I. Introduction:

Good morning! Today, I want to share a sermon I particularly enjoy delivering, which revolves around how one can receive blessings. At times, I pose the question: Do you desire to be wealthy? And the response often is: Pastor, why would you even ask such a question? Of course, I want to be wealthy! If only it were that simple. Then I would inquire: Do you aspire to live prosperously? To which they'd exclaim: Isn’t that self-evident? I dream of it! I'd reply: Excellent! They’d ask: How so? I’d reveal: I possess a method. They’d then question: What is this method of yours? My method is exceptionally good; it is straightforward, simple, requires neither bloodshed nor excessive perspiration. I would then say: You must diligently observe and adhere to the words of the Lord your God, loving Him with all your heart, soul, and strength! Upon hearing this, their countenance would often change, their faces turning green. Why? Because they would retort: Is that all there is to it? I thought you were going to tell me how to start a business, how to venture forth, how to build a company, a large enterprise, a unicorn.

Have you heard of a unicorn? I then realize: We are not on the same wavelength! There is a passage in the 《Bible》that deeply stirred my heart. You see, I was a recent convert, and I was different, I was, you see, I am a diligent student and, and very exact person, a straight and exact trained engineer. When I had just come to know the Lord, it was just that I had just come to know the Lord, oh boy! As I read the 《Bible》, I came across this passage, 《Deuteronomy》 Chapter 28. It does not take long, 《Genesis》, 《Exodus》, 《Leviticus》, and the 《Numbers》, and then on to 《Deuteronomy》. I started to consult the 《Bible》, because at that time I had just gotten to the portion of 《Deuteronomy》. What did I read?

If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. (Deuteronomy 28:1)

Bear in mind, as a young Christian, freshly converted and largely ignorant, I was genuinely in the dark. But upon reading this passage, wow, would I describe it? It struck me like a thunderclap! He will set you high above all the nations on earth. I proclaimed: Very good! God, I want it! Oh, that is something I could never turn down! As I read the second verse:

All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. (Deuteronomy 28:2-6)

Wonderful! I thought: Where else would I find such words? I had searched far and wide, only to find it right here! Such good fortune has befallen me; there truly is such a God!

The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. (Deuteronomy 28:7-8)

I thought, wow! What a revelation! The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

I felt, wow! Is this really happening? I can tell you, this matter is beyond my imagination. Why? Because I thought God was not concerned with such things. Look at what He had said, it's like the Chinese Emperor. That we Chinese are used to saying has nothing to do with the lives of the common citizens? See how people work hard. Is it not so? Ah, the darkness, the old society, the hard lives of the common citizens. Who is there to care for them? Reading this, My God, what a revelation, He manages my barn? ah, the barns, refrigerator, bank accounts, and with my hands at work. I, for one, am an honor student, one with an astute and studious mind. A slow-witted person wouldn't understand this, but a student like me will! To God, I give all glory! You thought that to praise God is the end? How could it be? Those of who have done those things will do well!

Anyway, at the time, I had just come to the Lord, and, oh dear, with barely a penny to my name, not far from sleeping on the streets. But, as I had nothing to lose, so I did as it sais: I am so poor, so miserable, I will follow what you say and put myself out on a limb, that risk is worth taking. Is it not? If I follow God's words and it works out, wonderful, isn't it? However, if it is not, nothing to lose! Everyone, do you know what that is? That is, nothing to lose! Snap! I'll snap my fingers and walk by God's word. It's just nothing more than taking an calculated step.

Oh, my goodness! God's blessing came upon me, I just didn't know where to begin! I tell you, this is no exaggeration, and along came my life and now I only know this thing. The need to closely follow! I acknowledge this point is not well understood, and mistaken as religion. To this day, I have not been absent from one service.

Now, you will say: “Why not? You were out with Covid?” The sound of my recorded preachings were played, because I never missed a beat or fell behind. I have been in service. Are you joking? How many of our brothers and sisters share my perspective? Not many, this personality isn't as common as you think. As a honour student, do you really think I am joking?

As I read of diligently adhering to His ways, I was overwhelmed. This eternal and true God in heaven cares about a small thing to me? What I said was a little crude, it was a real thing for me. That God the Creator of all creation would really be involved in the everyday life of someone as insignificant as I. God! All right! Changed my mind and all my cognitions. Well ok! You should know that I have been proud ever since I was a kid. Don't look at the look on my face, from childhood I was a good student, didn't cause any trouble. In the eyes of my mom and dad, I am a good boy. Others' parents see me as a good boy too.

