Introduction

Good day to all. This week's topic, as you can hear, is very powerful: "That we may gain a heart of wisdom." How can we obtain it? Rest assured, our sermons have a distinct characteristic: they are not just empty talk but explain how to gain this heart of wisdom. What is wisdom? How do we obtain it? This is a very clear characteristic of our Chinese Mingding Doctrine: it is not just empty talk but practical implementation.

Where does this all begin? It started long ago when we were researching what sermons are actually about. Some people simply read the Bible aloud. Later, after much research, I understood. The Bible is the "经" (Jing, scripture), and the sermon is the "论" (Lun, exposition). This is learned from traditional Chinese medicine. What is "经"? "经" is a highly summarized and generalized set of principles. What is "论"? "论" is how to use the truths in the Bible and apply them to life.

For example, the "Huangdi Neijing" (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon) is the "经" of traditional Chinese medicine, highly summarizing its theories. But the "Shanghan Lun" (Treatise on Cold Damage) is the "论," written by Zhang Zhongjing, on how to implement the theories of the "Huangdi Neijing." We will be discussing Psalm 90, "That we may gain a heart of wisdom," written by Moses.

A few days ago, a sister shared that she had a perforated stomach many years ago. How did her stomach get perforated? Because she was arguing with her son and daughter-in-law, to the point where she developed a hole in her stomach. In other words, her son and she were at odds, and this caused a perforation. A few days ago, her stomach pain returned. When the pain was severe, her pastor led her in prayer and taught her, and finally, she understood.

The reason was that she was arguing again. May God have mercy that this time it did not result in a perforation. Whether it's a hole in the head, the stomach, or the intestines, it can be life-threatening. Speaking of this, we have an interesting saying. The pastor asked her, "Why are you like this?" "I'm just stupid, I'm just stupid." Yes, it is quite foolish. Can you become smarter now?

Yesterday, I asked the pastor if she was better now. The pastor said she was. But has the root of the argument been removed? It seems to be removed, but maybe not. If she encounters the same situation, will she argue again? Wouldn't that cause problems again? Isn't that foolish? Why do people have to do this?

A few days ago, I was ministering to a sister who had an autoimmune disease. It was very difficult, really very difficult. I prayed with her and talked to her. Because she was uncomfortable, very uncomfortable. Finally, I said, "Why do you do these things?" "I'm just stupid!" "I'm just stupid." Why can't you become smarter? So I want us to gain a heart of wisdom, to stop doing things that harm ourselves. I feel this very strongly.

Another sister came to the church more than ten years ago. She didn't study hard when she was young, and she wasted the last ten years. Could she find a job? Yes, she did. Did she earn any money? Yes, she did. But she spent it all, as if she hadn't earned anything, with no savings.

Recently, she found a job, a good position as a secretary to the CEO. But she was embarrassed that she had no money for work. So she borrowed 70,000 online to buy a few bags. Can those bags cover the dirt in your head? They can't cover the dirt in your head. As a result, she was fired by the boss after only a few days of work because she couldn't do anything right. But she still had to repay the online loans. Oh my goodness, it's hard. I said, "Why did you do this?" "I'm just stupid."

I was thinking, why are there so many fools? I said, "Why did you buy a bag?" "I'm just stupid." Another brother is the same. To make a long story short, "I'm just stupid." If you can learn, "I'm just stupid," then I will teach you how to gain a heart of wisdom. I am truly moved. So when I was preparing the sermon, I watched a short video and searched for information everywhere. Someone said that 90% of people are actually fools. If I say this, don't blame me; it's what the video said. I'm just passing the buck. But I do agree with it. Why? Because many things people do are not learned; they just talk nonsense, think nonsense, and act nonsense, all self-righteous. I tell you, as you get older, self-righteousness increases, but you haven't learned much knowledge.

Yesterday, a sister shared that her brother was surprised. Her brother is also sixty years old and retired. Her brother didn't have good grades in school and didn't study well. But her brother is a very good electrician. Then a sister next to her said, "Pastor! Like your brother! Her brother also had a total score of only one or two hundred in many subjects." But he is a very good electrician; he has a talent for it. Does he really have this talent? Actually, no.

