Introduction
Today, we will delve into the third lecture of Living Out Destiny, Becoming a Blessing. The significance of Living Out Destiny, Becoming a Blessing is profound. Destiny is about why we live, and becoming a blessing raises the question of whether it's for ourselves or others. There are various interpretations of living out destiny and becoming a blessing.
Recently, I have heard of more deaths around me. Actually, people die every day, especially lately. I don't know if you have this feeling, but yesterday I heard that someone had cancer, and today I heard that someone else had cancer. Such situations are increasing.
A full-time co-worker in a church, 32 years old, was diagnosed with cancer. This brother grew up in the church, serving the Lord for over 20 years, and eventually got cancer. He wrote an article called I'm Going to Die. I felt very uneasy after hearing it.
This is a story a Christian friend told me. This friend loves the Lord very much. He said that a full-time co-worker who had served in the church for over twenty or thirty years wrote this article. The process was so unbelievable that the brother's cancer was not very serious, with an 80% cure rate. However, as he was treated, he fell into the 20% incurable category. Later, the doctor said there was another treatment with about a 90% cure rate, with only 10% not working. But the brother fell into the 10% category again and began to express a strong desire to live, cursing God, saying, Why me? Why me? It sounds tragic.
I think, today, my brothers and sisters are all Christians. Are we living our lives in such a way? Of course, you don't want to live like that. I asked my friend how he saw this matter. He believes the brother had sinned. What is sin? This interpretation is also profound. We think sin is murder, arson, being a bad person, theft, and robbery. But it's not. The Bible says:
For everything that does not come from faith is sin. (Romans 14:23)
Believing in God's Word Means Acting Accordingly
Can Christians not believe in God? But whether they believe in God's word is not certain. If you believe in God's word, you will act according to it; if you don't act accordingly, you don't believe. Today, let's start thinking about why people live. I tell you, there are many Christians who cater to this life. Some people say they are serving because they are idle. I think so too.
Because I am idle, I feel I need to find something meaningful to do, and that's how I became who I am today. People's views on life determine their lifelong pursuits. Your views on life and your pursuits determine the state of your life. It's very touching.
What are our views on life, and what are your views on life? A few days ago, the grandfather of one of our sisters passed away and was cremated. A person became an urn. I have been thinking about this these days: people run all their lives, and in the end, they are just urns. Why can't we see through this thing called life?
Actually, there is a very interesting phenomenon inside me. I have almost no desire for life. I am full of hope, even yearning, to leave this world and return to God. Why?
Because my understanding of this matter of life is deeper than most people. Some may say I am boasting again. But it's not boasting. I have really solved many, many problems. Look at those who come among us. Are many problems solved? Have you ever asked: How can this young man solve so many problems? He is amazing! He is so capable. I also want that ability. Actually, it's not that. Everyone is mistaken. It's not about ability or lack of ability. Because people's views on life are too crucial. It's a tragedy not to understand this thing called life.
Considering Everything as Rubbish, Regarding Gaining Jesus Christ as the Most Precious
Last Sunday, I spoke on Considering Everything as Rubbish, Regarding Gaining Jesus Christ as the Most Precious. What do you consider? Consider everything as rubbish. Today, many of our brothers and sisters, including those I have ministered to these days, I feel that their views on life and on worldly things are too different from mine. They don't think everything is rubbish. They value work very much and think they must do a good job, and they even quote my words, Believing in the Lord means living out glory. I wonder, is doing a good job living out God's glory? No!
So, today, let's all think together: people are constantly flying like sparrows, unable to fly high, and then they flutter into an urn. The strangest idea is that even at ninety or eighty years old, they are still unclear about this thing called life.
Some people live very un-freely, afraid to go out. What if something happens when I go out? I can't go out. Where do you live then? I have to live in the hospital. Living like this in the hospital, what's the point? Some people, the more they yearn for life, the more they are unwilling to die, the deeper they are controlled.
