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[영어 예배 / English Sermon ]  A New Creation

A New Creation

 
There was a funeral at a church in Chicago for a three year old girl who starved to death. An alcoholic dressed in dirty clothes came to the little girl's funeral. He took the little girl's shoes off her feet while everyone was praying and sold them to get drunk. The man who stole the shoes was the girl's father.

20 years later, a man stood and spoke in front of thousands of people at Chicago First Presbyterian Church.

"The father who stole his little girl's shoes at her funeral was me! It was God who saved this worthless, filthy man and gave a new life to become his disciple."

It was Mel Trotter, an evangelist of Chicago.

God restores those that seem worthless and useless to men and leads them to live a new life. God leads them to a new path where a dead soul comes to life again and lives a life for God's glory. 

 
2 (Second) Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

"A new creation" has come!

What does it mean to be "in Christ"?

It means to be in God's Kingdom. Since Adam disobeyed God and let sin into our lives, we have fallen from God and have been wandering in a world ruled by Satan.

But by the love of God, when a person believes that Jesus Christ has died on the cross and resurrected, he or she begins to live in God's Kingdom where God is in control.

Colossians 1: 13-14

"For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."

 Now, let's take a closer look at the differences between the old creation and new creation.

Who is an old creation?

1) An old creation is a man who is spiritually dead.

If you are spiritually dead, you cannot know God's existence. Your heart is filled with worldly things.

2) An old creation is a man who follows the world of Satan.

He or she seeks Satan's temptations that provide instant pleasures.

3) An old creation is a man who follows the desires of flesh.

He or she hates God and engages in injustice, abomination, greed, arrogance, boast, envy, murder, argument, drunkenness, debauchery, and lust.

Ephesians Chapter 2 Verse 1

"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins"

First Peter Chapter 1, Verse 24:

"...All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,"

Who is a new creation?

1) A new creation is who is born again through faith in Jesus Christ.

It is he who believes that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior and therefore belongs to Jesus Christ.

It's a life that is no longer ruled by Satan, but a life that follows God's Word and walks with Christ.

2) A new creation is who lives in Christ.

Before, he was a slave of the world ruled by Satan, but now lives in God's Kingdom under God's rules.

3) A new creation lives life that is led by the Holy Spirit.

It is he who bears fruit of the Holy Spirit in his life. He lives in the light of Jesus and lives in gentleness and humility.

 First John Chapter 2, Verses Fifteen through seventeen.

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life- comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever."

Galatians Chapter Five, Verse Sixteen.

"So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh."

 
Now, how can we become new creation in Jesus Christ?

 
Ephesians Chapter Four, Verses 22 through 24:

"You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."

 God tells us "to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires".

People who live in their weak flesh are easy to fall into Satan's temptations and chase after instant pleasures of this world. It's a life that is ruled by the desires of flesh.

The desires of flesh go against the Holy Spirit, and the desires of the Holy Spirit go against the flesh.

When we are tempted by the worldy things and in the midst of sins from earthly desires, our spirit is dead and therefore we cannot know God or see God. But, when we live in Jesus Christ who saved us and follow the Holy Spirit, we are freed from Satan and this world.

We no longer live as slaves of our flesh.

We no longer live as slaves of Satan.

We no longer are consumed by worldly pleasures.

We no longer live as slaves of fear, worries, darkness, sadness, and sins.

We put on the new self, in God's likeness, and live a life of peace given by God.

We live an eternal life of Heaven where we live and praise God forever.

 
All of this is the work of the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

 
The Father blots out our transgressions.
 

Isaiah Chapter 43, verse 25:

"I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more."

 
The Son, Jesus Christ, cleanses us with his blood.

Hebrews Chapter 9, verse 14:

"How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!"

 
The Holy Spirit makes us holy.
 

 Second Thessalonians Chapter 2, verse 13:

"But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as first fruits to be saved thorugh the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth."

 
We, who are gathered here to worship and praise God, are those who are in God's grace.

God will give us bigger faith, to those that come out to worship God by God's grace. God will give us the strength to fight off Satan's temptations.

