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Introduction

Hello everyone! Glad to meet you online again! Let's study Leviticus 14. You must know that Leviticus talks about how priests should deal with various situations. In the New Testament, we who do healing and deliverance often have to do healing and deliverance for people who encounter various situations. Let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart: I have found that many people are very unlucky in the process of doing healing and deliverance. The first half of Chapter 14 talks about what to do after leprosy is cleansed, and the second half talks about how to deal with mold in the house.

If a person encounters a disease or disaster in his life, it is really bad luck. If he lives in a house that is very dirty, then it is also very bad luck. Living as a human being is a very spiritual thing, and so is a house. Some people have discovered that living is closely related to the spiritual realm. What are the specific aspects? One is getting sick; the other is having bad luck in the house.

Chapter 14 talks about how to be cleansed. The previous chapters of Leviticus also talk about how to be cleansed. But what is the key to being clean or unclean? For example, why is a person unlucky? Why didn't others encounter such bad luck? As I gradually sorted out the ideas about these things, I found that people are unlucky, or get serious and dirty diseases, all for a reason.

In the past years of ministry, I have discovered a very critical thing, which is selfishness. Selfishness is very harmful. The problems these people encounter, the bad luck they encounter themselves, the bad luck their families encounter, why don't others encounter them? Of course, not encountering them doesn't prove anything. If they don't encounter them now, they may encounter them in the future. We cannot judge heroes based on temporary success or failure. But in order to be cleansed, sacrifices must be offered. Among them, the sin offering and the burnt offering are very important. These sin offerings and burnt offerings all require a price to be paid. After people become selfish, where should they start to be cleansed? Start with offering.

These unlucky diseases that people get, whether it is leprosy, skin disease, childbirth, or eating unclean things, these unclean things are basically about people's spiritual condition. If a person is unclean, he is unclean in spirit. If a person is unclean in spirit, he will attract demons and be unlucky. Our Chinese medicine says: A person initially gets a deficiency disease, and as it progresses, it becomes a real disease.

So the first part of Leviticus 14 talks about the practice of being cleansed from leprosy. If a person has leprosy for a period of time, and finally gets cleansed, he must begin to learn to offer. What to offer? Live birds, hyssop, running water, scarlet thread... After looking at this series of practices, it is really a very complicated thing. After doing these, you have to offer a sin offering and a burnt offering. What is done is to cleanse the leprosy.

In fact, from the time he got leprosy to the time he recovered and went to be cleansed, what happened behind this whole thing? That is, those of us who are sick, unlucky, and encounter disasters actually have spiritual reasons behind them. Where do these spiritual reasons come from? They come from selfishness. If you carefully observe the laws of the world: after people become selfish, what they bring is very bad. So there is a law in the world: as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. People are selfish, love only themselves, and are greedy for money. These are actually the thoughts in their hearts. They feel very reasonable, and they feel that everyone is like this. But there really are people in the world who are not like this.

Don't think: Oh, why did this happen to me? Why am I so unlucky? You need to know: the issues of life come from the heart. This person got leprosy because he had previously received many curses that deserved leprosy. His house is moldy, he has bad luck, or he is unlucky, and everything he does is unlucky, which is the saying even drinking cold water makes his teeth hurt. All these things are closely related to the spiritual realm. The deepest root behind these things is called selfishness.

The Root Cause of People's Bad Luck and Sickness is Selfishness

So, in the past, among the people I served, although there were no people with leprosy, there were quite a few people with skin diseases. Whether it is a skin problem or other problems, in the final analysis, the root cause of this person's bad luck and sickness is these.

First, selfishness. Selfishness can be translated as: catering to the flesh, loving the world, discerning good and evil. These three things are basically the root cause of a person's bad luck. This is why in Chinese Mingding Destiny, we emphasize destiny so much. What is Mingding Destiny about? It is about giving out, giving out to solve the root cause of people's selfishness.

