Let's look to a few portions of scriptures.
1 Timothy chapter 4 verses
15 and 16 1 Timothy chapter 4 verses
15 and 16 2.
Take pains with these things, be absorbed in
them, so that your progress may be evident
to all.
2.
Take pains with these things, be absorbed in
them, so that your progress may be evident
to all.
3.
Pay close attention to yourself and to your
neighbor.
your teaching.
Persevere in these things, for as you do
this, you will ensure salvation both for yourself
and for those who hear you.
2 Timothy 2 Chapter 2 Verse
21 2 Timothy 2 2
Timothy 2 Therefore
if a man cleanses himself from these things,
he will be a vessel unto honor.
3 Philippians 10
-12 3 Philippians 3 Philippians 3-10 That
I may know him in the power of
his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings,
being conformed to his death.
In order that I may attain to this.
Not that I have already attained it, or
have already become perfect, but I press on.
1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians 2
1 Corinthians 2 Verses 1-5 1 Corinthians
2-1 And
when I came to you, brethren, I denied
God, for
I determined to know
nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him
crucified.
2 Corinthians 2 And I was with you
in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
3 Corinthians 2 That your faith should not
rest on the wisdom of men, but on
the power of God.
2 Corinthians 4 Verse 7 2
Corinthians 4-7 Lastly
Ephesians chapter 4 Verses 15-16 Ephesians 4
-16 Speaking
the truth in love, we are to grow
up in all things to Him who is
ahead, even Christ.
Out from whom the whole body being fitted
and held together by that which every joint
supplies, according to the proper working of each
one part.
Lord we truly thank you and praise you.
Because as we gather in your name, there
you are in the midst of us.
And we thank you and praise you for
you are.
Now we ask you to the Holy Spirit,
so that you may
gain the glory.
Concerning the matter of service, as we mentioned,
service is a matter altogether according to our
knowledge of God.
It is also according to us being His
disciples.
If we do not know the Master, it
is altogether impossible to serve God.
Unless we stand on the ground of disciples,
our service will never reach God.
So brothers and sisters, for us to fellowship
the matter of service, we must firstly see
the Lord.
If we see the Master, service is a
natural result.
If we truly are the Lord's disciples, spontaneously
serve Him.
We do not need to ask if there
is a chance.
If we know the Lord, if we stand
on the ground of being disciples, service manifests
from us naturally.
So I truly feel, if our brothers and
sisters on the matter of service, if we
are not right in our service, if we
are not
right in our service, if we have not
become a true consecrated person, this is
the difficulty in the church today.
So dear brothers and sisters, we must see,
the mercy of the Lord, because His mercy
constrains us, causing us to offer our bodies,
letting sacrifice is nothing more than putting ourselves
in the hand of God.
We must fully consecrate ourselves to the Lord,
not merely consecrating parts of ourselves.
But to come out of it.
That is to say, to come out of
it.
And this is how we begin.
We will see the process for continuation of
service.
As we offer our bodies to living sacrifice.
Then you will see, service
is not to service a matter.
Service is to serve our Master.
For this cause, service is timeless.
Service is without a venue.
Service has no regard to things.
Our entire life,
then you will see,
all these are included
in the sacrifice of the Lord.
So when you
come out
of it, it is pure.
Perhaps our hearts are not pure.
As I would say, on
the last day they will always say, because
at that time, they told me,
thank the Lord.
During these years, I believe, therefore
brethren, I beseech
you by the mercies of God, we
must be righteous.
We must be righteous.
You are redeemed one.
Have you fully devoted yourself to God?
Even when you touched manna, you are still
there serving.
Inwardly you have served.
Because you are serving
your Master.
In the Old Testament, God delivered the children
out of Egypt.
Then God told them the purpose was for
him to deliver them.
God said, if you hearken unto me, if
you obey my command, you will become a
kingdom of priests.
The teaching is how to serve in the
temple.
The original intention for God was to save
them.
It is that their whole kingdom God's
desire for saving them is that every Israel
if you are an Israelite, saved out of
Egypt.
Regardless male or female, older or younger, everyone
is a priest.
You have a position.
For you to turn
yourself into a priest who does not deserve
it.
Within this cycle, to
you, they
do not represent God, they
shall go all the way back to the
eternal presence of God.
We are all priests.
We are all living souls.
In God's type of spiritual house, and the
to offer up spiritual sacrifices pleasing to God.
So every brother and sister, we have a
position of being priests.
