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With Gratitude To God’s Grace

Posted on December 25, 2021 by admin

With Gratitude To God’s Grace

(I) Be careful not to go astray again

As soon as we moved into the three-floored mansion in New Orleans, brother Zhang, sister Zhang and I started to have Bible Study everyday in the morning and intercession for all churches in the afternoon and in the middle of night. A neighbor Mrs. Ho a wife of a veteran who lived across the street was very concerned about our well-being. Mrs. Ho usually gave us flowers, gifts or cards on occasions of holidays. Usually I would look into English dictionary to write her a card of thanksgiving. She was especially nice to me. I also enjoyed her special treatment to me just like a mother and an older sister. Without knowing it I regarded her as my comfort. God is a jealous God. We shall have no other god except Him. God abhors those who set up idols secretly. God permitted a piece of bone grew under my right thumb. As a result of it, I could hardly write. This was all because I was relaxed and was not alert in the spirit. I did not press on forward to the goal. Therefore, I had a relapse in terms of spirit—my heart was led astray. I did not lead my neighbor to believe in the Lord or love the Lord. I made her to regard me as an idol too. It was until the Lord disciplined me, then I quickly kept myself far away from her and gave my whole heart to the Lord. That piece of bone which was under my right thumb disappeared by itself with no medical treatment.

(II) Establishment of Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers in North America

When we first arrived in New Orleans, there were only three of us. However, we continued our ministry everyday. Brother Zhang took charge of the study of two chapters from the Bible by the comparative method. I shared Psalms and the book of Revelation by the same method. Old sister Zhang was the only audience. Gradually few believers at New Orleans started to attend our Bible Study. Later some co-workers came out from China and joined us to serve the Lord.
When brother Zhang’s wife came to America, we just started to apply to the government for ratification of Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers as a non-profit gospel organization. There were so many forms. It was beyond my ability to understand them or to fill them out. But God put a burden in the heart of Pastor Lao, Hon Ben of New Orleans Chinese Baptist Church. He worked day and night to fill out all of the forms for us. He also filed all the application for us. Praise the Lord with all our hearts. Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers in North America was ratified by American government as a non-profit gospel organization in 1995. We could enjoy the benefit of tax-exemption.
It was just like that. We had no fund or a board of committee to sponsor us. One pastor in Baltimore and two brothers in Jesus became our nominal board of committee. To fill out the application form, brother Zhang was addressed as a nominal principal of Home of Grace. Old sister Zhang became a nominal vice-principal. I was regarded as a treasurer. The Holy Bible was our only text book. Hardship was our qualification as the staff. Truly it is not by might, not by power. But it is by the Spirit of God that things can be done. By the power and help of our Almighty God, we were ratified by the government very soon. This is how Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers in North America was established. Thanks be to God!

(III) EXPAND THE TERRITORY

Once the owner of the building we used informed us that she might take back that building anytime for other usage. When we heard it, we started to pray to God in heaven to prepare another place for our ministry. It seemed impossible to buy a house in the same area. Usually no one wanted to sale houses since it was the best and the most expensive residential area. But something happened amazingly. All of a sudden, there were many signs of “For Sale” posting in front of many houses. The price also dropped down. Before that one had to pay at least $ 200,000 to 300,000 US dollars for a house. Now everyone lowered their prices. It took us less than $200,000 to buy the first house for Home of Grace. It was a house with garden. We used it as a dormitory for co-workers with families and a guest house. Pretty soon, there was a cottage for sale which was very near to the building we borrowed. It had a nice yard. This cottage had a kitchen, a dining room and a living room. In addition to it, there were two bathrooms and four little bedrooms. The owner wanted to sell it as soon as possible. He was also a Christian, so he was willing to sell us that cottage by the lowest price. But we did not have enough money. We simply prayed to God about it. Suddenly, a sister from Singapore called us by the phone. We did not know her at all. She told us that she would draft a lot of money to Home of Grace. We asked her why. She said that it was for us to buy houses for our ministry. Even up to that day, Home of Grace had never sent out any prayer letter or any publication about our needs. We did not even mention a word about that cottage to brothers or sisters who called us from many places during that time. Even the churches in New Orleans usually realized it after the Lord had given us another house and provided all of the electric facilities.
Every word in the Holy Bible is true and trustworthy. It is our heavenly Father who answered our prayers. He provided everything according to our needs. This cottage was used as a dormitory for sisters who came for short term retreat.
We decided to buy the third house because the owner gave us a formal notice of moving. None of the houses we bought had big room for Bible Study. We prayed about our needs. The Lord guided us to find a two-floored house nearby. The owner built a very large hall as an attachment in the backyard. It surely met our needs for meetings. All of the co-workers were moved by the Holy Spirit and decided to buy it by faith. We were to pay the whole payment on a certain date. Some co-workers decided to put their own money together and lent it to Home of Grace to buy this house. All of the three houses were bought by cash and left no debt. We did not borrow money from other people or raise fund. But it took more than 2 years for Home of Grace to return money to her co-workers for the third house. The reason is as followed.

(IV) Exalt God as holy—follow God’s words without adding or subtracting

“If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.” (Deut. 7: 12) I truly believe that if we follow the Lord’s commands completely, he will keep his covenant of love and bless us. He will increase the number of our people. Moreover, our Lord Jesus used scriptures from the book of Deuteronomy to defeat all kinds of temptation in the desert. Therefore, I strongly encouraged members of Home of Grace to pay attention to read the book of Deuteronomy. Every month we read through 34 chapters of this book once. And then we started it all over again and never stopped.
But it is not easy to keep God’s words. It happened that I had ignorantly offended one member of Home of Grace because of my own weakness. He became very against me. In return, I held grudge against him. I could not forgive this person. I fell into a snare of Satan. I was in the darkness because I hated people. I was disconnected with the Lord. How grateful that some members interceded with tears for me. When the Holy Spirit worked in me, I was delivered from the snare.
When we bought the first house, an unknown sister from Singapore called us. It was truly an unexpected blessing came to us. She said that their church would like to draft lots of money to us to buy houses for our ministry. However, at that time there was some grievances among our members. Since I was delivered from the snare, I could help others. I told them, “If we do not repent and seek peace with one another, God will hold back this blessing.” It turned out that there was great hindrance against this draft of money from their church. They could only draft us some individual offerings. It was until we bought the second house the big money came in without hindrance. If we do not pour out our sins, we cannot receive blessings.
But why Home of Grace could not return money to her co-workers for over two years for the third house? When I had a chance to retreat to the Lord, I sought the Lord for an answer. I prayed to God, “All the time we have been boasting of the Lord’s grace on us. Though most of us in America are old and weak and we have done only little ministry as picking up the grain, you have always met our needs. We have never lacked of anything. But why this time Home of Grace can not return $54,000 USD to her co-workers for more than two years? It looks like we are lying when we witness how you have provided us everything.” Then the Holy Spirit reminded me, “But you have refused to do what God wants you to do. You have accepted money that you should not have taken.” Indeed, whenever I read the news about “Agape” a Christian newspaper and other two Christian organizations needed financial support, I had burden to make offerings to their needs. But each time I rationalized with God, “Home of Grace still owed money to her co-workers. We often have to go abroad for your ministry. We ourselves need lots of money to support our own ministry. How can we afford to give offering to others?” As to the money that we should not have taken is about the second house. We have asked a co-worker to live in the second house as a receptionist for that dormitory. Home of Grace is supposed to pay for all of the utility. But this co-worker insisted to pay for all of the utility. Finally we allowed her to pay it all by herself. This is not right.
I went to tell another two main co-workers about this conviction. Home of Grace took out the offering that God wanted us to do. We also seriously told that sister that Home of Grace would never allow her to pay for the utility for the second house. But she said that she did not have peace because she was the one used most of the utility in that house. We told her: “You can make offering to Home of Grace if you do not have peace.” She replied, “But there is no offering box in Home of Grace!” That was how we decided to put an offering box in Home of Grace.
I called a sister who came to Bible study all the time. I asked her to help us to buy an offering box. After she did a survey she told me that it was very expensive. One offering box cost $99.90 USD. There was no ready made product. We had to place an order and waited for its shipping. After I prayed to God I went out with a sister to Salvation Army. It was a second-hand store near our place. When I walked into that store, I saw a beautiful jewelry box. It cost only about $18 USD. I bought it on that spot. I found a lock to lock it so that it became an offering box. I asked that sister to bring it to Home of Grace. After a while unexpectedly, Samuel a little boy came to Home of Grace with his mother. (He is the son of that sister who came to Bible study very often.) He brought a little wooden box. They would like to give it to Home of Grace as an offering box. But everyone told him, “You are a little bit late. Someone has given an offering box to us.” When Samuel heard it, he was about to cry. His mom comforted him that the Lord had approved his heart of giving. Now he could pray about it to see which offering box would be used by Home of Grace. It was truly an amazing thing. At first I thought Home of Grace should definitely use mine since I brought it first. But when I carefully looked at Samuel’s little wooden box, I found it was so cute. It was made of fine material. It looked more like an offering box. I changed my mind. Home of Grace should use his as the offering box and put it at the entrance. Mine was bigger than his and was decorated with colored glass. It should be placed in the meeting hall. We put a note on it and made it clear that it was an offering box especially for the developing of Home of Grace in 48 locations. We finished all of these works on Thursday. Two days later it was Saturday, we decided to open both of the offering boxes. After we prayed, we opened them. We especially asked little Samuel to count the money in front of everyone. How amazing it was! We received $56,000 USD and a little gold ring in the jewelry box. This amount of money could cover the debt to co-workers and had left over. In Samuel’s box, we received $400 USA and some coins. This was for general expenses of Home of Grace. Hallelujah! When we fully obey God’s words and do exactly as the Holy Spirit moves us to do. Miracles happened. This is just as one dials the telephone number completely as it is, then the phone is put through. If you add some number or subtract any number, you cannot dial through the phone.
Home of Grace had never put any offering box before this time. Since there were some members coming from China, Home of Grace had always paid for their monthly boarding fees $50 USD for each one. Moreover, we heard that little Samuel was a very smart child and he valued money a lot. Not long ago he had received lots of money in red envelopes for his birthday. His parents suggested him to offer some of it to God. He refused to do that. Because he thought he had to save it for the future since both of his parents were called by God to be full time ministers. They might become poor. He might need that money for his own living. But this time when he heard that Home of Grace needed an offering box, he took out all of his saving about $120 USD. He told his mom that he would give all of this money to Home of Grace to buy an offering box. When we truly obey God’s words, our Lord could move such a young child to give all he had to God. He even wrote a testimony about it. He just had his tenth birthday. In his testimony he shared that he cried when he knew that wooden box would not cost all of his savings. He also encouraged everyone to give offering timely. If you delay, God will not use your offering.

(V) ENLARGE THE PLACE OF YOUR TENT. DO NOT HOLD BACK

The burden that God gave to His servant John Song was to set up 48 homes for Christ’s workers all over the world. These homes will be used by to His servants gather together to be trained by God’s words. These homes will also be served as departure points for those who are sent out by the Holy Spirit to preach gospel in groups. This vision is based on 48 towns for the Levites in the Old Testament. It is to enable God’s servants to understand God’s will before they set out to do His ministry.. Among them are 6 cities of refuge which are for whoever kills others unintentionally. 42 towns for the Levites enable God’s servants to gather together in prayers and be sent out by the Holy Spirit for gospel preaching. In this active manner, groups after groups of God’s servants will carry out the Great Commission in time and get the Church ready for the second coming of our Lord. The city of refuge is also like the Arabia desert for Paul. He was kept in that secluded desert so as to eat God’s words. God revealed Jesus Christ in his heart. The towns for the Levites are like Antioch for Paul. When Paul and his co-workers served the Lord together there, he and Barnabas were sent out by the Holy Spirit to do God’s work. Antioch had become an out-reach center for missionary. It had also served as a retreat center for missionary to regain their strength before the Lord.
When God’s servant John Song retreated to the mountain for his illness, he continued to pray. He understood in the Spirit what God desires from His servants. Then he wrote them down, 15 footsteps of a servant of God. (It is enclosed at the end of this section.) How precious this sharing is.
Though many of our co-workers have never met God’s servant John Song, they have been moved by the same Holy Spirit. They also understand that the life of a worker is more important than any performance in the ministry. We must be careful in doing God’s work: “See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”(Ex. 25: 40)
When God’ servant John Song was recovering in Beijing, Mount Fragrance, he had started this ministry of jointing together God’s workers in Bible Study and prayers. This first city of refuge in China is later named as Hua-Bei Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers on Mount Fragrance in Beijing. In 1949 Hua-Dong Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers was established on Mount Heaven Wind in Hanzhou. God’s servant John Song had already passed away. But we a group of young people were called by God to go to Mount Heaven Wind at that time. In 1952 4 young co-workers in Beijing were sent out by the Holy Spirit to open a new Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers in South West of China. Later on the ministry of Home of Grace in all these places was forced to stop by Chinese government. But the Holy Spirit has moved more people to pray for this ministry for workers.
Sine 1995 the establishment of Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers in New Orleans, we have been busy with ministry of the forefront. Though we continue to pray for the 48 towns of the Levites day and night, we have no faith to develop this vision extensively. But when can we accomplish God’s work if we continue to postpone it? When we first got this vision we were so young and were in 20s. But now most of us are in 70s. We are losing strength everyday.
In 2000 I got my certificate of American citizenship. When the officer gave me that certificate, he said, “Now you can go to all nations of the world.” However, I always felt dizzy. My eyes became weak. I always felt uncomfortable in my stomach. I wondered whether my Heavenly Father was calling me home. I said a prayer beside my bed, “O Lord, I have nothing to worry about on earth. I desire nothing of this world. But my entrustment is in Warsaw Poland. I shouted aloud in a vision about great revival in Africa. How can I honor your name if I go back home in heaven now? Many people know that I have burden for all those places.” How amazing it is. Since that prayer, all of my symptoms of illness disappeared. In His mercy, the Lord brought me to Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Indonesia. Later some sisters had burden to go with me to Japan, Britain, New Zealand, Sydney of Australia and Canada. I also could go back to China and other places in America. God gave me grace to meet bodies in the Lord. We prayed and read Bible. We encouraged one another. I also obeyed the guidance of the Holy Spirit to do some ministry for the Lord.
In 2002 when I visited Hong Kong again, I was sick with Shingles. It was so painful that I could hardly endure it. The red spots on the skin were gone soon. But the infection of the nerve endings under my rib continues to give me unbearable pain. For the past three years, this pain has been killing me. One sister went to our Prayer Tower to pray for me. At first she asked sadly to the Lord whether He was going to take me to heavenly home. Then unexpectedly she became joyful in the Spirit. It was because she realized that the Lord would give me a big gift—Warsaw Poland. Praise the Lord. He used afflictions internally and externally to refine us so that members in Home of Grace become more in one and watchful in prayer. As a result of it, we determined to march forward with full strength to develop Home of Grace in London West Europe and Home of Grace in Warsaw East Europe. With one heart we focus on the expansion of Home of Grace outside China. We are to obey God’s command to go to the whole world and preach gospel to all nations.

