Introduction

Hello everyone! This time we will study the thirty-first chapter of Exodus. The more I study Exodus, the more I grow, because I really need to grow. Why did it take so long to start studying Exodus? Some people ask online: Teacher, you have studied Genesis, Deuteronomy, Numbers, and Leviticus, but why haven't you studied Exodus? Because Exodus is really not easy to study. If it were easy, I would have started leading everyone to study it long ago.

Exodus reveals a series of fundamental truths in the Bible. The entire book of Exodus is about the army of Jehovah coming out of Egypt to drive out the people of that land and then enter the promised land to inherit it. But without an army, how can the people of that land be driven out? A long time ago, I felt that driving people out was not good. You say, how self-righteous was my thinking? Is it that God's arrangement is not good, and my arrangement is better? Later, after understanding the Bible, I realized that the army of Jehovah is to conquer the promised land. If we wear a pair of flip-flops, a pair of floral shorts, a vest, hold a fan, wear sunglasses, and comb our hair slickly, preparing to stroll into the promised land, do you think that will work?

I used to think I was quite creative because our God is so powerful that He can kill the sons of the Egyptian elders. If God blew a breath and blew them into the sea or the desert, wouldn't we not have to fight? God, why didn't you do that? Later, I understood that this kind of thinking is very bad; it is not God's arrangement. I never understood why the army of Jehovah God came out of Egypt? Our God is a God of war. Why war? Because there are two kingdoms, one is the kingdom of God, and the other is the kingdom of the world. When the kingdom of God comes upon this earth, there will definitely be war.

When we get to the thirty-first chapter of Exodus, how do we explain this? Actually, I searched very hard. Once I find God's meaning, it is more satisfying than eating a full Manchu Han Imperial Feast. Sometimes, in my room, after reading the Bible and knowing what God wants to say, I walk around bouncing and jumping. From one side of the room to the other, my shoulders are swaying, like a big shot, very accomplished. The thirty-first chapter of Exodus is about God is a God who works together with man. You say this passage doesn't have this sentence? This theme is what I found, so I am sharing it with everyone. Maybe you agree, maybe you don't, but I will discuss why this chapter is about God being a God who works together with man.

In fact, from Genesis to Revelation, there is a very obvious characteristic: Our God is a God who works together with man. God working with man is called rest, which is very important. Therefore, keeping the Sabbath is a very important sign of working with God. God is with Moses. When God was explaining things to Moses on the mountain, Moses didn't even know if there was a person named Bezalel down the mountain, but God knew.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts. (Exodus 31:1-5)

Think about it, if God asked Moses to do this and that, and Moses thought, "Oh no, I don't know how to do this," that would be a problem. But what was Moses' strength? Moses didn't say, "God, you want me to do this and that, but I need people, I need money, I need materials!" In fact, Moses already knew that God had prepared everything for him, so Moses didn't ask, and God didn't forget about it either. In the thirty-first chapter of Exodus, our God is a God who works together with man, so you will find that God has already arranged everything.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah (Exodus 31:2).

What is this for? It's for all the work God mentioned earlier. God has already arranged it, so there's no need to ask. Moses is not stupid; he is very smart. Moses' strength lies in the fact that he didn't ask God, "Where are the people?" God brought Moses to the mountain and told him these things, also telling him how to arrange things. If I were Moses, it would be a problem. I would say to God, "God, you are so powerful, you go do it." Actually, without my stinky tofu, God can do everything. But our God is a God who works together with man. Don't forget this!

Our God is a God who works together with man. God wants to be with us, God wants to work with us. We want to work with God, and we also want to walk with God. That's how our God does things! You weren't there when God created the universe, but it doesn't matter. We need to know how much our God desires to work with us. Brothers and sisters, you need to slowly understand from Genesis to Revelation that God is a God who works together with man. Don't say to God, "God, you go play by yourself, you go do it yourself. Aren't you very powerful?" Understand that we are just a piece of stinky tofu. Whether we are there or not, it's actually the same.

