【2018 Bible Study Recording】

As the saying goes, Stand tall, see far. I would like to ask, do you choose to be an eagle with keen eyes and soaring wings, or a small sparrow with short-sightedness, fluttering at a lower level? In fact, it all depends on your personal choice. The wise will choose to live for God, while the foolish only think about living for seventy or eighty years in this world.

How we live will ultimately be judged by God. Why is it that in the last days, those who are not sealed will resurrect and reign with Jesus Christ for a thousand years in the first resurrection? And after God imprisons Satan for a thousand years, He releases it to deceive the masses again? What exactly is this first death and second death all about? What exactly is the sealing and not sealing all about? Why would God go to so much trouble, spending a thousand years to make the dead die again?

Let us delve into Revelation chapter 20 with these questions. Can we discern God's intention from this chapter, and can we become treasures in God's eyes? Do not only focus on the seventy or eighty years we live, because becoming a person with Mingding Destiny is the key, because there is no blessing outside of Mingding Destiny. Should we become such people?

Revelation chapter 20 speaks of a very important concept – judgment. Do you think that if a person lives a small life every day, doing everything decently, will they go to heaven? Or will they be in the lake of fire and brimstone? Or will they reign with Jesus Christ? This is a very confusing question. Does this person have the mark of the beast? That is, will he worship the beast and its image? Today, you must have a clear understanding of this. We must constantly ask ourselves: Do we have this mark on us? And how do we know if we have this mark?

Learn to See Short-Term and Long-Term Interests

We must know both the short-term and long-term interests when we look at things. When we face life and death, what kind of choice do you make? For example, Jesus said: Give your life for me. But no, I still have a wife and children. If you are told: If you do not worship this beast and its image, I will take your life. What kind of choice should you make? If we value the short-term interests, that is, the interests of living for seventy or eighty years, you will worship the beast and its image.

If Christians do not have the concept of eternal life and still live in the logic system of this life, they will live in great confusion. Similarly, without the concept of judgment, they will also live in great confusion. Take work as an example, working all the time, from the beginning of the year to the end, without evaluation, not knowing how well you are doing, and without rewards and punishments, living like this for a lifetime. What do you think will happen? If students never take exams, will they study hard? If there is no year-end evaluation for work, people will not work hard, because everyone is the same, whether they do well or not. There will surely be judgment in these last days. Should you live with a heart that fears God?

We Should All Fear God

In this generation, there are countless people who do not fear God. Why do some people keep and follow God's word? Because they fear God. Today, it is not surprising that people who go to church on Sunday or preach on the pulpit have the mark of the beast. When Jesus came into the world, the Pharisees worshiped in the temple every day, and the scribes also prayed, worshiped, and sacrificed, doing everything. So why did Jesus say they were a brood of vipers? Because they had the mark of the beast. What exactly were they thinking in their hearts? We have also read Deuteronomy:

Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. (Deuteronomy 28:47-48)

Even when the Israelites reached the point of national subjugation, they were still offering sacrifices in the temple. The most ridiculous thing was that when the nation was about to fall, their king asked a prophet to calculate and see what the Lord God was saying. For nearly a hundred years before the fall of Israel and Judah, many prophets were warning them. So why didn't they believe? They just couldn't believe. Just like Joshua said:

You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. (Joshua 24:19)

Today, how many people want to serve the Lord God because God helped them in times of trouble, saved them in times of crisis, gave them a job when they had no work, and healed them when they were sick. Can these people serve? No, they cannot. Because when it conflicts with your life, you will definitely choose to live a small life. They do not know that there is a lake of fire and brimstone prepared there for many people, that your name is not written in the Book of Life, or that you will worship the beast and its image when you encounter challenges. What exactly are you living for?

Today, our church is a church with very high standards. I have been struggling with one thing: can I lower the standards a bit? If I lower the standards, those people will not leave. I pondered over it, and struggled: either demand everyone according to God's word, or demand everyone with a compromising attitude. But no matter what, what you are living for is a matter of life and death.

Last night I met a patient with depression, who had been suffering from the disease for seven or eight years, and it was painful to see how they were living. I asked him: If God wants your life, would you give it to Him? He said: I don't want to, I will be like Jonah. I said: If you are like Jonah, you will not repent in the belly of the big fish, and you will be eaten by the big fish and spit out again. How disgusting that would be! If a person lives with depression and still wants to escape God's Mingding Destiny for him, how can he live? I don't have depression, and I feel that living is meaningless, but he has depression and thinks that living is very interesting. That's so strange!

