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[영어설교 / English Sermon] The power of God's Word  

The power of God's Word

Dear Father,

Please cover me with your Holy Spirit so that only your word may be proclaimed. Open our hearts so that we may hear your living word and receive your grace.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen

 
There was an alcoholic who was living a miserable life. One day somebody gave a Bible to his wife who converted to a Christian while reading the Bible where she found the comforts and treated the Bible as her jewel. However, her husband was laughing at his wife's newly found faith in God.

One day, this drunken husband came home and got hold of his wife's Bible and threw in the fire place and said 'Lets see what happen to the Bible.'

Following day, while he was cleaning out the fire place he noticed the some piece of Bible which has escaped the fire. That happens to be the part of Matthew chapter

24, verse 35 which said "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." He was so surprised to find himself  how this verse stuck in his mind.

This is how the will of God works. This husband felt the deep guilt on his behavior and started to walk toward the path to the spiritual salvation.

Like this story, God's Words have been  living and active in the past, present and future. The Words of God forced a person who threw Bible to the fire and laugh at

his wife's faith in God to put his knees to the ground and lead him to the repentance and salvation.

Hebrews 4:12

 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts

and attitudes of the heart.
 

I pray and hope that the Word of God we receive today inspire your spirit, soul and body to lead you towards the road to eternal life.

John 1:1

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
 

What is the meaning of Word?.

Who's Word is it?.

The Word is from Jesus Christ who was there at the beginning of the universe and He was there with God and Jesus is God.

And Jesus who is God himself descended to this world with the image of a human being. The Word transformed to the physical being and showed us the glory of God who is the truth and full of grace.

Nobody saw God, however He sent His only Son Jesus Christ to show us the spirit of  God and gave us the privilege to become God's children whoever believes in His name and honor Him. Hallelujah!.

 
John 1:12,14,18

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

The word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

No one ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

 
I believe everybody gathered here to worship God deserves to be the image of God as He intended in the beginning of His creation by believing in Jesus and follow His way and His spirit.

Then, let us share our thoughts about the relationship between Christian and God's Words.

First, Christians want to be able to bear the beautiful fruits.
 

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

By the grace of Christ our sins are forgiven and our lives are saved. However, we are living in weak and sinful flesh. We can not overcome our physical weakness by ourselves. Satan is a fallen angel who puts himself against everything that God stands for.

Satan also has his own spiritual power.

Only way to escape from the spiritual temptation of Satan is to have the full faith in Jesus who was victorious over the power of Satan, resurrected and ascended to the heaven and sit on the heavenly throne.

 
Although our weak flesh is the easy target for Satan, all Christians who believe in Jesus Christ will have the protection of Holy spirit which will push out Satan's evil

power and temptation and lead us to the eternal life. This is how we be able to bear the beautiful fruits with the help from the Holy God. The ability to bear beautiful fruits come from ' God's Words'.

In the name of God I pray and hope that everybody here , through the Words of God and by Holy spirit, will live the life of bearing beautiful fruits.

 
Luke 8:11

This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the Word of God.

1 Peter 1:23

For you have been born gain, not of perishable seed but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring Word of God.

My dear brethren and sisters!.

We are here by the grace of God. By God's grace we believe Jesus is our Savior and we treasure His Words and desire to live by His Words.

We thank and praise God whose astounding love towards us for Him to sent His only Son to death to save us. God's overwhelming love and grace lead us to gather here to praise and worship Him.

Second, we Christians want to overcome all those filthy thoughts and selfish and conceited behavior.

How can we eliminate those intermittent filthy thoughts from our mind?.

How can we free from the debilitating anger, accusation, lust and all kinds of addictions?.

How can we clear out those undesirable thoughts from our mind?.

How can we free from all those anxiety, fear, all sorts of sadness and other innumerable unclean thoughts which depress us and walking all over us?.
 

Jeremiah 23:29

 "Is not my word like fire," declares the Lord, "and like hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?.
 

As the Scripture said the God's Words will remain deeply in our minds and help us to overcome all those filthy thoughts in our minds which are keeping us suffer.

And God's Words will bring us the freedom, peace and happiness by help us to defeat and overcome the endless suffering from the deep sorrows, sinful thoughts, anger, all kinds of addictions due to the weak mind and the life of slave to sins.

God is omnipotent and almighty. His living Words with Holy spirit will free us from the control of Satan and evil spirit.

