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[Sermon] Seeing Through Life and Death!

2017-12-10 14,401 Sermon

1. Introduction

Many amongst us are blessed because I have seen through life and death, and those I lead have also seen through life and death. Life and death, we have seen through all things in this world, thus becoming a blessing to many. I earnestly desire that every brother and sister among us can become a blessing to this generation. Standing at a spiritual height, and then looking at this world, we stand in eternity to view these seventy or eighty years of life. Therefore, we belittle our entire life, pursuing to become a vessel of honor, not a bag for money, but a bag for God. Our old wineskin must become a new wineskin. This treasure in earthen vessels, the surpassing power is from God, manifesting God's surpassing glory. When God makes us a blessing to many, God's glory is manifested through us. Therefore, brothers and sisters must belittle all things in our lives. The business you do is nothing. The moment one lies in a coffin at death, everything becomes a bubble, all becomes vanity.

Therefore, today we must know that man is not a dung beetle rolling a ball of dung all day long. If we could speak to a dung beetle, it would certainly think that rolling dung is a very noble thing, but it is actually a very boring thing, a very boring thing. If we desperately grab onto worldly things today, we are like dung beetles rolling dung, truly a very boring thing. Brothers and sisters, we must be vessels of honor, and we must have honorable thoughts and intentions. If our thoughts and intentions cannot change, still holding onto the dung beetle's mindset, what will be attracted?

Why have I been mentioning dung beetles lately? Because my mother recently suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and I am determined to release my mother from Alzheimer's. The methods I use are ruthless enough because I have seen through all things. My family and others may not understand because we stand at different heights. But the problem is that I finally drove out the evil spirit of the dung beetle, and my mother's thoughts and intentions have finally regained clarity. But the thoughts and intentions within her still need more adjustment because there are still many concepts of living for the sake of this life. However, she began to clench her fists yesterday, saying she must become a mighty warrior of God. Seeing this, I was very happy.

I saw that a person can come out of Alzheimer's, not because of cerebral atrophy at all, but because of the person's thoughts and intentions. A person's lifelong security is in God. Today, you may not imagine what it will be like in your twenties or fifties, or you may not imagine the days of Alzheimer's. When I see this situation, I feel extremely sad. Sometimes I speak a little harshly. Some people say they want to rest and have no time to serve. I will say: When you are lying in a coffin, you will have plenty of time to rest. This sounds harsh, but it is indeed the truth. When a person lies in a coffin, they rest forever. Our spirits must prosper. Today, at fifty years old, you may not imagine being paralyzed and needing care. Is the money you earn enough to solve this problem?

Therefore, let us make a transaction today: dedicate all your days of Alzheimer's and lying in bed to serving God. You will definitely have time. If we make such a transaction today, are you willing? I am willing. You all know that the next generation are all only children. Who will they raise? Will they take care of me? I am not enough to take care of them. I do not rely on anyone. I only rely on my God. Through my mother's matter, I truly recognized the essence of the spirit and saw through life and death. If you do not see through life and death, you cannot solve these problems. If you do not see through life and death, do not see through money, do not see through all things in this world, you will live in the logic system of a dung beetle. Confucius said: If you do not know life, how can you know death? This is a great fallacy. If a person cannot even see through death, how can they know how to live a good life?

If we cannot belittle the world, we cannot become a blessing to many. What exactly is living all about? What exactly is life and death all about? These are two logic systems. One is the logic system of this life, desperately grabbing in this life. Brothers and sisters, we must come out of the logic system of this life. The logic system of this life leads to all the behavioral logic systems of this life, which is the root of many problems. Why do people become corrupt? Because people want to live well, because they feel that they can only live well with money, so they desperately become greedy, putting themselves to death. This is very foolish.

