Wang Yi

There's a little bit of rain coming down.

I can see the the terminal or the the tarmac out the window here it's kind of a cool little space here almost like having a hotel room right in the airport although i only get it for an hour and from i guess from right now only about another half an hour or so from now so let me go ahead and move on this won't be a real long podcast i recorded the intro and outro the other day before i left what i want to do is mention something today that i i was going to wait and maybe do this um on the normal midweek podcast but it's i want to mention it today because it's been in the news it's been something that i've seen on social media it's gone around a little bit pastor wangi of early rain covenant church in china there was a report that i saw on facebook that has been going around and china aid which is a ministry um to china i can hear rain on the window here in this room China Aid posted an article raising a health alarm for imprisoned Pastor Wang Yi calling for family access, calling to the China government for family access to Pastor Wang Yi.

They don't say where they heard the information and whatnot.

Let me go ahead and read you a little bit of what they say, and then I'll read you what I found out from those who know and are connected more directly with Early Rain Church.

So this China Aid is based in Midland, Texas, and this was on September 28th.

This is about 10 days ago now.

China Aid has received deeply concerning information from sources inside China indicating that imprisoned Early Rain Covenant Church Pastor Wang Yi, held in southwestern China, Chengdu, may be suffering from advanced liver cancer.

Advanced liver cancer.

So we're putting ourselves in the shoes of those who have gone before, who are currently in prison.

Pastor Wang Yi in China we've used a bunch.

I'll probably go back and kind of recap his experiences and whatnot next week on the second anniversary.

He was really the impetus to start the podcast two years ago, his story and his ongoing story.

We kind of ran out of some of the material to work with on his life, and we started to branch out into other things, looking a lot at Richard Wurmbrand, who served and lived and died, you know, a few-- a generation or two ago.

And we've looked at other current events as well that have come up throughout the last couple of years.

But we'll probably go back to Pastor Wang Yi, back to the beginning next week and see, um, if we know anything about what's going on there.

I'm gonna mention actually something about his church here in just a moment.

He says, "I ask you therefore not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory." It's amazing because nothing that we do is wasted, and actually to go even further than that, our sufferings are used to bring glory towards God.

There's a pastor in China called Wang Yi, uh, and in December 2018, he was arrested, and, uh, the very next year he was sentenced to nine years in prison.

He is likely going to spend a lot of time in torture, um, and in poor treatment, and I am not sure he will come out of prison again.

But then he wrote these words Separate me from my wife and children, ruin my reputation, destroy my life and my fam- family.

So educate yourself so that you can pray more specific prayers.

Uh, there's a pastor named Wang Yi who is serving a nine-year prison sentence in China right now.

He has just been diagnosed with liver cancer.

So once you know that, maybe you have his picture on your refrigerator or inside your Bible, then it becomes lo- it's not just, "God bless persecuted Christians," it's, "God bless Pastor Wang Yi, who is serving nine years in prison in China, and heal him from this cancer." So commit to pray, number one.

Number two, educate yourself so that you can pray more specifically and more effectively.

And then I always tell people number three is whatever God lays on your heart to do.

Because when you're praying and when you're learning, I believe God's gonna put his thumb on something and say, "Okay, now I want you to..." And maybe that'll be sponsor Bibles to be delivered into some of these countries.

Maybe it'll be write letters to Christians like Pastor Wang Yi who are in prison.

like a treason charge.

And for that, you could be sentenced to nine years or other imprisonment, like Pastor Wang Yi from Early Rain Covenant Church had already been sentenced under that charge.

And now three of his elders are being arrested, facing the same charge, exactly.

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