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Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed Her « Thread Started on Apr 25, 2004, 11:26am »
Sunday Message for March 7th 2004 Translation by Ho Myung Lee Transcription by Bachi park, Liza Hartman, Peter Reimer
<Fire of the Word> Scripture: Luke 12:49 49"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
Hallelujah! Another week has past, and the new week has come. Today is March 7th.
For those countries for which it was winter, spring is slowly coming around and now the season where the environment is changing and thoughts are changing is upon us. Just as spring comes around, in the same way, we have to move in our faith and in our life, in our thought according to the new season.
All the providence people throughout the world, I know that you are all busy running for providence diligently. The longer we go on like this, the more busier you'll become. When you're working diligently, you will find that you'll have 10, 20, even 30 times more work than when you were not working diligently. And the reason why you have much more work, 100 times more work than before is because now that you're doing the things that you weren't doing in the past.
When people are diligent, they're so diligent that they're not concerned or bothered by many things. But when people are not diligent, they're bothered by the smallest things. When people are not diligent, they're like people who are falling asleep. They're not concerned about what's going on. And such time, it is difficult for people to wake themselves up. They must be wakened up by other people. And other people must help them to speak to them and other people to work with them to set fires to them again. I'm sure you've experienced this many times.
This is a case with our physical bodies too. When you're diligently exercising, then your body will not become stiff. But if you stop exercising then your body gets stiff. Even your neck! You have to have flexible neck. If your neck is not flexible, then it means it has become stiff. Your neck should be so flexible that your neck can be twisted so that your chin will be right above your shoulders. Try it! Straighten now your shoulders and see if you can twist your neck to the point where your chin can be right above your shoulders. If your chin cannot be twisted to the point it's right above your shoulders, then it means you lack exercise of your neck. Don't tell me that you cannot exercise because you're old. The reason why you're stiff is not because you're 88 years old, but simply because you did not exercise your neck.
You're still so young, and you should not be telling me that your neck is stiff and it's hurting. It's a matter of you exercising it 20, 30 times a day. You have to get into a habit of doing that. If you do that, then you'll not have problems with your neck.
And the same is true with your faith too. In Faith it's a matter of exercise. You have to keep exercising your faith diligently by listening to the word and putting the words into practice. If you don't do this, then your faith will become stiff. Everything else is the same way. Do you want to hear about the spiritual world? Right now, I'm telling you things about the spiritual world as I'm delivering the messages to you. These are things that I realized from the spiritual world.
So this is called not only the life of faith but the life we live in this world. It requires us constantly moving around. I've always been telling you this. I told you. That If you're unable to go out there and do something, at least start by taking small movements. You see, if you're at least moving a little bit, then people will see you and say "wow, that person must be in trouble, let go help them." But if you're not moving at all, then people will look at you and say "oh, that person must be dead. It's scary." And they'll run away from you. If you hear the word but do not move at all, then you're a dead person.
So you must keep moving. Your hands, your feet, your thoughts, your bodies! Everything must constantly be moving. That is when you become strong. For me, every minute is so precious. Because with one minute, I can write one letter to send somebody a letter to bring them out of the life they lived before. But because when I'm exercising I'm losing the time, with which I can save so many people, I don't go out to exercise. And when I don't bother exercise, my neck gets stiff and my back hurts. And then I go out to exercise.
I get so much news from you guys that even now, I was reading all of your news right before I came to deliver the Sunday message. You send me so much stuff that I cannot read it in just one or two days. I have hundreds of letters. How can I read all of them in just a couple of days? In fact, there are so many that I don't think I can read them all in one week. Let alone one month. I get unimaginable amount of mails. And if they were simply mails that contain greetings, I can just read it and forget it. But because they're letters sometimes that require replies, I have to send back replies to them, just like talking on the telephone, I have to give you a reply when you ask me a question. And when I spend all my time doing all of that, I spend an enormous amount of time.
So there are people who gets replies from me, even if it may come late, and there are people whose faiths are big enough and strong enough that I don't need to write letters back. Nowadays, I'm spending all of my time focusing on the people who are new to providence and those who are spiritually weak. You have to know this.
Everyone, keep listening to the word and moving and taking actions, just like you need to keep exercising.
Let us look at today's scriptures. Today's scripture is from Luke chapter 12, verse 49. 49"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
Today, I'll deliver to you a message that is appropriate for this scripture. But before we start the message, let's sing a song. Let us all rise, sing a song and then we'll go into the message.
The song is "The Lord who becomes my joy and hope".
The title of today's message is the "Fire of the Word". Today, I'll speak to you especially about the Word. 1In the beginning was the Word (John 1:1). God began everything with the Word.
Whatever you need in anybody, you always start by speaking to them, right? Without word, things cannot move along, things cannot be put in motion, and things cannot be made to work.
God began to appear, in the very beginning, with the word. Rather than God himself appearing to the world, the Word appeared to the world. And that word did not drop out into thin air somewhere, but it came to us through the person who God has chosen
God made Adam and Eve grow in the Garden of Eden so that His word may slowly appear to the people through them. He wanted to speak to the people the things that he wanted to say, through them. He wanted to tell them His situation and He wanted open up the way for the people to tell Him about their situation.
The word "Adam" originally means "men". To create Adam, in other words, meant to create men and to create Eve meant to create women.
So God created Adam and Eve and made them grow. But in the course of growth period, they committed the sexual fall, which God hates the most. And because they fell in the course of their growth period, they could not become God's people, and as a result of this, God could not, through them, convey the things that He wanted to convey.
In the same way, when people fall, they fall in the course of growing stages. Not only sexually, but also in terms of growing spiritually by coming to church. They usually fall off during their growth periods. It is in the course of that crops growing that they'll wither and die, or get sick and die. And it is during the growth period that plants and grains fail to bear fruits.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #1 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:27am »
The biggest, the original sin, in religion, was the sin of committing the sexual fall. The reason why God hates the sexual fall is because Eve belonged to God as a counterpart of His love. She is the counterpart to God's love physically and mentally. And that is why when they fell, God was so absolutely angry and judged them. If their relationship with God weren't so close, then God would not have done that to them.
When you fall, you cannot receive the word from God. If I had fallen before I received the word from God, then I would not have been able to receive the word from God. That is the rule. That is the principle. If you fall, you cannot receive the word.
You see, even when receiving the proverbs, or even when receiving the words from God, you have to be at that level in order for you to receive the word at that level. He does not give me the proverbs for nothing. You have to live that kind of life. Then you'll receive the proverbs that proclaim that kind of life that you have lived. If you don't do that, you cannot receive it. In the same way, if I had fallen sexually, then I would not have been able to receive the words that I did. I receive the words that I did, because before I received the word, I lived a normal life.
Adam and Even could not receive the word because they fell. And because they did not receive the word they did not know how to grow and they did not know how to mature.
And because of the fall, not only could they not receive the word, but they were unable to become one with God. You see, when grains fall down after they have born fruits, it's ok that they fell, but if they fell down because of the typhoon even though they have not born fruit, then there's no way of saving the grains. You see, if the typhoon has blown and broken all the grains after they born fruits, then you'll not feel so bad, because you can still harvest the grains, and if the fruit is already ripe and it fell off the tree because of wind, it's ok because even if it's cracked you can still eat it. However, if the fruit falls off the tree, before it's fully ripen, then there's nothing you can do about it. You can't eat it. So you see it as fall. That's the difference.
