“‘You may go Westward from Gansu, preaching the Gospel all the way back to Jerusalem, causing the light of the Gospel to complete the circle around this dark world.’ I said, ‘O Lord who are we that we can carry such a great responsibility?’ The Lord answered, ‘I want to manifest My power through those who of themselves have no power.’”644
And such was the call given to a dear underground Church worker in China in the 1920s. This vision to see the Gospel go across to the “ends of the earth”645 has been kept alive by the Lord in the underground house Churches for many years and now it has begun to be fulfilled with hundreds of workers going out. What the Lord showed many of the house Church leaders was that the Gospel went out west, north, south and east from Jerusalem. This progression occurred so that all of Europe, Southern Africa and eventually the Americas were saturated with the Gospel. Now that the Gospel has reached over to China it will continue to go West until it finishes its course around the globe back in Jerusalem.
The burden these dear brethren have is for over 100,000 missionaries to be sent out from the underground house Churches. This is not even the direct number they are aiming for because their goal is the total evangelization of many closed countries between China and Jerusalem until the Lord Jesus Christ comes back. So the burden they have is to not stop this mission until the second coming of the Lord!
“Many of our missionaries will be captured, tortured, and martyred for the sake of the Gospel, but that will not stop us. The Chinese Church is willing to pay the price.”646 These precious believers believe the Bible truth that our Lord taught us: “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”647 They believe that imprisonment and death will not mean failure but success as the Gospel will go forward inch by inch through the testimony of Jesus Christ in these precious end times martyrs.
They are not building church buildings as they do this work or large ministry headquarters but are accomplishing this work in an underground fashion just as the Lord is working through them in China. This allows gatherings of believers to spread rapidly, to be flexible and thus give all resources to the spreading of the Gospel.
May this powerful example rouse the Church in America and other Nations to be burdened for the lost and unreached peoples of the world. May we realize that all Christians are Missionaries! And may we walk in the power of the Spirit as sent-out ones. Let us join in prayer and support for this last days work of the Lord by our Chinese brethren. May God protect this movement from men, methods and humanistic methodology and allow it to be a pure work of the Holy Spirit to reach those trapped in the spiritual darkness of Mohammedanism, Hinduism and Buddhism.
644 Mark Ma
645 Acts 1:8
646 Brother Yun
647 John 12:24-25
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