Today's Topic: Now is the Accepted Time!

Could we make sure the microphones are ready today, so everyone can answer my questions? Typing is also fine! Are you ready? Good! Please participate enthusiastically! If no one participates, I might shed tears! Don't make me cry! I'll start asking questions:

Do you think a person with a broad vision lives a better life, or someone with a narrow perspective? You need to answer Yes/No, and also explain why. (Good answer!) Of course, someone with a broad vision lives better! Naturally, if you want to argue with me, some with ostensibly broad visions don't live well because their vision is fake. Inside, they are still narrow-minded, just good at boasting. I'll ask another question, do you think someone with a generous heart lives a better life, or someone with a narrow heart? (Good answer!) Of course, someone with a generous heart lives better. There's a reason for this.

Actually, people's problems are not from the outside, but from within. The external problem is still the same, so why does it seem different? The size of the problem is relative. To a narrow-minded person, even trivial matters are huge problems. To a broad-minded person, mountain-sized problems are just trivialities. The issue is whether you are big enough inside. So, the entangled netizens summarized it in one sentence: I am not strong enough inside. This is the truth! People really are not strong enough inside!

The church is the place to make you strong inside! Because the church brings you into a completely different level! When you stand in a high place and look, of course, the problem becomes smaller!

For a person, love and work are just matters of decades. If you are filled with eternity and eternal life, those things are only 0.000001% of the problem. But if you're only filled with the anxieties of this life, then it occupies 30-40% of your life. Of course, it's a big deal. When problems arise, they are significant. Whether your eyes see eternity or this life determines your sense of happiness! Otherwise, let's try it. For example, if you have problems at work, encounter suffering, then you pretend to act like Joseph, act like David, act like Jacob, and you'll feel better. The problem is that after the performance, the problem returns. When the perspective changes, the problem becomes larger.

A few days ago, a sad news shocked me for a long time. A college student committed suicide by jumping off a building. PL sister's classmate jumped, XM brother's roommate jumped, and before that, another sister's roommate also jumped. A few years ago, Foxconn had a series of suicides.

Why jump? I've done some research on this. Because the thing they valued most had a problem. The theory of relativity wasn't handled well, the problem was bigger than themselves, so they jumped.

I'll teach you a method. When you encounter a very conflicted person, don't try to solve their problem for them. Play the theory of relativity with them. Either find someone more miserable than them and compare them down! Or take them outdoors, look at the stars in the sky, look at the Milky Way! The problem immediately becomes smaller. But this is only relatively small for a while. You need to bring them into eternity, and that will completely solve their problem. Mountain-sized problems immediately become trivialities!

The university student in Singapore was very talented. Problems at work, coupled with a breakup with his girlfriend after a 9-year relationship. Unable to withstand the blow, he jumped, because that was his purpose in life! Your purpose in life can kill you! Actually, this child was a talented child, studying law. He once performed in a durian shell performance in Singapore! I even watched the video of his performance!

I found that talent cannot stop suicide. The problem lies in the fact that people have not grasped the essence of life! The essence of life lies in the hope of eternal life! Without the hope of eternal life, people will often be disappointed. When disappointed to the extreme, they will melt into the blue sky! Actually, it's not the blue sky, it's hell! But no one will come back to tell you.

Brothers and sisters, eternal life is not empty, eternal life is real! I can prove it to you! The previous testimonies are clear evidence.

Be careful of things that cannot be proven. The God we believe in is the living God!

Today I will share with you a topic: Now is the Accepted Time.

Let's look at today's scripture.

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-2

2Co 6:1 And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain— 2Co 6:2 for He says, “At the acceptable time I listened to you, And on the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation.”

(Receiving grace in vain, taking on the ministry of reconciliation, that is truly being reconciled to God, this is an opportunity, don't wait until the opportunity is gone, this is the age of grace.)

I thank God that we are experiencing God's acceptance of us!

In recent months, the church has been undergoing a wonderful change! The testimonies of the past few months far exceed those of the past few years! God is beginning to manifest Himself clearly! It turns out that God's presence can be seen! God is accepting our service! I would like to briefly summarize some changes:

• Everyone can do healing and deliverance!

