We Can Only Enjoy God By Faith

Series 15

Episode 1

Prologue

Brothers and sisters, Treasures for the Soul will start a series of messages on understanding how our spirit works, and how to be heart to heart with the Lord continuously. Today’s topic is “We can only enjoy God by faith.” We need to exercise our faith every day. Satan hinders us by first disturbing our mind, so that we do not come before God. John chapter 15 gives us a key—the parable of the true vine and the branches. We need to be heart to heart with the Lord, and to abide in Him continuously. To do this, we need to exercise faith. In fact, everything we do in this world requires faith; otherwise, we can’t live our lives. It’s so precious that the Lord is the most glorious one, whom we can count on. When we rely on Him, and trust in Him, we have glorious changes. Only through faith can we experience Him, enjoy Him, and enter into His unsearchable riches deeply.

Message

Every day we need to exercise faith to live with the Lord, and overcome Satan’s disturbances. Satan uses all means to stop you from going to the Lord, praying to Him, drawing near to Him, and experiencing Him. Even when you are drawing near to God, Satan is trying to disturb you. He disturbs you in order to disconnect your lifeline. This is the key battleground in the spiritual war. When we look at church history, we see that only those who came before God and prayed were able to bring forth revivals. Only when they were able to overcome Satan’s attacks were they raised up and close to God.

The Lord’s words on the night before His crucifixion were incredibly precious. He opened up His heart and personally explained the new covenant perfectly, which has immeasurable depth. However, no matter how glorious the new covenant is, without the key, we won’t be able to fully experience it. Yes, we might be able to enjoy being saved, but without the key, we would not be able to fully enjoy the blessings of the forgiveness of our sins, and can still be easily swayed and accused by Satan, and have shadows. The new covenant belongs to you, along with all its blessings. But we won’t be able to enjoy it deeply if we lack being heart to heart with the Lord.

The Lord said that He is the true vine and we are the branches. We are already united with Him. We were once wild olive shoots, but now we have been grafted in. As said in Romans, we can be nourished and bear much fruit. This is the key. Without this, we won’t be able to enjoy the Lord and the blessings of the new covenant, even though it belongs to us.

I hope that you can enter into the essence of John chapter 15 so that you can truly live in the Lord, and then the Lord in you. We know that the Lord is already in us; why does it say, “Abide in Me”? It means more than the Lord being there in us, but He does His work in us and provides for us. When we abide in Him, we are heart to heart with Him, free of all disturbances. We have a part in Him.

John chapter 13 tells us that we are clean. For those who truly believe in the Lord, their sins have been forgiven. They have been born again, having the indwelling of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Nonetheless, while walking our life journey on earth, our feet can get dirty. Satan tempts us and wants us to stumble, sin and leave the Lord. However, the Lord would never leave us because He yearns for us and desires for us. If we do not enjoy Him, the problem would be with us. The Lord said that He is the true vine and we are the branches. As we abide in Him, we will enjoy His provision, just like the branches staying on the vine. Satan tempts us and lures us away from God, starting with our minds. God gives us freedom, but Satan wants to affect our heart, starting with our minds.

Faith is necessary for all things on earth. For example, without faith, you cannot come to the meeting place today. Who came here by public transportation? You have already used faith without knowing it. When you boarded the bus, how did you know for sure that the bus driver was not going to kidnap you? Or to drive you to a dangerous place? Faith is needed for something as simple as sitting on a chair. If you knew you would fall once you sat on that chair, you would not sit on it. Did you eat something today? You also exercised faith and believed that the food you were about to eat would be tasty and helpful to your body. Who would eat food that was harmful and tasted bad? We also had faith in the cook, especially during the pandemic. In fact, without faith, we cannot live. Think about it. Going home tonight, you have faith that your family will not hurt you because you trust them. This is exercising faith. Who will sleep tonight? Sleeping also requires faith. There are other family members at home, whom you believe will not harm you while you’re sleeping. If you think they are going to hurt you, you won’t sleep, because you will be in fear. Without faith, you would worry about being struck by falling objects when you walk on the street. It could be very dangerous because Hong Kong has many high rises. Nonetheless, you believe that people will not throw things out of the windows intentionally. When you consider all these situations, you know that we cannot live our lives without faith. And this kind of faith is what people of this world generally have.