(VI) FROM LONDON TO WARSAW

During my suffering of sickness, I examine my past more and deeper. I saw my thoughts, words and behaviors were full of dross including when I was persecuted, imprisoned, and restored. Many times there was wickedness in me when I did good things. When I did right, I was still sinning. I also saw myself being content and relaxed in a comfort zone. In result, I was slack in seeking God’s will. I was unfaithful to the Lord’s entrustment and His will. Afflictions surely chastened me in the Spirit. It was also a great test for me. It has been by the Lord’s mercy that I have never stopped reading Bible or interceding in the middle of night. (It usually takes me at least two hours to intercede for salvation of the whole world and all churches.) Neither have I stopped sharing Bible during day time. I still go abroad to develop God’s works. I have nothing to repay God’s kindness. I am like the poor widow who has only two small coins to live on. I give all I have to the Lord.
Therefore in the year of 2004 I went to London with sister though I was sick. We planned to stay there for 10 days. Pastor Tao, En Quan was willing to receive us in his own house in the suburb. I met him few years ago in London. But he could hardly remember my name. His ministry also stationed at his house. He also received several college students. Sister Y and I would like to rent a house in London for our ministry.
Five days had passed. No one had time to drive us around to looking for house for rent. I was in such a pain that I usually had to lie in my bed. One sister introduced us a sister Liang. She attended Cantonese worship of London Chinese Church. She had to work everyday. She hoped she could come to visit us on a Sunday if she could arrange a ride with a sister Liu. Sister Y and I read the Bible together everyday. She was full of faith by grasping of the word of the Lord in prayers. I then shout aloud Amen. Sunday finally arrived. After two of us finished praying, I was really in pain. I had to rest in my bed. Just then two of them arrived. When we prayed together, we prayed for elections of leaders of all nations. We also prayed for the revival of churches and the whole world. Two of them were very touched by the Holy Spirit and rejoiced in the Spirit. They took sister Y in the car and set out to look for houses for rent. But when sister Y came back, she was completely in despair. She told me that the rent for even a room in the basement cost 200 pounds a week. We could only pray and wait. Unexpectedly, sister Liang called us that very night. She was too joyful to speak. “The Lord has prepared a house for you Home of Grace! It only costs 300 pounds a month!” We could not help but kept on giving praise to the Lord. That house was in a very good residential area. We waited for sister Liu to drive us there. Pastor Tao advised us not to be happy too early. He said some places in London were very insecure. Anytime there could be robberies or thieves. We then went to pray when we heard that, “The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, and He adds no trouble to it.” No matter how painful I was, I must go and see this place that God gave us. This apartment belonged to a woman named, “A Ping.” She was a fruit of gospel that bore by sister Liang in the Lord. It was used to occupy by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. After her sister-in-law married, her mother-in-law had moved to stay with them since she was old. Therefore, A Ping called sister Liang that night and told her that she would like to let this apartment to people. As soon as sister Liang heard it, she said with great joy, “This is exactly God’s preparation for Home of Grace.” She told A Ping that she should let this apartment for 300 pounds to Home of Grace. When sister Liu came to pick us up to see that apartment, she saw sister Y tried very hard to support me to get into the car. She asked in Cantonese, “Please do not scare me to death. How can you go up to the stairs?” I burst into laughter and could not stop for a long time. Sister Liu dared not start the car until I finished laughing. It was a joy from the Lord. What an apartment that God had prepared for us! There was a little front yard. We took several steps of stairs to enter the building. There were big windows in the apartment. It was so bright in the apartment and the air was very fresh. There were two bedrooms. One was for us and the other was used by the landlord as storage. (But now we can use both of the bedrooms.) There was a big living room which could be divided by curtains into three little cubbies in the night time for people to rest. In daytime we could draw the curtain and use the living room for Bible Study, interceding and worshiping. When we saw this, we gave witness of thanksgiving in one heart. God also moved a sister to give us one envelop. Inside of it was 300 pounds al in brand new bill. It was written on that envelop, “An offering to Home of Grace in London”. Our Lord had blessed us an apartment and the first month rent at the same time. The Lord also moved sister Liu to renovate this apartment. Pretty soon sister Zhang, En Chun in America went there. Some members of Home of Grace joined her and they started to read Bible and intercede day and night in London.
Once when I went to Home of Grace in London, I went to another city for a convention. One pastor from Warsaw Poland heard my testimony how I had prayed for Poland for over 50 years. He asked someone to translate to me that he was willing to receive me when I went to Poland. Therefore, after I returned to America I bought two tickets and flew to Warsaw Poland with one sister. We planned to stay there for 20 days. That pastor came to the airport and picked us up by car. That night we attended their meeting. It was the biggest church in Warsaw. Pastor KB had special burden for preaching gospel to the Jews. He put us in a guest room of that church. He with his family lived across our door. This guest room was a studio, with beds and one bathroom. There was a little refrigerator and a boiler for drinking water. There was no cooking facility. Everyday we went to his house for meals.
It was Christmas, Pastor and his family had to be out of town for a convention and after that vocation. He suggested us to cook in his house for meals. But we were unwilling to do that since they were not at home. We decided to find our own ways for meals. For six days we depended on bread, instant noodles, and canned food. We also had chances to worship with Polish bodies and shared testimony with them. In addition to it, we prayed for God’s will. God arranged two realer estates to take us around looking for houses for sale. We really liked one house which was newly built and cost about 120 thousand USD. But in fact Home of Grace in America did not even have one third of that amount of money. Then realer estate E told us that she found foreigners were not allowed to buy houses in Poland. But there was no problem for us to buy apartments. God surely opened a way from the dead end. The price for apartments in Poland was much lower than houses. But we had only 10 days left. Could we make it to buy an apartment? We set out at once with a realtor to see apartments for sale. One apartment really fit our needs. The owner was a young housewife. She was full of smile and she had a lovely daughter. The price for her apartment was about $80,000 USD. I did not bargain with her but asked her to leave all of the furniture with us. She promised me at once. However, when we were discussing the down payment, she insisted that we must pay everything at one payment. It was because she needed cash. We had no way but to look for another apartment for sale. At the end of the next day we saw one apartment. It was two-floored apartment. There was one living room with kitchen and a small bathroom on the first level. There were two bedrooms, one full bathroom and a little storage on the second level. The owners were a couple. They looked very serious and sharp. The price was also about $80,000 USD. It did not include the furniture. We went back to the guest room and prayed. Then I remembered I was very moved by Psalm 104:3 when I was in America, “…and [he] lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.” If we could buy an apartment in Poland for Home for Grace, it would be so amazed just as laying the beams of an upper room on the waters. The first we liked had no second level. There were cracks on the wall. The second one truly had a second level, upper chambers. It was newer than the first one. The more my co-worker and I prayed about the second one, the more we liked it and the more we rejoiced. We lost no time but to start all the transactions.
However, Home of Grace in America could not draft any money from the bank to us at that time. It was because sister Y who was in charge of treasure was not in America at that time. I was in Poland. Therefore, we decided to borrow $13,000 USD for one moth from one Christian couple in America. When both of us returned to America, we could return it to them immediately. This couple loved the Lord fervently and cared about members of Home of Grace. Though the wife earned very little and the husband was laid off, they insisted to offer 13 thousands USD as down payment for Home of Grace in Poland. All the glory to the Lord!
The owner and two of us went to the lawyer’s office for notary, contract and down payment. Our two realtors hired a translator of English for this meeting. It turned out this business meeting became a meeting of thanksgiving. Everyone was very happy and touched by the testimony we shared. I had been in pain all the time when I traveled back and forth in the snow for this apartment. I was so joyful when I saw the Lord’s blessing. May all of the glory to the Lord himself. He uses people lowly as dust to open up his own ministry.
The contract of this apartment was under my own name to fulfill the legal requirement of Poland realer estate. We could not move in until we paid the rest of the payment. That would be two months later in the beginning of 2005. During this period of time I set up my last will to give this apartment for the use of Home of Grace. This last will had been notarized in front of a lawyer and witnesses.
Thank God! This little Home of Grace for Christ’s Workers in Warsaw Poland has started to minister since February 5 of 2005. May righteousness, justice, kindness and honesty live in it forever and ever! May the only, forever living and almighty God find his rest in this house of God. May God be with us until his second coming. Amen!

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Psalm 15 /Rev. 11:4

Posted on December 25, 2021 by admin

Psalm 15 /Rev. 11:4

Keep God’s word; pray and preach widely.
All nations will be blessed!

Comparison of two Scriptures is as followed:
Psalm 15 explains to us the life of those who live with God. How they keep God’s word. How they make every effort to seek godliness so that they do not say any bad word. They are blameless before God. They hate sins so that they keep their hands from anything that does not belong to them. They hate any kind of bribe. They turn down any ill-gotten gain. They are the olive trees and the lamp-stands just as what is written in Rev. 11:4. They meditate on God’s word day and night. They are on fire for the lost souls. They earnestly intercede for all the people by grasping God’s word. They fervently preach gospel to everyone on earth.
Rev. 11:4 prophesies that God will raise up two witnesses at the End Time. They are the two olive trees and the two lamp-stands. (Please refer to Zechariah 4.) They are not talkers, but doers. They walk and live before God. They keep God’s word by themselves so that their lives shine for God. They understand what God desires. They join together in Jesus Christ and pray for everyone. They also go out and preach gospel to all nations and to all people. Surely, they bring God’s blessings to everyone. The whole earth will be filled with God’s glory because of them.
Now let’s read Rev. 11: 4 carefully. ‘Two’ in here means many. It also tells us that unity is essential in our service. The body of Christ must grow to unity in the faith and in the Truth. God’s heart is content when all of His children serve Him in one heart.
They are like two olive trees. What does God mean by that? Two witnesses are those who seek to understand God’s words in the Bible. They put God’s word into practice. They pray earnestly by grasping God’s word, like extracting oil from the olive. They desire nothing but to honor God, and to save all people. That is why the Bible says they are two olive trees. God’s word are like the olive. To get the good taste of olive, you have to chew on it. The more you chew on it, the better it tastes. It is the same with reading God’s words. We must continuously meditate on the Bible we read so that we can fully understand what God means. It is useless to our spiritual growth if we just go through the Bible without understanding of it. In fact, this kind of attitude toward God’s word can be a disadvantage to us. The devil has been using false prophets to twist God’s word so as to lead us away from God.
“Two lamp-stands” means God’s children must shine for the Lord. If we want to shine for the Lord, the first thing is to have clear pipes so that the oil can flow through smoothly. We must keep a clear and smooth fellowship with the Lord and with true Christian. The pipes shall not have any blocking; not even a bit of sins, a bit of hatred, a bit of lust, or a bit of pride. Any of it will hinder our fellowship with God and with true Christians.
We must keep the shade of the lamp from dust. A dusty shade hinders the light sending out from the lamp. Therefore, we must keep ourselves clean from the dust on earth. Be careful not to be defiled by the world.
The lamp must be filled with pure and clean olive oil. Oil is the word of God. And it is also the Holy Spirit. Olive oil is extracted from the olive. When we grasp God’s word and pray earnestly according to God’s will, the Holy Spirit will fill us up. Then we have strength to do the right and shine for God in darkness. It is just like our Lord prayed earnestly in Gethsemane. How Jesus grasped God’s word and prayed earnestly for God’s will be done. Never put other kind of oil in your lamp. Never turn to the evil spirit. Nor pray according to man’s will or selfish desire. Once we put diesel oil into our car by mistake. At once the car was dead. By putting the wrong type of gasoline we almost ruin the whole engine. This incident has given me a great lesson about the importance of spiritual purity. At the end time, the wise virgins must make effort to buy oil and light their lamps. We must only buy the pure truth in the whole book of Bible. The oil in the lamp must be pure olive oil. Never get the wrong kind of oil in our lamp. Nor buy the impure oil, such as false teachings. False teachings sound right but they are wrong. If we accept the wrong oil in our lamps, we will be harmed.
The last important thing to keep our lamp shinning is: kindle the lamp. A fervent love of God and of the souls is the fire to kindle the lamp. How do we apply this lesson to our lives? Fervently eat God’s word, accept His word by simple faith. Eagerly seek to understand God’s word. Grasp God’s word and earnestly intercede for the churches on earth. When Paul joined with some fellow workers in Antioch in worshipping and praying, the Holy Spirit sent them out to preach gospel to everywhere. If we serve God in this manner, we will see God work mightily all over the world—a great revival will come to the whole world. The number of people in God’s house will increase quickly, from 1 to 2, from 2 to 4, 4 to 8 and so on and so forth.
If the lamp is not burning, there is no light or heat even if there is lots of oil in it. Some people love to read Bible and pray and are careful to be holy, but they are cold in serving God. They lack of the burning love of God and of the souls in their hearts. They are useless in God’s kingdom. They cannot bear fruit for God. Never follow the way of old Eli. He was very cold to his ministry. There was no fire in his lamp, so his lamp was very dim. Though he kept a routine of serving God, he could not even help his own son to do the right.
The two witnesses stand before the Lord of the earth. Our Lord is called “the Lord of all the earth.” How He desires everyone to be saved, not one to be perished. Therefore, Apostle Paul urged us that first of all, offer earnest prayers to God for all people. This is good and it pleases God. How pity that most of God’s children do not pay attention to His word. We do not understand God’s desire. Therefore, whenever we kneel down in prayers, we always pray for ourselves or for our love ones. And we often pray to God for the worldly things. This kind of prayer is not after God’s heart. That is why we spend lots of time in prayers but we get very little. If we seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness first, then for our needs, we are after His heart. Let us join together in constant prayers like those who did on the upper room of Mark. We will see a great revival coming quickly. The fire of gospel will be kindled all over the world.
Now let’s turn to Psalm 15.
V.1-2. who can live with the high and holy God? Jesus says, “Whoever has my commands and obeys them is the one who loves me…My Father will love him, and my Father and I will come to him and live with him.”(John 14:21, 23) The Bible also says, “I am the high and holy God, who lives for ever. I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are humble and repentant” (Isaiah 57:15). The first condition to live with God is to read the Holy Bible carefully. Otherwise, where and how can we “HAVE” God’s commands? If we are humble and repentant at God’s words everyday, the blood of our Lord will wash away all of our sins. The Holy Spirit will burn out all of the filthiness in our hearts. The Holy Spirit will also provide for us the strength to keep God’s commands. Then we can obey God in everything. We always will do what is right. Our words will be true and sincere. Then we are Christians really live with God.
V. 3. Make every effort to be blameless. Fear God and do not speak ill of people. Be careful not to speak ill of others even when there are many people doing that. The Bible says: do not share in the sins of others.
V. 4. Hate evil and love good; and keep one’s promises. We are so easy to fear the bad people and bully the good one. For example, Pilate knew Jesus was innocent. But he allowed the crowd to convict Jesus of death sentence, because he was afraid to lose his position and the support of the people. Ebed-Melech, a eunuch, was not afraid of those evil leaders. When he heard they put Jeremiah God’s faithful and godly servant into a cistern, he stepped forward boldly. He did not care what would happen to himself. The Bible recorded his good deeds. He is sure to get a great reward in heaven.
Ruth is a good example of the one who keeps her promise. She vowed to follow her suffering mother-in-law. To keep her promise she had to give up her hometown and her own mother. She had to sacrifice the chance of remarrying. Though she knew she would have no future, she did what she had promised. In spite of all the cost, she followed Naomi to the end. At first, Orpah also cried and followed Naomi. But Orpah could not keep her promise because she thought the cost was too high. Therefore, she finally kissed Naomi and said good-bye to her. She represents a kind of Christian who loves God by mouth only. What they get from God is limited enjoyment of this world. They have lost great blessing and eternal joy in heaven. Let us be God’s children walking in the light. Be honest and always do what we promise to God and people, even when it hurts. Those who follow the example of Ruth will play an important part in God’s kingdom which beyond their imagination. They will also get best blessing on earth.
V. 5. Never charge interests for loans; never accept bribes. Be on guard against all kinds of greed. Never accept a bribe to testify against the innocent. Abraham vowed not to take anything from the Gentile king. Therefore, he got great reward from God.
In conclusion, let us rise up and testify for God just like the two witnesses. Keep God’s word and hate evil; pray widely and preach gospel broadly; so that God can use us to bring blessings to all people.