Today, let us begin to come out of the logic system of this life and enter into the logic system of eternal life. God will reign in our lives and will withdraw from our lives because all these problems come from the spiritual realm. The logic system of the flesh lives one day less, with absolutely no hope, right? You ask me to return to the days without God. I do not know how to live. How wonderful are the days with God! Today, God has performed many miracles through my hands. Brothers and sisters, let us begin today to completely demolish the logic system within us. The system of eternal life is that living one day is more honorable, living one day is a day of becoming a blessing to others, living one day is a day of serving others. Then we will enter into eternity with the fruit of service, beginning to enjoy the noble glory that God has prepared for us since the foundation of the world.

Why do so many people experience God when they come among us? It is because there is a group of people who are willing to lay down their lives to serve God, because there is a group of people who have seen through life and death. When we transcend this logic system of this life and enter into eternity, you do not know how good this living is, envying those people to death. If you have not lived well in the past, it is because your past logic system was incorrect, unwilling to completely let go.

When we cross the line between life and death, we know the reality of the spiritual realm. In a moment of life and death, disasters happen in this world every day. When I was healing and delivering my mother, I asked that demon: Did you cause my sister's mental illness? The demon said it was him who did it. One day in a certain year, I pointed my finger at her, and she became like this.

I really want to take revenge. You caused my sister to have mental illness for more than thirty years and caused my mother to suffer a lot of pain. What is it that allows us to enter into this situation? It is the logic system of this life. My mother struggled constantly on the line between life and death, and then crossed the edge of life and death. The things of the spiritual realm were manifested before our eyes. The demon spoke directly to me, and the words were very terrifying, requiring repeated dealing with these things. This is the most exciting part of life, being able to take authority in the spiritual world and directly deal with demons. These demons said that as long as Teacher Liu is here, we will not come. Do you all also yearn to be such people? You must yearn to be such people.

I experienced many spiritual things when I was young. When I was young, I liked to play at my uncle's house. There were several children in my uncle's family who were gambling and playing cards during the Chinese New Year. One child always lost. He inserted two incense sticks on a grandfather clock and chanted. While chanting, he saw a person coming up with many little demons and reported their names, asking them to go and play cards with them. As a result, these four children did not want to go. As a result, these four little demons came up and grabbed these four children and left. That was something that happened in the spiritual realm. Someone entered the house and saw that all four children had fainted on the ground. Then they found a rural doctor to puncture the philtrum of these children with needles. After a while, they woke up and recounted what they had just experienced. They even wrote down the names of the little demons they had just seen. After checking, it turned out to be someone who had just died last year, a very young person. I have seen many such things since I was a child. If the spiritual realm is not real, then death is no different from pigs and sheep.

Do not think that you spend all your time on work and business every day. Do not say I did not tell you, you will be very tired when you are old because this is according to the old logic system, and you would not have lived well when you were younger.

2. Scripture

So when they met together, they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:6-11)

3. Prayer

Lord Jesus, subvert the worldly logic system within us, so that our lives can often experience Your power within You, and let our lives manifest Your glory because of You. May You let us know the reality of the spiritual realm, let us see through life and death, let us be able to wake up, serve You, and serve this generation. In Jesus' name, Amen!

4. A Faith That Subverts the Logic System of This Life

I was not among those five hundred people. I indeed did not see Jesus ascending on the clouds. What would those who saw Jesus ascend to heaven feel in their hearts?

So that is what humans are like!
So life is empty!
So the dead can be resurrected!

Two angels were saying, Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking into the sky? Because they were at a loss, because the past logic system was demolished, and their hearts were shaken. Only then did they know that Jesus was crucified, died, and buried for the sake of resurrection! So that is what resurrection is like! From then on, the logic system changed.

These five hundred people, from then on, laid down their lives for the Lord. Some were beheaded, some were crucified, some were sawn in half, and some were bitten to death by wild beasts. Why did they do this? Because these people had already seen through life and death. The concepts of life and death had been completely subverted in their minds. Therefore, they were no longer afraid of death. Death can no longer prevent us from being separated from God. When we are alive, our spirits are connected to God, so death is only the spirit leaving the body and being forever connected to God. Therefore, those who see through life and death are not afraid of death.

