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In March 2012,
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my mother shared Almighty God's gospel of the last days with me.
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I started reading God's words every day
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and I often gathered and fellowshiped on God's words with others.
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I remember a passage of Almighty God's words I read in my devotionals one day.
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I saw clearly from God's words
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that God created mankind and all I have has come from Him.
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I should repay His love and do the duty of a created being.
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Thank God!
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So, I started sharing the gospel with people I knew.
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One day, in December 2012,
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I was illegally detained by the police for preaching the gospel
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and held for 14 days for "disrupting social order."
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My parents and husband came to visit me
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at the detention center on my seventh day there.
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When I walked into the visiting room,
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I saw my mom and dad standing there waiting
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and my husband holding our 1-year-old son.
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Tears started welling up in my eyes when I saw them all there.
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I greeted my parents quietly,
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then I rushed over to my husband and took the baby from him.
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I felt so sad at that moment.
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We'd all been together as a family,
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but then I was illegally detained by the Chinese Communist Party out of nowhere
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just for having faith and sharing the gospel.
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Now I was seeing my family in a detention center.
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My husband said,
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"I told my troop leader what happened after I found out about your arrest
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and they said that you should give up your faith.
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You're a college graduate, you have an education.
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Your future will be ruined if you keep believing in God!
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They also said that if you don't give it up,
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I'll be kicked out of the Party and the military.
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I'll even lose my job transition bonus next year!
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I can disregard all of that,
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but you really have to think of your son and the family.
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It won't be like this if you end up getting arrested again.
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You'll be sentenced to prison, and then what will happen to our son?
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He'll never get into university, be a civil servant, or join the military.
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How will he find a place for himself in society?
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Is he going to have to live in shame forever?"
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Hearing him say this left me feeling even more upset.
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My heart ached as I held my son, and I thought,
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"If I really do end up in prison someday,
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could my son grow up healthy
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without his mother by his side and from such a young age?
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Would he be laughed at and discriminated against?
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If my husband does get kicked out of the Party and the army,
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then his future is shot."
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I just couldn't bear to think of it anymore.
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I choked back my sobs and didn't say a word.
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Seeing I wasn't saying anything, my husband said angrily,
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"Our leader said
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that if you don't promise to give up your faith, I should get a divorce.
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You have to make a choice!"
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When I still didn't say a word,
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he took our son back and stormed out.
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I felt like a knife had been put through my heart
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and I couldn't hold my tears back any longer.
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On my way back to my cell, I felt puzzled.
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I wondered why would my husband have told his leader about my arrest so quickly.
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It made absolutely no sense!
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He knew that wouldn't help me or him in any way.
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Why did he share everything so freely?
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Right.
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I gave it some thought,
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and felt he must be covering his own bases.
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When this occurred to me, I really didn't even want to accept it.
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I was really suffering.
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I couldn't help but think
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that faith in God is right and completely natural, there's nothing criminal about it.
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When believers get together,
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we just read God's words, do our duty, share the gospel, and pursue the truth.
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Besides, doesn't the national constitution clearly allow freedom of belief?
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So why would the Communist Party oppress us so much
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and push my husband to divorce me?
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I just couldn't make sense of it.
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When I got back to my cell,
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I shared my confusion with a sister from the Church.
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She quietly recited a couple passages of Almighty God's words for me.
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Amen!
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Then she shared this fellowship:
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"In the last days, God has become flesh and come to earth to speak and work.
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He expresses truths which cleanse and save mankind,
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and those with heart and spirit hear God's voice and turn toward Almighty God.
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But the Communist Party is an atheistic party.
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It fervently hates God and the truth,
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and it's afraid everyone will learn the truth from Almighty God's words,
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then they'll follow and bear witness to Christ,
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and forsake and reject it.
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Then nobody would show support for it anymore
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and its wild ambition to keep the Chinese people caged and controlled forever
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would be destroyed."
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That's right.
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"That's why it throws itself into fabricating all sorts of rumors and lies
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to slander and condemn Almighty God
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and it puts the force of the whole nation
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into hunting Christ and persecuting Christians."
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Yes.
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"It wants to completely wipe out God's work on earth
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to protect its own atheistic dictatorship."
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She also said
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that the CCP claims to allow freedom of belief,
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but that's just to cover up its evil persecution of religious beliefs.
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It's a tactic to fool the people of the world.
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In China, there is no real freedom of belief and no human rights.
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Having faith in China
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means facing persecution from the Communist Party's satanic regime.
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- That's a fact. - It is. Yeah.
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After her fellowship,
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I could see the Communist Party's evil nature of hating God and the truth more clearly
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and I really felt how incredibly evil it is.
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I'd been deeply poisoned by its atheistic education since I was little.
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I'd always seen the Party as the "great savior" of the people,
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and I really adored it.
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I believed and did what it said without any reservations.
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Now I could see how foolish that was!
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I also thought about something my husband said
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when I shared the gospel with him.
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He said,
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"The Central Committee has ordered that The Church of Almighty God be wiped out
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and the level of combat readiness in our troop has been elevated to three.
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Anyone who believes in Almighty God is seen as an enemy.
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And our weekly political lessons we receive in our Communist Party classes
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are all about The Church of Almighty God now.