I tell you, if a person learns electrical knowledge when working as an electrician, it's not something he was born with; it's something he learned. He uses the correct learning attitude to learn electrical knowledge. But in other areas, he is self-righteous. Wherever he is self-righteous, he is a fool. Do you understand? When you hear, "I thought it was like this, like that," "I thought this would make money," but you lost money. That's the point; it's all self-righteousness.

If you learn something with the correct learning attitude, you will learn it. When a person doesn't have the correct learning attitude, he won't learn it. So the learning attitude is very important. Wisdom and understanding are all learned. Do you understand?

I must tell you that many things in my life I have learned. What I thought was useless. As soon as I think, I will be deceived and suffer losses. If I study and research carefully, it will definitely be tiring. Can learning not be tiring? But learning, even if it's tiring, is better than being a fool, isn't it? If I do electrical work based on what I think, I might not be alive anymore. What I think is useless. If I mess with electricity, bang! A big fireball will come out. Many things we think will be like this. So the more self-righteous a person is, the more foolish he is.

Once, we were setting up an uninterruptible power supply, called UPS in English, for the computer. One of our sisters watched and said, "Let me do it." As soon as she reached out, bang! A big fireball came out. Do you know what happened? The positive and negative terminals were short-circuited, and the wrench melted. Her hand was burned. Oh my, it was scary, a big blister. Why did this happen? Because her understanding was lacking, she lacked wisdom. She thought she was helping. Many people help God and also create a fireball, right? Aaron's two sons served God before God and also used a wrench to offer strange fire. A big fireball came out and burned them to death.

There is a term in Christianity called "once saved, always saved." Have you heard of this? As for "once saved, always saved," I'm not sure about that. But I think this statement is incorrect. "Once a disaster, always a disaster," that is true. Once a car accident, it's over. Do you understand? "Once saved" does not necessarily mean "always saved." But "once a disaster" can be forever.

I think people should live with understanding and wisdom, or else they live in vain, or else their lives are full of toil and trouble, full of suffering. How is this life lived? It's miserable. So listen carefully to how Moses teaches us. The most important thing for people is to learn. Brothers and sisters, don't think that you can just drift through today, drift through tomorrow, and drift through the day after tomorrow, drifting from your twenties to your thirties. In the end, you will be useless because you don't learn. As you get older, your ability to distinguish between good and evil increases, but if you don't learn, you will eat more salt than others eat rice. As you get older, you become more and more self-righteous, which is terrible. You will find that if a person is self-righteous, his life will be extremely bumpy, and it's all self-inflicted.

Everything is learned. What is innate is useless. Don't rely on talent. Can talent be controlled? Talent cannot be controlled. "Oh, I have this talent, I have that talent, I don't have this talent, I don't have that talent." Besides using it as an excuse, it's useless. But what I teach you can be implemented. Everything is learned, right?

Moses wrote Psalm 90 very well. The best sentence in it is, "That we may gain a heart of wisdom." You know, Moses later became a very wise man. He learned a lot in Egypt as a prince. In Egypt, he was a top scientist and a top engineer, very wise. His nanny was actually his biological mother. In the Egyptian palace, he became the son of an Egyptian princess, but he was not born to the princess; he was the princess's son.

As a result, he was full of vigor and ambition in the palace. "Wow, I want to save the Israelites, I want to do something great for God." But he killed an Egyptian, which scared him. When Pharaoh found out, he wouldn't spare your life just because you were a prince. The prince was too frightened and began to stutter. He spoke: "E-e-e-e-Egypt, Egypt." He finally left Egypt, but he was too frightened, and he stuttered.

After stuttering, he went to Midian and married Zipporah, which is called being a live-in son-in-law. This phoenix man suffered. Sitting there, oh my goodness, I tell you, he married a wife who could poop on his neck. She bullied Moses. Moses lived in this situation every day. Can you imagine? He herded sheep every day. His dreams were gone, his confidence was gone. He was very moved. Life is vanity of vanities.

