Brothers and sisters, this is a question-and-answer time. But, as usual, I would like to say something before we have this time. Why? Because the answer to all our spiritual problems is the Lord.
We can only help by the side and try to remove some hindrances. But the One who really solves our problem—I believe, brothers and sisters, we all know—only the Lord Himself can do that.
So I hope that you do not expect answers. You probably expect some help that will remove some of the hindrances, but we need to seek the Lord ourselves and get the right answer from Him. This is the explanation we have to give before we have the question-and-answer time.
I have received three questions. The first question is: Will the rewards that the overcomers receive from our Lord’s judgment seat carry on into eternity, or are these rewards only for the kingdom age of one thousand years?
I think probably the one who asked this question hopes that the rewards to be had in the kingdom age will continue on into eternity. But unfortunately, unfortunately, this is not the case.
In other words, God’s eternal purpose, as we find in Romans 8, is that everyone whom He has called will be conformed to the image of His Son. If you are faithful, you will be rewarded with a thousand years of rule during the kingdom age. But if you are not faithful, you will miss the reward during the kingdom age.
Now, some people may think, “If eventually everyone will be in eternity as kings, ruling with Christ, so what bother?” Maybe you are thinking of enjoying the two worlds—not only the spiritual world, but also the physical world.
Now, if you think you are wise in such a decision, then you are cheated. Why? Because how long can you live in this world? Maybe a hundred years old. But even with a hundred years, how much can you enjoy the things of the world?
But the millennium is a thousand years. So, brothers and sisters, not that we are looking for a reward—I hope the idea of reward is not primary, but secondary. What we really desire is to please the Lord and to complete the eternal will of God.
If we are faithful today, we will be rewarded during the millennium age. The Bible tells us that we will rule and reign with Him. Some will rule five cities; some will rule ten cities. But we will all rule for God, not for ourselves.
Because if we are faithful today, the Lord is able to entrust us with the rule that He will have over that thousand years. So, dear brothers and sisters, we need to think of the eternal purpose of God.
The eternal purpose of God is that we all will be conformed to the image of God’s Son. Once He has called you, He will never leave you. He will continue to work in you until you are conformed to the image of Christ.
This process is delayed because of our carelessness. We think we are going to enjoy the two worlds, but the Lord knows better.
So, brothers and sisters, think: all we can enjoy in this life is very limited. We are limited in time and limited in environment. How much can you really enjoy the world? The world is passing, and the things of the world will all pass away. They are not eternal.
So it is wise for us to be faithful to the Lord in this age, in the time when we are still on this earth. But thank God, if we are faithful in this short period, the Lord will reward us with a thousand years of rule for Him.
He knows who is fit to rule with Him, and this is proved by the life that we live in this age. So even though the reward would only be a thousand years, it is a tremendous reward.
Thank God, His eternal purpose is that everyone whom He has called will eventually be conformed to His own image. Now, what a promise!
Every one of us who has been called—the end result will be that, in eternity, we will all be like Him. And because of that, we will all rule with Him as kings.
So, brothers and sisters, even though the thousand-year reward is not for all, yet according to God’s grace and purpose, in eternity all who have been called will rule with Him.
Because if you turn to Revelation 22 and read from verse 3:
And there shall be no curse any more:
and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein:
and His servants shall serve Him;
and they shall see His face;
and His name shall be on their foreheads.
And there shall be night no more;
and they need no light of lamp, neither light of sun;
for the Lord God shall give them light:
and they shall reign for ever and ever.
So that is the wonderful promise of God.
And then I have another question: In Revelation 12:4, the dragon waits for the child. Who is the overcomer? If the woman represents the church, does that mean the church will fail at the end time?
Now we know that, according to the will of God, His church is to be an overcoming church. Why? Because He is the Overcomer.
So far as God is concerned, He does not expect the church to be overcome. His expectation is that the church may overcome, just as He has overcome.
So what is that by which we overcome? In 1 John 5, it says it is our faith.
This matter of the overcomers is actually in the heart of God. He wants every one of us to overcome, and He has made every provision for us to overcome.
So if we are overcome, we cannot blame God. We ourselves are to be blamed. Why? Because we do not appropriate the grace that He has already provided for us.
As we think of what God has provided, He has not only given us a new spirit; Christ is the life of our spirit. He gave us the indwelling Holy Spirit to see to it that the life of Christ will grow into maturity.
