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赞美耶稣！过去几天，马里波萨（ Mariposa）县发生了火灾。但耶稣一直对我和我的家人很好，我当时不确定回家后是否会有很多事情需要处理，不过我确实做了很多事情。一切都准备好了。而且实际上，今天几乎没有烟尘。火势一直在向南向北发展，但我住在西边，基本没有太大的问题。我所走过的所有道路都很通畅。早上我的卡车上有很多灰，但除此之外，我们还在这里，没有被疏散。如果看看周围，你可以看到空气质量很差，但现在周围没有大的烟尘。
我在北方呆了大约两个月，去参加一些学校的工作，在我回家的路上，也就是最后一天，回来的时候，我看到一股巨大的烟雾直冲云霄。好像有10英里高。而所有的新闻都是马里波萨县发生了火情。我和许多被疏散的人聊了下，我认识的许多人都被疏散了。但是，主继续供应我们的需要。他会供应他的孩子。当你被疏散时，你会离开你的房子，你不知道你是否还能回来。我在2017年第一次经历这些事，当时是德维勒（Detwiler）火灾， 应该是的，我当时很紧张, 你仍然可以在新闻中看到我和我的家人。应该是福克斯（Fox）新闻，其他一些新闻机构把我们放在电视上，我们被疏散了。我只记得告诉自己，如果我能回到过去，再来一次，我会更加相信上帝。相信他，他会照顾我的财产，我的房子。即使它全部烧毁，即使所有东西都烧成灰烬，我也会相信他，无论我走到哪里，都会把我的生命交给他。
现在我知道，对我和我的家人，以及任何在神的家里的人来说，最安全的地方就是神的灵要我们去的地方。神的灵现在希望我现在就在我所住的地方。 圣灵每天都给我确认，我有所需要的一切，水、食物、住所、工作。我属灵的生命也没有缺乏，因为耶稣在我向他祈求之前就给了我所需要的一切。这并不是因为我是一个深谋远虑的权谋大师。不是因为我有多聪明，也不是因为我为未来准备得多好。曾有些时候，我可能会很轻易地会失去一切。但是主对我们是仁慈的，他也要我以仁慈和爱对待他人。
以前，人们指责我是一个老谋深算的人。我想是因为他们看不到圣灵的工作，他们在任何事情上都看不到上帝。如果你没有看到上帝的工作，你就会认为，人在掌控一切。你可能认为，我之所以能有今天，是因为我事先预谋并安排了一切。事实并非如此。 我记得，当我最初来到耶稣这里时，我不知道我要离开教会，离开我的家，卖掉我的财产并搬家去别的地方。我不知道上帝会让我离开，甚至没有告诉我家里的人我在哪里。有些人，还有我妻子的家人和朋友认为是我主导了这一切，我预先计划了这一切，向每个人要了我婚礼的礼物，向每个人要了钱，其实我并没有做这些。不过他们认为我是带着妻子去度个假，然后说“我要离开这里，我要忘记你们。”
但事情并不是这样的。你知道吗？我只是选择每一天每一天地跟随着耶稣。并不是我计划好了潜入教会内部，摸清教会运作模式，之后我就可以爆料教会的种种。也不是我偷偷摸摸地装成青少年牧师，目的就是在教会里找一个姐妹结婚，然后只要我一达成目的，就可以离开那里了。是主在所行的路上一步步地引导着我，我与他越亲近，他就越使万事互相效力。因为，正如经上所说，上帝使万事互相效力，使那些爱上帝，就是上帝按自己的旨意呼召的人得益处（罗8:28）。而事情的发展往往对我很有利，我知道这不是因为我很聪明，也不是因为我有钱或受过良好的教育成为善于运筹帷幄的人，而是因为主在为他的孩子们安排一切。主保护了我，即使在我不值得保护的时候。他使我免遭那些我甚至不知道就在我面前的伤害。
成为主的羊，成为他的孩子之一，这确实是一种祝福。我们来跟随他并不需要知道所有的事情。我们不必认为我们必须接受高等教育或读万卷书让我们能预知一切。我知道在很多基督徒想象中，跟随上帝就会变得越来越有知识，通过阅读大量的文献资料，阅读各种见解，认识真正的智者，从而能预知未来。然后他们可以把来自各家的知识碎片整合在一起，这样他们就能跟随上帝，驶往永生。然而事实并非如此。实际上，耶稣曾经讲了一个关于沙子的比喻。记住，他说，聪明人把房子建在磐石上，而愚昧人把房子建在沙土上。 遇到风吹雨打、洪水冲击，房子就倒塌了，而且倒塌得很厉害。而从象征意义上讲，沙子就像基督徒拿着一堆小石头，试图把它变成一个聚合体，想要把它放在一起。这些信息碎片是他们从这个基督徒，那个基督徒，这个查经班或那个圣经学习，这个教会，那个教会收集的。
当然，那些都听起来像是真理。听起来像是来自上帝的一点道和小块的真理散布在这里那里。可是在沙子的这个比喻中，那个把房子建在沙子上的愚昧人，是把房子盖在从人来的碎片信息上。当风暴真正来临的时候会发生什么呢，当暴风雨倾盆而下，洪水冲击，房子会倒塌，会顺流而下，被冲入大海，房子消失了。如果我们想要有一座屹立不倒的房子，那要建立在耶稣基督这个磐石上。我们所建造的一切都会经过火的考验，看我们是用木头、干草、秸秆建造的，还是用不会在火中熔化或烧毁的东西建造的，就是来自天上的东西，是来自祷告的东西。当我们祷告，求耶稣用他的能力、他的灵、他的知识来充满我们，用来自他的圣灵的超自然的力量引导我们。那是来自天上的引导，不是来自一个聪明的讲道人或智慧的领袖，而是来自圣灵的超自然的引导，神的每一个儿女正应该这样被圣灵引导着的。
记得那个关于十个童女的比喻吗？五个是愚拙的，五个是聪明的。但如果你看到这十个童女在一起，你可能会说她们看起来都一样。她们都有一盏灯，但当你走近更仔细地看，才能知道哪些童女不仅有灯，灯里还有油。从外面看，这些灯看起来是一样的，但里面，也许它是半空的，也许空了四分之三，也许里面根本就没有油，当你在半夜出去时，在黑暗中需要一盏灯，却没有油。大多数基督徒的灯里都没有油。他们没有被圣灵充满，但他们确实有一盏灯，他们有一种道德感。他们在这个世界上有一种方向感。他们有一个建立在沙子上的房子，建立在世上不同的教义的原理上的。他们确实读过圣经。他们确实有一个教会或有智慧的老师们。但问题是，他们的房子建在沙子上，他们房子里的光源是一盏灯笼，里面没有油。所以里面根本就没有光。
如果我们行在真理中，我们不需要做一个运筹帷幄的人，我们不需要很聪明，也不必什么都知道，但我们必须像孩子们一样信任上帝，每天请求他的供应。当我们在神的公义中先寻求神的国时，他就会供应我们需要的一切。这并不是因为我们碰巧住在一个好地方，也不是因为我们出生时嘴里含着银汤匙，也不是因为我们生来富贵。无论你是生来富裕还是贫穷，我们所有人死的时候都是一样的。而且每个人的生活中都会遇到麻烦，贫富不重要，居住在城市还是乡下，也都没有关系，我们所有人都会遇到困难。但如果我们的灯里有油，如果耶稣与我们同在，那他将继续引导我们前行的道路。