When he thought of this, he finally realized a truth and gained some wisdom. "Oh, I was offending God with my ambition, right? I should just give up. I still want to help God do something. Forget it, I'll just herd sheep." That's why when God called him, he said, "I'm not going." "I'm not going to save the Israelites, God. I don't want to deal with this mess. I just want to herd sheep here."

You must know that now, if you want to help God, you will be very busy. Because God doesn't really need it. When you don't want to help God, God will ask you to do it. Now he finally understood that this was to shape Moses' character. You ask me why Moses was still strong at eighty years old? I tell you, he was chased by the Egyptians when he was 40 years old. Later, he ran to the house of the priest of Midian and married Zipporah. Although he suffered all kinds of abuse, his life was really miserable. But he could still herd sheep at eighty years old and was very strong.

Was he happy or unhappy in the past forty years? Happy. Nothing could take away the joy in Moses' heart. He began to gain wisdom. He felt that, hey, live happily in this life. That's why the Psalms talk about joy. I'll just live like this, herd the sheep well, and do what I should do.

I tell you, if you think life is vanity of vanities at 20 years old, you're done. You're not just done, you're done suffering. So Moses was very healthy. His wife abused him, let her abuse him. Nothing could take away the joy in Moses' heart because he saw through it.

God! You are God from everlasting to everlasting. We humans in this world will eventually return to dust. So he wrote Psalm 90, actually thinking about and understanding vanity when he was herding sheep. I tell you, the foundation of gaining wisdom is to know that God is God from everlasting to everlasting, and you are just a person. You must know that people in this world pass away in an instant. What can you leave behind? Just leave behind some joy. Do you understand? Don't be ambitious and full of vigor.

In the end, no one can resist the butcher knife of time. People shout "longevity without end" all day long, but in the end, they have to "end," right? People shout "Long live the emperor" all day long, but they don't live very long. Emperors have the shortest lifespans because they are cursed by shouting "Long live the emperor."

So Moses later led the Israelites out of Egypt, but God wanted to kill him halfway. Do you understand? Because he was used to compromising, "This is okay, that is okay, as long as I am happy." His wife didn't agree to circumcise his son. "Okay, if she doesn't agree, then let it be." As a result, God wanted to kill Moses, and Zipporah finally agreed to circumcise Moses' son. Do you understand?

Let us delve into these narratives; they are quite intriguing, unearthing these details. Moses confronted Pharaoh in Egypt, and consider this: he was an octogenarian. Moses operated with a certain logic, and God worked through his character and reasoning. He understood that life is vanity of vanities, returning from dust to dust. So, how should one live? Simply live.

Thus, during the Exodus and the crossing of the Red Sea, many perished. He lamented the foolishness of people. Would you say Pharaoh was foolish? Yes, and that is why 90% of people are fools. People often live under God's wrath, dwelling in sin. Therefore, Moses prayed that we might gain a heart of wisdom.

Consider Moses, who witnessed two hundred and fifty elders consumed by fire, and then saw Korah's family swallowed by the earth. He cried out, "O God, grant us a heart of wisdom." Korah had no idea the earth would open and swallow him; had he known, he would not have acted as he did. Why did he dare to do so? Because he lacked reverence.

When people understand the vanity of earthly matters, they will not be so contentious. Why was Korah so contentious? Why was Moses elevated above him? We are also Levites; why can't we be on equal footing? Korah spent forty years with Moses, full of ambition and vigor. Even with two hundred and fifty elders, it was futile, because God did not call him to that task. Do you understand? What are you trying to do? You may contend with Moses, but what can you do against God? Isn't that right? Moses thought, "Why is this person so foolish? Can we not ask God to grant us a heart of wisdom?"

I ask you, Moses wrote this for the two to three million Israelites. After reading it, they said, "Moses, you have killed God's people!" Oh my goodness, what kind of minds are these? It is truly exhausting. People often live under God's wrath; how much better if they could avoid God's wrath and learn to revere Him.

Moses sent twelve spies into Canaan, and when ten of them returned with a negative report, they died instantly before God. Oh my goodness! Moses said, "It's more than ninety percent fools; almost everyone is a fool." Among the twelve spies, only Joshua and Caleb were wise, a very small proportion indeed.

