This sermon emphasizes the power of God to set captives free and bring about miraculous transformations in individuals and nations. It shares powerful testimonies of faith, perseverance, and the supernatural intervention of God in the lives of believers. The message encourages listeners to trust in God's ability to bring about change, to remove obstacles, and to experience His glory and love in their lives.

Welcome to the proud evening that I know you've all been looking forward to. Before Brother Young comes to speak to us, I'd like to invite Uncle Tang, who is the world-renowned translator of The Man of God. And he has one of the nicest scoted beards I've ever seen. We greet you all in the name of Jesus. We are very, very thrilled to be here tonight. Because we never know what is going to happen. Anything can happen, because all things are possible with our God. As you recognize, I still don't speak English. I only imitate people who speak English. I was born in Finland, so I'm all Finnish from the beginning. And I was raised up in Sweden, so that added up to my misery. And then for the last 33 years, we've totally messed up with China. Now, when we are together as a body of Jesus Christ in this area, it's very good for us to get some good news about what God is doing today. Because sometimes our perspective becomes very, we are very near-sighted, and we only see what is happening around us. It's an amazing time for Kingdom of God. And what Eugene was sharing earlier, it has been a thrill and a rollercoaster to go together with these thousands of Chinese missionaries to all those close nations of the world, and see the ultimate power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So Jesus is absolutely alive and in action. I think five years ago, I met the Heavenly Man for the first time in my life. And it happened in the city of Guilin in southeast China. We were having a pastoral seminar for underground church leaders, and I came to the conclusion of that seminar, we were supposed to have one day fellowship together, and then have communion together. I brought with me one concordance Bible, a couple of concordance Bibles, and I was just praying, Lord, you have to show me which one of these 30 brothers I will keep that Bible. Because that Bible was like you will win one million sterling in a lottery that time. It was absolutely impossible for anyone to get in a normal way that kind of book in China. I saw in one corner a young couple sitting on the floor. It was early February, it was minus 18 outside, and it was minus 18 inside. There was no heating in that secret training location. The brothers and sisters have been sitting on that concrete floor, and 12 hours a day they have been writing down every word they've been taught. Those books they took with them, and then they started to share to their people at the churches all over China. I saw this couple sitting there, and they looked like most of the people in the room. That means that in the wintertime you don't have any warm water, you don't take any shower, and really their clothing, they're really looking not like tonight. I thought maybe that young man is going to be happy. I walked to this man without knowing that that was the heavenly man. I just presented the Bible to him. He put that Bible against his chest, and for 20 minutes in tears he was praising God for his faithfulness. I did not know that a few days earlier he had walked out from the security prison, and he had lost his Bible when he had been arrested. That was a prayer answer. Sometimes it feels good to be a prayer answer for somebody. Try it. We departed, and the next day I met with my coordinator in that part of China, and I said, I would love to meet with the heavenly man. I have heard his story from his own book, Lilies Among Thorns, and I just wanted to meet him. He said, why didn't you say that yesterday? It was the guy who gave the Bible. He is the heavenly man. I said, we have to go and see him. We traveled to the province of Henan in central China, and I walked into a man-made limestone cave. The brothers had built up with their own bare hands and some handy tools, and they had made this area about 60 square meters. It was deep inside a limestone mountain. In order to get into that location, I had to go on my knees, and that's always healthy, and crawl through a tunnel that was about 10 meters long, and it looks like the letter S to cut off the sound coming out and also the air to go in to the cave. Inside the cave, there were 160 pastors waiting for me, among them the heavenly man and his wife. We started to worship the Lord together, and something happened that late afternoon. Our hearts were brought together, so from that day on, I have been working with this dear brother every day of my life. In that cave, we saw, in coming years, more than 15,000 Chinese missionaries came to that cave. They were trained, and they were sent out to all over the world. It's my great honor and privilege to welcome my blood brother, heavenly man, Brother Yun. Let us stand up and give Jesus a double welcome. Raise up your hands. I'm going to teach you some Chinese. About 200 years ago, this nation, you sent missionaries, among them Robert Morrison and some others, and they brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to my nation of China. And thanks to Jesus, these missionaries, and especially Robert Morrison, he translated the Chinese Bible. And after Hudson Taylor arrived from this nation, hundreds if not thousands of missionaries came to China to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. And now it has passed 200 years. On behalf of those far more than 100 million believers of Jesus Christ in China, I want to thank you for that mission effort. