Bible Study With Jairus

God's End Time Plan_End Time #Prophecy 2 #China Revival #God’s Three Steps of Work in Chinese Churches

Brother Ye grabbed my hand and said to me, “Child, God told me that the Chinese church will have a bright future.” Brother Ye continued to say, after many prayers, God told him the purpose of the trials over these several decades in China was three threefold. The first step was to demolish; the second step to restructure and rectify; and the third step was/is to reverse the preaching of the Gospel from China to the places where the Gospel and the Word of God have been degraded, which is Europe; and to places where the Gospel lost her original essence, which is America.

In the process of restructuring and rectifying, God will raise a group of new people. If the new people are not prepared, the new date will not arrive. Then brother Ye ended this by giving me a Chinese poem, “The new year and new date must arrive, those who are faithful do not need to worry; the great revival is coming now, Hallelujah the glory is great and mighty.”

This poem was told by an angel to Ye. Brother Ye often cried for the Chinese church and often prayed for the future of the Chinese church. One day an angel appeared to him and told him these words. The angel mentioned that the new date is prepared for the new man. The new date will not arrive if the new man is not ready, so the restructuring and rectifying period is crucial. God is using all kinds of ways to select those who belong to Him. If the new men are full for the number, God will use these new men to revive the Word of God. Those who self-proclaim as spiritual and lovers of the Lord, or are prideful, will be abandoned to the side.

All who receive God’s favor are not those who think themselves righteous, but whom God deems as righteous. At that time. God will empower them with the power of the Holy Spirit. They will always remain meek and humble no matter how greatly God uses them. They just consider themselves useless servants and thus are the proper vessels for God.

#Bible Study With #Jairus #deuteronomy 18-16 We Should Hear God's Voice Directly

Just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ When God spoke from Mount Horeb, the mountain shook and the Israelites were afraid. So the people told Moses, “We don’t want to hear God directly.

We want you to stand in for God and tell us what He says.” Why? Because God is holy and his voice requires us to be holy as well. This is not just an Old Testament story; it is still true today. Many Christians do not want to hear from God directly because they know it would cost them something. They would need to get right with God or get rid of sins or hindrances in their hearts. So instead, they say, “I will go to church and listen to the pastor. I will even tithe or volunteer my time. But DON’T touch ME.”

They feel that their church involvement fulfills their obligations as Christians, but they don’t want to be involved in anything that might threaten their favorite sins. This is a sign of immaturity, and it is the same problem the Israelites had. Paul says that the Israelites were spiritual babies who needed the law as their schoolteacher and guardian. For the same reason, the American church is NOT as powerful as it was supposed to be. Many believers are happy to listen to a substitute for God so they can remain babies in their spiritual walks. If we want to have a greater impact for the Kingdom of God, we must grow toward maturity.

#Bible Study With #Jairus #Deuteronomy chapter 27 verse 4 The End of Law is Christ

And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal…

God asked the Israelites to announce the curses on Mount Ebal and blessings on Mount Gerizim. But have you ever wondered why Moses asked the Israelites to set up the stone tablets of the law on Mount Ebal instead of Mount Gerizim? Why was the law associated with curses and not with blessings? The answer becomes clear when we look at the teaching of the Apostle Paul in the New Testament. Paul mentioned that the purpose of the law was to condemn, but the purpose of the New Testament was to fulfill the law. If the law had not forbidden covetousness, Paul would not have known he was covetous (Romans 7:7). In other words, Paul felt the law condemned him because he could not follow the law. But he also said that if we live in the Spirit and bear His fruit, there is no law against us. Wow! Even Moses understood that his ministry was to condemn. This is why he commanded the Israelites to set up the stone tablet of the law on Mount Ebal. He understood that there would be another prophet who would rise up and his ministry would fulfill the law. Whenever we fail to follow the law, it motivates us to cry, “I need a Savior who can save me from sin!” Just as Paul said, the ultimate fulfillment of the law is Christ. We must pray for all the Jewish people who still follow the law, that they would realize that they need a Savior.

#Bible Study With #Jairus # Deuteronomy 22-1 How God’s Words Affect the Culture

You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother.

When I first came to America from China, I was pleasantly surprised at how kind Americans are toward strangers. If my car broke down or I was lost (before the days of GPS), warm-hearted strangers helped me find my destination. On the other hand, when I ran into similar situations in China, people deliberately gave me inaccurate directions. I am not saying that everyone in China will mislead you, but it is common. Why? Because many people are twisted in their minds and want to hurt other strangers. Why are they twisted to such a degree? Why do they want to do these evil things? Because of the godless culture in China. They lack the Law of God and the Word of God, which transforms hearts, minds, and cultures. Imagine how dark the culture would be if you had not had the Law of God or the Word of God for thousands of years!

