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What a beautiful place. What a beautiful weather. And tomorrow, it's Palm Sunday. The son of God goes triumphant. He knows that he has a new job. There was one job. For three years, he explained what it means to be a human being that is like the Creator, especially the Sermon on the Mount. Don't look at it as commands, although he himself calls it that. If you love me, You keep my commandments. Look at it as a description of a person in the image of God. This is how a man in the image of God looks. how is he or she as a person, and how they relate to each other. This is being a human being as God conceived it. In the image of the Creator, Yes, but that also means freedom of choice. Freedom of choice means having an alternative to choose from. And it also means the possibility of being deceived. And there is the freedom of the deceiver to offer his alternative. And the deception is costly to God himself. That's the most amazing part of the entire story. And the Son of God, in his last move and last job on this planet is to pay the price of the deception. He goes to Calvary on his own choice. Nobody takes my life from me. I give it. This is one of the big reasons for which I am here. God was in Christ Reconciling the world to himself. 1 Corinthians chapter five, verse 19. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself. And one other thing that is the most important, the Son of God identified himself with mankind. He took mankind in himself. So much so, let me tell it in an illustration. Somebody who visited the Holy Land paid somebody to take him to Calvary. You know, you cannot visit Calvary. It's very strange. But this man paid, bribed somebody, or guide, and took him to Calvary. And he started to run ahead of the guide, and up at the top, as guide came, he said, sir, it seems to me that you've been here before. Yes. When? 2,000 years ago. I was here. I was crucified with Christ. I died with Christ. What an agony. I died with Christ. And I live, but no more me. It is Christ who lives in me. He lives his life in me and through me. This is a true story. Remember, Christ loved me, united himself with me, and I died with him. When he was resurrected, I was resurrected. When he was lifted up at the right hand of God, me too. And then he told me, now, You have to live for my purposes in your generation. I look one of these days reminding, remembering at home these things I told my dear wife. Not me who lived all these experiences. It was Christ. He lived his life and purposes through me. Dear brethren, this is real. This is the real story. Now, because it's the real story, I can look at the world and say, my beloved Lord, What do you do now in the world? What's your purposes? You allowed, you told me in the parable of the tares that you are the sower, And you have your own children, brothers and sisters. But you told me there also that the enemy of the old, the deceiver, is free and roaming America. Lord, that's old story again. It's real. So, there is that aspect of what we experience today. Christ's story. He didn't abandon God's purposes in the world. He didn't abandon America. His beloved America. The place, like no other, because this is the place where all the persecuted of the world have took refuge and created a society according to the Sermon on the Mount. They looked at the Sermon on the Mount and they said, this is the kind of society we want to create. Now, coming back to the mind of the deceiver, Travis quoted Jesus, John 10, 10. The enemy comes only to steal, to destroy, to deceive. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. And it's also there that he says, my sheep know my voice. They follow me, don't follow the enemy. But we have to look at the mind of the enemy again. The enemy took the shape of a man called Karl Marx. Literally, when Karl Marx was 19, he betrayed Christ, turned his back to Christ, and literally took Satan in himself. And he literally worshipped Satan. Now, the enemy does not want us to believe in him. The one thing that Satan tries desperately is to convince the world that he is not real. He doesn't exist. Don't be that stupid to believe in Satan. He is more adamant to convince people that he doesn't exist than anything else. Because he's the deceiver. He doesn't want us to know the reality of the world. We have to look at this side of the story and be aware what's going on in the world. So Karl Marx came with an extraordinary deception. I can build heaven on earth. Yes. Believe me. Look at the world. Don't you see? The world is just two classes. The ones who have the means and the ones who exploit the others. slave owners and slaves, landowners and then serfs, the bourgeoisie, the proletariat. It's always the struggle of the persecuted, and rightly so, They want to destroy the persecutors, tear them down. This is the real story. So Marx convinced a lot of people. to follow him. Again, let's look at Marxism and what it actually is. Marxism that offers communism. Remember, there are two sides of it. Communism of distribution. We are going to distribute everything equally to everybody. And everybody will have Equal share, isn't that wonderful? Isn't that the ideal? Marxism of distribution. Equality to everybody, isn't it attractive? Yes, but there must be a follow-up, a communism of production. How are we going to keep producing? And that's where we have the big problem. Because everybody is happy to get the distribution side, enjoy everything without working for nothing, for not working. And I explain to you, and I want to explain again, because we have to really understand why communism never worked, but tragedy. Because nobody likes This side, the production side, the moment you nationalize all property and you say to everybody, now get to work. Work? I came here to receive. I wanted to enjoy. Now you are here to produce. And we plan for you. And here is the first huge problem, planning. There is a central plan You imagine for a whole country like America, one plan, and that plan has to be perfect, and everybody to know exactly what they have to do. And they discover the plan is horrible, The plan has so many mistakes, but you must fulfill the plan. And in order for the people to fulfill the plan, they have to