Just keep praying with us, keep receiving, without any so-called training in healing and deliverance, praying for the sick, and the sick get well! Not those who have believed for a long time, but those who have just believed, some for only a few months! The testimonies are endless!

This morning, a sister with an embarrassing illness, Brother Junxiu among us prayed, and was filled with the Holy Spirit, praying in tongues, full of joy!

• The leaders of the church have an unprecedented unity. Every brother and sister pays the price, everyone goes to bed very late, but they are not tired!

• Brothers and sisters spontaneously begin to pray, a lot of prayer. Our group used to be open four or five times a week. Now it's open every day, there's always someone praying inside! The earliest is 4 am, the latest is 3 am! The speed of life transformation has greatly increased! Healing, deliverance, and casting out demons happen naturally! Released all at once!

I am very surprised by what I have experienced! This seems to be the time described by Paul when he was accepted by God! In the early church, how God worked with Paul! Paul's handkerchief, when dropped on someone, they were healed! That was truly a moment of being accepted by God! This is what I have longed for for many years! I really thank God!

In fact, many years ago, God revealed to me, when I was serving the hardest, the Spirit of God comforted me: what was given to Paul has been given to me. Today it seems to be true. I said at the time, God, that's great, but don't give me Paul's suffering. God didn't pay attention to that.

I carry the manner of Paul's ministry. Our service is also what Paul hoped for…

Our church is strictly implementing Paul's teachings.

Our service is becoming more and more like Paul's:

• Great power

• Accumulation of text

• Systematic belief system

• Great dedication

Even being mad for God is similar!

Being Mad for God, Living for God (2 Corinthians 5:13)

Although Paul was a man of letters, his way of living mad for the Lord inspires my service every day! That is a service that lays down life!

2Co 5:13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 2Co 5:14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; 2Co 5:15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. (God's love motivates us to live for the Lord).

You know why? The Apostle Paul in the Bible did not believe in the Lord Jesus at first, and went everywhere to arrest Christians and persecute them. As a result, one day, the Lord Jesus personally appeared to him, a great light shone on him, and spoke to him. From then on, he began to follow the Lord Jesus! Not only follow, but also willing to lay down his life! Being mad for God, personally experiencing what it is like to be accepted by God! That is an unreserved way of believing in the Lord!

If you have experienced God and know Him, may you, like Paul, be mad for God! Hold nothing back, offer yourself completely, that is an exhilarating way to live! That is a way to live that is pleasing to God! That is a new creation! As a result, you will perform many miracles, establish a glorious church, and influence the church history of the past 2000 years!

Why does God favor us so much? Why does God manifest His glory so much in our midst? Why are those who cannot be freed, freed when they come among us? It is the result of our madness for God! Such madness is the result of complete dedication! This is what pleases God! This is indeed the day of acceptance!

God dislikes lukewarmness the most! God wants us to become new creations!

2Co 5:16 Therefore from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 2Co 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Paul's madness is not without reason, it is because he is a new creation. We were originally destined to die, but now we have received grace and become new creations! (In Christ, as a new creation, our destiny is new, and our Mingding Destiny is also new.)

What does this new creation do?

2Co 5:18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 2Co 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

(God's will is to save us from sin, to be reconciled to God, and to be separated from sin.)

2Co 5:20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 2Co 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

(We implore you to be reconciled to God, on behalf of Christ, to receive grace.)

What the Apostle Paul hoped for was a group of people like us! To serve with zeal, to serve at a cost, to bless this generation.

I encourage everyone to start being mad for God and to constantly expand God's kingdom!

Do not imitate the people of the Corinthian church – being lukewarm, believing in the Lord, yet still resembling unbelievers! Being narrow-minded, calculating what they give, Paul was extremely saddened. Facing the Corinthian church, selfish, associating with unbelievers, being contaminated by the bad habits of unbelievers, being shortsighted, only caring about this life, Paul lamented. 1Co 15:19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

Receiving grace in vain is not God's will, being a blessing to others is!