The biggest problem is when the things that belong to God fall. God chose these people among many other people to be His counterparts. But when God's counterparts of love end up falling, then they become useless. You see, Adam and Eve were not merely meant to live with each other. They were chosen as counterparts of God's love. God could not use them because those people ended up falling.
Everyone, all of you have been called to this Providence, like Eve was called to the Garden of Eden. You are called now to the Garden of Eden of the earth and you are called now to the Garden of Eden of Providence. If you fall before you're fully matured, then you become once again like Adam and Eve. That is why I tell you, you must not fall. That is why I tell you that at least not the fall. You must never fall.
Usually it's people in their 20s or people in their teens that out of curiosity look at things on the internet and do chatting. Why do you want to do chatting? Those things create curiosity and that curiosity leads to love up there. So don't go out there chatting on the internet, but rather, write letters to me. Let's chat with me through the letters. Use that curiosity to write letters to the person of God. If you do that with me, then you'll improve your letter-writing skills and you'll also receive revelations that come from God. You have seen the letters that I wrote to you, haven't you? They're all revelations that I write down for you from God.
This message is not only for them, but it is for everybody. I'm telling all of you, to get out of things like that. It is not right for you to fall, stumble and then realize that that's not the right way to go. I mean, what's the use once a fruit falls to the ground and you saying, "oh, this is not the way it should have been."?
All of you, both men and women, are the Adam and Eve that God has called to the Garden of Eden of this time period. You must not fall during your growth period, after you hear the word. When you're fully matured, then God will bless you as one man and one woman. Once Adam and Eve are fully matured, once they developed their breasts, once they developed their truth, once they developed their grace, then God will tell them. It is now ok for you to eat the fruit like a farmer harvesting the grain that is fully ripe. I assure you that time like that will come. And that time that I'm talking about is the Blessing Ceremony time. I'm telling you, I'm urging you to grow and mature until such a time come.
There are a lot of blessed couples and blessed families that went through that process and became glad, are there not? And now they have received the word and received the authority to be able preach that word.
So in the same way, God has called you as like Adam and Eve in this time period. So it is here that you must grow with God's great word, with God's great truth, with God's great instruction, you must grow and mature. See, the first you need to do is to hear the word and that is why I tell you and I urge you to study the word.
When you studied the 30 principles, then most of the words in the bible get interpreted for you. And you'll understand the key messages in the bible.
For 20 years, I have learned the key points of the bible. And for 20 years, I have been putting into practice. And now, it's been 40 years all together that I have been living this way. So I have learned it for 20 years and I have put into practice for 20 years. And in the course of doing that, a lot of people from various parts of the world are following the Providence. And many lives returned to the words of God and they say, "Wow, the Word has begun! The history of God is here. God is already here in this world. God has promised us that he'd be here and he really is here! He has come to save !"
You see, God appears through the Word. Even if God's spirit appears to us He'll be invisible to us. Angels also are invisible to us.
God appears through the word! He appeared to Moses through the word, he appeared to Noah through the word. God also intended to appear through the word to Adam once he had matured. However, God could not appear trough Adam because he fell. The word that he appeared to Moses with was a different kind of word. If Adam and Eve had continued to mature without falling, then He would have declared through them the word that He declared through Jesus. "You are my son! You're my beloved!"
In fact, even deeper message would have come trough them. You see, the message that was declared through Jesus was a message of the son, because he needed to restore the people who were fallen in Old Testament from the level of servants to the level of sons. If Adam and Eve have not fallen He would have treated them like His brides. "You are my beloved! You're my delight! You're my bride! You're my lover!" That's what He would have said. God would have been the bridegroom and they would have been God's brides! Then Adam would have been Eve's physical lover. You see, because God is the owner, He can be their physical lover and he can be there spiritual lover. He can be everything to them. And so God would have loved her through Adam. Today's message is the Fire of the Word. Jesus said how happy would I be, if this word, if this fire was already set. Everyone, are you set on fire? Have you accepted the word? Do you believe? Do you realize? If you realized, then I want you to say "AMEN."
I'm setting the fire to you again. So I want all of you to realize the word again.
"Oh, but I have already learned that!" "You've learned that, and that's the best you can do?" So I challenge you to be set on fire properly, and to be set on fire more. I'm telling you that there is the stronger fire. And I want you today to be set on fire with that stronger fire, the fire of the Word, in other words, the word that are like fire.
I received the letter from a new comer in Bu-San. She told me "Thank you so much, I have come to here. The words that are like fire" This was a new comer who was only 18, 19 years old. And this person thanked me, because by coming here they were able to hear the words that are like fire, whereas before they were living without any concept of the world. And this person wrote that she really would like this fire to change her life and to make her life more ideal.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #2 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:28am »
Of course, those who taught her did a great job too. But when I received that letter from this new comer, I was very happy and satisfied. There's a lot of letters that I get that tell me very clearly what they want to say. "Now I realized SSN. I have been negative towards you, because of the broadcast that I've seen. But now I feel very sorry. And now one thing I really wish is that I can get a chance to apologize to you on my knees personally.
So I wrote back to this person and I said, "____ through the letter is perfectly fine too. I want you to go and do the same. Turn around people who are like yourselves, just as you have turned around."
I received another letter from another new comer that said to me "I will not marry, but I will live for the Lord for all of my life" You see, this was a new person who have not been in Providence very long. But it is the word that has changed, to be like that.
Me too, it was a great word from God that changed me to become what I am today. It is by hearing the word that I was inspired to never marry, and to never have children, but rather utilize all my strength to make providence to save people. And it is in the course of listening to the word and studying the word that I realized my old mission. Everyone, all of you, must become learners of the word.
You see, God could not tell Moses or Noah the things that He originally intended to tell Adam. Moses was in his own way of savior of the Israelites because he rescued them from Egypt. But you see, there was a word that God has reserved for people that were much closer to him than somebody even like Moses. Noah was a man who saved people during the judgment of the flood. Both Moses and Noah were servants. And because God was lonely He chose these people out of the servants, and told them "You are perfect before me, you're pleasing my heart"
Everyone, you have to not fall in order for you to receive the word properly. You have to not fall in order to receive the proper word.
All of the prophets received some God's word that he needed to say to the people at their time period. And it was by listening to those words that the people of those time period were barely able to escape God's judgment. You see, even if they were struggling by themselves to be saved, they could not be saved by themselves. But it was through hearing the words and it was through obeying those words that they were able to save themselves from death.
Everyone, you have seen people being saved, being rescued from physical death, right? How lucky and how happy it is for people to survive from physical death?
It is by absolutely hearing and accepting the words of God that we escape judgment. And that is why the word is life. The word determines life and death. It is with the word of God that he judges and it is with the word of God that He saves. It is with the word of God that if He said "I'm going to kill you" then you die, and when he said "I'll save you" then you live.
And this is why we have to conduct ourselves well before God, so that out of him will come words of blessing. Even when we're nice to people, they bless us. How much more blessing will be receive from God when we're nice to Him?
Now, I told you to be good to God. But do you know what it means to be good to God? Do you know what you have to do to treat God well? You have to love him!! Don't just love Him with your lips only.