The Meaning of Life

Today, brothers and sisters, whether you have just believed in the Lord or have believed for a long time, you must know one thing for sure. If you live and then die, you will be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, and you will undergo the torment of electric shock and chemotherapy. You must remember this sentence in your heart: I live to serve God, to give my life, and I will definitely serve the Lord my God, because I live to serve Him.

I tell you, you can serve this holy God, this jealous God. A person with such a heart will not put all his hope in this world. If Christians still put their hope in this world, then they are more miserable than the people in this world. It is very miserable if a Christian cannot be a victorious Christian. God is not pleased with you, and the demons do not like you. God also sends demons to mess with you.

The Kingdom of Judah was destroyed by Babylon, and the Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Assyria. Those who do not believe in God destroyed the kingdoms that believed in God. Don't you think it's strange? It is clearly stated in the Book of Judges that whenever you want to live a small life, someone will bully you. Don't think that curses will grow in a day. You will eventually reap the curses you sow. God does not allow curses to grow immediately, but to test whether you believe in God's word and whether you treat God's word with a heart that fears God.

Singapore has a strong atmosphere of small-life living. I called them: some said they were going to travel, some were going to a retreat. A few days ago, I saw a lot of photos of outings in the group. I brought my team to Singapore and invited a sister to participate in prayer, but she said she had to work and would not have time for a while because she was going to travel abroad.

Should we have a firm attitude in serving the Lord God? Have we seen the desolate state of this generation? From the first time I went to the church in Singapore, I felt that this was a spiritually desolate place, full of eating, drinking, and having fun. Reading Rick Joyner's books is like having a carnival in the rear. But can this lifestyle of Christians solve any problems? When Israel was destroyed, they also believed in God and offered sacrifices. But God sent Babylon to destroy them, because the way they served God did not have the substance of believing in God.

Today, the value system of the world makes us worship the image of the beast, only looking at the near and not the far. If you look at the far, can you see the first resurrection and the second death? If you can see it, you will not say that you do not want Mingding Destiny. We all have an account in our hearts, a value system, and we are very clear about how much things weigh.

Some people think that the boss at work comes first, and God is always last. There is no blessing outside of Mingding Destiny. Can a person without Mingding Destiny really live well? If people see far enough, they will not ask such questions. Are we willing to live for God today? If we are willing to live for God, we will keep and follow God's word. Some people manage their families and work very well, but that doesn't prove anything. Some people are willing to give everything for God, but they have suffered a lot. Are you willing to give your life for God?

Jesus Christ's Standards Have Never Been Lowered

Why is it that the ancient serpent is not captured until Revelation chapter 20? In fact, the devil also has its Mingding Destiny. It throws those who belong to it, those who can be marked with its mark, into the lake of fire and brimstone. That is to say, it is a garbage collector. Are you garbage? Look at the value system inside you. If you are garbage, you will be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone. At this time, the devil is captured. The first group of people to be resurrected are those who have completely given their lives for God. Although we don't know what happened during the thousand years, we know that many people will rise up in rebellion after the thousand years.

Jesus Christ reigns for a thousand years, and the most confusing thing is that the devil is released again, and these devils rise up to surround the camp of the saints. When Jesus reigns on earth, He rules this generation with an iron rod. Jesus' standards have never been lowered. Most of the things He did on earth were disapproved by people.

Everyone is confused because Jesus did many things that did not conform to human reason. That is to say, the human reason in your mind belongs to Satan, and the divine reason belongs to God. The Bible says: If someone strikes you on the left cheek, offer them your right cheek also. Is this reasonable? According to human methods, it cannot be understood at all.

Today, in the church or at work, if you emphasize whether the human logic system is reasonable, you are probably one of those who will rise up to attack the saints after the thousand years. God's word does not sound like a reasonable word, but God's word is still God's word. As a result, those who rise up to attack the saints and the beloved city are consumed by fire from heaven. How unlucky! Jesus Christ reigns on earth for a thousand years, and they don't even know what the gospel is, and they still don't know who God is.

When the Pharisees were high priests on earth, it was understandable that they did not recognize Jesus when He came into the world. But Jesus reigns on earth for a thousand years, and you can understand that He reigns for a thousand years, and those who reign with Him are resurrected from the dead, but the people on earth still do not believe, and still do not know that He is Jesus Christ, and still do not know that He is the King! What will the end be? Fire will come down from heaven and consume them.

