Introduction

Good day to you all! Over the past period, we have spoken much about the spiritual realm, how real it is. But the phrase I hear most often is, Where are the ghosts? They say there are no ghosts because they cannot see them. We have discussed the spiritual realm so extensively, but what exactly is the spirit? In fact, the spirit is the word, and the word is the spirit. I am speaking of, It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. This is a small prelude for everyone.

We have discussed the spiritual world so much, listing various ways the spirit works. Have you noticed that everything in the spiritual realm is driven by language? All spirits merely release an intention. When the devil released an intention to Judas, Judas betrayed Jesus. When the devil released an intention to Judas, Judas hanged himself on a tree. Isn't that interesting? Very interesting. Did you see a ghost? No, I did not see a ghost. Actually, I tell you, Cain never saw a ghost until he died. Where are the ghosts? The ghosts are in your mind. Later, I discovered that the person who says this is often speaking the words of the ghost. So, let us look at what we have experienced.

You should know that my mother has escaped death many times. She would roll her eyes, drool, and her limbs would twitch, like a stroke or cerebral infarction. As soon as I saw it, I thought, Here comes the ghost again. After I prayed and ministered to her, I drove the ghost away, and my mother returned to normal. When my mother recovered, did she see a ghost? She did not see it. Did I see it? I saw it. Some people say, Did you really see a ghost? I really saw it. My mother was in that state; isn't that a ghost? I think we need to know, what do ghosts do? Ghosts are those that work corruption in you. How do they work corruption? Giving you an intention is enough!

We have done so many wrong things. Some time ago, I ministered to a mother and son. The son was quite old, but the mother and son would clash as soon as they spoke. Every sentence was barbed. He was truly a master of language, very skilled indeed. Did you see a ghost? No, I did not see a ghost. Did Cain see it? Did Lamech see it? No, they did not. But they all died miserably at the hands of the devil, living in great pain.

The way various spirits operate is very simple, it is through language. If that language is a lie, it will deceive you. Have you seen con men deceiving people? Some people are deceived, and they blame others. What were you doing? How was the money transferred by the deceived person? Did you not enter the password? Did others help you enter it? Did someone put a knife to your throat? No, they did not. Putting a knife to the throat is robbery. You pressed the button yourself upon hearing a lie. Who do you blame? Who do you complain about? So, people are foolish, and the most amazing thing about people is that they often summarise their own foolishness.

There are many things you have not seen. What can your eyes see? You cannot see infrared rays; you cannot see ultraviolet rays; you cannot see nuclear radiation. But what happens to people after nuclear radiation? There will definitely be illness, and many things will rot. Some people are so foolish that they say, Where are the ghosts? because they have not seen them. Later, my mother returned to her hometown, and she said to my brother-in-law, Hey! Where are the ghosts? They forced me to say that.

As a result, the ghost came again that very night. My brother-in-law saw with his own eyes how the ghost operated. My mother was in a state of almost dying. Then, I did a series of operations, as fierce as a tiger, and drove the ghost away. My mother lived again. Are there ghosts? There are ghosts. Who is speaking? The ghost is speaking. So, we must be careful. It is very perplexing! The wonder of God is in this. How could He let you see so easily? With your limited abilities, you would be scared to death if you saw.

The spirits mentioned earlier are all spirits that cause death, all words that cause death. Falling into their lies, one dies at their hands. So, living is a mystery. Let me ask everyone, what is it that keeps you alive? Some people go to the hospital at the slightest ailment. The hospital keeps you alive. Some people have to spend money when something happens. Money keeps you alive.

I know a pastor who is very interesting. It was towards the end of the pandemic when he went to Korea to attend a thirty-thousand-person conference and contracted COVID-19. After contracting COVID-19, he attributed himself to the Charismatic movement of speaking in tongues. Later, he was sent to the hospital, and after a few days, he was intubated. After a week, he knew nothing. The tube was inserted for four months, and then they chartered a plane to bring him back from Korea. After he came back, he continued to receive emergency treatment in the hospital.

I am not exaggerating. Did he know that I did healing and deliverance? He knew, but he did not believe. Our healing and deliverance may not be the best, but there are really few who are stronger than us. Later, he died after being rescued in a Singapore hospital for some time. I took my co-workers to the funeral home to see my old friend. How did he die? What caused his death? People die like this, from COVID-19. Then the question comes, the pastor died from COVID-19, dying in his own lies.