God has made every provision for us to overcome. If we do not overcome, it is because we do not appropriate what the Lord has provided for us.
So that does not mean that God predestined the church to fail. It only means that the church has failed to appropriate the grace, the mercy, and the provision that God has provided for her.
We cannot say that it is God’s eternal destination that the church is to fail in the last days. That is not so. Even though God foreknew everything, that does not mean that because He foreknew it, therefore He predestined it.
From the Scripture, you will find that He predestined that the church will be an overcoming church. But if the church fails, you cannot blame God. You have to blame yourselves.
So the answer is: It is not God’s predestination that the church will fail at the last time. It is only known by His foreknowledge, and we have to bear the responsibility.
Now the third question: You exhorted us in your message to overcome in whatever circumstances we find ourselves. Could you please elaborate on what an overcomer may look like in an assembly where it seems we are just going through the motions and routine? The desire is still to be submissive, but there is a longing for the Lord to have so much more. Prayer is probably the key. Is there something someone can do?
What does an overcomer look like? In Revelation 12:11, we are told who the overcomers are and what they do.
An overcomer, as described in the Bible, includes three things. Number one: they overcome by the blood of the Lamb.
So, brothers and sisters, that takes away any pride. We need the blood of the Lamb, not only when we were unsaved. We need His blood to cleanse us from our sins.
But, brothers and sisters, as Christians, we can never live beyond the need of the blood of the Lamb. The closer you are to the Lord, the more you need the blood of the Lamb.
We are told that even the tears of repentance need the blood of the Lamb. In our whole life, we depend upon the blood of the Lamb. In other words, that takes away any pride in us.
Do not think you will ever outgrow the need of the blood of the Lamb. If you think that way, you are deceived. We are weak. We need His blood forever.
If you are placed in a certain situation—for instance, if you are placed in Laodicea—what will you do? Is it because the church has failed, so you will fail with it? No.
You can open the door of your heart and invite the Lord in. He said He will sit with you and eat with you. What does it mean? It means that He will supply abundantly all your spiritual needs.
So, in spite of the environment in the church, if you open your heart to the Lord, He will come in and supply you abundantly with Himself. So you can be an overcomer in an overcoming church.
You are not supposed to just go along with a church that has failed the Lord. You ought to be an overcomer in the midst of a failed church.
It is by opening your heart to the Lord and letting Him come in. You have a closer walk with the Lord, and of course, you pray for the church that you are in, that the Lord will guide and lead you.
And if it is the Lord’s will, He will revive that fallen church. So I would say, if somehow you are put in such a situation, be faithful to the Lord.
Do not just follow the crowd. Open your heart to the Lord, have an intimate walk with Him, and pray for the situation.
I do not know what the Lord will do—whether He will change your situation and environment in the church, or whether He will lead you in another way. I do not know. The Lord has to make the decision.
So we just commit where we are into the hands of the Lord and wait upon Him. That is all I can say, brothers and sisters. The Lord Himself is the only One who can guide and lead you.
I know if you are in that situation, it is difficult. But the Lord knows the answer. So, dear brothers and sisters, the Lord is the answer, and nobody else. And that is all.
Good morning, brothers and sisters. I have two questions. One of them, I think, the Holy Spirit planted because He wanted me to think about it for myself.
The first question reads:
Today, Satan has changed the working conditions to keep us all very busy. Working fifty-plus or sixty-plus hours a week has become normal, overloading our assignments and increasing our deliverables. He lets us have no time for Christ, missing meetings. In this situation, how do we redeem the time?
This is a question that I think was planted for me. There is a particular generation or age group of us who completely understands where our brother or sister is coming from when they wrote this question.
As college students and graduates transition into real life, what has happened is that the supply of workers often exceeds the available jobs. Employers can ask their employees to work more for the same, and if a brother or sister feels they cannot do that, an employer can very easily find any number of people willing to do it.
In addition, the cost of living and the cost of housing have increased. I have had the great privilege of fellowshipping with some of my brothers and sisters in Manhattan, and the cost of rent and the pressure of life have increased.
Because of all this, it has become very normal for the working week to be fifty or sixty-plus hours. This is a very relatable question for me, and I think for many of us.
The enemy has also distorted and influenced what we think we need in order to be happy—a particular type of home, a particular neighborhood, gadgets, cars, and things like that.