Therefore, we must gain a heart of wisdom. Joy throughout life is wisdom, and God's hand helping us in our work is wisdom. Living a life of entanglement, difficulty, and contention, with demons disrupting our work, is foolishness. Learn to revere God and destroy our inner agenda. I will teach you a word; it doesn't matter if you know English or not. There is a word called "agenda," which refers to your own plans and schedule.

Having your own agenda is terrible; you must destroy your dreams for this life. If you do not destroy your dreams for this life, it is difficult to learn to revere God. Because you have your own agenda, your own schedule, your own goals, and your own logic, you cannot revere God. Therefore, we must destroy our lifelong system of logic and our lifelong dreams.

No matter what serious illness you have, it is due to your own set of beliefs, which will kill you. How can we destroy it? Ask God to grant us a heart of wisdom, and do not ask why, because He is God, and He can do as He pleases. If a person's vain life is meaningless, then revering God is the most crucial thing. That is why Moses lived to be one hundred and twenty years old, and could still climb mountains at that age. Why? Because he did not dwell on anything, nor did he complain or pass the buck. What he gained was the reverence of God.

Scripture

Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning—

though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered. We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your wrath. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. All our days pass away under your wrath;

we finish our years with a moan. Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Who knows the power of your anger? For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you. Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. How long, Lord?

Turn to your servants and have compassion on them. Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children. May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands. (Psalm 90:1-17)

Prayer

O God! Open our minds, O God, and grant us, those of us with dull minds, a heart of wisdom before you. Let us know that from everlasting to everlasting you are God, and we are but seventy or eighty years. Our lives are short, let us know that you are God and we are human. We are often under your wrath. O God, give us wisdom, give us wisdom, let us learn to revere you. Give us wisdom, let us know that life is vanity. Give us wisdom, teach us joy, let us find joy in this short and bitter life on earth. May the work of our hands be remembered by you. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Scripture Background

The background of this passage is that Moses personally witnessed a group of fools. Look at how foolish the people of Israel were. He received God's word and arrangements from Mount Sinai. How to build God's tabernacle, God also issued two stone tablets, writing the Ten Commandments to Moses. When he came down from the mountain, he saw that they had made a golden calf. Oh my, isn't this ridiculous? Moses was furious, what kind of minds are these?

The Israelites made a golden calf, they wanted to return to Egypt. We were so good in Egypt. Moses was so angry that he smashed the two stone tablets, very angry. How foolish, as a result, I tell you, many people died. The entire book of Exodus and Numbers records the story, Moses was the protagonist at that time, he witnessed and experienced it personally.

These Israelites felt that living this matter is too important. The Israelites were full of thoughts, just living this little thing. They said: What did God bring us out of Egypt for? To kill us! Oh, lament, Korah's party plus two hundred and fifty elders, those two hundred and fifty elders were burned to death. Aaron's two sons were also burned to death, oh, stupid, just stupid. Moses was watching these things, oh God, please give us a heart of wisdom. Why can't you understand? You say doing pastoral care in the church, oh, my heart can understand Moses too well. I often say what kind of mind is this, I just don't know why.

Those twelve spies came back to report bad news, I was thinking, Egypt is so developed, so powerful army, is one of the best in the world. God has saved you from the army of Pharaoh of Egypt, and buried the Egyptian army at the bottom of the Red Sea, why can't it work this time? Offending God again and again. Then the ten spies died on the spot in front of the Israelites.

After the Israelites saw that these ten spies were killed by God, they didn't know to say, God, you are so powerful, I surrender, I surrender. Oh, I tell you, the Israelites are simply the opposition party of God. Do you understand? It's an opposition party. God said to go east, they want to go west. God said you go catch a dog, they will go catch a chicken. Just such a group of people, a group of fools.

How stupid is that? I am also very emotional, how stupid is that? Oh, why are people so stupid. Later Moses wrote Psalm 90, writing this Psalm 90 is to let the Israelites sing in the wilderness. Everyone came to read, began to study the documents, the document is Moses' Psalm.

Then there are several key points of stupidity in it, the first key point is that people do not know that living is vanity, so living is very real, and the result is real to the pain. Arguing with this, arguing with that, my God, and finally became a nothing to accept. So if you don't know the vanity of vanities, it is difficult for people to be happy.