It is because people love God that they do not sin. Don't you think so? Isn't it because people love God that they do not commit the sexual sin in this world? And they do not focus their attention on all the other temptations there are in this word? And that they are able to love only God? It is not right for you to claim that you love God and then go about doing whatever you want to do. If you love God, then because you love God you have to cut off from doing things that you want to do and rather focus on doing things that God is telling you to do.
Adam and Eve did not love God. Instead, they loved the people of this world. If Eve had loved Adam only, then their sin would been lesser. But she loved the world. She fell with the angel, did she not?
God knows when you do not have love for Him. And when your absolute love for God disappears from your heart, then God sees that as the fall. Before a person falls physically, they fall in their heart, do they not? If you love someone else in your heart, then you're already considered to be fallen in your heart. And when your body follows too, that's when your body is considered to be fallen. So people fall in two different ways. Those who fall physically have fallen physically and mentally. However, when the sexual fall happens because they were forced or because they were raped then God will be lenient with them.
However if it happens because people like each other mutually, or because they have forsaken God, or because they're becoming troubled in their faith, or because they fell asleep momentarily in their faiths, or for whatever other various reasons, then judgment will follow.
Therefore, your love for God must never weaken. Your love for the Lord must never weaken. If you're climbing a cliff, using a rope that is as thin as a thread, then in the course of climbing that rope will break, wouldn't it? If you do that, then your love for God will weaken. And your heart will give out and your body will give out. When your heart gives out, your body gives out. Therefore, you must never let your heart give out.
The fire of the word!! After 4000 years of punishment, after the fall of Adam and Eve, God sent Jesus and began to speak us again. Jesus was not fallen. Jesus kept himself from that sin. He kept himself from falling and he behaved to such a matter to keep himself from falling. So Jesus shielded himself from the sexual fall. So at that time, God was intending to give people the word through Jesus, raise them through that word and get them married on. But because they have killed Jesus, He could not fulfill that will either. And that is why in the Catholic Church you have the people like the priest, "I will live without getting married. I will live for the Lord, only." So they did not marry. So priests and nuns without getting married tenaciously worked hard to make history. Because when people get married, they need to focus on their family, they need to focus on their children, right? But it was the priests and nuns that made providence for 1600 years and guarded the history. After the reformation, for 400 years, they made history by getting married. And that was the Protestant church.
If the Catholics had not done that, then they would not have been able to make history as they have. People consider the Catholics and Protestants to be different. But in fact, they are one in the same. They are on the same family line. They believe in the same Lord they believe in the same Jesus. But the only difference is that one went through the reformation and the other didn't. Didn't I tell you that the salvation for both is the same? In fact, ultimately, it is dependent on how they live and how they believe.
However, the reformed history is much quicker in their heart and in their eyes to see the new history and meeting the new Lord.
Jesus came and threw the fire of the word. He threw the word of the salvation of the New Testament. And only those who hear the Jesus' word and followed his word can escape the world of servant and participate in the new history of salvation. And if people failed to follow at that time they were given the opportunity, then they failed to follow. It is difficult. Look at the Old Testament's people. Even now they're not following. Because their ancestors failed to follow, their descents also failed to follow.
If they think "well, our ancestors didn't follow him, and we believe that they were right." If they think this way, then they too, will not follow. That is why even their descents end up not following the Lord. However, those that did follow the new time period, their descents also follow the new time period. So in this way, if we do wrong in our time period, then we condemn our descendents also to not be blessed and to remain in the domain of death. So you, having discovered the new history determine also your descents' destiny.
They all thought that the Messiah will come. They all thought that God will come. But it was Jesus who actually came to this world. But Jewish people believed in God. And that's why they believed that God himself will come. If you look in the bible, the bible says that. It says that God will come. "I'll come on the cloud. I'll come on fire and sword."
There are scriptures that say that. And because they believed in God, they expected God himself to come. It is not that they were wrong to think that way, and it is wrong that they interpret that way. God is a spiritual being, so even if God comes, He's not visible.
Even if people who had died in the past come back again, they'll not be visible to us. Because their bodies are already dead, they're coming only with spirit only those who have abilities to see through it can see them when they come back. However, with God, He'll not even allow people to see His spirit.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #3 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:29am »
Not that He's not confident about Himself, but it is because He's not confident about people that He does not show Himself to people. People like Moses only saw God from behind. And people like Abraham saw God in a symbolic form through the angels. He showed Himself to these people because they were such good servants, because they served Him well, because they treated Him well, and because respected Him so much.
Once you see God once, then you're responsible for looking up to Him forever. Let me tell you a story that happened to me. One time, when I was talking about the Holy Spirit, I said, "The trinity are three separate beings. Just as there is a mother, father and a child in a family, there is the father God, and the Holy Spirit, and the Holy child in a spiritual family. The Holy Father is God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit is God, the Mother. She is our spiritual mother. And the child is of course, Jesus and as well as all the people who are the children of God." And somebody after hearing this said to me "I really like to see the Holy Spirit" and I said to this person "Once you see the Holy Spirit, then you must be diligently evangelizing and treating everybody as a mother will treat her children. And so I prayed for this person to be that way.
Later, this person told me that during a Saturday night Talent show at the Nak-Sung-Dae church, she was sitting at the very back of the church. And as she sat there, she saw this person who was tall, wearing white linen, a woman who was so beautiful that her beauty cannot be described with word, walked by and ____by this person. And this person came to ask me, "SSN, who did I see?" And I told that person, "That is the Holy Spirit which you've always wanted to see" And she said that what's what she thought she saw. And as soon as she saw the Holy Spirit, she said that in her heart she felt "That's the Holy Spirt!" And when she asked other people if they saw the Holy Spirit that day, she realized that no one else has seen the Holy Spirit that day except her. So I told this person "Since you saw the Holy Spirit, now your responsibility is to bring many many people and treat them like a mother will treat her children. However, although she was diligent with her faith, she failed to live with all her heart, soul and mind in a way that she should have lived. And one day, she died in a car accident. That particular day, I told everybody to come to Bo-Ra-Mae Park because I was going to give a leaders' education. And I told everyone to come. But instead of coming to the Bo-Ra-Mae park, she was on her way to learn how to do make-up. So she got up early in the morning, put on some really nice clothes and headed to make-up class and that's when she died. She was in the modeling department. The taxi driver was physically hurt terriblely, and that's why he died. She was on the other hand, did not have a severe injury. However, she also died in the car accident.
When I saw this happened, I realized, "Wow, He, God put a tremendous responsibility on you, seeing God. When you see God, you must be responsible." That's what I felt. So I encourage you not to simply ask God to show you God, in fact, it's better to not see Him. Because if you see Him, and you don't live up to that, then you will be in big trouble. You see. Don't you realize that? Just by common sense, you should be able to understand that.
In Revelation chapter 9, it tells us that he appears to us with words that only he knows. And of course, this was referring to Jesus.
The saviors that are sent from God bring the word only they know. You see, that's the case even us only we know what we see. Other people will know it only we share with them.
Believing in God without having seen Him, that is a big thing, impressive. It is ok for you to believe in God without having seen Him. Because even if you cannot see Him physically, he manifests himself in thousand ways to us. Since God appears to us through nature, as soon as you open your eyes, you're seeing thousand, ten thousand manifestations of God. So realize how God appears to us.