Let us ask for the God's grace and His Holy Spirit.

Only God can give us the true freedom.

Only our strong faith to Jesus Christ will lead us to the path to the eternal life.

 
Hebrews 4:12

For the Word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

 
Psalm 19:7

The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.

 
God's word is alive and well and active. He will restore our weak and empty spirit. He will save us from the oppression and control. He will heal us from the pain and sufferings. He will help us to escape from the sorrows and dark world. Hallelujah!!.
 

Let us praise our living God.

Let us praise our Lord who protects and helps us from all those adversities. Let us praise our Lord who allows us to have the eternal life of living.

Let us praise Him altogether now. We praise God who saves us and allows us to have the new life.

Dear Lord!!. Please uphold us with your strong arms. Please helps us to free from the dark and grieving soul which makes us to suffer. Help us to soar over the storm with You and enjoy the peace You allowed us to have.

Lead us to love You no matter what pain and suffering we are under.  Please have Your love cover us from all those adversities.

Still
 

hide me now

under Your wings.

Cover me

Within Your mighty hand.

When the oceans rise and thunders roar

I will soar with You above the storm.

Father You are king over the flood

I will be still, know You are God.

 
Find rest my soul

In Christ alone

know His power

in quietness and trust

 
When the ocean rise and thunder roar

I will soar with You above the storm

Father You are king over the flood

I will be still, know You are God (x2)
 

Find rest my soul

In Christ alone

know His power

in quietness and trust

When the ocean rise and thunder roar

I will soar with You above the storm

Father You are king over the flood

I will be still, know You are God (2x)

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father,

We praise God who saved us and allowed us to have an new life. Please hold us with Your strong arms. Please protect us from the oppressive sorrows and darkness. Please allow us to enjoy the God given peace while soaring above the storm with You.

Please lead us to love You under however the painful adversity we are in, and have Your love cover all those things.

We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

[영어예배설교 / English Sermon ] take up their cross and follow me 

Dear Father,

Please cover me with your Holy Spirit so that only your word may be proclaimed.

Open our hearts so that we may hear your living word and receive your grace.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen

John 11;25-26

Jesus said to her, " I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believe in me will live, even though they die, and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.

Do you believe this?."

there was a fisher man named Peter in Scandinavia. One day he went to fish with his beloved son. There were unexpected storm in that day. Peter's fishing boat was drifting like a leaf. Peter fought against big wave and strong wind for hours in the pitch dark night only to lose his sense of direction and energy and which led him to desparate situation. Then, he noticed a very bright pillar of fire in far away direction, which means the land is nearby. So Peter paddled his boat in that direction with all his strength.

Unexpectedly the place Peter reached was the village where he lived. Peter's wife was all tears when she met her husband and her son. Her cry had different reason than what Peter expected.

  "Honey, because of my fault the whole house got burned down and all the household furnitures are  lost. What shall I do now?."

That pillar of fire was from his burning house. Peter embraced his wife and told her in happy face and said .

  "Honey thank you. The fire you caused saved me and our son. Without that pillar of fire we both probably would have perished. Thank you for burning our house."

It is a true story. There is a very important message in it.

During our life time, some days we enjoy warm and brilliant sun shines but other days we have to go through the long miserable dark tunnels. Sometimes you enjoy beautiful wide open ocean from the cool shore of the ocean's edge, but, other times you encounter unexpected strong storm on pitch dark night at the sea and you become disoriented and exhausted from struggling against them and drifting like a piece of drift wood in the middle of ocean.

  To believe in Jesus who has resurrected from the death means you go forward straight to the life of light just like in the story I have described.

A Christian who believes in Jesus who overcame the death is blessed with the power from God to overcome any miseries and hardships while living in this temporary world because those who believe that Jesus Christ is his savior is blessed with eternal life with Jesus. All children of God who hope to be in heaven never despair with any hardship no matter how hard it is and believes that he will overcome them all. Hallelujah!!!.

John 12:24

Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

Jesus has died as one single seed of wheat. His death has produced countless fruits and it still doing it. When we die with Jesus we will live as His disciples.

To die with Christ means we have nailed our physical desires and sinful minds on the cross.

Through Christ who lives within us, we are able to bear fruits of the Holy Spirit and bring life to the dying souls. 

