Introduction

Good morning, everyone. I am very happy to meet you online. I talked about demolition before. Originally, I wanted to talk about demolition and construction together, but I finally decided to talk about them separately. So what is built after demolition? Build God's glorious church. What kind of people can build God's glorious church? I tell you, it must be a new creation.

We must be a new creation, but today I am not talking about how to be a new creation, but how to be a new creation. Why talk about this? Because many brothers and sisters just don't know how to do it. Some people don't know how to get eternal life. If you ask Jesus, Jesus will say, sell all your family property and follow me. Some people will murmur in their hearts: Alas! The price is too high! Not only sell all the family property and distribute it to the poor, but also follow Jesus. Isn't that very fatal? But that is what Jesus said.

I would also like to answer why we should be new creations. Before, we talked about a very important message: God ruthlessly demolished His own church and the temple. Why did God demolish His own church and temple? Because people do not build the church according to God's words. Not only do people not build according to God's words, but they also distort God's words, which is really fatal!

We are now catching up with a great opportunity, that is, we have the opportunity to work with God according to God's words and build His unprecedented glorious church. I have an expectation in me that the latter glory will be greater than the former, and the latter church will surpass the early church. When I was building the church in the early days, I was thinking, if our church could be like the early church, it would be great. As a result, today we are already very much like the early church. Then we will start to surpass the early church!

Why do I say that? Think about it, how hard did the Apostle Paul work to build the church back then! At that time, the New Testament Bible had not yet taken shape, and Paul built the church solely on the Old Testament Bible. Today we have the New Testament Bible and many letters written by the Apostle Paul. We are running forward on the shoulders of giants. I think the latter glory must be greater than the former.

Many people leave messages for me on the website, which is very encouraging to me. Some people said: I accidentally heard the sermons of Chinese Mingding Destiny, which are really like a ray of light, explaining God's words so clearly and thoroughly. It was the first time I heard such sermons, which solved a lot of confusion and problems in my heart, because I have been committed to the local church for many years and have a lot of confusion in my heart. God's words are clearly written in the Bible. People don't build the church according to God's words, and finally create a lot of troubles for the brothers and sisters. Isn't this very problematic?

Many people wonder, what does building God's glorious church have to do with me? I tell you, it has a great relationship with you. Without God's glorious church, there will be no good healing and deliverance. Today, healing and deliverance, if not based on building God's glorious church, such healing and deliverance cannot have much effect. Because the church is God's army, and victory in battle can plunder the enemy. We must know for sure that God's glorious church is a wonderful plan of God in eternity.

This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 3:6)

His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians 3:10-11)

What does this passage mean? We can through the gospel, in Jesus Christ, be co-heirs with Abraham. To be co-heirs with Abraham is to inherit God's promises with Abraham. We know that God's promises are many, but if you don't see the promises of Jesus Christ in the church, and what you see are many, many tragedies, then you probably don't understand building the church.

What does it mean to be in Jesus Christ, as the Apostle Paul said? To be in Jesus Christ is to be inside the body of Jesus Christ. To be inside the body of Jesus Christ is to be inside the church. Jesus Christ is the head of the church, and the church is the body of Jesus Christ. But if you don't build the church according to God's words, can the church be the body of Jesus Christ? Then it is a matter of opinion.

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:17-21)

What is Paul talking about? He is talking about how important the church is in the Bible. I am really grateful to the Lord. Today I can receive such messages and be encouraged by such messages. I also want to encourage everyone to pursue the glory in Christ Jesus and the glorious Mingding Destiny in Jesus Christ together. We must know for sure that the answers to all our problems are in Jesus Christ. That is to say, if we wholeheartedly build the body of Jesus Christ, many problems in our lives will be solved.

Some time ago, I saw a sister's child with a lot of rotten skin on his body, which was painful to see! Where is the reason? It is that we as parents do not love God wholeheartedly. When we love God, there will be many obstacles in our hearts, such as work, life, family, and a lot of other things. If we put all these things like work, life, and family above God's will, there will be endless problems in the future.

So if the church is not built according to God's will, God will demolish it! Why do this? To build the body of Jesus Christ and build God's glorious church. Today I will share with you that those who build the body of Jesus Christ must be new creations. How to be a new creation, this topic is closely related to us.

Don't think that putting the words I am a Christian on your head is like having insurance. There is no such thing. Being a new creation is the key. If a person is not born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. If a person is not a new creation, it will be even more fatal!