The relatively high level of morality in America today is due to hundreds of years of the Word of God transforming society. America not only has a 249-year old history of trying to follow biblical principles, but their European ancestors were also influenced by the Gospel for thousands of years before the United States became a nation.

In this verse, God instructs the Israelites to be kind to strangers and return their lost ox or sheep. This law’s impact on the culture cannot be underestimated. America, please value what you have today. If you continue to ignore the Word of God, the culture will grow darker and darker. The descent into darkness may be quicker than you would ever imagine.

#Bible Study With #Jairus #Deuteronomy 21 15-17 – Reuben Could Beget Jesus

If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn, but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

Since most people today don’t practice polygamy, what principles can we learn from this passage? God is righteous and just, and he has sympathy toward the wounded and downtrodden. Jacob had two wives, and he favored Rachel and disliked Leah. Jacob also favored Joseph, and eventually Joseph got a double portion of the birthright. But it was not Jacob who took the birthright away from Reuben and gave it to Joseph. It was Reuben who defiled his father’s bed and lost his right of the firstborn. God promised that Christ would come as the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But only later in the Bible does it mention that Christ would come as the lion of the tribe of Judah. Did Reuben ever have a chance to become the ancestor of Christ? I think it is possible. But he and his two other brothers all sinned, so they missed the chance. Judah and his two sons also sinned, but Tamar helped Judah fulfill this prophecy.

I believe that God would not have taken away Reuben’s birthright if he had not sinned. God would not have allowed those who hated the unloved wives to take away the firstborn son’s birthright. But Reuben sinned and lost his own birthright. He slept with Rachel’s maid. Why? Because the negligence of his father Jacob produced hatred in Reuben’s heart. This hatred, plus his lust, caused him to sin, and he lost out on one of the greatest blessings on earth: being in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Reuben missed out on so much blessing!

Today, we may think we are the sons of Leah who are not loved by people. Will we allow our hatred to twist our hearts so that we lose out on our blessings as the sons of God? Will we receive double loss, like Reuben, or double blessing, like Joseph?

#Bible Study With #Jairus #Deuteronomy 21-11 How to Deal with Evil Spirits and Our Flesh

...and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,

Why did God ask the Israelites to kill all the people in the seven tribes of Canaan, but then allowed them to take other captive women as wives?

We must understand that the Old Testament deals with two different kinds of enemies. First, the seven tribes of Canaanites represent evil spirits and those who give themselves completely to the possession of evil spirits. They are the enemies of God. These people were to be totally extinguished.

Other groups of people, including the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, and the Midianites, were all instigated by Satan to fight against Israel. God clearly asked the Israelites to take a detour to avoid fighting with the Moabites and the Ammonites, since God gave these lands to the descendants of Lot. But they attacked Israel anyway, so God eventually punished them.

Today we also have two different types of spiritual enemies. First, we have evil spirits, which we must resist. The Bible says that if we resist Satan, he will flee from us. There is no negotiation in this area. We must conquer them.

Second, we have our flesh. We must deal with the flesh through Christ’s work on the cross. Sometimes, it takes time and detours to deal with the flesh.

We must remember this difference when we confront conflicts in today’s church. If we hate our brothers who are behaving in a fleshly way and try to “kill” them, we are in trouble. We must have patience and grace in dealing with the flesh when it shows up in our lives and in others’ lives.

#Bible Study With #Jairus #Deuteronomy 21 Verses 1-2 – We Should Not Harbor Hatred

If in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him, then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

In the Old Testament, the way to deal with unsolved murder cases was to find the closest city and bring a heifer to sacrifice in the upper stream near this city. We know that the Old Testament is a picture of the New Testament reality. So how can we apply this passage to our spiritual lives today? God gave Israel these instructions because he knew that an unsolved murder cause would cause ongoing strife, assumptions, and accusations between cities and tribes. In the same way, Christians today often speculate, doubt, and judge each other. There are many unsolved issues in our lives, even though they are not as serious as murder. We are often quick to judge and thus lose the peace and unity among Christians. We should always remember to apply the blood of Christ to our conflicts. Like the heifer who died near the stream, Christ bore our sins on the cross. He is our peace (Ephesians 2:14). He has removed the hatred between Jews and Gentiles, as well as the strife and disunity between different denominations and groups in the body of Christ. Revival is coming, and we must maintain the unity of the body of Christ in order to usher in and steward this great revival (Ephesians 4:3). When someone does something that seems hurtful, we should not make assumptions and judge them. We don’t know the full story behind every act. We should forgive and apply the blood of Christ to solve all the conflicts in our lives.