Nowadays, I'm appearing to you guys, am I not? I'm appearing to you guys through letters, appearing to you guys through pictures, I'm appearing to you guys through the words that I say, I appear to you guys through videos that you see. I appear to you guys in many different way.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #4 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:30am »
Although God does not appear to us in actual physical form, He in fact, appears to us tens of thousand of different ways. So just because He does not appear physically, does not mean he's not appearing to us. He appears to us in many different way but you want to see him in a particular way. That's why you cannot see him. I mean he's not willing to show himself in that way, why are you so bent on seeing him in that way? You know, even if a person takes off all of his clothes, at least, he has to keep his swimming suit on, at least, he has to keep his pajamas on, at least, things that must be hidden, must remain hidden. In the same way, God shows himself to us, however he never shows us his face. He may show up his hands, he may show up his feet, but he never shows up his face. All we need to know is that, he does have a face. That's all.
No one in the world knows exactly what God looks like. No one in the world can explain exactly what he looks like. Did I not tell you that he looks like a human being? In Genesis, He says that he created in us in his image and likeness. He created male and female but of course, this does not mean God's face is combination of male and female face. What this means is that he created in us according to character, according to image, and according to his likeness.
God has two eyes, one nose, and one mouth. That's what I realized when I was deep into the spiritual world, and I asked God to show himself to me. And he forbids people to see him to ever tell people that they saw him. Nowadays, people tell you that they didn't see you even if they did see me. Right? You see, in this way, even when people see God, they cannot say that they saw God unless they're willing to put their life on their life.
So even if Jesus is standing next to you, don't tell people that he's standing next to you. So rather than, knowing that he's next to you when you see him, know that he's next to you because he's always walking with you. So you should believe naturally and diligently rather than being like a person who is diligent only when the owner is around and not diligent when the owner is not around.
Jesus is always visiting you, my spirit is always visiting you. That's a basic set. You see, when you love a person, you're constantly visiting them. You too, are you not constantly visiting me here?
So I always think that I'm always looking at your physical body. When I look at your pictures, I consider that I'm actually seeing you. When I read your letters, I consider that I'm actually seeing you. So, in this way, know that this is the way God exists and understand that God exists.
But Jewish people thought that God himself was gonna come. So when God didn't come and instead Jesus came, they thought God didn't come. But in fact, God did come at that time!! God did come through Jesus' body and God appeared through Jesus through Jesus' body. It is not that God looked exactly like Jesus but it is through him that he tells us "Do this, do that." Through him he tells us what to do and that is why God appears through Jesus in various different way, in various different mean. And that is why people ask Jesus show God to them, Jesus said to them, "Anyone who has seen me has seen the father, why are you asking me to show him to you? You can think about God by looking at me, hearing my words is hearing God's words" He said.
Think about it. When God says do this, will Jesus say do that instead? No!! He does what God exactly tells him to do. The only difference is God is speaking to us through the voice of that person. That's the only difference.
And God must stop delivering sermon personally because if he did, it will take so much time. You cannot imagine the amount of time it will take if God is self delivering the sermon to us personally. It will take you a entire week to listen one day service. Do you know why?
When God speaks, he does not speak like I speak. He does not say, "The word is fire," rather when God speaks, he speaks like this," The - word-is --- fire." This is the way he speaks. "I - truly-truly-say-on-to-you-- ." So if you want to hear a sermon from God directly, it will take a week just to hear a short sermon from him.
And when you hear those words from his own lips, your heart begins to tremble and you become afraid. So he has advised me to write those voices from him in calligraphy form. One day early morning, when I was deep in spiritual meditation, God gave me instruction to write those voices in calligraphy form. So he said it will be good if you can write those voices, God' voices in calligraphy form. And he told me to write 3,000 and 4,000 of them. And he told me that if I write them, people would take them. So I wrote in calligraphy form the Voices like " Love" You see, when I deliver a one hour sermon here, people have to work for 7 hours before they can send it out to you. And if they rush that production, then, it's not gonna easy for people to see me because of the video will be hazy. And all of you have to know that how much work goes into making this possible.
So what I'm trying to say is this, that God's great words that are like fire God does not speak personally but rather he chooses a person from that time period through which he speaks and says these words. The words comes only to that person if it is that prophet, then God gives the word only to that prophet, and if it is that Messiah , then God gives the word only to that Messiah.
Everyone, don't you see that your brain wants to say are expressed through your lips? Does your brain speak though the eyes? Does the brain speak through the ears? Does the brain speak though the fingertips? Or though the feet? Does the brain speak through the urine? Does the brain speak through the chest? No! It is only through the lips the brain can express what it wants to say.
In the same way, when God gives his words, then God speaks through only the person He has appointed. And when that person that he has appointed proclaims the word, then the word flows out like a river. In Revelations, it says when the word of God was spoken, that the words that are like fire flowed like a river. So it is from this purpose that the word flows down to you like a river.
Therefore, you must hear the words of this time period, so that you will do the works that is fitting of this time period. Then, you will come to light, then you'll make history. Do the Old Testament laws of sacrifices pertain to you? Do the laws tell you how to kill the sheep and bring it to God pertain to you? NO. They only pertain to Jewish people. They do not pertain at the time of Jesus, however, words in the Old Testament like Do not commit an adultery, our applicable to every time period without restriction. However, there are rules and regulations that are fitting only for that particular time period. We are no longer subjects of those rules and regulations. We are not Jewish people any more. We are Christians, are we not? And also we are no longer subjects to the specific rules and regulations that are specific to the Christianity. However, because Jesus came to give the word of truth that was perfect, we must obey those words.
In the same way, don't I tell you to love your brothers and to with all your hearts, soul and mind love your God. And don't I tell you, "With all your hearts soul and mind, go do it. If you do it, then even things that were impossible for you before will become possible!!."
So you see, I have to give you the words that are fitting of this time period and you have to hear the words that are fitting of this time period in order for you through that word receive the salvation that is fitting of this time period. All of you have heard this word and are following this truth, are you not?
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #5 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:31am »
But people see me and say "That person speaks out of his own thinking. That person is trying to make himself look like the savior. He created all of these words but I did not come here to preach my word. I came to preach the words of God. Then the words of God cannot be made by somebody. Can you make a grain of rice and make it have a life? You see, there are things can be made and there are things cannot be made. Even things like what I'm doing cannot be made even if I wanted to make it. And think about it, you know, would the people follow me lack so much sensibility to know the difference? These great words of God are the words that God has proclaimed. These are the words that I have received from God by clinging to God and being close to him. And these are the words that I have received by putting the words into practice and setting the condition and becoming an example of time.
Since everyone else has failed to set the conditions, I have sat the condition. And in the course of that conidian setting, it was extremely difficult. I'm sure you've all experienced going up to Mt. Daedun and praying there. And how was it? Was it hard to go up there and pray for a day or even a week?
