Passion Ignites the Flame of Life

That Tilopa, Tilopa is called a Taoist priest. So, if we want to learn to applaud in the future, everyone should have that enthusiasm. Later, I discovered that a very important factor in life is passion. You must know that a person without passion lives a very hard life. A person full of passion is motivated to do everything. I tell you, it's so enjoyable, so enjoyable. I tell you, when I finished this set of things, all these things inside were put together by me. These devices in front, these things, computers, and some software, etc., of course, with my right and left guardians, my IT team, we put it together, and after it was done, I stood in here. Wow, it's so enjoyable. It seems that a person who is full of passion in doing things will enjoy it.

If you are all sticky and sluggish, like you understand what is called double-teamed eggplant, all sticky and sluggish, then life is very hard. I tell you, do everything with that energetic drive. I encourage brothers and sisters. When you are doing those microblogs, WeChats, writings, all kinds of things, do it with passion. It's very different. Passion can turn something you have no interest in into your interest. Because the fire of passion can burn down the Great Xing'an Mountains in China. The fire of passion can ignite your life. Wow, when you transmit this life out, that's incredible.

Everyone may not be able to see it. I tell you, some brothers and sisters say, you still have time to write sermons. Yes, I didn't sleep all night yesterday. When you are doing it with passion, do you see me tired? You can't see it. I don't feel tired myself either. It is a great blessing to live with passion. Alright? We encourage brothers and sisters to start living out this passion.

Today's topic is Do Not Love the World. This world, I tell you, Singapore, this world is very interesting. It has a name called chope. Do you know what chope means? It means to be lazy. Is that what it means? Chope. To be lazy. Since it has already formed a Singaporean term called chope, this phenomenon should be quite widespread. The consequence of being quite widespread is actually not the loss in work, but the loss to the individual, the loss to the individual's life elevation. That is a worldly habit. If you are a Christian and you are still a lazy person, that is loving the world. You are imitating this world. Today I encourage everyone to live out that passion of Jesus Christ serving people.

Last Sunday, what I shared was, Do you love the Lord Jesus more than these? But today I am talking about Do Not Love the World. That is to say, in our operations in the company, or in the church, or in any place, you will find something called do and don't. That is, things that should be done and things that should not be done, things that can be done and things that cannot be done. These two things are what determine a person, determine the state of their life. If you do the right things that should be done, and don't do the things that shouldn't be done, this person will definitely get better and better. If you don't do what you should do, but do what you shouldn't do, wow, it gets worse and worse, right?

You say, as a student, he should study but he doesn't, he shouldn't play computer games, but he plays computer games all day long, what do you say will happen in the future? The future will be very miserable. Thank God, those who play computer games have all been transformed in our midst.

Speaking of this word love, this love is very important. Is the word love important or not? It's important. This is the most indispensable thing in life. Without love, life has no flavor. Do you agree with me? Without love, there is no flavor. So if a person has no love, he will be deformed. Growing up without love, deformed. Now there is no movie, TV series, or novel that does not involve love. But now love is a bit excessive, going all the way to mistresses number three and four. Love novels are the most numerous type of novels. Love is the noblest of human emotions. The noblest one is love. Wow! Maternal love! Great maternal love! Great paternal love! Right? But in this world, love also brings the most pain. Right? Wow, heartbroken, wanting to die. Love is also the thing that brings the most pain. Isn't it? Yes. If you love to the point of wanting to die, no one says believe in the Lord to the point of wanting to die. There are some, but there are fewer such people. Loving to the point of wanting to die sounds better. Working to the point of wanting to die doesn't sound so good.

Loving the World and the Things of the World Will Bring Pain

Do you know Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai? Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Zhou Enlai invited a group of foreigners to watch a movie, to watch that opera, called Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. As a result, the translator didn't translate much. The translator said Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The foreigners didn't understand. As a result, Zhou Enlai was brilliant and said to translate it like this: the Chinese Romeo and Juliet. Wow, this translation is so good! It turns out that China also has Romeo and Juliet. In fact, this love is the same all over the world! That is to say, even in that cannibal tribe, there will be Romeo and Juliet. Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber, and those romance novels written by Qiong Yao later, are all like this.