If you do not want to be a
priest, then from that
moment on, the
priests in those times were serving in the
temple.
They were not in a relationship with the
temple.
In chapter 17, there was a Jew.
He left Bethlehem.
He went to look for a place to
live.
Where did you go?
A place to live.
Just in time.
I have a statue in my house.
I went to look for a priest.
So the Levites and not a
priest to the whole Israelite.
The Bible says however long the temple was
in silence.
And the idol shall remain as one.
Who is that Levite?
The Bible tells us he is the grandson
of Moses.
Moses' son, Gershom.
And you know that.
So you see if a priest is separated
from the temple, it becomes our service
to them.
We are the house of the living.
The priest serves in the home.
The Levites were serving the temple.
We are both Levites and priests.
On the other hand, we enter into the
midst of the Holy Spirit.
On the one hand we pray this
is us being priests.
On the other hand, we are there to
serve.
We not only daily serve, we serve every
man as well.
Remember, in the midst of the throne, day
and night they cry out Holy, Holy, Holy
The God who was, who is, who is
to come.
They will continuously worship Him.
Our service is the same.
They stand before the Lord.
They represent God's original intention of creation.
We want her to worship Him day and
night.
Serving Him continuously day and night.
And also everyone is there to serve.
It is not merely one living creature praying.
Everyone of us is there to serve.
The older ones are there to serve.
The younger ones are there to serve.
The newly saved you begin to serve.
When you are saved for scores of years
you are still there to serve.
Our entire life is for the purpose of
serving our Lord.
Then brothers and sisters, as we command our
service, are we already a vessel fit for
the Lord?
We see that the Lord calls His disciples.
Our brother mentioned the Lord was calling Peter
and Andrew.
Come follow me.
I will make you fishers of men.
And they forsook all and became the Lord's
disciples.
And they were with the Lord in Brunswick.
Did it start from the day they were
called?
That they were already a vessel fit for
the Lord.
Straight away they went out as fishers of
men.
We know for Peter to gain men as
fish was not until the day of Pentecost.
Three thousand fishes.
But Peter, maybe
there's a little bit because we
can't say there's nothing from the Lord.
But as the Lord trains us, on the
one hand we serve.
On the other hand we learn.
And the Lord is always teaching.
And we saw how the Lord would call
His disciples.
For instance, the Lord says, I will go
to Jerusalem.
I will be killed.
I will resurrect on the third day.
Peter sees this and says, Lord, never.
We need to learn to serve well because
of this.
On the other hand we learn.
Brunswickers.
We need to take note how we should
learn in the process of serving.
Lesson number one.
To serve we must learn to know our
Lord.
If we do not know the Master we
can't serve the Master.
There's no way we can serve the Master.
We can only serve ourselves.
Because serving to the Lord is not merely
things.
But the Lord has to gain your service.
Service is to live out Christ.
Service is to defend Christ.
So if your knowledge of the Lord is
very little inwardly likewise your service is also
very little.
For instance, you know the Lord to be
your Savior.
All you can do to help others is
to bring others to the Savior.
So you see in Christianity
today because
to serve is to live out Christ.
It is to defend Christ, Lord.
It is not to defend the Christ in
you at all.
How you can live out even
though you can preach it betrays
our way to Christ, to grow.
So Brunswickers to serve the Lord we must
seek to know Him well.
One who doesn't serve He is one who
is self-satisfied He feels he's already saved.
He feels he's already saved.
He's not going to hell He's going to
heaven.
So he's satisfied.
He feels he knows the Lord well.
He doesn't know Him anymore.
Maybe he has a feeling.
But Brunswickers if you begin to serve as
you begin to serve you'll begin to say
I don't know enough and you'll feel Lord,
I don't have I do not afford Him
a provision in me.
So all that I can live out is
nothing but myself.
Men cannot detect Christ.
You feel very weak and you are found
wanting in the matter of Christ.
And this constrains you to seek after Him.
I remember as I first came out to
service I was twenty years of age.
My knowledge of the Lord was poor.
Of course I knew my Lord could be
my Savior.
I knew a little bit of the Scripture
so at a time I was serving in
Shanghai at that time where was your brother?
But he was very tired.
But he was sick a lot.
So every Lord's Day either he preached or
I preached.
And he was quite severe in his training
of me.
He never told me what I was to
preach.
At 7.30 a.m. he sent a
note to work on.
It says you preach.
The other one, I come.
He comes means he preaches.
Do you know during that year I
became an uninvolved.