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Even though I know that your faith is a good thing,
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the Communist Party is in power, and the weak cannot defeat the strong.
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What can you do but obey it?"
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Thinking about all these things he'd said made me so angry!
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The Communist Party is going against Heaven.
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It wants to put all of its force against God,
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not only treating believers like national criminals, condemning and oppressing them,
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but intimidating and inciting the masses to stand on its side.
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Even my husband was intimidated and misled.
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He didn't know right from wrong and oppressed my faith.
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The Communist Party doesn't want anyone to follow God and take the right path,
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but to believe in and follow it.
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That's evil, despicable, and shameless!
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I hated and cursed those Communist demons from my heart!
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- They deserve to be cursed. - Yes.
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They are really evil.
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They were threatening me with my son's and my husband's futures
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to get me to betray God.
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I knew I couldn't give in to their tricks.
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No matter how my husband pressured me,
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even if it meant going to prison, I'd keep following God!
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Amen!
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At night I lay in bed
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thinking about all the happy times I'd had with my son.
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He was still just a little boy and had a long road ahead of him.
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I wondered if my faith would impact his future.
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I started to weaken at this thought,
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so I silently prayed to God, asking for Him to watch over my heart.
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I thought of a passage of God's words after my prayer.
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I thought, "That's right.
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God rules over all, and my son's fate is in His hands, too.
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He has the final say, not any human being."
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That's right.
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"So what good will worrying do?"
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Then I said a silent prayer, entrusting my child to God.
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After I did that, I felt so much better, and I wasn't as worried.
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Thanks be to God!
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That's how I got through my 14 days locked up
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thanks to the faith and strength God gave me.
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Thank God!
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When I was released, my dad drove me home, and my husband sat in the back.
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My husband said to me, eyes red from crying,
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"The leader's been doing ideological work on me this whole time.
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I have to report on you.
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They said that if you keep believing in God,
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I'll be dismissed unless I divorce you.
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This is driving me crazy!
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I'm begging you—give this up.
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You'll go to prison if you're caught, and our family will be torn apart!"
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As he spoke these words to me, I could see that he was crying
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and I felt a surge of heartache.
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I quickly prayed to God in my heart, asking Him to keep me strong.
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Then a passage of God's words came to mind.
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I realized it was just one of Satan's tricks.
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Satan wanted to use my husband's threat of divorce to push me into betraying God.
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I couldn't fall into its trap!
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So I said this to my husband:
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"I don't want to tear this family apart.
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You've noticed that I've changed since becoming a believer.
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We don't fight anymore and our family's getting along better and better.
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You've heard Almighty God's words and brothers' and sisters' testimonies.
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You know having faith is good.
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But now the CCP wants to condemn and arrest me,
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get you fired, kick you out of the army, and get you to divorce me.
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Who's really trying to break this family apart?
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Instead of hating the CCP, you're joining it in persecuting my faith.
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Haven't you gotten right and wrong all mixed up?
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You know what kind of party the Communist Party is.
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It hates God and the truth, and it's a sworn enemy of God.
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It's arrested and persecuted so many Christians, it's done so much evil.
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Can it really escape God's punishment?"
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That's right.
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- It's true. - Yes.
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"God said long ago,
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- Amen! - Yes, God did say this.
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"Disasters are growing all the time.
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When the great disasters come,
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the Communist Party will be the first to be destroyed by God,
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and when that happens, all who followed it and opposed God will perish.
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They won't know a day of peace.
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Don't ask me to give up my faith again.
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I will never stop believing in God!"
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Thanks be to God!
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When he saw I wasn't going to give in,
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he slapped me across the face in rage.
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How could he do that!
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I could see that it was the Communist Party that had incited him to treat me like that.
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It was really painful for me, and I hated the Party deep in my heart.
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I thought,
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"The more you oppress me, the stronger my faith grows!"
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Back at home, my husband wouldn't let up.
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"If you have to, just practice your faith at home.
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I won't report you to the leader, okay?"
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I thought,
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"I've enjoyed so much of God's grace and blessings, and sustenance of truth.
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Without sharing the gospel or doing my duty, is that even faith?
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Besides, just staying at home without gathering or fellowshiping on God's words,
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I'd grow in life so slowly."
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Yes.
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I knew I couldn't listen to my husband.
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Then he started trying to sweet talk me:
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"I know I haven't taken good care of you.
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I've wronged you.
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I won't go in to work for a while. I'll stay home with you and our son.
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I'll go anywhere you want with you
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and buy you whatever you want.
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I just want you to be happy!"
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I wavered a bit when I heard him speaking to me so sweetly,
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but I quickly realized that it was another one of Satan's tricks.
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I said a silent prayer
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that I'd keep my faith and do my duty no matter what.
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Wonderful.
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- Thank God! - Amen!
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But after that, my husband started following me wherever I went.
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I was afraid others would be endangered if he reported me,
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so I didn't dare meet brothers and sisters.
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I really longed for my life before I was arrested.
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I thought about how back then,
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I could gather and have fellowship with brothers and sisters and do my duty.
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But now,
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I couldn't join gatherings and was restricted at every turn.
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I couldn't practice my faith or live normally.
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And my husband, cowed by the government,
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was determined to get me to give up