When Peter was still living in the logic system of this life, he did not want Jesus to die. But the Lord Jesus' crucifixion completely corrupted the concepts of life and death. We must now see through life and death. We must no longer fear death, completely releasing us from death. We must now know that death cannot separate us from God.

From now on, we must live for the Lord. From now on, we will no longer live for ourselves and will not love this world. Now we must emulate Jesus Christ. With what kind of people does God dwell? God dwells with those who completely break the logic system. Spiritual people see through all things.

5. Those Who See Through Life and Death See Through All Things

Live out God's glory when you are alive. We must not think that living in the world is good. Living in the world is actually very hard. Seeing through and not seeing through are completely two different things. Because we have seen through life and death, now what kind of illness, what kind of messy problems are actually not problems.

The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, (1 Corinthians 2:15).

If we are spiritual people, we do not care when we are born or when we die. Many people who do not see through live very hard and care very much about worldly things. We must now completely shatter our own logic system. Not seeing through life and death will make life very hard and will not solve problems. Before people die, they see things of the spiritual realm. Life and death are all things of the spiritual realm. If people do not see through life and death, they cannot receive glory.

Some time ago, my mother was on the verge of death. She lay in bed and told me that her death was coming, crying as she spoke. Then she said she missed my brother very much. Because I had seen through life and death, I didn't care at all and drove away the demon behind her. I asked her, Who told you? She said, Old Ma from the deep mountains told me. I said, Do you believe the devil's words or God's words? Caring so much about life and death. If you don't care about life and death, why care about seeing who before you die?

Of course, some people will not listen to what I say. It is really difficult to communicate with those who have not seen through. My mother saw two people riding horses in a dream, grabbing her hand, but they immediately let go because there was electricity on her hand, electrifying those two people very badly, exclaiming, This person cannot be grabbed! When she tells spiritual things, it makes me even more sure that God is in my mother, and I am even more sure that life and death are so real.

Know that the faith of Jesus Christ is a faith about power. We have power in the spiritual world! Therefore, the spirits of hell do not dare to grab you, and the powers of darkness cannot hinder us. I see some people who are entangled in illness and pain but cannot see through life and death, desperately pursuing life, and I feel sad.

Do you know the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead? Jesus deliberately delayed for a few days. When he arrived at that village, Lazarus had already died and been buried for four days. Jesus only arrived four days later. As a result, Lazarus' sister said to Jesus, Lord, if you had come a few days earlier, he would not have died. Jesus then wept. (See John 11:17-35) But Jesus did not weep for the death of man, but for the fact that man still could not see through life and death. If you cannot see through life and death, how can you see God's glory? Jesus called Lazarus out of the tomb. Not only did Jesus himself resurrect, but he also proved one thing through Lazarus: life and death are not at all what we imagine. It is not the flesh that makes people live. The flesh is of no benefit. It is the spirit that makes people live! It is also the spirit that makes people die! One is the Holy Spirit, and the other is the evil spirit.

Can you see through all things? If you see through all things, can you dedicate your time to serving God? It would be great if you could see through, because not seeing through leads to living in the old world system. Because living in the old system leads to a pile of problems. Yesterday, I spoke with a sister who is also a successful businesswoman, but because she has too many problems, she needs me to pray for her. If money could really solve problems, that would be great. The reason I can serve her is that I have seen through these things. I do not care how much money she has. I only care whether she knows God and whether she is willing to be a vessel of honor and glory.

Because I have seen through, I do not feel tired at all when I serve people and have no psychological pressure. How many of our brothers and sisters truly see through life and death? If you truly see through, you can become a blessing to many people! Seeing through life and death is seeing through all things. Business can be seen through, and money can be seen through. After seeing through life and death, you will surely receive power because there is no meaning and no hope in a vain life. Therefore, we desire to be filled with God's Spirit and will surely receive power.