So how can such a noble thing, such a noble emotion, bring pain? This is a very strange thing, very strange. In fact, this is the essence of love in the world. Worldly love is this essence. Worldly love will bring pain. Yesterday I met a sister whose younger brother is mentally ill and beat her mother. As a result, she teared up as soon as she mentioned this. Oh, I teared up with her too. Later I thought about it, why am I tearing up with you? What can you do? You can't do anything. If you can't do anything, then forget it. Forget it. Worldly love, you must learn to let go. Learn to let go.

But this matter may be controversial. It's not the purpose I want to talk about. What do I mean? Loving the world and loving the things of the world will bring pain. You say, Do not love the world, do you think it's important? Maybe you don't agree, but observe carefully, see if what I'm saying is true. You can go and observe. Yesterday I was walking the dog, and I saw a girl wearing an SMU T-shirt standing there. Then the boy was a head taller than her, grabbed her arms, and the girl cursed while crying. I looked at it and thought, oh, it's really painful.

Every generation has constant tragedies happening there. These stories not only happen in every corner of the world, but every generation has Liang Shanbo, Zhu Yingtai, Lin Daiyu, and Jia Baoyu. Tragedies are constantly being staged. You see that this is the problem between people, but what do I see? What I see is not that. Then you say what do you see? What I see is that behind these tragedies, how the devil who controls the world is corrupting mankind, its actions. I see a tragic result caused by loving the world and the things of the world. This is an inevitable result. So today I tell everyone not to love the world.

We can choose to love the world and the things of the world. We can also choose not to love the world and the things of the world. Choose to love the Heavenly Father. Loving the world gets you the things of the world. Loving God gets you everything good in life. You can get it by observation. You can ponder. You can ponder slowly. If you can't ponder it, you can come to me. I'll help you ponder it together. Today I am sharing this Do Not Love the World with everyone, I am saying it according to the words in the Bible. The good thing about the words in the Bible is that they are not written by me. If I wrote a Bible, no one would read it. It wouldn't work.

But the Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years. Many individuals, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote out God's words. Then it tells you the entire composition of the world, bit by bit, and tells you all the problems in people and life, bit by bit. Believe it or not, it's up to you. Then we begin to learn to love God, just follow the words in the Bible to do it, and that's called loving God. Then the God who created the universe reveals to us through the Bible the ways in which the invisible devil works. Loving the world and the things of the world is one way the devil works. So this is the root of the problem.

There was one time, I feel that I often teach like this, and some people think I speak too ruthlessly, but what I say is right, you know? There was one time my mother was dying, my mother was not doing well, she was not doing well anymore. Because she was often committing sins, and the wages of sin is death, but recently she has changed quite a bit. She almost died three times before she changed to what she is today. As a result, I said this, I said, to die or to live, then let it be. Come! I'll lead you in prayer. I didn't say there, I haven't had time to see my mother for the last time yet? My mother! It's over, paralyzed, can't do anything.

But I picked up the phone and said, come, I'll lead you in prayer, bam... prayer. Completely unaffected inside, what is this? This is love from heaven. What I love is her soul, not her flesh. So brothers and sisters must begin to change. Today maybe you cannot accept it, but today you must ponder, see which thing has a better result. Later, didn't my mother get healed? Now she is living well, and I am also living well, right? Everyone is living well, everyone is happy. This is the benefit of loving God, the benefit of loving God. The method of loving the world, I tell you, you have all been deceived. For example, if there is something going on at home, immediately, what to do? You say what can you do? There's nothing you can do.

Okay, today let's read the scriptures, let's read the scriptures, this is in 1 John 2:15-17.