In order to enjoy God, we need to exercise faith too. The Bible is God’s word, which tells us to “count on” and “believe in”, but we ought to know in whom we are to place this trust. In whom does the Bible tell us to believe? We need to trust in God. If you have no faith, heaven will not be heaven to you. We cannot live our lives without faith on earth. Similarly, if you do not trust in God and in brothers and sisters, will you be eager to go to heaven? Will heaven still be home sweet home? How can we love one another? If you don’t trust in God, you will not be able to enjoy what God gives you, nor would you be able to get His help. He wants to help you, and He even died for you. But if you do not accept Him, you cannot enjoy any blessings. If you don’t trust in Him, you cannot enjoy Him. It’s that simple: if you don’t have faith in a certain thing, you won’t be able to enjoy it.

God is the most trustworthy. It makes no sense if you trust in other things but not God. There is so much evidence about Him. Since I believed in Him, I have experienced a lot of grace from God. How long have you believed in the Lord? If you don’t believe in Him, how could you have changed and become who you are? Where could you find peace, rest and joy? Where could you gain strength, life and changes from within? If you lived your life as a non-believer, putting no trust in God but only on material things, how can you enjoy Him? Trusting in God is the most real and important action, now through eternity. Paul said that he looked to the things that are unseen. It doesn’t mean that he did not care about the things on earth. His life on earth was very glorious. But he looked to things that are unseen, because God is very precious and absolutely real. All of us are witnesses. Let’s consider: who changed you after you believed in God? Who has been taking care of you till today? If you remained a non-believer, could you have such changes in life? Absolutely not! And you would have no hope in this world, no hope in eternity. Without God, you would have no hope. Satan’s scheme is to lure you away from God so that you cannot enjoy the blessings that belong to you.

What the Bible tells us is absolutely the truth. It emphasizes on faith, and when you believe, you are saved. God has done a lot for you. Not believing in Him means rejecting Him. Then, how can you enjoy Him? Impossible! It’s so precious that He came to seek us. We are so blessed! We have been enjoying this material world, and now we know how to enjoy it even more, because He has taught us how to best use the material things. We appreciate His creation more, and know how to use the resources that He provides for us better. Furthermore, we have entered into His unsearchable riches. Also, there is eternity. He is the eternal Lord! 

Series 15

Understand How Our Spirit Works And Be Heart To Heart With The Lord Continuously

Message Date: 2020-03-13

Faith is to “want” and to “rely on.” Only by faith can we enjoy God Himself. Nothing is more important than to abide in the Lord. When we abide in the Lord, we will surely experience that His word abides in us. The Lord is living in our hearts, and we live with Him; our spirits need continuous provision from Him. Therefore, we must be heart to heart with Him, rely on Him, and let Him be our life; and we must mind the things above. Also, we ought to know how our spirit works, including our will, mind, feelings and other aspects. Then, we will be able to overcome Satan’s disturbances, cooperate with the Holy Spirit, be attracted by the Lord and the truths, and live a life that is heart to heart with the Lord. Episode 1 We can only enjoy God by Faith Episode 2 His words abide in us Episode 3 Live with the Lord Episode 4 Seek the things that are above Episode 5 Understanding how our spirit works: will, mind and feelings Episode 6 Guard and uplift our mind Episode 7 Enjoy Christ who is our life Episode 8 Live according to the Holy Spirit, and He gives us life Episode 9 Understand how our spirit works and be heart to heart with the Lord continuously
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We Can Only Enjoy God By Faith

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His Words Abide In Us

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Live With The Lord

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Seek The Things That Are Above

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Understand How Our Spirit Works: Will, Mind And Feelings

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Guard And Uplift Our Mind

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Enjoy Christ Who Is Our Life

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Live According To The Holy Spirit, And He Gives Us Life

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Introduction

01 Introduction of Treasures for the Soul

Series 1: Being Heart to Heart with the Lord

1.1 The Most Blessed Generation
1.2 Message from John the Baptist
1.3 Abide in the Lord Always
1.4 Abide in the Lord’s Love at All Times
1.5 The Lord Speaks to Us and Helps Us in Our Hearts