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And now you don't need to go to China to meet Chinese, because China has sent the smartest young men and women to come and study and work among you. So China has come to you. And I want to teach you a few words of Chinese that you will embrace them with the gospel. And as they become followers of Jesus and they return back to China, it will be a great blessing for my nation. Don't be afraid. Practice with somebody around you. One, two, three. One, two, three. Wonderful. And now you have to practice this with at least three people around you. Learn it in Chinese. You will share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Don't be afraid. How many of you are believers of Jesus Christ? Oh, yes. You are all believers. I can say, if you believe, you will see the glory of God. Let's be seated in peace. Let me say in Chinese. How many of you believe like myself that Bible is the living word of God and it never changes? And let us now read together a Bible passage. Gospel of John, chapter 11. And let's read verses 14 to 14 forward. And let us do it Chinese way. Everybody, with the fullest of your voice, you will shout out when I say, one, two, three, we will read this. And shame on you if you don't have Bible with you. One, two, three. Then Jesus said, Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me. But I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me. When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out. The dead man came out. His hands and feet wrapped with stripes of linen and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, Take off the great clothes and let him go. Amen. We have already seen your glory. We have a desire tonight to see even greater glory upon our meeting. And Lord Jesus, we come before you tonight, and we have a desire to hear you speaking to each one of us. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. And they called me Heavenly Man, Brother Yun, Brother Lao. And I am always moved when I discover, no matter where I go, there are so many people who have already read my life story, the Heavenly Man. Now I do understand that some of you have really, the motive come is because you know Jesus is going to be in this meeting. But maybe there is somebody who came here because you heard that there is a speaker with the name Heavenly Man. Yes, Brother Yun Ji. When I was at the lowest point of my life, I was able, I just had no hope for survival. And I was completely in darkness. And I was in the midst of great fear had filled my heart and agony. When I was 16 years old, the Lord Jesus called me, Brother Yun, stand up and preach the gospel and be my witness to west and south. But as I started to preach the gospel, for the sake of the gospel, I was thrown to prison again and again. And those of you who have read my story, you remember the third time they threw me to the prison in 1997. In torture, they crushed with sledgehammer my both legs from ankles. You are never going to walk. My wife had been also captured and thrown to another prison. All my closest co-workers were also captured and they were thrown to the same security prison where I was. And there were multitudes of people around the world that were praying for us. Some of my friends, they really are overseas. They wanted to help us, our situation. And they wanted to bring money and buy freedom for us. At that time, this time, when I was in the prison, my situation was exactly the same as for Lazarus, who was stoned and was thrown into the cave. Many people believe in the power of prayer. But they have a big problem. As they are praying, they don't believe that God is actually able to answer to our prayers. After the days when the weeds died by and nothing happened in the prison, one after the other, the people gave up their prayer and expectation that God would do something. Because my son was born in prison for the first time. My son was born during the time I was first time in prison. And he was already four years old when I walked out from the prison that time. My daughter was six months old. I was thrown second time to prison. And my friends and the church, they received the news in television, radio and the newspaper. This man is never going to be able to walk, and he is never going to be released from the prison. So even the intercessors, they started to believe in this. And personally myself, I also lost that hope that God is able to bring me out from the prison. And I was filled with great question marks. I am so thankful to Uncle Tom and his friends. They traveled around the world and they share about our current situation to many people around the world. And in that situation, money could not buy freedom for us. And no president from any nation from outside were not able to set us free. About 107 congressmen and senators and the president, they signed a firm demand to China to