When I attended his funeral, his wife was next to me. I said, I contracted COVID-19 a year earlier than him. The thing I contracted was called Delta, but I did not go to the hospital. Why would I trust the hospital? I believe in God, how good He is. Then why did you get COVID-19 when you believe in God? I am a sinner, is it not normal to get COVID-19? I confessed, repented, and prayed constantly. After a few weeks, the spirit of COVID-19 was suppressed by me, and I was healed! I tell you, it is not an exaggeration at all. Three days later, all the weakness and discomfort of COVID-19 disappeared.

There is a very famous pastor in the Chinese community who contracted COVID-19 around the same time as I did. He went to the hospital, and then he was healed. After he was healed, he wrote a letter circulated in the church, saying that he longed for the church to be a place full of love. Actually, he was the founder of that church. He felt he was well, but the strange thing was what? A few days later, he suddenly died. Have you noticed this kind of thing during the COVID-19 pandemic? Some people get better and then suddenly die; some people get better and then relapse after taking a bath; some people get better and then die after running. There are many strange things that we do not understand, but I tell you: it is the spirit that gives life, and it is the spirit that kills!

It is the word of God that gives life, and it is a pile of worldly lies that cause death. People must know how precious the word of God is! Do you know how I escaped from death? Because I am not afraid of death, dying and being with the Lord is much better! I do not want to live, I do not want to be rescued, and I do not want to be intubated. Actually, my co-workers were scared to death when they saw my condition, but I did not die, I did not choke on my breath. How can I reason this? A Christian who is afraid of death lives in lies and dies in lies. In the past few years, we have experienced too many of these things.

Many years ago, one of our sisters' mothers had lung cancer and was bedridden. After we prayed for her, she was able to go to the fields and work, but she still lived in lies. No matter how much we instilled the word of God in her, she could not absorb it, and she would be negative all the time. You should know that the villagers do not have a broad perspective, they just haggle over petty things and often get angry. You are about to die, and you are still looking for trouble? That little mind is like a peanut. A little thing and you quarrel, and as a result, her mother quarrelled and drank a bottle of pesticide.

Her daughter called me and said, Teacher, my mother drank a bottle of pesticide. I said, What is the situation? She said, The pesticide bottle is empty, but the whole house smells of pesticide, and my mother is lying on the ground. As soon as I saw it, this was going to die. What can I do? Let us pray. She did not die after this prayer. She did not die even after drinking a bottle of pesticide. She vomited a lot of green stuff from her mouth, and after vomiting, she came back to life.

I thought it was very interesting, drinking a bottle of pesticide and still not dying. Is not that strange? After recovering, she escaped death. As a result, her mother wanted to join a local church. If you want to go, then go. You either give God love, or you get out for God! Later, she went, and a week later, her daughter called me and said, Teacher, my mother died. I was thinking, what is the logic? She drank pesticide and did not die, but suddenly she died for no reason. Is not that spiritual?

I tell you, what happened the moment she died? The old horse grabbed the spirit, and the person died, that is how it is. If a person can know that it is the spirit that gives life and it is the spirit that causes death, you must be a very powerful person. This is a mystery. Because the things in the spirit realm determine the things on earth. So, I believe one thing, what do I believe? The lifespan of a person is fixed, unless you shorten your life. If you shorten it, you get an eighty percent discount, some get a sixty percent discount, and some get a fifty percent discount. You must know that this is a mystery, the things in the spirit realm determine the things on earth.

Once, when I was preaching, I said that when the ox-headed and horse-faced men appear around you, you know what is going to happen. But at that time, we cannot see it. The person who is about to die will definitely know when the ox-headed and horse-faced men come. People live on what they believe in, people believe what they believe in, believe in what and live for what, die for what. I am trying my best to steer you towards living for God and dying for God, then it depends on your fate. People are very interesting, some people believe that walking 10,000 steps a day can maintain health. When he comes to me, he goes out to walk 10,000 steps every day because he believes in that. He is always working on me, saying, You cannot do this, you have to walk 10,000 steps every day. I am most afraid of walking 10,000 steps, I do not even want to walk a thousand steps.