But when I did it, I wasn't up there for just a day or two. I put my life on the line when I set that condition and it is because I set that kind of condition that gained response , God gave me that kind of word. Think about it. Do you think I have a place of God that God gave me word that no one knows but me? And even if I did that, would God give that to me just because I ask for it? Do you think God will allow me to be a savior just because I want to be a savior? No. He will grant these things only if he has a clear reason to do so. Everyone sure it will happen when you pray you want to be a savior. Do you think just because you ask for it, God will give it to you? Do you think God will grant you things just because you throw ten percent of the hole to him? Do you think God has such a weak heart that he will grant it to you if you ask him often enough? Do you think God is so powerful and so almighty like him will do something like that?
You see, there are things that human being can do by themselves and there are things that cannot be done unless human being clings to God. 90% of everything is decided by God, even I fail 100%, I'm only failing 10% of the whole. Because God is in charge of 90% so 90% is what I'm not at liberty to do whatever I wish.
So if I want to be successful, all I need to do is to do that 10% and if I fail to do that 10%, then all the work, God has put in becomes nothing, So I want to be successful, then I have to fully complete that 10% which is my portion. And it's the same as you guys as well. 90% of your destiny is in hands of God and when you do your 10% with all your heart, soul and mind, then you'll succeed.
Whenever I write letters to you, I always write to you, "Hey, live your life valuably. Do you want to live your life valuably? Then, there's a way to do it and the way to do it is to have absolute faith in God, to make God your absolute standard, and to diligently attend church. If you do that, you'll be successful. And when you find you have difficulty, then I will help you at those times. I guarantee you if you do these things, you will succeed. Now is the time period in which all of us can succeed 100%. God needs more workers. God is calling people. He says "use that beautiful face to save the world. Why are you being dumb and using it just for one man?"
Me too. Because I realized that I'm worth too much to get the one woman or to be used just for one family, I made up my mind and now I'm being use for the benefit of the entire world. Now do you see women rejecting me because I've done that?
You see it all depends on how a person is made. How did they make WMD? We made it the way we made it, that's why it is being used in that way. The usage is matter of what you make it. If you make it into a trash can, it will be used in a trash can. If you make it into a work of art, it will be used in a work of art.
So, everyone, make yourself beautifully according to God's will, then you'll be used valuably. So don't just wish to be used valuably, make yourself, so that you can be used valuably. Don't be used for the things of the world. Let me teach you something. It's a trap, the people of the world want to use you but that's a trap, so don't go there. Even if you're not able to meet me for the rest of your life, follow my directions, follow my instruction, then you'll be prosperous. And since I'm not dead, one of these days, you'll be able to meet with me personally too.
I feel so sad because you use your valuable body for such worthless purposes. You must become the people that are used by God, people that are used by your nations, people that are used by the world.
Valuable things must be used in valuable way!! If valuable things that are used for worthless purposes, then people will look at it and say "oh how sad! This person is so beautiful and yet they're being used for such dumb purposes." But when valuable things are being used in valuable way, and valuable purposes, people will say, "wow, look at that, this person is really valuable and so this person is being used in valuable things." They'll praise you for it. Valuable people must be used for valuable things.
In the New Testament, people think that Jesus himself is gonna come back because they believed in Jesus. Today's Christians believe that Jesus was crucified and he was resurrected physically, and therefore, he's still physically alive. They think that Jesus is in heaven living with that physical body.
As the Bible says, it is appointed for a man to die once. No one in the world can avoid that physical death not one person in the world. All the great saints, Messiah, and everybody who have physical body died.
Even if Jesus was not physically crucified, he died physically. It would have been hard for him to live hundred years because the older you get, the more cells you die out. Everyday two hundred thousand cells die. Don't you see old people because so many their old cells died, that the even their skin turned dark and then eventually they all lose their strength and they die. Do you know what age you cells begin to die? From the time you're twenty years old, two hundred thousand cells begin to die everyday. Before you turn to 20, you're regenerating more cells than the cells die. But you guys are already, most of you, your cells begun to die. Your faces are like the sun that is setting over the west sky as you're getting older and older. In reality, the sun keeps the world pretty dry right up to the moment it actually set in the west.
When you are a child your face is pretty, when you get older, you're body becomes pretty, and your body becomes solid and well formed and strong. And on top of that, if you have the mission and authority from God, then you become a great gentleman. However, if you have nothing to do, what's the use of becoming a gentleman?
One day I found someone who had a beautiful body because they exercised so I asked them, "What kind of work do you do nowadays?" I was very impressed by how strong and how well built their body was. An this person said, Well, I don't do anything special other than go to work."
When I was traveling around Europe and New Zealand I saw lots of people who had beautiful bodies because they excersised a lot. There were many men who had strong well built bodies and many women who had beautiful bodies. But they told me that they're just working full time and I thought, "How sad that is, beautiful people should be used in really beautiful ways."
What I'm trying to say is that when you become somebody like that you should have a mission, some sort of title of authority. How great it is to have a mission, how great it is to have authority from God.
God commanded, "Go out and rescue people like you were rescued when you were in the domain of death." If you have received this mission, then you have received a tremendous mission.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #6 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:31am »
By the time you become a gentleman, you should have a title, you should have a mission. You should have some type of authority that's a real big authority. It is the authority that comes from receiving the word from God; the authority that comes from receiving the command from God; and the authority that comes from receiving the command for the Lord: this is a great authority.
So even if you're beautiful-even if you're good looking and handsome, If you have no authority, what use is all that? It's worthless. You must have authority. Then, you can become a star for the heavens or a star for the earth. And being a star for the heavens, that is the real big thing is it not?
So I tell you, don't worry about getting older because the older you get the more beautiful your body will become, and the more handsome you become. Yes, your faces do get a little old but your bodies will become that much better. See, they say a person has a beautiful body in their twenties but you know, the body that a person can have in their thirties can be much better than what they had in their twenties. And a person who has a well build body in their forties looks much better than a person younger than them. Me too, the body that I have now cannot be compared with the body that I had in my twenties. How could it? Yes, maybe my body was beautiful in my twenties, but it wasn't as beautiful as the way my body is now.
When a person is seventeen or eighteen, before their twenties, they have beautiful faces so people notice their faces. But when a person is in their twenties people notice their chest, but once a person goes into their thirties, they begin to look below the waist and make remarks like, "Wow, you have a strong butt.your hips are high.your hips are like the pillars of Solomon's Temple.your legs are like the pillars of the WMD gazebo."
You see, when a person is seventeen or eighteen, then their legs are not as beautiful. So when you think of these things, I want you to think of yourselves as art objects too.
Especially those of you who are blessed families. Don't ever say that now that you have gotten older, your face has gotten old and its not as impressive as it was before. If you say things like that then you'll be in big trouble because you're being ignorant on how to appreciate art.
I'm very good at appreciating art. Even when I save pictures I make sure everything is properly structured and ordered. I have a picture of WMD house and a hundred and fifty year old persimmon tree next to it. I have this on my wall. You see, even when you take pictures you have to compose it properly.
If you take a picture of a beautiful person, but take it from the wrong angle, then the person is not going to look impressive. You have to take pictures from the proper angles.
When you are looking at the people in artwork, you have to know how to appreciate the art of their character. You have to know how to appreciate the art of their personality.
"Oh, this elder from Tae Jung, she is so fat. She is so fat-Don't you think so?" You must never make remarks like this. Yeah, maybe being fat is a part of who they are, but what you must appreciate is their mental state-their mentality. If a person has strong mentality, then that in and of itself is art and that is what God looks at when He chooses them.