Scripture

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality, so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:17-24)

Scripture Background

Paul wrote in verse 17, and there is a word in it: so. Then we have to find the reason. What does the so Paul wrote mean? The reason is what the introduction said earlier. Although it is repeated, it is very important. If you are a teacher, you must understand the importance of repetition. Books as difficult to understand as Ephesians will be even more difficult to understand if they are not repeated. The reason is that God has revealed His mysteries to us.

which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets. This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 3:5-6)

This is a mystery that has been revealed, so that we and the descendants of Abraham are co-heirs, one body, inheriting all that God has. To be one body means that whether you are a Gentile or not, you become one body in the church and become His body in Jesus Christ; to share in the promise means that the promises God gave to Abraham are all in Jesus Christ.

When many people hear about being in Jesus Christ, they don't know what it means, and they don't know whether they are in Jesus Christ or outside of Jesus Christ. I tell you, belonging to the church is being in Jesus Christ. In our church, it is not that you are just sitting there that you are a member of the church. If you just want to sit there, then you are far from meeting our requirements. In the church, there is a door, an outer court, and a Most Holy Place. Brothers and sisters, don't think that sitting in a physical church means that you are a member of that church.

We need to know that sharing in the promise is in Jesus Christ. God revealed to the Apostle Paul the mystery and arrangement of creating all things that has been hidden for generations:

and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. his intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians 3:9-11)

God wants to use the church to make known the manifold wisdom of God to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. God does not use anything else, but the church. Ephesians is a very important book in the New Testament Bible. It revolves around the church and tells the most critical truths. Once the letters of the Apostle Paul are separated from the church, they become meaningless, because these explorations of truth are all based on building the foundation of God's glorious church. This mystery is that through the church, we become descendants of Abraham together. This is a glorious Mingding Destiny and calling!

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. (Ephesians 2:12)

Before we Gentiles accepted Jesus Christ, we had no hope, no God, and no promise. People lived and died. You can watch a movie called To Live. The role of Fugui is played by Ge You. In the film, Ge You wears a torn hat and a torn coat, and vividly interprets the hopeless way of living.

But today we all have one hope, and that hope is the gospel in Jesus Christ; that hope is to build the body of Jesus Christ and plunder the enemy. Today we can plunder the enemy in Jesus Christ, and God will give us the spoils of the plunder. If you really know this mystery, will we live a poor life? No. Every time we cast out demons, the demons will be defeated by us, and finally they will surrender, cede territory and pay compensation to us, and send us money.

The Apostle Paul said, because will talk about this glorious Mingding Destiny and calling, and build the body of Jesus Christ.

So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up (Ephesians 4:11-12)

Ephesians talks about the body of Jesus Christ, which is the church.

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Ephesians 4:13-16)

Here it talks about building the body of Jesus Christ, not being deceived, growing in everything, and building yourself up in love. These are some of the words the Apostle Paul said before saying so. We must carefully ponder these words. I remind everyone that building yourself up in love is not that you love me and I love you, and you will build yourself up in love. This love is the love of Jesus Christ. The love of Jesus Christ is rooted and grounded in us. This love is not selfish love, but a love that is given out.

Brothers and sisters, don't complain as soon as you talk about love: Why don't you love me, why don't you love me? I often hear Christians say, look, the Bible says to love, you should love me! Why don't you love me? Your church has no love. I feel that people just like to be loved. Don't think that if you bring up the word love, I will be afraid.

I once said that our church's online customer service is very dedicated and serves very carefully. Usually within a few minutes, we will respond to people in need. As a result, someone came to me and said: Look, you said a few minutes. I called you, and you didn't respond to me within a few minutes! I was thinking, what kind of brain is this? I said this to you, not for you to ask of me. How can I answer your call when I am serving others?

What I mean is that every brother and sister among us must learn to rise up and give love out. Why can I say a few minutes? Because each of us is a giver, and there are more people serving than being served. How could it take several hours? Is there any problem? There is no problem. So the background of this passage, what a rich glory, what a glorious Mingding Destiny and calling!

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality, so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:17-24)

You may wonder, isn't this works-based? This is not works-based, but faith-based. Before, we talked about demolishing the selfish desires in us. Selfish desires are very hateful. If a person has selfish desires in his heart and is very selfish, he will become very stupid, because he always wants to get what he wants.

I once helped someone I knew find a job. Later, he found a job, and the boss gave him a little raise, so he came to ask me if he could ask the boss to give him more salary. I asked him how much to add, and he said to add from more than three thousand to more than four thousand. I asked what the reason was, and he replied that if he added more than four thousand, he could apply for a permit for his wife to come to Singapore.