He advised me to exercise well. Exercising is a purely physical operation. As a spiritual person like me, what do I advise him? I advise him to maintain health through service, relying on the Spirit of God, and doing the word of God. It is the Spirit of God that keeps us alive, it is the evil spirits that cause us to die. It is the word of God that keeps us alive, and it is our carnal logic that causes us to die. In the end, neither of us could persuade the other. I persuaded him, he persuaded me, we did ideological work to each other. After a long time of arguing, we finally broke up! I live by being flexible and maintain my health through service. He wished me good luck, and I wished him good luck. Let us both have good luck, and see whose good luck comes first.

Remember, the flesh is of no avail, it is the spirit that gives life. The most tragic thing for Christians is not believing this. How many Christians believe this? Because the flesh is of no avail, it is the spirit that gives life, so I do not care about so-called medical treatment, I am the one who treats diseases! Some people think they are doing well, they are living well, right? Do not worry, nothing will be missed, you will definitely see the results.

If you observe carefully, those who want to live in the flesh and want to live very much die quickly. Do you see that? People like me are still wondering why I am still alive. My body has not been very strong since I was a child, my body is the kind that looks very weak, how am I still alive? Many people always want to extend their lifespan, can they extend it? Can you still live when the old horse comes? When the ox-headed and horse-faced men appear, that is your death date. People like me long to return to God, I do not want to extend my lifespan, because it is the spirit that gives me life, the flesh is of no avail, what do I keep this thing for? A stinking skin. Can you understand these words? I am using all my strength to serve, why? Because I live in the word of God.

Some people want to be healed very much, you say, Doctor, give me the best medicine, give me the best treatment! It is all this. Some people are in Shijiazhuang. They feel that the doctors in Shijiazhuang are not good, so they go to Tianjin. The doctors in Tianjin are not good enough, so they go to Beijing. The doctors in Beijing are not good enough, so they go to the United States. There was a very famous artist who was very rich, burning money, burning hard, but did he not die there? It is a tragedy to believe in Jesus and not believe His word. A preacher does not believe in the word of God and always wants to live. I always want to die, but I cannot die; he always wants to live, but he died.

There was a preacher in his thirties who got cancer, oh, the desire to survive! Let me teach you a lesson: as soon as you see a person with a very strong desire to survive, it is over! Because he lives in the flesh, the flesh is of no avail, so the more you want to live, the less you can live, this is a spiritual principle. Have you seen it in the hospital? The stronger the desire to survive, the faster they die. As a result, he was in his thirties and had not lived enough. He used to love himself to the point of being outrageous. When giving testimonies, he would say, I thank God, God let me find a good website where I can buy good vegetables. This time you do not need to buy them, this time you buy medicine, may you find a good website where you can buy medicine.

As a result, the doctor gave him medicine, saying that this special medicine was good and had an effective rate of 80 percent. As a result, after he used it, it was invalid! He thought to himself, God, why am I in the 20 percent? You deserve it, who told you to live in the flesh. The flesh is of no avail, and he still does not believe it after becoming a preacher. How many Christians do not believe that the flesh is of no avail? Desperately trying to maintain health, how stupid! Later, the doctor gave him medicine again. He was poor, so he borrowed money to buy this medicine. This medicine is expensive, but it has an effective rate of 90 percent. Use it! This medicine is good, it can extend your life by one month, use it! Have you seen this kind of person? If he came to me, it would all be free! So, this is a perplexity. He wanted to live in the flesh too much, and the result was that he was destined to die, too carnal.

People live by what they believe, and a person lives his whole life with his own beliefs. Do you understand? You try it. If you believe a lie, you will walk 10,000 steps a day and get kidney stones. I am also very surprised, how many miracles will it take to recognise God? This person is among us. The kidney stone that was discharged looked like a Tesla logo, it was very interesting.

There is a brother among us who was paralyzed in his lower limbs due to a car accident. I often pray for him. Do you know how I see him in my heart? Although I often pray with him and give him faith, the filth in his mind is not ordinary! It would be interesting to display what is in his mind and he is always worried about living. Have you noticed that those who serve among us are worried about living? Few people say, Hey, how am I still alive? Hey, why have I not died yet? If you are like this, you would not get these diseases. Why did you have a car accident? Your mind is dirty, the ghost will definitely not let you go!

Have those dirty things from the past been removed? No, they have not. After a while, the urinating thing is broken, and after a while, the defecating thing is broken. How much suffering do you endure? I ask you: it is upsetting that urinating is broken, it is upsetting that defecating is broken, and it is upsetting that eating is broken. Has it changed? It has not changed! I am always hoping that people can come out of this foolishness. It is really difficult for the pastor who wants to change his mind. It is a belief.

