Amen!
- I'll go see. - Hurry! Hide the books!
- Nobody move! - On the floor!
What are you doing?
Hands on your heads!
Get down!
Do you have a search warrant?
Captain, it's them.
Why are you arresting us?
What law have we broken?
Shut your mouth!
This is an illegal gathering!
Let's go!
Get up!
Come on! On your feet.
- Faster! - Let's go!
Chen Jianwei,
your wife's belief in Almighty God is a big problem.
Why didn't you report it to us?
But sir,
the constitution grants religious freedom.
My wife's faith isn't illegal and she hasn't committed a crime.
Why would I report such a great thing!
Idiot!
After years studying the Party's teachings, you're still so ignorant.
The Church of Almighty God is a major national target for elimination.
Your wife's belief is against Party policy.
That is illegal!
Don't you get it?
Don't know our military's rules?
All soldiers and their families can't be religious.
It's a political issue.
Anyone who breaks this rule will be disciplined.
You'll be kicked out!
Yes,
I understand.
And now the Party's cracking down on religious beliefs.
You really had no idea?
They're political criminals, those who believe in Almighty God.
Once they're caught, they're tortured and do time,
their family would be dragged in.
Make your wife give up her faith—waste no time.
You have your future to think about.
Sir, absolutely!
I promise that I'll convince her.
She will give up her faith.
Jianwei!
Mingming!
These few days, they've been hard.
The government's going after believers.
Give up your faith
and tell them what you know about the church so we can go home.
You know I'm on the correct path
and you've seen how it's changed me.
How could you side with the CCP against your own wife?
I get it's the right path,
but the Party is hunting down believers.
They'll put you in prison and kick me out of the army.
I won't be able to get a job.
What will we live on?
Mingming's so little.
Can't you just think of your son?
My faith isn't a crime.
Why would it ruin your future?
That's insane!
But that's Party policy.
They want to wipe out religion and drag in all involved.
How could it not ruin my future?
It's a political crime. Of course I'm implicated.
We've got two choices.
Either you promise to renounce your faith and everything will be fine,
or you hold onto your belief and we get a divorce.
I beg you to give it up. Please.
I never believed my faith would be a problem.
If divorce saves your career,
I respect your decision,
but I won't give up my faith.
Can one without faith be human?
You can't ask that.
I knew you wouldn't listen.
You're really young and have a degree.
Why do you need God?
If you end up going to prison,
and your husband divorces you, your family will be destroyed.
What's the point?
Think about it.
When I was setting up my fruit stand,
the police said I blocked an underpass and threw my fruit all over the ground.
You know the rules in here?
Hey, are you playing dumb?
Here's rule number one …
Are you okay?
I never thought that
my husband would side with the CCP in my arrest.
He wants a divorce.
I'm so torn up.
In these times, pray to God, He will give you the strength.
I remember God's words:
We must pray and lean on God more than ever.
God uses many trials to perfect our faith and love
and help us see how Satan opposes God and ravages mankind.
Getting arrested has shown me how evil the CCP is.
They're a pack of demons!
The great red dragon is vile!
The more we're persecuted,
the more we have to stand witness and shame Satan.
Yes, you're right.
Praying to God hardens my faith.
No matter what I endure, I have to stand witness.
Thank God!
Hi Director.
Yes.
Don't worry, sir.
Yeah.
If my boss hadn't intervened, you would have been sentenced.
That's why they let you go so soon.
I can't help next time around.
Just stop with this God stuff
and we can go back to being a family.
Wouldn't that be nice?
These few days I've been thinking
that the path of faith is going to get harder.
Probably I'll be arrested again,
but I can't give up my faith.
I believe in the true God, the true way.
I cannot live without Him.
You know that your faith will get you arrested,
and you wanna keep it?
I don't understand.
What's more important to you, God or our family?
The head of my regiment calls me every day about this.
He says if you keep on, then I'm definitely getting the boot.
It's driving me insane!
How will we get by without my salary?
Jianwei, one door closes and another opens!
Our fates are in God's hands. The CCP doesn't hold sway.
I haven't been a believer that long,
but I've seen that God's words are the truth.
God explains our world very clearly.
His words show us the path and we can't ever stray from Him.
Without God, there's darkness.
There would be nothing, nothing but hell.
I've seen the CCP is the devil.
It opposes God and His chosen.
Following the CCP will only lead to destruction,
while following God is the way to be blessed.
I'll never make you believe,
but don't stand in my way.
I will walk the path of true faith!
Faith?
Your true faith is destroying my future!
You will not get in my way!
My faith is my choice. You won't interfere!
Oh God,
the CCP could arrest me
and my husband is abusing me.
He wants a divorce.
I can't walk away from my baby.
God, please give me faith and strength!
Xiangchen, I lost my cool.
I'm sorry.
These past few weeks have been hard for you.
You're thinner.
You need some TLC.
We can go on a trip in a few days.
Don't you have work?
I got time off to spend with you and with Mingming.
It's so you can keep me from going to gatherings.
But isn't that for the best?
I already told you
the Party wants The Church of Almighty God gone
and we've all been put on high alert.
We have to be ready for action at a moment's notice.
And now our Party classes are on atheism and evolution
and we're reading all about condemning the Church.
The Party despises Almighty God.
You have to stop your faith.
If you're arrested, there's no telling if you'll make it out alive.
Have you thought about that?
I've thought about it.
The CCP hates Almighty God most,
persecutes believers and will stop at nothing.
