Richard Wurmbrand

together with him, bound together with him.

Pastor Wang Yi, who is currently serving a nine-year prison term in China, and the late Richard Wurmbrand, who suffered 14 years in communist Romania.

Both of these men have been our primary prison guides over the last couple of years as we've tried to put ourselves in the shoes of those who suffer for the sake of the gospel.

But we've gone through many other things, looked at many other stories as well from around the world, mostly related to China, but not all.

There's different ways that can be translated.

Pastor Wang Yi, who is currently still in prison, another year or more in prison in China, said, and the late Richard Wurmbrand, who wrote Tortured for Christ.

These guys have been our kind of prison guides for the most part over these last couple of years.

We've used a lot of what they've written in the past to be able to help us and give us that voice from within prison, the prison pulpit, so that we can think their thoughts and pray for them in better ways than we might have tried to do previously.

One other comment.

Richard Wurmbrand, who was persecuted in Romania for 14 years because he was a pastor there during the Marxist era, he called Marxism collective demonization.

Why? He said that it's one thing to persecute somebody and put them to death.

But he said when the communists did it, and these are Romanians persecuting Romanians, He said that they took such delight in it.

It is the byproduct of a life that orbits around Jesus, what He has done, His people, His mission, and our obedience to what Jesus calls us to.

And there is nothing, absolutely nothing in this world that can take that away from us.

I want to close with a story of a man by the name of Richard Wurmbrandt or Wurmbrandt.

He was a Romanian pastor who spent 14 years locked up in prison because of his faith in Jesus.

The prison conditions with which he was locked up in were absolutely terrible.

He's given me a sense of purpose and meaning and direction in my life.

He's called me to partner with him in what he is doing in this world.

Richard Wurmbrandt has written a biography called Tortured for Christ.

Truly, Paul was an apostle and a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

A gentleman by the name of Richard Wurmbrand was arrested as a Christian in Romania during the communist regime in Romania.

You might not know his name, but you should know his ministry, The Voice of Martyrs.

He went to jail for 14 years.

Anyway, that's another story for another day, and I've shared that before on the podcast.

Then we spent many months after working through Pastor Wongi's writings and different things he wrote and said, we spent many months working through the writings of Richard Wurmbrand, who spent 14 years being tortured in communist Romania back in the 1950s and 60s, especially his collection of sermons called Sermons in Solitary Confinement.

We went through most of those sermons, if not all of them, but most of them.

here on the podcast.

Asia Harvest is a great ministry sending Bibles into China to this day, and they really have a good handle on all that's going on inside of China.

And they continue, both of these ministries continue to encourage the global church to both support and pray for China.

Notice I didn't mention Voice of the Martyrs, and that's on purpose, and I shared this in quite more detail in the past, but I'm friends with Michael Wurmbrand, Richard Wurmbrand's son, and he has a lot of issues with the ministry that his father founded and how it's been led the past couple of decades.

So I can't in good conscience recommend Voice of the Martyrs, so do your own research.