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Isaiah 8/Rev.21:17

Posted on December 25, 2021 by admin

Isaiah 8/Rev.21:17

God’s Word is the Standard of Measurement

The key verse of Isaiah 8 is verse 20, “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.” Rev. 21/17 calls our attention to God’s measurement. Therefore, the main lesson of Isaiah 8 and Rev. 21/17 is: God’s word is our standard of measurement.
Rev. 21/17, “He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits high, by man’s measurement, which the angel was using.” Here we see that there is a measurement of height for the wall of the Holy City. The Holy City represents the New Jerusalem which will be made of by every true Christian all over the world. How can we be part of this New Jerusalem in heaven? It is to be in the Lord. How can we be in the Lord? It is to live according to His measurement that is to keep His words and commands.
The Holy City is measured by man’s measurement, which the angel is using. Psalm 78/24-25 said, “he [God] rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven. Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.” Therefore, our righteousness must surpass the righteousness of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. The best thing people can do in this world is to keep the laws or regulations made by the governments. But we Christians seek the righteousness of God. We believe that God will transform us to be as holy as He is, so that there is no evil or lustful thought in our mind.
But how can we meet God’s standard, which is 144 cubits high? It is by faith and grace. When we read God’s words, we realize that we are so filthy that we cannot bear with it. We repent of our sins before the Lord. God is faithful and righteous; He will forgive our sins and remove our unrighteousness. Therefore, we can keep His commands and grow in His grace.
At that time Judah was attacked by a joint force of internal and external enemies. Israel was the internal enemy and Aram was the external enemy. That was why the heart of Ahaz was shaken according to Isaiah chapter 7. However, King Ahaz did not understand the reason for this joint force attack was his disobedience to God’s word. He was so scared of the enemies that he begged Assyria for help. Though his trouble was relieved for a short time, Assyria gave King Ahaz trouble instead of help at the end. King Ahaz should have turned to God for a complete cure. Isaiah the prophet was sent by God to warn King Ahaz about the consequences of getting help from Assyria.
Isaiah 8, Verse 1 to verse 4: God wants us to warn people by simple and clear written words, reliable witnesses, and signs of the prophet.
The Lord told Isaiah to take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen. That means God wanted him to write down His warning clearly and large enough for His people to read. What should Isaiah write about? God said, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. It means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil. It is a warning that disasters would come upon Judah soon.
In verse 2 God said, “I will call in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me.” God used not only written words but also reliable witnesses to warn them about the coming disasters. The most reliable witnesses are those prophets and witnesses in the Bible. There have been many witnesses in the Bible through thousands of years to witness the truth of God so that people will repent and return to God. We also listen to the words of those reliable witnesses.
Verse 3. Then Isaiah went to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. God told Isaiah to name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. Isaiah himself became a sign of his generation. Every day when he called his son by name, he was giving a warning against the people that disasters would come upon them soon. They should stop sinning against God and take shelter in God quickly.
Verse 4. Before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria. God wanted King Ahaz to know that the enemies he feared most would be destroyed in a very short time if he took shelter in God.
Do we understand that this is the time we should stop sinning or wasting our lives in chasing after the world? Do we understand that the days of danger are coming upon us soon? In a very short time, the city of New Orleans, where we lived, was destroyed by the flood. The two huge buildings of World Trade Center in New York became nothing but ashes in few minutes. One of my relatives was a very capable woman. She was the soul of her family, everyone depended on her. She has had dementia since last year, now she has become a burden of her family. She cannot eat by herself. She cannot even recognize her own husband and her son-in-law.
Brothers and sisters, have we ever thought about that disasters may suddenly come upon us? We must live our lives in fear of the Lord. Every word spoken by our Lord will come true at the end times. Let’s us stop living as a dreamer, busying with things, duties or enjoyment on the earth. We must pay attention to God’s word so that we will not sin against God.
Verse 5 to verse 8. In this paragraph God wants His people to know that disasters will come as the mighty floodwaters because they have rejected God’s word. However, our Lord has spread out His wings as a mother hen and hopes everyone of the world will run to Him for protection.
The waters of Shiloah means the word of God. In New Testament, we read Jesus put some mud with his saliva on the eyes of a blind man. Then Jesus asked him to go and wash in the Pool of Siloam. The blind man went and washed, and he could see.
Today God wants to work His plan in our lives by His own word, but we think His word work too slowly for our needs. Therefore, many Christians do not like to read the Bible. But God’s word can open our eyes so that we will not be led astray by the Devil to love the world. This so called colorful world is full of power struggling, immorality of sex, drug and alcohol. And it has been used by the Devil to drag us to hell. Many God’s children desire only things or enjoyment of this world. Therefore, many God’s children have rejected His word. They think the Bible is too boring and God’s word are too slow to meet their desires.
To make things worse, there are many messages telling people that if you believe in Jesus you will be successful in dating. Some say that if you believe in Jesus you will earn lots of money. None of these is the Way of God. Our Lord Jesus himself preached on earth, “The kingdom of God is near. Repent.” John the Baptist also preached the same message. This is true voice of God. But God’s children reject His way. To reject the gently flowing waters of Shiloah means to love the enemy. That is an invitation of our enemy and opens a way for our enemy to hurt us. Rejecting God’s word is the cause of every trouble we have in our personal life and among the nations.
Rezin is the king of Aram. Remaliah is the father of Pekah, the king of Israel. When King Ahaz was attacked by these two enemies, he did not repent or return to God. Rather he went to Assyria for help, thinking that he could rely on the power of Assyria for deliverance. By doing that King Ahaz rejected God’s word. As a result of it, God permitted the enemy to invade Judah. King Ahaz thought he could solve his trouble by using his own method and wisdom. But unexpectedly, the king Assyria with his power came to oppress Judah just as the mighty waters of a river ran over its banks. The help from Assyria was temporary. Eventually, Judah was destroyed by Assyria as in verse 8. But Our God is merciful. God not only warned King Ahaz before the sudden coming of disaster. He also provided shelter for His children to pass over the disaster.
Our Lord is Immanuel, which means God with us. He has spread out His wings on the whole world. How God desires everyone on the earth to repent of his evil deeds and shelter in Him, so that no one will be hurt in disasters. God has sent his only Son to die for our sins so that we can shelter in His wings. When we confess our sins and repent, we enter His protection. Jesus said sadly when he saw Jerusalem, “How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.”(Matthew 23/37) Jesus has foreseen how Anti-Christ will torture His children at the end time. But God’s children do not understand that they must shelter in Him NOW. Jesus has promised us that in Him we may have peace. In this world we will have trouble. But take heart! Jesus has overcome the world.
How about you and me, do we know the signs of the times? Do we understand the cause of disasters for the nations or individuals? Let us pray that God will shine upon us and lead us to repent. For wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. No disaster or enemy can hurt us if we shelter in His wings. Let us take shelter in Jesus NOW. Do not rely on our own wisdom or methods for problem-solving. Though there are many troubles on earth, God will protect us from all of them miraculously.
Verse 9 to verse 15. Though the nations and the peoples gather together and raise their voices against God, they will be destroyed. They cannot overpower us when God is with us. We only need to regard the Lord as holy, keeping His words in our faith. There is peace for those who remain in Him. But whoever does not believe the word of God and find his own solution will stumble and fall into the snares.
Verse 9-10, “Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.”
This is God’s challenge to the whole world. Nowadays all nations have become very proud and the peoples are saying that there is no God, because they can even reproduce human being. But God says none of their plans will withstand. For example, when two strong power of China and Russia became friends in 1960s. They thought they could do lots of things in the world for power. They started to build a high building to show their strength of alliance. But they broke into war with each other before the building was ever finished. Men’s schemes can never be successful. There was once men on earth wanted to build a tower for their own name. But the Lord confused their language, and they stopped building that tower.
Verse 11 “The Lord spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people.” When we come to God in prayers, we are asking our Lord to stretch out His strong hand to help us. God will answer us and show His power for us. God warns His children not to follow the ways of this world. The ways of this world are evil ways, immoral ways or even ways of heresy. We God’s children must only follow God’s way. His way is in the Bible. Therefore, we must pay attention to read His word and pray to God.
Verse 12, God told us, “Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.” However, many Christians are following the way of the world, which is the wide road. Though they attend churches, they do not live according to the word of God. They love the world, chasing after satisfaction of their flesh or sinful desire, just as the non-believers. This kind of Christian seeks only things of this world. They do not love Jesus Christ nor do they keep God’s word.
God warns us not to follow their rebellious way. Nor shall we fear what they fear. What do those Christians fear? They are afraid of the news of wars, natural disasters or pollutions, recession of economy. We fear nothing but God. Therefore, we regard God as holy (Verse 13). To regard God as holy is to keep His word without adding or subtracting. Nor shall we mix His word with philosophies or any worldly rules. We are to follow the example of Jesus, who loved the Father and did EXACTLY what his Father had commanded him to the very end.
The evil plan of the Devil is to hinder God’s children from keeping God’s word EXACTLY as God says. It is because the Devil knows if God’s children do exactly as what God has commanded us, God will show His full glory. Therefore, the Devil seduces us to add something or subtract some part from God’s word. The Devil also mixes psychology with God’s word. Let’s not fear what the people fear. If God does not permit, nothing bad will happen to us. We only need to trust and obey God’s word completely; we will have peace in Jesus Christ.
Verse 14 “and he will be a sanctuary; but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.” What does this mean? When we fully keep His word, He becomes a sanctuary for us. God is with us in His sanctuary. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. For example, when Daniel was accused by some people, he still regarded God’s word as holy. Daniel kept God’s word till the end, and the lions did not eat him. As a result of it, everyone knows that Daniel’s God is the Lord, the Lord alone. He is the living almighty God.
To regard God as holy is to fully keep His word and to love God’s word more than everything, even more than our own lives. It is by faith and prayers that we can keep God’s word in times of trouble. Then we will see the full glory of God.
But why did God say that He would be a stumbling stone to Israel? It was because they did not believe or listen to His word. They depended on their own methods and followed the way of the nations when they had troubles. Therefore, Israel ended up stumbled.
Verse 16 to verse 18. The Lord’s servant shall pray and wait on God when His people refuse to listen to God’s word. And God will use His workers who live in Him as signs and miracles of the times.
It was because God’s people refused to listen to God’s word. When King Ahaz faced the attack of internal and external enemies, he did not seek help from God. He went to King Assyria, a mortal man, for help. Therefore, God told Isaiah to seal up His law since King Ahaz refused to listen to it.
Verse 17 to 18. “I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him. Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.” These two verses tell us that when people refuse to listen to what God has asked us to preach, we must wait for the Lord. But how do we wait for the Lord? Pray and put hope in our Lord. The Bible said during the time of Samuel, the heart of Israel turned to God. Why and how could this be? It was through preaching, and praying and waiting upon the Lord. Prophet Jeremiah cried and prayed for the rebellious Israel in the middle of night when Israel refused to listen to God’s rebuke.
Since the people refused to listen to God’s word, God used Isaiah and his children as signs for Israel. For we who believe in God, our lives have become miracles of our times. For example, God has called me to forsake everything of this world to follow Him by faith. I have never done any fund-raising or tried to get support from rich people. By His grace I have always depended on Jesus only since then. He has been faithful. God has made me from having nothing to lacking of nothing! Jesus has promised us that signs will accompany those who believe. The life of living by faith has made us signs and miracles of our times.
Verse 19 to 22. Never consult mediums or spiritists. For the path of the righteousness is like the first gleam of dawn, shinning ever brighter till the full light of day. But the way of those who go astray will be ever darker and full of pain and anxiety. They will end up in utter darkness.
Verse 19 “When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?” Very often people would tell us to consult mediums and spiritists when we have troubles in our lives. King Saul was an example. At first he could defeat the enemies because he relied on God. In the end he even consulted mediums and spiritists because God did not answer his prayers. Finally, King Saul died on the battle field. It was because he had never confessed his own sins or repented completely before the Lord.
There are times when God does not answer our prayers at once. It may due to our sins. If that is the case, we must not turn away from God. We must humble ourselves before the Lord and wait upon Him. The Bible says that calmness can lay great errors to rest. If we humble ourselves more and pray earnestly to God, He will answer us. God will never forsake those who trust in Him. Never turn away from God to find solutions by ourselves when God does not answer our prayers at once. Never shall we consult mediums or spiritsts.
Verse 20 “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.” We must regard His word as the standard. When I first arrived in America, I heard many Christians talking about visions or prophecies. They told me one of the visions by a prophet. This so called prophet told them that once when he was praying, he saw a monkey climbing up a peach tree to eat its fruit. What is the value of this kind of vision to churches or Christians? Most of those so called prophets are not serious or interested in serving God. They do not concern the things of God’s kingdom or churches. This kind of visions is different from the kind of visions written in the Bible. For example, God showed Zechariah visions after visions regarding His plan for Jerusalem, and His salvation and future of Israel. When Daniel understood God’s heart and prayed earnestly for Israel to the point of death, God revealed to him mysteries of end time.
Once I went to China with a co-worker. We heard that there was a prophetess, who was young and powerful. She was highly respected and was very popular among churches. She told people that whenever she stood on the pulpit, she would see a written sermon dropping down from heaven for her. Only she could see it. She then read from the heavenly sermon to the people. Sometimes this prophetess also went to Home of Grace in China for retreat. But she had never attended our Bible study meetings. When we met her, she said some prophecies about us at once. She said she saw two of us in heaven standing before the throne and we were receiving great rewards. We did not buy it at all because she did not even know us nor has she ever interceded for us. How could she get any vision about us? This was not the spirit of God but the spirit of the evil one.
Many of so called visions do not match the word of God. Some visions go beyond what is written is the Bible. For example, once Home of Grace in America received a box of books in Chinese and English, beautifully printed. These books talked about great visions of heaven and hell. But the descriptions of heaven and hell are beyond what is written in the Bible. We threw away all of them at once because it is beyond what is written in the Bible. There is no true light in this kind of books, no mater how popular they are. It is only when we love our God by keeping His words and praying according to His heart, and then God will reveal His visions or Himself to us. (John 14/23)
Our God is almighty. If we trust in Him and do exactly as He has commanded us, we will see His full glory. When we know that God wants us to be holy from the Bible, we then seek holiness. When God wants us to love our enemies or those who mistreat us, we then bless our enemies and forgive them. When we regard God as holy, we will not fear what people fear in this world. Many times I experienced that God asked me to give my most favorite things to those who had mistreated me. I did in His grace and I experienced miracles. God miraculously opened ways for me to come out of China to America and other countries for His ministry.
To regard God’s word as holy is to keep His word exactly as God has commanded us without adding, subtracting or mixing. It is just as when we want to make a telephone call, we must dial the telephone numbers exactly as they are. Then we can be put through. We will receive blessing from our almighty God.?