#Bible Study With #Jairus #Deuteronomy 20-1 - Fear hinders our faith in God

“When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

Many Christians do not realize that they are in a spiritual war. Every day, our enemy is like a lion who waits to devour us. The business of life will wear out the saints of God (see Daniel 7:25). To win the spiritual war, we must remember that God is with us, as Jesus said. Jesus promises he will be with us until the end of the age. He also promises us that when two or three of us gather, he will be among us. We have to constantly remind ourselves that God is with us and the victory belongs to the Lord. 

But the omnipresence of God won’t guarantee the real, manifested presence of God in our lives. Even though God promised the Israelites that He would be with them, He also clearly told them He would not go with them to battle because they were disobeying Him. We must rid ourselves of any sins or hindrances that keep us from experiencing God’s presence.

Deuteronomy 20:2-9 encourages the Israelites not to fear their enemies. Fear hinders our faith in God and thus our spiritual battles. All fear, including fear of the enemy and fear of man, is not from God. Paul says in 2 Timothy 1:7 that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of courage, love and a sober mind. The Apostle John also says, “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love” (1 John 4:18).  The presence of God and faith in God will bring victory over our spiritual enemies and our circumstances.

#Bible Study With #Jairus # Deuteronomy 19 21 - the principle of God and the leading of God

21 Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

This verse gives instructions on dealing with false witnesses in the Old Testament. These individuals wanted to hurt their brothers by making false accusations, so God told Moses to punish the false witnesses to the same degree and in the same way that they wanted to hurt their fellow Israelites.

This verse illustrates the difference between the principle of God and the leading of God. Some of the instructions in the Bible are universal principles of God. For example, the Ten Commandments and other Old Testament laws reveal eternal principles: do not kill, do not murder, do not bear false witness, etc. However, some of God’s words through the prophets are not universal principles. Instead, they are His leading to people in different times, places, and situations. Differentiating between God’s principles and leading will help us understand the Word of God better. On the one hand, we should not stray from the principles of God.

On the other hand, we should not become too rigid in adhering to the leading of God that applies to past situations. Unfortunately, we often make both mistakes. Sometimes we abandon the principles of God and fall into sin. Other times we are too rigid in following the leading of God, and we fall into legalism. Even when following a universal principle of God, we still need to discern the leading of God in each unique situation. When the Pharisees legalized God’s laws and lost the essence of his instructions, which is to love God and man, they received a rebuke from Jesus.

Also, when they tried to test Jesus’ adherence to the law by asking Him if they should stone the woman caught in adultery, Jesus still used wisdom and nuance to deal with this situation. The religious leaders wanted to follow the law, which said to stone the woman. But they had lost the essence of law, which says that mercy triumphs over judgement (James 2:13).

#Bible Study With #Jairus # Deuteronomy 19 8-9 – We Should Continue to Build Our Cities of Refuge

And if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers— provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the Lord your God and by walking ever in his ways— then you shall add three other cities to these three,

Have you ever wondered why so many prominent Christian leaders fail? Similarly, why do so many Christians stop growing in their spiritual lives and lose their influence? I believe these verses have something very important to teach us.

God commanded the Israelites to build cities of refuge. The more they expanded their territory, the more cities of refuge they needed to build. Otherwise, they risked being too far away from the city when they committed an accidental sin.

Cities of refuge represent taking refuge in Christ. As fallen human beings, we often sin because of our flesh and the influence of the world. Most of the time, our sins are not intentional choices to live in the indulgence of sin. Instead, they are committed accidentally. Since Christ bore our sins on the cross once for all, our sins can be forgiven if we flee to him for refuge (Hebrews 6:18). When we flee to him for safety from the lust of the world, God will bless us and give us greater influence.

However, as God enlarges our territory through ministry success, we must not forget to build more cities of refuge. The more we expand our influence, the more we need to take refuge in Christ. If we fail to run to Him for protection by pursuing deeper fellowship with Him, we will be taken over by the enemy when we commit accidental sins. Just like Noah covered the ark with pitch to protect it from leaking and rotting, we must run to Christ for protection. Otherwise, the invasion of worldly corruption will sink our boat.