I remember hearing someone say, “That’s that thing I never knew existed that I cannot be without.” There is this huge bombardment upon all of us as to what the world thinks we need in order to be happy.
Last night, as I was asking the Lord how to answer this, there were three things. I do not mean for these to be harsh, because they were spoken very much to me as well as to my brother who wrote this question.
Number one: There is some suggestion that the enemy has control over our schedule, and that is simply not true. We are always in control of our own schedules. The decisions we make every day still remain ours.
I know it is hard because there are all these external forces telling us how we should be living and what we, as good dads or husbands, should be providing to our families. But in the end, we are still in control of our schedule, and our enemy is not so powerful that he gives us no choice.
Every brother or sister has to decide how we spend our time. We still have that liberty. Sometimes, and this is a very real reminder to me, we have to establish what our priorities are.
If we have not done that, the enemy has a foothold to influence our daily life. It is not easy, but we must say, “In my family, the Lord Jesus comes first.”
If we do not have that sort of non-negotiable footing, then the enemy has much more opportunity to say, “You cannot do this or that because you have to work this many hours.”
The other issue is that we have to decide that no matter how tired I am, I am going to go to the prayer meeting. This is really hard, because I work many hours also, and some days are really stressful.
On a Tuesday night, when I finish work, honestly, sometimes in my bones it is the last thing I want to do—not go home and rest. But we have to set it in our hearts as a priority that the things of the Lord take precedence over my life.
I can say that I have never been to a prayer meeting where I came home regretting it. Beforehand, I really do not want to go sometimes, and sometimes I really need to go. But the point is that in our hearts we have to set it as a priority.
This will translate to our family. If we want our children to grow up having the Lord Jesus as their priority and to bear a testimony in our families, then we must give the Lord the highest place.
Children are very perceptive and very smart. They know when you are talking down to them. They know when you love them. If we do not set in our hearts that the Lord Jesus is our priority, it will translate over to them.
The second thing is that it is easy sometimes to divide our days into hours for work, hours for leisure, and hours for the Lord. I think the Lord would like to cause us to have a different point of view.
Every hour of every day is unto the Lord. If I have to work fifty or sixty hours a week, that is fifty or sixty hours a week that I will be in the presence of the Lord.
When I was in school, I had to come to this decision also: if I have to study so much, how could the Lord have asked me to do something that would separate me from Him? It became very important for me to learn how to study in the presence of the Lord.
Every brother or sister will have a different way to do that. But in our work, we should think about the Lord as much as we can. Find a brother or sister at the workplace, engage in fellowship, bring your Bible when there is a moment of downtime, or have a hymn in your heart.
We can sing as loud as we want in the shower in the morning and have it translate into the rest of the day with us. We should not separate the day into time at work, time with family, and time with the Lord.
We should think about the whole day with the Lord. Then we have our daily physical responsibilities to deal with, but always in the presence of the Lord. Brother or sister, I do not mean for this to be a harsh thing. It is something that I am learning also.
Thirdly, we need to have our priorities established together with our spouse. This is important because my wife often helps me to stay near to the Lord.
For example, she will remind me to read the Bible with her at night when I am really, really tired. Sometimes on Tuesdays, when I come back, she has my dinner ready. She says, “You can eat, then you have to go to the Bible study.”
When we have talked with our wife about the priorities of our family, and together decided that we are going to live for the Lord and have Him exercise headship in our family, all these decisions become much easier. We can support each other along this way.
It really is very much a rat race. But we have to draw a line around the Lord and say, “My life is the Lord’s.” We cannot give the enemy an inch, because he will crowd right into our life.
Maybe we can all pray for each other in this, because it really is a big challenge—the enemy’s infiltration into our lives from the world. Let us keep praying for one another on this particular matter.
The second question reads:
I was very encouraged by the sharing on family responsibility driven by family purpose. As a self-described “Martha” versus “Mary,” how do I reconcile a Christian walk of responsibility and purpose with a struggle not to be consumed by what Martha had her focus on?
Brothers and sisters, I have to say this is a little less relatable for me. When we go on a trip, my wife will have all these little bags set up two days ahead of time. You put your clothes in and zip them. I drive her crazy because on the day I leave, I just stuff a bunch of things into a bag and go.
But this is a very good question. I think it relates to having a gift—a gift of being prepared or serving in some way. How does this gift transfer from something fleshly to something that can be used for the glory of the Lord?
I would refer back to the messages regarding Peter, because Peter was very much a male version of Martha in some ways.