Series 2: Being Heart to Heart with the Lord Throughout this Year

2.1 God’s Greatest Work Starts in Our Hearts
2.2 To Be Heart to Heart with the Lord Throughout the Year
2.3 Our Spirits can Feel God and Have Fellowship with Him
2.4 The Importance of Peace
2.5 Our Spirits Need the Words of God
2.6 Give the Lord Time and Space to Speak in Our Hearts

Series 3: Let Our Hearts be Influenced

3.1 The World Needs People Who Deeply Experience God
3.2 Just as His Anointing 
Has Taught You, 
Abide in the Lord
3.3 Be Influenced 
by the Lord Throughout 
this Year

Series 4: The Importance of Peace

4.1 Enjoying God’s Peace in Your heart
4.2 Let Not Your Hearts be Troubled, Neither Let Them be Afraid.
4.3 How Should Our Spirit Respond to the Lord?

Series 5: Our Spirit Being Able to Enjoy the Lord

5.1 Our Spirit is Satisfied Only When We Worship God and Deeply Experience Him
5.2 How to Worship God with Our Spirit
5.3 Looking at the Lord with our Inner Eyes
5.4 Our Spirit Needs to Enjoy the Lord Himself
5.5 The Song of Solomon Often Mentions About “Eyes”
5.6 Realize Being Heart to Heart with the Lord in Singing and Worship

Series 6: Live out the Life of being Heart to Heart with the Lord

6.1 Living a life of union with the Lord in a stable pattern every day
6.2 Enjoying the Lord and not being disturbed
6.3 The Importance of Seeing Him with Our Spiritual Eyes

Series 7

7.1 Learn to Protect Our Spirits From Virus Prevention
7.2 Our Spirit Can Hear, Think, and See
7.3 How to Live a Life of Faith
7.4 The Importance of the Mind
7.5 David’s Eyes Beheld the Lord Always

Series 8: During the last supper, the Lord spoke about the essence of the blessings of the new covenant.

8.1 The Lord established with us the eternal love covenant by His blood
8.2 The Lord Treasures the New Covenant and Break-Bread Meeting the Most
8.3 Love Encounters
8.4 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the fourth blessing
8.5 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the first blessing (1)
8.6 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the first blessing (2)

Series 16: We Have Come to Mount Zion and the Heavenly Jerusalem

16.1 See that the Lord is at the right hand of the Father
16.2 Coming to Mount Zion (1): the meaning of Mount Sinai
16.3 Coming to Mount Zion (2): the difficulty in forgiveness of sins
16.4 Coming to Mount Zion (3): to Live in Grace
16.5 Having Come to the Heavenly Jerusalem
16.6 What is in the heavenly Jerusalem (1)?

Series 9: Being Heart to Heart with the Father

9.1 Being Heart to Heart with Abba (Part 1)
9.2 Being Heart to Heart with Abba (Part 2)

Series 10

10.1 The Love Desire in the Depths of Abba and the Lord’s hearts
10.2 Fruit of the Lord’s Crucifixion: Eternal Life
10.3 The Lord Came to Manifest the Father’s Name
10.4 The Father Sent His Only Begotten Son
10.5 Reminders on enjoying heart to heart with the Father
10.6 The Father’s Desire for Me is Forever Steadfast

Series 11

11.1 The preciousness of the Letter to Philemon
11.2 The most profitable; the most accepted.
11.3 Charge That to My Account
11.4 The Father made the Lord our eternal High Priest by an oath (1)
11.5 The Father made the Lord our eternal High Priest by an oath (2)
11.6 We are the Lord’s darling love

Series 12

12.1 The Lord’s Words at the Last Supper
12.2 Apart from the Lord, we can do nothing.
12.3 What is true faith?
12.4 Look upon the Lord in glory
11.5 Trust and Peace (1)
12.6 Trust and Peace (2)

Series 13: The Lord’s Gentleness and Humility

13.3 The Lord’s Gentleness and Humility (Part 2)

Series 14: Manifold evidence

14.1 How does the infinite Lord see us?
14.2 We are the ultimate and final love of the Lord
14.3 The Lord is forever a Man; He once died for us
14.4 The Lord’s manifold love evidence (Part 1)
14.5 The Lord’s manifold love evidence Part 2