What People Think Is Reasonable Is Not God's Word

I want to tell everyone one thing: do not look at things according to human logic. During these thousand years, Jesus Christ and His saints, who reign with Him, will manage all things on earth not according to human reason, but according to God's reason. It is very dangerous if people always have human reason in their minds. Therefore, today, brothers and sisters, begin to spread the truth of Jesus Christ, no longer spreading what conforms to human reason. What conforms to human reason can only push people into the lake of fire and brimstone. What conforms to the reason of Jesus Christ is the key.

If we know such a result, what does it matter even if God's word does not sound reasonable at all! We still keep and follow it. Is it really reasonable for you to listen to God's word? If you cannot leave your wife, children, fields, houses, and work for the sake of Jesus Christ, you are not worthy to be Jesus Christ's disciple. When you hear this, you say: God! I cannot manage my own family well. Can I manage your kingdom well? You see, your reason seems more logical than God's word.

Now there are still a lot of pastors who are organizing marriage retreats, but I have not seen Moses organize marriage retreats in the Bible, nor have I seen Jesus organize marriage retreats. What are they doing? In this place, many people are talking about family first. Is that God's word? If you value family more than God, it sounds reasonable, but God's word says that if you leave this and leave that for the sake of Jesus Christ. As a result, you still say: If I leave my children, can they live?

You see, your reason seems more reasonable, and I also think it is very reasonable, but that is not the reason of Jesus Christ, is it? Today, brothers and sisters must know for sure that judging according to what is reasonable and unreasonable is identifying good and evil.

Jesus said, “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. (Mark 10:29-30)

Therefore, we must be precious vessels and become treasures in God's eyes. Today we must begin to understand why it is like this? Jesus Christ reigns for a thousand years, and the earth is full of people attacking Jesus Christ like sand on the seashore. So what exactly is God going to do? Before Satan is bound for a thousand years, God uses Satan to deceive the people of the world and sift out the garbage. After that thousand years, God will sift through the garbage again and send the garbage back to the devil's place, throwing it into the lake of fire and brimstone, which is like throwing it into a garbage incinerator. Do you want to be garbage or a treasure in God's eyes? Are you going to be a noble vessel or a lowly vessel? If you live for yourself, you are a lowly vessel; if you live for God, you are a noble vessel.

Why do we come into this world? Is it to live for work? No! If you lose your job, do you still want to live? Isn't it? Many people live and then end their lives in this world, and then comes the second death. People whose names are not recorded in the Book of Life, who have the mark of the beast on their bodies, and who worship the beast and its image and have received their mark on their bodies, may be able to survive for three and a half years by living in a perfunctory way when the Antichrist reigns. But when God's wrath is revealed at that time, you will really be in a miserable state! The more you want to live well, the worse you will live. Some people say: Forget it! I see that other people are living very well, even better than you. I don't see it that way.

Can we look a little further? Can we see a little deeper? I see many non-believers living better than I do, enjoying themselves very well. Actually, I don't understand them either. Every family has its own problems to deal with. Let them deal with them slowly! But I believe that one day we will be judged for our deeds before people and before God! One day God will either reward us or judge us; either see us as precious vessels and receive us into His kingdom, or treat us as garbage and throw us into a garbage incinerator to be burned forever and ever!

Those With Mingding Destiny Surely Have God's Blessings

If our perspective today is merely on solving problems within these 70 or 80 years on earth, what can be resolved? Can worldly problems be solved? They cannot. Moreover, the problems after death are even more unsolvable. But if we know that we come into this world to live for God, we will become people with Mingding Destiny. Yesterday, sharing Mingding Destiny with someone suffering from depression was too difficult! He is definitely someone who lives for himself. Why do people often get tangled up? Because of discerning good and evil. Discerning good and evil to a severe degree leads to depression. Therefore, I believe there is no blessing outside of Mingding Destiny.

What determines whether a person lives well is not whether she has a job, has children, or lives a normal life. Whether a person lives well or not depends on the outcome. If the outcome is bad, such as undergoing chemotherapy and electrotherapy in the lake of fire and brimstone, then what is the point of enjoying all the delicacies in the world? But some people say they don't believe it. If you don't believe it, I can't help it. I haven't been to that place either, and I can't make you believe it. But one thing can be known for sure: if a person does not have Mingding Destiny in this world, they have no blessing. Without blessing, they will have a life of toil and trouble. Although we also toil and trouble, it is for the sake of God's kingdom. Their toil and trouble are for themselves. Who lives better?