I thought I was great, I worked hard, studied well, and lived a good life. But when these bad days came upon me, it proved one thing, I was very small. And those unlucky folks where everything goes wrong for them, their life is on the down, and there is not much recourse from it. Just when things seems to be going and my work was going well, and it was not good. And that has something to do with my work, but it did not work with me. I like those kinds of stuff but it did not like me. Just like some boys, look at those girls that look good, and girls don't think alike. It is useless. That has something to do people who introduce someone and get together in one room, doesn't mean it is good. Is that it? See the way they wind up? There in no use. She may see the way one says is good and then when they see it doesn't work.

I tell you, when you’re down on your luck, nothing you say counts, absolutely nothing! It completely broke me. From then on, I knew one thing: my little talent was useless, depending on myself, I did not know what to do, I could not rely on myself! At that time, I felt I needed a God. I had found a God and wrote. In that writing He wrote about a piece from chapters 28:11-14 of 《Deuteronomy》. Finding a treasure! I tell you, like finding a treasure, a God who cares about me, loves me, that was right at that time. God gave me a job. And that really was from God. A couple of days ago, I met, there I met a boss that had something that seemed just like my own. I do not know what to say, and he was also about 70 years old. It just goes to show that he told me what it was. At that time he said that your job was given by God! Then how do I tell you to do it? At least tell you that it is pretty good! Then what happened after that? Pay attention to the word of your God. How that is something that happened. Don’t listen to the Lord God. Do any here have any resolve? Not as many as you think.

I have nearly thumbed through all the English versions of the 《Bible》, and it is all but crumbled, blackened by use. I may not be joking, but that is the truth. I have thumbed through three Chinese versions of the 《Bible》. You should listen with your heart to Jehovah's words. The things I said I would like to. I do not know. The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

Well, if I were dumb what would I do now? It will get done, because how does this work? I don't know. Not at all! Still have to listen to the people. I have a bit of esteem for my own intelligence, especially with the trust I have in this matter. I have still some high IQ. I guess the 《Bible》 will not wear out. because why? But because it is an electronic copy! But getting past all that effort means you have to put in the work.

God in 《Deuteronomy》 chapter 28 I had told you I would tell you that from one piece of this, is not exaggerated. I am talking about now.

So you know today, I also think that it’s what he should be doing. Why does that person not think very highly of this. Is it so hard? Ah, with a lot of feeling it's just a lot of feeling. Just those things are what are bothering you? Right or wrong? It is just such as thing what is going on? So many people have a hard time. So how can you do it? So if there is a case of stupidity and it is just a lot of trouble, and its a headache. People are just saying I'm just speaking on them. The truth is now that you had tried to speak badly? Must be! Even those with, I had mentioned it, your brain is not the same as the brain of a computer such and such like ChatGPT. It is a brain problem!

You are full of blessings. What? I said that for real not sarcastic. The first time I received blessings was for real, when that thing came by. Those kinds of issues, the things that come in the churches as an offering, it had been 10-11 offerings. And, well then I would go home. And they couldn't say what wasn't good and all that rubbish. Then it feels bad. Well now, if you came to that church I am thanking God. It is it not like that. As you offer for God, it hurts. Is that right? What I mean is that I am real happy. It feels so good. And then it must have been a well thought-out thing. And then now that is a full load of well-thought-out work. The reason being that well-thought-out and intelligence goes well together. Then do more.

On through it all what is happening is all of what I have been doing. But who can say to the teacher thank you for offerings to the teacher. You be able to be grateful for the intelligent choices that you have made. Then from Jesus those decisions will be even clearer. Now in 28 years a Christian, since the day I have came I have not faltered. Then with all of those things don't say that, that is not just a service. Just great devotion. And they it is not so. Great. It seems not just that one day had been missed. But where did you meet for the meeting I went to? I was missing.

Now how is it if one comes and says one day I am going to get married. And then you say when. This time it is that time. Is that the same one as God's? Can I change that? Cannot, well then that's settled. You say it should be. Who does it matter to? You can do it with whom you have devotion for. If people are that zealous then it's for that matter the end. Then you are going to tell me how I am always working and not getting tired. That is because I am always hearing what my Jehovah is saying. To follow. This will never falter or be hesitant with evil and what you may know.

Evil will dig a pit for you and know you hate it!