因此，当困难袭来，你的灯里真的有油吗？因为这才是紧要关头。这就是你需要理清的地方，你是否是一个真正的属神的人，或者，你是否只是一直在假装相信，假装你有信心，假装你知道一些关于神的事情。不要成为装模作样的信徒，也不要成为伪装的基督徒。希望我们的信是真实的。我希望这能鼓励人们真正把他们的信心放在神的那里，知道只要你先求他的国和他的义，他会供应你所有的需要。愿耶稣的恩典与你同在。
Well praise Jesus everyone. The last few days, there has been a fire in Mariposa County. But Jesus has been good to me and my family. I wasn't sure if I would have much work when I got home, but I've had plenty of work. Everything's provided for. And actually, it's hardly smoky today. The fire has been kind of going north south, but I'm kind of west, so it hasn't been too much of a problem at all. All the roads I've been going on are pretty much open. And there was a lot of ash on my truck in the morning, but other than that, we're still here. We're not evacuated. If you look around, you can see that the air is pretty poor quality, but no big plumes of smoke around here right now.
I was up north about two months for some schooling that I went to for my work, and on my way back home, my final day, coming back, I just saw a huge plume of smoke going up to high heaven. It was like 10 miles high. And all over the news is Mariposa County in this big fire. I've been speaking to a bunch of people that are evacuated, A bunch of people I know are evacuated. But man, the Lord continues to provide for us. He provides for his children. When you're evacuated, and you leave your house, you kind of don't know if you're going to come back to anything. The first time it happened to me was during the Detwiler Fire around 2017. I think it was, and I was a nervous wreck. You can still go find clips of me and my family on the news. I think it was like Fox News and a few other uh news agencies put us on television and we were evacuated. And man, I just remember telling myself, if I could go back and do that again, I'd want to trust God more. Just trust him that he'd take care of my property, my house. And even if it all burnt up, even if everything burnt to the ground, that I would just trust him with my life wherever I go.
And I know that the safest place for me, my family, and anyone who's in the family of God, is just being wherever The Spirit of God wants us. The Spirit of God wants me right where I am. And the Holy Spirit confirms me every day, I have everything that I need. I have water, food, shelter, work. I don't lack anything Spiritually, because Jesus gives me everything that I need even before I ask. And that's not because I'm a mastermind. It's not because I'm so smart or that I've prepared for the future so well. There's been times where I easily could have lost everything. But the Lord is merciful to us, and he also calls us to be merciful and loving towards others.