God has bestowed many blessings upon us! Healing from illness, work, life, in all aspects we see God's grace. But is that God's will for us? No. Receiving grace in vain – you have not invested anything, yet you receive grace. If you invest, what great grace that would be!

There is a foolish person, like someone who sees a gold mine, takes a small piece of gold, and runs away, not knowing to continue digging! If you are a wise person, seeing this time when God accepts us, you should be awakened and serve boldly, not receiving His grace in vain, but sharing the grace! Because this is precisely the time of acceptance!

When Paul saw those who had experienced God, received many blessings and grace, and then still lived in the old value system, only living for this life, being narrow-minded, Paul wrote 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians. Paul was anxious looking at these people. How do they not know the way to eternal life! How do they not know that if we believe in the Lord, we will receive many blessings, and if we are willing not to receive grace in vain, willing to enter into the mission, serving that generation, inheriting the blessing of Abraham, would not grace abound even more?

Acceptance – a very deep meaning (If you do well, will you not be accepted?)

Serving God, is not a loss (The attitude of serving)

Your hope - this life, or eternal life? (The motivation and perspective of serving)

Missionaries – We also receive today. If not for the shedding of blood and sacrifice of Western missionaries hundreds of years ago, we would not be able to receive this blessing today! Hudson Taylor (1832) – If I had a thousand lives, I would not leave one unspent for China! If I had a thousand pounds, I would not leave a penny unspent for China! (The founder of the China Inland Mission). As a result, Hudson Taylor, a British man, for China, was mad for God and gave his life!

Receiving grace in vain is small, bestowing grace is great! God clearly shows us that serving this generation is a great blessing!

I know we were born for this, we came into the world for this!

Today, seeing brothers and sisters blessed, I am so grateful! When I see brothers and sisters all dedicating themselves to God's kingdom, I am even more grateful! I know we were born for this, we came into the world for this!

God needs co-workers, the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few!

Brothers and sisters, God longs to share His glory with us! To share His victory! It is not that He cannot do anything without us. It is because God wants us to work with Him, to share His glory!

Look at the world today, how many people need the gospel! In the past, a foreigner, a British man, Hudson Taylor, how many people

Why people live is a very important question. If this question is not answered well, your life cannot withstand impact! If a person lives for love, they will lose their life when they lose love. If a person lives for work, they will lose their life when they lose work. If a person lives for the eternal God, you will lose nothing! Because God is an unchanging God, living for God will never disappoint.

Today, we are in a rapidly changing generation! It is also the generation with the most rampant mental illness. It is all because people cling tightly to those rapidly changing things, and are often dazzled and dazed by this generation. Only when your eyes are fixed on the distance can you see clearly! It is like a person sitting on a high-speed train, if you look at what is near, you cannot see anything clearly, but if you focus on the distance, things become much clearer!

I have recently been teaching everyone how to make plans and reports. I have found that without a long-term goal, it is difficult to make short-term plans. Without short-term opportunities, it is difficult to make plans for tomorrow. If a person wants to live well, they must see what it will be like in 10 or 20 years. To see clearly in 10 or 20 years, you must see clearly what it will be like in 60-70 years. To see clearly in 60-70 years, you must see clearly what it is like in eternity! That is to say, a person without the concept of eternal life lives in illusion every day!

Why do people jump off buildings? It is because they do not have a longer-term goal that transcends this life! Therefore, if a person only has hope in this life, it is a very pitiful thing! Brothers and sisters, I am doing my best to push you into the concept of eternal life, not to harm you, but to let you know that it is the key to solving your problems in this life!

Seeing a talented person commit suicide by jumping off a building is the desolation of life!

Revival throughout the land, to inherit desolate places as an inheritance

To act in due season. To see what God is doing

The change in our church's model is not just a change in model, but also a qualitative change.

Missionary work has become an organic part of our church!

Isa 49:8 This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people— to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,

Desolate places need revival

Conclusion – Seize the opportunity, this is precisely the time of acceptance!

Do you say this is far-sighted? Is your heart broad? Start serving, do not receive grace in vain! This is an opportunity! This is precisely the time when God accepts us!