It is a tragedy if people do not have eternal life, they will create many sad story materials. Do not make arrangements for fleshly things; you will become a laughing stock in the spiritual world! The evil spirits are celebrating there. A group of evil spirits are there watching the joke: torment him, let his urinating thing break, let him defecating thing break. So, let us not become a laughing stock in the spiritual realm.

Do not make arrangements for the flesh. It is a matter of time before you leave this world. What are you arranging? Do not worry, what are you worried about? You must believe in God. Can God not provide us with what we need to live? He can! What do we believe after believing in Jesus? We believe in what Jesus says. Many Christians say to me, Oh, pastor, how is that possible? How can we live if we listen to Jesus? I said, Why can we not live? Are we not living well? I often preach about forsaking parents, wives, children, fields, and houses for Jesus. Many Christians say, That is impossible, no one can do it! I tell you, those who say it is impossible will become a joke. You think it is impossible, and God will give you an impossible. Is that right? That is what Jesus said!

A long time ago, when I preached that everyone would be healed, many people said to me, Impossible! Have you done it? I have not done it, but it is still the word of God! Do you understand? That is me. How can we live? How can we not live by living by the word of God? The flesh is of no avail, it is the spirit that gives life. The words of Jesus are spirit, and they are life. You have to walk to destruction. How good is the hospital! How good it is to have a tube inserted for four months! If you listen to my advice, quickly write an explanation for your family, do not let them insert a tube for you. If you do not tell them, they will make decisions for you and insert a tube for you because they cannot bear not to insert it.

The problem with people is unbelief. You do not believe, but I believe! Why? Because belief and unbelief are a choice. Why do you choose to believe? I just believe, I am willing to believe; why do you choose not to believe? You are willing not to believe because you believe in your own set of things. The most important thing in building a church is to run with that group of people who believe in Jesus' set of things. The worst is to have several sets of people, those on the left who believe in speaking in tongues and those on the right who oppose speaking in tongues. How do you manage this church? The morning service is for those who believe in speaking in tongues, and the evening service is for those who oppose speaking in tongues. A pastor preaches two sermons, that is amazing, I really admire him! A church has several sets of things. Slowly, they begin to adjust the contradictions between them, and they have to hold two co-worker meetings, otherwise they will fight because they do not have the same set of things.

It is not like this here with me, I only have one set. The words of Jesus Christ: either give God love, or get out for God, either get deliverance, or get out! How many times have I said this to our co-workers? Let me say it again to all of you: either love God well with me, or get out for me, either give God love, or get out for God! The scripture I preach is this passage. This passage just mentions that many people left Jesus and finally got out.

Everyone should know that no matter how busy you are, everything will turn to nothing! Many people are so serious about being busy. I said, Do not be busy! He said, No, can I be busy? Who is not busy? Oh! He retorted to me, one is worth two; he retorted to Jesus, one is worth three. Why do you not know the power of God? Where do you think you will be busy? You will definitely be busy in the curse, you do not even need to think about it.

Scripture

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him. (John 6:63-71)

Prayer

God, may You have mercy on us, have mercy on our weaknesses, and give us the strength to overcome carnal passions and desires. God, let us cling tightly to You and remove those things of unbelief in us. God, let us begin to believe in You from the beginning, let our faith begin with faith and lead to faith! God, may You have mercy on us, let us choose to follow You all our lives, because You have the words of eternal life. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

Scripture Background

The background of this scripture is very interesting, let me continue to tell you the story. Recently, Hua Chenyu held a concert in Yantai. There were 40,000 people at the venue, and they all brought food and drinks. They watched from night until sunrise, for many hours, and it would be miserable without food. Jesus preached the principles of the kingdom of heaven to them. At that time, some people did not bring bread. In the end, five loaves of bread and two fish fed 5,000 people. How is this possible? As a result, Jesus performed a miracle, it was amazing! Five loaves of bread and two fish fed 5,000 people! Not counting women and children, just the men would have added up to 15,000 people. Five loaves of bread and two fish fed 5,000 people, and after cleaning up, there were still twelve baskets of leftovers.