If we, who live for God, are suddenly sold into slavery one day, or put in prison, not because we have committed any wrong but because we are wrongly accused, we can be like Joseph because we have Mingding Destiny within us! What can those without Mingding Destiny endure? Once they become slaves, they fall into utter despair. Because we have eternal hope within us, we have the hope of glory within us, we have an exceeding and eternal weight of glory within us. We belittle many problems in our earthly lives. What may be a painful matter in your eyes is but a momentary, light affliction in our hearts. That is to say, our ability to endure afflictions far exceeds that of those without eternal hope.

The feeling within us is like that of the Apostle Paul, though we are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; though we are struck down, yet not destroyed; and though we are in prison, we still rejoice. As written in the Book of Philippians, nothing and no one can deprive us of the eternal hope and eternal joy within us, because I live for God. The spiritual height at which we stand today determines our judgment of things. If our spiritual height is very low, you will see the daily necessities of life; but if you stand at a very high spiritual height, you will see the kingdom of God, you will see the souls weeping in darkness.

Becoming a Person With Mingding Destiny

Today, our church has a great Mingding Destiny: this Mingding Destiny allows us to live and die for it, to pay all the price for it. My colleagues often say to me: you are always so busy, when will it end? It is indeed tiring, very tiring! We have never settled down.

This morning, I had a strong feeling: originally, we are Abraham. Abraham is to walk across this land, moving tents everywhere. We are just living in tents in this world. We are not pursuing worldly wealth in this world; what we are pursuing is to become a blessing to many. We are not solving our own problems; we pay a heavy price for our vision, for our Mingding Destiny, for our dreams.

Is it hard? It is really hard! We are often floating and wandering, moving forward step by step. Next, we will go to Singapore, South Korea, and Canada. We really don't know when we can settle down. We also want to live a stable life, but it is really difficult to settle down. We also envy those people, but because of God, we desire to become a blessing to many.

We await the last rewards and the last judgment in Revelation 20, and we long to reign with Jesus Christ. Even if we endure momentary, light afflictions in this world, it doesn't matter, because we have an exceeding and eternal weight of glory within us. This hope is not empty; it is real. We clearly see God with us, and we see the people God blesses through our hands.

Recently, a large group of people suffering from depression have come to us. You know, people with depression in this world are very painful, and we can feel their pain when we communicate with them. If we live for ourselves, we don't need to get up before dawn and stay up late, we don't need to pray with tears often, and we don't need to wander around like homeless people, doing everything. But for God, seeing these people oppressed by the devil in this world, seeing these imprisoned souls, we think of those who are prisoners being freed from prison, those who are captives being released, and those who are oppressed being set free. That is our Mingding Destiny.

Now We Live, Not We, But Christ Jesus Lives Within Us

From now on, we must resolve that we will not allow the mark of the devil on our bodies, nor will we allow the worldly logic system on our bodies. From now on, it is no longer we who live, but Jesus Christ who lives within us.

In this world, we can strike down the enemy of the devil. No matter how difficult things are, they are but momentary, light afflictions. We must see through these things. The spiritual person sees through all things. The future outcome is as described in Revelation 20, seeing through at a glance. We see through the seventy or eighty years of a person's life. They toil and trouble, and we also toil and trouble, but our toil and trouble have an exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

God is with us and works with us. Wherever we go, we will become a blessing to that place. We take in those whom other churches cannot serve, just to be a blessing to them. Why can we release them from the dominion of the devil? Because we are all people who lay down our lives for Jesus.

Over the years, these full-time colleagues have followed me to this day. None of them has taken a day off, none of them has rested for a day, they are working hard every day, striving for the kingdom of God. They are hoping for what you cannot see with your eyes, what your eyes cannot see. Know that one day we will come before God and receive His reward. No reward is better than the first resurrection.

If we can wait for the Lord Jesus to come again in this world, we will meet Him in the sky; if we do not live to see Jesus come again in this world, we hope to share in the resurrection at His coming again. Blessed are these people, these people reign with Jesus Christ, these people never compromise in the worldly value system in this world. The devil has no effect on us, and we are willing to lay down our lives for Jesus Christ.

I once served a pastor who had hydrocephalus. He could not sleep well when he went to sleep, and he was very painful, so he hid in the room to rest. He thought that rest could solve his problem. Because another pastor I served saw the effectiveness of my service, he asked me to serve this pastor no matter what. It was not until I served him that I knew the root of the problem.