Once a person loses his destiny, he doesn't know why he is alive. He is just living for the sake of living. Anything that affects his living is a big deal. So their solution to the problem is either greed or selfishness. This selfishness brings a series of problems. When I carefully think about these things, I will find that what you need most is repentance, that is, changing from a selfish logical system to a system of offering.

How can this leprosy be cleansed? It is from some changes in the heart, and then God has mercy on him. As long as he has some changes, God has mercy on him, and his leprosy will naturally be healed. It was originally impossible to be healed. How he was healed, he doesn't know. What to do after it is healed? You have to solve the problem of uncleanness. The most important sign from uncleanness to cleanness is offering a sin offering and a burnt offering. After offering these, then comes shaving hair, bathing, killing birds, sprinkling the blood of birds seven times, I won't go into these details.

What people need to be cleansed most is the ears, the hands, and the feet. These three are very spiritual organs. Why do people need to cleanse their ears? Because they can't hear some words. Why do people need to cleanse their hands? Because people's hands are easy to grab and be greedy. Why do people need to cleanse their feet? Because these feet are walking a selfish path. So when we carefully think about these things, instead of pondering what this symbolizes and what that symbolizes, it is better to summarize these practices in the Bible, that is, to change from selfish to unselfish.

Selfish people will attract demons, and if they attract demons, they will be unlucky. If you carefully observe, if a person is very greedy, such as greedy for other people's money and houses, it is difficult for such a person not to be unlucky. All unlucky people are closely related to this selfishness and greed.

We often see or hear that a person is very unlucky. One person's uncle was greedy for his grandmother's house, and later died of cancer, which seems very unlucky. What we see is that he died of cancer, but behind it is his inner selfishness. This set of selfishness, on the surface, is very reasonable, but in fact, it is very unlucky.

The Solution to Cleansing is Offering

Therefore, the solution to cleansing is offering. We have a characteristic that basically everyone is required to offer. Some time ago, a person came to us and asked many questions about our church's finances, such as how you manage the church's money, how your co-workers make a living... He was concerned about my affairs all day long.

I knew he was here to investigate. Why was he investigating? Because he cares about this matter. What I don't care about, he cares about very much; what I care about, he doesn't care about. We have to think about whether such a person should be unlucky? Yes. What's the reason? The issues of life come from the heart, and as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. The best help I can give you is to solve how you think inside. Here, the priest talks about sprinkling blood, offering burnt offerings, and offering sin offerings. These are just compulsive ways to solve people's selfishness. So, you have to learn to offer.

Later, I found that people who offer are not easily unlucky. Don't think that offering is a disadvantage. Offering is the best grace. If a person is unwilling to offer, how can he have destiny? Offering a tenth of the money is really nothing. You are willing to send stacks of banknotes to the hospital, and you are healed among us, and then you are asked to take out a tenth to offer, and it is like killing a pig. People are really stupid.

If People Completely Offer Themselves, They Will Become Holy

A tenth is just a beginning. Christians in the New Testament do not offer a bull or a sheep, but must completely offer themselves, and they will become holy and pleasing to God. If a person is after God's heart, how can he be unlucky? He will prosper in everything he does. Not only will he prosper in everything he does, but he will also go from doing everything meaningless, just living for the sake of living, to doing everything meaningful. This is destiny.

Why are you living today? If you are living for money, then you are living for money; if you desire to live for God, then completely offer yourself. If you desire to be like God and be a blessing to many people, then you will be a blessing to many people. Why people live will determine how they live. This is why Mingding Destiny is so important.

I once said that there is no blessing outside of destiny. If people don't understand that they should live for God, then what is the meaning of living? Living is only labor, sorrow, and disaster, which is very critical. I give you a suggestion, everyone should carefully examine how those who have destiny and know why they are living are living. Then look at those who live for their children, for themselves, and for their parents, and what are the results of their lives?

We talk about leprosy being cleansed. Leprosy is just the manifestation of the dirt inside through the skin. The same is true for other diseases. No matter what the disease is, people need to come out of selfishness.