How did these five loaves of bread and two fish change? Everyone had their own opinion. If you were one of those 5,000 people: Wow, this guy is amazing! If it were like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who rose up in revolt, all the army's salaries would be solved! Being able to turn into bread means being able to turn into tents; being able to turn into tents means being able to turn into army uniforms; being able to turn into army uniforms means being able to turn into weapons. Let us do it, let us follow Jesus! As a result, everyone swarmed up and wanted Jesus to be king, to overthrow the Roman Empire together, and to be liberated from the colony. As a result, everyone did this, oh, Jesus was terrified and quickly slipped away. Why? Because he did not want to be this king; he was not doing this. You see, this is a man's worldly logical system.

The disciples of Jesus approached Him, saying, How wonderful it would be if I were the Left Prime Minister, and you, Jesus, were in the middle with another as Right Prime Minister. We'd have both prime ministers! Someone else said, No, I want to be a powerful regional official. They were all dividing up the official positions, without considering Jesus' purpose. Such were His disciples, and you can see how strong their worldly logic was. So, it’s was an interesting situation where everyone wanted to form an army to overthrow the Roman Empire. But what did Jesus want to do? Jesus wanted to go to the cross. They wanted to live, and Jesus wanted to die. Quite a contradiction, isn't it? As a result, they were all looking for Jesus everywhere. And why were they looking for Jesus? Because they wanted bread. Some would say, Let's quickly find Jesus; He can turn bread, and we can take a basket home to sell. It was all about these trivial matters of survival.

So Jesus said, They are looking for me. They searched everywhere for Jesus; Jesus would suddenly hide in a place, go down and reappear in new places, he was impossible to find. People would exclaimed, Hey, Jesus was just here, where did He go? Jesus replied, They are not looking for me; they are looking for bread. Are there many Christians who seek bread? How many seek eternal life? Are there any seeking eternal life? Looking around, there seem to be few, and it was the same in Jesus' time. Everyone knew Jesus was a prophet, but they were all seeking His bread, not the way to eternal life through Jesus Christ.

Even now, some among us come and say, Pastor, pray for me, and I'll give you ten thousand yuan! Ten thousand yuan to command me? Too cheap. So Jesus hid. Later, these disciples set out in a boat to find Him, thinking He might have gone to the other side. As a result, a storm arose. Jesus walked on the water and got into the boat. When they reached the other side, thinking another miraculous feeding was coming, they searched everywhere for Jesus. Jesus then said, Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. While they were seeking, Jesus began to say, I am the bread of life! If you are the bread of life, can we barbecue Jesus? Can't do that. Everyone was dumbfounded.

Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. (John 6:35-36)

People just do not believe. How many miracles must people see to believe? I tell you, my heart often carries a kind of sorrow: there are many who have experienced many miracles and still do not believe. In the end, Jesus says: those who believe have eternal life, Jesus is the bread of life. Do you eat Jesus's words? Can you absorb Jesus's words? As a result, the people who came looking for bread were disappointed by Jesus.

Those who believe in the Lord and come looking for bread will certainly be disappointed; if you seek eternal life, this place has the way to eternal life. As a result, He saw many people leaving and the disciples were very puzzled and they asked Jesus, they are all gone, our offerings will be less, they are large givers, should we adjust our strategy? Jesus said: you also want to leave? Either you seek eternal life, or get lost! Of course, these words is my own style, that's what it means.

Jesus said this passage at this time, Jesus said: The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” Having seen so many miracles, what has been transformed? Nothing. The eyes did not see the miracle, but only the loaves of bread. If you have seen the miracle, you will know that spiritual things are powerful; if you have seen the miracle, you will know that this is no ordinary way, this is the way to eternal life!

The most powerful lie of the devil is to make us believe in a set of false logic. Although I am shouting and crying here all day long, not many listen. So the most deadly thing about people is disbelief, do you understand? If your faith is based on miracles, that is very dangerous. Because miracles come from faith, they do not come before the faith. It is that you believe it then you see it. We must begin to understand this passage in depth.

The Flesh Counts for Nothing

Let me explain the phrase the flesh counts for nothing to you again. Do you think the flesh is beneficial? If you think the flesh is beneficial, I have to take good care of my body. I often see Christians taking health supplements; I often see Christians getting their beauty sleep; I often see Christians being very considerate of their flesh. There was a man I served from dawn till dusk. Why? Because he suffered from delusional paranoia and was in so much pain that he wanted to jump off the building.