Lots of missionaries have died in China.
What the Lord Jesus said is true:
Believing under the CCP's rule
demands true faith to the very end.
I've made up my mind to stay the course.
What?
Why are you so stubborn?
The Party is radical.
If you follow God,
they'll take your life, drag your family in.
Do you get it?
Submission is wisdom.
Just sign their letter of repentance and then practice in secret.
What about that?
How could you say that?
Sign a repentance letter?
I believe in the true God who sees into man's heart.
Signing it would be betraying Him.
You can fool others but can never fool God.
If I don't go to meetings or share the gospel— is that even faith?
You can't understand. Don't try to stop me.
Su Xiangchen,
believe then if you want to destroy our family.
The Party will get you sooner or later
and that'll be the end for me!
Who's really destroying our family?
Who's really ruining your future?
It's the CCP.
It's the CCP you believe in!
But you don't hate it, you go along with it and force me.
You don't know right from wrong?
Everything you're saying is backwards!
Enough!
Listen you,
I'll break your legs if you keep believing!
Xiangchen, I heard your husband follows you.
How did you get here?
Yes, it's true.
He has been following me,
but today I slipped away when he was distracted.
Thanks be to God!
How are you holding up throughout all of this?
Here.
Thanks!
I've really learned a lot because of these trials.
When he didn't hold me back,
I was very active in my duty,
and I thought I was strong in my faith.
Now that Jianwei wants a divorce,
facing that choice is painful and complicated.
I'm sure.
My stature is so small.
I don't think I can suffer for the truth.
I thought of God's words:
He doesn't believe, my husband.
We're on different paths.
True.
I know that
if we divorce, I can finally focus on my duty in the church.
That's a great thing.
It's God giving me a way out.
Yes.
My faith is now true.
Thanks be to God,
you've gained understanding through hardship.
This is a blessing from God.
Thanks be to God!
There's a hymn that has inspired me:
Thanks be to God! Hardships benefit us …
You have to try with Xiangchen.
I can't get her to budge!
Don't worry, Jianwei.
We'll talk some sense into her.
We'll get her in line!
- Sit down, and I'll speak to her. - She does need to be reined in.
Really it's concerning!
Oh God, please be with me!
No matter what they do,
I want to stand with You and bear witness.
It really does make you worry.
That girl …
How could she turn out like that?
Auntie, Uncle,
what a surprise!
Xiangchen,
were you at a gathering?
You're being unreasonable!
Look at Jianwei, see what he's been reduced to!
His boss makes him stay home to watch you,
he's scared you'll get arrested again.
Why won't you listen?
I think that she likes prison.
What is wrong with you?
Keep this up and you'll get arrested again!
Xiangchen, you'll destroy this family!
Why won't she think about her family for once?
Uncle, who's destroying this family?
There are believers all over the world.
Why aren't they persecuted or their families torn apart?
Why are we imprisoned in China for having faith and sharing the gospel?
The CCP arresting me,
and Jianwei listening to them and asking for a divorce—
whose fault is it?
Why don't you get it?
You accuse me of destroying this family?
- If you didn't believe— - You stubborn little—
Xiangchen,
the Party has listed believers in Almighty God as wanted criminals,
they will arrest them all.
You won't be able to escape.
- Hear that? - Yeah!
Look,
take a look at the news.
They've arrested so many Almighty God believers!
Some get over ten years,
some are crippled or beaten to death!
It's so dangerous, isn't it?
She must know that, right?
If you're arrested again, you could die in jail alone.
Your precious baby growing up without a mother?
Did you hear him or what?
At least think of your child if you won't think of yourself!
- How could you … - Yeah, Xiangchen.
Let go of all that church stuff.
Just take care of Mingming so Jianwei won't worry.
Isn't having a nice family life better than anything?
Isn't it?
Xiangchen,
we have to be realistic.
The Party is vicious to believers.
And now you live in China.
Exactly.
Having faith in China means you'll go to prison.
We're just regular people. No match for them.
What's wrong with a nice life at home?
Listen to me, give up.
Your life is more important!
Yeah, listen to him.
I know you all mean well.
Since you can't understand my faith,
I don't blame you.
The reason I put myself in danger
is Almighty God is the Lord Jesus returned.
He's expressed so many truths.
He's helping mankind be free from Satan and the disasters.
This is the chance of a lifetime.
What'll it take to get through to her?
The CCP is obsessed with persecuting us
because it's afraid everyone will accept the truth,
follow God, and be taken into His kingdom.
That's what this is all about.
I've thought about it
even if imprisoned, I will follow Almighty God.
Why are you so stubborn?
Stop trying to convince me, I'm not a problem for your lives.
She just won't listen to anyone! …
You just won't listen to anyone.
You haven't suffered enough.
You don't get how powerful they are!
There's nothing we can do?
Fine.
I'll report you to the cops now, and let them deal with you.
Yes, yes.
What are you doing?
What? You …
That's enough.
You're really going to give her to the cops?
You're all my elders and I respect you.
But when it comes to my faith, I won't listen to you.
There's nothing that will make me give up my faith.
How can she be so stubborn?
Jianwei!
You want God or this family?
It's your faith or divorce!
Jianwei!
Damn you.
The Party has done a purely evil thing.
Driving them to divorce,
ruining a good family!
There's nothing we can do.
Su Xiangchen, my boss is coming with me
when we sign our divorce papers tomorrow.
Oh God,
thank You for giving me this faith.
I swear to follow You until the very end.