What kind of life is good? Don't be silly. Someone dies of cancer at thirty-two. You say he is a Christian and a church co-worker. Because he yearns for life too much, he is full of迷思 and confusion about life. Can you live clearly? Can you not be miserable? Although he is a Christian, he doesn't know that people live not by bread alone, not by work, not by this or that, not by wife, relationships, or money. Living is by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Let everyone describe a picture in their minds. Don't blame me if you can't sleep after describing this. Blame the rubbish in your mind. What picture should you describe? Describe yourself lying in a coffin, sent to the crematorium, then burned, then put into an urn, and then there is no then.
You think you fluttered all your life like a little bird, flying and flying but unable to fly high. What do you think? Actually, it's not good. People in the past five hundred years were like this; people four hundred years ago were like this; people three hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, one hundred years ago were like this. Countless people are rushing to death in a line. No one can escape.
Today, I give you a statistic that is absolutely accurate: people die one hundred percent. You say it's not right, maybe it's not right, because there is Enoch in the Bible. But today, we people are one hundred percent, which means we will one hundred percent return to that state. The question is, if so, what can people do?
In the past years, my experience as a Christian has been different from many Christians. I like to attend funerals the most and dislike attending weddings the most. Why do I like to attend funerals? Not long after I believed in the Lord, a pastor of the church, driving his beloved豪迈 Toyota car, crashed into a highway sprinkler truck and died. I went to the funeral, and I saw his wife holding a baby of several months old, standing there sadly.
From then on, I told myself, I must figure out what it means for people to live. Don't forget. Even if you are a Christian, or have the word pastor printed on your forehead, or have something like 教 printed on it. I want to become a person with Mingding Destiny. I want to live for God and become a blessing.
Isn't this how we are going now? People like me, even if there are thousands of difficulties and dangers, shedding tears and continuing to run forward. Why? The matter of people living has been belittled; work has been belittled; living, money, everything has been belittled. There is only one thing: consider everything as rubbish, regarding gaining Jesus Christ as the most precious. I think that one day, standing before Jesus Christ, I can receive a reward.
Living with the Hope of Eternal Life
People must have a hope to live. How can you live without hope? You have your hope, and I have my hope. Your hope may be to do a good job, and my hope is to return to Jesus sooner. You say, This is not my responsibility. The responsibility that the Lord Jesus entrusted to me is 明定Destiny to become a blessing, so people's views on life are really crucial.
Yesterday, a sister came to me. I felt very bad about this kind of thing, like knocking over a bottle of 五味调料. I tried hard to suppress myself and explain her confusion. 馅饼 won't fall from the sky. I can't describe her feelings, but I know she didn't understand many things, mixing worldly concepts with godly concepts.
Singapore has a dish called 啰惹, similar to Northeast China's 乱炖, which has everything. If your inside is like a plate of Northeast China's 乱炖, can you not be confused? 信主 with me for so many years, can you not be confused? Today, I challenge everyone: do you really believe in Jesus? Do you really believe that God will solve your problems?
Yesterday, that sister proposed a concept: 馅饼 will never fall from the sky. I didn't find any discussion in the Bible about 馅饼 falling from the sky, but I did find manna falling from the sky, and the Israelites ate it for forty years. People raise such a question: living must have 馅饼, living must fill the stomach. When people 信主 to this extent, I left her with an assignment: list what is in accordance with God's word and what is not.
This way is not far from you. This way is in your heart, in your mouth. People often feel that what they say is very reasonable: 馅饼 will not fall from the sky, and they believe in their hearts that 馅饼 will not fall from the sky. 馅饼 will not fall from the sky, but God's word will fall from the sky, and the great power of Jesus Christ will fall from the sky. We observe the Holy Communion on the first Sunday of every month. The餅 we eat is the body of Jesus Christ, not 馅饼. What we drink is the precious blood of Jesus Christ, so that we may commemorate His incarnation from heaven.