When I serve, oh gosh! I am pulling myself apart, because inside I hate it. I am in conflict with myself because inside I have a lot of detestation and I am so bothered to be with those ones. And still there I need to follow the word of the Lord. And then I need to closely be paying attention to the word of the Lord and there is going to be two sides struggling. But I need to listen to the words of God! That being of bad nature came to speak to me. Was inside and used the person's voice to speak. So it is those things that cannot be heard! Do not assume that the bad being is on the out. The bad being comes in and he did it just to come up and say he just wants to tear them down, and destroy them. They were bad! Just say that. Well that may very not be right! Right?

Inside those they were saying that. Oh, you are so mean, evil in nature, because evil in nature is something that can't be killed! Those kinds of natures of the mean, evil natures what is he thinking? So they that's the eyes and the mouths that are evil and deceitful and said, I also know that you that those kind of services, they just hate them. Oh and you were digging a pit for me to be trapped in. You think that the pit that you have did for me would work? It is true.

I said, you just stated the truth but you do not even recognize that those of which who do not have true heart, truly I hate to administer what is going to happen. I do not even want to touch them or even handle what it is that they are going through! Not even pay any attention to them! You are just not with me at all! Since if I am just minding God and living for that it is not in line! Now because of God and from God and from the words from there and within the pasture for one day! You will have no reason! Evil get out of here! and leave!

The key essence is how and why, from those services you have been able to see my diligence and I am like in the scripture that just keeps going back to 《Deuteronomy》 28:1-14! From there do not do what is to verse 15 onwards and back, that I have my back! In other words, do not be a part of the evil side.

To speak of such, because you are speaking of the good side. Now I will explain that I have already selected that this is not the life that I had known or was there before . I have selected to obey the instructions and the way to live the life in from section in 《Deuteronomy》 and how through 28;1.14 where my life will forever be changed. And now to follow the word of God and what God had instructed of my own self. I am in compliance and agreement.

To follow the laws of The Lord in the capacity you are in, whether in level or the degree. I am not hesitant or doubtful. To what extant do those that follow me? I am the initial founder of Chinese Mingding Destiny. Chinese Mingding Destiny is in this generation in particular is the one and only systematically expounded throughout the Christian theological and system. Through this, its system is very specific. It is now something of that I would have the need to come up and expound something. Why is that I need to pay attention and need to hear what is from the The Lord is saying to me, The God is giving and it is what is going on. I should be there, be present and be a God fearing.

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So, I have my own thoughts about those who are always busy, and that is, they are foolish. Too busy, they have busied God away; too busy, they have busied the blessings away; too busy, they have busied away the time to listen to God's words. Be busy, good luck to you! There are too many strange phenomena. Do you all know, I am not busy. People around me, they find me very magical. They say: This young man is never seen to be busy. But the work I do, I tell you, ten pastors cannot compare, twenty pastors may not even be able to compare. Because they work into the negatives, it would be better if they didn't work, once they work, they work into the negatives. You see doing business, you should make money, right? Once they work, they lose money, it's better not to do it. So I tell you, today whether you are busy or not, pay attention to listening to the word of the Lord your God.

Everyone should know, it's not because I'm not busy that I take time to come to church for leisure. No, it's because I used to be very busy. You say: Didn't you say you're not busy? I am busy, and I am not busy, busy with what? Before, my work was piled up like a mountain, so much work. But I still ministered, worshipped God, and never put the things of God below my work, the things of God always come first. When my work was almost gone, someone possessed by a demon came to me, I even cast out demons during work hours. Of course, I have the conditions for this, don't learn from me, you don't have those conditions, don't do this, because no one manages me, I am the boss. So today, our brothers and sisters begin to understand.

Samuel said: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. (1 Samuel 15:22)

A rigorous attitude towards God's word, that is the attitude of our Chinese Mingding Destiny. Precisely because of this, Chinese Mingding Destiny explains and removes many confusing things in theology. People listen to God's word, just like children. At one year old, not crying or making trouble is called listening to God's word; at three years old, being able to help parents buy soy sauce is called listening to parents' words; at ten years old, studying hard is called being obedient. If you are ten years old and don't cry or make trouble, acting dumb, is that called being obedient? That's not called being obedient.

So people listen to God's word, I know when I first believed in the Lord, that was a standard, can I still stay at that standard now? No, I cannot. So people need to know that God's standards are constantly changing, we must love the Lord your God with all our heart, soul, and strength. At one year old, you love in such a way, at three years old, you love in that way, when you grow up and mature, grow up in Jesus Christ, then you must take on the mission of serving. The tragedy lies in what? Many people have believed in the Lord for thirty years, and they are still at the age of three, that is a disease. Is that called listening? That's not called listening. You must continue to grow, gradually know God more, pay more attention to listening to the word of your God, and constantly grow in Jesus Christ, constantly know God, knowing God is endless. It is a tragedy if a person does not grow!