I told him it was best not to go to the boss, but he just didn't listen to me and went to the boss again. After his boss listened to his request, he asked him why he wanted to give him a raise? He directly said that after the raise, he could apply for a permit for his wife. In the end, this brother was fired soon after.

Let's think about it, what kind of brain is this? Only thinking about yourself! If a person is selfish, he is in a very ignorant state. According to this brother's logic, if you want to buy a new car one day, ask the boss for a raise; if you want to apply for all your family members to come over, also ask the boss for a raise, but why should the boss give you a raise? If you are a marketing person, you must know one thing, marketing research is all about what others want, not what we want. What we want is not important.

Some people speak nicely, and some people speak badly. Why do some people speak nicely? Because when they speak, it is all to build up others. Look, sometimes I scold people, and I scold them very well. After I scold them, everyone loves me and feels very edified. Because I scold him, the measure is still good. I scolded someone, and they still felt that they were receiving love. Why? Because that is true love, and everything I do is considering how the other person can benefit. So when I train my employees, I train them how to grasp this measure.

Some people only want to benefit themselves. How stupid is that! Why do some people lose their jobs after working for a while? Some people are in their thirties and have achieved nothing. Some people go for interviews, and the boss doesn't want them, just because they don't behave well. Why is their behavior so bad? Because they are full of thoughts of getting benefits for themselves, and they never think about creating something for others, just like that young man. I think when the tide goes out, we will know who is not wearing pants. Don't think that economic development is all good. Now that the epidemic is here, let's think about it slowly!

Many times selfish people don't know that they are selfish. I think selfish people have a characteristic, that is, they all think they are very good. I used to know someone who didn't go to work, suffered from depression, stayed at home, and kept saying that she was very busy all day. I asked her what she was busy with, and she said she was cleaning, mopping the floor, and washing clothes. I said, we office workers also do these things! How can you feel that it's a lot when you do so little? She felt that she had contributed a lot. However, her husband worked three jobs at the same time, and he was so tired that he lost all his hair at the age of forty or fifty.

It is a very hateful thing for people to be selfish. If people are selfish, indulge the flesh, love themselves, love money, love the world, and also discern good and evil, thinking that everything is someone else's fault, it would be strange if they don't have mental illness! If they don't have mental illness, they will get cancer. Should our brothers and sisters start to think about renewing our minds?

Why? Because the selfish path cannot be taken! That path will be gradually corrupted by the deceit of selfish desires. This is like when car parts are broken, won't they be parked? Brothers and sisters, we know such a glorious Mingding Destiny, such good hope, so many promises, and so many good things. Why do we still want to take the stupid path?

Let us come out from selfishness. If you are in your thirties and have achieved nothing, you must know the reason. You only consider yourself. If you don't change this problem, it will be troublesome when you are in your eighties! This passage is about how to be a new creation. If you are not a new creation, how can you build God's glorious church? What relationship can God's blessings and promises have with you?

If you are not in Jesus Christ, God does not hear your prayers. If you do not want to be a new creation, without the righteousness and holiness of God's truth, even if you read God's words, they have little to do with you. You think about coming to church to receive grace, but what does it mean to receive grace in the church? What does it have to do with you? It has little to do with you, it's all done by Jesus. If we are willing to be like Jesus Christ, to grow up and be mature, with the fullness of Jesus Christ, then we must have a completely giving attitude.

What Does a new creation Look Like?

I have encountered too many Christians who, when filling out their beliefs, write Christianity, but they do not know what Christianity is, which surprises me greatly. Do we know what Christians look like? Jesus said that the Jews and Pharisees in his day, their father was not Abraham, but the devil, they were children of the devil.

They were descendants of Abraham, how did they become children of the devil? They do not know, people are foolish in this. They do not know what Abraham should be like, in fact, what he looks like is not important, what is important is what is inside Abraham. The Jews and Pharisees were filled with the devil's stuff, Abraham was filled with God's stuff. Do you have God's image? If you do not have God's image, even if you brand the words Christian on your forehead, it is useless.

Where is the problem? We must understand what Christians look like. Christians must have God's image, you must be like Jesus. Chinese Mingding Destiny promotes being like Jesus. Today I see many people, including pastors and Christians, they do a lot of things that Jesus would not do, and they do nothing that Jesus would do, or do very little. I am also very surprised, they do not say what Jesus said, but they say a lot of things that Jesus did not say, is this not very fatal?