If you have a hard time to serve
you better go back to your job and
prepare yourself at the same time.
You must fully devote yourself to the Lord's
work.
Otherwise you will be damaged because you have
nothing to do.
Even you do our activities it is merely
activities.
Having no spiritual values we must know the
Lord.
When Paul was writing the Philippians he was
in his old age.
He still said I only have this one
desire to know the Lord to know his
power his resurrection to be united to his
top dead in parenthesis.
If you do not have a heart of
speaking up perhaps you are not a serving
man.
If you are truly serving the Lord the
more you serve the more you feel you
do not know the Lord in heart.
There is no limit to know the Lord.
It is not like you work to touch
it.
How much has the Lord gained and drowned
in you?
How much of Christ have you lived out?
Help us for me to live as Christ.
He was living.
He was manifesting Christ not her.
When men touch him they touch Christ.
Those who truly know the Lord when you
enter into their inner you are already touched
by Christ.
Because he has fully flown Christ out of
you.
Sometimes we have a lot of questions.
When you come to a person who really
knows Christ because it is not a matter
of reasoning but Christ has become your answer
to run to Jesus.
If we are still there helping brother and
sister they help them with words they help
them with their hands as you help them
this way.
Has the brother or sister received Christ as
he or her being encouraged by Christ's love?
This will be a service.
For us to live is Christ.
For us to dispense is Christ.
So we must be desperately seeking after Christ.
Our heart of seeking the Lord is not
enough.
Much of the time we seek after scriptural
knowledge but we are not seeking the Lord
Himself.
We need to know our Master.
If we really know the Master Francis is
the Lord will automatically be manifest out of
you.
So power of design whether in life or
in death that Christ will be manifest out
of our lives.
He didn't care for himself.
This is a real service.
In our learning of service we need to
know ourselves.
Francis is we seriously know ourselves.
The Bible tells us our heart is more
exceedingly wicked.
Exceedingly wicked.
Even to the point of deceiving ourselves.
Only the Lord can discern our hearts.
So we see here we seriously know ourselves.
Normally we were fully confident of ourselves.
Thinking we're capable.
So we do everything by ourselves.
So we were inferior.
So we withdrew ourselves.
Today we believe in the Lord.
We become one of the household of God.
When we come to the man of service
those who formerly were confident they were self
-confident.
Neither are they services.
To preserve themselves.
When we come to the house of God
we see we bring all our natural being
to the church.
We figure if we have some activity that
is service.
We keep ourselves busy that's service.
But brothers and sisters this is due to
the fact that we do not know ourselves.
As we serve thank and praise God.
The Holy Spirit gradually begins to speak.
He gradually shows us that we live ourselves
as merely ourselves.
Formerly I lived unto sin.
Now I must live unto God.
Formerly I used my intuition to sin.
Now I must turn around and use my
ability to serve God.
You see the source remains the same.
Even though the things change the source remains
the same.
So many Christians they say now I believe
in the Lord.
I shouldn't sin anymore.
He uses his natural to
be a good Christian.
Brothers and sisters as you do it this
way shortly after you are tired.
To become such a good Christian do not
sin.
You'll be all about command.
Tell the priest God You conjure up all
your might to serve.
The more you do the more difficult it
becomes.
So I often say I say a Christian
who is wishy-washy he is a Christian
but he does not manifest Christ.
This Christian dwells in faith.
But if you truly want to be a
good Christian the more you try the more
you become nervous.
These are good Christians.
But they have taken the wrong path.
You haven't seen.
Only the Christ who switches inwardly can live
out the life of Christ.
Because you scarcely know yourself.
So you are doomed to fail.
You have to go through much failure.
Because I'm told I
discover one thing that within me it dwells
no good thing but a success.
This is knowing oneself.
We scarcely know ourselves.
We feel there is so much good in
us.
Sure.
The life that we inherited from Adam there
is much sin much failure.
We do not want those.
But after we believe let's use what we
get from Adam the good part to serve
God.
All who is natural not only can they
not know God's will neither can they obey
God's command within ourselves that is in our
flesh.
Well, the Lord brought us all with Him
and crucified us.
Galatians 2.1 Paul says I have been
crucified with Christ.
Now it is no longer I that lives
but Christ lives in me and the one
that lives in the flesh by the faith
of Christ He loves me and gave Himself
up for me.
Sister, have you known yourself?
Have you seen the fact that this old
man has been crucified with Christ?
Have you also seen that your natural goodness
also been crucified with Christ?