In Luke 10, Martha invited the Lord Jesus to their home, and her sister Mary was there. Martha very reasonably thought, “I have a VIP in my home, and I am going to make Him feel like a VIP.” With a heart for that, she went to work.
Mary thought, “I have a VIP in my home, and I am going to sit and listen to Him and get to know Him.” So she sat at His feet.
One of the things that is interesting about when our gifts are under the flesh is that we begin to count. We begin to count how much I have given compared to what everyone else has given.
Martha did a little calculation and thought, “I have given so much, but my sister is not helping.” She had the courage to give the Lord an order. But the Lord reminded her, “You are worried and bothered about many things, but there is really only one thing important. Your sister has chosen that good part.”
What the Lord was reminding her was that gifts separated from Him become being worried and bothered by things. He was calling her to draw near to Him.
These responsibilities in the house of God are assigned by the Lord. He assigns them to us, and He may not assign them to exactly the person who has that particular gift. That is His way.
But what is even more important is what happened to Martha and what happened to Peter. In John 11, Lazarus became ill, and they immediately sent word to the Lord. The Lord tarried. He waited and allowed Lazarus to die.
When the Lord came to Bethany, Martha ran to Him and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” Then she said, “But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
The Lord said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha gave Him her Sunday-school answer: “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
Then the Lord said something wonderful: “Martha, I am the resurrection and the life.” He was again pointing her to come near to Him.
Yet Martha still did not get it. When they came to the tomb, the Lord ordered them to move the stone, and Martha said, “It has been four days. It is not going to smell good.”
The Lord said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” They removed the stone, and out came her brother.
It was a time when the Lord put the cross upon Martha, who always thought she knew the answer, who had a full fund of Sunday-school answers, and who had a heart to serve out of her flesh. The Lord was doing a breaking work on her.
Then in John 12, Martha was serving again. But this time, her gift of serving had been crucified, had gone to the cross, and the Lord raised it up so that it could be used for His glory.
Brothers and sisters, the Lord has given His house different skills, but in every case the Lord’s cross needs to fall upon those things. Then, by the Lord’s grace, they are resurrected and can be used for the Lord’s glory.
I have been given three questions. The first one is a simple technical question. They want more information about kairos. We mentioned the two Greek words for time, chronos and kairos. The question is: Can you please explain kairos in more detail? Does it mean eternity and current time being at the same time?
Let us look at 1 Thessalonians 5:1, because here is a verse where both words are used at the same time.
But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
The first word, “times,” is chronos. It has to do with the duration of time—the time frame until the coming of the Lord. Is it next year? When is that time?
The second word, “seasons,” is kairos. It means: What are the characteristics of this time? What is this time like?
Paul is not trying to tell us exactly when the Lord will come. He is not going to say next Thursday or exactly one thousand years from now. But he says we should know what these times are like when the Lord is coming.
There will be darkness, and we need to stand up and overcome.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:
for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day.
We are not of the night, nor of darkness;
so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
So the first word is a measurement of time, but the second word is: What is the time like? What is going to happen during this time? Paul is very interested in the saints understanding the dynamics, the signs, and the events around the coming of the Lord.
Kairos is a time full of meaning.
In Mark 1:14-15, when Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of God, He said:
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe in the gospel.
What does He mean when He says the time is fulfilled? He means, “Do you hear this gospel? The kingdom is coming. Now is the time to come into the kingdom. Repent and believe.”
The time is full of the presence of God. It is full of light. God has shone upon you, and now is the time to make a decision. The time of the kingdom is here.
What is the kairos of the kingdom of the heavens? It began when John the Baptist announced that the kingdom of the heavens was at hand. It is going on now, and it ends when Jesus comes back.
The kingdom of the heavens is a mystery. Even while we are living upon this earth, we are servants in a kingdom that cannot be seen right now. But it can be seen among those who believe.
Today, we can live our lives idly as if it is just another day on the calendar of life, or we can recognize that Jesus has brought us into His kingdom. He is our Master, and He is commanding us to do things today if we are His servants.
It makes today very opportune. It changes our whole idea of the importance of this day.
The writer of Hebrews says, “Today if ye shall hear His voice, harden not your hearts.” God may have spoken last Thursday, but perhaps I did not hear. But if today I hear, then today is the opportunity to respond.
The children of Israel were told, “Go into the promised land. I have given it to you.” But they delayed, and they did not mix that promise with faith. Then it was too late, and they could not go in.