release us. But nothing happened in China. And I tell you brothers and sisters, if this happens in your life, that everybody turn away from you and they give up on you, Jesus will never do that. Hallelujah. And I recognize that in the western world, the church is filled with people who pray like Martha and Mary. Every moment they got big problems in their lives, they start to pray. But if Jesus comes and says, this sickness is not going to lead to death, it's going to be for the glory of God, they can hardly believe what they are hearing. And many of these intercessors, when they recognize that now God is taking action, the first thing they say to the Lord, Lord, you came too late. Jesus said that your brother will be raised from death, don't be afraid. And Martha, she said, yes Lord, I still believe that whatever you ask your father to give you, he will do so. And when Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again, Martha answered, I know he will rise again in resurrection at the last day. And the situation at the church of today is similar like in my life, we know so much about many things. No matter what Jesus says, it will happen. So Martha gave up and said, I don't understand the word what he is talking about. And she called Mary to come and listen what Jesus is saying. And when Mary came to Jesus, she said, Lord, if you had been here earlier, my brother would not have died. When we are before the Lord, we don't need to say many words. As Mary, she did not say anything, she burst into tears and she was weak. And when Jesus sees that you are so serious about your situation, that you are weeping before him, he will join your cry. Jesus said, don't cry. And then Jesus said, where do you lay him? And he commanded them, remove the stone. Jesus could have just said the word and the stone would have flown to universe. He was the one who called the dead man out from the grave. But what you can do is just to remove according what he said, the obstacle, the stone hindering to be removed. And this is my personal experience. At the appointment, all the people have came out and nobody believed that any miracle would happen. The leadership of the church, they lost their trust and their belief that God is able to change the situation. And there were a couple of intercessors in that city who went into prayer and fasting and they just did not give up. They continued praying for us in the same city. And they kept crying and fasting and praying for four days. On the fifth day, one of the sisters who were praying, interceding in that location, she said, I heard the Lord saying very clearly as we were praying, our home is the first place where brother Yun will walk into when he is coming out from the prison. And then she said, I heard somebody knocking the door. And it was so real that they went to the door of that apartment and opened it but there was nobody outside. And this was the fifth day as they were praying. And again when they were praying, they recognized the way I am knocking the door. Everybody knew about it and said, this is brother Yun knocking the door. He wants to come in. And then they decided that we have to decide who will go and prepare a safe house for brother Yun. He is about to come out from the prison. And two of the sisters said we know that brother Yun loves Chinese dumplings. So we will go to the safe house and we start to prepare dumplings so that they are ready when he walks into the room. It is so important for the church that they do not stop interceding and believing that God is about to take action. Our Lord has a compassionate heart towards everyone who is suffering, who is in doubt, who is in depression. And He suffers with them. And when Jesus commanded them to move away the obstacle stone at the door of the cave, Martha was right there and she knew again something. She said, Lord, don't do that. It is already fourth day and He has been there and the order is horrible. It is very similar to what happened at the grave that happened many hundred years later. When suddenly there was a movement that Israel is going to stand up from the dead again. So many people in this nation said, impossible, it will never happen. The words of God never changes. Hallelujah. Martha, Mary and Lazarus, they were Jewish believers of Jesus. And Jesus has called the whole nation to be resurrected from the dead. And I believe that it is God who after almost two thousand years was able to restore the nation of Israel. He was able to raise Lazarus from there. He is able to raise you from there in that situation where you are in your life. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And as I was in my cell, in that security person, I suddenly heard the Lord speaking to me. Jesus called Lazarus, come out. I heard in my cell, Jesus came to me and He said, Brother Un, now a new day has dawned for you. Stand up and walk out. All the doors have been opened for you. Stand up and walk out. And I have to tell you that I wasn't as obedient as the dead Lazarus was. I have spent ten years of my life in different prisons. I know the location where I were. In China, if you go beyond the limit, every prisoner knows when they are allowed to move inside the building. You take one step over the line, immediately they will kill you. When I heard the Lord saying to me, the doors have been opened for you, my first reaction was this. And from my own experience, I just want to tell you that Jesus knows us better than we ever know ourselves. And as I was responding to what Jesus said to me, I said, Jesus, this is the top security person, you don't walk out from places like that. Jesus immediately replied, your prison is real, but I'm the truth, and the truth will set you free. Look up to me and you'll see that the bastards don't hear you there. I'm a smart foreman. When God takes action, it's faster than your own thoughts. I recognize that God wants to do a new thing in this nation. In the last week, as we've been on a tour in different locations, every night we have a house full of hungry people with great expectation that God will take hold of their lives and do something. And as I was reconciling the offer of Jesus to walk out, I looked near my weakness. Suddenly, I saw a short vision. It was like a moving picture that came to me, and I saw my wife was running towards me as she stopped outside my prison cell. And with firm words, she said, the door has been opened for you already. Why in the world are you still lying on the floor? Stand up and walk out. And I understood, this is a message from the new God. And that morning I experienced the Godly miracle. When I walked towards one after another, those closed doors of the prison, they were supernaturally opened for me, and I walked out from that security prison. Before this happened, I was lying on the floor in my pain, in my cell, like an empty air football, just the skin, no air. But when the word of God came into power in me, I was filled with air, and I started to jump up and down. I didn't have time to go to the prison office to let them know I did a walkabout that morning. And as I walked towards the main gates of the prison, they were opened for me, and a taxi was waiting there for me to open the door. Hallelujah! And that day I experienced a great miracle. After that, the taxi took me to a location, and I traveled to the safe house. And when I walked into that safe house, my wife was already there waiting for me. She had been released. Hallelujah! When the Lord set the captives free, we are like people who are dreaming. I pray that in your personal life and in your nation, God start to take action and do great things in your life. Hallelujah! The Lord wants to do great things in this nation. And not only that the Lord released me from that number one security prison. The Lord wants to set you free from that prison of fear where you have been living so long. The might of Jesus has set you free. It doesn't matter how deep you are in all difficulties. Not only that He knows you, but He also has compassion for you, and He loves you. I don't know all the problems of your life, but He knows. Maybe you know so much about everything. The Lord knows your situation. Are we going to hear our nation to be destructed, or are we going to change the destiny of our whole nation? And as we are now talking about the Back to Jerusalem vision, hundreds of years we have been preaching about the Back to Jerusalem vision. Hundreds of people have come to me and said, it's impossible, it will never happen. But the Lord has said, it's not by power and by might, it's by His name it's going to happen. And I have seen. The Lord allowed me to see when I came out from the prison, not only that He is able to open the security prison doors. I saw how the doors of the Middle East and Central Asia were opened for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now in February this year, I visited our workers in Egypt. They said, the Lord brought me out from China together with Uncle Tom. We have been traveling all over the Western world, sharing about the heart beat of the church in China. The Gospel is on the way back to Jerusalem. And I have been so pleased to see those brothers and sisters from China. They have this trust upon the Lord. So they have moved the obstacles and they have made their way to the Middle East and Central Asia. And they are sharing the Gospel in these nations. And some of the workers, they came from Syria. And I was so amazed. I said, how have you been able to survive in the middle of that war? Even the China embassy has moved back to China. And how have you been there for two or three years? We haven't had any news what is going on in their lives. And they told me that the people are opposing anything from the West. But they just love us Chinese. We are farmers. We have vegetables and some food we are producing. And we are giving it to those people who are totally under distress. And some of the other brothers, they were sharing what happened as they were on the interceder's trip from China. Along the Silk Road by car all the way to Jerusalem. And how they arrived to Eastern Afghanistan. And they were sharing that when we came to a gas station, suddenly the gas station was surrounded by Taliban soldiers. And they were so angry. Are you Japanese? We are coming from China. We are Chinese. I can't believe what happened there. They took their weapons and they started to kiss and hug us. I said, are you most warmly welcome to Afghanistan? Hallelujah. The doors that the Lord opened, no man is able to keep shut. Now when the Lord is opening doors for these nations, you should not remain in