Have you seen your natural meekness and tenderness
been crucified with Christ?
Have you seen your natural wisdom been crucified
with Christ?
Francisus Francisus, have you seen that whatever issues
out of your being cannot be pleasing to
God?
If you still try to live Christ by
yourself you will discover what you live out
is Adam, not Christ Only when you know
yourself and accept the fact of being dead
with Christ it is no longer I who
lives but Christ lives in me Francisus In
this way can we only live out Christ
Not only so Even we'll see in our
work it is the same principle So Paul
said in 2 Corinthians 4 He showed us
Daily I die So the life of Christ
can be manifested in other people The death
of Christ operates within me So that the
life of Christ can also flow out of
me Therefore we need to know ourselves We
must see one day But the greatest enemy
we ever encounter is the old Adam within
It is our self If we can see
this then can we find the correct way
in service Otherwise everything we touch is work
of Jesus The work of Woodhead is a
double issue from the self We can do
a great work and successfully Many people cannot
work But they will come from the world
of heaven The fire will manifest They will
burn out all the woodhead sufferers Then he
will be saved Though he will be saved
Barely saved Francisus Today we must do the
work of gold, silver and precious stone The
work of gold, silver and precious stone is
out of God People cannot
see it But when the fire manifests The
work of gold, silver and precious stone is
out of God It is out of God
Therefore we Secondly we need to learn how
to know ourselves Thirdly On the way of
separation we need to embrace the work of
the cross We need to embrace the work
of the cross Francisus If all we know
about the cross is objective We know the
cross on top of Mount Athos Yet we
do not know the cross which is in
me Francisus We will see We may know
a lot In reality we know little A
great difficulty is in service Though we know
much concerning the objective truth We are lacking
much in subjective experiences The Holy Spirit will
take the work that is done on the
cross What the Lord has done on the
cross two thousand years ago Now the Holy
Spirit will take all the accomplished work and
fulfill it one by one He will
erase the cross of Sanctum Calvata into you
and me He will
terminate your soulish life through the cross of
Calvata He will increase the life of Christ
through the cross of Calvata in you So
Francisus We have this treasure in earthen vessels
to manifest the exceeding greatness of the powers
of Christ Francisus Earthen vessel is very cheap
It is fragile But thank and praise God
We have a treasure within This treasure
is the Lord Himself May God has put
the life of Christ within But it is
of God The
Holy Spirit uses the cross to break it
Using the environment to prepare much cross around
us So Luke 9 says You must deny
yourself and follow me Francisus
Holy Spirit in your surroundings will arrange all
kinds of cross It is unbeknownst to yourself
Don't even worry to create cross for yourself
The Holy Spirit will arrange It is
opposite of your self life It is opposite
of your opinion Something you dislike Your unwillingness
It is against your mindset What you consider
as good You cannot see the better way
It is opposed to your emotions You formally
conduct yourself with your own emotions So
that your emotions get more impacted Francisus The
Lord uses all these To show you how
wicked you are That you are willing to
lay down Through the Holy Spirit to crucify
yourself This way the life of Christ can
manifest Your relationship with man is a manifestation
of the life of Christ It is no
longer your former temperament Often times the Lord
puts against you those who are opposite of
your temperament It is something very marvelous The
Stalkers We call them counterparts The Lord often
times uses those ones and they become the
best pair You become a cross for me
and I become a cross for you This
way Christ can begin If
we lay hold of ourselves we protect this
vessel I am me This is me I
am not willing to be broken Francis The
treasure will not be manifested It is God's
will that this power is of God It
is not of yourself If it is of
yourself You will see You can only break
others But you yourself must preserve your integrity
The life of Christ can never be manifested
This is why we must learn to accept
the cross Accepting the cross is a matter
of will You have a willing heart The
cross is God's Bearing the cross is a
daily practice matter Only in this way can
you ever be a truly serving one If
this is the case not only Christ is
to live out of you but as you
touch any relationships you will descend to others
Fourthly I'm just embarrassed to mention it The
service we have to do It is the
service in the body We cannot do the
work of a lone angel We must be
coordinated with others Holding fast ahead The whole
body sitting in a train together All the
joints They fulfill all functions They are
connected to each other So the body is
grown up in itself in love For
we can stress in the matter of service
We're far from one thing There remains yet
much work for us to learn Because you
are our master How you treated your disciples
that day How you trained them to serve
you Today through your spirit to train us
with it May we truly become those who
serve a proper vessel May you grant us
grace to be anyone have mercy upon us