John 12:25

Anyone who loves their life will loose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

 We all are self-loving people. We fight for our self interest and worldly fame and power with tooth and nail. To achieve our goals we sometimes cheat and harm other people.

Bible said, anyone who is busy living a life of worldly physical desires, that is, who loves nothing but his worldly life will lose his life and wander in the darkness of death.

However, God tells us that He will give eternal life to whoever hates the earthly life or the worldly things and instead loves and cares for his neighbors and follows the footsteps of Christ.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."

Jesus is saying that unless you deny yourself to get rid of  worldly desires, possessions and indulge in the worldly luxury, you can not follow the way of Jesus.

John 10:27

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

The followers of Jesus will recognize His voice. Jesus Christ makes you His children as long as you believe that Jesus took all your dirty sins upon Himself and died

on the cross for you and resurrected from death.

Holy spirit is in the children of God and he opens their spiritual minds to listen to God’s words so they can be connect with God.

Those who are rewarded with the Holy spirit will be led by the Holy spirit and never be tempted by the worldly possession and lust.

They will live the life of self denial and carry his own cross to follow the way of Jesus. God's almighty power will never allow anybody to take away His children from Father God. Hallelujah!!.

John 14:21

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.

Jesus declared that only who keeps His commands are the one who loves Him.

How is the life of person who keeps his commands?.

It is the life that faithfully and obediently follows His commands.

Jesus said whoever loves me will also be loved by my Father too. Anybody who loves Jesus will be obedient to His words and be loved by His Father.

It means we will be like Jesus.

God is the love and the light.

All who is loved and lives in the light of God will no more be controlled by the darkness and sorrows. God's light will get rid of all those dark and oppressive miseries which so far controlled us. God's love will cure and restore the deep mental anguishes and undesirable pains we have been suffering. Hallelujah!!.

I praise the God who has saved us from all the pain and misery.

I praise the God who has led us to His light and comforted us and promised the peace.

I love Father God and His Son Jesus and The Holy Spirit who has  saved us and allow us to have an eternal life.

John 24:26

But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything  I have said to you.

My dear brothers and sisters!

Ask for the Holy Spirit! Ask for His grace!.

When we are in the full of grace, our spiritual eyes will be opened wide and bright as if a blind man has gained the sight.

Through His words we will meet our God and hear His voice. We will experience the love of our living God when we praise and exalt Him.

We will achieve the direct communication and conversation with spiritual God  when pray for the righteousness in heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

Who are the people that are of this worlds?

Those are the person who is busy looking for the short lived pleasures and gratifications. Satan is very jealous and hate people who is close and intimate with God. Satan tempts  us to fall into the world of temporary pleasure and gratification with sweet and delicious things.

People who fall into such temptations and are consumed by worldly things are those that are "of this world".

The person who is blinded by the worldly things tends to despair and rejects 'Spiritual things'.

Also, they don't understand them.

One cannot follow the spiritual way if one is slave to the worldly things. The Holy Spirit will be revealed to us when we denounce the bodily sins and gratification and follow Jesus Christ carrying our own cross, then we will enjoy and live the eternal life as the children of God who

is the light and the love.

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

God promised us peace to us which is unlike of anything from this world when we follow Jesus Christ carrying our own cross and lead the life which is Jesus like.

God said 'Do not let your heart be troubled and do  not afraid.'

When we are enjoying the peace given to us through the God's grace, all those anxiety, worry and uneasiness  which were relentlessly tormented us will  leave us alone. All those power of darkness which has been harassing and made us miserable will be finally  gone for good.

I believe all of you who are gathered here to worship God will enjoy the God given peace and praise God everyday of your life,

I also believe you will meditate on God's words and will follow His way. And to achieve this goal you will pray all the time and conquer the Satan's temptation.

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for the words of  precious life. Please embrace us with Your grace and Holy Spirit, and lead us to meditate on your words and pray to You all the time. Please lead us to praise Father God who saved us.
 

We pray in the name of our savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

[영어설교/ English Sermon ] Live as children of light 

Dear Father,

Please cover me with your Holy spirit so that only your word may be proclaimed.

open our hearts so that we may hear your living words and receive your grace.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

 1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God,

because God is love.

What is the greatest and deepest love?.

It is the love of God.

I have been living for last 40 years looking for only the worldly sinful desires.

The result of that living was like a dead man who has no spiritual life. Suddenly I have realized that I was a sinner at the presence of God.