Recently, I caught hold of the word Peter, and as a result, someone invented something called the Peter Principle. Have you all heard of Newton? You have heard of Newton's three laws. Have you heard of the Peter Principle? Haven't heard of it. In 1969, someone wrote a book called The Peter Principle. This Peter Principle is quite interesting, it says: This person, because they did a good job, they got promoted, promoted to what position? Promoted to the position where they are not competent, and then they are finished, this is called the Peter Principle. Why do many companies keep promoting people, promoting them, until they reach a position, and then they mess up the job, this thing is called the Peter Principle. You say is that a coincidence? Quite a coincidence, similar to the principle of the Apostle Peter. What is the reason? No growth.

This Peter Principle, I want to emphasize one sentence, that is, people must constantly grow. So Chinese Mingding Destiny is a theology that carefully keeps and follows God's word, and is also a theology of growth. Growth is in Jesus Christ, you constantly pay attention to listening to the word of the Lord your God, you will definitely grow, you will definitely be like a tree planted by streams of water, whose leaves do not wither, and bears fruit in its season. Understood? It is not a theology of success, it is a theology of growth. Why? Because we do not live in the Peter Principle, we live in the Paul Principle. Chinese Mingding Destiny is essentially the theology of the Apostle Paul, which is the theology of Jesus Christ. We live in striving, we live in constant growth, striving until we see the Lord's face. How wonderful! Be a faithful and good servant, until you see the Lord's face.

Know that in my heart, there is a very strong desire, what is one thing I desire very very much? That is to come before God and be called a faithful and good servant by God. Because of this hope, I am striving every day, not fooling anyone. Until today, shepherding God's flock, distributing food in due season. Today, Chinese Mingding Destiny's influence is still there a little bit. You know, I don't know who put my sermons in that group to listen to. Listening and listening, they feel that this is good, this is good! Of course, it's good!

Because Chinese Mingding Destiny is a theology of striving for constant growth, and not only can it become a system, but it can also systematically explain those very absurd phenomena in the church. Understood? So brothers and sisters, do you know? Don't ever think that thirty years ago you heard the word of God, and then you say: I have heard the word of God. Thirty years ago you heard a sentence, isn't that outrageous? The following twenty-nine years you didn't listen, it's useless. Today's introduction is a bit long, one talk is thirty-five minutes, is it good to listen to? Good to listen to. Good, let's all read the scriptures. When reading the scriptures, what do I hope for? I hope that when you read this passage, you have the effect that I had when I read it. Why? Because the effect I had when I read it was a strong shock, very exciting!

Two, scriptures

If you pay careful attention to the Lord your God and diligently follow all his commandments, which I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. “The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. “The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. “The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you. “The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Do not turn aside from any of the commands I am giving you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them. (Deuteronomy 28:1-14)

May this passage be fulfilled in our brothers and sisters. Amen!

Three, prayer

God! Such wonderful promises, today give us a wise heart, let us be able to carefully keep and follow Your word, let us know that Your word is spirit and life. God! Today we will look up to You, trust in You, act according to Your word, without deviating to the left or right, carefully keeping and following. May the blessings proclaimed in Deuteronomy chapter 28, verses 1 to 14 come upon us, may Your name be glorified, may all people see Your people being raised up on earth and fear Your holy name. God! Raise us up, let our brothers and sisters be able to see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears the fulfillment of Your promises, fulfilled in our brothers and sisters. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

Four, the background of this passage

Know what is the background of this passage? The background of this passage was written in a very sad situation. Why is it a tragedy? Know that God brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, and struck down the firstborn of the Egyptians with God's mighty arm. I tell you, they saw God's power with their own eyes, leading the Israelites through the Red Sea as if walking on dry ground. I tell you, it was simply amazing. As a result, what happened? After some training, they were going to take them into the promised land, but they didn't want to go in. As a result, God became angry and let them wander in the wilderness for forty years. When the forty years were about to end, God was going to let them enter the promised land.

At this time, Moses wrote a book called Deuteronomy, reaffirming God's promises, reaffirming God's commands. I tell you, Moses was convinced when he wrote this passage. What kind of person was Moses! He performed so many miracles in Egypt, facing the powerful Pharaoh, facing the strongest nation of that generation, Egypt. The Pharaoh was very powerful, if he wanted you to die, he would definitely not let you live. As a result, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt in front of the Pharaoh. As a result, these people saw God's power with their own eyes, but did not want to enter the promised land, do you think this is a tragedy? Very tragic. As a result, they could not enter, and accompanied this group of stubborn and rebellious people, accompanying them to wander in the wilderness for another forty years, what a waste! Moses, Joshua, Caleb, and others could have gone in, they did not need to wander in the wilderness.