Series 15: Understand How Our Spirit Works And Be Heart To Heart With The Lord Continuously

15.1 We Can Only Enjoy God By Faith
15.2 His Words Abide In Us
15.3 Live With The Lord
15.4 Seek The Things That Are Above
15.5 Understand How Our Spirit Works: Will, Mind And Feelings
15.6 Guard And Uplift Our Mind

Series 17: Know that the Church is the Firstborn

17.1 Know that the church is the firstborn
17.2 The Blessing of the Firstborn (Part 1)
17.3 The Blessing of the Firstborn (Part 2)
17.4 The Lord redeemed us to be the firstborn (Part 1)
17.5 The Lord redeemed us to be the firstborn (Part 2)

Series 18: The Blessings to be the First Born

18.1 Israel is God’s Firstborn Son (Part 1)
18.2 Israel is God’s Firstborn Son (Part 2)
18.3 To be united with the Lord and become the Firstborn
18.4 The Lord is the Firstborn
18.5 The Blessing of the Firstborn: Kingship
18.6 The Blessing of the Firstborn: a Double Portion of the Blessings

Series 19: Coming to Mount Zion to Appear Before God

19.1 The Lord is the way, and the truth, and the life
19.2 Live in Grace. Enjoy the Father and the Lord
19.3 Mind the things that are above (1)
19.4 Mind the things that are above (2)
19.5 Appear before God in Mount Zion

Series 20: The final destination of our spirit and eternity is the heavenly Jerusalem

20.1 The Lord Desires Most for Us to Draw Near to Him (1)
20.2 The Lord Desires Most for Us to Draw Near to Him (2)
20.3 The Lord Becomes the Way so that We can Come Before God with Confidence
20.4 The Heavenly Jerusalem, Destination of Our Spirits and Eternity (1)
20.5 The Heavenly Jerusalem, Destination of Our Spirits and Eternity (2)

Series 21: Live Out the Life of the Firstborn: Be A Priest

21.1 The Father made the Lord the High Priest
21.2 Priesthood: One of the Blessings of the Firstborn
21.4 The Precedents of Priests in the Bible (2)

Series 22: When Believers Die, They Will Go to the Heavenly Jerusalem

22.1 The Heavenly Jerusalem is paradise (1)
The Heavenly Jerusalem is paradise (2)
The Spirits of the Righteous Made Perfect

Series 23: New Jerusalem is a real city

God has prepared a heavenly home for us
Is the heavenly new Jerusalem a real city?
Satan causes man not to be clear and assured about the things in heaven
Are physical substances not spiritual?
New Jerusalem is a real city (1)
New Jerusalem is a real city (2)

Series 24: God prepares for us

Genesis 22: Father and Son went together
Genesis 22: For us, the Father gave His only Son
Genesis 22: The Lord will provide
24.4 God’s preparation for us

Series 25: The Father and Son Affection

25.1 The Lord Came to Make Known the Father
25.2 The Father and Son Affection (Part 1)
25.3 The Father and Son Affection (Part 2)

Series 26: We are a royal priesthood

26.1 God who alone does wondrous things
26.2 The Lord is the High Priest
26.3 We are a royal priesthood (1)
26.4 We are a royal priesthood (2)
26.5 The life of a priest

Series 27: Who are you in the infinite one’s loving heart?

27.1 Meditate on who you are in the infinite Lord’s loving heart
27.2 Meditate on who you are in the infinite Lord’s loving heart (2)
27.3 Meditate on the infinite Lord’s words at the last supper

Series 28: The conclusion and climax of the book of Hebrews

28.1 Sing praises at Easter (1): The defeat of death
28.2 Sing praises at Easter (2): The risen Lord has swallowed up death
28.3 The important purpose of Hebrews and the help we get from it
28.4 Confirming the importance of drawing near to God

Series 29: How to behold

29.1 Behold the Father
29.2 See that God meets me in His steadfast love 
and exults over me with loud singing (1)
29.3 See that God meets me in His steadfast love and exults over me with loud singing (2)
29.4 See how the Lord loves us (1)
29.5 See how the Lord loves us (2)