have the gun at their back. you fulfill the plan as made for you. But wait a minute, I was told that it was going just to be distribution, not toiling. You see? And then you have the labor camps for the ones who don't want to fulfill the plan. You have the informers. One of the most disgusting aspects of communism is people watching their own. and betraying their own. Pastors who betrayed their own folks. I know a story. As communism was installed in Romania, One of the secret police officers told somebody, look, my job now is to convince people to become informers. And I trick people into that. If I succeed, I add a new star on my shoulder. I got the praise, but I despise the one I perverted. If I don't succeed, I admire that one. Although I am criticized by my bosses that I failed, but I admire you. I know that kind of stories. People who do the dirty job without believing it, they don't believe, but they are there. If they do it, they stay alive. If they don't do it, they go with the others to the labor camp. You have either the choice to cooperate with the deception and to be a deceiver, or to go to the extermination. OK. Again, there is no other way. This is what happened in Soviet Union. The result was 20 million people who perished in labor camps. That was the heaven on earth, the product of the promise of Marxism. And again, no? No exception, China, 60 million. And in much shorter time, because Mao wanted it quick. And then all the others. Now, where do we go from here? Coming back to America. There are two aspects that I want to remember from this morning. There was class hatred. And people were being trained for this communism. But then there was a new type, the Black Lives Matter type of Marxism. Here, we don't have class hatred. We have race hatred. The superior race, the oppressive race, is the whites. The oppressed race is the black, the native, the Latino. And it's very interesting because When it came to the Asians, the Indians, the Chinese, they are colored people. But they like to work. And when they come here, they start working. And they succeed. What do we do with them? Well, ask the Black Lives Matter people. But anyhow, this color thing doesn't fit. But anyhow, We look at the Biden administration. So many colored people in positions of authority because You have to please them. They want to have the upper hand. Now, we want to destroy the whites. That's the only thing that we pursue, destroying the whites. There is no communism of creation, of production. We just want to destroy because that's the nature of Satan. Destroy. Remember the essence of Marxism was class Here is race hatred. The engine that moves things is hatred. But hate never creates. Hate only destroys. So again, You see where we are today, we are in most, the strangest situation possible. Now, there are two things, first of all, What do we do to stop producing new Marxists? Here, I don't have a solution. And I don't think we have time now. we are at the sort of culmination of the production of these hate educators. What do we do then with our own society. Will you bow your heads right now? Lord Jesus, your enemy has succeeded so much to deceive so many people in your beloved America. Now you told us, don't be conquered by evil. Conquer evil by love. Conquer evil by goodness. I know It's so easy to wait for some people to take the arms and destroy these evildoers and liberate America by force. I know it's easy to expect that, Lord, is that what we are here for? Right now, right here, in this place, we are Jesus' followers. You, Lord, defeated evil at Calvary by dying. And we are your disciples. What do we do? I don't come here with a prescription of my own. My job was to make my brothers understand, really understand what's going on in the world. And then, after we understand, follow you. Follow you on what? How to defeat evil by goodness. In my situation in Romania under communism, I knew as an individual to confront them with your love. And it was glorious. It's so beautiful. And my feeling is that the message for the people I have in front of me is that one. You go on loving. And you warn us that the one who picks up the weapon will die by the weapon. So Lord, I am waiting here for revelation, personal revelation for each one of us. How can I Be an instrument of love and goodness, even with the price of me dying. Show us, Lord. Reveal yourself to us. reveal your will to us in this particular situation. And Lord, I know that this tape will go all over America. and people will understand in a new dramatic way how far we have gone on this road to destruction through Marxism. Lord, speak through this message. Reveal yourself in this new way. Show us how you can intervene and give the solution to the problem of America without us. being so easily tempted, as Peter was, to take up the sword. Lord, speak to all your children all over America. to find the way of love and goodness, the way of the cross. And I pray for my beloved African Americans and other people of color who feel persecuted. You know they are not. Lord, they are in the deception. Open their eyes, Lord. Lord, they need the gospel. Yes, the standard bearers of black life matters. And all these people who hate and want to destroy, Lord, they need the gospel. They need Christ and him crucified. How can we penetrate with that gospel to the people who hate us and who would like us destroyed from this continent of America? How can we conquer them by the cross of Christ, not by rockets and other such weapons. Lord, speak to us. Let this message go all over America as a call to a conquest by the way of Calvary, by God's way. We know we would like quick results, and we think the quick results are by force. Lord, show us the way to solve this critical problem in America with these socialists in power in Congress and in other places of authority. Lord, How can we penetrate with your message of love and conquer them? Can we believe that there is no need of force? That you can conquer America back to you from the hands of the Marxists? Lord, show yourself to us. Your Holy Spirit should enlighten our minds. and show us the methods of conquest, Calvary way, the way of sacrifice and love. In Jesus' name, Amen. That is what I believe to be the message that the Lord gave me to this