Don't Be a Spiritual Fence-Sitter

Alright? We found it, I think it's best if you open the Bible. You underline this passage, this is a very classic sentence. 1 John 2:15-17. Have you found it? 15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

Let us pray together. Lord Jesus, we choose to love you, Abba Father, we choose to love you, because in you there is the way of eternal life, in you there is the power of victory. Lord, we choose to love you, because you are the source of my life. Today, Lord, I come before you, I come before you, may you give me that power of life, the power of life. Lord, please lead me, in this world. Lord, may I be able to overcome the lusts of this world, Lord, overcome the lust of the flesh, overcome the lust of the eyes, overcome the pride of life, Lord, let us in this world, Lord, just do your will, Lord, forever, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

There are several keywords in this passage. Everyone pay close attention. First, they are two mutually exclusive kingdoms. Some people, they think that they can transform this world, but actually not, they are demolishing this world. Some people think that they can read Confucius' Analects, the Standards for Being Good Students and Children, read these, and then this person will be elevated. This is built on the foundation of their original human culture. Actually not, Christianity is not like that. Christianity is to tear down your old one, and then rebuild a new one. Of course, it's good to build a new one. So they are two completely different kingdoms. Loving the world means not loving God, loving God means not loving the world. You can't say that one leg is in the world, and the other leg is in the kingdom of God, how good, stepping on two boats, not only do boyfriends and girlfriends step on two boats, but they also step on two boats in the kingdom of God, and they get all the benefits from both sides. There's no such thing. If you do this, I tell you, you are in great danger, you must be split in the middle, half for each family. These are two mutually exclusive kingdoms. Either you are in the kingdom of God, or you are in the kingdom of the world. You cannot sit on the fence in this matter, there are no fence-sitters.

Second, this world is a world driven by three lusts. A world driven by three lusts, what are they? The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The pride of life is also a kind of expression of lust. This world is a world driven by three lusts. This is the second keyword.

The third keyword is that this world will pass away, be abolished, disappear, be demolished. Such a beautiful world, even worse than the twin towers in America being hit by a plane, all hit, all hit, all knocked down together, gone. This world will be destroyed, it will be destroyed. Then what? The kingdom of God is eternal. That is such a keyword.

Don't be silly, choose to enter the kingdom of God, resolutely enter the kingdom of God, never build a wall, never build a wall. Not even a single hair is left in this worldly kingdom, just such a resolute attitude. These are several keywords.

So today I want to explain these scriptures, explain these scriptures in detail, about these keywords. In fact, the biggest problem facing mankind is the brevity of life. Believe me, you are young, you don't feel anything, but when you reach eighty years old, you try it, you don't want to die, right? You don't want to die. You ask an eighty-year-old person if they want to die? No one wants to die. Spend as much money as it takes, treat me, they don't want to die. They don't care how much money it costs. To live another year, three hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, no problem. Of course, it's not their money. The children's money, how the children live, that's not their concern.

What do I mean by saying this? The biggest problem facing mankind is the brevity of life. Do you believe it? Ah, life is short. Egypt has the pyramids. The Egyptian pharaohs all prepared a pyramid for themselves while they were alive, hoping that they could last forever. Is that what it means? Last forever. But it's useless. In the end, they just become mummies, and they are brought to the laboratory to be studied and studied.

This World Will Pass Away, the Kingdom of God is Eternal

Why don't the poor people in Egypt have pyramids? The poor can't afford to build them, because the poor people in Egypt don't even dare to think about lasting forever. It's good enough if they can fill their stomachs in this life. That's probably as far as they can think. But the pharaohs who lived in Egypt thought further. So I tell you, when a person climbs to the peak of humanity, you are a small soldier at the bottom, climbing up without knowing what's at the top. When you climb to the position of the Egyptian pharaoh and stand up there, I'll be dead in a few years. I can't die. I don't want to die. That's how they are, because they don't want to die up there, right? Down below, they want to die but can't die. The poor don't have pyramids. If possible, who wouldn't want to live forever? Who wouldn't want to live forever? Don't we Chinese say, it's better to live badly than to die, isn't it? Then a dead lion is not as good as a living dog, that's what it means.