Wandering in the wilderness for forty years, you will find that Moses did not complain when he wrote Deuteronomy, right? How wronged he was! Accompanied by such a group of people, upsetting, right? Upsetting! At this time, Moses was worried that if they didn't go in again, it wouldn't be forty years. Know that God's punishment of people is often doubled, if it's doubled again, eighty years, how can they live through that? Oh no! He was afraid that they would not be able to enter again, so they would be destroyed, so he wrote Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy was written to chapter 28, recording the most beautiful passage. Do you want it or not? I want it! So I divide Christians into three categories: one category is still in Egypt and has not come out; another category is in the wilderness and later died in the wilderness; and the last category is those who have entered the promised land. So, everyone try to learn to enter the promised land, it is a tragedy if you cannot enter! If people cannot enter the promised land, what is the point of believing in the Lord? Isn't that a tragedy? Reiterate God's words again:

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live (Deuteronomy 30:19).

I called out to heaven and earth to testify to the Israelites, placing life and death, blessings and curses before them, letting them choose, either choose to be blessed, or choose to be cursed! Did they listen? They didn't listen! The Israelites, led by Joshua, entered the promised land, but did they listen? This sentence, today it still rings in our ears, but in the eyes of many people, it is like talking to a deaf person, they cannot hear it. So later, generation after generation of Israelites, there were few people who listened to God's word, and many who did not! I lament, the Israelites have become a model of curses.

Today, we must all read God's word with a heart of reverence, with a heart of trembling and fear. A trembling heart, why? Because it's not good if you are a model of curses again! You say who is idle and does nothing but set a model of curses? That is why some people come to me and say: Teacher, ah, what should I do? I said: You, you should stop believing in the Lord, you go to the temple and worship, it may be better. Why? My advice to him may really be good for him. So as not to become a model of curses. Right? I am really helpless sometimes, it is not that I really want to persuade him to do this. Some people say: Teacher, how can you say that? I said: If you don't fix it, you will become a model of curses.

So everyone knows? In the last lecture, I talked about If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed, I don't want you to become anyone, if you become anyone, then you are ruined. Accursed. In fact, the core interests that people pursue, today brothers and sisters must know, do people want to be rich? They want to be rich. But where is the money? In listening to God's word. Right? Are the things that people care about, the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock things that you want to be blessed? Do you want to give birth to a bad child? You don't want to, you want to give birth to healthy children, these things are what you care about. If enemies or your competitors come to deal with you, is that something you care about? Yes. Is it something that God cares about? Yes. So the Israelites were foolish because all the things they cared about were in God's promises, but people don't believe it, people go their own way and do whatever they want.

In fact, the things we care about are also the things that God cares about, but the path is different, isn't that why you need to have a way? So Moses shared this trick with the Israelites, but not many really listened. So today we must know, how many verses are in Deuteronomy 28? Do you all know? More than sixty verses, everyone go and see, there are sixty-eight verses. Verses 1 to 14 talk about blessings, accounting for 20 percent; verses 15 to 68 are curses, accounting for 80 percent. Understood? Accounting for eighty percent, oh no, eighty percent are curses. So if you do not listen to the word of the Lord your God, isn't that a tragedy? Do you all know today? I have embarked on a road of no return, this line has been drawn here, I either choose verses 1 to 14, or I choose verses 15 to 68. So in verses 15 to 68, it says:

Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you. (Deuteronomy 28:47-48).

What do you choose? I definitely choose verses 1 to 14, I don't choose that one. Do you all know why I serve with all my heart and strength? I tell you, I often serve and am really very tired,

But I still pull myself together and continue to move forward. Today, our brothers and sisters, hear me again here calling out to heaven and earth to testify. I hope that everyone can make a choice between life and death, blessing and curse. If you ask me, I firmly believe in Deuteronomy 28:1-14, and of course, I also firmly believe in 15-68. Why? Because I want to choose life, I don't want to choose death; I want to choose blessing, I don't want to choose curse. So until today, I have seen with my own eyes the marvelous works of God among us, God is so marvelous, today we must spread the glory of God all over the earth. Today what we preach is not success theology, it is carefully keeping and following God's word, if you carefully keep and follow the word of the Lord your God, this is what we preach.