But that's not the key. The key is that God longs for us to share in this glory, God longs for us to receive His power, God longs for us to be filled with His Spirit, God longs for us to be able to do the works He does because of His Spirit in us, God longs for us to be with Him and enter into the rest He has prepared for us. Rest is good, rest is very important! Some people have moss growing in their hearts, grass growing in their hearts, and they start to get agitated. Then they say, "Oh, look at my life, it's all been ruined." Why? Because they don't have God, and they don't work with God, so they don't have rest. With rest, how good it is to do things, so enjoyable! Really, believe it or not. I long to work with God, to work with God every day, to do what God wants me to do, how good!

God Has Already Arranged It

God works together with man. It's not that God can't finish things without your stinky tofu. God can completely finish it Himself, but God just likes to do it this way. God arranged for Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, and also assigned Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to work with them. God has arranged the leaders and the team, and Moses' heart is immediately at ease, without any worries.

The previous chapters talked about God wanting sealskins. Where can you find sealskins in the desert? Can we use dog skin? Even dog skin is hard to find, let alone sealskin. Moses' faith in God surpassed the people of our time, so the two greatest prophets in history who stand before God are Moses and Samuel. Moses didn't say, "Is there this Bezalel? Let me make a phone call and ask." Actually, there was no need at all. God had already arranged Bezalel and also arranged Oholiab.

Moreover, I have given ability to all the skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you (Exodus 31:6). As time goes by, have you seen my approach in building the church? I don't worry. God has already arranged it. What am I worried about? We do what we can do, and we don't do what we can't do. Anyway, God is working with us, so what are we worried about? Once you worry, it's a problem, and the faith in trusting God is all gone. Then, when you encounter things, you start thinking, "How should this be done? How should that be done?"

I usually tell everyone that before doing things, you need to figure out what to do and how to do it. If you say, "Teacher, I can't figure it out," that's very upsetting! If you can't figure out what happened, you think about what you don't understand, and then you feel like you don't understand, and the result is that you will never understand. So what do you do? God is a God who works together with man. Not only is entering the promised land a masterpiece of God working together with man, but also building this tabernacle is also a masterpiece of God working together with man.

The Spirit of God Filled Him

and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts. (Exodus 31:3-5)

Being filled with the Holy Spirit is amazing. Why do we emphasize being filled with the Holy Spirit so much? Because the Bible emphasizes being filled with the Holy Spirit. Do you think being filled with the Holy Spirit is something I invented? Chinese Mingding Destiny is not re-establishing a new theology. God is a God who works together with man. How does God work together with man? It is by filling him with the Spirit of God. God not only chooses people and arranges them, but God also fills them with the Holy Spirit. So brothers and sisters, you need to know that being filled with the Holy Spirit is very important! Why is it important? Because when a person is filled with the Holy Spirit, he will have wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and be able to do all kinds of work. He can think of ingenious designs, make things with gold, silver, and bronze, cut and set stones, work in wood, and engage in all kinds of crafts.

Later, I discovered something: A person's intelligence depends on how well the work he does with his hands is. If a person is clumsy with his hands and clumsy with his mouth, then he really needs to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Then some people ask, "What can I do to be filled with the Holy Spirit?" First of all, you have to be someone who desires to work with God, to do the work that God wants you to do, and then God will fill you with His Spirit. When God's Spirit fills you, you will be able to do all kinds of work, be skillful with your hands and clever with your mind. Do you think being filled with the Holy Spirit is important? Important! Very important! Extremely important! When a person is filled with the Spirit of God, he will become more and more like Jesus and will be skillful with his hands and clever with his mind. Then what do you think will happen if you are filled with an evil spirit? If you are filled with an evil spirit, you will look like a devil.

You say Jesus wasn't skillful with his hands? How do you know he wasn't skillful with his hands? Jesus was very skillful with his hands. Jesus loved to learn from a young age and had God's true teachings from a young age. The Spirit of God filled Jesus without limit. You can see it for yourself in the Bible. So when Jesus was a carpenter, he was the best carpenter, the top carpenter.