Why did Qin Shihuang build his mausoleum and establish groups of terracotta warriors, hoping that he could live forever? Hoping that he could live forever. Qin Shihuang invested a lot of money, sending Xu Fu to the sea to find the elixir of immortality, but he never found it. In the blink of an eye, thousands of years have passed, but the desire to live forever has increased unabated. By the time of Su Shi, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, he wrote a Shui Diao Ge Tou, how did he write it? He asked when the bright moon would come, have you heard this song? Do Singaporeans among us hear it? I haven't heard it. When will the bright moon come? means, when will there be a beautiful moon? Holding a wine cup, I ask the blue sky. He took the wine and asked the blue sky. Then he said, I don't know what year it is in the palaces in the sky. What year is it this year? I want to ride the wind, riding this wind, today this plane is really riding the wind, to return. Then he was afraid that when he got to that palace in the sky, those beautiful buildings, when the incense smoke was swirling, it's too cold in the high places. It's too high in the high places, the place is very cold, you have to wear a down jacket. This is what I added, this word doesn't have a down jacket. Dancing with my clear shadow, what business is there in the human world? Turning to the vermilion pavilion, lowering the silk-screened window, shining on the sleepless. There should be no hatred, why does something always part when it is round. Then he uttered a very profound sigh. People have sorrow and joy in parting, the moon has its wanes and waxes, this matter has been difficult to complete since ancient times. You know how much longing he had inside. From ancient times to the year of his death, it could not be fulfilled. There's no way. There's no way to fulfill life and death. Dead is dead. I can't find it anymore. I can't find it. I only hope that people will last long, and that we can share the beautiful moon thousands of miles away. That is, I only hope that people can live long. Looking at the moon together thousands of miles away. The last sentence, I only hope that people will last long, and that we can share the beautiful moon thousands of miles away, is the sigh of the world about the brevity of life.

I tell you, if you don't have that sigh, why do you know why? I know why. Working every day, working and not having time to think, too busy, too busy, no time to think. If there is time, you can think about it. If it were Qin Shihuang, the Egyptian pharaoh, or the great poet Su Shi, and they heard that there was a way to live forever, I think they would come to seek it. These people are amazing, these people are very scientific, because they have a very strong spirit of exploration. They are full of curiosity about this way of eternal life. Why? Because they have everything they should have, and they want to find what they shouldn't have, they want to find this. I tell you, if you say that you don't value what Qin Shihuang valued, what the Egyptian pharaoh valued, you know how stupid that is. Because people are poor, so don't value what the poor Egyptians valued, getting a bowl of rice to eat, that's not a normal way of life.

When I preach the gospel to people, it's very difficult. Why? As soon as I mention eternal life, what use is that thing? What use is that thing? That is, people are going to die, what use is that thing. Then he doesn't quite believe it, doesn't quite believe it. But I don't know, if Qin Shihuang, the Egyptian pharaoh, and Su Shi heard about this, I tell you he would come to explore it, he would come to explore it. No matter what, those who don't see the importance of eternal life, these people are very sad. We see that these people's hearts seem to be smeared with oil, only seeing the things nearby, forgetting how close death is to us. You say how close death is to people? Very close, very close. If you stand on the throne of God, you see a thousand years as one day, you know, one day as a thousand years, that is to say, our entire life of eighty years is like this, bam. Died, you say how much regret you have, and then people are in this very short eighty years, working hard and desperately, working like cattle and horses. When they get old, they play monkeys.

Everyone should learn to observe, observe the things in this world, maybe you can ponder and understand the truth. This is the benefit of reading history. I tell you, people can learn a lot from reading history, people read history. When you open a history book, you say today we read Genesis, Abraham is a figure from four thousand years ago. Moses is a figure from three thousand five hundred years ago, then David is a figure from three thousand years ago, Jesus is a figure from two thousand years ago, and then like this, the torrent of history, ruthlessly moving forward, the world is really ruthless, so the Chinese say, An inch of gold is hard to buy, an inch of time. You can't buy it, you can't buy it. Even if you want to buy it, you can't. Some things can be bought, some things cannot be bought. I tell you, the things of life cannot be bought with money either. That's why I learn to give. Giving is giving. Because of what? What I value is God, that is, blessings and curses. Because the two words blessing are incredible. People's time can also be blessed. If you lack time, I'll teach you a lesson. You pray and say, God, bless my time, let every hour of mine be used as two hours. Then you start praying, let every hour of my sleep be like two hours of sleep. You think, after sleeping for three hours, you get up and work, you save so much time in a day.