A door of opportunity opens many times when we hear a living word of God. That is the season to respond and say amen and step in.
So in Galatians 6:10:
So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.
While we have kairos—opportunity—while the time is ripe, let us do good to all people, especially those of the household of faith.
Kairos is a pregnant time because it has spiritual value to it, because you realize the Lord is there in that time.
Another question: Could you talk about the relationship between walking in the Spirit and yielding to one another—for example, Peter being chastised by Paul for hypocrisy?
There is a false conception that a person who gets under the anointing can do nothing wrong. It is a charismatic term, but it goes back to a holiness understanding that if we have been wholly sanctified, we cannot be wrong and cannot sin.
That makes you awfully tough to be chastised. People say, “Touch not the Lord’s anointed. I am under the anointing, and under the anointing, just like the pope, I am infallible.” Ai, ai, ai, ai.
A person who has that notion is not exactly walking in the Spirit. What is walking in the Spirit? Paul takes great labor to explain this in Romans 8 and Galatians 5.
In Romans 8, walking in the Spirit is when we set our minds on the things of the Spirit and live by the life of the Spirit within. Even if our flesh comes at us and demands attention, we can mortify the deeds of the flesh by the Holy Spirit and His power living in us.
Somebody walking in the Spirit has their mind set on spiritual things and appropriates the power of the Spirit in overcoming the things of the flesh.
Galatians 5 makes this distinction: walk by the Spirit and not by the flesh. In the end, we choose how we want to walk. Am I going to walk out of my own strength and my own way, or am I going to walk by the Spirit and try to be led?
A person who is truly walking in the Spirit is under the precious blood. It is a very humbling thing to know that you are walking by the grace of God.
Furthermore, the Lord has given us this gift of brothers and sisters who can correct us when we need correction. A person who is truly walking in the Spirit is actually a humble person who can receive correction.
In Galatians 2, Paul submitted the gospel which he preached among the Gentiles to the brothers in Jerusalem. He did not want to do something as a lone ranger in rebellion. He laid the matter before the apostles because he wanted their amen.
Paul submitted himself to the brothers. Maybe he was wrong about something. He submitted his gospel and the work he had been doing, and they said, “Brother, go to those Gentiles. Be faithful.” That is Paul walking in the Spirit. He was strong, but he was willing to yield.
Then the time came for Peter to yield. When Cephas came to Antioch, Paul opposed him to his face because he stood condemned. Peter had been eating with the Gentiles, but when certain men came from James, he drew back.
Paul saw the issue behind it. He said, in effect, “Do not do that, because what you will testify to is that we are not all one, that there is differentiation in the body of Christ. That is not the Lord.”
Peter stepped down, and Barnabas also had to ask forgiveness. Paul addressed them publicly about this matter. That is strong, but these men were walking in the Spirit.
If you are going to serve the Lord, you need to be able to receive correction. If your hide cannot take it, get out of the kitchen. Somebody always knows more than you, and a lot of times they are right.
Walking in the Spirit does not preclude being corrected. Brothers, those of you who lead in assemblies, I hope that you are open to correction. We can never get so hard-nosed that we think we know what is best.
Many times, the least in the assembly will come and offer correction, and it will be right on. We may be responsible brothers or workers, but that does not mean we should not listen to the Lord in every person who comes to us.
The third question is: Throughout church history, the Lord has raised up great vessels who were greatly used and who had a prophetic ministry and clarity of God’s purpose, such as John Calvin, Zinzendorf, A. B. Simpson, D. L. Moody, and T. Austin-Sparks. How much of this is the gift of God, and how much is yielding, cooperation, and obedience to the Lord? Should young people aspire and ask the Lord to be like such people?
The first thing I will say is that our God is a sovereign God. He is on that potter’s wheel, and He shapes a man like Moses before he comes out of his mother’s womb.
There is a great mystery in God’s hand in the lives of some of the great men of God in the Bible. From the earliest days, God had His special hand on a David, a Moses, or a Paul.
God is very sovereign in this, and you cannot sort it out—how much was God and how much was a person’s faithfulness. Obviously, both are involved.
But why does the Lord raise up these heroes? It is because of our unfaithfulness.
The Lord raises up great men with a great heart for Him, great wisdom, great revelation, and prophetic insight. There is a positive side. But why does the Lord, who is the Head of the church, ever need to raise up heroes in the church?