God will take away all of our darkness and sadness.

God will give us victory in our daily lives as we live as His children.

Let us pray.

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You for giving us Your Living Word today.

Touch each and every one of us with your Holy Spirit and open our hearts.

We no longer want to live as slaves of this world, as slaves of Satan.

Holy Spirit,

Fill our hearts.

Help us to live in your guidance.

We prayed all this in Jesus's name, 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.

[영어설교 / english preacher ] God loves you

God loves you.
I praise and thank God who led us together here for this service. I believe through this holy service God will bless us with comfort, hope, deeper faith and most of all, His love upon us.

 John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

God's love toward us is boundless and there is no regard whether you are sinner or righteous. His love covers everybody whether one is rich or poor, hopeless, full of both physical and spiritual pain, in short, whatever the living situation you are in.

To save these people, God sent his Son to this wicked world. God is merciful toward these people who are spiritually dead and under the influence of worldly temptation. Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God said anybody who believes in Jesus will get eternal life.  What God mean by "you believe in Jesus?"

God created Adam in His image in every sense of the goodness, and Adam committed the crime which is punishable by death by betrayed God's wishes.

All human beings following Adam, whether likes or not, born with this guilt and corrupted with jealousy with envy, hatefulness and selfishness, which eventually bear the fruit of guilt and led us to mutual destruction and hopelessness. In the beginning, however, God had no intention of creating the guilty human.

Genesis 1:27

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them: male and female He created them.

God created human in His image and His image is love. Jesus came to this world to redeem our sin by His blood on the Cross and death. This shows how great the God's love is.

Is Jesus's death on the cross just for those people who lives by the righteous rules like hard work, helpfulness and selfless people?. Are those people really pure and guiltless?.

We are all born with the sin committed by Adam and we could not be like God even though we are born with God's image.

Jesus came to this world to save us from the world without spiritual being and full of sins. Jesus took over all our sins and died on the cross to give us the eternal life and defeated the death by resurrected after third day and ascended to the heaven to sit right side of His Father. Hallelujah!!!

This is what we are believe in that Jesus died for our sins and resurrected from the death, and by the merciful grace of God we are all cleared of the sins.

Philippians 2:5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.

God loves you just the way everyone is. However, God wants whoever believes Him to come out of the world of sin and come to Him. Jesus came to this world clearly to show how the people who has God's image should behave.

The people who save through the faith should neither follow the way of this world nor follow the physical desire. God wants you to be like Jesus and make God happy and glorify His original intention of making us in His images in the first place.

But then, what we should do to be like Jesus?.

Matthew 11:28  

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

It happened at some lording dock in U.S.. One day a passenger ship arrived and while the passengers were leaving the ship one woman tripped her feet and fell out of the ship. At that instance people started shouting and asked ship crew to do save her. All the ship crews were doing was just stand there watching a drowning woman while she was surfaced twice above water. When this woman was completely exhausted then one crew dived into the water to bring out limp woman. Then some people started to question why the crew waited so long to save her. A crew replied with the sigh of relief.  "Don't be ignorant. When a person who is drowning will tried save himself with all the power person has and no stronger person would overcome that and drown together at the end."

When you rid of everything you possess and take everything to God, who becomes the Lord of yourself and led you into the life of light.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come The old has gone, the new is here!

When you died with Jesus on the Cross and resurrect with Him you will gain the new life, that is, you became new creature.

Colossians 2:12

Having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through your faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Faith in God is ultimate gift to you from Him. By the grace of God you have been gained the faith and allowed to walk the God's way with Him and becomes like Him and lead your life as a man who has been blessed to have the image of God.

It is a very big burden for us to live as a worldly being. Some of us are born into this world under very unfortunate circumstances. Some came from the country with very unfavorable conditions, or from a broken family with unbearable burden and hard life. The burden which we have no control over.

Some of those burdens are from uncontrollable physical desire, alcohol, drugs, gamble, pornography, something that is easily addictive, or unwanted physical ailment or mental decease, bad family and or friendly relationship. Nobody can free from all those worldly sins.