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Exodus 12/Jeremiah15

Posted on December 25, 2021 by admin

Exodus 12/Jeremiah15

(3 sections, 17 vs.7 in each section)
From a slave to a soldier of Jesus
–by washing in the blood of the Lamb and eat its meat

Ex. 12:1-7/Jer.15:1-3

God asked Moses and Aaron to give instructions to the whole community of Israel. Each man was to take a one-year-old lamb without any defects. Then the whole community must kill the lambs. They were to take some of the blood and put it on the door-posts and above. The main message in Exodus 12 is that it is only by the atonement of precious blood of our Lord can our sins be forgiven. By his blood, Jesus has redeemed us from judgment. Jesus comes to deliver us from sins and transgressions.
If we do not confess our own sins to the Lord and ask Jesus to blot our sins by His precious blood, we can never reconcile with God. Even if Moses and Samuel are to intercede faithfully for us before God, God cannot show His mercy to us unless He sees the blood of the Lamb. Wherever sins are, curses are. He who sins gets his own punishment.

Ex.12:8-10/Jer.15:4

“That night you must eat the meat.” That means as soon as our sins have been blotted out by the blood, we must start to read God’s word. Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.” He said, “If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day. For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink…The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.”(John 6:35, 53-55 & 63)
“You must roast it and eat it.” It means we must fervently accept God’s word into our hearts. Whenever we think of the great love of Jesus dying for us, our hearts is on fire for Jesus.
“Eat it with bitter herbs” means we are ready to suffer physically in order to obey God’s word. From now on we will not live the rest of our earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.
“Do not eat any of it raw.” When we read Bible, we must listen carefully and take to heart all the word God speaks to us. Never go through the Scriptures on the surface.
“Never cook the meat in water to eat.” Never change the original meaning of God’s word according to our own ideas. That is to say we must correctly handle the word of truth. Do not twist God’s word or distort its meaning.
“Eat it roasted whole, including the head, the legs, and the internal organs.” If we want to understand thoroughly the whole truth, we must read the whole book of Bible comprehensively. Never ignore any part of the book of Bible. Nor focus on partial truth. Moreover, we must seek to understand what God means in His heart from beginning. For example, Moses’ law permits divorce, but it is not this way from beginning.
“You must not leave any of it until morning.” Whatever we read today, we must put it into practice today. Do not delay it until next day.
King Manasseh did not eat God’s word or drink His blood. He ignored God’s word and never obeyed God’s word. Therefore, God laid hands on them and attacked them. They would be tossed here and there among all nations. No one would show mercy to them.
If we eat the flesh of the Son of Man according to God’s instruction, we will be delivered from bondage of sins. And we will become noble instruments of God. We can bring glory to God and help other to believe in God. All nations will be blessed by us.
A testimony: Sister Rebekah was brought to Jesus Christ by her elder brother. He went to America to study Theology because he wanted to serve God. But later he fell into sins and refused to confess his sins to God. He got worse and worse. He has ended up as a humiliation of church. Though sister Rebekah failed the Lord during Cultural Revolution, she has repented completely by the blood. Since then, she has turned her heart to eat God’s word fervently. God has changed her into a noble instrument. God is still using her mightily even now.

Ex. 12:11-15/Jer. 15:5-6

You are to eat it quickly, for you are to travel. It is the Lord’s Passover. On that night God will go through the land of Egypt, killing every first-born male, both human and animal. This disaster will not harm those who put blood on their door-posts. Celebrate this day as a festival to remind you what God has done. Celebrate it as a lasting law. If we do not do it, we may lose our first love to God.
But God’s people rejected Him and turned their back on God. They refused to eat His word quickly. They had not celebrated Passover as a lasting law for generations. Though the ancestors kept it by washing themselves in the blood and removing all yeast in their houses, the young generations did not keep it in this way. They refused to wash their sins in the blood of lamb. As a result, they did not even know what they had done wrong from God’s eye. Therefore, God would lay hands on them to destroy them. Not one would show pity to them or mourn for them. My younger sister kept on backsliding in this way. When she was first called by God to serve Him full-time, she focused on washing her sins in the blood. She loved God’s words and kept them by faith. Later she loved the world so much that she could hardly admit her own sins to God. Finally, she stopped keeping Passover, and she returned to follow the world.

Ex. 15:16-20/Jer. 15:7-8

“Eat bread without yeast for 7 days. Get rid of all the yeast in your houses.” Yeast stands for sins and evil, sinful nature, evil teachings, cult, other gospel, or a spirit of confusion. During those 7 days, do no work except preparing food for everyone to eat. To remove all the yeast from your houses according to God’s words is much more important than to serve God. Because it is on this very day that God brought out His army from Egypt. Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread as a lasting law for the generations to come. Eat only bread without yeast. Only accept sound and pure teaching of truth. Whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of the Israel.
God would get rid of some of His people because they did not stop their evil ways. They took God lightly. They did not care to remove all yeast of sins before they came to serve God. They did not bother to eat Unleavened Bread. Nor did they keep it as a lasting festival. Therefore, God would make their widows more than grains of sand by the sea. God would kill the mothers of their young men at midday. It was because they did not pay attention to remove yeast of sins when they were successful in their service to God. As a result of it, they became proud. They accepted man’s admiration as idols. Or they were led to admire others as idols. Some regarded money or fame as idols. Therefore, God would bring them sudden terror and sorrow. For example, when King Solomon was led astray to love his foreign wives, he faced enemies all around him suddenly.

Ex. 12:21-29/Jer. 15:9-12

Then Moses told the people whatever God had told him. They were to celebrate the feast of Passover for generations to come. If they atoned for their sins by the Lord’s blood, and then they would not be harmed by the disaster.
But when they disobeyed God and refused to atone for their sins by blood, the mother of seven would grow faint and be ashamed.
In Jer. 15:10, Jeremiah faced such disaster that he seemed to be under curse. But what happened to him was not caused by his sins. It was for the sake of righteousness, for God’s truth. Though he was so hated by people, he would be delivered by God for a good purpose in times of troubles. God would make his enemies plead with him.
Men’s hearts was as stubborn as iron and bronze. It was just like Pharaoh, no one could escape from his complete controlling. But our Lord is almighty God. He killed all the first-born sons in Egypt at midnight. The Egyptian urged the Israel to hurry and leave the country.

Ex. 12:30-36/Jer. 15:13-15

That night Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and asked them to leave Egypt with their people, sheep, goats, and cattle. God made the Egyptians respect the people and give them those articles of silver and gold they asked for. In this way, the Israel carried away the wealth of the Egyptians.
God’s people were as stubborn as Pharaoh. They did not obey God’s words after they entered the Promised Land. They sinned against God and did evil thing. They kept on turning their back on God. God would give their treasures as plunder to their enemies without charge. But God knew how Jeremiah had been persecuted for Him. God would vindicate him and revenge for him because he had suffered long for God. God would remember him and care for him.

Ex. 12:37-39/Jer. 15/16

The Israel baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt. It was because they were driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to prepare leavened dough.
Jeremiah had always listened carefully to every word that God spoke to him. God’s word filled his heart with joy and happiness. God’s word are true unleavened bread. His word can make us holy if we really accept them by faith. Bible says, “Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”(Deuteronomy 8:3) We must regard God’s word more important than food or anything else.

Ex. 12:40-46/Jer. 15:17-19

On the day the 430 years ended, all the army of the Lord left Egypt. Therefore, they must dedicate this day to the Lord as Passover for generations to come. Whenever a person is willing to atone for his sins by the blood and accept God’s word, at once he becomes a good soldier in the Lord’s army.
Jeremiah was a good soldier in God’s kingdom. He concerned what God concerned. He had never spent time laughing with other people or having a good time for himself. In this ways, Jeremiah kept the spirit of Passover according to the laws.
“Do not break any of the lamb’s bones.” What does it mean by that? You see not a bone of the Lamb of God has been broken. How Jesus has suffered for our sins and kept God’s every word till the very end. He has left us a perfect example of true Passover. When he was insulted, Jesus did not answer back with an insult. When he suffered, he did not threaten, but placed his hopes in God. When he was asked whether he was the Son of God, he answered yes without fear of death.
Jeremiah had suffered long for the Lord. He prayed to God to obey His word to the end just like our Lord without breaking any of the bones. He was a servant of character. He did not bow down to suffering or compromise with sins. Samson failed to keep God’s word to the end because he bowed down to women. His bones have been crushed by sins and he lost his strength.
Jeremiah did not take the meat outside. He remained faithful to God in suffering. But Samson was a defeated soldier. He regarded the prostitute Delilah as his happiness. Samson did not eat the whole meat to remain in the Lord. He brought it outside—he released the mystery of gospel to his enemies. Samson had never asked God to give him strength to overcome sins.
God only wants us to turn to Him. It is by the redemption of the cross that our hearts are circumcised. Then we can be sanctified. If we keep on obeying God’s word, we will be sanctified to be God’s spokesmen. We become noble instruments of God. God will use us to declare His word. We will be counted as good soldiers of heavenly kingdom. Though people attack us, God is with us and He will deliver us from our enemies. No one can overcome us.

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Deuteronomy: Chapters 31-34

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Deuteronomy: Chapters 31-34

Chapter 31: Make people hear and obey the law. Save them from disasters.

V. 1-8: Encourage everyone to trust in God and to take courage in taking the land.
God will go with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Then Moses summoned Joshua, the young worker. And encouraged him to be strong and courageous, and go with the people into the land that God had promised them.
V. 9-13: Always assemble God’s children and read all the words of God’s law to them.
Gather men, women and children to listen and to learn God’s words so that they will put them into practice. Then they will learn to fear the Lord.
V. 14-23: Foretell God’s warnings against His people. Proclaim a final encouragement to the young worker.
God knows beforehand that His people will be rebellious and turn to other gods. God warns them that disasters will come when they violate God’s covenant. Moses again commanded the young worker to be strong and courageous. God would be with him. He would bring God’s people into the land promised by God.
When we serve God, we must trust in Him. And be bold in keeping His words and proclaiming His words. The whole world is under the control of the evil one. If we are discouraged by Satan, we cannot preach gospel at all. In Revelation the cowardly is listed as the first kind of people that cannot enter into New Jerusalem.
V. 24-30: God’s servant must be faithful to God to the end.
Moses finished writing God’s words before he died. Then he gathered all of God’s people and he recited it before them. He called heaven and earth to warn them. If they turned from God’s words, disasters would fall on them. Moses told the whole assembly of Israel every word that God wanted him to proclaim.

Chapter 32: Keep in your heart all the laws and disciplines. Exalt God as holy.

V. 1-5: God is honest and just. Whoever acts corruptly is not His child.
Make effort to know God and understand the truth. His works are perfect. All His ways are just. A faithful God does no wrong. Those who listen to His words and put them into practice set foundation on the rock. They are His true children and His favored ones. God will bless them.
V. 6-20: Remember great kindness of our Lord. Never repay God’s love by evil deeds.
Our God has delivered us from a land full of howling of wild beast. That is the place where we were dead in our transgressions and sins. God has paid a high price to redeem us. He trains us, cares about us, and protects us as the pupil of His eye. How have we responded to His kindness? We abandon God and worship other gods when we do well. We sacrifice to demons, gods that recently appears.
V. 21-35: God is provoked to anger; therefore, disasters fall on us.
love is as strong as death; its jealousy remains unchanged as the grave. Therefore, all kinds of disasters, famine, heat, wild beasts, the venom of vipers, and the sword all fall upon us.
V. 36-43: God will revenge on the enemies and redeem His people.
When God sees His people suffer too much and has no strength left, He will judge the enemies. Then His people will know only the Lord is God. There is no god besides the Lord. God will avenge the blood of His servants. He will make nations rejoice with His own people.
V. 44-47: Take to heart all the warnings and disciplines. Be sure to keep God’s words carefully.
All God’s warnings and prophecies are not idle words. They are our life. Take them to heart for generations.
V. 48-52: Moses was not allowed to enter the land of Canaan because he did not uphold God’s holiness.
Moses was only allowed to see the Promised Land, not to enter it. If God gives someone more, God demands more of them. Therefore, uphold God’s holiness. Do exactly as God commands. Let us do the work of salvation with fear and trembling.

Chapter 33: Honor the Lord as your king. You will be blessed greatly.

