Introduction

Good day to all, we will be discussing the 4th lecture on the Christian transformation in the new era: Returning to the Gospel of Apostle Paul. We mentioned earlier that if you believe in the wrong gospel, you will be cursed, which must have frightened many. The truth is, you worry about believing in the wrong thing because you do not know what the real gospel says. If you understand the real gospel, you will find that there is absolutely no need to be afraid. The reason people are cursed is because they lack an attitude of seeking. Once there is a problem with attitude, everything else is finished. The main purpose of discussing curses earlier was to encourage everyone to seek, because through the attitude of seeking, you will receive God's grace and mercy, and God's grace and mercy are always sufficient for us.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; this topic has been discussed many times before. The question now is, what exactly is the true gospel? When I was a child, I had a thought in me, I don't know where it came from, called victory. No matter what I didn't understand, I wanted to figure it out. Once, I couldn't solve a math problem, so I kept working on it until I solved it two months later. This kind of character is very important, but some people ask what to do if they don't have this kind of character by nature? Now I will teach you, you can shape this character immediately.

Because I had this winning character from a young age, I was the same when building the church. I inherently liked to do whatever I did well. I always wanted to be a Christian that is outstanding; to be an engineer that is outstanding; to be an accountant that is outstanding, this is a person's character. This character has a deep impact on me, for a simple reason, nothing works, and I feel uncomfortable, and others feel uncomfortable looking at it. From now on, everyone should learn from me, because I found that Apostle Paul also had this kind of character. He once boasted that everyone should imitate him.

Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. (1 Corinthians 11:1)

Today everyone can imitate Jesus Christ, if you can imitate Jesus Christ, of course, you don't need to imitate me. However, if you cannot imitate Jesus, imitate Apostle Paul, and if you cannot imitate Apostle Paul, imitate me. Because I imitate Apostle Paul and also imitate Jesus Christ, and Apostle Paul also imitates Jesus Christ, because we believe in this Jesus Christ.

Once, I encountered something that shocked me and completely overturned my understanding. At that time, I attended a meeting, and all the people present were pastors. One of the pastors was on the stage talking about his tragic experience. He established a church, but the members and leaders of the church accused him and even went to court to file a lawsuit, and he himself suffered from depression. It was truly heartbreaking to hear, and everyone around him felt compassion.

However, when this pastor's words reached me, they brought a tremendous shock to my heart. I couldn't help but think at the time, God! I don't really want this, I don't think there is any glory in this. I immediately prayed silently in my heart, and God revealed to me that I should build a victorious church. At that time, I had an idea in my heart, no matter what, I must build a victorious church and fill the church with victorious disciples.

Today, many churches are desperately trying to pull people into the church, but we, the Chinese Mingding Doctrine, are impolitely pushing people out. Interestingly, the more you push people out, the more they want to come in. When a brother and sister asked their former church members to come to us, the conversation was very interesting. They said that if she wanted to come, she had to be prepared to pay the price. The person was surprised, how come you have to pay a price to come to your church? They told this sister that she couldn't do it, but this sister got excited and showed them that she could. After coming here, she had that serious energy. Although she was amazed when taking notes that she had never written so many words in her life, she did not want to give up. I also thank God, this is called a victorious church. Today someone asks which church you are in, and many people say they are in a victorious church! Although our church has no name, it has become a victorious church, and that's how a victorious church is built.

In the whole process of building the church, the method I adopted was what Apostle Paul talked about, and the whole logic was also Apostle Paul's logic. Because according to Apostle Paul's logic, the churches he built have never collapsed. Some pastors once questioned whether building a church like this could build the church. He felt that everyone should be pulled into the church so that there would be people in the church. I hate mediocrity the most, and I like every brother and sister in the church to be like Apostle Paul, and I like the church to be a victorious church.

A sister suffered from paranoia, and I spent a huge amount of time praying for her. At that time, I was working, building the church, and serving her at the same time. At that time, because I didn't know how to deal with internal political struggles in the company, my job was almost gone. I put everything down to serve her, but after a few years, she was still the same. She also had a dirty disease from homosexuality, which I prayed for and healed. Once, she had a boil on the bottom of her foot that smelled terrible. I hugged her stinky foot and prayed without hesitation, and her foot was healed. Her grandmother's cerebral hemorrhage and high blood pressure were all healed by my prayers.

I told her that since she had received so much grace, she should participate in the ministry. She said that she couldn't do that because she had to go to bed at 10:30 p.m., otherwise she wouldn't be able to go to work the next day. When I was serving her, I was still serving her at 2:00 a.m., so how could she have to go to bed at 10:30 p.m. when it was her turn to serve? She definitely couldn't survive here, and I would rather kick her out than allow her to mess around here. Because this is a victorious church, and a victorious church cannot hide filth.