Yesterday, that sister had a body full of ghosts. We worked hard to lead her to pray and cast out the ghosts from her. It's as if she completely forgot, but she didn't completely forget. Isn't this the 馅饼 that fell from the sky? We didn't know each other, but she found me, and I cast out the ghosts from her. Now she has recovered and can go to work. Once she goes to work, she forgets about the 馅饼 that fell from the sky.
I think Jesus Christ descended from heaven and died for us when we were still sinners, paying the price for us! What have you done for Him? Nothing. Remember one thing: don't think that because I am a pastor or a Christian, everything is fine.
Demolishing the Worldly Logical System
Only by completely demolishing the worldly logical system and understanding the truth of people's lives is that the key! Can what I say work? Whether it works or not is not up to me. You see the problems I have solved. Everyone has witnessed it. I am still constantly doing research on what it means for people to live. How can people release God's great power? What do you rely on to live? If you rely on certificates and diplomas, then I wish you good luck. I rely on my God, emulating His footsteps, emulating His appearance. Eating 馅饼 is a trivial matter. Living is not for 馅饼, living is for living out God's glorious image. A person without Mingding Destiny cannot become a blessing, but will only become a curse.
Brothers and sisters, think carefully about why you are living? This is your outlook on life. Thinking about what is most valuable to you is your value system. One sister I ministered to yesterday said, Just tell me what to do. The Bible is written clearly in black and white. Do I still need to tell you? What do you rely on to live? How can you live well? What you think is most important determines your future.
Let me make another assumption: if your mother has Alzheimer's disease, can you bring her out of Alzheimer's like I did? If you can't, if she is paralyzed in bed for seven or eight years, you will be the one taking care of her. How much will you have to pay? Maybe you will say this can't happen to me, but it's not up to you to say. Just this matter alone, is the price high? Whether you can release her from pain when such a thing happens to you determines many things.
If you are a person with Mingding Destiny, there is no problem that cannot be solved, because with the Lord Jesus who strengthens me, I can do all things. Nothing is impossible. Consider everything as rubbish, regarding gaining Jesus Christ as the most precious. You say this is religious? No, our Jesus is a Jesus who really solves problems.
You ask me, Why can you solve so many problems? Because God's power is in me. I think God's power is too precious to me. Today, ask yourself, who have you ever blessed? Who have you ever released? Many people have been 信主with me for five years. If I ask you, Who have you released? What have you done? If you regard work as your top priority, it is difficult for you to serve well. Those who have been 信主with me for two years have received more grace from me. Why do you live? What do you rely on to live? How do you live? How can you live well? Whether you like it or not, I will pour冷水 on you today. You run and run in this world and run into the urn.
Our hope is not in this world at all. If your hope is not in this world, you will not be a corrupt official if you are an official; you will not be a奸商 if you are a businessman. If all your hope is in this world, your hope for eternal life is just a小甜点 in your life, which is to receive a curse.
Why do so many pastors, co-workers, and Christian leaders have so many strange diseases? Why? Because people's hope for living is in this life, which is a worldly value system.
Let me tell you a true story. My mother has Alzheimer's disease and often goes in and out of the spiritual realm. Later, she saw something. The devil slightly blew a sigh and pointed with his finger, and the 大便 turned into 江米条. My old mate laughed when he told me, and I laughed too. Why? Because everything is 大便 in nature. If a person loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. If a person does not love God, he is 可咒可诅.
Living Out Mingding Destiny to Be a Blessing to Many
Today, craft a way of life, defining it as becoming a blessing to many; you will surely be blessed. When you represent God in distributing blessings, you are no longer ordinary. Many are now vying to create platforms. What is a platform? For example, Alipay is a platform. Goods come in for payment, and as a result, Alipay becomes a very wealthy enterprise. My money doesn't directly go to the merchant. So, what does Alipay earn? As long as something passes through your hands, it becomes remarkable. That is to say, if blessings pass through you, you become remarkable.