At that time I was still working, I put down my work, postponed my meetings, and used my working hours to serve him. I served him at noon, and then I came again in the evening; I served him again in the evening, and then I came again the next day at noon; I served him again the next day in the evening, and the third day at noon. After I had served him well, he went home, and then he came again. He kept thinking about jumping off the building, and on the third day he said to me, Teacher, give up on me. I said, I can't give up. I thank God that our church was built on exorcism. He said, When will this end? I said, If it doesn't work today, it will work tomorrow, if it doesn't work tomorrow, it will work the day after tomorrow.

Think about it, are you afraid? What if he comes again at noon tomorrow? What if he comes again the day after tomorrow night? What if he comes again the day after tomorrow? Do you dare to engage in this kind of competition? I have a kind of competitive spirit in me, and as a result I practiced it that day and I said, If it doesn't work today, it will work tomorrow, if it doesn't work tomorrow, it will work the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, even next year, and I will be set free! As a result, the demon was defeated that night, and he was healed that day. I said, Oh, this God is so wonderful! If I want to persist, I can tell you that I can really persist.

Many of his illnesses were healed by me, and later I let him go to serve, and I said, You start to serve people. He said, That won't work! Teacher, if I can't serve into the middle of the night like you, can't I stay with you? This is an interesting point. I said, Yes, you really can't be with us. I was very surprised that he had picked his life back up from here, why has work become the focus now?

Later he said to me: I can't, I have to sleep at 10:30 pm every night, otherwise I can't stand it the next day. What a great concern for the flesh! Then I have to tell you that all his illnesses will come back, and he will certainly be terribly tormented by evil spirits in the future. Then you say: Teacher, how do you curse him? It is not I who curse him, it is the word of God that curses him. Later he really left because with me, either you give love to God, or you get out of here!

One day he came to me and said, Teacher, give me two months' vacation. I said, What are you going to do? He said, I want to go to churches outside to learn more. Am I the spare tire? I learn from other places and come back here, I said I don't care about having you back. He said: Teacher, I have a request, don't curse me. Later, some time later, I met him again and said, Have you found a church? He said that he had found it. I asked, Which church? I happened to know it. I said, How is it? He said, It's good. I said, Of course it's good. A pastor who caters to the flesh is a perfect fit for a Christian who caters to the flesh! My mouth is also quite sarcastic. I like to say these things, not that I want to harm people.

So it says that the flesh is of no benefit. If you live for the flesh all day long, you will become garbage sooner or later, sooner or later you will become dust. So do we know what Jesus was talking about? But if you look closely, how wonderful it is for a pastor who caters to the flesh to nurture a Christian who caters to the flesh! Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity! How much unity there is with catering with the body! Living in the flesh, from the perspective of the flesh, is a perfect system, full of hospitals, health care, and so on. But I have to tell you that for people to live, the flesh is of no avail, and what lives is the spirit within.

I once served a cancer patient who was dying and bedridden, but strangely, he would get up in the middle of the night and walk all over the place. He was bedridden during the day and had difficulty turning over, so who got up at night? He was full of the names of dead people, which was frightening. So even if a person hasn't taken his last breath, it means that the evil spirit still lives inside, it's not his spirit anymore, and a person isn't his spirit long before he dies.

Does everyone know that relatives often torture their families before they die: I want this, I want that, I torture them to death! In fact, I'm telling you that you don't know whose inside the dying person is. If you look at it with spiritual eyes: Ah, I understand! It's not that he's confused, his spirit is gone, and what lives in him is an evil spirit, so how can he not be confused? Just talking nonsense. So a person's flesh is a shell, and it is the spirit that gives life, and when the spirit leaves, this thing dies, so it is said that the flesh is of no avail.

If we know that the flesh is of no avail, then everything we prepare for the flesh is meaningless! Whether it is the projects you do or whatever, everything becomes meaningless in the face of eternal life. If I thought the flesh was beneficial, I wouldn't react the way I do; if I thought the flesh was of no avail and it was the spirit that gave life, then I would be doing things this way. Why? Because if you look at me with a fleshly way of reasoning, you definitely won't understand; why I can understand you clearly is because I understand people who are concerned with the flesh, that's where I came from, I've been through it too, I've come from the flesh. Whether you do this or do that, everyone must know the way to eternal life, the flesh is of no avail. People will certainly know in the future that it is the spirit that gives life, and it is also the spirit that brings death.