So those who have strong mentalities, strong mindsets, strong actions, they are all artworks and masterpieces. So there are various different types of artwork. There is the art of the human body; there is the art of mentality; and there is the art that is the action. If there is a person who gets things done when they are given things to do, then that person is a masterpiece of action, and masterpieces are priceless. We must all become those kinds of people.
Those of you who are new, please listen carefully. The reason I told people to write me short letters, letters with only seven words in them, seventy words is plenty to tell me what you want to say. So please write me letters of fewer than seventy words. The reason I told people to do this is because all that people need to say is, "SSN I realized you. I want to live beautifully until the day that I die." That's all that needs to be said, nothing more needs to be said. Whenever I receive letters, I divide them up into different classifications. They are the A level letters, B level letters, C level letters, and D level letters. The classification is based upon what is contained in the letter. You see? The contents of the letter will determine what class the letter will be.
To those who have evangelized a lot, and are having a tough time because they've evangelized a lot, when I write them letters, I say, "I want you to work with me! Tell me what kind of difficulties you have. Run with me. Even though there are thousands of miles between you and I, I am with you. Don't you feel that I am always with you?" Anyways, when you write me letters, you don't need to write me so much detail.
It's the same with pictures to. I don't need pictures of many things. All I need is just one good picture and that is all that is good enough to keep you in my memories. People send me studio photographs and I can't recognize who they are. Some person sent me four pictures, but they all looked so different that I couldn't tell it was the same person. Even if you [.inaudible.] me, don't send me studio quality pictures; I know that you are all pretty. I see how pretty you are because I see the condition of your hearts and also because I'm living nowadays like a person who is training themselves in the mountains. Everybody looks pretty and handsome to me.
One time during my life of training I was in the mountains and I called a dog to me. Because I had nobody to talk to I called a dog to me. Of course, this was after I was done talking to God. And when I called this dog, this dog would walk by me and totally ignore my calling. But it's a dog after all and I couldn't judge it. When I was in the mountains, I was so lonely that I would go after mice that were around so I could see them. I would go after birds so I could look at them. But in the wintertime, you can't even find mice.
So God put me in that situation and then sent me down into the world. That is why I was so overjoyed whenever I met people. People wondered, "How can you like people as much as you do?" Well, I like people as much as I do because that's the way God made me.
Even now I am again being made. And it is because I am going through this kind of period that I am telling you how much I miss seeing you. When I was with you, when did I ever tell you that I missed you so much? When did I ever say, "I miss you so much that I want you to send me letters." I am asking you to send me letters and pictures because I can't see you and because of this I miss you.
"Write me letters. Send me pictures" and you sent them and now that I see them, I think, "Wow, now I remember who they are." You see, there is a big difference between imagining the way a person looks and actually seeing them. Seeing you pictures inspires me to think, "So this is that person. I must write them a letter." And I write them letters.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #7 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:32am »
Those of you who are blessed couples, you will not receive a lot of letters from me because you've already become fathers and mothers and are all grown up, however, I did receive your letters and I remember you knowing that you are working hard. Especially men, you're not going to get a lot of letters from me. When I was in Vietnam, I didn't reply to any of the men who wrote to me. Instead I wrote about thirty letters to the women who wrote to me. And that is what everybody did. Not only me but everybody did that. From next week I'll be writing letters even to men but I'm writing to the women now because I have to really help them along first. Because I have suffered so much because of women, they have caused me so much suffering, I was rebuked by God because of failing to provide proper care and management for the women. And that is why I am determined and I have decided to take care of the women really well.
And I ask you men, "You understand my heart-don't you?" If you really love me, then I want you to take really good care of the women. OK? However, I want you to be carefull not to eat the unrippened fruit in the course of taking care of them.
Usually, when I receive the letters, people end up telling me the ended up touching them because they were trying to take care of them. They ended up embracing them and they ended up rolling around with them while they were tying to take care of them. And some people even told me that they ended up falling sexually because they were trying to take good care of them. Whenever you have problems then consult with me. If you consult with each other, then you will end up fighting and arguing with each other. So rather than trying to do that, send me letters directly. OK? Then I will take a look at your letters and I will send you back my replies. Then you can send them the letter that you have received from me. Then you can just show it to them and say, "Hey look, that's what you said, but this is what SSN said and this is the letter he gave to me." That solves all the problems. OK? So you have to write me letters. Right? So that you can tell me your side of the story too because if the other person writes first, then I have to take into consideration what they're telling me. So I want you to write me your side and let me know what's going on. OK? If you tell me what your side is then I can explain to them that they tell me this is their side of the story so you misunderstood them. Even with repentance, you have to tell me personally in order for you to repent properly.
If you don't repent, then the things that you have done will continue to be passed along in Providence. But once you repent to God, then God will put a stop to it altogether. Now that the word of this time period has been proclaimed, it is now spreading. I told you to listen to the words of this time period. "Listen to the words of the Thirty Principles. The words of this time period have begun. God's history has begun."
But then there are people who ask me, "SSN, who are you?" Well, who do you think I am? I'm just some young man from WMD. I am the son of a man named Jung Park Jung.son of a woman named Hwang Jil Hey.I am their beloved son.I am one person out of seven brothers and sisters-so who do you think I am? That is the kind of person that I am.
So before you ask who I am, seriously learn the word and get a clear understanding of the word because when you study the word, then you will no longer ask me those kinds of questions-you will no longer ask me that kind of question.
So make people come to church by teaching the word clearly so that they will come to church for the word. You must make them so that they will come to Sunday service every week to hear the word. Coming to hear the Sunday Service once is better than watching a movie. In fact, it's better than watching ten movies. As for me, for nearly twenty years I didn't watch the news very much and I watched TV hardly ever. I only focused on hearing the words from God and evangelizing, and because I did that, I have become what I am today. Even now I don't watch TV-I rarely watch TV. Not because I don't have TV, but because I'm too busy listening to the words of God and I'm busy enough listening to the news from God. Of course I do take the time to watch the news reports from the world as well.
So you have to teach the word seriously, deeply and powerfully so that they will come for the word. You have to teach the word so that they will understand the word fundamentally. Originally God told me that everyone should study the Thirty Principles at least nine times. "Just as you have listened to and heard to word again and again in the course of putting it into practice, I want you to teach everybody the word at least nine times." And even if a person learns the bible study nine times, all it does is train their mind. But they should at the same time be putting it into practice after studying the word. This word must be put into practice because this word is life."
When you read the Gospel of John chapter one verse fourteen it says that the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. What this means is that God has always been showing us the word through the flesh-through the body.
God appears through Moses' flesh in the form of the Ten Commandments; the word became flesh and appeared through flesh at the time of Noah; and the word became flesh and appeared through flesh at Jesus' time.
So whose words do you listen to? When you listen to the words of Noah, you will be allowed to enter the Ark and be spared from physical death. When you listen to the words of Moses, you will be able to leave Egypt. But when you listen to the words of Jesus, you will be able to leave the Old Testament. And when you listen to the words of this generation, you will be able to leave the New Testament and come to the new history of God.