Five, God will set you high above all the nations on earth

If you pay careful attention to the Lord your God and diligently follow all his commandments, which I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth (Deuteronomy 28:1).

Good, the sentence behind is today's theme, God will set you high above all the nations on earth! I ask you: Do you want it or not? You want it! Why haven't you surpassed all the nations on earth today? Why are you still living that wretched life? Why are you living so withered? Why are you living with so many problems? Why? Because you haven't listened. You haven't listened, you only listen to yourself. How much have you listened? Right? The reason is very simple, if you haven't surpassed all the nations on earth yet, you haven't listened enough. You haven't listened enough, why? How can you listen with a brain full of garbage? If you think, you think wrong, if you listen, you listen wrong, if you walk, you walk your own way. If God hasn't set you high above all the nations on earth today, it seems that you are still living in Deuteronomy 28:15-68, that is terrible!

Today, I will give you some examples: Abraham, dwelling above all nations, became a mighty prince in the land of Canaan. Isaac and Jacob were both very powerful men, weren't they? Joseph served as the prime minister of Egypt. David listened to the words of the Lord his God and established the most powerful dynasty in the history of Israel, the Davidic dynasty. Later, Daniel and Nehemiah were all people who were above and not beneath, the head and not the tail. So today, brothers and sisters, I tell you, if you use your busyness as an excuse, you must be mistaken.

What I dislike most today is busyness. Busyness, can we not be busy? What are we busy with? What's the point of being busy to death? One brother was busy for a year, and I told him to trust in God, but he lost ten million. If you weren't busy, you wouldn't have lost ten million, wouldn't that be better? Oh, I said, what kind of brain is that? What kind of brain is that, everyone? Tofu brain! Isn't it? Oh, I feel that God wants to exalt you above all nations, but you insist on not taking this path, insisting on doing your unicorn, and whether it will have a horn later is unknown, but it will definitely become a beast, that is true.

VI. The Following Blessings Shall Pursue You

Many people are mistaken. Some people, when leaving the church, say: Pastor, can you bless me? That's no problem, right? I bless you, but I have to be qualified to bless you, right? Do I have the qualifications to bless you? Okay, I will bless you. People don't know that blessings don't come from a word or two from someone. What is a blessing? A blessing is that you must listen to the words of the Lord your God and carefully obey them, and the following blessings shall pursue you. Don't chase blessings, don't chase money, let money chase you, how great it is to have money follow you wherever you go! How great it is to have business follow you wherever you go, and the following blessings pursue you! It's not you chasing blessings, it's blessings chasing you, and what's in these blessings? There are so many things in blessings.

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. (Deuteronomy 28:3-8)

Oh, how great it is to recite this, right? Not enough reading. Recite it when you have nothing to do, okay? Can everyone recite this passage when you have nothing to do? If you recite this passage often, recite it, recite it, it will become yours, but don't forget the previous sentence. Everyone agrees with the previous sentence, right? We must listen to the words of the Lord our God and carefully obey them. When customers come, customers are God, listening to customers, how can we listen to God?

I'm telling you, once I was in the office, and do you know what happened? Someone introduced a friend to me, and he walked in from outside. I looked up, and you know, sometimes God opens my eyes on purpose. I felt that looking at this thing wasn't very interesting, but I saw it. I saw behind him, how about a reinforced platoon? A reinforced platoon, big and small, about twenty or thirty! Twenty or thirty ghosts! Standing on two feet, with short legs and long bodies, with two hands raised. The big ones were half his height, then half again, then half again, then half again, and then dragging a long line, the last one like a little mouse, this string of ghosts! They came in, and I said: Please sit, please sit, please sit!

I was thinking: What is this? I said, don't let so many ghosts make my sofa dirty. Then I looked at him and said: What does this friend you introduced do? He said what he does. I said: Is he very unlucky? He said: How do you know? I can't tell him that I can see! He said: Oh, unlucky! All he talks about are unlucky things. Why is that? Is it blessings pursuing you or curses pursuing you? For some people, curses will follow you, and for some people, blessings will follow you. Do you understand? So I really don't want everyone to live under a curse. Sometimes, oh, if I tell the truth, I might offend you, but if I don't tell the truth, it's tiring to watch! Isn't it? Everywhere is full of ghosts, if ghosts are with you when you work, can it be good? It can't be good!