One day she asked me for leave to see other churches, and said that if she couldn't find a good church after seeing them, she would come back. I said that this place is not where she can come and go as she pleases. Since she wants to leave, don't come back. As a result, after a period of time, she really found a church and told me when she came back that the church was very suitable for her. I actually knew the pastor she was talking about. It was most suitable for a pastor who gratifies the flesh to shepherd members who gratify the flesh like her.

I also feel sad for this kind of pastor. If the people who are recruited to build the church are all like this, how can the church be good? Before this sister went to this church, their pastor saw that our church's website was well built and came to me to ask me to help him build a website. I said that we are a small church struggling on the line of death, which is not as good as your big church. If one person leaves, it will be 5%, 10%, or even 20% less, because the church was small at that time, with only a few people. I told him to bring people over and I would teach them personally.

But the second year he came again, still asking me if I could teach them how to build a website. I taught them last year, why are you here again this year? He said that no one was willing to do it. I said that if you build a church like this, accepting all kinds of garbage into the church, of course these people won't do it. A year later, he came with a group of people again, and I scolded him. He came to me for the same thing for three consecutive years. It was only a two-hour job, but he could drag it on for three years. If he had learned it himself, he would have learned it long ago.

I told him that every picture on our church's website was edited by me. Not only that, but I also do the church's administration, attendance records, donation records, healing and deliverance prayer meetings, and Bible study. Even every network cable and microphone cable in the church was connected by me, the tables were made by me, and the computers were assembled by me. I do a lot of work and do it quickly. In fact, what I meant by saying that was that if building a church turned out like theirs, I would have quit long ago. To have a bunch of trash, really, no one lays eggs and a pile of people shit, I can't stand it at all, so the church cannot accept garbage.

Building a victorious church is deeply rooted in my bones. I don't want to build a non-victorious church, and I don't want to be a non-victorious pastor. I am very grateful that God chose me before the creation of all things and gave me such a character so that I can be used by God. You must know that building a church is a highly specialized profession, with all kinds of precision instruments and equipment. It's not just 10 nanometers or 5 nanometers, building a church is much more precise than nanometers. The church can fly a spaceship to the sky and to other galaxies. If it is built like his church, it will break down halfway in space, which is a hassle. This is called precision engineering, we are all in the aerospace industry.

My teacher liked me very much since I was a child, and we had a very good relationship. He felt it was a pity that I was in this line of work. His hope was to see my name in the news, such as Hong 20, J-20, or Shenzhou 5, but he didn't see it. I said that what I am doing now is flying much farther than a space shuttle. In the spiritual world, I am not doing aerospace but spirit-space. I am truly building a road to heaven!

Speaking of this, I want to remind everyone of one thing, grasping the key points, grasping the themes, grasping the structure, and building the framework are essential qualities for a person. So why do I build a victorious church? Because that is the most important thing in the entire 《Bible》. Now I will test everyone, what is the theme of the New Testament 《Bible》? If you don't know the theme, then you are just messing around.

The theme of the New Testament 《Bible》 is to build God's victorious church. In fact, the theme of the Old Testament 《Bible》 is also to build a victorious church, that is to say, the theme of the entire 《Bible》 is to build a victorious church. All the Old Testament points to Jesus Christ, and the church is the body of Jesus Christ. So the New Testament 《Bible》 is to build the body of Jesus Christ, the victorious church, and the Old Testament 《Bible》 is also to build the victorious church, so that all things may be united in Jesus Christ.

It can be seen that building a victorious church is very important, so why are some pastors so unlucky? Because they don't build a victorious church, they just talk nonsense and mess around. So we must return to the gospel preached by Paul. The first thing that Paul preached is the victorious church, the second is the great power of the Holy Spirit, the third is the faith of Abraham, the fourth is to strive to reach perfection, and the fifth is not to belong to this world.

The Victorious Church

Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:3)

In the 《Bible》, whether it is the Old Testament or the New Testament, it all points to the victorious church. In the New Testament, the victorious church is called the body of Jesus Christ. The victorious church in the Old Testament is called the temple, Mount Zion, and also Jerusalem, etc., a lot of names. So in the Old Testament, we go up to the mountain of the Lord, and after reaching the top of the mountain, we enter the temple of the God of Jacob. If you read the 《Revelation》, you will find that God wrote seven letters to the angels of the seven churches, and there is a very clear word for the seven churches, so the church is very important. Then it says how the victorious ones are, you can read about it in 《Revelation》.

Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7)

Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death. (Revelation 2:11)

Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it. (Revelation 2:17)

The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. (Revelation 3:5)

The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. (Revelation 3:12)

To the one who is victorious, I will grant the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. (Revelation 3:21)

Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. (Revelation 21:7)

These words all refer to the victorious church, and the victorious church must be full of disciples inside, and the victorious church must participate in spiritual warfare. The Chinese Mingding Doctrine is Paul's theology, which is summarized from the main body of the 《Bible》. The victorious church must win the spiritual war, fight against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms, and after the war, they can trample on the devil and the enemy. In this kind of victorious church, you cannot go on as an ordinary believer, you must be elite soldiers and disciples.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. (Matthew 19:29)

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26-27)

Just imagine, if you bring your family to the battlefield, you can't fight the war. So brothers and sisters, you must know how important spiritual warfare is. The reason why the church cannot bless brothers and sisters is because it has been defeated in the spiritual realm, and even if there are some blessings, they are taken away by the demons. When you read the Old Testament, you will find that when Israel is not victorious, the surrounding countries will also have their grain robbed after planting it, and it will be planted in vain. Therefore, both the Old Testament and the New Testament point to the victorious church.

At the end of the four hundred and thirtieth year, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt. (Exodus 12:41)

This sentence says that the Lord's army came out of Egypt. It is not difficult to see that without an army, there is no way to fight a war, and it is impossible to be victorious, and it is impossible to become a country. Similarly, without an army, there cannot be a kingdom of heaven. The army is a very important part of God's kingdom. Therefore, if a country is established without an army, this country can only be trampled on by others, and it cannot even protect its own money. It is very important to build a victorious church. The brothers and sisters of the church cannot obtain God's promise because they are not in Jesus Christ. Only the victorious church can fulfill God's promise and enter the promised land.

In the Old Testament, you can see that the Israelites can enter the promised land only by fighting and winning. God gave Abraham the promised land and gave the land of Canaan to Abraham and his descendants, but later the Israelites had to take knives and guns to enter and get that promised land. It is definitely not possible to walk in wearing flip-flops, holding a big floral fan, wearing a big floral skirt, or men wearing big floral shorts and a T-shirt. Because without fighting and without victory, you cannot get the promised land. In the New Testament 《Bible》, you cannot build a church according to the family, you must build it according to the army. In this way, no matter how many promises of God there are, they are Yes and Amen in Jesus Christ.

For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. (2 Corinthians 1:20)

That is to say, God's promise is in Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ can only be fulfilled in the victorious church. These words immediately match up, whether it is the Old Testament's Exodus and entry into Canaan, or the New Testament 《Bible》's drawing of God's promises. So why do these people's prayers in the original church not work, but work when they come to us? Because the church is different, the difference lies in the failed church and the victorious church; the church without God's presence and the church with God's presence; the church that does not fight and the church that fights. In our church, we have countless testimonies every week, and we can only choose a few to broadcast. Every time I lead prayer, I personally see God's promises fulfilled, because in my heart there is a character, the church that is built is built according to the word of God.

I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (Matthew 16:18-19)

Therefore, healing and deliverance are related to the victorious church. It is not about gifts and anointing. We speak of Mingding, because this is our life, this is our Mingding. We were born and live for this, so we can build a victorious church. If everyone is afraid of death and selfish, caring only for themselves, the church will be desolate. It would be neither victorious, nor would everyone escape suffering. I would rather die than build such a church.

Brothers and sisters, know that Jesus wants disciples, and disciples come to fight, and after fighting, they can obtain the promised land. Historically, the church lost God's power and presence because everyone no longer had a view of the church. Although everyone gathered together, the church became a place for eating, drinking, and having fun. Your love for me and my love for you are carnal love, not an army that can fight.

Then everyone hid in a secret room, enjoying what they thought was God's presence, but could God be present in such a situation? Everyone entered into personal cultivation, falsely claiming to be close to God, and suddenly changed the gospel of Jesus Christ. But if the church is desolate, how can people be close to God? Over time, these people have created many terms, such as family altars. Fortunately, Abraham did not establish a family altar, otherwise, if he had offered his son Isaac, his wife Sarah would have fought him to the death.

In fact, personal cultivation is an extremely corrupt thing, but in this generation, personal cultivation is rampant. From the history of church building, since the church existed, people have been wavering back and forth between building God's army, a victorious church, and personal cultivation. These people would rather pay the price for the wrong gospel than for a victorious church. I have told many stories and seen many tragedies. Some people would rather have a brain tumor than build a victorious church, because paying the price contradicts their core interests. Building a victorious church costs a life, and they cannot afford this price.