I've been accused before of being a mastermind. I think that people, they don't see the work of the Holy Spirit, they just don't see God in anything. And if you don't see God at work, you just think, you know, uh, people are controlling everything. You may think that I got where I am because I mastermind everything. It's just not farther from the truth. I remember, um, when I was first coming to Jesus, I didn't know that I was going to come out of the church, leave my house, sell my possessions and move. I didn't know God was going to call me to leave without telling even people in my family where I was. And some people, and my wife s family and friends thought I manipulated and I preplanned all of this, that I asked everyone for presents for my wedding, that I asked everyone for money, which I didn't do any of that, but they thought that I just took my wife, took the vacation, and then said, "forget all of you. I'm out of here. "
And that's just not the way it worked. You know? I just chose to follow Jesus one day at a time. It's not like I chose to play church for a while to figure out church politics, so then I could speak against the church organization. And then I snuck in pretending to be a youth pastor so I can find a woman in church to get married to, and then as soon as I'm married, you know, get out of there. Every step of the way, the Lord was guiding me, and the closer I became with him, the more he made all things work together for good. Because, as the scripture says, all things work together for good for those who know God and who are called according to his purpose. And things have worked out in my favor a lot, to where I know it's not because I'm so smart or a mastermind because I had money or education, but it's because the Lord is working everything together for his children. The Lord has protected me even when I didn't deserve it. He's kept me from harm that I didn't even know was right in front of me. And it truly is a blessing to be the Lord's sheep, to be one of his children. We don't have to know everything to follow him. We don't have to think that we have to be highly educated or read all these books to guide us.
I think that a lot of Christians imagine that following God is about becoming more and more intellectual, knowing the future by seeing all these books in all this literature, and reading commentaries and getting to know really smart people. and then they can kind of fit all those puzzle pieces together of everyone's knowledge, and then they can follow God and navigate into everlasting life. And that's just not the way it works. That is, actually, Jesus gave a parable about the sand. Remember, he says, that the wise man built his house on the rock, but the man that was not wise, he built his house on the sand. And when the rains came down, it washed his whole house away. While symbolically, the sand is like Christians who take a bunch of little rocks and try to put a conglomerate. They try to put it altogether. And every little piece of information they find from this Christian, in that Christian, this Bible study and that, and this church and that church.
And sure, it sounds like truth. It sounds like little words and nuggets of truth from God here and there. But in the story of the man, the foolish man who built his house upon the sand, that's all of those little bits of information from people. What happened when the storm actually came. The storm came, the rains came down, the floods came up, and the house tumbled and went down stream, swept out into the ocean, no more house. If we're gonna have a house that stands, it needs to be on the rock of Jesus Christ. Everything that we build is going to be tested with fire, to see if we built with wood, hay, stubble, or if we built with things that will not melt in the fire or burn up, the things that come from heaven, and those are the things that come from prayer, when we pray and ask Jesus to fill us with his power, with his Spirit, with his knowledge, and to guide us with that supernatural power that comes from his holy Spirit, that guidance that comes from heaven, not from a wise preacher or a wise leader, but the supernatural guidance of the holy Spirit that is supposed to be leading every single child of God.
Remember that parable about the ten virgins. Five were foolish, five were wise. But if you saw all ten of those virgins together, you may say they all look the same. All of them have a lamp, but you would have to look more closely to see which virgins had a lamp with oil inside the lamp. From the outside, it looks the same, but on the inside, maybe it's half empty, three quarters empty, or maybe there's no oil in it at all, and you're going out at midnight thinking you're going to make it in the dark world with a lamp, with no oil. Most Christians have no oil in their lamp. They're not filled with the Holy Spirit, but they do have a lamp. They have a sense of morality. They have a sense of direction in the world. They have a house that's built on the sand, which is all the principles of different doctrines of the world. They do read the Bible. They do have a church or wise teachers. But the problem is their houses built on the sand, and the light of their house is a lantern without any oil in it. So there's no light in it at all.
If we're going to be in the truth, we are not masterminds. We don't have to be smart and know everything, but we do have to be as children who trust God and who ask him for our provision every single day. And when we seek first the Kingdom of God in his righteousness, then he provides everything we need. And it's not because just we happen to be in a good place. It's not because we were born with a silver spoon in our mouth or we're born to wealth. Whether you're born wealthy or poor, all of us die alike, and trouble comes into everyone's life. It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are. It doesn't matter if you're in the city or the mountains. Trouble comes to all of us. But if we have oil in our lamp, and if Jesus is with us, then he continues to guide our path.
So when trouble comes your way, do you really have oil in your lamp? Because that is where the rubber will hit the road. That's where you're going to figure out, if you're a true man or woman of God, or if you are just make believing the whole time, pretending that you had faith, pretending that you knew something about God. We don't want to be pretenders or make believers. We want our faith to be genuine. I hope this encourages someone to truly put their faith in God, knowing that he will take care of all your needs. If you seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness. May the grace of Jesus to be with you.
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