This generation we live in today desperately needs something called Mingding Destiny and blessings. How can people live without blessings? How can people have blessings without Mingding Destiny? What is Mingding Destiny? It is completely dedicating oneself as a vessel used by God. Then you become the person through whom blessings pass, and you become remarkable. Was Abraham's life simple? Yes, it was simple because he had God. Did he train soldiers at home? Yes, he did. But he didn't rely on these soldiers. He didn't put God aside for the sake of training soldiers.
I have spoken so much. Today, people simply don't know what awaits them. People don't realize that what they are waiting for is God. Suppose those things don't come upon us. If what you have in your heart is not a logical system built according to God's words, but relies on the customs of this world, still thinking it is God's word, the outcome for you is predictable.
Today is the third message in the series Living Out Mingding Destiny. Why am I speaking about these things? I also encourage you to observe carefully around you. You should have observed enough that what is happening around you is sufficient to demonstrate one thing: people living by the customs of this world and the logic of the world cannot live well. Even if the country gives you the best treatment, you are in a wheelchair, suffering terribly. Even if you have the best medical system, you have the money but cannot bear the suffering. People who are ignorant of the spiritual realm are spiritually blind and living a tragedy.
Let me give you an example: Bang! A car crash kills someone, and their life ends with a period. Bang! An underground building collapses, and many lives end with a period. Bang! An earthquake strikes, killing many, and their lives end with a period. Bang! A tsunami comes.
Do you know what is behind these events? If you know what is behind these events, you will solely revere God. God sends both blessings and disasters. If God wants to send disaster, who can stop Him? You might want to reason with God: I don't have the courage. Why is it like this? There is no why. God doesn't need to explain to you.
A few days ago, during the Hungry Ghost Festival, my mother, after developing Alzheimer's, had the ability to see the supernatural. She pointed at the window, Look, two little ghosts are jumping around there. I couldn't see them. Today, my mother told me, In the blink of an eye, she took a trip to Heaven and Hell, and then a voice told her, 'Go back. You have a Mingding Destiny. Go back and do what I want you to do.' Even in your eighties or nineties, you must have Mingding Destiny. People must live with meaning and not just eat, drink, and wait for death. That's not waiting for death; that's waiting for shit.
Open Your Spiritual Eyes and See Through This Thing Called Life
What exactly is life all about? Open your spiritual eyes and take a look. All disasters are the workings of the spiritual realm. Spiritual matters determine earthly matters. We often neglect this, busy with opening a company, running around frantically, only to end up back where we started or even worse, at the end point.
I'm being somewhat humorous today. I’m saying these things to encourage everyone to be able to open their spiritual eyes, to see the truth of human existence. People must realize that life is nothing but vanity of vanities. If you don't think so and are still struggling, then you are like I used to be. But I had a resolution that you may not have, which is that I would live my whole life for God. I am least afraid of not having a job. I am most afraid of not having God. I am also not afraid of others' shame. Those who trust in God will not be put to shame, but those who trust in work will be put to shame. Work and money cannot stop any disaster.
One year, some people hijacked several planes and crashed them into buildings. Inside those buildings were all high-level white-collar workers, and those people just melted into those buildings. Today, I speak about these things hoping that everyone can see through that coffin, through that urn, through these disasters of life, through these phenomena of life, to see the essence of human existence. If a person can live out God's power every day, able to command in the spiritual world, able to trample on the enemy with the name of Jesus Christ, how amazing would that be!
I thank God that He gave me a mother who often teeters on the brink of death. Once, all her fingers were bruised and black, her lips were black, and she couldn't breathe. A normal person would be terrified and rush her to the hospital, but I didn't do that. In the name of Jesus, I commanded the spirit of death to leave! As a result, within less than fifteen minutes, she got up and ran around on the ground. Today, my mother is very blessed with me. I can bless my mother because of God's power. Today, I can bless everyone because of God's power!