Jesus said anyone who is carrying all those burdens and struggling with them to come to Him and unload to Him. Bring every burdens, in other words, everything that you have to deal with your own mind and will power to Jesus.

When you do that Jesus will becomes our Lord and He will lead us to the realm of the life of light, love, peace and will blessed with the eternal life. Hallelujah!!!!.

It is such an overwhelming and enormous blessing when we embrace Jesus Christ as our savior and fallow His step and walk along with Him.

Whatever the situation we are in, Jesus is fair to everybody whether he is rich, poor, healthy or not, incarcerated in prison, addicted with drugs, leading a privileged life, etc.....

Jesus forgive all sins when you confess your sins and ask for the forgiveness and believe in the Cross and accept Him as your savior.

God has forgiven all our sins. We are blessed with the grace and peace from Him and leading a heavenly living regardless of what sorts of situations we in right now and  after the death we are promised with heaven where there are no pain from the mental problem and praise our Lord, who is with us there, forever and ever. Hallelujah!!!!!!.

Dear beloved brethren,

Everybody in here is specially loved by God who would like to bless all of you with eternal love. However, if you fail to respond to His special blessing God is unable to work with you. Please don't reject God's love. Believe in the fact that Jesus died on the Cross to take out our sins and resurrected after three days from the death.

Please accept Jesus as our savior and ask for the holy sprit within us. Take everything to God and follow His way, then God will comfort and sooth all our pains from the affliction.

No matter how long you have been suffered, God will root out all those sufferings from you and give you comfort and peace within you and rejuvenate you to the new creature.

And God would like to work with new creatures to save and raise the dead souls who are unaware of God's love.

Anybody who has not yet accepted Jesus as his savior or who is not sure of himself but would like to find out more, please remain here after service or come to Thursday service and have a prayer session together.

we should firmly believe that we will be in heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ even if today is the last day of the earth.

Let us pray,

Heavenly Father we thank you for us to hear about heavenly life. Please protect us from the influence from Satan who is trying to stop us from learning about the way to the God. Please sooth our pain from the affliction and heal our wounds. Please let us walk with Jesus and live by the words from Him and praise him and give thanks to Him

all the time and pray hard to God it to happen.

In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN.

Your Weakness Should Drive You to God by Paul Washer

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I am so tired of hearing Christians telling me: “Brother Paul, I am just so weak.” Brother Paul you started your sermon saying you are weak. So why can’t we say it?

Well I want you to understand the phrase, and the context of it. First of all your not weak and I can prove it to you. In the last weak, w e a k. How much time did you spend grasping striving to know God and His word and in prayer that apart from God and His work on your behalf, uh, you were not going to be able to make it. Oh see its really easy to say: “You are so weak.” Your problem is not that you are weak. Your problem is that you think you are strong and I can prove it by just looking at your devotional life.

You see, our problem is not that we are too weak, our problem is that we do not recognize our weakness. You see that? That’s why the greatest, the men and women who have been most used of God in Christian history seem to have only one thing in common. A recognition of their weakness.

Now, here is what I want to show you and it is so, so important. Weakness is not a hinderance to power, weakness is the catalyst to spiritual power. The problem is wrong response. So first of all you need to recognize something, everybody is weak. Everything demanded to you in the New Testament is absolutely impossible for the natural man. There you go, so everyone is on the same level me, you, Spurgeon, John Piper, all, everyone is weak that is it.

You can’t use weakness as an excuse anymore. Everybody is just as weak. No-one can do this stuff, no-one. So there you go, we are weak. The question is what do we do? Now. Many people just mouth weakness, because it is the Christian thing to do, I am weak. Other people find it very convenient to use that phraseology because its an excuse for their sin, well I am weak, everybody is weak.

But the right mindset here is in recognizing your weakness. It drives you to God. Immediately to God. Believing in faith He is the fountain He claims to be. He is the source and the helper that He claims to be. He is One of unlimited resources. That He does not greedily hand out to children but He lavishes upon them.