Okay, this historical site, I watched a documentary called Stonehenge. Hundreds of tons of stones, tens of tons of stones, then stood up to build a Stonehenge. The archaeologists went to study how this Stonehenge was built, because at that time, three thousand or five thousand years ago, there was no Jiefang truck, they couldn't build it. How those hundreds of tons of stones were brought down from that mountain and transported to that place to be built is a mystery. But the meaning of what I'm saying is not this meaning. I mean, these thousands of years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the people who built Stonehenge have disappeared into the dust of history. Those who wanted to last forever were the stones, but the people are gone. Then what did you build those stones for? If people could enter eternal life, what a great blessing that would be.

When you read history, you will find that history, a thousand years, is like standing on the throne of God. So I want to tell everyone that God's system is to enter into eternal life. You can live forever. You can live forever. It's not like blowing out a lamp when you die, it's not, that's a lie. How do you know that the lights went out? Later, scientists studied and found that the moment a person dies, something goes out of his body. It's called the spirit, his soul goes out of his body.

I know a person, this person works at Mediacorp, he is a vice president, he is a good friend of mine. This good friend of mine once had a car accident and died suddenly. After he died, he floated in the air and looked down, watching the ambulance, pulling his body out of the car, and then his soul followed the car into the hospital, floating on the ceiling. He knew everything, a true story, I know this person. Then, this person lived, after being rescued, his soul entered his body and lived, and after he lived, he described what he saw, and many people were stunned. If you are a surgeon, you have probably heard more of these stories. That is to say, people can live forever. The human body cannot live forever, but the human soul can live forever. Do you understand?

That is to say, when a person is alive, he relies on his spirit, and his feelings, all his memories are not stored in the brain.

Yes, indeed. This is a tale of two systems. A deadly serious tale of two systems. Applying this to our spiritual principles, to our lives, I offer several points for your consideration, things I have pondered. I enjoy pondering these things; they may not be entirely correct, but you can use them as reference. You may take notes at this time.

## Focus on Outcomes

Firstly, focus on outcomes. If the outcome is poor, nothing else matters. If the outcome is poor, nothing is worthwhile. Concerning this focus on outcomes, I teach you that this is a spiritual principle. Why did the Apostle John write this in 1 John? Do not love the world. Loving the world is the world's system. What is its outcome? The outcome is destruction, and dying in pain.  What is the outcome of loving the world? Agitation.

Something happens over there, and immediately things falter here. Isn't that so? Do you often not believe? As if burdened by many things. Why? Because what you value, what you love, you focus on. What you love, you focus on, yet you cannot grasp it. Why? Can you truly grasp it? One day, I gave them an analogy. I held a laser pointer and said, Do you see that dot? They said, Yes. Try to catch it. They tried, but as I moved it, they could never catch it. Could they catch it? Never. They were not as quick as I was; they could not keep up.

I tell you, if we live in this world and love it, there is no outcome, no positive result. The result is chasing shadows. What do I mean? This world is a projection of the spiritual world. You try to grasp it, but you miss. You try again, and still miss. What is the point of doing something with no outcome? Like someone who dates a hundred times without success. What is the point? Just giving away free emotions. If there is no outcome, it is no good. But the Bible tells us that there is an outcome. Loving our Heavenly Father certainly has a result, believe that? If you love our Heavenly Father, you hold the laser pointer.  Wherever you place it, it will be there. This is a spiritual principle, very, very important, brothers and sisters, very important. Do not keep doing things that have no outcome, right? Why keep doing things that have no outcome?