the grave. You should start to walk out to freedom and follow Him. Hallelujah. I am so glad to see Sudan and her co-workers, how they are partnering with Baghdad, Jerusalem. And bringing comfort and healing to those people who are suffering so much. I want to tell all of you tonight. Stop believing in lies of Satan in the news. Don't believe the lies of the Islamic terrorists that they are going to take over Middle East and Central Asia. Jesus Christ promised that all the people will come and worship Him. And the glory of God will power the earth like a globe. And the gospel of Jesus Christ will be preached to every nation as a testimony. And then the end will come. And the kingdoms of this world will be transformed to become kingdoms of our Lord Jesus. Do you hope and pray that the kingdom of God will come upon England again? I believe that there will be people who will kneel down like Mary at the feet of Jesus and cry on behalf of your nation. This country of Great Britain, you are loved by Jesus. Jesus loves you. Jesus loves those that you have put yourselves in that grave. And you are wrapped in the air. But He's come and He wants to set you free. Hallelujah. The Great Britain is going to rise from the dead. And we believe that we will see the glory of God again ruling over this nation. Hallelujah. And you may say, how is this going to happen? It's a disunity among the churches. But when the miracle started to happen, it happened like it happened in Jesus' time. Big numbers, multitudes of Jewish people, they embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Lord wants to use your life for His glory. He wants to use you to go to people's homes and remove the stone, the obstacle and call the dead people alive. Remember, as much as Jesus loves every citizen of England, He loves also all the other people who are not born British. Those people, they have to hear the calling voice of Jesus. You have to remove that obstacle that you have against these people of different races and from different culture. Lord wants that you and your entire family will be saved. Lord wants to remove that cold stone that is in your heart so that you will become compassionate. Lord wants you to be obedient and follow Jesus in your daily life. Lord wants to remove all these complaints and hurt that is in your heart so that through your experience of renewal, your family members who are not yet followers of Jesus, they will see Jesus in you and they will run into salvation. Hallelujah. I tell you that not only that your unbelieving family members are going to raise from the dead, your family is going to be like the home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. They serve the Lord with great love. Hallelujah. Let us all stand up again. Don't be afraid. He is the Lord. He is the resurrected Lord. He is greater than any problems in your life. Maybe you are in the middle of cancer. There is cancer in your body. Maybe you hear reports that there is no hope for your marriage. There is no hope for your children, your relationship. But Jesus has come. And he is calling you, come and follow me. And let us appreciate some prayer in this meeting. Let's three, four, five people, you join hands together and let us start to pray together for England. Don't be afraid. The Lord is going to use you. He wants to use your life to release God's power to somebody standing next to you. So that you are able to set the captives free around you. The Lord wants you to set free people from the religion. The Lord wants to deliver your prayers and set captives free. If you cannot pray, you can follow me in my prayer. And you can say in your mother language to people next to you, don't be afraid, Jesus loves you. In the name of Jesus, we set you free. In the name of Jesus, we will give you freedom. In the name of Jesus, we will set you free from all the chains. In the name of Jesus, you will see his glory upon your life. Heavenly Father, we are before you. And we present ourselves as the living sacrifice. We want to receive the fullness of your glory. We want to receive the fullness of your anointing. And we want to receive the fullness of your love. Change our hearts and set the captives free. As we are joining hands together, we are releasing the power, the resurrection power of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. And the will of God will be done in our lives. And the kingdom of God will come upon our families, our working place, into our schools for the glory of Jesus Christ. If you are still like a captive, like in the jail, and you are not able to be free, I give you an opportunity to come forward. And the intercessors will be standing here, and they will pray for you and set you free. Some of you are like in the darkness of a cell, and you can hardly move. Take your step towards Jesus and meet him tonight. And God is going to use the prayer team to set the captives free. Just make your way to these people, and they will pray for you. If you are in the prison of hopelessness, don't remain standing at your seat. Take a step and come forward and be set free. Don't wait for people to say sorry to you. Come to Jesus, and he will heal you. He will set you free. On behalf of Jesus, I call you to step forward. You need a desperate freedom in your life. Be bold and come forward. Thank you.