So you see, your problem is that you are really not recognizing you are weak. Or you recognize you are weak but you just stay there in your weakness. The time is your weakness ought to drive you to God every time. Here is the problem, let’s enter in with your heart condemning you and satan helping your heart condemn you.

See I have found so many people. I saw someone last night, I dealt a longtime with them. Precious little girl. She recognized her weakness. She recognized her frailty, she recognized her sin. she recognized in her life some things she could not overcome right now. But here was her problem. She would see her sin and because of the work of the devil, and sometimes our heart condemning us, she would put herself in the penalty box every time she sinned. Well you can’t go to God right now, you can’t just keep running back to Him. You sinned yesterday and you repented and asked for forgiveness. Now you have done the same exact thing today. You run back to Him your just a hypocrite. You don’t appreciate God. You don’t have a high view of God. What do you think, God just hands out pardon to everyone?

Isn’t that what we do and isn’t that we think. Sin, A sin that we have already sinned, already of repented of, and because of it we think we need to put ourselves in a penalty box for awhile at least. A couple of days. And try and work our way back into favour before we come to God. Because we think actually. You mean if I go back every time I do this, just immediately, not only going back and asking for forgiveness but expecting forgiveness isn’t that hypocrisy? Isn’t that a low view of God? Isn’t that treating God as a forgiveness machine? No, it’s being Biblical! It’s what poverty of spirit is supposed to do to us.

Now, I am not preaching this hopefully to unconverted church people who are going to say: “Oh wow if God is that good I will sin all the time and just go back and ask for forgiveness.” Hopefully I am not talking to people like that. Hopefully I am talking to genuine Christians who really want to be something they are not yet. But when they find themselves frail, when they find themselves weak, and they find themselves sinning the same sin. They kinda huddle over here and wait. Maybe read their bibles a few times and pray some more and show God that they are sincere before they run over there and actually try and get some forgiveness. No!

One of the great joys of my life is when I discovered that the moment I sin the sin I always sin my first response ought to be to latch a hold of Christ. And not beggarly and not: “Oh here I am You ought to strike me down.” No! I latch a hold of Christ saying: “I believe Your promises!”

I am in a different realm. I am free. I am a saint. I have been moved out of Adam and condemnation and law. All of it was paid for on that tree. When He died He knew all of it! He forgave all of it! I’m free! It’s absolutely spectacular.

영어설교(english sermon)

What is the love of God like? In this world, there are many kinds of love. There exists the love of people, of friends, of a lover, of one’s parents, and the love of God. Then, which kind of love is the most precious? Since never changing and unconditional love is the most precious, God’s love beats out all others without a second thought. We all desire to possess the love of God in our hearts. How are we able to possess the love of God in our hearts then? When we believe in Jesus Christ, who came by the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit, to be our Savior, we are able to possess the love of God.

Until the last generation, people used to think that they could gain worldly knowledge by going to church. However, nowadays, people don’t even think of such an advantage. These days, because there are so many places to learn in the world and because people have already learned so much, people are dissatisfied unless the gospel of the water and the Spirit is preached.

The gospel of the water and the Spirit is preached only in the church of God. People come to church these days not to learn worldly knowledge but to learn about God and to hear the voice of God through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Yet, how can a minister, who is ignorant of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, lead the souls of others to the Word of God? Those who are still ignorant of the gospel of the water and the Spirit have neither received the remission of their sins nor met with God because they do not know this gospel Truth. How then could they possibly discuss the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which is the Gospel of God? Furthermore, how could they possibly talk about your spiritual condition? They are unable to discuss the remission of sin and the true salvation. They only confuse the hearts of spiritually blind Christians with their doctrines. Everyone must be washed completely from all their sins by their faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Otherwise, it is impossible to share this true gospel clearly manifested in the Bible.

Yet, we who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit were able to meet with Jesus through this gospel Truth. Since Jesus came to this world by water and blood (1 John 5: 6), we are made born again as well as God’s own people by our faith in that gospel.

In today’s Scripture passage of John 1, it is written that Jesus Christ is God: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:1-5).