Take a mirror and look at yourself, if you see your face full of pimples, can this image be good? How much powder can you use to cover the pimples? How much spiritual powder do you need to use to cover up your inner desires? If it rains, the powder you put on will start to fall off, and the original appearance will not be revealed? Do you have the righteousness and holiness of truth inside? No, all that is inside is selfishness.

Some time ago, we prayed for a sister's aunt, her aunt is a preacher, and this person's problem was healed and solved. I heard the sister's account, her aunt is an extremely selfish person, and she talks about money in every three sentences. She said that she was terribly fooled by her aunt. At that time, her father had cancer, and she was hoping that her aunt, the preacher, could pray more for her father, but she did not. At that time, she regarded her aunt's words as imperial edicts. Now that she has heard Chinese Mingding Destiny, she has found that what her aunt said is not right, because she can tell what is inside her aunt at a glance.

A new creation is someone who is like Jesus. Jesus completely gave his body to God, and was nailed to the cross for us, bearing our sorrows, carrying our pains, and shedding precious blood for our sins. He was whipped for our diseases, and by his stripes we are healed.

Let us think about it, all our transgressions are attributed to him. If you want to be a preacher like Jesus today, how many people's transgressions will you bear? Therefore, such teachings of Jesus Christ, in the days of the Apostle Paul, the Apostle Paul said things that ordinary preachers dare not say. He said: The sufferings that I experience in my flesh, to fill up what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions.

A new creation must be like Jesus, if you are filled with selfishness, ignorance, and rigidity, how can you be like Jesus? Today I encourage brothers and sisters, write on your Bible, I want to be like Jesus, because these words are fundamental. Like Jesus do shepherding, like Jesus do healing and deliverance, like Jesus teach, like Jesus give, like Jesus put to death your own flesh.

When I see people sick, I feel sad, so I pursue healing and deliverance like Jesus. Later, I wrote a book called Healing and Deliverance Like Jesus. If you want it, you can read the e-book. How good it is to do healing and deliverance like Jesus! That is simply a great grace!

Why Be a new creation?

Someone asked, why should I be like Jesus? I do not want to be nailed to the cross like Jesus! Then why be like Jesus? Because it is not fun to be an old person, the old person does not understand the laws of living. Jesus lived out glory, the Apostle Paul lived out glory, and those who serve with me today can see the glory of God every day. But those who do not know how to live live out corruption.

If I were to give you the best advice, it would be to be smart. You can observe a little bit, it is not fun to be an old creation, because we all come from the old creation. An old creation is flustered when it encounters the coronavirus; it is also flustered when it encounters cancer cells. There are so many parts in the human body, and if any one of them breaks down, it is enough for you to suffer! How much sin will you suffer?

We all come from the old person, that thing is ignorance, rigidity, selfishness, corruption. Because people have no Tao, people do not know how to live, they are just living. People have no rules to follow, and what can be found is the rule of people getting worse in the world. Do you want to get worse? For example, if a piece of meat is not put in the refrigerator, it will stink after a long time. So people gradually get worse.

There is a sister who hated her father very much when she was a child, and she was determined not to be like her father. But recently she found that she was more and more like her father. I gave her a fortune-telling, if she continues to go down this corrupt road, only considers herself, does not consider God, does not know that she should give herself away, only thinks about what she can get, it will definitely be a tragedy, and she will become another her father when she grows up.

Many times, people initially think that it should not be. When Adam and Eve first ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they also thought it would not, but after a long time, they felt that that thing was amazing, and gradually got worse. Whether people get better or worse, it is gradually, step by step.

Some people walk to the line of death before they suddenly wake up: Oh, how did I get here? Didn't you walk here step by step? Taking one step did not reach the line of death, and taking another step did not reach the line of death, with a fluke mentality, when you reach the line of death, you find that you cannot turn back!

Why? Because Old Meng Po is waiting for you there. Everyone has heard of it, Duanhun Bridge, Meng Po Soup, these are all Chinese legends. Meng Po Soup is a stool soup, and people become confused after drinking it. There are also people who do not know, because of ignorance and no Tao, they are always working, living, children, and family; no hope, no ability, no promise, how can this day be lived? The summary is that we must be a new creation. If you are a new creation now, then I congratulate you.

Some time ago, a brother's pastor told him that the old things have passed away, and all things have become new. This brother, who was quite old, cried wow on the telephone side. Because he had a car accident when he was driving a big truck when he was young, which left him with a deep shadow. For so many years, no one in the family has looked up to him.