I have been disobedient to God's teachings and led the life of my own way filled with my physical desires and temptations.

So, I fell on my knees and confessed all my sins and prayed for the forgiveness with tears dripping. God warmly embraced my full of sinful soul and comforted me without punishment and told me,

"My beloved son, how much have you suffered with pain by forsaking me and led the life of worldly sins?.

I am so grateful now that you came to me.

Put down all those sinful heavy lord and I will give you a comfortable resting place for you to rest." 

Hallelujah!!!!

I praise God who accepted us with love and lead us to the life of light.

Mathew 11:28

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

We are carrying very heavy burden of life.

Why those burden of worldly life is so tiring and dark and make us sorrowful?.

Why are we living the life of committing endless sins of hatred, madness and violence?. Sometime we experience both mental and physical breakdown due to the burden of sinful, dark, and sorrowful wounds suffered while we were living in the past.

All of you who gathered hear today to worship our Lord has been chosen by God and you are both priceless and very worthy people.

God is with us at this very moment and talking to us.

 "All of you who is carrying heavy burden and working hard, come to me and I will give you a resting place".

Anybody who believes that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for our sins and resurrected after three days from the dead and receive Him as our Savior are no longer the children of Satan and don't have to be the slave of the darkness.

The sadness won't rule our lives and we are no longer slave to the rules of the world and physical desires because we are the children of God's love and children of God's  light.

Romans 8:5-6

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the spirit have their minds set on what the spirit desires.

The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the spirit is life and peace.

Whoever believes that Jesus Christ is his savior is the one who is born again. Whoever born again through the spirit of God will have peace and life.

Slave to the physical desire is death.

John 8:12

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

God is the light.

God said He is the 'light of the world. Anybody who follows me will never walk in darkness and will gain the light of life".

My beloved brethren, I hope you will have full of God's light of life.

I pray in the name of Jesus that none of you will have the darkness of life.  Hallelujah !!!!!

Let us lift up our thanks, praises, and honor to our God who saved us from the darkness and death and who leads us to the path of light and new life.

Isaiah 60:20

Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.

God said the Sun will never set, Moon will never wane as long as you believe in God.

Because the light of God  is within us and He is leading us to His light.

We are always in Jesus' light and walking in His light. God also said our days of sorrow will end because the sorrows dwell in the darkness.

We are the children of the light and the darkness will never control us.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light of the Lord. Live as children of light.

God's light within us will overcome our deep and dark sorrow. The darkness no longer control us and it will be disappear from us.  Hallelujah !!!!

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name, the Sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays.

And you will go out and frolic like well fed calves.

The righteousness will rise to who praise God. This ray of righteousness has healing power and it will brighten those who praise God and heal his darkness, pain and harms and run around like those well fed calves out of stable.

I believe that God's healing power is upon us who are gathered here to praise Him and that we will all be healed and restored. Hallelujah !!!

At this very moment, we firmly believe that the ray of Jesus' healing power will completely wipe out all our pains, harms and all sorts of deceases from us and also believe that the rays of Jesus' healing light will free us from the darkness which has been troubling us for long time.

Let us pray in loud voice.

O, God our Father,

O, holy Father,

Please reside within our painful heart.

Please direct your ray of healing toward us.

Please heal our deceases and restore our health and keep us pray all the time.

In Jesus' name we pray, Amen

Let us sing ' How great thou art'.

Let us sing from our heart to God who gave us the life and lead us to salvation.

O Lord my God! when I in awesome wonder

Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,

Thy power throughout the universe displayed:

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee:

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

Then sings my soul! my Savior God, to Thee:

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

When through the woods and forest glades I wander

And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;

When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur

And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze:

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee:

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

Then sings my soul! my Savior God, to Thee:

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing,

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;

That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,

He bled and died to take away my sin:

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee:

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

Then sings my soul! my Savior God, to Thee:

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation

And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!

Then I shall bow in humble adoration,

And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee:

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

Then sings my soul! my Savior God, to Thee:

how great Thou art , how great Thou art!

Let us pray.

Our Father we thank you who loves us so much to allow us to hear about the life you gave us.

Please lead us the life of righteous people who praise God every day.

Please cover us with your love and light whenever we gather to praise and glorify you.

Please heal us from all those darkness, pains and harms.

Please hear our pray for you to heal us with your light. Please make us to believe that you have healed and restored our health and let us to live within your light.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.