Is not the body of Christ supposed to come into this light and reality as brothers and sisters together, without pointing out some particular man at the top?
When the Lord raises up a special vessel, it is a special vessel of mercy to bring us into some form of recovery. These people are raised up by the mercy of God because we have gone into darkness.
The church was never supposed to be led by big heroes. It was supposed to be led by the Lord Jesus, with brothers and sisters mutually submitting, with every fellowship having a fullness of ministry in its midst.
When this does not happen and things get dark, the Lord sees a generation that hardly knows Him, and He raises up someone like John Hus, who reads the Bible in his own language and begins to bring recovery.
We can idolize these people and lift them up too high. When you look at the details of their history, it was never just them as a lone wolf. It was a small remnant of people.
Sometimes a brother stood up and had a ministry, but sisters were behind him, praying him through every stage of his development.
Consider Count Zinzendorf. How many know about David Nitschmann or Spangenberg? These were two elders in the Moravian church who did more ministry there than the count himself.
In the United States, Charles Finney was a great evangelist. But two unknown men, Daniel Nash and Abel Clary, went to towns two weeks before Finney arrived, praying night and day and fasting for the town to be touched by the word of God.
Finney felt he could not even go to a place and preach unless his faithful brothers had preceded him. But we do not hear much about them. We hear about Finney.
So let heroes be heroes. When we see somebody, we are awestruck by the deposit of God that the Lord puts into some people. But let us remember that the Lord’s desire is for the church to be the corporate hero.
Many of those whom the Lord raises up had a wonderful, godly upbringing. Think of John Wesley or Zinzendorf. They were raised in a godly home.
Should we try to imitate these men? Let me answer this way: May your home be a godly home that can raise such a brother or sister.
John Wesley was so versed in Scripture that he knew it not only in English, but in Greek, French, and German by the time he was eleven years old. That was Susanna Wesley, raising each child in godliness.
Zinzendorf did not simply become Zinzendorf out of nothing. His grandmother told him the stories, taught him how much Jesus loved him, and taught him to pray to Jesus and sing to Jesus. He became a lover of Jesus.
A godly home is often the background. Sometimes, exceptionally, people are raised up without a godly home, but often they have been raised in a very disciplined environment.
George Whitefield was raised in an inn. He had a Christian mother, and he had learned discipline, which he began to employ in his spiritual pursuit.
A common trait of those whom the Lord raises up is that they are not trying to imitate a hero of history. They are absolutely fixed upon the Lord Jesus.
Those who are raised up and truly know and love the Lord have their eyes fixed on Jesus as their Author and Finisher.
Why do we not simply say that we want to be like Jesus and take the highest goal? Children love to imitate somebody—their daddy, a fireman, or perhaps a preacher they have heard.
But I do not know of any man of God who became a great man of God by imitating some other man. When you read the details of their lives, they were all unique—very unique.
You cannot find the mold that made that brother. The Lord broke the mold and created a brother. He was a man of God. May the Lord raise up many other men of God.
History does encourage us, and I still love to read the histories of great men. But I like to read of the spiritual dynamics in their lives, because many times it helps me realize where I am in the Lord.
I am going to be very brief. It is almost lunchtime, and time to go home.
On behalf of the conference and the brothers and sisters laboring behind the scenes, we want to thank the four speakers from the bottom of our hearts.
When there is a true hunger, there is a true release of His word. They go together. This weekend, we witnessed a full release of His word because we are after Himself. We hunger for more of Himself, and that gives the Holy Spirit opportunity to show us more Christ.
We want to thank Brother Kong, Brother Boyd, Brother Dana, Brother David, and Brother Graham for sharing God’s will with us.
Now, I am not going to talk anything about next year, because what we are now will determine what we will be then.
Between now and next year, do not think about another conference. We want an increase of Christ in full measure. When that is rich, then He comes. We may not have another conference.
Let us eagerly hold on to Him. Allow Him to form Himself in us individually and in the church, and He will come for Himself. He will come for sure because He is looking for Himself in His people.
When He sees His Son in His field, He will come for sure. Next year is no guarantee, because we do not know. But in the meantime, we grow, and we know for sure that we will be there when He returns.
Before we end our time, we need to sing a very positive song. There is a Man in glory. He is there not only for Himself; He is there for all of us.
Let us conclude our conference by singing, “There Is a Man in Glory.”