When it comes to our church, paying the price is not an exaggeration. Over the past few years, I have developed a habit of going to bed very late, and often doing so. People often have problems late at night because ghosts always work in the middle of the night. Now it's good, anywhere on earth, we have people from the Chinese Mingding Doctrine who can participate in the ministry. When it's night on this side of the earth, it's day on the other side. When someone needs ministry, everyone can take turns ministering. Don't think that I'm transferring the cost to others. In fact, when there is an opportunity to minister, I will teach how to minister. The brothers and sisters next to me who have heard my ministry say that the old ginger is still spicier.

Paying the price in our church starts with me. You cannot be a disciple without paying the price. Once, when I was ministering outside, I happened to share a hotel room with a pastor. Seeing that it was 10:30 PM and I couldn't go back, I called the pastor, wanting to tell him not to wait for me anymore, but I couldn't get through no matter how hard I tried. The next day, I asked him why I couldn't get through the night before. He said that he turns off his phone at ten o'clock every day. It's infuriating to encounter such a thing. How can you be a pastor like that, turning off your phone at ten o'clock so no one can find you? To put it bluntly, even if your mother died, no one could find you. Over the past few years, I have walked this path step by step. It is a history of blood and tears in building a victorious church. But seeing the situation today, I still feel that it is an incomparably good thing.

Building a victorious church requires connections. Everywhere has garbage collectors. For example, in Taiwan, there is a lot of knowledge in throwing garbage. You cannot throw garbage casually. No matter how much or how smelly the garbage is, you have to wait for the garbage truck to come before you can rush out to throw it away. I don't have to wait here, because I have a connection called Lao Ma, who will take away the garbage at any time. He once told me that he helps me build the church, and his job is to help me take away the garbage in the church. Now that he says it, it really is the case. It turns out that one of the purposes of God creating Lao Ma is to take away garbage, and he works very hard.

He told me that he took away so-and-so, and he listed a bunch of names for me one by one. Lao Ma knew all the names, including the one who left us to go to another church. I was very surprised that he knew everything. At that time, Lao Ma was talking to himself through my mother's mouth while sitting there. At that time, my mother had Alzheimer's, which was caused by Lao Ma. I often beat Lao Ma and chased him away. Later, I asked him who he was going to take away next. He played mysterious with me, saying that the secrets of heaven cannot be revealed. I patted him on the shoulder and said, Great, let him continue to work. How wonderful it is to build a victorious church, even the horses let us ride, and the horses have become our tools for building the church.

Brothers and sisters, know that holiness and unity are the vision of our church. When people serve together in building a church, you can tell who is holy and who is not. When people collide with each other, that bit of stuff in their bones is revealed. Those who like to find fault, those who like to get angry, whose faces turn black when they are upset, and those who are selfish all show up at once. So if people want to become holy, the church must be united. That is, the brothers and sisters are holy, the church is united, and unity will become holy.

So building the body of Jesus Christ is the mystery that God had before the foundation of the world. The church must be built according to the church defined by Jesus Christ, and the church must be built on the rock of truth, and the power of hell cannot overcome it. So we are very serious about the truth. With the keys to the kingdom of heaven, we can draw on whatever resources we want from the kingdom of heaven. Brothers and sisters, I will say it again, it is impossible not to be blessed among us. As long as you do according to God's word, you will be blessed. Later, when you count, those who please God are actually rich. Even the Apostle Paul could not be poor and could not lack money.

The Power of the Holy Spirit

If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (John 14:15-17)

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:26)

So in the entire Christian faith, the infilling of the Holy Spirit is a very important truth, but in reality, the infilling of the Holy Spirit has been lost by many people. Building a church without the presence of the Holy Spirit is no different from building a club. How did they lose it? Repentance, accepting Jesus Christ as their savior, and being baptized in the name of Jesus, they have retained these three parts. However, the most important step is being filled with the Holy Spirit, but these churches, as they do it, have lost the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

In the time of the Apostle Paul, wherever he went, as long as he encountered disciples or believers of the Lord Jesus, the first thing he did was to ask if they had received the Holy Spirit. If they had not received the Holy Spirit, he would lay hands on them and pray for them to receive the Holy Spirit. After receiving the Holy Spirit, they would pray in tongues, and this began the path of faith filled with the Holy Spirit. But many churches cannot even pass the barrier of praying in tongues. If you cannot pass praying in tongues and being filled with the Holy Spirit, how can you overcome the flesh? The Holy Spirit and the flesh are in conflict, but when the Holy Spirit is mentioned, the brothers and sisters in these churches are confused and do not know what it is. The entire faith has no power.