V. 1-5: Accept God’s instruction and honor God as your king. You will be the one God favors and blesses.
No matter how sinful or crude we have been, so long as we are willing to repent and return to God now. If we accept His words and honor Him as King, we are surely favored by God. We will be blessed and receive the land as inheritance.
V. 6-25: Some of God’s children may be corrupted by sinful desires just like Reuben. He even committed sexual immorality with his father’s concubine. But God says if they repent and turn to follow His words, they may live. If they are diligent in the Spirit, God will give them more fruit so that their number will not be few.
Some are like Judah, the worst of sinners. He has stopped sinning to do good actively. The Lord will help him against his enemies so that he will save many people. Paul is like that. Jesus Christ has changed him, from the worst of sinners to the content of heavenly Father.
Some has been very crude and killed (hated) men as they like just like Levi. But they turn to the Lord. Their weak point becomes their strong point. They can fully carry out God’s words and never comprise with kinship. They keep God’s covenant carefully so that they become godly people. Therefore, they are discerned in the Spirit. They become the mouth of God to teach God’s precepts to people. Whoever rises up to attack them will be subdued by God.
Benjamin humbles himself as a child before God. He is willing to be the smallest one. He is surely favored by God. He only desires to live with the Lord and rests in Him all day long.
Some are like Joseph. They fear God and overcome sin and evil. They will surely get the best blessing on earth. Wherever they go, they will be honored and respect. They will also get blessing of heaven. They will be given insights into what is written in the Bible. The dew is the Holy Spirit that will pour on them every morning so that they become springs of living water. They have gone through refinement and trials that their life is matured. They become precious instrument of the Lord. They get to know the mystery of God from ancients, like Paul and Daniel. They will also get the land as inheritance, including treasure of the land. For example, many mighty warriors joined David and helped him for God’s kingdom. Those warriors are like treasure of the land. All of these will be given to the one like Joseph. The Lord said, “I have found David a man after my own heart.” This kind of Christians is the prince among their brothers. They are full of power like the firstborn bulls. Their horn will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth.
Zebulun is a type of Christians, who pay attention to God’s words and live with the Lord. They rejoice when they go in and out of their tents. They will bring many people to the Lord. They make offering of righteousness. Their number will be as many as the sand on the seashore. All of them are Christians of high quality.
Gad means good fortune. They are grateful to God for all their good fortune so they enlarge their domain. They will get the best land. They carry out righteousness. They will be blessed more and more because they think they are good fortune in the Lord.
The meaning of Dan is he has vindicated. Though he is teased by people, he will spring out like a lion’s cub to trample down the wicked. The Lord Mighty says in Malachi 4/2-4, “But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet of the day when I do these thins.”
Naphtali means my struggle and I have won. He trusts in God to defeat the enemies. He is abounding with the favor of God. He will inherit southward to the lake.
Asher means happy. He preaches gospel widely by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The bolts of his gates are strong and firm. He bears lots of fruit in the Lord. He is favored by his brothers.
V. 26-29: God is your dwelling. God is your help. God destroys your enemies. You will live in safety and abundance.
How blessed is the righteous who exalts God as king!

Chapter 34: God’s faithful servant has done awesome deeds, full of power.

V. 1-4: Climb to the top of mountain and see God’s Promised Land.
Moses had reached the peak of perfection in the Spirit before he died. He had the Lord’s business in his mind all his life. Though he was not allowed to enter into the land, he was shown by God all the Promised Land.
V. 5-8: When Moses died, his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.
Who is honored like Moses, a faithful servant buried by God? No one knows where his grave is lest he be idolized. He is precious in the sight of God. And people grieved for his death.
V. 9-12: Moses appointed a successor. He knew God face to face and he performed awesome deeds.
Moses laid his hands on Joshua, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Moses knew God face to face. He did all those miraculous signs and wonders
before Pharaoh and all his officials and his whole land. He also performed the awesome deeds in the sight of all God’s children.

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Deuteronomy: Chapters 22-30

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Deuteronomy: Chapters 22-30

Chapter 22: Practice chastity and godly love. Lead people to righteousness.

V. 1-4: If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to him. If you see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help him get it to its feet.
V. 5: It is to distinguish man and woman lest we commit sexual immorality.
V. 6-7: God wants us to have concern even to the little bird. How this law reveals the great compassion of God.
V. 8: Make a parapet around your roof. It prevents people from falling from the roof. This law shows how considerate the love of God is.
V. 9: Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard. Do not mix secular principles or philosophies with true gospel. If we do that, we reap nothing from it. They cancel each other out.
V. 10: Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together. Do not arrange co-worker by man’s viewpoint. It is better to have co-worker paired by the Holy Spirit.
V. 11: Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. Clothes stand for our external behavior that people can see. A Christian must live out a life of holiness and honesty. Never put up artificial or hypocritical behavior. Nor act like the Gentiles.
V. 12: God says when you look at these tassels: you will not follow the lust of your own hearts and eyes. Live a life worthy of the calling we have received. Tassels on garments are for us to remember and to keep all the commands of the Lord. (Numbers 15/37-39) The Pharisee put long tassels on their garment so that men will see how spiritual they are.
V. 13-21: Have proof of virginity. It is important for a Christian to have a witness of loving our God with pure and devoted heart.
V. 22: Put to death adultery.
V. 23-24: The reason to put to death the violated girl is because she was in a town and she did not scream for help. If she had screamed for help in a town, people would have saved her. But she did not scream for help to resist sins so that she is counted as giving consent to what happened to her. Therefore, she should also be put to death.
V. 25-27: But put to death only the man who violates a girl in the country. Do nothing to the girl because even she screamed, there was no one to rescue her in a country.
V. 28-29: If a man violates a virgin, he shall pay a price to cover her shame and marry her.
V. 30: A man is not to marry his father’s wife. This is unlawful sexual sins, a great wickedness.
The whole chapter of 22 shows us God’s holiness and His considerate love. He wants us to practice chastity and lead people to righteousness to have eternal life and not be perished.

Chapter 23: Be holy and kind. Stay away from all evils.

V. 1: This kind of people has defect in themselves that they cannot have natural descendants. They do not fellowship with God so that they cannot bear fruit. They may not enter the assembly of the Lord. The Assembly of God means meetings that have the presence of God. There God’s children exalt God as their King and they are blessed by God. (Deut. 33/3-5)
V. 2: Those who are not clearly reborn cannot draw near to God.
V. 3-6: No Ammonite or Moabite may draw near to God because they are born of human decision or sinful lust. They hired Balaam to curse God’s children. Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.
V. 7-8: Do not abhor an Edomite or an Egyptian, because they might be converted in the third generation. The Edomite means members at church but belong to the flesh. Egyptian means people belong to this world.
V. 9-14: Keep away from everything impure when you preach gospel to people. One Achan brings trouble on the whole nation. Therefore, your camp must be holy. Otherwise, God may turn away from you.
V. 15-16: Accept a slave takes refuge with you. Be kind to him and do not oppress him. How Paul has changed Onesimus, from a run away slave into a true Christian of God’s very heart.
V. 17-18: Never accept offering from the earnings of a female or male prostitute. This can also apply to any offerings from impure religion. Once I refused to accept an offering from a sister. It was because she comprised with communist religious organization. After that my God moved a sister to provide me every month for a long time. This sister lived very far away from me and I have never met her even up to this day.
V. 19-20: Do not take interest from a brother. (Share a testimony of Martha.)
V. 21-23: Fulfill your vow at once. How Hannah fulfilled her vow.
V. 24-25: Do not be greedy when you are blessed. Do not desire more or demand more for the worldly things. Be content.

Chapter 24: Be strict with self-discipline. Be compassionate to others.

V. 1-2: God permits His children to divorce because their hearts are hard.
God says, “I hate divorce and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment.”(Malachi 2/16) Therefore, guard yourself in your spirit.
V. 3-4: How the earth is full of sins! How God hates it, if a man marries a woman, divorces her, and then remarries her again.
V. 5: A recent married man can stay free at home for one year. But Uriah husband of Bathsheba refused to go home and relax when King David sent him home. He slept at the entrance to the palace and did not want to go home. Uriah only cared about those who were fighting in the open field. He was faithful to God and His people. What a true heavenly warrior he was.
V. 6-18: Do not gain on others lost. Nor oppress others or take advantage of them. All these are wickedness before the eye of God. They violate the loving way of God.
V. 19-22: Be compassionate to others. Then God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
In all, discipline yourself strictly and be compassionate to others is the secret to blessing.

Chapter 25: Honor the Lord’s name. Destroy the Amalekites and deal with everything honestly.

V. 1-3: Punish as one deserves. Do not overdo it.
The discipline from God is to do good to us. It is not to destroy us. Paul taught the church, “The punishment inflicted on him [an immoral brother] by the majority is sufficient for him. Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.” (2 Corinthians 2/6-8)
V. 4: Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Do not let servants of God minister with an empty stomach. Paul always reminded the church to support those who were sent out to work so that they would be lack of nothing. Share the testimony of sister Leong in London.
V. 5-10: Honor the name of the Lord. Do not be The Family of the Unsaddled.
It is our duty to bear fruit so that we can honor the name of our Lord. The Lord is the Elder brother of every Christian. Our Lord has sacrificed Himself and shed His blood to redeem us from eternal death. How can we repay all His gracious love to us? We will exalt His name so that many people will receive the blessing of salvation. The Family of the Unsaddled means a Christian who is unwilling to put on the sandal of gospel to proclaim the name of Jesus. It is shameful that a Christian only lives for his own interests. Let us not receive God’s grace in vain. Honor God’s name and bring many people to the Lord.
V. 11-12: Do not use wicked ways to save one’s husband.
Though the motivation of this wife is to save her husband, her method is wicked. It is so wicked before the eye of God that her wicked hand should be cut off. Jesus Christ is the husband of the Church. His name is Almighty Lord. That is why Moses was warned, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”(Hebrews 8/5) God struck Uzzah to death when he used his own hand to take hold of the Ark of God. How God hates it when we minister by using the way of men or the way of this world. Needless to say, God hates it more when we use wicked methods in His ministry.
V. 13-16: Deal with everything honestly.
Do not have two differing weights in your heart. Do not use double standard in your home. God’s Word is the yardstick of justice and honesty. Practice justice and honesty so that you may live long. Get rid of every selfishness or favoritism in your heart. God hates anyone who acts in injustice.
V. 17-19: Completely blot out the memory of Amalek.
The meaning of Amalek is warlike. It is the most stubborn enemy of God’s children. Amalek is just like our flesh and sinful desires that always war against our souls. We must be at war against it from generation to generation. Put it to death by the Holy Spirit. The Bible says, “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.” (Ephesians 5/3-6) Let us blot out the name of Amalek completely. DO NOT FORGET! We will not take up its name on our lips.

Chapter 26: Give offering with thanksgiving. Receive blessings and bless others.

V. 1-11: Give offering with thanksgiving to God when we are blessed.
When we have entered the good land, we take the first fruits of the land to the Lord. Take as much as you can and put them in a basket. Bring them to the place that proclaims pure faith and has the presence of God. Then we should count the blessings before the Lord. We share our blessings with God’s servants and people around us.
V. 12-15: Store up the blessings so that you can bless God’s servants and the poor.
Then pray to God: (1) I have not turned aside from your commands or forgot them. I have taken out the portion belonged to God and have given it to people. (2) I have not eaten the sacred portion when I was in mourning. (Mourning means defiled oneself with this world.) (3) I have not removed any of the sacred portion when I was unclean. It pleases God if we obey His words and cleanse ourselves before we make any sacrifice. (4) I have not offered any of it to the dead. Do not use the sacred portion as a present to entertain people.
Finally, ask the Lord to bless God’s children and the land God has given us.
V. 16-19: If we follow God’s words today, with all our heart and with all our souls, God will bless us according to His promises.
(1) Take hold of “Today”—the past is gone; the future is not at your hand; only “Today” is yours.
(2) From Today follow God’s words with all our heart and with all our souls. Be a good Christian that is grateful to God and kind to people.
(3) Then the Lord promises “Today” He removes all the sins in your heart so that you can keep all of His commands carefully.
(4) God will set you in praise, fame and honor high above all the nations.
(5) God will make you holy to the Lord.
Has the Lord given you a job? Has the Lord delivered you from trouble? How can you and I forget God’s gracious kindness? Today, are you willing to be grateful to God? Are you willing to obey His words and be a blessing to others? Bring your tithes to the Lord and bless others. God will greatly bless you from Today.

Chapter 27: Imprint God’s words into your heart. Take God’s warnings seriously.

V. 1-10: As soon as we enter the land God gives us, imprint God’s words in our heart and make offering to God.
Abraham built up the altar wherever he moved around in the promised land. He prayed to the name of God and made offering on the altar. We must follow his good example. Wherever we go, the first thing is to pay attention to God’s words. Then we make offering to God. Dedicate ourselves completely to the Lord as a living burnt sacrifice. Let the Lord be our head. Be willing to be broken into pieces for the Lord. Cleanse ourselves completely. Serve the Lord fervently, like a sacrifice burning with fire on the altar. Give the entire fat portion, all of our love and honor, to the Lord. Then we will be full of peace and joy. Follow God’s words and walk in His way. Be a good child of God that can bring glory to God and bring blessing to people.
V. 11-26: God’s servants shall warn God’s people in a loud voice lest they be cursed.
Pay more attention to God’s words. Do the work of salvation with fear and trembling. If we take God’s words lightly, we may offend God in His ministry. We will end up like many of the Israelites dying in the desert. We may be cut off from the blessing and the good land God gives us.
In the past we did not paid attention to this chapter. Therefore, whenever we arrived at the mission field, we were busy with settling down, taking showers, or other things.
We did not know that the first thing we should do was to meditate God’s words and to dedicate ourselves completely to the Lord. That was why many times we lost the battle field right from beginning. Before we realized it, Satan had put some idol in our hearts. Two of our co-workers lost their power for that when they just arrived at the mission field. The Israelites fell into the trick of the Baal of Peor right before they were going to enter the Promised Land. They commit sexual immorality with gentile women. Then the plague came and it killed 24,000 men. How dreadful it is, if we ignore God’s words!
The greatest command of the Lord is for us to love His words with all our hearts and with all our souls. The second is to love others as ourselves. All the wickedness listed from V. 15-26 is against God’s way. A curse will surely be the result of it. Let us repent because we have not paid attention to God’s words. Let us start to guard His words well in our hearts and take His warnings seriously from today. Then, we will be blessed, not cursed.

Chapter 28: Listen to God and walk in His ways attentively. You will be blessed, not cursed.