So, I mentioned to some, we have a dating course that teaches how to date. One part is called Seven Types of Dating That Will Lead Nowhere. If you see that that is your situation, then stop it now. No outcome means being tormented. Many are unwilling to give up and insist on continuing, sinking deeper and deeper. Okay, that is focusing on outcomes. I tell you, a believer must be a practical person. That is why I often promote what in the church? Make faith part of our life. Brothers and sisters, do not just come into the room, into the small group, and share things. Just sharing those intangible, invisible things is not good, not good. Learn to share how you live out God's word in your life, the outcome. If there is no outcome, then something you did earlier was probably not done correctly.

Serving, what is the point of serving if there is no result? Some people, I used to serve like this: I would drive to their home, sit and chat with them for a while. I thought that was pastoring. What pastoring was that? In the end, their problems remained their problems, and my problems remained mine. There was no outcome. Later, I stopped running around. Do not think I lack love; there was no fruit from it. If you want, come to this room and pray with me. I tell you, your problem will certainly be solved, certainly be solved, because God works through prayer. There is an outcome. Do not look at the formality; focusing on formality is wrong. Did you write that down? Focus on outcomes. That is what the Apostle John was talking about.

## Focus on Feelings

Secondly, focus on feelings. If the feeling is not good, you should avoid it. For example, you are agitated all day, just agitated the entire day. Later, I ask some people, What are you agitated about? Oh, when I think about this matter, I feel uncomfortable inside. I say, Then don't think about it. But I can't help but think about it. See, they insist on engaging in this. Thinking, thinking about those agitating things. And the things they think about are quite interesting. If it is like this, then it is like that; if it is like that, then it is like this; if it is like this, like this, and then they return to the beginning again. Like this, like this, like this, and then they just go around in circles. Running around and around and around, the feeling gets worse and worse, and soon they are confused. Their speech even starts to become incoherent. Many people are like this, many. I tell you, I encounter this often in my ministry. Focus on feelings. Why do we love our Heavenly Father? Because the feeling in loving our Heavenly Father is very good. Very good.

There is a sister among us, a little older than me, not much. When she first came, she did not have much of a smile on her face. Later, after praying with me for some time. You know, some people are just foolish. They see me praying in tongues and think, What use is that? Just mumbling and mumbling, what good can come of it? They do not see, they do not see what? They do not see. I feel especially good inside. I start with feeling bad, but then I feel good. Later, I discovered that when I minister to people, when I bring them all to pray, wow, smiles start to appear on their faces. I feel good, I feel especially good. So, they bring one person after another.

Those of you who are new are brought here because they feel good, right?  So, pay attention to the feeling. Do not just think with your head, What use is this? Some people are strange. They always rely on their head to think. They do not look at the outcome, nor do they look at the feeling. They only look at the way things are done. The way I do things is not important. What is important is that the person I minister to has joy inside, their illness disappears. Joy is truly a hundredfold. Many people among those I serve receive healing of their illnesses. The week before last, a sister came today. She had menstrual pain.  We prayed for her, and she was healed, healed. You see, her feeling improved. She no longer had the pain, of course she feels good. So, brothers and sisters, learn to focus on feelings. Did you write it down? Good, focus on feelings. First, focus on outcomes. Second, focus on feelings.

## Focus on Eternity

Thirdly, focus on eternity. I tell you, do not grasp onto what cannot last forever. Do not grasp onto it. You grasping it will be useless. You say, No, I must have that thing. I must grasp this, grasp that. If those things cannot last to eternity, and you only grasp them, it will bring pain, for you cannot hold onto them. Take money for example. If you only grasp money, it will certainly bring pain because you cannot hold onto it. It cannot last forever.  When a person leaves this world, it is very interesting. We walk on the streets and we do not pick up paper money that is burned for the dead. Does anyone pick up that paper money? When we leave this world, we look at RMB, US dollars, or whatever, and it is just like that paper money; no one picks it up. Right? Does anyone pick it up? No one picks it up because no one recognizes it.