People argue with their sons, argue with their daughters-in-law, argue with everyone. The heart is like a peanut, the head is like a walnut kernel, and there is no knowledge, right? God sees, little sample, I let you argue, let him have a stomachache. Ah, the teacher quickly prayed for me, quickly, I can't do it, it hurts. What did you do early, you were stupid early.

So the second problem, Moses felt that people do not revere God, do not know God's anger. Another thing, Moses felt that joy is very important, but we and the Israelites are the same, they like to reason, like to reason. It doesn't matter if you are not happy, but I have to be reasonable, and finally I don't know that I have killed myself. In fact, in that group of people in Israel, how many people have perforation, stomach perforation, intestinal perforation, how many people have myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, and how many people have AIDS, lupus erythematosus, you don't know, it is very hard.

What did these people do all their lives? Just arguing, no joy at all. Moses said: Set off, and set off again. Stop to set up camp, hum, and set up camp again. Like an enemy, right? The Israelites were like enemies after they came out of Egypt. Nothing is happy, what Moses wants to do, he sings the opposite, is an opposition party.

The fourth misunderstanding, what Moses wants to express is that people's work is very hard, everything is hard, and everything has resentment. He was very surprised why these Israelites were so stupid. He works with resentment, isn't it very hard? I don't say him, wouldn't that become an enemy?

So Moses saw that people don't know that living is vanity, they don't revere God, they are not happy, and they are not happy at work. People work very painfully. Oh, it's really no wisdom, it's just stupid. So Moses wrote Psalm 90, which is for the Israelites to study, so that they can gain a heart of wisdom. In fact, Moses is also talking to us, so that we can gain a heart of wisdom, did you hear that?

Wisdom 1: From Everlasting to Everlasting God is God

Which of the things in this world is not made by God. From everlasting to everlasting God is God, what does this mean? That is, when we are not yet in this world, God is still working, that is, with us, do you think God really lacks our dish? So I tell you, never ask why. God, why was that person killed? Why did that person jump off the building? God, why don't you care? In the United States, a person was shot and killed, and he was a preacher, a politician, and an activist. He was born in 93, oh my God, now I think 93 is so small, thirty-two years old.

When he debated with local college students, those young people said: If there is a God, why are there so many disasters in the world. Those little kids all like to ask this kind of question, why is this, why is that. In fact, it's because your head is stupid, right, what are you asking. As a result, this person, 32 years old, is very knowledgeable, so he explained to them and debated with them. If it were me, I wouldn't debate. What to prove? Proving to prove is useless.

So I think we people must know that from everlasting to everlasting God is God, these are all made by God, these are all directed by God. A child asked, do you know why Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching? I don't know, then I tell you, Lao Tzu is willing, Lao Tzu is willing. Then God is willing to do whatever he wants, right? From everlasting to everlasting, God is willing to do whatever he wants, isn't this what the Bible says? God is willing to have mercy on whomever he wants, God is willing to be gracious to whomever he wants, what does it have to do with you? It doesn't matter.

Why ask? God is too busy to bother with you. Ask too much, and you'll get minor misfortunes. Keep asking, keep pushing it. I'll let you live in God's wrath. That is the meaning of wisdom. People must know that there is a God in this world, and He is in charge of everything. Although we cannot see through everything behind it, there is a reason behind it all. For example, where did COVID come from? From God, so what? Oh no, our God is a good God. God is good, but that's just how He does things.

Later, people discovered that tsunamis, earthquakes, none of them were not caused by God. God did it all. If God is doing all this, and people still don't know their lives are short, isn't that a tragedy? Swimming at the beach, and a tsunami comes, a wave tens of meters high, and people are gone. To this day, many people are missing, neither alive nor dead. Where do you go to find them? Does God want to ask you why?