How can we fully obey and carefully follow all of God’s commands? Jesus is our best example. He went to the temple when he was only 12. He did not care about anything but listened to the teachers and asked them questions. Jesus had paid attention to the words written in the Holy Bible. He obeyed them fully. That was why Jesus was baptized by John so that he could fulfill all righteousness. That was also why Jesus would fast and prayed watchfully 40 days and nights in the face of temptation. He asked the Holy Spirit to help him lest he be deceived by the tempter. When he was so hungry, Jesus was not tempted by the devil to change the stone to bread. Jesus guarded God’s words well, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” When Jesus was taken to the highest point of the temple, the devil tempted him to jump down. The devil even tried to use God’s words to mislead Jesus, saying that God would command angels to protect him. But Jesus had paid attention to God’s words so that he knew one should not misuse God’s promise in this way. Therefore, Jesus answered, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Then the devil showed him all the kingdom of the world. The devil asked Jesus to bow down to him to have all this. But Jesus said, “Away from me, Satan!” Jesus truly put God’s words richly in his heart. He understood His words and kept them in his heart all the time. Jesus would keep God’s words to the point of death.
This is why we have encouraged you: There is only one thing is needed. Sit before the foot of Jesus, humbly listening to His words everyday. Then you will do a beautiful thing that is after God’s heart. It is also why we must read the book of Deuteronomy everyday.
If we do not pay attention to what is written in the Bible, we may drift away from God in the following ways: (1) We may treat sins lightly. If we pay attention to God’s words, we will know how much God hates sins. And we will know how God has power and grace for us to be delivered from sins completely. In our heart there are evil thoughts, sexual immorality, greediness, cheating. If we truly determine to remove it,
God will certainly answer our prayers. Our part is to confess our sins and be cleansed by the blood of Jesus on the cross by faith. By the power of the Holy Spirit we put to death the misdeeds of the body. Never lose hope. Earnestly seek the Lord until He leads us to victory and sanctifies us.
(2) We may regard what is not sin as great sin. The Pharisees counted the disciples of Jesus as sinning because they picked some heads of grain and ate them on the Sabbath. We may therefore fear what we should not fear. And ignore what we should fear.
(3) Regard good as evil. The Pharisees regarded Jesus as committing great sin to heal the sick on the Sabbath.
(4) Go beyond what is written in the Bible. Balaam built up 7 altars everywhere because he wanted to make money from his ministry. He made lots of offering on his altars. But the more altars he built up, the more he led people to sin against God. A sister in London was like that. She thought she could help people by building up more altars. She fasted 24 days for a gambler. But that brother ran away to gamble again.
(5) Turn to left or right from the truth. Saul was like this. He asked people to vow not to eat when they were fighting against the enemy. But God said, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” God commanded Saul to destroy the Amalekites completely. But Saul and his people showed pity to Agag king of Amalekites and the best of the sheep and cattle. He thought he did a great honor in this battle.
(6) We will be deceived easily by the devil, either be proud or be led astray by idols.
(7) We will follow great wonders or signs. The Lord said that even the Elect would be deceived by great wonders or signs in the end time.
From now on be sure to pay attention to follow God’s words more than anything. Then we will not go astray or provoke God to anger. We will get great blessing from God, not disasters.

Chapter 29: Carefully obey God’s words. Do not deceive yourself.

V. 1-15: Those who keep God’s covenant get blessings promised by God. They will prosper in all things.
God does not show favoritism. Whoever hears His words and puts them into practice by faith will get blessing promised by God. God has made this covenant with His children and sealed with an oath. We have also experienced great wonders of God by ourselves. Therefore, follow God’s words carefully so that we may prosper in everything.
V. 16-28: Do not deceive yourself. Whoever turns away from God’s words will be cursed.
Do not turn away from God to worship other gods. Make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison. Hebrew 12/15-16 tells us about the bitter root will cause trouble and defile many. The bitter root could be sexually immorality or godlessness like Esau. God will single out this person from all His people for disaster. The endings of this person will be like those who died in the desert and never entered God’s Promised Land. (1 Corinthians 10/5-10)
V. 29: Forever follow what God has told us clearly.
We must follow what God has told us clearly and continue to obey them fully by the power of the Holy Spirit for the days of our lives. In addition to it, we need to make every effort to know God’s words according to Proverbs 2/1-5. By meditating His words and by the Holy Spirit we enter into the depth of all truth. We may have an Insight into the mystery of the Bible. Paul and Daniel have done that. They are highly favored by God.

Chapter 30: Return to God and obey His commands. You will be blessed with the inherited land.

V. 1-10: Return to God when we have troubles. God will restore us and have compassion on us.
Very often we are like the prodigal son that does not appreciate God’s blessing. Therefore, we waste God’s gifts and grace in following the sinful desires. It is until we suffer to the bottom that no one gives us anything, not even the pods, and then we return to God. Our heavenly Father is waiting earnestly for the lost son just like that father. As he saw the son, he ran to his son, threw his arm around him and kissed him. Quickly the Father put the new robe on him. Put sandals on his feet. What a joy God has when we return to Him. How compassionate God will restore us. After we suffer enough for turning away from God, we will come back to follow God’s words with fear and trembling. Those who are forgiven more will love God more.
V. 11-14: God’s words are not too difficult to do.
His words are not beyond our reach. His words are in our mouth and in our heart so we may obey them. Jesus said, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”(Matthew 7/7) His word is true. Jesus has destroyed the power of sin on the cross. He has given us the Holy Spirit to help us to overcome and be holy. Jesus has redeemed us so that we become noble instruments that can honor God and be blessings to people. By the power of the blood on the cross and the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus can change a lowly prodigal son to a noble prince. How he had changed Saul to Paul. Hallelujah! So long as we love the light and draw near to the light, we will never be condemned. Continue to pray earnestly for the good we desired and to do the right thing. God will change us to the noble instrument that lives out His glory. God’s words are never too difficult to do. It is by faith and grace that we can do His words according to the Holy Spirit. We accept the salvation that has accomplished by Jesus.
V. 15-20: Life and death, prosperity and destruction; choose life.
Those who love God and keep all of His commands carefully will have eternal life and eternal blessings. If we are led astray to disobey His words or to worship other gods, we will perish. Therefore, you must choose life today.

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Deuteronomy: Chapters 15-21

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Deuteronomy: Chapters 15-21

Chapter 15: Cancel the debt and help the poor. Give God our very best.

V. 1-6: If we cancel the debts that people have owed us, we will be blessed greatly by God. Testimony (1) How Mrs. Yin loved her enemy. (2) A test of love before Mary went to America.
V. 7-11: Always give freely to people whatever they need. We are lending to the Lord when we do this.
V. 12-15: Give people plenty and generously as the Lord has blessed us.
V.16-18: Do not be harsh on people; let them go free. If they do not want to leave, let them stay.
V. 19-23: Give our best to God. Genesis 4/4-5, “But Abel brought fat portions from some of the first-born of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering He did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.???Share testimony of sister Leong in London.

Chapter 16: Take out the yeast; bring offerings to God with thanksgiving. Pursue justice.

V. 1-3: Observe the day we are redeemed from sin all the days of our lives.
Jesus Christ appears so that He delivers us from sin and evil. How can we continue to sin? Since Christ suffered in His body, arm ourselves also with the same attitude. We will not live the rest of our earthly lives for evil human desires. But we will live for the good will of God. V. 3, “Do not eat…bread made with yeast, but for 7 days eat unleavened bread??? This is how we should observe the true Passover. Completely get rid of the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness. Then we are truly new creations. It is like what happened to Naaman of leprosy. He went down to the Jordan River and washed himself in it seven times. He was healed totally. Everyday we wash ourselves with water through God’s words. We will be delivered totally from our sins and sinful nature.
V. 4-8: We remove yeast not only from ourselves, but also from our possession in all our land.
Be watchful for our Lord to check whether there are any sins, false teachings or cults existing in our homes, churches, towns and nations. Then stand in the gap, praying and removing the old yeast on behalf of our land.
V. 4 God’s Word is our daily bread and meat. We should eat His words everyday and put it into practice on the same day. Never postpone doing God’s words until the next day or later. “The meat you sacrifice???means putting God’s words into practice.
V. 5 Sacrifice according to God’s will. Hannah prayed to God for a son and vowed to dedicate this son to God. The Lord answered her prayer because it was after His heart. As soon as Samuel was weaned, she brought him to the house of the Lord. Hannah was so grateful that she also brought many gifts with her to fulfill her vow to God. She truly roasted the meat and ate it. She gave praise to God and dedicated her first born son to the Lord.
V. 8 Be sure to obey God’s words to get rid of the old yeast completely before we do any ministry. Never serve the Lord with sins or old nature. Many people are busy with driving out the demons and healing the sick. But they remain in sinful ways of life. On that Day, the Lord will say plainly to them, “I never know you. Be away from me.???br> V. 9-12: Count off seven weeks
(1) From the time we begin to put the sickle to the standing grain, we must earnestly focus our prayer for Pentecost–a world-wide revival of gospel preaching so that we can be ready for the second coming of Jesus Christ. We will become so motivated in our ministry that we will serve with such humility, diligence, holiness and gratefulness, just like Ruth. Our ministry is sure to be blessed by God. (2) If we continue to celebrate this Feast by giving a freewill offering to God, we can share more blessing with others. God will keep on using us to bring more and more people to Christ. If we ignore this Feast of Weeks, we may lose focus in harvest and backslide. Many people have forsaken the Lord and go back to the world just like Demas.
V. 13-15: After we have had a harvest, we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
For the Lord has blessed us we must joyfully share the blessing with others. But the most important thing is to live with the Lord. Whatever joy we have on the earth is temporarily. Follow the example of Jesus. He always retreated to a mountain by himself after he did great wonders. There he spent time with Father and enjoyed living with Father.
V. 16-17: Three times a year we must keep these Feasts to God. It is to show our gratitude to the Lord and to repay His kindness.
No man should appear before the Lord empty-handed. We must bring a gift in proportion to the way God has blessed us.
V. 18-20: Seek Justice and justice alone, so that we may prolong our lives.
Appoint judges and officials for God’s people to judge fairly. Only those who listen to God’s words and put them into practice are qualified to be judges and officials in church. Do not pervert justice. Do not judge by appearance. Do not accept bribes. Follow justice and justice alone. Do not have two differing weights and differing measures. The Lord hates them both because it is injustice. Injustice cannot last long.
V. 21-22: Do not set up any wooden idol beside the Altar. Nor erect a sacred stone for oneself. The Lord hates them.
Always lead people to follow all the commands of the Lord. See no one but Jesus alone.

Chapter 17: Purge the evil and keep the covenant. Do not turn away from the law.

V. 1: When one has defect or flaw in him:
If that is our case, we should humble ourselves and pray to the Lord for healing by faith. Follow the example of that man of leprosy. He humbly begged for healing. Jesus said, “I am willing.???Then Jesus touched him, he was healed. Also that sick woman when she touched the Lord’s clothes by faith, she was healed from 12 years of bleeding.
V. 2-7: When we find people doing evil things:
If we find God’s children violate God’s covenant or worship other gods, we must not ignore it. Investigate it thoroughly. If it is true, someone really have done a detestable thing, we must purge this sin from among us. That is why Paul asked the church to expel the immoral brother who married his step-mother. Then Paul openly handed that man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.
V. 8-13: When we find cases are too difficult for us to judge:
We should take these cases to the place the Lord your God will choose—a place has the truth. Inquire of the priests who stand ministering to God and the judge. Then we must act according to the judgment of the truth they give us. For example, when the church at Antioch faced a dispute about whether the Gentiles believers should be circumcised or not, they appointed Paul and Barnabas to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. Finally, Peter and James all came to agreement that they should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who were turning to God. Instead, they decided to just tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. (Acts 15/19-20)
When we get instructions from such holy spiritual elders, we must follow them. They know the truth well in their heart and they stand before God ministering day and night. The judgment they give us is from God so that we must do as they direct us.
V. 14-15: When we want to set a king (a leader) over us.
Be sure to appoint over us the king God chooses. We must pray and wait for God to give us the chosen one. The Israelites could not wait for God but demanded a king at once. Therefore, they got Saul as their king. Saul was not the chosen one of God but a permissible leader of men. When Saul reigned, he brought many troubles to them. Therefore, when the house of God needs a leader, a pastor, a deacon or a manager, we should pray to God and wait for His answer. Never set up leaders by man’s opinion.
V. 16-17: Three “No???for a leader.
(1) Do not acquire great numbers of horses for himself. Nor make the people return to Egypt to get more horses for his own power. For example, in China there is a special group demands sisters to cover their heads during meetings. Their leader opened a big factory of medicine. He said that it was to help the poor and needy. But what he did had stumbled many Christians. One of them was Mrs. Wu who used to be so zealous about gospel preaching. She was the one who brought me to Jesus. She was influenced by that leader so that she covered her head and stopped preaching gospel. And she started to do business and thought she would make a fortune. But she failed badly, materially and spiritually.
(2) Do not take many wives.
Proverbs 31/3 tells the leader,“do not spend your strength on women??? Nor turn your heart away from God to your favorite co-workers or believers. Follow the example of Paul, “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.???Galatians 6/14) “Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus,???said by Paul. (6/17)
(3) Do not store up large amounts of silver and gold.
The downfall of King Solomon was because he violated these three “No???
V. 18-20: Only one thing is needed for a leader.
A leader is to read the Bible carefully for himself and keep it in his heart. He is to read the Bible all the days of his life so that: (1) he may follow carefully all the words of the Bible. (2) He may not consider himself better than others. (3) He may not turn from God’s words to the right or to the left. (E.g. Saul)

Chapter 18: Be content with God’s provision and strive upwards in the spirit. Be blameless before God.

V. 1-8: God’s servants should give all of their attention to God.
They should be content with God’s provision. But when they go to a new place to open up a new ministry, they may have to work for a living since no one knew about them. It should never deprive their full attention to the ministry of gospel preaching. Paul once worked for a living as a tentmaker for a short time so that he could continue his ministry there. He did not work for money. Nor did he work for a better life for himself or his family. God tells His children to give the best to God. In fact, this is the share given to His faithful servants.
V. 6-8: Strive upwards in the spirit wholeheartedly.
If a servant of God understands God’s heart and he is willing to move on to wherever sends him to, he will receive more share of benefits. He who labors more in God’s kingdom will receive more. And he will bear more fruit for God’s kingdom. Our Lord desires us to spread gospel widely, do not hold back. For example, after Silas arrived at Antioch, he never went back to Jerusalem but joined Paul to preach gospel everywhere.
V. 9-14: Do not learn to follow the detestable ways of the Gentiles. Be blameless before the Lord.
V. 15-19: God will raise up a faithful servant. He will tell us everything God commands him. If anyone does not listen to His words, God will call him for account.
V. 20-22: Put to death the false prophet who speaks in the name of other gods.
What the false prophet says by himself will not come true. In the time of prophet Jeremiah, there were some false prophets saying that God would bring back the captives in two years. But Jeremiah pointed out that they were lying and warned God’s people not to believe them.
Even if their false prophecies come true, they will be ashamed at the end. A brother in Beijing was very blessed by God. Later he was put into jail for the sake of Jesus. But when he was in the jail, he was deceived by a man possessed by the evil spirits. He wrote down many prophecies from that man which had come true. That man was associating with the devil but he thought it was God speaking to him. After he was released from jail, he came to the mountain to see us. He prophesied that sister Zhang would soon go abroad and I would stay in China. But it turned out to be the opposite. This proved that the spirit speaking to him was not the Spirit of truth but the evil spirit.