But it is interesting; people are interesting. When I was young, my father was quite superstitious. He would burn paper money for the deceased. He often brought me along. Later, when I learned to read, I saw that he wrote the numbers on the money with an oil pen. Now, it is more advanced; they are printed, that spirit money. But he used to write it with an oil pen and I thought it was crazy. Fifty billion, oh my goodness! It was more impressive than Indonesian currency. My point is, what cannot last to eternity, brothers and sisters, do not grasp. And that paper money on the ground, that spirit money, do not grasp it either. It is useless. Love our Father God, value what our Father God values. If you love our Father God, value what He values and hold tightly to it. This is the lesson of Jacob that I teach you. Jacob was such a person. Jacob was remarkable in one respect. How was he remarkable? He yearned to grasp something eternal. As a result, he reversed the order of his older brother's birthright. He was the second son, not the first. He was not the firstborn, but he obtained the rights of the firstborn. Would you say that this person was powerful?

He spent his days cooking that stew, that soup, always saying, I must have it, I must have it, I must have this eternal thing, I must grasp this eternal thing. I cannot do without it, I must grasp it. As a result, one day, God gave him an opportunity and he obtained the birthright of the firstborn. From then on, I tell you, blessings followed Jacob. Blessings followed Jacob. In six years, he went from being penniless to becoming a wealthy man in the area. This is amazing, even faster than Bill Gates' ascendance. A person who values eternity, who values those who can last forever, is remarkable, that person is amazing. This person's vision, his perspective, does not look at one hundred years, no. Not even one thousand years, not even ten thousand years, but sees into the throne of God and enters into eternity. This is incredible. Such a person's vision will be aligned with God's vision. If their vision is aligned with God's vision, I tell you, this person's ability will be aligned with God's ability. God's power will be manifested through them. Why? Because God is searching for such people. God is searching for such people. I tell you, I highly value eternal life. More and more, I consider eternal life more important than anything else, extremely important.

Some say that I am too fanatical about believing in the Lord. Good, you are good, right? If you are not fanatical, if you choose eternal life or work, that means you are not fanatical. That means you are grasping what will not last forever, what cannot enter into eternal life. I tell you, can you grasp onto it? You cannot. Therefore, these people lack power.  Because I value eternal life, today I encourage brothers and sisters to value eternal life. When you value eternal life, you will discover that when cancer comes, your prayers can heal it. Why? Because when your faith enters into their faith, and they believe together with you, I tell you that person will certainly be healed, certainly be healed. So, when we pray for others, we are not like those who worship idols. We usually accompany it with teaching, to help them understand what it means to believe in the Lord. Okay, that is the third point. Focus on eternity. Do not grasp things that cannot last to eternity. Do not hold on tightly and refuse to let go. It is meaningless, meaningless.

## Focus on the Future

Fourthly, focus on the future. This is why I say that when you love our Heavenly Father and do not love this world, everything that belongs to the Heavenly Father has this characteristic.  You know that our faith can accomplish the future. Some people live in the past, but Christians live in the future. This is powerful, powerful. I can make the future come to pass according to my faith, that is very powerful. So, do not focus on the past. If you keep dwelling on what happened in the past, it is always the same things, and you cannot change them anyway. But we can change the future; we can recreate it. If you do not quite understand, you can go back to the website and watch Creators of History. I said this some time ago. I thank the Lord, a sister greatly encouraged me. She said it was well said and could be included in a book.

## Focus on Obtaining Freedom

Fifthly, focus on obtaining freedom! This is a tale of two systems. If you are obtaining freedom... Do we not have a saying in Chinese, For the sake of freedom, both can be discarded? Freedom is crucial.  If a person lives in bondage, even if there are a thousand or a million reasons why they should be bound, it is not worth it. Do you understand? There are a thousand or a million reasons. Cannot last forever. And there is a thousand and one reasons why you should grasp those things. Do not grasp them. Do not love. Love is a most noble emotion, reserved for our Heavenly Father. Do not love wordly things. Love means bondage but loving our heavenly Father will never let you be bounded. This is a tale of two systems. Loving this world and the things of this world will certainly be bonded, but if you love our heavenly Father, you will not be bothered by wordly things. Just become a free individual. So when you believe in the Lord, you come out of the control and bondage. You are no longer bonded.