The Spirit Gives Life, and the Spirit Brings Death

I have talked so much about all kinds of spirits before, like Jeroboam, the golden calf, and these things are all being operated by the spirits behind them. Let me ask you, a certain star suddenly becomes popular, is it what they did, or will it happen? It's all a matter of the spiritual realm. So I'm telling you that those who are carnal attract evil spirits. I'm not saying that you really need to become a spiritual person, it's what you need. Whoever loves God attracts the Spirit of God, and whoever loves God keeps and follows His words.

Why do people say that it is tiring to keep and follow God's word? Because they do not love God, the logic is very simple. If you have been in love, you will date the person you love in the depth of winter, waiting for an hour you will have no complaints, because of love. So and when you grow to hate someone then? There are complaints and regrets, a lot of complaints. So what kind of spirit do you attract, the Holy Spirit or an evil spirit? It depends on what word you believe in. Believing in the words of Jesus attracts the Holy Spirit; believing in the words of men attracts evil spirits.

Take your time to ponder this logic. You can't turn it around in a day or two, it doesn't matter. It's not likely that you'll be able to change in a day either, because it's a matter of values. We need to know that we often make many choices that seem smart from a carnal point of view, but are foolish from a spiritual point of view. How many evil spirits do you have to attract before you're willing to stop? After you've attracted the evil spirits, I'll drive them out for you, and then you're qualified to love the world, and you'll go and attract evil spirits again.

Once, when I was ministering to my mother, I asked the evil spirit, How did you come again? It said, Your mother attracted me. I said, What did my mother attract you here for? It said, She attracted me here to play. Is it fun? It's no fun. I said to my mother, Why did you attract it again? My mother said, I thought it would be fun. Later I discovered a logic: people who love to play and have all kinds of hobbies are very difficult to serve God. I only have one personal hobby, which is serving God.

Once, it was very interesting: I was attending a special meeting, and the pastor received a small note, which he answered questions on. The people below asked a very boring question, asking, Pastor, what are your personal hobbies? One pastor likes to hunt, and another pastor likes sports cars. The one who likes to hunt is a lot like Esau; the one who likes sports cars is a purebred old horse. Then my colleague poked me in the arm and asked me, Teacher, what's your hobby? I thought for a long time and said, I only have one hobby, which is serving God. This hobby is pretty good, isn't it? I do my hobby every day. What gives life is the Spirit, so it depends on what spirit you attract; what brings death is also the spirit, so it depends on what spirit you attract. I often sigh, how come people don't know that whatever you love is what spirit you attract?

The Words of Jesus Are Spirit, and They Are Life

I find this world very interesting: there are too many unbelievers. As our church is being built, many people are constantly leaving, and we are also moving forward. There is an old pastor whom I respect very much, and he was actually a very powerful exorcist in the 1980s. I said to him: The Chinese Mingding Destiny system is like this. He said to me: It's impossible to do in this in Singapore! I don't think it's possible either! Actually, whether that environment is possible or not is not important. What is important is that we are building the church according to Jesus' words. Jesus only has these twelve disciples left, and one is a devil. Those people are gone, is there a problem? No problem! That all the people in the church are gone, leaving twelve people, how do you feel? You'd be flustered, making Jesus get flustered for you.

The words of Jesus are spirit, and they are life, either you believe in the environment you see, or you believe in God, believe in the words of Jesus Christ. The words of Jesus Christ are: cast the net up, the good ones are picked into the utensils, and the bad ones are discarded. How many people have done this according to these words? None. Jesus said: you must forsake your parents, wives, children, brothers, sisters, fields and houses for the sake of the kingdom of God. How many people believe these words? Blessed are those who believe! I tell you, words are spirit, and spirit is words. So language is such a powerful thing, we must always pay attention to the words we say, pay attention to the words we say, and we will know what spirit is inside, what thing it is. So we must know that we must not discount the words that we say to Jesus!

In earlier years, we used to say: everyone who comes to Jesus here is healed. Is that scripture? Yes. How many people believe? Not many people believe. Some people even came over and asked me: Teacher, are everyone really healed? I said, Oh, no. He said, Then why do you say everyone is healed? I said, Ah, there is one person, and that is you, you definitely can't be healed!

I tell you, the things I do are very miraculous. Someone I was serving in South Korea got sick, so I led him in prayer in the video, and then he fell in front of my camera. Goodness! There was no sound, and no one could be seen in the video. The only thing at this time was faith, so I prayed with faith, and after a while he stood up again in the video, and this person is now here with me. Thank God, or I would have been scared to death! It's all the word of God, and the word of God is faithful.