My followers are not stupid. There are people from countries that are ten, twenty, thirty years ahead of our country that are following me. And the reason why they follow is because through the words, the history of saving lives is happening because it is God who is leading them! It is not I who is leading them. So it is by hearing the words that you are raptured, that you are brought, and it is by hearing the words that you follow.
In First Corinthians you will see that people will be transformed at the hearing of the trumpet of the word. (I Corinthians 15:51.) So it is by a listening to the words that you will gradually come to where the truth of the new time period is. So now that the word has become flesh and is preaching to you, you have to feel it. You have to fill yourself with it.
You have to teach the words properly in order for people to recognize the words properly. People have to study properly in order to recognize the history of God properly and for them to benefit from it and for them to find satisfaction in it.
If a person does not listen to the word properly, and they remain in the church just for the atmosphere or because its fun, they're not going to do well. The education of the newcomers must be done right-off-the-bat. The longer they stay, the harder it is to do it.
You have to be polite to a guest as soon as they enter your house. If you don't treat them right from the time they enter the house, then they're going to look down on you and they're going to ignore you altogether. If your room is dirty, then your guest is going to sit anywhere they will be able to sit, and then they will leave pretty soon. But if you prepare a nice place for them to sit, then they're not going to be able to sit anywhere they want to and they're going to sit where you want them to.
So in this way, I want you to educate the newcomers thoroughly with the word and teach them with a thorough authority. When you are teaching the word, teach powerfully, authoritatively, and strong. Then they will hear the word and become a proper person through the word.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #8 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:33am »
The people that are teaching the word must not be weak in their teaching. You have to teach it properly. You have to teach it and encourage them to put it properly into action. And then teach them again and encourage them to take action. You have to enable their lives to become better by hearing the word. You have to enable their destinies to change by having them hear the word. You have to enable them to receive the blessings by making them hear the word. And you have to enable them to be successful by hearing the word. And you have to enable them to break off all sexual temptations of the world by the words.
And it is because we failed to do this that many people end up leaving. After all, this is the history of God that the world has waited 2,000 years for. So if we just teach people properly then they will cut off their ties to the sexual temptations of the world. Because ultimately God will cut it off for them. Even if they are the ones that leave, it is ultimately God who is the one that cuts them off.
I pray to God, "God, I pray to you with my power. Anyone who leaves you God, may their relationships also be shattered." And you know what? I looked, and I found out that all of their relationships have been shattered. And so they wrote back to me. And the letters that those people write back to me I put in a separate pile. I divide up all of your letters into about twenty different categories.
When you send me a letter, your letter is only one. But by the time is gets to me, your letter is one of thousands of other letters that get to me. In the mountains, the streams begin as one trickling stream, but by the time it reaches the river, it becomes a mighty flow.
All the people that have left Providence ultimately have their relationships shattered and they come back to Providence. All the people that have left to pursue business have returned after their businesses fail.
So you have to teach the word to the point that everything in their life will be determined by the word. You have to teach the word to the point where they will be moved and inspired by the word.
God calls people in various different ways. He calls people through the arts and various other means.
So make sure you instill a proper faith in to the newcomers that come. Because once they go back, then they cannot come back again. So there's a grave responsibility on those who teach so teach it with a fiery word, teach it with a powerful word. Why do you not properly care for the fish that you catch so that you end up losing them and you have to go out and catch them again? Once you lose a fish it is nearly impossible to catch that same fish again isn't it? Right? This happens because you do a bad job in the beginning.
So this goes for every department in Providence. Your responsibilities are extremely big. If you lose somebody because of your lack of responsibility then you're going to have to find somebody to replace them. And if you don't replace them then you will end up being judged by God. So this year I told you to "Shine the Light". With what will you shine the light? You shine the light by doing these things that I've asked you to do: by evangelizing; by saving people; by teaching them clearly; by helping them-this is the way you shine the light-ultimately by doing the words of the salvation history. There are a lot of different ways that we save people.
If you look at the way a candle gives off its light, a candle gives off its light by sacrificing itself. In the same way, you have to be willing to put in that same kind of sacrifice. That is how you shine your light.
It is because you don't do that that you don't shine your light. You have to do what God tells you to do in order for you to shine. The reason why your life is not working out is because rather than focusing on evangelism, you're focusing on making a living. Think about it. Isn't it only right that God blesses you when you are focused on doing His work? You have to focus your energy only on God.
After hearing the words of God you have to be concerned about what you can do to benefit God. How can you expect things to get better when you have put Providence and God aside and you're just focusing mainly on making a living? That is why people coming into Providence are unable to accomplish a hundred, two hundred, even a thousand times what they were doing before.
And this goes for our country as well as other countries. You guys are all weak-you guys are all frail people, but God called you to Providence. And now you who are weak must now work hard, run diligently, become strong people, make lots of history, and become the faithful people of God. Since God has called someone like yourself, you should now be thankful and grateful and really work hard to make up for it.
Even now, I am pushing myself hard; I am pushing myself with the attitude that I want to see just how much I am able to accomplish. Every day I look at over 1500 pieces of documents. I write 80-100 different replies to letters.
You have to teach the word well in order for them to have the proper perspective about me and in order for them to believe me properly. It is because people are not taught properly that they end up quitting in the middle-that they end up falling away, and they end up becoming ridiculous. So you have to teach the word properly.
The newcomers must listen to the word well, read the bible a lot, and study the words of this generation properly. God is speaking through my lips so if you want to escape judgment, then you have to learn properly. You have no idea how scary judgment is because you've never experienced it. I'm sure you've experienced some of that. But you've experienced just a little bit because you were still in Providence. People who leave Providence and experience the judgment of God-they experience a lot of it. There are people who have really received the judgment and have actually died. I have seen with my very eyes the judgment that God commences. And I even wrote books about that. Those judgments are scary and terrifying are they not?
Do you think that they are merely natural disasters? No. It was God who purposefully made those things happen to judge those people. That is why those judgments can kill tens of thousands of people in just one place. All of these things are not coincidences-they are judgments.
The people of God come to preach about things like that. I've seen with my own eyes twenty-such places where God commenced judgment. Even though these are judgments of God, people think-because their eyes are crooked; because their hearts are dead-that all of these things are coincidences: that all of these things happen because it was about time for them to happen: that these things happen because people simply hated each other and wanted to fight. They do not understand that these things are intentional judgments from God. Do you have any idea how many times God judges in the course of a day? He judges hundreds of thousands of times in a day. Including judgment handed out to individual people in the course of the day. There are over 6.5 billion people in the world today. And God hands out hundreds of thousands of judgments each day. And if you realize that these are judgments from God only after you go to the spiritual world, it is already too late. But it is such a blessing when you are able to recognize it while you are still living in this world.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #9 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:33am »
If you do wrong, you too will be judged. Even in Providence there are many judgments that are handed out every single day. If you do well, you'll be blessed; if you don't do well, you'll be punished. There are many different kinds of punishments. There's mental suffering and there's physical suffering.
Think about it. How can a soccer game happen without officials officiating the game? Or without referees? So God is the referee. God is the officiator and he is running the world in that fashion. If you sin but do not repent then you will receive judgment and you will suffer terribly. Of course sometimes the suffering happens because God wants to train you so He can use you for a greater purpose. But you have to know. You have to understand. People need to know how to differentiate between purposeful training and judgment.