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (Acts 1:8)

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. (John 3:34)

The filling of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ is without measure, because Jesus Christ has unlimited power. Now the relationship is clear at once. The Chinese Mingding Doctrine follows the path of the Apostle Paul. When you come, we first ask if you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. If not, we will lead you to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Do you have prayer in tongues? If not, we will lead you to prayer in tongues. Many people say that prayer in tongues has no effect on the understanding. Prayer in tongues is our spirit praying, and the Holy Spirit is praying for us within us.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. (Romans 8:26-27)

It is conceivable that if there is no prayer in tongues, the loss would be great. Without the great power of the Holy Spirit, the church is built into a failed church. The failed church is cursed, the pastor and members are judged, and they are rubbed on the ground by the devil. If you tell him that he is rubbed on the ground by the devil, he will retort, You are the one who is rubbed by the devil. He would rather be rubbed on the ground by the devil and be controlled by demons than have you mention it. What kind of rubbish is this?

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:13)

Mortifying the evil deeds of the flesh by the power of the Holy Spirit is the gospel of the Apostle Paul. When a person first believes in the Lord, the flesh is almost 99.999%, purer than pure gold. Can you say that he will get better? Some spread the rumor that if you start praying in tongues, you will believe in evil. The main thing is that they have been evil for too long, and they see everything as crooked, thinking that they themselves are not crooked. Therefore, many tragedies occur among the members of churches without the power of the Holy Spirit. The tragedies and curses mentioned in the previous lectures are repeatedly manifested among them. Their pastors also say that this is a blessing in disguise. I think we should forget it. There is no effect in mortifying the deeds of the flesh in this way. In fact, our brothers and sisters should no longer ask them. Since their eyes are crooked, they cannot see things as straight. It's not that they don't have the gift of healing, as these people say, but that they don't have the victorious church and the power of the Holy Spirit. That is not the gospel preached by the Apostle Paul.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. (1 Corinthians 9:27)

Because of the power of the Holy Spirit, one can keep under one's body and bring it into subjection; without the power of the Holy Spirit, relying entirely on the flesh, there is no effect in mortifying the lusts of the flesh.

Abraham's Faith

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (Romans 1:17)

Abraham's faith is particularly good because his faith is from faith to faith. When a spiritual infant has just believed in the Lord and has only accepted the salvation of Jesus Christ, if according to human behavior, 99.999% is flesh, and the Holy Spirit has not yet worked. Once a person accepts the salvation of Jesus Christ, believes in Jesus Christ, and receives the Holy Spirit, then the faith at this time is only as big as a sesame seed or a mung bean. Apart from the faith the size of a sesame seed or mung bean, there is unbelief and doubt. That is, the flesh carries the faith the size of a sesame seed or mung bean. The good thing is that Abraham's faith is from faith to faith.

Don't be afraid that your faith is small. Even faith the size of a mustard seed can grow into a towering tree. So you will find that people can experience God with just a little bit of faith. After experiencing God, the faith becomes a little more, and one mustard seed becomes two. Then the faith the size of two mustard seeds experiences the effects brought by two mustard seeds, and then the two mustard seeds become four. If it becomes forty or four hundred, it will be amazing. The faith will grow exponentially.

So Abraham's faith is a growing faith, from faith to faith! If it is based on behavior, you have to do well enough to get it. But what if people don't do well at the beginning? Then they are stuck. But with Abraham's faith, going to Canaan, God can continue to guide you. Have that faith to go down to Egypt, even if it's just a little bit of faith, it doesn't matter.

At that time, Abraham's faith was also very small. He went to Egypt and came back. Although he had many problems, he was on the path of growing in faith. I thank God that our God does not ask us to have great faith from the beginning. At the beginning, we have nothing but faith the size of a mustard seed, and the rest is unbelief. Some people come up and say that you don't believe, and your faith is not big enough. Such a sentence completely discourages you. If there is such a situation, you don't have to be discouraged anymore. The faith of a mustard seed can move mountains. Starting from the faith of a mustard seed, it is a living faith. Imitate Abraham's faith. Faith grows little by little. It is an active faith.