6. Seeing Through Life and Death to Obtain Power

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

Witness to what? To the resurrection of Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ is now resurrected, seated at the right hand of God the Father. He has bestowed the promised Holy Spirit, enabling us to serve this generation. Do we regard Jesus Christ as our ultimate treasure? We must consider Jesus Christ as the most precious treasure, and everything else as mere refuse. If we know that Jesus is the most valuable of all treasures, He is also the key to living out God's glory in our lives.

The Holy Spirit will come upon us, so begin to yearn for the Holy Spirit. If earthly fathers know how to give good gifts to their children, how much more will our heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? (See Luke 11:13) If we are filled with the Holy Spirit without measure, our ability to solve problems will be greatly enhanced. Brothers and sisters will also progress better in healing and deliverance, and in any case, ascend to higher spiritual peaks, obtaining Jesus Christ, so that we may live out the likeness of Jesus Christ. Know that healing and deliverance will reach a very high level, which is the key to solving problems.

Is your business facing problems? Are you facing poverty? Healing and deliverance can solve them. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues. (Mark 16:17) Start realizing that all our problems come from the spiritual world, which means that casting out demons and healing and deliverance become the key to solving our problems. Today, we must strike at the ancient serpent (that is, Satan), thoroughly trample on its deeds, and release God's people from the bondage of the devil, so that they can be used as God's precious vessels—manifesting God's glory and being greatly used by God.

I have not been to heaven or hell. Some people ask me, How many people are in heaven and hell? I don't know, but I know that the power of the Holy Spirit will come upon us, and we shall receive power to preach the gospel and bear witness for the Lord every day. There are now so many things I can testify to, and there are fresh testimonies every day. Yesterday, when I led prayers, many people were healed.

If we do not see through, how can we yearn for Jesus Christ? How can we yearn to be filled with the Holy Spirit? So Jesus told a parable about a man asking for three loaves of bread at a door. The person inside said that they had already gone to bed. Jesus said that although he would not get up and give to him because he was his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. (See Luke 11:5-8) What happened in the end? In the end, he got the bread because he kept knocking on the door, Please give me bread, please give me bread, please give me bread. In Luke chapter 11, verse 13, Jesus said that the heavenly Father will also give the Holy Spirit to those who yearn for Him.

Know that the Holy Spirit is a treasure. Why are we often in long periods of Holy Spirit prayer? This precious thing is that when the Holy Spirit descends, we will receive power to be the Lord's witnesses. As long as I meet people, they will see the miracles I perform, and even I myself am shocked by God's power. If miracles appear in the lives of brothers and sisters, isn't that a testimony to the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ? Because He rose from the dead, ascended to heaven, and sent down the Holy Spirit so that we can bear witness on earth. If the Lord Jesus had not resurrected, we would not be able to use the great power of the Holy Spirit to bear witness to the glory of God.

And my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2:4-5)

Brothers and sisters, begin to yearn for God's presence, begin to yearn to be filled with the Holy Spirit, filled without measure, begin to yearn to be like Jesus, no longer yearning to live a few more years. Begin to yearn to serve God and manifest His glory, and you will surely become a precious and glorious vessel, begin to yearn to preach the pure gospel and bear witness with the power of the Holy Spirit.

You say that I may not have really seen God rise from the dead, nor have I seen Him ascend to heaven, but I have seen the glory and power He bestowed after His ascension. What is work worth? What is business worth? What is all that is in this world worth? All the things in this world added together are not comparable to the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God is our treasure.

We live our whole lives because of His Spirit. It is His Spirit that gives life, and it is the evil spirit that brings death. Therefore, brothers and sisters, begin to come out of this vanity, see through life and death, see through all things in this world, begin to yearn to receive the Holy Spirit, begin to yearn to receive power, begin to yearn to serve this generation, and through the power of the Holy Spirit, begin to certify the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, begin to certify the gospel we preach, which is the pure gospel. A faith without power is not the faith of Jesus Christ spoken of in the Bible. The faith of Jesus Christ is powerful and can overcome death.