I think our church needs to do one thing: to train everyone to do things with their hands, and doing things with their hands can train people to be smart. If your hands are as clumsy as a cotton waistband, you are probably not just clumsy with your hands, but also clumsy with your brain! Slowly, you will find that we will continue to move forward in this direction. We constantly proclaim being filled with the Holy Spirit, but some people's hands are as clumsy as a cotton waistband. Do you know what it means to have hands as clumsy as a cotton waistband? It's a Northeast Chinese expression used to describe someone whose hands are very clumsy and not skillful at doing things.

In the days to come, we will gradually move forward and teach everyone to be able to do things with their hands. If you are someone who doesn't know how to do things with your hands, don't worry if you are not skilled at first. As you do it, you will be filled with the Holy Spirit. After being filled with the Holy Spirit, continue to do things, and then be filled with the Holy Spirit again. You will definitely be someone who is skillful with your hands and clever with your mind. When your hands are skillful, your spirit will be prosperous. If your hands are very clumsy, you are very lazy, and you still want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, how can you be filled? It's very difficult.

Why does the Spirit of God want to fill us? It is so that we can work together with God. Let's start longing to work with God. Our God longs to work with us, and we also long to work with God. When heaven and man unite, the Spirit of God will fill us. Then God will give us all kinds of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, and we will be skillful with our hands and able to do all kinds of work.

I ask you, do we need to be nervous about building the church? If you don't want to build the church, you don't need to be nervous. You need to become someone who works together with God. Those who work together with God enter into God's heart and build God's glorious church. So Bezalel and Oholiab made building God's tabernacle and worshiping God the center, and then brought the entire people of Israel into a life centered on God. Living a life centered on God and working together with God is the most beautiful experience for man.

Whether you are writing software, doing carpentry, or doing renovations, having God's presence is great! But if you only shout hallelujah and shout it very loudly, isn't that very troublesome? Because the Bible doesn't say that someone who shouts hallelujah very loudly is very spiritual! So having a loud voice is actually not very useful.

We need to know that when the Spirit of God fills us and things are accomplished, it is all because of the Spirit of God, so there is no need to be nervous. God will surely work with us, God will surely bring us into the promised land, God will surely make us prosper, and we will see God's presence in everything we do. If you grasp God's heart, it will be difficult for you not to prosper! You will definitely prosper, and the Spirit of God will definitely be with you. And I will also tell you that God will make those who are wise in heart even wiser.

We must enter into God's heart when building the church. What is building the church for? To let the captives be released, the oppressed be set free, and to let the church, let God's people enter the promised land, to trample on the devil and the enemy. That's great, isn't it? A person works together with God for a lifetime. Where can you find something so good? You see, God works with us, and God makes us victorious. Actually, the battle is not fought by us, but God has already fought it for us in advance. Enter into God's heart, start longing to be someone who works together with God, start longing to build God's glorious church, and start longing to have a part in God's glory.

God is the God who makes us victorious. What are you afraid of? Even if bullets don't have eyes, God has eyes. We are working together with God. Even if a bullet is shot over, God can make the bullet turn! The problem lies here, so what we do is very important. We must do what God commands us to do. So Chinese Mingding Destiny likes to do what Jesus did. What our Lord Jesus did, we do; how our Lord Jesus did it, we do it; what our Lord Jesus didn't do, let's forget about it! Can you understand? That's why things are accomplished, not because of anything else, but because of the Spirit of God.

Don't be like a certain soccer team, getting nervous as soon as they kick the ball. Can you kick the ball well if you are nervous? If you are nervous as soon as you do something, how can you do it? You are just afraid of losing face, and as a result, you lose all your face. Can our brothers and sisters not be nervous when doing things? Rest when you should rest, sleep when you should sleep. You see some of us, working on ministry, staying up day and night, so nervous! And then I say he didn't do it right, and he feels wronged! He feels that he has no merit, but he has worked hard, so how can I say that to him? He has already tried his best. You have indeed tried your best, but you didn't do it right! You have to do things right! Isn't that right? So where is the problem? The problem is whether you are working with God. If you work with God, you won't be nervous at all.

Why are people nervous? Because they feel pain in their hearts when they work. They feel that others are doing better than them, but they can't do it well themselves, and then they try desperately to do it, but they still don't do it as well as others. Then they start to feel uncomfortable, and they feel bitter in their hearts, but they can't say it out loud because saying it out loud is too low. Is that the case? Am I right? Because what you care about is not the work of God itself, but your face. Where is the wisdom in that?