One person had been a Christian for ten years, and I asked him what he believed in, and he couldn't say. I had him start training from the foundation building. We don't know whether he is seeking healing or seeking the church. We hope to completely solve the other party's problems. We gave him homework, and we don't know if he listened to the lectures. As a result, he messed around and answered irrelevant questions, and he didn't know anything when asked. He couldn't afford this little price, and he felt that being a Christian with you is so troublesome?

In fact, is getting leprosy more troublesome, or is being a Christian more troublesome? Being a Christian is a very critical matter. Either be a resounding Christian or don't be one, otherwise it will be very unlucky. These people's system is: How is it possible to be like Jesus? How is it possible to offer? If we believe in the Lord like you, how can we live our lives? In the end, they still decided to take the selfish path. I want to live for myself, I want to pamper myself. It's all these things, and the result is even more troublesome.

When the priest offers sacrifices, he must offer a lamb without blemish and a ewe lamb of one year old without blemish. The priest said that he was too poor, so forget it. In fact, it is not. If a person is poor, he must take a ram and offer it for a guilt offering, and the quantity can be reduced. Is this reduction in quantity good or bad? In fact, where is it good to reduce the price? Because the other party is poor, it is not good to be poor to this extent. Poverty comes from the mind. It is very unlucky for a person to be poor and have leprosy.

I really thank God that our brothers and sisters are willing to be people who offer. No one among us is so poor. Therefore, we cleanse our minds and become people with destiny. Let unlucky things, unclean things, and dirty things stay away from us, and let our minds be holy before God. How to be holy is to be holy to the Lord.

##  If Anyone Does Not Love God, Let That Person Be Accursed

Humans are fascinating. Sometimes, we just don't know where these unlucky events come from. People think bad luck comes from demons. I'll give you a concept: many people don't often say this, they often say God is love. Actually, for those who love God, God loves them, but those who do not love God are accursed.

**And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: (Leviticus 14:33-35)**

We see that God can cause leprosy in a house. In the end, we dig it out and it's still unclean, so we dig again, and the whole house is torn down. Even after tearing it down, it's still unclean, and the house is gone. Seeing this, we might say, So uncleanness is so troublesome! Others live in houses just fine, but we live with so much misfortune!

So how do we get into misfortune? **Misfortune and good fortune require digging into one's thoughts and intentions, thoroughly clearing out the dirt in one's thoughts and intentions, and then one will not encounter unfortunate things.**

There are many unlucky people among us. Several years ago, a brother's friend came among us. This person was quite bad. His wife had been paralyzed in bed for nine months. After I prayed, she was healed and could walk the next day and even climb mountains. This was a great blessing, but this person was very bad. From that time on, unlucky things never left him. He told me his business was going bankrupt and he had to sell his house.

I asked him, If you don't sell the property, how long can you last? He replied, One month. I advised him not to rush and that we should pray together. After praying for a month, his business volume increased greatly. He said, Now it looks like I only need to sell half. I asked him, What if you don't sell half? He replied, If I don't sell half, I can last another month. I told him, Then don't sell it yet. Two months passed, and everything was fine. I asked him how things were now. He said, Fine, no need to sell. I said to him, You must learn to give offerings! As a result, this person left the church, and he really did have bad luck later.

Who exactly caused his misfortune? We must know that it is God. Today, whatever diseases or disasters come upon our brothers and sisters, it is God who is doing it. Some people ask: Why is God so bad? God is such a God, a God who brings both disaster and blessing, a jealous God. Whether you know God or not, it doesn't add or subtract anything for God, but God's people will perish because of people's ignorance.

**We must re-establish new concepts, that everything comes from God, and we fear God and act according to God's word.** Today and tomorrow we cast out demons, today and tomorrow we deal with Satan, but it is better to carefully keep and follow God's word. If we can carefully keep and follow God's word, Satan will also be trampled under your feet, but the question is whether there are still living concepts in you.