conference. But as I said in my prayer, now this message will go, and I want you to take the videos and spread them all over America, whatever the cost, because there may be a cost. for the messenger. It's always like that. The first one they shoot is the messenger. I made my mind I will speak because I am told through Prophet Ezekiel, if the enemy is coming and the one who sees the danger doesn't blow the trumpet, I will ask the blood of those people from his hands. The moment I understood the danger, I became the watchman. Will you join me in the message, in the job of trumpeters? Well, You have to see how. But I put my life on the altar again. I said, Lord, I blow the trumpet. And I know if I want it or not, it will now spread from this obscure, place on the mountain in Southern Oregon, all over America. The danger, brothers, the danger is immense. We are at a crucial point You shouldn't be surprised that was such a violence against President Trump. They had to somehow get him out because he was hindering their progress. Now, I know this is a political statement, but this is political anyhow. Everything we do here is political. And it's the life of America in balance if we want it or not. Don't believe that you can escape just by saying, well, let others do it. I stay quiet in my quiet place. After I wrote that Christian manifesto, I went through all that trial or investigation. When they decided there will be no trial, they go free. I went to my beloved city of Cluj and right there in the market, I met a medical doctor. friend of mine. He couldn't believe that he saw me alive. He said, Joseph, tell me what did you write in actual fact? And I told him. He said, Joseph, we were in a huge marketplace. He said, you see all these people? Yes. Well, if you told them, they would all say, we believe you. You are right. But they all keep quiet. Why did you not stay in your quiet place and you stuck your neck out? You see, that was the position of everybody. Just mind your own business and live. Survive. but don't stick your neck out. Don't show your colors. Keep quiet. I could not. You know, the Lord made me of a different stuff. What stuff are you made of? Will you agonize before the Lord and say, Lord, I don't want to keep quiet. I want to be involved. Whatever the cost. Whatever the cost. We enter the Holy Week. The Calvary Road. Nobody takes my life. I give it on my own accord. And my father loves me because of that. That I say, father, although I would say, take that cup away from me. I wake up and say, no, no, no, Lord, don't obey me, Father, when I say that. Go on, let the cross come. Let salvation come. Let the light come. Let the victory of goodness and love come. whatever the cost for me." You see? For the thing that was laid in front of him, he suffered the cross, writes in Hebrews 12. to the joy of salvation of all mankind through His cross. Victory of goodness and of love and of self-sacrifice for others. That's what's beyond the cross. I don't look at the cross, I look there. Okay. This is what the Lord gave me as the solution of the problem. Now, let's debated. Time for discussion. Yes? Brother Travis, will you repeat the question? OK, sorry. First of all, I want to tell you that there was a day not long after I got that beating from the general. It was the same, I think, two months later. I was meditating and all of a sudden, I had the vision. I saw how communism was going to collapse on his own. And I believed the vision. And I started to whisper to everybody, don't fight communism. At least the Lord told me, don't fight something I will collapse. You have a new job for me. Start training people for beyond. You have to be prepared with an army of trained preachers to be ready when communism collapses. Now, not long after that, Ceausescu decided to throw me out. I came to America and I started to tell here, communism will collapse all of a sudden. There is a magazine called Books and Culture. In that magazine, Books and Culture, for one of the months of 1999, Mark Knoll, a professor of Christian history, has an article in which he says, by 80s, all the experts in the world got convinced that communism will conquer the entire world. By 85 or so, At our college, he was at Wheaton College at that time. At Wheaton College, a Romanian preacher came. He stunned us, telling us that communism will collapse all of a sudden. I looked. Who is this man who dares speak against all the experts of the world? But imagine, a few years later, everything happened as he said. Communism collapsed all of a sudden. What happened in 1989 was that. Now, somebody came to me before that and said, It's impossible what you say. Yes, but let me tell you something. My father is in command. And one day my father will make a sign like this, and communism will collapse. Just watch it. Well, this is how I explain it. My father just made the sign. And all of a sudden, what was it? Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, just threw communism out. And you hear, watch, heard, it's unbelievable. Of course it was unbelievable. The only one who was stupid enough to resist was Ceausescu. So Ceausescu had to be arrested, tried illegally, and he was shot. So the only bloody transition was in Romania. So my father just made that sign. I believe in this kind of God's interventions in history. That's why I believe, as I prayed, that he show us his way of conquering my dear black brothers and sisters. Of course, they hate me for this, but 2 Corinthians 4, verse 6, the one who said one day, Let there be light. We'll speak a second time. Let there be light in your hearts. Make the light of the gospel of Christ shine in your hearts. Now I paraphrased. God says, let their hearts be lightened. Lord, say it. Show your light. the glory of Christ. Let them see the beauty of Christ. I believe in that miracle. Why? Because my father is a father of miracles.
Persecution Under Communism 3
Series Persecution
Josef Tson was arrested and in prison for his faith and witness of Jesus in Romania. He was arrested and suffered persecution for his faith.
Sermon ID | 1242517131944 |
Duration | 1:10:01 |
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Category | Special Meeting |
Language | English |
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