Chapter 19: Set up six cities of refuge. Save those who have killed people unintentionally.

V. 1-10: Set up six cities of refuge Jesus Christ is our refuge. The Lord is the Word. When we are caught in a sin, we take refuge in Jesus. In city of refuge we read God’s words carefully and pray according to His words day and night. The avenger of blood cannot harm us anymore. Set it up on the whole land. Then we will not be guilty of bloodshed.
V. 11-13: But if a man hates people and lies in wait to kill him, he shall be put to death. Show him no pity.
V. 14: Do not hurt others for our own interests. Never remove a neighbor’s boundary for enlargement of our land.
V. 15: A matter must be set up by the testimony of two or three witnesses. One witness is not enough to convict a man accused of any crime.
V. 16-21: If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse a man of a crime, we must purge the evil from among us. Show no pity to him, eye for eye.
In all, this chapter reminds us to save people. Do not hurt, harm or kill anyone.

Chapter 20: Fight against the enemies according to God’s words.

V. 1-4: Do not be afraid to war against the enemies, because God will be with us.
Do not be terrified by the great army of the enemies. For God is the one who goes with us to fight for us. God gives us victory.
V. 5-9: Anyone gets involvement with civilian affairs or is afraid can go home.
Anyone who has concerns about his house, his vineyard (ministry) or his fiancée can go home. Is any man afraid? Let him go home. What God wants is an army of volunteers who do not love their own lives.
V. 10-11: First of all, make an offer of peace.
We preach gospel of peace. If they accept the gospel, we have won over their souls to God.
V. 12-15: If they refuse the gospel, we lay siege to them.
If they refuse the gospel, we must focus our prayers on them. It is just as the Israelites marching around the Jericho until its wall collapsed. We must pray on them until God delivers their souls into our hand. Then put all “the men???to sword. It is just like Paul’s teaching, “Demolish arguments and every pretension that set itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every though to make it obedient to Christ.???2 Corinthians 10/5) As for the women, the children and everything in it, we can take it as plunder. This is rules for towns far away from where we live.
V. 16-18: But totally destroy the Canaanites in our land.
The Canaanites, the enemies of God, are full of evil and wickedness and they want others to follow them. Destroy them totally. Otherwise, they will teach us to follow all the detestable things. We will sin against our God.
V. 19-20: When we lay siege to a city for a long time, do not destroy its trees by an ax.
Do not lose control and cut its tree by our own will when we lay siege to the city for a long time. We can eat their fruit. We may cut down trees that we know are not fruit tree. And use them to build siege works until the city at war with us falls.

Chapter 21: Be righteousness and just. Save the people nearest to us.

V. 1-9: If a man is found killed, the one nearest to him is responsible for his death.
It is important to know that we are responsible for the salvation of people nearest to us. If we have never preached gospel to them and they die, we are guilty of shedding their blood.
V. 10-14: Lead a recent convert to separate from sins completely before you marry her.
She must shave her head, removing all of the worldly vanity. She also must trim her nails, cleansing from all the inner or hidden sins. She must put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured—she must abandon her sinful ways of life and behaviors. Then she should mourn her parents for a full month—a complete repentance of her old self. After all these, you may marry her. King Jehoshaphat ignored this and married daughters of the house of Ahab. Jehoshaphat brought deep troubles to his house.
V. 15-17: Act in justice. Do not act in favoritism.
When a man has two wives and wants to set up his last will, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves. He should give a double share to the actual firstborn son. King Jeroboam violated this rule.
V. 18-21: Do not cover the sins of your own son for kinship.
Take the case of Eli as a warning. He did not punish his two sons when they sinned greatly against God. He respected his sons more than God. As a result, his whole household was forsaken by the Lord.
V. 22-23: Be sure to bury the body hung on a tree that same day.
God says we must put to death a man of a capital offense and hang his body on a tree. The first meaning of “hanging his body on a tree???is to warn people not to make the same offense. Apostle John called attention to the church not to follow what wicked things Diotrephes had been doing. (3 John/9-10)
Second application of it is: we are encouraged to confess our own sins in public. It shows our faith and determination to cut off from sins and to do right. When we confess our sins openly by faith, we believe that we are dead to this sin. Then, we bury our sinful body with Him on that same day. From that time on, we live a new life by faith.

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Deuteronomy: Chapters 8-14

Posted on December 25, 2021 by admin

Deuteronomy: Chapters 8-14

Chapter 8: Keep the Lord’s commands attentively. Avoid pride and idol worshipping.

V. 1-9: Here we learn that in all kinds of situations, in dry desert or in rich good land, God has a purpose for that. He wants to test us in order to know what is in our heart. God uses the environment to teach us that man does not live on bread alone but on EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LORD.
V. 10-20: It is so easy for us to become proud when we have eaten well and lived in the good land. Then we forget what a suffering life we had when we were in Egypt as slaves. We forget how dreadful and how hard the journey we had in the desert. How easily we forget the gracious grace and mercy of Jesus Christ who was crucified to redeem us from sin and eternal death. We also have forgotten how God has nourished us with great love and patience. As a result of it, we become very proud and follow other gods. We are sure to lose all the blessing if we do that. Keep in mind what happened to King Solomon when his heart was led astray by foreign wives. How King Asa lost his glory when he turned to trust in power and man rather than in God. Follow the example of Apostle Paul. He has never regarded himself as having taken hold of perfection before the Lord. Paul does one thing: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. When Daniel is put in high position, he sets his mind to understand the things to be happened wholeheartedly. He cares about the future of God’s people. Therefore? Daniel is highly favored by God.

Chapter 9: Do not forget your own wickedness. Intercede for others.

V. 1-5: Keep in mind that God is the one who subdues the enemies. God alone is the one who turns people’s heart to Jesus Christ. It is to fulfill His promise that God gives us the land. Never think to ourselves that it is because our righteousness.
V. 6-21: Remember this and never forget our own wickedness. It is God’s mercy and grace that we can get this good land. And there are so many God’s children intercede earnestly for us. We shall also follow the example of Moses to pray for God’s children and our co-workers. Then, we can give warnings and timely correction to those who have gone astray. And bring them back to God’s way.
V. 22-24: Remember well how and why we provoked God to anger before. Take it as a lesson, so that we may never fall into the same mistake.
V. 25-29: Moses prays for forgiveness of God’s people. He asks God to show great mercy for the sake of His own name. The Lord says, “I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.”(Ezekiel 22/30) How God values our intercession for all nations. What an impact it will bring to the whole world. If there is one, just one person intercedes for a nation; God will spare that nation from destruction. When Queen Esther pleads earnestly for her people, her intercession changes the dark into the light. A tribulation turns out to be a great revival. Today, who is willing to be an intercessor?

Chapter 10: Lead others to obey God’s commandments. Cleanse your heart.

V. 1-5: God commands Moses to prepare stone tablets as the first ones again. He will write on them the Ten Commandments. God’s words will stand still and never change. Jesus also has told us that His words will condemn us at the last day. (John 12/48) We must trust and obey God’s words. In this way, we will not be punished but be blessed.
V. 6-11: Here we see God sets apart the tribe of Levi to serve Him. We learn that God’s servants shall be faithful to their ministries so that they will lead people to God’s grace and to God Himself. God’s servants should be: (1) Holy. God says that the Levites are to be set apart from His children and this world to serve Him. (2) Carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant in one heart. It means God’s servants in one heart exalt only God’s words as the highest. It is their duty to preach the sound doctrine of truth. (3) Stand before the Lord to minister. Be watchful for themselves and the flock. They are to please God not man. (4) Intercede faithfully. (5) Have no share or inheritance in this world. But the Lord is their inheritance. God wants them to serve Him wholeheartedly without any distraction. The best offering from God’s children to the Lord will be their enjoyment. Follow the faithful example of Moses and Jesus Christ. Earnestly intercede for God’s children. Those who serve Him faithfully never lack of anything. Paul is even willing to make every effort and spends all he has for the flock.
V. 12-17: Now what does the Lord ask of us but to fear Him and to walk in all His ways. It is for our own good and fortune. Therefore, cleanse our hearts. Be obedient children of the Lord. God sees our hearts not our appearances.
V. 18-22: If we realize the heart of heavenly Father, we will love and care for the poor. For example, Cornelius the centurion who gives generously to those in need and prays to God regularly. It has become a memorial offering before God.

Chapter 11: Listen to God attentively. Proclaim the Word ceaselessly.

V. 1-7: Love our God and always keep all of His words. Remember it is our own eyes have seen all these great things the Lord has done. God has performed signs to deliver us from great disasters. We are the one who have experienced the discipline of His majesty. If we do not love the Lord—a curse be on us. (1 Corinthians 16/22)
V. 8-12: Obey God’s words, so that we may take possession of the promised good land.
V. 13-17: Be very carefully when we are blessed, or we will be enticed to worship other gods. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against us.
V. 18-25: Fix these words of God in our hearts and minds. Whatever we do by our hands or we think (our foreheads), we must tune it in to God’s words. Teach them to our children at all occasions. Talk to people about God’s words. If we follow His words in this way, we will sure to have great blessings. God promises that no man will be able to stand against us. We will bear good fruit in Jesus Christ.
V. 26-27: If we follow God’s words, we receive the blessing. If we turn from God to serve other gods, we receive the disaster. Today, let us make a wise choice before the presence of God. What is your choice, the blessing or the disaster?

Chapter 12: Hate evil and wickedness. Keep the Lord’s commandments and save people.

V. 1-4: Hate what is evil and wickedness and destroy them totally. Never worship our God by following the way of Gentile. For example, (1) so called prophets and prophecies among the group of spirit-filled; (2) Catholic and their worshipping of Mary, saints and angels; (3) elections in church according to man’s rules and traditions; (4) In Japan, almost every house has images of idols. Bible teachers from South Korea tell Christians in China that they only need to recite the Lord’s Prayers all day long. Then, they will get power. A group called “I HOP” proclaiming their ministry is before the Throne when they sing and dance. And there are other cults such as Eastern Lightening, Jehovah Witness and so on.
V. 5-14: Seek the place the Lord our God chooses to put His Name there for His dwelling. His Name is His Word. (Rev. 19/13) W e should go to the house of the living God where the foundation of the truth is. To there we must go and pray. And there we bring our offerings, and give thanks and share our blessings with others.
V. 15-19: Never eat the blood. For the life of a creature is in the blood. Also the blood makes atonement for our lives. Woe to us if we do not preach gospel to save the gentile. Woe to us if we do not help people to turn from doing wrong things. If we read carefully Ezekiel 33/1-9 & 12-13, we will understand the love of God in forbidding us to eat any blood. The heart of our Lord desires no one to be perished. Therefore, when you and I are blessed and rejoice in Jesus, we must always put soul-winning as the first priority in our lives.
V. 20-28: When God has enlarged our territory, we can enjoy His blessing. But be sure we do not eat the blood. For example, when God blesses us with money and time, we can travel around and enjoy our holidays. But keep in mind to take that chance to preach gospel to the gentile. When we meet Christians, we should edify one another to keep God’s words and to love God more. Then, it may go well with us and our children forever.
V. 29-31: Be careful not to be ensnared by following the wicked ways of idol worshiping. For example, once I went to a friend to preach gospel to her. She happily treated me with the best food. And she turned on the TV for me. My mouth was stuffed with her food; my eyes were on the TV. I lost power and I could not share gospel with her. I knew it very well that good food and TV shows were her gods, but I was ensnared by it too. I should have followed the faithful example of old servant of Abraham and told my friend, “I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.”
V. 32: Do all God commands us. Do not add to it or take away from it.
Please pay attention that three times God asks us to “Be careful” and once He reminds us “But be sure”.
(1) V. 13: “Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.” Never attend worship of impure gospel. Go to the church which proclaims pure truth and has the presence of the living God.
(2) V. 19: “Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.” The Levites mean full-time servants of God.
(3) V. 30: “Be careful not be ensnared by inquiring about their gods”, after they have accepted the gospel.
(4) V. 23: “But be sure you do not eat the blood” when you rejoice in God’s grace. God has been training us to preach gospel at all times and all occasions. Whenever we take taxi or the plane, we are urged by the Holy Spirit to preach gospel and to save the lost souls as much as possible. Every one of us should do that from today. This pleases our God.

Chapter 13: Destroy all kinds of enticement. Touch not the evil.

V. 1-5: The enticement of false prophets. Do not be deceived by the false prophets even if their signs or wonders come true. It is God testing us to find out whether we love Him or not. A false prophet tries to entice us to go astray from God’s words by his signs or wonders. We must put that false prophet to death.
V. 6-11: The enticement of families and friends. When Satan uses them to entice us to serve other gods secretly, we must refuse it absolutely by 5 No. Our hand must be the first in putting them to death. When Mrs. Ho was clearly called by God to go to Fuzhou to open a new Home of Grace, she had a hard test. Her husband was a general in the army. He cried before her the whole night asking her not to follow God. She refused this enticement by 5 No. How God has used her to bless servants and churches in Fuzhou.
V. 12-16: The enticement of the wicked men. If we hear that there are wicked men trying to entice people to worship other gods, we must be concerned about it, find out information about it, and investigate it. How can we do that? It is by the words of God and watchful praying. If it is true, we must put to the sword all the wicked men. Burn whatever belongs to them totally.
V. 17-18: None of those condemned things shall be found in our hands. Be sure to destroy every enticement. Our God is a jealous God. Follow God’s words and keep all His commands. God will show us mercy and grace, and increase our numbers.

Chapter 14: Eat not anything detestable. Present offerings with thanksgiving.