So you have to rely on the Spirit of God to do things, don't be nervous. If you are nervous, you will just copy an assignment and hand it in, and then you will find that you copied the assignment from the previous period. You didn't even copy it right, and you made a fool of yourself. Why did you copy it? You didn't look at the question carefully! What kind of brain is that? Playing fake and playing it like this. When working with God, we must have a sense of rest inside. God's purpose is not to make us work so hard, God's purpose is to let you enjoy working with God, to let the Spirit of God fill us, to gain wisdom, to gain understanding, to gain knowledge. Because God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

The word rest must enter into us, and rest must become the main axis of our lives. The English translation of rest is not very good. We Chinese separate rest and repose. Rest is rest, and repose is repose. But the English words for rest and repose are both "rest." If you say "rest in the Lord," that's a problem, because it means you have gone to be with your ancestors. So can "rest" represent repose? It's very troublesome.

Whoever it is, whether they are doing ministry or serving, whatever you do, you must rely on the Spirit of God, seek only God's glory, and not seek your own face. As for how I see you, I have seen through life and death, so what do I need to see in you? Someone always says to me, "Teacher, look, how is the assignment I did?" Actually, it's not very good. Your growth is the most important thing. What can the assignment be? I'm too lazy to look at it! Brothers and sisters, it's not that I'm discouraging your enthusiasm. Why would I discourage your enthusiasm? Whether you do that thing well or not, that's what you should do. You don't need to come here to show it off to me.

If you come here and tell me what problems you have, I can fix it for you. Don't come over here to let me see how well you took your notes. They're not very good, and there's still a lot of room for improvement! Even if you get hurt, it doesn't matter. It's just you who gets hurt. You've got everything wrong. I just want to hurt those who are easily hurt. The assignment is not important. What's important is your growth, what's important is being with God, in God's rest.

A person serves God until he gets hydrocephalus, until he gets cancer, until he gets all kinds of inflammation. After asking him, he feels that serving God is a very laborious thing, and he feels very wronged when serving God. That grievance is as if he shouldn't be doing it. Look! I'm so wronged. I can only rest one day a week when I serve God. I say, what kind of brain is that? I haven't rested for a day, who can I tell? Although I haven't rested for a day, I enjoy it, I like it, I'm willing to do it, is it any of your business? Look at the way he serves, there's something wrong with his heart and brain. He feels so wronged and so uncomfortable when he serves. Then how can the Spirit of God be with him?

You must know that the entire logical system of my building the church is that you shepherd not for the sake of those who are being shepherded, but for your own growth; you serve not for the sake of those who are being served, but for your own growth; you do ministry not for the sake of that ministry, but for your own growth. I don't really need you to do things. God has already arranged for others to do it. The same goes for me. God doesn't really need me. It's me who needs to work with God.

So brothers and sisters, those who are wise in heart, what does it mean to be wise in heart? If you understand this, God will make you even wiser. What do you think? I will not boast about my own ability, but I will boast about my Lord Jesus, who is the God who is with me. When I willingly serve Him, I become a wise person. When I willingly serve Him, He is with me and makes me even wiser, so that I can do His work.

Do What God Commands Us to Do

All this is to be done according to all my commands concerning the tabernacle, the ark of the covenant law with its atonement cover, and all the other furnishings of the tabernacle— the table and its articles, the pure gold lampstand and all its accessories, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, the basin with its stand, and also the woven garments, both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests, and the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. (Exodus 31:6-11)

What does God want us to do? To build God's tabernacle, the place where God is with me. To obtain the promised land, the first thing is to build the place where God is present. This place is the center of worshiping God. This place is where the high priest meets with God, and then in this place, there is God's guidance. The pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire are manifested among us every day, being with us. No one can stand before us, because God is with us. We are the people who work together with God. This is God working together with man.