Abraham would not suddenly jump to having so much faith that he would offer Isaac. I didn't suddenly have so much faith that I was filled with the Holy Spirit without measure. In the earliest days, I also experienced very difficult situations. A small illness would take two or three months to get over, which was especially difficult. So when you listen to my lectures, you will hear me say to persevere one minute more than the devil. That's how I persevered, and that's how everyone came through. In the beginning, it was really hard, but as time went on, the power of the Holy Spirit increased, and the faith became stronger and stronger. Now I often kill the devil in seconds.

My faith is still growing. One day in the future, it will definitely grow to be about the same as Jesus Christ. All the devils will be killed in seconds. How wonderful that will be. I calculated that if I can live to be a hundred years old, I can add forty years of experience in casting out demons. Coupled with the accumulation of these years, I will have more than fifty years of experience in casting out demons, more than fifty years of practicing Abraham's faith, more than fifty years of being filled with the Holy Spirit, and experiencing more than fifty years of miracles. In the future, in my vision, I saw that all of our brothers and sisters can kill the devil in seconds.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. (Mark 16:17-18)

Brothers and sisters, I am not afraid that your faith is small, not afraid that you are of the world, nor afraid that you are of the flesh, but I am afraid that you will stagnate and not grow. If you don't grow, you will be corrupted. Grow with me, and let's grow together in Jesus Christ. Someone says that his faith is small. That's okay; faith will grow. Someone else says that he is not good at casting out demons. That's okay too. As long as you have a victorious character, you can persevere until you can. Lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. If one press doesn't work, do a hundred. If a hundred don't work, do ten thousand. Little devil, retreat! Abraham's faith is such a growing faith.

If people measure faith by deeds, it will not grow. For example, serving a cancer patient requires him to have faith. If you demand him to act according to deeds, he will die before he can do it. But once he has faith, his faith can grow. A body full of illness came to Jesus, and he could do nothing but receive and be healed. So you and I must become miracle workers, and the God we believe in is a God of great power. But the problem is that if you have the wrong kind of faith, such as passive faith, it will be troublesome. Doing nothing but waiting for God will eventually turn you into a mummy.

Many people say that Abraham made a mistake by fathering Ishmael, and now Ishmael's descendants, the Arabs, are specifically against the Israelites. This is all Abraham's mistake of fathering Ishmael back then. But the Bible did not say that Ishmael's name was also given by God. At that time, God had told Abraham that Ishmael's descendants would also become a great nation. This was the result of Abraham's active and proactive faith in trying. Everyone, let's start to clean up again and not be influenced by this wrong kind of faith. Active faith is alive, and faith the size of a mustard seed is a living faith. If you plant a grain of rice, nothing will grow, but if you plant a mustard seed, it will grow seeds because the difference between living faith and dead faith is very large.

Today, many people have killed their faith, turning the mustard seed-sized faith into rice grain-sized faith. Even if it looks much larger than a mustard seed, it is still cooked and dead faith. Be proactive and no longer have passive faith. Some people only believe when they see things accomplished, and they don't believe when they don't see things accomplished. That's not called faith. A person holding a dime makes himself believe that it is a dime; holding a dollar to believe that it is a dollar; a person holding a red hundred-yuan Renminbi, believes that it is a hundred yuan, that is called a brain problem, those original things do not need your belief at all.

Strive to Enter Perfection

When you first met Jesus, God's word entered you and became a seed. But looking at you, you look like a ghost, the kind of person who is neither human nor ghost, that is because it has not yet grown to the stature of Jesus Christ. Everyone, look in the mirror, in our Northeast dialect, don't you take a piss and look at yourself, a toad wants to eat swan meat, and still wants to be like Jesus? My answer is, what if I want to be like Jesus? Piss you off. So striving to enter perfection is the faith of the Apostle Paul.

Striving to enter perfection is good news, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of growth, the gospel of Jesus Christ is a process from not being like Jesus to being like Jesus, which is endless. Knowing God is endless, knowing God's truth is endless, becoming more and more like God is endless, putting to death our flesh is endless, striving is endless, and constantly renewing and changing is endless. Fortunately, the gospel of God is like this, if the gospel of God is not zero or one, then it will be troublesome, people are like a little bird, never can fly high. Although I am a little bird, but in my bones I am an eagle, and in the future I will definitely grow into an eagle. We constantly renew and change, today we know a little about God's word, and tomorrow we will know more. Following God's word, doing a little today, doing a little tomorrow, will become more and more, which is a process of continuous growth.