V. 1-2: Do not follow the practice or custom of other religions.
V. 3-8: Do not eat any detestable thing. Do not touch their dead bodies. Here eating means accepting their teachings. Be careful about what kind of teachings we accept. What does it mean by chewing the cud and having a split hoof? In the spirit, chewing the cud means meditating on God’s words day and night. It is said in Psalm 119/97, “Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.” Meditation enables us to absorb His words into our life. Then we can follow God’s words and walk in His way without shaking. Psalm 119/101 says, “I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.”
(1) Those who chew the cud but do not have a split hoof are like the Pharisees. They talk about God’s words by their mouth. They do not put it into practice. (2) The one has a split hoof but does not chew the cud is a type of person who does good in the presence of men. He has no God’s words in his heart. (3) How about one has a split hoof not completely divided? It represents a type of person who is double-minded. He is not willing to follow God’s words completely to the end. Pilate was this type of people. Though he did not want to put Jesus to death, he did it at the end for his own interests. Jonathan, son of King Saul, was another example. He loved David deeply. He knew he would be second to David in David’s kingdom. But Jonathan also loved his father Saul and the enjoyment in his father’s palace. He could not leave all these things behind to follow David in his suffering. At the end Jonathan died together with Saul on a mountain. How pity it is! How about you, are you like that? You know how much you have been blessed by God. It has been many years that you really want to love Jesus Christ and want to offer yourself to the Lord. But you also enjoy this world so much that you are reluctant to give it up for the cross. Repent tonight. Turn to Jesus Christ. Set up your mind to follow the Lord to the end to repay His great kindness.
V. 9-10: Do not eat any living creatures in water that do not have fins and scales. Fins are for directions. Those creatures in water without fins mean Christians follow the way of this world. They are like the reeds swayed by the wind. They cannot follow God’s narrow way but drift away. Scales protect creatures from pollution in the water. Those with no spiritual scales are defiled by the world. Therefore, they are counted as unclean and detestable.
V. 11-20: Do not eat unclean birds. These kinds of birds have two wings—they know the Bible and they can pray. But their evil and wicked nature has never been changed. For example, the ravens fly but they love to eat the meat of dead bodies. This is a type of nominal Christian. They have the knowledge of Bible and can pray by lips very well. But they love this world in their heart. So they are unclean before God’s eye.
All flying insects that swarm or walk on all fours (Leviticus 11/20) are unclean to us. (E.g. Balaam)
If we meet Christians or even pastors who do not love God, we should be careful not to be influenced by them. If a Christian indulges himself in this world, e.g. money, power, luxury, and sinful desires, he will not love to read the Bible or pray to God. He will not be approved by God. Therefore, he is counted as spiritual unclean. We shall never accept (eat) his way of life or his teaching of truth.
V. 21: Do not eat anything you find already dead. (One sister went to Japan with her husband. Later her husband died. From outside she has overcome many temptations. She is active at church. But inside her heart, she always regrets that she should have accepted temptations. Then she could have been someone’s mistress and does not have to work hard by herself.)
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk”. Milk means the pure words of God. It is to nourish our spiritual life. We shall never use God’s words to condemn people or make them despair. Nor shall we use God’s words to hurt people for our emotional problems. Jesus came to this world not to condemn us but to save us. As long as we repent when we hear His words, we are saved. How great the love of our God is! He desires no one to be perished. God says, “As surely as I live…I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel?”(Ezekiel 33/11)
V. 22-27: When Nehemiah learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and singers responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields, he corrected it at once. He rebuked the officials, “Why is the house of God neglected?”(Nehemiah 13/11) Nehemiah then called back the Levites and made sure the tithes and other offerings were provided for them.
V. 28-29: Give willingly and share our blessings with the needy. In addition to the tithes, we should be willing to give more to the Levites who serve the Lord wholeheartedly. We should also care about the poor, the fatherless and the widows in our towns. In this manner, God will bless us in all the work of our hands.
Altar calling: Who is willing from now on to pay attention to every word that comes from the mouth of our Lord?
Who wants Jesus to cleanse his/her heart totally? Is there pride in your heart? Hatred? Lies? Greediness? Any idols?
(1) Who is willing to understand Father’s heart and to be an intercessor for all nations?
(2) Who wants to take every chance to preach gospel—exalting Jesus before men?
(3) Is there anyone who wants to leave everything behind to follow the Lord? Do you want to take the way of cross? Are you willing to deny yourself and to save people’s souls?

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Deuteronomy: Chapters 1-7

Posted on December 25, 2021 by admin

Deuteronomy: Chapters 1-7

Chapter 1: Follow the Lord wholeheartedly. Act not out of your own will.
V. 1-8: The Lord said: “Go in and take possession of the promise land.”
V. 9-18: Moses took man’s advice and he appointed leaders to share the burden of ruling. All of the people thought his plan was good. But those leaders became a big trouble for Moses later because they wanted more power.
V. 19-25: The Israelites obeyed God’s words and set out to take possession of the promise land. But they asked to spy out the land first. They should have just gone and took possession of the land in simple faith.
V. 26-33: Now they became discouraged because they looked at the enemies, the environment and themselves. They started to grumble against God. They became disbelieved and rebellious. And they forgot about the great kindness of almighty God.
V. 34-40: In this way they provoked God to anger. All of those who did not believe could never see the land. Only Caleb and Joshua should see the good land God swore to them. Two of them followed God wholeheartedly. And the weak ones such as women and children would also enter the good land.
V. 41-46: Then, they acted out of their own will. They were bound to be defeated because they had sinned against God. God was not with them so they were completely defeated by their enemies. It would be better if they had connected to the Lord closely without any doubts.
Chapter 2: Be very careful. Follow God’s commands completely.
V. 1-25: Be very careful to follow God’s words. Do not war against Esau, the Moabites or the Ammonites. But fight against the Amorite, king of Heshbon.
V. 26-37: Fully obey God’s words. Then, there was not one town too strong for them. The Lord handed all of the towns over to the Israelites. Be sure not to go near any of the land forbidden by God.
Chapter 3: Do not be afraid. Desire nothing but the will of God.
V. 1-21: Do not be afraid how strong the enemies are. God said: “I have handed them over to you.” None of the enemies would survive. The Lord our God Himself would fight for us. But the two and half tribes chose their own land because they were selfishness. They cared only about themselves. In fact, God’s chosen land was the best. (e.g. Testimony of Gandi)
V. 23-29: God did not listen to Moses’ prayer because it was not of God’s will. Desire nothing but the will of God.
Chapter 4: Obey the word of God. Do not add to it, subtract from it, or mix it.
V. 1-8: Fully obey God’s words so that you may live. Do not add to it, subtract from it, or mix it. It is by trusting in the Lord that we can follow His words completely. Surely it is wise and smart to follow God’s words completely. No other gods like the way of our God who is near us whenever we pray to Him. God said, “Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.”(Isaiah 65:24) When we pray according to the Holy Spirit and the will of God, we are sure that God will answer it. It is just like prophet Ezekiel who prayed according to the command of God over the dry bones. His prayer became a prophecy. Let us read Ezekiel 37/7-10: “So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them;
prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.”
V. 9-14: Only be careful, and watch your heart closely. Always follow the word of God and never stop proclaiming His words.
V.15-28: Watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt by idols. If you corrupt yourselves by idols, you would make God angry and have great disasters.
V.29-31: Turn to God and follow God’s words. The Lord would never forsake you.
V. 32-40: Be sure to know that the Lord is God; besides Him there is no other. If you follow God’s words, you may go well and live long in the good land.
V. 41-49: Set up cities of refuge. Anyone who has killed a person by accident can flee into the Lord. He will be trialed by the word of God everyday in the city of refuge. He does not have to die for his sins. Rather, he can live a new life in Jesus Christ and take possession of the land.
Chapter 5: Keep God’s commands carefully. Act out all His orders.
V.1-22: These are the ten commandments of the Lord. God adds nothing more. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees because they held on to the traditions of men and their own tradition. Therefore, the Pharisees regarded the guiltless as guilty. One Christian sister taught others how to drive out the demons by her own tradition. It made her like a detestable witch. We must not put God’s commandments aside and follow traditions of men.
There is a lady in London. She has been famous for her good behaviors at church. Ever since she started to attend church, she has always carried two heavy bags with her wherever she goes. One is full of spiritual books, and the other is full of tapes about spiritual teachings. She has been distributing them free to anyone she came across even when she did not believe in Jesus. Many of her books or tapes are not pure gospel. She has not led people to build up their faith in the most holy words of God. She told people that once she fasted 24 days for a man who was addict to gamble. Though many people think she is spiritual and caring, she is not after God’s own heart. God desires us to intercede for all nations and everyone. Apostle Paul warned church of Corinthian not to go beyond what was written in the Bible. Be aware of Satan pretending as an ANGEL of LIGHT. If we do not keep God’s words carefully, we will go astray from the truth. We will mislead people. Therefore, it is very important that we ourselves must first of all keep God’s words carefully and take root in the foundation. Then we can really help others.
V. 29: Fear God and always keep all of God’s commands, you will prosper forever.
V. 32-33: Be careful to do what the Lord has commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in all the way that God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the good land.
Chapter 6: Be prudent and fear God. Reject evil and practice good.
V.20 and V.24: Why does God repeatedly ask us to pay attention to His words? It is because the evil doer and the deceiver go from bad to worse. If we do not follow God’s words carefully and do well fervently, we may be led astray from God easily.
V. 4-9: How can we love the only true God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength? (1) It is to be like Mary listening to God’s words with a quiet spirit and remember them well in our heart. (2) Never stop proclaiming God’s words. (3) Meditate His words day and night so that they will be imprinted in our mind. (4) Whatever we do, do it for the sake of the Lord.
V. 12-14: Be careful that you do not forget the Lord. Do not follow other gods. Do not test your God. If we know it is wrong and still do it thinking we can get away with it, we put God to test. (e.g. testimony of Guo) God cannot be mocked.
Chapter 7: Depend on the power of the Almighty God. Destroy the enemies totally.
V. 1-11: Be sure to destroy the enemies totally. Show them no mercy because they are enemies against God. Smash and cut down their sacred stones and idols. Though we are holy people of God, we have enemies outside and inside. Outside there are seven nations in the land of Canaan. Inside we have flesh and sinful nature to deal with. It is by the atonement of the precious blood of our Lord and the power of the Holy Spirit that we will put to death our enemies internally and externally.
V. 12-16: If we are careful to follow God’s words, then God will keep His covenant of love with us. Destroy all the enemies. Do not look on them with pity, for they will be a snare to you. (e.g. Saul and Solomon)
V. 17-24: Do not doubt how you can drive out all of the enemies. Remember well the great power of God. God is almighty. No one will be able to stand up against you. Do not be discouraged. Continue to pray by faith until you destroy them totally.
V. 25-26: Be careful not to covet the silver and gold on the idols of the enemies. Nor take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it. Utterly abhor and detest what God detests. If you bring a detestable thing into your house, you will be like one of it.

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Rules to Serve the Lord

Posted on December 25, 2021 by admin

Rules to Serve the Lord

By Wang Mingdao

Merely attending theological school, reading about mission outreach, learning to teach and minister in church, or studying Bible are not sufficient to carry out God’s work. To do His work, one needs to understand and preach the truth in the Scripture. But more important is holiness, love without false pretense, forgiving heart, resolute will, keen insight, courageous spirit, perseverance, and humility. These inner qualities are not learned from the theological schools but are brought about by God through tribulations, sufferings, and setbacks. Only those who are willing to undergo God’s pruning can expect to be God’s vessels fit and useful in His sight. Unless we cleanse ourselves of the following vices, we cannot do any work for God, let alone be a leader in the church.

Greed arises by earthy fortune, flattery when comes across opulence and power, love for the worldly greatness and vanities, seeking the ostentatious display of oneself, jealousy of the capable and virtuous, engrossment in self-interest, and also practices of hypocrisy, manipulation, and lies are some of the worst vileness. Unless such dregs can be completely removed and cleansed from within, one cannot and should not do God’s work, let alone be a leader in the church. A believer with these characteristics will bring enormous harm to others instead of saves. He ruins the church instead of builds. He brings disgrace to God’s name instead of glorifies. A church would be better off and better served without such workers. Countless churches have been brought to irreversible corruption as a result. The importance of being holy in order to serve Him must never be slighted.

Using worldly or humanly means to do God’s work may achieve some level of success. However, they are usually superficial and transient. Ultimately, it brings total havoc to God’s work. This is one of the primary reasons that numerous churches today have fallen beyond recovery.

Proclaiming God’s salvation and sharing personal testimony is something all Christians can do and should do. But the interpretation and teaching of Bible should not be practiced lightly unless one has spent years in earnest search and study of his words and will. Interpreting His words at will is dangerous and it may bring about grave errors and twisting of the Scripture truth. As the Scripture truth becomes further distorted, it leads to even greater deviation and damage. Be warned that this is a danger that can happen to some earnest Christians.

God’s laborer is also His ambassador. He is in a position of honor and bears enormous responsibilities. To be deserving of such honor, he must not bend on principles or deviate from truth to please. He must not flatter to gain favor or riches. He should not degrade himself by his own deeds or words. He should stand firm and should not cater to others every wish just to please or be agreeable. He should not ask for favors lightly. He should not seek sympathy from others. More importantly, he should not solicit financial support. Some have suggested that the purpose of preaching is to earn a living. This is not only ignorant but also an absolute insult to God.

God’s laborer should be courteous, but should not waste an inordinate amount of energy, money and time to entertain and socialize. Such activities will not nourish, but impair, one’s spiritual life and work.

God’s worker should not act or speak in a manner only to spare the feeling of others at the expense of God’s words or truth. Those who are concerned about how they look in other people’s eyes cannot do God’s work.

He should not preach things that he himself does not believe or does not intend to practice. Otherwise, he is deceiving others and he is a hypocrite.

Those starting out in the ministry should alert and not rely on the flesh. Those who have been in the ministry longer should be on guard against learning to be slick. Those who rely on the flesh will meet failure and obstacles. However, from those experiences, they can overcome the fleshly tendency. But falling into the trap and habit of slick demeanor is incurable and therefore more deadly.

God’s worker should not compromise with sin, nor should he compromise with the world. He should not make concession to false prophets and teachers. He must not be concerned about offending men. If he is afraid to offend people, he will not be able to bring people to Christ.

Money, fame, and romance are three of the most effective entrapments often used by Satan on men. He can use any one of the three to completely destroy God’s workers. To serve Him, one needs to be warmed of Satan’s devices and be extra cautious.

God’s worker needs to rebuke sin but still treats others with tenderness.

God’s laborer does not need letters of recommendation from others. He does not need to promote himself. God will provide the recommendation. “As Samuel grew up, the Lord helped him and made everything Samuel said came true. From the town of Dan in the north to the town of Beersheba in the South, everyone in the country knew Samuel was truly the Lord’s prophet.” (1 Samuel 3:19-20) Samuel is our example.

Those who are fearful can not accomplish God’s work. Those who fear insults, slander, offending others, suffering loss, difficulties and dangers should leave the ministry.

Only those who are incorruptible by wealth and position, unswayed by poverty lowliness, and unyielding to power and force, can be His workers of power.

A good worker of His, other than attentively study Bible, he must be observant and attentively study people as well. Many workers, loving, faithful and devoted, are deceived or used by others simply because they fail to read people with discernment. Consequently, God’s work and church suffer.

God’s worker should stay clear of sin but should know when others sin. He should be free of deviousness and should recognize the deviousness of others. Only then, can he rebuke sin, warn people and help them stay away from sin.

God’s worker should be a blazing fire. He sets fire everywhere he goes. He warms those who need comforting and encouragement. He scorches those who need cleansing and warning.

Do not worry about what others might say about you as long as our Lord Jesus calla you His “good and faithful servant”.

Wang Ming Dao

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