You know, if Lin Daiyu lived in our era today and heard the gospel, she would not live in bondage. That is classic bondage. Romeo and Juliet, were all living in bondage. Without liberty. Absence of freedom.

So i'm telling you a story of two systems, from the world or from our heavily Father, an contrary idea. Loving this world will never love God, to love God will never love the world, those two are in contrast. The system from the world will bring you to emptiness, death, despair, a life without purpose or hope. The system that we have, the value from heavenly Father, to lead us to eternal life, living a life with a purpose and with hope, living a life where the spirits in you prosper. I can't show you how all of this works except let you look at the end result. believe, hope and endure all things, and with those you will achieve a glory in your life.

## Do Not Love the World or the Things of the World

Let's look at the seventh point. Do not love the world; do not love the things of the world. What is love? Love is the most treasured thing. That has to be love. Is this an accurate defenition of love? Correct me if I'm wrong.

What is love? The most treasured thing, that is love. If it’s the second treasured, then its not. To love only one and is exclusive. So love isn't being being nice. You can’t tolerate that you love god, but also love another man. it will never be, the love between God is always exclusive. Loving God and loving the world are exclusive. Loving the world could become a human's bondage.

Let me read through these scriptutes: ***1 timothy 6:7-10 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and distruction. For the love of money is root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But you, man of GOD, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, Godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleess. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witness.***

this is from Timothy 6:10 to love these things from the world pierce with your many greifs. People are living in their griefs just so they can feel what it is want to love the world. Here's a lesson for you all. Something that is applicated to all of you.

You work hard for the company? the sister is sitting super well on that chair! when you love the work, then you would be very passionate about your work. When someone touches your work then you would get mad at them. Someone touching everything is like someone being mad that they should be treasured. There are some people who are treasured in being touched and being wronged.

those people love this world. All the grief pierced through their hearts. there are also some who loves money as well, and they would be mad when someone touches the money,. They are living in greifs as well.

There is one way to love without having the griefs piercing in your heart and that is to love God. Loving God and the world is like being pierced the love in your heart. Let me tell a story, story of lot. lot is the man with Abraham to live in the same world. They had so much man and sheep with them that they can no longer co-exists, they decided to choose the prosperous lands of sodom and gomorrah. Abraham is continue to work and to stay. But lot chose to commit sins of world with lusts and vanity. In the end he lose all of his money, lost everything of his, but had to flee and to escape, and was struck by lightening. lot had to retreat back to the mountains and he soon had many cursed descentsed. His wife looked back in pain and grief to then be strucked by lightening to become a pillar of salt near the dead sea until now. The result when you choose to love this world is too also looses everythiing. but thats not true now cause you are doing okay now. You may not lose eveything right now, but you will loose everything when you are dead.

Let me tell another story at the end. IN jan 29th of 2014, an american PHD had strucked and killed his parents. His mother was saved but his father died. and the PHD commited sucicde after. His father was rescued and he was a skilled and worked in to the USA from china, he was always felt better than the rest. He looked back at the rest and they were doing better than him. His friend introduced a great woman and failed. All of the things were too great for him to get over with that he planned to commit sucicde. 

So the PHD killed his father and then to kill his mother. So he was then committed murder and decided to commit sucicde but was saved and was sent to hospital to be check on his depression. On Feb 24 he was then charged and arrested. You see? The things of thsi world is full of saddness and greifs will be pierce through. There are millionare's that are so unhappy as well.

## Sum it Up

To build a spiritual, life giving, and a eternal-stored value system. I don’t think that anyone of us would suffer mental breakdown. If so that you would not suffer but to just be cured. We would not have cases like this.

For we always have the spiritual valuses, living eternally with the help of Jesus from heaven's throne, we can change people from taking sucisde. Through my hadns, because I know of it and served many sucisde people, Behind of them were just the ghosts of the world.

If you live in this world with a spiritual value system and love God is to be blessd from the living water of life. Amen. We close this service with a song
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