You say that the Holy Spirit fills me, and I want to be the richest man in Yantai, I want to be the richest man in Guangdong. As a result, you didn't become the richest man, and God really gave you a "poorest man," the "poor" of debt. What are you pursuing this for? Is this wisdom? Why do we want to do this thing? Because this thing is what God commands us to do. God commands us to do it, and God will work with us. It's not doing what we like to do, it's doing what God likes to do; it's not doing it with grievance and reluctance, it's doing it willingly, which is reasonable and exceedingly good. Only in this way can we obtain God's promise.

A few days ago, I ministered to a cancer patient, and I raised a very challenging question. I said that the churches I have seen don't do it this way. I have re-established a set of logical systems for building the church, which is Chinese Mingding Destiny. I asked him, "You have cancer, what does your church do?" He said that their church also has prayer and healing and deliverance. Then I asked him, "Has anyone been healed?" He said that some people have been healed, and some people have not been healed. We cannot understand these things, and maybe they are all God's will. I don't say it that way. I say that if we don't understand, can we figure it out?

I tell everyone that those who come among us have been healed! The reason is very simple. For example, I am an engineer, and I made a system. Sometimes this system works, and sometimes it doesn't work. Then this system is a bad system. If we build a church, and the church's healing and deliverance sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work, then this is a bad church. Because it is not done according to God's word, and what God wants us to do is not done, and it doesn't work after it's done. And then they say, "That's just the way it is!" If the plane that is built sometimes flies and sometimes doesn't fly, sometimes it flies up and comes down, and sometimes it flies up and doesn't come down, then that plane is bad, it's not figured out. The systems that are figured out all work, and engineers all understand this principle.

What God wants us to do is to build the church on the rock of Jesus Christ according to God's word, so it works 100%. If you read the Bible, you will see that whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven, so the gospel of Jesus Christ works 100%. Some people say to me, "Everyone else has done it wrong, and only you have done it right!" No! No! No! They all think they have done it right. I thought I hadn't done it right, so God revealed it to me, and then I did it right. So have I completely done it right today? Not even close! Chinese Mingding Destiny says that knowing God is endless, and growth is also endless, like the sea filling the ocean. So we must constantly pursue until we see the face of the Lord Jesus.

Doing what God wants us to do, how difficult is this? How many people are willing to do what God wants them to do? But many people don't do what God wants them to do, and they do a bunch of things that God doesn't want them to do, and it's upsetting to look at. My mother used to teach me a saying: "Look at this person, tell him to go east and he goes west, tell him to chase the dog and he catches the chicken, and in the end, he brings back a roast chicken." The things that God wants us to do are the things that God wants to be with us. Don't we have to figure these things out? The tabernacle, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat, the altar of burnt offering, the altar of incense, the priests, the destiny that the priests bear, and how we serve God, etc., are all God's arrangements. What are you nervous about?

If you are always thinking about doing it quickly, making the ark of the covenant, making the mercy seat, and then you cut it wrong with one knife, and then you have to start all over again. You are always nervous, neurotic, and you can't do things well at all, so you must do what God wants us to do!

Observe the Sabbath

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for generations to come, so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy. Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you; anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on it must be cut off from their people. For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.’ The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.” (Exodus 31:12-17)

When reading the Book of Exodus, we must understand it clearly, and not twist it, thinking that God wants us to observe the Sabbath. Observing the Sabbath here speaks of working together with God! What is rest? Working together with God is rest. Why did the previous passage talk so much about Bezalel, being filled with the Holy Spirit, having wisdom, and then doing these things? I ask you, are doing these things important? Doing these things is not as important as those people. For whom was the Sabbath established? The Sabbath represents God working together with man, and it was not established for the sake of working and resting.

Having worked for six days in a week, and still rushing to meet the deadline, not observing the Sabbath. As a result, Oholiab continues to work, and the Israelites continue to work hard. Can this be done? If this matter is God working together with man, is it necessary to do this? Doing this eliminates God. Originally, God worked together with man, and there was no need to be nervous and anxious. In quietness and confidence shall be your strength, in returning and rest you shall be saved. So brothers and sisters should know that observing the Sabbath is not about anything else, but on this day we stop the work in our hands, even if it is making incense and utensils for the temple, we also arrange these things well, and on this day we seek God, and constantly know God. Being with God at this time is called the Sabbath.