At this age, someone suddenly said to him, you can be a new creation, the old things have passed away, and all things have become new. The past things have no effect on us. Our brother was so moved! How much he longed to get out of the past, he has not been able to get out of the past for so many years, but he can get out because of the power of Jesus Christ!

We begin to live in a state of having the Tao, we are already able to grasp the laws of human living, we can know our future, and we can grasp the influence of anything on us. Some people say that you can create your future with your own hands, what can you create in the end? A sister said that we can create an angel, I said what angel to create, what you create is human shit, what can the old person create, just something that is eaten and dropped into the latrine.

Therefore, we must be a new creation and begin to master the Tao of human life. People are connected with God, no longer disconnected from God, but connected with God, and God's power flows out of us and is fully manifested. God's power flows out, miracles happen every day, will we lack money? Will we lack time? Will we lack people? Nothing will be lacking!

If you lack God, you will lack everything! If you lack God, you will lack everything! If you have God, have God's power and promises, you will not lack anything, those who fear God will lack nothing. What we lack is the way of life, what we lack is the way of eternal life, so we must be a new creation. Why? This reasoning is very straightforward!

Being a new creation Is Simple

Being a new creation is really simple! I have an ability to explain very complex things in a very simple way, I do not like complex things. You will find that I will explain the complex contents of the Bible in a very straightforward way, which is a great grace given to me by God. Some people say that it is difficult to be a new creation. I also often hear people say, just tell me how to be a new creation? What should I do? Below I will tell you well.

There is a little brother among us who has lived a very miserable life, always living in the old creation. He has not worked for many years, staying at home and eating, eating to several hundred pounds, what can such a size do? This is very hard and extremely painful. But he met us, and we gave him good news that he can be a new creation. He used to be an old person, but today he can be a new creation.

A new creation has an outside and an inside. New wine new wineskins, the inside is new, and the outside is also new. Many people have not explained this new wine new wineskins clearly, so I will give you a brief explanation. People depend on clothes and horses depend on saddles. A BMW with golden saddles is beautiful, and people are the same. As soon as you put on clothes, you are immediately different. It is still very important to wear clothes. To become a new creation, you must first put on your new clothes.

Be renewed in the spirit of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:23-24)

What does it mean to put on a new person? Putting on the new person is to put on Jesus Christ. What does it mean to put on Jesus Christ? Many people have not explained it clearly. Putting on the new person is to put on Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ becomes our clothes. What does it mean to put on Jesus Christ? It is like a person enlisting in the army, Japanese soldiers wear Japanese military uniforms, and Chinese soldiers wear Chinese military uniforms. It is very powerful to put on a military uniform. Although you do not know what is inside, you can tell which camp you belong to by looking at the clothes you wear.

For example, a policeman wearing a uniform raises his hand on the side of the road, and the driver must stop. The policeman is wearing a uniform, but inside is actually ordinary people. Wearing a uniform represents a meaning. What does it mean to put on Jesus? It is to put on the uniform of Jesus Christ, which represents Jesus. If you put on the uniform of the Eighth Route Army and go to eat, drink, gamble, prostitute, rob, be corrupt, someone will complain and you will be dealt with by military law. When we were young, we often sang The Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention, do not take a needle or thread from the masses, and if you do, you will be punished.

We must not think that putting on Jesus Christ is simple. Putting on Jesus Christ is to surrender to the authority of Jesus Christ. Putting on Jesus sounds simple. Although wearing the uniform of Jesus Christ is free, after putting on the uniform, we must be restricted. Think about it, if you put on a soldier's uniform, would you go to smash, rob, and loot? If you go, it will be troublesome and cause great damage to the army.

If Christians put on their new clothes and become people who indulge in their desires, it is like wearing a military uniform to prostitute themselves, and they will be disciplined by God. What does it mean to put on Jesus Christ? It is to surrender to God. This uniform is free, but surrendering is not free, it needs to be dealt with. After you put on Jesus Christ, you are God's person, and God will definitely discipline you and help you. When you make mistakes, God will definitely discipline you, so that people will gradually grow up.

The first point is to put on the new self, and the second point is to determine our minds. In fact, it is not difficult to determine our minds. If people can determine their minds, make a decision, and then strive to pursue it. God's discipline and God's help will enable us to gradually grow up and be full of the stature of Jesus Christ. Therefore, when truth replaces ignorance, faithfulness replaces falsehood, intelligence replaces confusion, temperance replaces indulgence, and holiness replaces uncleanness, people's lives will gradually increase.