In the spiritual world, if you can have spiritual authority, what does it matter if you have a certificate or not, have money or not, have a job or not? Since our God can control the universe, will He not give us the best blessings in Heaven? Then do we still need to cling tightly to those things on Earth? Today, brothers and sisters, don't look at the wrong things! Don't mistake excrement for ginger candy. Don't treat worldly things as treasures!
When I was ministering, I talked to a demon. I asked it, Who do you see eating ginger candy? It said, Oh! Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed! It said that many people are treating excrement as ginger candy, eating it with relish! It also said that it was there to help me. I said, That's right! God makes everything beautiful in its time! God created the devil to do cleaning work. All those who are taken away by demons and leave the church, then let them be taken away!
We are building a holy, united, glorious, and victorious army church. We want people with Mingding Destiny, who can become a blessing to all nations and peoples on Earth. We rely on the power of Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead. If we are not living like Jesus, we must repent well! If we are not willing to completely dedicate ourselves like Jesus Christ to become a blessing to many, how can God bless you? If we treat dirt as treasure and treasure as dirt, isn’t that the ultimate tragedy?
What problem can you solve by being a mediocre Christian? Whether Christian, pastor, or church worker, all are high-risk professions. Why? Because reading God's word and not doing it will cause you to be cursed! If you don't believe what I'm saying, I encourage you to investigate thoroughly. After investigating, you will no longer have those confusions. If you still have confusions, then you don't even understand what human existence is all about. If you don't even understand what this world is like and what things have value, how can you not be confused?
When Old Ma possessed my mother, my mother emanated a foul odor. After Old Ma was driven away, the smell disappeared. If people often have a foul odor on them, it is related to loving the world. Today, you may be stimulated by what I've said. If you reopen your spiritual eyes, can you see the truth of things?
A long time ago, there was a mentally ill patient who always felt that someone wanted to kill him. Later, he came to find me. I struggled for a long time before driving the demon out of him. At that time, my work was piled up like a mountain, very busy, but I still ministered to him. In the end, I lost my job. After he got better, he contracted some dirty disease. He used to be involved in homosexuality and had many dirty things, which caused something to grow on his feet. After prayer, he was healed. His grandmother had a cerebral hemorrhage, his mother had high blood pressure, and I prayed for them to be healed as well. I said to him, You must serve. What did he say? If I don't serve like this, I can't stay here? These words caught me off guard. What kind of words were these? After a while, he said, If I don't sleep at 11 PM, how can I work tomorrow? I thought to myself, If I had had that thought back then, wouldn't you have died long ago?
Although I ministered very hard at that time, I don't morally obligate you. How can people be so foolish, treating work and worldly things as treasures? After a while, he told me he wanted to go out and see the world, and then come back in two months. What do you think this place is? A backup plan? I really don't like it. I sincerely detest people who are unfaithful to God, but they think they are faithful to God. That's just different perspectives.
As a result, after a while, he came back. I asked him, Which church did you go to? I know the pastor of the church he went to. It's best that a pastor who caters to the flesh ministers to Christians who cater to the flesh. But what problems in life can that solve? What blessings can be dispensed? No blessings at all. Doing work and then losing it. Can those who like to travel, go horseback riding, and take pictures have a good ending?
Conclusion
For people without Mingding Destiny, I wonder what they live for. In the end, isn't it just an urn? Therefore, brothers and sisters, you must know that the future ending of such people is the enemy of the cross of Jesus Christ. If you go against God, isn't that tragic? Maybe some people will say, But I go to church every week. Is that useful? It's just hypocrisy. Jesus Christ hates hypocrites the most. Doing this is useless.
Today, let's look in the mirror and see if we are like Jesus. If we live out Mingding Destiny, we will be like Jesus Christ. We see things thoroughly and resolve to become a blessing to this generation. Therefore, wherever we are, the problems will decrease, and we can live out God's glorious image. This is my life, my Mingding Destiny. I was born for this, I will die for this, and I live for this.
May God bless everyone!