A pastor I had known for many years, but had not contacted for a long time, came to me. He suddenly realized that I was the founder of the Chinese Mingding Doctrine. He said that I was hiding very deeply, and many people were asking who the founder of the Chinese Mingding Doctrine was. When he found out it was me, he couldn't believe it. In fact, although I am small, my heart is not small. He said that many people used to question whether the Chinese Mingding Doctrine was a heresy. After investigation, they said it was not a heresy, but it was a bit extreme, extreme in striving to enter perfection, and extreme in doing God's word. You must know that doing God's word cannot be mixed, because mixing will not work. Those who are just drifting along among us, I can make you uncomfortable, I definitely have tricks to make people uncomfortable. My extreme is to be determined to be a disciple and elite soldier of Jesus Christ, to be determined to do God's word and strive to pursue perfection. Although today is not perfect enough, we will never retreat. Training God's army must be ruthless.

The reason why people believe in the wrong gospel, and the wrong gospel has such a big market, is because there is no need to pay a price. After believing in the Lord, they think that once saved, always saved, and they don't need to care about anything. They can do whatever they want. One day, suddenly, the ox-headed and horse-faced demons appear on their left and right, and it is too late to find their pastor at that time. They don't even know they have been fooled. Some people say that he has made a decision, but who knows what a decision is.

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to perfection, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, (Hebrews 6:1)

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, (Ephesians 4:13)

The gospel of the Apostle Paul is to leave the elementary doctrine of Christ, strive to enter perfection, and grow to the stature of the fullness of Jesus Christ. Those who firmly believe that once saved, always saved, are because people like to hear such simple and pleasing answers. For example, someone comes and asks me if he can go to heaven after he dies like this. If I give him a better answer, I would still say it's unlikely. But if you ask another pastor, the answer is definitely that you can definitely go.

But ask you now, if your child is taking a university entrance exam, would you give him a guarantee and tell him that he will definitely pass without spending time studying? The result will definitely be a mess in the exam, because he usually plays. You will definitely encourage your child to strive to pursue perfection, and get as many points as possible. Then why do things start to go wrong when it comes to believing in the Lord Jesus? Is Jesus here to collect garbage? Such faith will be taken to Lao Ma's place. Pastors who cater to the flesh easily shepherd a group of Christians who cater to the flesh. The church itself has no requirements for itself, and it has not been able to create anything out of a website after dragging it on for three years.

The Chinese Mingding Doctrine will not only strive to pursue perfection in the future, but also constantly renew and change. At the same time, not only in spiritual matters is this the standard, but in doing serious things is also required. If you are an accountant, you must think about becoming a chief financial officer in the future. You must be serious in doing things. If you don't know how to do it, I can find someone to train you. Be a top programmer as a programmer; be a top student as a student, of course, not by rolling, not by competing and comparing, but by constantly renewing yourself, because God's will is so. I hope that our brothers and sisters, not only constantly pursue and grow in spiritual things, but also constantly grow in skills. No matter what you do, God is with you. Herding sheep better than Jacob, and digging wells better than Isaac. I hope that brothers and sisters can have such a vision. Many wrong gospels give up when they encounter obstacles, with an attitude of it's okay if it doesn't work. That cannot be called faith.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. (Philippians 3:12)

The wrong gospel can make people very lazy. Thinking of entrusting everything to God, and then you can do nothing. In the end, you can't do anything, and nothing works. Then what will you do in the future? The wrong theological system brings only laziness, so I especially hate that lazy saying, saying that everything is entrusted. God entrusted you with this matter, and then you entrust this matter back to God, and then God entrusts it to you again... Isn't this kicking the ball? Thinking that any results can be blamed on God, originally it was God who asked you to do it, but you entrusted it to God and let God do it, then what do you need to do? In the end, entrusting it back and forth will entrust yourself to the devil.

Later, someone gave this conclusion to this kind of lazy person, that they want to do everything well at once, without a concept of growth, and don't want to do serious things, just want to take shortcuts, and the ending is tragic. Our God is not such a God, God wants us to strive to enter perfection, strive to pursue! Everyone must clearly know that striving is a kind of enjoyment, and striving brings real joy in every breakthrough and growth. Think about how long you haven't grown? People who come to the Chinese Mingding Doctrine will definitely grow, at least they write more than before. Everyone will definitely be blessed financially, because you work more seriously than before, and naturally you do things better than before.

I told some entrepreneurs that our church has done what their human resources department should have done for many brothers and sisters in their companies. The company originally trained you to become a human resource, not a human liability. But the church has trained you all well, because it has been trained to strive to enter perfection. Jesus Christ is definitely not a lazy person or a beggar, he is a carpenter, a builder! So if you want to build the church with me, you must constantly walk on this road, and walk happily. People cannot be unhappy when they grow.