These things that I say are incredible. Do you believe it? One night I went to see a mother and son. When I came to this place seven years ago, this sister brought her aunt with her, and her aunt's legs were so swollen that they weren't the kind that left a pit when pressed, that's just a slight swelling, but they couldn't be pressed at all, they were hard like wooden sticks. I thought to myself: you guys are too bad, why bring someone like this, can this be healed?

What is impossible with man is possible with God. For those who believe, all things are possible! Later, another sister from our church and I each hugged a leg, and then wrapped those legs with clothes, which was really scary to look at, because our faith would disappear as soon as we saw it! The two of us grabbed those legs and prayed for a while, and when we opened them, they were still those legs. Goodness! We gathered up our faith and continued to do it! Ten minutes passed, we looked at it and it was still that leg, we gathered up our faith and came again! We prayed and shared testimonies at the same time. It passed one hour, I tell you, it was so miraculous, when we opened our clothes, both legs were completely normal legs! Those bruised legs had turned into normal skin color.

My God is so amazing! I'm telling you, the word of Jesus is spirit, and it is life. If you believe in God's word, that's incredible. What is impossible with man is possible with God! The miracles I work are based on the word of Jesus Christ, believing that what gives life is the Spirit. The words of Jesus Christ are spirit, and they are life, that is our hope for survival. But it is of no use how much the people who experience this have experienced, it only edifies me.

Fleshly Words Are Spirit, and They Are Corruption

One of the most deadly things about us humans is that there are too many words of men and too few words of God. One day, I served a brother and he said something to me that was very interesting. He said, Teacher, I am a natural person. The professional term is a carnal person. You are a natural person, so you naturally live and naturally die. After hearing this, I realized that this was devil talk, why? Because that is not written in the Bible.

The Bible does not say that you are a natural person, that is what he invented himself. What is the use of words that are not from God? It has no use. You gain what you believe in. He believes that he is a natural person, so he will naturally die. So we brothers and sisters must know how corrupt carnal words are, how logical they sound! He is a natural person, what can you do to him? Then he will live and die on his own.

So how real are the words we face every day and the things we do? The projects you do, the work you do, and the problems you need to solve every day are very real, but once you do it with your own ability, you no longer believe in God's words, and you only believe in yourself. The eyes of a carnal person are blind, and he can only see what his eyes see, like a frog at the bottom of a well. The things you face every day are real, but have you carefully observed, explored, and sought them?

So I encouraged that brother to seek, and those who seek will find! I also encourage everyone to seek, if you say that natural people will naturally die, do you want that? I don't want that, and you don't want that, then we must go on the path of God's words, God's words are spirit, and they are life. Believe in God's words, engrave God's words in our hearts, and no matter how difficult they are to implement, we must implement them in reliance on God, and work hard, and that's how we live! The result will definitely be the revealing of God's glory.

But There Are Some of You Who Do Not Believe

People believe in something then live for that thing. If you don't believe in God's words, then what do you believe in? If you believe in human words, then you will definitely live under the control of the devil. I want to give everyone a reminder that the beliefs of Chinese Mingding Destiny have a system, a complete system. Starting with the most important truths, from the first most important to the second most important, and then to the third most important, we sort out this matter clearly. You say, then how do I believe? Just follow God's word and build it into a complete system.

Those in the middle who do not believe are devils, and if those devils are mixed in the middle, do you think the church is still good? One pastor died of brain cancer, and another pastor has depression and is half dead. Are you confused by these things? You don't need to be confused. If you build the church into a den of devils, can it still be good? God will definitely punish you, and those things of yours will definitely not work. What you believe in is the system which you believe in. A carnal system is a system that does not believe in God, and God's system does not conform to physics or biology, it is thelogy.

Summary

What exactly do people believe in? I challenge you, what do you live for? What are you prepared to die for? This is your destiny. If your destiny is the same as mine, let's build God's glorious church together and get rid of those carnal logical systems one by one. I tell you, you will certainly see God's glory in this life. Amen! What gives life is the Spirit, and what brings death is also the Spirit, so which path do you choose? People must not think that they have chosen a spirit that will cause them to die, and still think that they are so rational. It may be rational, but it is man's reasoning. When can we come out of these worldly corruptions? When can we completely believe in God's word? This is what we look forward to.

May God bless you all!