In the New Testament, it is not once a week for the Sabbath, but every day is a Sabbath. As a result, many pastors interpret this as rest, which is a wrong interpretation. Some pastors say on Monday that it is their Sabbath, and they do not answer any phone calls, even if their mother dies, they do not answer the phone. Someone needs the pastor's service, and then contacts him. As a result, he asks others if they know what day it is today? It is his Sabbath. Many pastors have not learned anything else, but they have learned this very well.

Brothers and sisters, do not learn this, this is rest, not Sabbath. After finally resting for a day, they go to do all kinds of things they like to do. I have never seen these in the Bible. There are also some priests who go horseback riding and play golf on the Sabbath. Sabbath is a day to be quiet and reread the word of God, do you understand? In English, both Sabbath and rest are the same word, called rest.

Working Together with God is an Unchanging Principle

Observing the Sabbath for generations to come as a lasting covenant is an unchanging principle in the Bible. The God of the Old Testament is also the God of the New Testament, and the God of the New Testament is also the God of the Old Testament. Working together with God is an unchanging principle. It does not refer to a single day, but the basic principle behind the establishment of the Sabbath is no different in the New Testament and the Old Testament. If you are a true Israelite, a true descendant of Abraham, what are you nervous about? Working together with God does not require nervousness. Working together with God is trusting in God, knowing that God has prepared the materials, and also prepared the people, and God has prepared everything. When I trust in God, we have peace and tranquility in our hearts. Even making all the utensils in the temple is the same. You will ask, what about serving in the temple? Serving God is rest.

The priests in the Old Testament did not have the concept of the Sabbath. Those who cultivated the land, including those who made utensils, Bezalel and Oholiab, would put down their handicrafts, even some of the work in the church, to seek God and know God. Because understanding God's will is more important, this is an unchanging principle, this is the eternal evidence between God and the Israelites. I want to tell everyone that diseases cannot get close to you. If people are often sick, it is a very serious matter. Why is this? It is very hard and uncomfortable to do things, because what they lack most is walking with God and resting every day.

While living in the world, begin to enjoy the rest of walking with God; lying in a coffin after death is not called rest. This is an everlasting covenant for generations to come, because God gave Moses two tablets of the law on the mountain, which were stone tablets written by the finger of God. That is the covenant that God has established forever, engraved on the stone. We must engrave these words on our hearts, and seek God every day, because we need God's presence in everything we do, and walk with God. What a wonderful thing this is, what is better than walking with God? God is willing to walk with us, are we also willing to walk with God? God is willing to help us, but have we stopped trusting in God?

Summary

Brothers and sisters, after a struggle, I told my colleagues that if you want to serve, then serve, if you don't want to serve, then put it down. Why would I say this? Because our God does not want us to be a hard-working person, God wants us to be willing to serve, and then become a willing and joyful servant. Then you say God will blame me. In fact, even if you are unwilling, God is not happy with what you do, and what you do is in vain, and what you offer is in vain. Can you tell yourself that I willingly serve my God, this is my Mingding Destiny, this is what I should do! Will there still be a lot of hard work and sorrow? Serving God to the point of hard labor, it would be strange not to be cursed.

Many people do things to make a show, because he is the pastor of the church, and he would feel bad if he didn't make a show, and he has to do this to get a salary. Some people become the pastor's wife, and it would be inexcusable if they didn't make a show, because they are the pastor's wife in the church. In the end, it is not hard work and high merit, but hard work and three highs.

We must return to God's rest, work together with God, and tell ourselves in our hearts how wonderful this is. When we enjoy being with God, happily and joyfully, doing the work that God wants us to do; observing the Sabbath, walking with God, working together with God, and engraving God's words on our hearts. Carefully observe and follow God's words, whether it is the New Testament or the Old Testament, it is what God's people should carefully observe for generations to come. Amen!

May God bless everyone!

Reflection Questions

4. What factors hinder us today from working together with God?
   A. Nervousness, fear
   B. Saving face, hypocrisy
   C. Thinking that serving God is hard work, and God needs us very much
   D. Entering into being with God