I hope that brothers and sisters will all get an O from now on, which means director. If you are a president, you are called CEO; information director is called CIO, financial director is CFO, and marketing director is called CMO. If you are a technology director in charge of technology, that is called CTO. People in Jack Ma's team said that when they followed Jack Ma, they didn't expect to have today. All along, these people have been learning as they walked with him, and today they have all become an O. And some people have become OMG, which means Oh, MY God! That is because they cannot strive to pursue and cannot strive to enter perfection, and in the end, they are only left with OMG.

Not of This World

The gospel of the Apostle Paul is not to transform this world. If someone preaches a gospel of transforming the world, wanting to transform the government, the government will arrest you; transforming education, their own education cannot be done well, those are all smoggy things. Christians must know that they do not belong to this world. Building God's glorious church is our responsibility, and shepherding God's people is our job, it is to bring God's people into God's kingdom. This is the command that Jesus Christ gave us. Not to be together with this world in this world. Some people mix the things of this world into faith, and that is bad.

Many Christians are enthusiastic about politics, and after being enthusiastic for a long time, they don't know that they have made a mistake, and they continue to make mistakes with all their heart. One year I went to Taiwan to minister, and Taiwan was running for election at that time, and it was like a carnival, so lively. Many churches in Taiwan, temples, and other various religious forces, including Buddhists and Taoists, formed a political party to participate in the election. As a result, they were not elected, and they were still striving to pray for them to be elected. I was very surprised that there was such a party, called Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, or Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism? Christ, Sakyamuni and Lao Tzu came together, the temples desperately worshiped, the churches desperately prayed, just hoping that their political party could be elected to manage the country.

Brothers and sisters, don't get involved in this, we just want to be good citizens. Because our country is not in this world at all, this is passed down from Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ does not participate in politics at all, and the Apostle Paul does not participate in politics either. Now some Christians are particularly enthusiastic about influencing government policies. If you want to do this, I want to tell you that is nonsense! Our country is the kingdom of heaven, and we are citizens of the kingdom of heaven. Many people don't understand, but the reason is very simple, Christianity became corrupt when it became the state religion of the Roman Empire. It was not the church that transformed the government, but the government that transformed the church and corrupted the church, because the church cannot participate in politics. Participating in politics is called belonging to the world, which is Lao Ma's logic system.

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14)

This world has nothing in me, let the worldly values, or the values in us, be gone! What belongs to Lao Ma belongs to Lao Ma, and what belongs to God belongs to God, and has nothing to do with the politics of this world. Today, if you still have a worldly logic system in you, you must abandon it. I thank God that the Chinese Mingding Doctrine still holds to this day, the Chinese Mingding Doctrine does not belong to this world, does not participate in this world. Although we strive to pursue, strive to enter perfection, strive to do serious things, not looking for trouble or causing trouble, but we do not influence the system of this world, because the Chinese Mingding Doctrine has inherited the theological system of the Apostle Paul. If the Apostle Paul were still alive at that time, he would not have participated in the Roman state religion. In the Chinese Mingding Doctrine, the customs of this life and this world must not have any place to take root.

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me. (John 14:30)

Once I went to a training session, and the testimony given by a teacher at a seminary on the stage made my jaw drop. He said that his grandmother was a devout Buddhist, and he respected his grandmother's faith, and he felt that his grandmother went to heaven after she died. This has become a joke, but there are many similar strange things, such as many churches teaching people how to visit graves. There are also churches that teach their members a lot of things in this world, such as how to please people. But the Chinese Mingding Doctrine does not do these things, this world has nothing in me.

Some people say that the spiritual atmosphere here is not good just because the government recently approved homosexuality. This has nothing to do with the spiritual atmosphere, those are all worldly things of this life. Another example is children taking school exams, which school to go to, and many other things that carry a worldly logic system. Today, what we are pursuing is the glory in eternity, this momentary and light affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, this is the gospel of the Apostle Paul.

Let me summarize again, the victorious church, the great power of the Holy Spirit, the faith of Abraham, striving to enter perfection, and finally not belonging to this world. I think maybe I haven't made it clear, if the Apostle Paul pushes down with such a system, there are still many things. I encourage brothers and sisters to have hope, because the gospel that our God has given us is a gospel of hope. We must grow little by little, and may God accept us, and may God's glory be manifested through the Chinese Mingding Doctrine and fill this land.

I think the Chinese Mingding Doctrine will have a very profound impact on future generations. If we live long enough, we can see the shock that the Chinese Mingding Doctrine brings to this generation. Everyone sees and knows that there is God's presence and God's glory in this place, what a wonderful testimony that is.

May God bless everyone!