese scholars. Our church in Montreal are full of PhDs. And when I read the Bible study, I have PhD in chemistry, PhD in physics, PhD in mathematics, All around. There's a wonderful Bible study we have in Genesis. We can really get going. I can tell you, Once they get going, That Bible study really catches fire. 那么他说呢, 他说呢, 他我们中国人里面呢, 也是学者技技。 他说在他们在加拿大的这个查经班里面, 很多很多都是博士, 化学博士, 布里博士。 As a matter of fact, In our church, We hardly have anybody just with a bachelor's degree.
It will be at least a master's, If not more. 那么在他们那个教会里面呢, 可能每一个人都至少有一个硕士的学位, 如果还有更多的. 如果还有更多的. 有的人讲, 博士学位还有好几个. Doctor of medicine, Doctor of philosophy, PhD, 这种数据的学位, 这种数据的学位, 但是这种就是像中文。 那么这个情况呢, 跟犹太人也是很像很像的。 这种犹太人的学位很强的。 犹太人的学统关系, 观念非常非常非常强。 我们中国人也是一样的。 如果真的把这两个民族拿来比一比的话, 很多方面呢,实在太像像。 基本上没有什么不同的地方。 。 那么真的把这两个民族拿来比一比的话, 很多方面呢,实在太像像。 基本上没有什么不同的地方。 。 So is there anything surprising that in the last days, In fact, there is already a movement in the churches in China, which is called the Back to Jerusalem movement. Back to, it's like they are going home. In Jerusalem, in this country, there is a new kind of a潮流, called back to Jerusalem. And you can hear that call through the churches. They are preparing to bring the gospel to the whole world, and especially to Jerusalem.
So many of the Christians have this desire to bring the gospel to the whole world. The more important thing to bring the gospel to the whole world, is to bring the gospel to the whole world. I have traveled through most of the world. I have never heard that anywhere else except in China. So the whole world has been to the whole world.
But in other places, there is no one has heard that. Only in China, there is a kind of a thought. And what about us? Are we ready to move? Are we ready to move? We need, in these last days, total mobilization, as I mentioned on Friday.
We need, in these last days, total mobilization, as I mentioned on Friday. We need, in these last days, total mobilization, as I mentioned on Friday. If we have all the people who are in the world, we will have to bring the gospel back to China. If every committed Chinese Christian was ready to move back into China, I don't think we would have more than a few hundred thousand people. If we have 100 million people from the world to China, we will have to bring the gospel back to China. If you want to send the gospel back to China, you will have to bring the gospel back to China.
That means, if you were part of that one million people, you would have to reach 1,300 people just to reach the whole country. If we are in the 100 million people, you would have to reach 1,300 people just to reach the whole country. If you are in the 100 million people, you would have to send the gospel back to China. If you are in the 100 million people, you would have to send the gospel back to China. And if we could add it in to make up this 1 million, because no way we will have 1 million from overseas. Every Christian in China capable of preaching to make up that 1 million, we still have to face the reality that each person will have to reach within the next 4 years, 1,300 persons each.
If you are in the 100 million people, you would have to send the gospel back to China. It's mind-boggling, isn't it? How can it be done?
How can it be done? And yet, when I come to Australia or Canada, wherever all these first world countries, nobody seems to care very much. The Lord is very sad that when he comes to Canada or Australia, many Christians do this kind of things.
I confess to you, sometimes I am very discouraged. It really makes him very upset. I am so discouraged that I don't want to preach either in Australia or Canada. I confess to you. He is not willing to go to Canada or Australia. But I will just trust the Lord that He will do something.
He also believes in our hearts. In fact, if it is not a persistent invitation of Pastor James and Sister Kathleen and the few co-workers in Sydney, in Melbourne, I wouldn't have come at all to be very very honest with you. Because the good life, the good living has corrupted us to the point we don't care.那么如果要不是牧师和和师母还有一般的弟兄姐妹拼命地喊她来的话她这次都不会来的因为这个在西方的这个第一世界的这个优越的条件里面我们都变得很懒惰了但那些贫穷的国家那些国家的人他们都非常地渴望听到福音那么请大家原谅牧师说这一番的话 But I really want to share with you the pain in my heart. The conversation is about the business, about further studies, about getting another few more degrees. I just have no desire to get into that kind of discussion. When we hear our disciples talk about business, talk about how to do some degree.
He doesn't have any interest. Let's be frank. If you can get more degrees, so can I. Why shouldn't I be doing it? If you can get more degrees, then he can get more degrees. When my professor in London offered me to do the doctorate, I turned it down, and he thought I was crazy.
He didn't apply to do the doctorate. He was the one urging me to do it. He didn't apply to do the doctorate. He was the one urging me to do it. My heart was elsewhere. What do I want to do with all this?
Because his heart wasn't in this place. He just had to do the doctorate. He had to do the pills. He had to go out there with the gospel. I couldn't sit there doing this to get a degree for myself. He had to go out there and do this to get a degree for myself.
But then maybe I'm the only crazy guy around this. So, I can ask your forgiveness for being so straightforward and frank. But I hope you understand what's in my heart.
I want to ask Reverend David to close with us in front.