A few days ago, another unlucky person came. He did what was evil in God's eyes and contracted a strange disease for no reason. I told him God's requirements in the Bible, but he thought it was impossible. He thought what the doctor said was possible. These people are really strange. After being healed by prayer, they go back to making money, without thinking about what to do if these things come again.

I give you God's grace, but I cannot solve the matter of God cursing you. Jesus certainly bore our curses, but you must repent, you must rely on Jesus to save you. But people treat Jesus like a rag, take it to wipe and then discard it, and then they are cursed. In fact, I see in the Bible that if a person has experienced the Holy Spirit, experienced God's power, and experienced God's authority, and then forsakes God, there is no more chance of salvation.

In the New Testament, ten lepers were healed by Jesus, and nine disappeared. What were they thinking? They were finally cleansed, and those nine went out to eat, drink, and be merry. What will their later days be like? Not good. The principle is very simple: we cast out demons by the Spirit of God, but the house is empty, and our hearts are not filled with the Spirit of God, and as a result, seven more evil spirits come, and that person's later days are even worse.

Many people hear this and say: Why did you cast out the demons in the first place? I don't know! I thought that after the demons were cast out, this person would be healed and would start asking for the Holy Spirit to fill him, at least there would be a 50% chance. Who knew that after he was healed, he didn't ask for the Holy Spirit at all! So I think, start gradually cleansing our thoughts and intentions. Because in the deeper part of our thoughts and intentions, there is a stone that is filthy, and we must dig out the stone and throw it outside the city, so that the house may be cleansed.

##  Summary: Build on a Holy Foundation, Utterly Dedicate to God

We pastors who build churches, building a church is like building a house. If one of the stones is unlucky, then the house built is moldy. Can people not be unlucky? People will definitely be unlucky. If you want to come and consult me, actually I tell you, there is no need to consult, because the Bible is written very clearly in black and white, you read it, I read it, and we all know it, but we just don't believe it.

So do not build the temple on the sand, and even more so do not build it on unclean stones. If it is built on unclean stones, the stones must be dug out, and the house will be ruined. That is so upsetting! If I had a choice, I would choose to tear it down and rebuild it, building it on a holy foundation. **A holy foundation is utterly dedicated to God, without selfishness.**

If we still have selfish bad habits in our hearts today, I must advise you today: if you care about yourself more than you care about others, your unlucky days are still ahead. Because that's what the Bible says, if there are unlucky elements in a person's foundation, it is impossible not to be unlucky.

In Luke, it is recorded that a house crushed eighteen people to death, and as a result, many people said that those who were crushed to death had deep sins. But Jesus said: Unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way! It turns out that it was only a matter of time. Even the coronavirus will not find the wrong person. Many of the people who died from the coronavirus have selfish bad habits. Can everyone understand what I'm saying?

So I think, if we start clean from the beginning, and build on a holy foundation, then we don't need to bother tearing down the house and moving the stones and wood outside the city. Because bothering with these things is worthless and very hard. If we were people who gave offerings from the beginning, would we have gotten leprosy? Would we have committed unlucky things? Would our destiny have become like this today?

So today, those who are willing to walk out of misfortune, I would like to advise you, those who are willing to receive Mingding Destiny and are willing to live for God, today be steadfast in God and continue to live for God. If you are not willing, then be as unlucky as you want to be! Maybe you don't agree, but there is a Chinese saying called Just wait and see! I am not hoping for you to be unlucky, I am just telling you the truth.

Do not build your life into something unclean, do not live your life as a house that needs to be torn down, worthless, meaningless, living a life of toil and sorrow. I myself see people's thoughts and intentions as if they are transparent. Through people's words, between the lines, they still think they are pretty good, but nothing can be hidden from demons, and nothing can be hidden from God. **So when people encounter unlucky things, the first thing to solve is the problem of selfishness.**

The chapters of Leviticus are all about bringing people to offering, so the way to be cleansed is the way of offering. May God bless everyone!