Do you know why it is not difficult? Because when you put on a military uniform, you are a new recruit, and God requires you according to the standards of a new recruit; if you are a veteran, there are veteran requirements. Officers have officer requirements, and soldiers have soldier requirements. At each level, they must continue to grow, each according to their own duties, and then build up the body of Christ and perfect the saints.

People put on Jesus, determine their minds, and begin to have truth inside, and the truth set us free. It is fatal for a person to have no truth. We choose to obey the truth and obey the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit gives us the power to deal with our laziness and selfishness. Lazy and selfish people are out of ignorance, so this is why people need teaching on their understanding. Because people's understanding is not clear, they will eventually bring destruction on themselves.

People feel good at the time, but later they are not good, and people bring destruction on themselves, all out of ignorance. Today we replace ignorance with truth. The brothers and sisters of our foundation building ministry have put in a lot of effort, and I asked some of them individually. I asked him if he knew that there were many riots and demonstrations in the United States recently? He said he did not know, because he was busy with foundation building all day and had no time. I think this is very good, he will learn a lot while he is busy with foundation building.

When we begin to gradually move up, grow up, until one day we plunder the enemy, God will reward us:

This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.” (Ephesians 4:8)

If a person wins a battle, the reward is very high. Especially if you defeat the devil, the reward is extremely rich. In Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ plundered the enemy, we put on Jesus, we fight with Jesus, and what is plundered is not ours? So victory is very important! Chinese Mingding Destiny is a victorious theology, and we emphasize the concept of victory. What about the concept of salvation? In fact, we have equated victory and salvation.

In Jesus Christ, there is abundant grace and great power, who is it given to? To the victor; in Jesus Christ there are rich promises, who are they given to? To the victor. We must know that we must overcome trials in order to receive promises; we must overcome trials in order to receive blessings. What God says is linked to victory, so we must grow up day by day in Jesus Christ, grow up to the full stature of Jesus Christ.

In Numbers, I talked about a concept: Only those who can fight count. To be a Christian who can fight counts, with the fullness of Jesus Christ, you can be a victorious Christian. How difficult is it to be a victorious Christian? It is not difficult, it is by relying on Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ tells us today that as long as we rely on him, he will predestine us to victory.

Start to thirst for the word of God today, thirst for this pure spiritual milk, let us drink this pure spiritual milk, so that we can grow healthily in Jesus Christ, until we grow into the full stature of Jesus Christ, and can plunder the enemy. But not growing up and getting old, and before growing up, becoming an old fritter, and in the end can not do anything.

Do not think that Abraham is an old man who eats, drinks, and has fun. Our eyes should not only see that Abraham married several wives, do not learn this, learn that Abraham defeated the other five kings with three hundred and eighteen elite soldiers when he was very old! Such a person is very powerful! Everyone should know that it is not that you will have promises, abilities, and the rich glory of Jesus Christ if you have nothing to do, but that you must continue to be victorious in Jesus Christ in order to receive it!

Summary

Finally, I will stimulate those of us who are older and have been Christians for many years, but who are not victorious. I encourage you to be a new creation in your bones anyway, and God will surely do what you believe.

So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, (Ephesians 3:17-20)

What you want is not much, is it? If God wants to accomplish it, it is beyond what you ask or imagine. But the choice must be ours, are we willing to be a new creation? We are determined to be a new creation and continue to grow in Jesus Christ and plunder the enemy. In the past, the enemy stole our blessings, and they must be repaid double.

If you say, I have no time, I have children at home, I also have a job, where do I have time to write so much homework and notes? I tell you, it is because you are not victorious. If you are victorious, the devil will not create so many problems.

If you think that being busy with these things can solve your problems, then be an old creation; if you think this is not a victorious and blessed road, then choose to be a new creation. This new person is created in the image of God. As long as we determine our minds, and occasionally have weaknesses, God will help us; occasionally fall, God will also help us stand up, and not fall into the tricks of the devil, we will become a victorious people!

His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians 3:10-11)

We must know that building God's glorious church is God's will. Being a new creation is also God's will for us. God's will and mysteries for us have been revealed to us. Today, you and I are determined to make a choice, to replace ignorance with truth, to replace falsehood with faithfulness, to replace confusion with intelligence, to replace indulgence with temperance, and to replace uncleanness with holiness.

We will grow a little bit every day, and all things of life are the same. We do not need to be impatient, God will surely accomplish his good intentions in you and me, may God bless everyone!