VII. God Will Cause Your Enemies to Be Defeated Before You

God will cause your enemies to be defeated before you. I tell you, there are all kinds of things in this world, that is to say, your competitors will suddenly pin you to the ground and rub you, and all your previous years will be wasted! Later, I tell you, there is a characteristic of doing business. I once tried it, he said: You also tried doing business? I didn't do it, but I tried it. You know, one day I suddenly felt that the business of making water purifiers was good, so I spent a few months investigating, and when I investigated, it was terrible, there were so many people making water purification equipment! Later, I said I would do woodworking, oh, there were so many people doing woodworking, so many. Every industry is full of competitors, and if you rush up, the competitors will pin you to the ground and crush you, that's unbearable, every industry is full of competition.

Later, I discovered that every industry is like this, as soon as you enter, you find it's very crowded, isn't it? As soon as you enter, you find it's very crowded. So later, I developed a habit, what habit? If you want to do something, first secretly at home, accumulate strength, just accumulate well! Accumulate well, accumulate, accumulate, and if you have those skills, you can compete, then you can enter well, otherwise it will be very tiring. But in the process of these competitors, I tell you, if you have God, God will give you wisdom, if you have God, God can cause your enemies to be defeated before you. How great! This is so great! The key is still, listen to the words of the Lord your God, and be careful to obey!

No industry is easy, every industry is full of competition. So today, everyone must know that God wants to open the heavenly storehouse and pour out His blessings on you. The heavenly storehouse, do you think you can have no competitiveness? You must have competitiveness! Oh, I wish brothers and sisters could understand this logic, the key point is, carefully obey, without turning to the left or right!

VIII. Carefully Obey, Without Turning to the Left or Right

Later, I found this thing very interesting. In the past years of service, if you choose to love God, hey, the devil will push you into religious flavor, turning you into a Pharisee. But if you start to not love God a little bit, the devil will desperately push you to love the world. So why is this? You see, when a person becomes a little spiritual, pursuing spiritual things, hey, as a result, either they become success theology, or they become poverty theology, the poorer the more spiritual, and then they have a bit of anti-rich mentality. Then spiritual, then either religious flavor, or they don't do practical things. As soon as you push him to do practical things, he goes to love the world, isn't that a problem? Oh, I said: Each person has their own destiny!

Later, I thought about it, what should I do? If he says he can't do anything, he comes to love God, what does he love? If he can't do anything, I think, first have this heart to love God, OK! But, first he has to get some skills to make a living. Hey, as soon as I let him get some skills to make a living, he was originally unemployed, without money, very poor in his heart, and then after earning some money, wow! He fell in love with the world. In my words, that's great, you are finally qualified to love the world, right? You are finally qualified to love the world, then go love it well, what does it have to do with me? Nothing to do with me.

So I tell you, sometimes our service is too difficult! If you push him to do practical things, he goes to love the world, if you push him to love God, then what? He becomes religious. If you push him to love God, it's as if he doesn't need to do anything, and then he lives by faith all day long or something, it's very strange, isn't it? Very strange. So, carefully obey, without turning to the left or right, you must listen to these words carefully.

IX. How to Listen, How to Carefully Obey

I have been talking about the benefits of carefully obeying, but you have to tell me how to do it, right? How do I do it? How to listen, how to carefully obey?

1. Establish a System

In the past years, Christianity has been an unsystematic logic, ah, unsystematic. This thing is very interesting, very interesting in what? I once met a person who specialized in philosophy. A Christian preached the gospel to him, and later he said to me: Oh, his stuff is unsystematic, it can't even be self-consistent, it doesn't have its own things. But I tell you, although he is not particularly believing, he seems to understand a little, that's all, but I answered all the questions he asked me very properly, my things are systematic.

After I finished answering, later, when he asked me questions again, he said: Teacher Liu, let me ask you another question. Sometimes he even uses: Let me ask you for advice on another question. Although it may be polite, but if people ask like this, then why? One of the reasons is that the Chinese Mingding Destiny is not built on hearsay, but on the system of God's word. Built on the system of God's word, can you understand now? Then establishing a system, what exactly is the system? What is the foundation? What is the key? Key, important truth! Truth has size, cannot be confused, cannot be upside down, truth upside down is the Pharisee, that is destroyed. So the truth must build a system, build a framework, and then build on it constantly.