I realize that even though people are being judged, they have no idea that they are being judged. Even though people are being blessed, they have no idea that they are being blessed. And even though people are being punished, they have no idea that they are being punished.
Even in my letters I told you that if you are being used my God, you will be used ten thousand times more effectively than before. "You're going to be used ten thousand times better! Why are you not going to let that happen to you? Hurry-up and enable that to happen to you too!"
If you do well, great things are going to happen to you. Why don't you do it? You see the body must not come first but the spirit must come first. You have to become united with God first. The subject of a king must first get close to the king before he gets to the people. Because if the subject gets close to the king, he can help you in whatever endeavor he involves himself in the future. But if the subject goes out and does work before he gets close to the king then the king will feel bad about that and he will hinder the subjects work. So in the same way, the first and foremost, we have to get close to God.
So don't just believe in God, get close to God! This was a proverb that I gave you: "Get close to God!" That is what I did.
It's the same with dealing with me to. Don't just follow me but get close to me.
"Are you close to me? Have you befriended me?"
Somebody asked me, "SSN, are you close to this person?" "No," I said, "he's just my believer. He's just my follower." "Then, who is close to you?" he asked again. "Don't ask me that," I replied. "That's something I cannot tell you. If you become close to me, then you will know."
You have to be extremely close to me; you have to be united with me. If you are friendly with me and if you love me, as the bible says, I will forgive you of your sins. I will let your sins disappear like a bowl of ink spilled in the ocean. But if your not close to me, then you have to be punished for everything you do wrong. You see? We have to get close to God. We have to be friendly with God.
Today's message is that the word is fire. They key point is that you have to teach the word well. You have to teach this great word well so that the newcomers will hear the word and set the direction properly and set their roots down to hear this word. And don't be afraid when you're teaching the word.
When people hear the word their destiny changes. I have come to bring fire to the earth and how I wish it were kindled already!! Because once people are set on fire, they can do anything.
People who are properly set on fire, maintain that fire in their hearts so that it will never go out. But when people have snuffed that fire out, they are not going to be moved even if they hear the Sunday Messages. Even if they hear the Sunday Messages, it will come across as just an average word. How can you be blessed when that's the way you are? You know, being blessed once isn't everything-you need to be continually blessed.
Blessing is limitless; there is endless amount of blessing that we can receive. You must receive 100, 1000, 10,000 times the blessing that you have already received. You have to receive spiritual blessings, blessings of actions, you have to receive all of the blessings.
People think that because the [.inaudible.] of Christ is and whatnot that this land is barren but God said otherwise. He even allowed the dried up staff of Aaron, Moses' brother, to sprout. He enables the flowers in the desert to bloom, and he makes the desert into a green pasture.
Look at what He has done with me. I began as a barren land, but because I received blessings from Him and because I continued to run hard, that's why I continue to get more blessings. God judges wicked people. We must leave that judgment up to God and focus on diligently working hard and evangelizing. We don't need to fight with them; we don't need to hate them. Our job is to evangelize and every day to do our work so that we can profit from it.
"God, we will leave it up all to you. So God, do what you need to do for us. We, in the meantime, will do your work." If you do that, then God will keep them from you; God will protect you from them. But if you're out there fighting, then you won't be able to do the work of God. You will end up getting hurt because you were fighting. Therefore, we must simply focus on diligently doing the work of God.
We must shine the light of life. When we bring many lives back to God, then God will be so happy that He will do for us anything we want. So first we must do for God what He wants.
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Re: Mar 7 -She Missed Sunday Service So God Killed « Reply #10 on Apr 25, 2004, 11:34am »
Even when you pray, before you tell God what you want, you must first tell Him that you will do what He wants. If you have done wrong, then you must repent before you go on to do anything else. "God, I have been bad, please forgive me." So you must first start off with repentance then tell him that you are going to do the things that he wants you to do. And then whatever you want-you can ask Him for those things. You have to follow that order to do everything properly. So listen thoroughly to the Sunday Messages, hear it and be changed by it. And those of you who have been in Providence a long time, make sure your fire does not burn out. Make sure it keeps burning. Only when the fire of Providence is burning inside of you will it burn away your sins; will it keep them from you; will it burn up all the weeds that are growing in your hearts. When the fire of the word is burning inside of you, that's when those things will happen. That is why you must never let it die. The fire of the word must be burning inside of you in order that everything to be burned will be burned; in order for sin to be burned, in order for your wrong ideas to be burned; in order for the wickedness to be burned; only then can we move forward with this new history.
So those of you who are here as newcomers, take the time to study the word well. Don't do a half-hearted job when you study the word. I took twenty years to study the word. I read the bible 2000 times and I learned it over twenty years. Isn't it embarrassing for you to study the bible having read it only once?
If you don't know the word properly, you will not know what to do with your life. First you must hear the word properly, then you will get a clear idea of what to do with your life. Then when you have that clear idea, then no one who is opposing you, persecuting you, trying to knock you over, you will not fall over. How can you die? If your roots are deeply rooted, you cannot die.
When a pine tree is moved to me hometown of WMD, it takes three years for it to send down its roots. But if after three years it fails to send down its roots, the tree will get sick or ultimately die.
You have to send your roots down deep into the word itself, then the arts that you perform will be even greater. Then if you become a minister, you will be able to shine much brighter. Then, even in your business, you will be able to shine much brighter.
Without the word, how could this gospel spread as much as it has? It is because of the words of the bible that we come to realize that God exists. It is because of the words of the bible that we come to realize who Jesus is. Otherwise, how else could we have learned about somebody who died 2000 years ago? If it wasn't for the word, there would've been no evidence; we would not have known what happened.
That is why nowadays I am writing the word. I am writing down the words now for the sake of those who will come in the future. But nowadays because I am so busy I am unable to work on my books. Because right now I feel that it is more urgent to save people: that it is more urgent to make sure that the people that are coming will survive. I want to be directly involved in it so nowadays I'm just focusing on saving lives.
So those of you who are new today I urge you to listen diligently to the word. Don't you realize while studying the word that our word is different than the one you were studying before? You know, many people who have studied the word from me told me that my word is different than the word they used to hear in the world.
"All the critics, though they are such terrible people, I cannot hate them. The only way for me to hate them is to follow this word until the day that I die."
So you must teach them the word. You must teach them to the point were they will be moved by the word and they will write me letters.
Nowadays I hear that, even though every bodies working so hard, I hear that the leaders are not having meetings and the leaders are not discussing with each other. Those are the reports I'm getting. Ministers must diligently watch over their flock and talk to them and gather with them.
Teach the word clearly and teach the word properly so that people will be moved and inspired by the word so that through the word they will realize the new times. So that through the word they will also cut out what they need to cut out and maintain what they need to maintain. The people who receive the word are like people who receive the sword. With that word they need cut what must be cut and maintain what must be maintained.
People end up falling for things they are curious about because they don't know. Because they don't know they end up not choosing the thing that is tens of thousands of times better and end up choosing the things that are worst. So when they have to choose between Hell and listening to the word or choosing Heaven, teach them so that they will choose Heaven through the word.
I pray that the peace of God, His righteousness and justice, will fill you, and that the Holy Spirits inspiration and the love of the Lord to fill you fully.
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