I know we should have started.

I'm not waiting.

Hey, sister…

Xiao Yuan, now you show up! Do you know how late you are?

Let's go in. They're all waiting for you…

Hey, Xiao Yuan!

Xiao Yuan, it's your sermon today! Why are you so late!

I was busy getting all the information for today's sermon.

I did read a lot of spiritual books, online I did a lot of research,

but even after that, I didn't put anything on paper.

I came here to tell you I have nothing to preach.

Should one of you preach?

What should we do now? I have no sermon ready.

Maybe, Meng'ai, how about you?

Me?

I haven't felt the Holy Spirit working in me for quite a while.

I can't preach either.

I think it's best if one of you go.

You? Brother Ding…

I cannot go.

Giving sermons scares me.

All I could tell you is letters and doctrines. None has reality.

I'd be just misleading people.

We're already late.

Tao Wei, why don't you go today?

(sigh) I will go.

Let's go first!

I guess I'm doing it after all.

I'm scared of giving sermons. What should I do?

Lord! The church is a cold place today.

We've lost the work of the Holy Spirit, and it's starving us.

We preachers don't even know what to preach.

Lord! Please help us!

Without Your work, we're stuck using theology to analyze the Bible.

Like that, we can't benefit anyone. It just becomes another religious service.

Lord, I know what we preached in the past wasn't what You wanted from us.

But now, what can we do?

Brothers and sisters, let's turn in our Bibles to John 4:14.

In the past, when we read the Lord's words,

we found enlightenment and ways to practice.

The Lord's word was like the river of life that waters our heart,

and gave us the sustenance we needed to live.

And we had endless words in the sermon.

But now, we can't feel the presence of the Lord.

We don't understand the truth in His words.

In this situation, can the words He left, the way He preached

be living water in our hearts that wells up to eternal life?

This is the problem!

Without the Holy Spirit's work, is the living water still here?

Can we receive the truth without the Holy Spirit's work?

Can we still receive life?

Of course we can't!

It's the time of the Lord's return,

but we don't feel the work of the Holy Spirit.

We have read and fellowshiped on the Lord's word at every meeting,

but we can't fellowship His truth clearly,

and we have nothing to say.

There is no reality of the truth and we can't supply our brothers and sisters.

Why is this happening now?

I think this is something we should talk about today.

Even the preacher has nothing to say. That's how starved we are for truth.

We're all so weak and negative, and most of us believe half-heartedly.

It's just like the Laodicean church in the book of Revelation.

Does this mean the Lord has spewed us out?

Well, Sister Tao, then haven't you become the leader of the church in Laodicea?

If we're lukewarm, neither hot or cold, how could you have anything to preach?

Since you mention it, that might be the reason.

Those lukewarm in their belief will be eliminated. So what should we do?

We should focus on the book of Revelation.

Which type of church are we caught up in? Which type of church will be raptured?

If we can't be raptured, doesn't that mean we've wasted time all these years?

Brothers and sisters, why don't we feel the work of the Holy Spirit?

Why is there so much hunger in the church?

Why is the religious world so cold and desolate?

There must be a divine mystery in this!

We should pray to the Lord together and search for His will together.

The Lord Jesus is the fountain of living waters,

but we can't receive the water from it.

Have you thought the Lord may have reappeared to do His work elsewhere?

We all have great thirst and we must search for the Lord's footsteps.

That is because where to find the Holy Spirit's work and His utterances

is something we must fellowship clearly on right now.

This affects the future and destinies of every believer.

What do you all think about this?

The desolation in the church didn't happen overnight.

We haven't felt the Holy Spirit's work for a long time.

The water of life isn't here.

We need to look for the Lord's footsteps!

Yes, predictions of the return of the Lord have come true.

Disasters are happening around the world. Churches are getting more desolate.

The Lord might have returned.

Maybe He has already appeared somewhere to work,

but we just don't know about it.

The Lord has returned? Impossible!

If He really is back, then shouldn't we all have been raptured?

That's right. As long as we keep the name of the Lord,

we'll enter the kingdom of heaven when the Lord returns! (Amen! Hmm, exactly.)

Where the "rapture" is concerned, we shouldn't be using our own imaginations,

because God's mind is higher than man's.

What the rapture really is, what entering the kingdom of heaven is,

and what work the Lord will do when He returns,

we have no way to know.

Plus, we are negative and weak, and always sin.

The Lord is holy.

We don't know

if we can be raptured and enter the kingdom of heaven when He returns.

The church today is desolate.

We feel dark in spirits and we don't feel the Lord's presence.

Our first task

is to find a church that has the work of the Holy Spirit,

and find the Lord's footsteps again!

Right! We have to start looking right now!

Let's search for where the Lord appears!

We can't be foolish virgins eliminated by the Lord!

Brothers and sisters, we should search around at other churches.

Whichever church has the work of the Holy Spirit,

that's where we'll find the water of life.

Does everyone agree?

Right. We should be clever virgins, and actively seek the Lord's footsteps.

When Canaan was in famine,

Jacob and his family left,

and went to Egypt to look for food to survive the disaster.

Let us look at Genesis 41:53.

Let's read together.

Today, the situation in the religious world

is similar to what happened in Canaan.

We must find the church with the work of the Holy Spirit.

Where we find the work of the Holy Spirit, we'll find the Lord's blessing too.

Where we find the Holy Spirit's utterance,

we will also find the Lord's appearance.

The Lord keeps His promises.

As long as we follow His word, the Lord will guide us.

However, house churches all across the country

face cruel oppression and arrest from the CCP.

They have been underground for years,

and no one dares to have public gatherings.

If we go looking for churches everywhere, it will be dangerous.

It will be very dangerous.

I think we better just leave it!

No. We have to look! We can't wait here and do nothing.

We have to know God can only be seen in our faith.

No matter how dangerous it is, we have to look!

Right, we have to look for those churches.

But if we don't know anyone else, if we don't have a starting point,

it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

We'll never find it!

We need to know first and foremost what we're looking for.

Right! Where should we look?

China is huge. We need to know where to start!

I have an idea. What does Satan's regime fear most?

Satan fears the truth and the arrival of light most.

So we should start with the church the CCP fears most,

which suffers the worst persecution.

I'm sure we'll find the work of the Holy Spirit there,

and maybe the Holy Spirit's utterance and God's appearance.

Everyone with me?

Yes, now we have a target!

Brother Ding is right!

The CCP is an atheist government that hates the truth and resists God most.

China is a large country,

but the CCP would be the first to know where God's work appears,

and would oppress and persecute His followers first.

For more than sixty years in power, they see God as an enemy,

and try to make China a place without God.

So, wherever God's work appears, they will naturally persecute and oppress it.

I just remembered Henan was the worst the crackdown on the Shouters.

When the Shouters spread the gospel to the peak,

in Henan alone millions cried out for the Lord Jesus.