2. Be Sure to Understand God's Eternal Will and Plan

Be sure to understand God's will and God's plan in eternity. So today, brothers and sisters, do you know what God's will is? God's will is the church! Whether it is the Old Testament or the New Testament, it all points to the body of Jesus Christ, and the body of Jesus Christ will become one with Jesus Christ in the future, that is, Jesus and his church will become one. That is to say, Jesus Christ is the groom, and the church is the bride. It's not you, some sister saying: Ah, I am the bride of Jesus Christ, as if it's a big deal, dress up, look in the mirror, put on makeup or something, right, tattoo your eyebrows. That's not it, you got it wrong! The church is the bride of Jesus Christ. So in eternal unity, the church and God will enter into perfect unity, perfect presence, that is God's plan. So why can Chinese Mingding Destiny build a systematic theological system? Because it must be built in God's will and God's plan.

3. Imitate and Inherit

Be sure to imitate and inherit! You know, imitating and inheriting this thing is very powerful! Imitate who? Imitate Jesus, we do what Jesus does. Everyone hears that this principle is very simple, like my mother said to me: Son, the sermons others preach are so complicated, but the stuff you preach is so simple! Easy to understand, how can it not be easy to understand. So imitate Jesus, imitate Paul, build the glorious church of God, imitate and inherit. How people do it, we do it, people have opened the way for us. So today, we call it how to listen, how to carefully obey, it's that simple! Many people make their own set, and I wonder why they have the qualifications to make their own set, right? A person like me doesn't have the qualifications to make my own set, I still have to make Jesus' set.

X. Conclusion

I want to make a conclusion at the end: Today, brothers and sisters must know that if you listen to the words of the Lord your God and carefully obey, those things we care about will become trivial matters.

If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. (Deuteronomy 28:1)

This is written for us, God will make us above and not beneath, the head and not the tail, God will make us dwell above all nations! God's promise will be fulfilled among us. I thank God! In this generation, he has valued us and chosen us to complete his plan, and he has been able to be a project manager in God's established project, and he has been a smart foreman. Oh, I am filled with emotion! What kind of blessing have I cultivated in this life? I thank God that I can have such a position in God's plan, shouldn't I be a faithful and good servant? Faithfulness is faithfulness to God's word! This is what I said, today we must listen, we must listen to the words of the Lord your God, we must carefully obey, these following blessings will pursue you! May such blessings come upon our brothers and sisters, and more testimonies will be revealed among us. Amen!

We are going to sing a hymn and collect today's offering. If you do not understand the meaning of offering, please do not offer, the church is a place to impart blessings. What is offering for? Offering is to gain, do not think that offering is you supporting the church. If you say: I offer, I support the church. Don't offer, that is a disgrace to God, and it is also a curse, isn't it? We give to God what comes from God! Okay? May brothers and sisters begin to understand the meaning of offering.

Recently, many brothers and sisters have been paying building offerings, which is very good! They are very enthusiastic about paying building offerings. But we are not building an ark in Yunnan, nor are we building an island or something. No! What we want to build is what? It is the online church, and many, many high-end technologies that we want to build will be introduced. Probably next week, we will launch an artificial intelligence. You can chat with it, and it can reply to you according to the logic of Chinese Mingding Destiny, not a person, but a machine. You can ask anything, did you hear that? Robot, not a person, you don't need to be embarrassed, you don't need to log in, you don't need to do anything, no one knows who you are, you can ask whatever you want, and the answers are very good!

I think this is the return we have seen from our continuous investment in the past years. In fact, we have invested a lot of money in this! Oh, it's not easy! Going forward, we will have intelligent shepherding, and going forward, we will also have intelligent training. I tell you, it's amazing! I think if the Apostle Paul were in this world, he would also do what I am doing. Okay? Today, brothers and sisters, you know, we are awesome! Then what else are we going to do? We are going to invest more, in fact, to give everyone more training. What kind of training is more? Whether it is training in learning ability, hands-on training, or training in the logical thinking of engineering, including training in business management, these are what we are going to do.

So the church we are building is not buying a building, do you understand? We are not buying a building, and then the utilization rate of that building is very low, that is really too boring. Building a big building, what for? I don't know, I really don't know. Today the church must enter into transformation again, the church must become a place to train brothers and sisters to have the image of Jesus Christ. There are all kinds of courses, all kinds of training, all kinds of training facilities, this is what we are going to do. Maybe you don't understand, you say: Isn't it just singing songs! No, no, no! This place is not for practicing singing, go to Karaoke to sing. Okay? This is the offering we are collecting today, okay?

Everyone raise your hands and pray with me: God, today we will enter into Your will and complete Your good will in us, may Your will be done, may Your plan be fulfilled in us. God, may Your glorious church fill the whole earth, and through the Internet let Your glory fill the whole earth! In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, for the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen!

May God bless everyone!