So people must know that from eternity to eternity, God is God. He can do whatever He wants. I tell you, if we want to gain wisdom, we must learn to say, "He is God, and I am just a person." So what to do? I listen to you, right? If I conform to the blessed laws of God's creation, I am a blessed person. If I walk according to God's word, God's word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Wisdom Two: From Everlasting to Everlasting, You Are God

Our lives are short, so the Bible describes, "For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—they are like the new grass of the morning: In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered." God, teach us to number our days. Our lives are short, and they disappear in an instant.

So you have to calculate how much time you spend throwing tantrums in this short life. How much time do you spend playing with cerebral infarction, how much time do you spend playing with cerebral hemorrhage, how much time do you spend playing with myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction, how much time do you spend with fever and cold, difficulty breathing, and how much time do you spend doing things painfully.

So we must know that our lives are short. Look at a person in their seventies or eighties with a short life, yelling at God, what can they yell out? They yell out God's wrath. You, a person, compared to a God in eternity, from everlasting to everlasting He is God. With this comparison, oh my goodness, you better be obedient, better not argue. Arguing leads to a perforated stomach, arguing leads to a perforated intestine, arguing leads to kidney failure, arguing leads to a cerebral hemorrhage, arguing leads to leukemia. What's the point?

Many people like to argue with God. They think medicine and science can solve diseases. I tell you, the more advanced science is, the more diseases there are. It will never be completely solved. The more advanced science is, the more diseases there will be, and it will never be solved. Why? Because disease is something in the spiritual realm. Can medicine solve it? Our lives are short, so how should we live our lives? Shouldn't we be more joyful?

If we are assigned to herd sheep, then let's herd sheep well. If we are assigned to clean, then let's clean well. Whatever we are assigned to do, let's do it happily. Can you do it with a bitter face? Yes, you can. But why wear a bitter face? Why can't you do it happily? Right?

Number your days. So brothers and sisters, if you are willing, record your time every day. From what time to what time, bitter gourd, from what time to what time, banana, from what time to what time, an apple. Record it, and that's called numbering your days.

Wisdom Three: Quickly Gone

Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. (Psalm 90:10)

How well this is said! Quickly gone, and it's over. Recently, an actor jumped off a building, quickly gone, in his thirties, thirty-seven, I think. A star, a very successful star. Many years ago, like Leslie Cheung, very successful, but quickly gone. Alas, a person's life is not long, and then it's quickly gone.

If you don't know this, aren't you a fool? You still think your life is long, and you still think it won't be quickly gone. If you don't know this, you will definitely go crazy. You will cling tightly to this and cling tightly to that, and end up with a handful of thorns. So don't do that.

A person's life is not long, and then it's quickly gone. What should you do at this time? What should you do? When it's quickly gone, you should gain wisdom. Those who gain wisdom know that God is the God from everlasting to everlasting. Those who gain wisdom know that our lives are short. Do you understand? Those who gain wisdom know that we are quickly gone. Go to the funeral home, the crematorium, there are many who are quickly gone there. Some people are still struggling before they die.

There was a sister who loved her brother very much and gave him money. Later, her brother got cancer and was very bad-tempered. Because his sister's salary was also very meager, it was not easy to give her brother money, but her brother was not grateful and slapped a stack of money on his sister's face, saying, "I don't want your stinky money." Because I was praying with him, his mother hugged this thirty-something-year-old son, and he died in front of the camera. Alas, quickly gone, but people still cling tightly to these useless things.

I also ministered to a cancer patient. After listening, everyone should know that these are all God's wrath, because they never knew what wisdom is. That person was already dying, had cancer. I prayed with him and asked him to get up and try to see if he had any strength. After he had strength, he followed me in prayer again. I heard the other person talking about eight hundred million, thirty million. I said, "What are you talking about?" He said, "I'm talking about money."

The next morning, I called again. That night, I prayed with him until late at night. And you know what? His aunt answered. I said, "How is he?" I opened the video and saw his eyes wide open. I said, "Touch him and see if he's breathing." I looked and he wasn't breathing, he was dead. Alas, six hours ago he was still telling me about tens of millions! You say this person is really quickly gone.

Don't say, why do I have so little wisdom? I tell you, I knew when I was very young that a person's life is not long, a person's life is vanity of vanities. So later, thinking about it, it's good to learn to fear God.