Those things from hell will fear us. Death has nothing to do with us, because we begin to live in eternity today, so the power of God is manifested through us, and death is a very small matter. We have seen through all things, considering all things as dung in order to gain Jesus Christ as our treasure. What grace this is!

7. Seeing Through Life and Death Is an Important Foundation of the Faith of Jesus Christ

Many Christians I meet do not see through. As soon as they hear about death or sickness, they immediately look for a doctor. Many people are flustered, even after believing in the Lord for many years. Because they do not see through, they have no foundation in Jesus Christ. What is there to fear about life and death? To fear death is not to be a Christian. The faith to die if I die can turn this generation around. Today, brothers and sisters must know for sure that Jesus has resurrected. The true meaning of this resurrection is that we should see through the spiritual meaning of life and death. This is why the Apostle Paul said that he longed to depart this world and be with the Lord, because he had seen through. This generation needs people who carry the marks of the death of Jesus on their bodies, which is a foundation of faith. Do we today understand that our God is such a God:

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. (2 Corinthians 4:7-11)

Do you understand, brothers and sisters? Do you have such determination? If you have such determination, you are one whom the world is not worthy of. You have transcended this era, transcended all things in this life, and trampled all things under your feet, building God's glorious church and turning this era around, turning around the lives of more people. Do you yearn to receive this treasure? If you yearn for it, then in this era, you need not fear anything. Nothing can separate us from the love of God.

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

What is there to fear about difficulties, because we have already seen through them? This is the foundation of faith. We should imitate the Apostle Paul. Are each of our brothers and sisters willing to live for the Lord and be willing to offer our lives for the Lord so that we can live out the likeness of the Apostle Paul, which is a manifestation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Some people say that Jesus did not resurrect. Then where does our power come from? If the Jesus we believe in did not resurrect, then our faith is in vain. But today we are convinced that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and completely destroyed the one who has the power of death.

Therefore, we no longer set our minds on the flesh but on the Spirit. Why do we serve until the middle of the night? Why do we serve until the problem is solved? Because of the foundation of our faith, setting the mind on the flesh is death, but setting the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

When we set our minds on the will of the Spirit and on the needs of this era, we will see how eagerly the Spirit desires that many among us be raised up to be a blessing to the entire era. Brothers and sisters, God sees many souls crying in the darkness. Do you see them? If you do not see them, you do not know the will of the Spirit; if you see them, you will certainly strive to devote yourselves to serving the needs of this era. The fruit of your service will surely follow you into eternity. This is why our brothers and sisters are all striving to devote themselves to serving, for there are too many needs. God is calling us to be people who set our minds on the Spirit and not on the flesh. I thank God that the Spirit of God often motivates me, and the love of God also often motivates me to serve according to my faith.

When we see group after group of people being raised up, we thank God that God has a wonderful purpose for us Chinese in this era. We are to be a blessing to this era, and this era will be turned around because of our service. God's people will enter the kingdom of God because of our service.

8. Conclusion:

Seeing Through Life and Death, We No Longer Care.

This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away. I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife. (1 Corinthians 7:29-33)

Seeing Through Life and Death, We No Longer Care. Whether we have property or not, whether we have a wife or not, we no longer care. Today I went to see my mother, and she was again being controlled by the spirit of death. When will this ever end? I know the reason. It's because the things in her mind need to change. All she thinks about is eating and drinking. Today she learned a lesson. If she does not care about these things, she will become the oldest elite soldier among us. She clenched her fist and said before God that she must become an elite soldier of God's kingdom.

Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, yet are true; as unknown, yet well known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as punished, yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything. (2 Corinthians 6:1-10)

Our inner choices depend on the values we embody. We no longer care about these things. We come out of the emptiness of this life and enter into destiny. Paul only cared about the destiny that Jesus Christ gave him, which is the destiny we live for. Many things, whether we have them or not, do not matter anymore! Amen!

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