He said to me: We pastors are working hard every day. Our church's cell group leaders lead a cell group once a week and also come to the church for training once, and they also come to the church on Sundays. If this continues for a long time, their bodies will definitely not be able to bear it. He thought they could not bear it, this is his belief, which is why he got hydrocephalus. I said that you are a pastor of a large church, and I am a pastor of a small church, or even a micro-pastor of a micro-church, but there is one thing I do not agree with you, the smallest brothers and sisters in our church are more hardworking than the cell group leaders in your church! There are meetings every day from Monday to Sunday.

Once a pastor told me that if 20% of the people in a church attend the prayer meeting, the church will be revived. But today, everyone in our church attends the prayer meeting, not once a week, but many times a week. We do healing and deliverance every day, and we are constantly releasing oppressed souls. How do those who occasionally do deliverance serve? Their home is more important than God's church.

In the eyes of us, God's church is our life, we live for God, we come into this world for God. Not because of anything else, but because living really doesn't have much meaning. If you think your life is meaningful, you don't have to walk the path I walk. My life in this world has no meaning, no hope. God completely shattered my worldly dreams. I can have a good family, sons, and good brothers and sisters, but God completely shattered my worldly dreams through these environments. I am very grateful to God, I give up for God and give up, and in the end God will definitely give me incomparable glory.

Every time I see my brothers and sisters and my colleagues serving those with depression and those with very painful diseases, I thank God! My service style is revealed in them. One sister, my colleague, received someone who was dying. The person who was dying was lying on the sofa opposite me. I said to God, please don't let me welcome the first dead person. I was extremely afraid, we can't afford these things. If their family comes to sue us, we really don't know what to do. With the faith of dying that was in my heart towards God, I served this sister. Thank God! She is getting healthier day by day.

We often take great risks, and occasionally we are confused by these thoughts in our hearts, but we still thank God! If we have the faith that we will die anyway, there is nothing we cannot overcome. Paul said: Seemingly we have nothing, yet we possess everything. Anyway, one day we will reign with Christ Jesus, no need to worry and be afraid. Recently, a Frenchman urgently wanted to buy books from us, and later found that the postage was the same as the price of the books. I told my colleagues to give the books to them, and they only needed to pay the postage! How much we long for God's people all over the world to be prosperous, for our church to be prospered, and for more souls to be released!

Serving God Willingly

Rick Joyner's The Torch and the Sword is very well written, and I often feel touched by the scenes described in the book. In the end, everyone has a torch in their hearts, and I said in my heart, God, let the brothers and sisters in our church become people holding torches in their hands, illuminating the people in darkness.

In the process of serving, I see money as unimportant and don't care about money at all, but God has never failed us. I have verified one thing, people don't need money or relationships to live, they only need one thing, which is God. Building a church does not require money or people, but only one thing, which is to obtain God. Our brothers and sisters must have the same desire in their hearts as I do, to deeply desire to reign with Jesus Christ in the last days and the day of Jesus Christ's judgment, not because of anything else, but only because when you were in this world, you tied your head to your belt and completely devoted yourself to God!

Every time I talk about service, I often offend some pastors, because my service never rests. From my twenties to now, I rarely sleep before two in the morning. Before, it was for work, and later it was for service. Later, I found that many of our brothers and姐妹have not slept at two in the morning. Whenever someone calls, they answer.

There is a group where one of my colleagues serves a newcomer, and he said: Our church is a church that serves 24 hours a day. If you have any problems, come to the pastor at any time. People who serve in this way have to be rewarded. No one will get a hundredfold in this life and eternal life in the afterlife. I encourage you newcomers to follow the example as truthfully as possible! Devote yourselves to the glorious Mingding Destiny! Without Mingding Destiny, there is no blessing, and how can people live well without blessing? If you play tricks with God, God will also play tricks with you; if you are serious with God, God will also be serious with you. If you often take vacations when you serve people, God will also take vacations when you have something to do.

What kind of person to be is all our own choice. If our eyes are fixed on this world and we live in emptiness, what will we use to resist when danger comes? But God is often with us, wherever we are, God is with us and protects us. If everyone feels that they have seen through this world and seen through the mortal world, don't become monks, follow us to run this service path, become the Abraham of this generation, become the blessing of this era! All the nations on earth will be blessed because of us, we will walk all over this world, and wherever we go, the places we set our feet on will see the glory of God manifested.

May God bless everyone!