Wisdom Four: Fear God

Wisdom is fearing God. I learned a lesson when I read the Bible: Don't let evil words come out of my mouth. For example, "Alas, I spent money and effort, served wholeheartedly, and then lost my job." I dare not ask God why. You say why? I dare not, because He is God. Later, I thought about it, it's all my own fault. Why? Full of ambition, then high-spirited, feeling like I was so great, I could help God build the church. I can earn money to support myself, but man's plans are not God's plans, right? In the end, God took away my job. But now, looking back, thank God. My God is truly great and awesome, full of power. He has arranged everything so well for me, fear God.

For we are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. Don't you fear? Ask God to give us a heart of wisdom, to teach us to number our days, so that we may be satisfied with your love and rejoice all our days. Remember to fear God, God will not make mistakes. God will never make mistakes. If you are willing, follow God's word well.

Wisdom Five: That We May Rejoice

I tell you, without wisdom you cannot rejoice. Without wisdom, you can only create trouble for yourself, struggling and feeling uncomfortable. Once you are not joyful, it's over, you become a fool. Why? You keep thinking this and that, thinking crookedly. Our lives are not long, right? Quickly gone, and all we boast about is toil and sorrow. What's the point?

So Moses very clearly said, "Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble." Can everyone understand? "Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble." This sentence is too good.

If people don't suffer a little, they are still full of ambition and high-spirited. If they don't encounter some difficulties in the world, they don't know what it means to fear God, always thinking they are so great. Can they rejoice? They cannot rejoice. So I tell you, a person who is full of ambition is very tired.

So what to do? These years of suffering and trouble suddenly destroy the worldly dreams inside you. They suddenly let you know that you are just a person, your life is not long, your life will quickly be gone. They suddenly let you know that people don't live for this or that, people live to rejoice. Ask God to make us rejoice.

Those who often argue, mothers arguing with daughters, daughters arguing with mothers, mothers-in-law arguing with daughters-in-law, and also arguing with sons, be careful. As long as you are not joyful, you are wrong. Why are you not joyful? Because we are right. This is a very good principle that I have discovered. What is this principle called? This principle is called reasoning. People who reason are very painful. Once you are right, you will be very tired. Then you might as well be a person who is not right.

You are right, how can you do this? How can you say that? How can you treat me like this? How can you do this? He feels that he is right, right? Come out of self-righteousness, come out of reasoning, come out of this corruption, so that you may rejoice.

So brothers and sisters, never think that you are right. Once you are right, you will definitely feel that you are absolutely right, that the truth is definitely in your hands, and you will definitely be a very painful person. So suffering and trouble are to let you know that you are not good enough. You can't change it, you are not good enough, so just forget it, don't talk about your own reasons. God lets us suffer, lets us encounter trouble, and then teaches us to rejoice.

Wisdom Six: May God Establish the Work of Our Hands

Whatever you do, you can't do it well. You burn the bread, you build a bridge, and the bridge collapses. If the bridge you build collapses, you will definitely be arrested and go to jail. So brothers and sisters, the work we do is very important. But once people are full of ambition, I must do this well, but in the end, it's not done well. I think this thing is very important, but in the end, I am very frantic. Why? Because there are demons disturbing the work we do.

If God establishes the work of our hands, it is because we have wisdom one, wisdom two, wisdom three, wisdom four, wisdom five. Can you understand this now? I always feel that I have not explained it clearly, so please bear with me. If there are demons disturbing the work we do, you cannot do it well. If God is with us in the work we do, then it will definitely be done well. If you have a lot of confidence in yourself, then God will definitely not be with you, because you think you are very great.

Because we feel that we are not good enough, because God is God from everlasting to everlasting, because our lives are not long, we will quickly be gone, so we fear God. Fearing God is to let God make us rejoice, right? Then we enjoy the work we do. It turns out that rejoicing in labor is a gift from God.

God, satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children. May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands.

After speaking, I feel that Moses wrote very well. If you can implement these things well, can you not rejoice? Entanglement, discomfort, pain, anger, that is not our life, that is not our portion, nor is it our talent. That is a fool, starting to walk on the path of joy, fearing God.

May God bless everyone.
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