In the beginning, there was the Word. This Word was in fact the Word of God. This world was made through the Word of God, and there was nothing in this world that was not made through the Word of God. In the Word of God, came life for all things. That life also gave life to men.

God the Creator of all the universe is the very Triune God― the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God made the universe into a reality by His Word, “Let there be something.” When God spoke, it became thus. What I am saying is this Omnipotent God has come to us as our Savior. With our Lord, who came to this world, came the authority to cleanse us from all our sins. Yet, so many people do not know the Lord and die as sinners. “And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:5).

However, you and I who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit have received much love from God. God our Savior came to this world in the man’s flesh just like ours. By receiving the baptism from John the Baptist and dying on the Cross, He took all our sins onto Himself and expunged all of them. By resurrecting from the dead, He has given us, who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the grace to call God the Father as “Abba Father.” By knowing and believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we have been delivered from all our sins and adopted as God’s own children. Thus, through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we have met with our Savior, Jesus Christ. Since we have met God by this gospel Truth, what great love have we received from God?

We, who have been born again by believing in Jesus as our Savior through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, have received the great grace of salvation. Yet, many people remain sinners in the darkness, although the light of the gospel of the water and the Spirit has shone upon them. What great shame is it that so many people are still wondering in the darkness, when Jesus Christ has already delivered everyone from all their sins by coming through the gospel of the water and the Spirit? We have certainly received abundant grace, since we have met Jesus through our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

If we take a moment to reflect on ourselves for a moment, we have not met our Lord because of our intelligence. If we were able to meet the Lord by our fleshly abilities, we would not have been able to meet our Lord. How could such insignificant people such as us meet with such awesome God?

If we look at each individual person in comparison to the universe, we are like dust. No, not even dust. If such beings tried to meet with the Lord, it is only reasonable to think that it won’t be possible. That’s why He came to us and met with us. We have not met with God through our excellence in the flesh, but we were able to meet with God because our Lord has delivered us by the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. Those who have believed this and met with the Lord have received His true love. As I am wearing a formal suit right now, those who have believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are wearing the clothes of God’s righteousness. We who have put on the love of God are wearing His great love indeed. It is a great privilege to receive blessings, grace, salvation, and love from the Almighty God, who is the Creator and the Savior.

We have not loved God, but God loved us first and unconditionally by the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, meeting with us and covering us with His love (1 John 4:19). Thus, we have become God’s own people, been adopted as His children, and gained the right to enter into the eternal world. There is nothing we have done on our part in completing this amazing Truth of God. God did it all from His side.

For us to go after that love of God is as hopeless as traveling all around the world looking for one’s unknown mother, as a fairy tale tells. We will not be able to find the Savior, even if we were to search in ever corner of this universe. We are able to meet God only because He Himself came to meet with us. We can meet with the Lord and are delivered from all our sins only by believing in the Lord-given gospel of the water and the Spirit. No one can receive the remission of sin by ones own deeds or abilities.

Thus, we have to abandon our human thoughts that stand against the will of God. All salvation comes out of our Lord. To think that we will do something with our own worldly knowledge is a delusion. It is forgetting one’s place, acting like a puppy that’s not afraid of a tiger. If we really want to meet the Lord of Truth, we must pay attention to the Word of God with our eyes and ears. The problem is that people are deceived by false teachings and, therefore, fail to realize the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit.

Those who are ignorant of the Truth of the water and the Spirit will not meet the Lord even when they are given a second chance. Those who have not been washed completely of all of their sins by their faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit cannot comprehend even a line of the Bible correctly. They can only say that the Word of God is composed of the white part which is the paper and the black letters. They may come to know the scholastic knowledge of this world, but the written Word of the Bible is indescribably complicated to them. If Jesus said the Word in the beginning to create the heavens and the earth, that Word is the Word of God. And this universe was solely created by His Word. But religionist Christians try to interpret His Word only through their own limited logical understanding. Therefore, it is impossible for those, who do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, to comprehend how God came to this world in the flesh of man.

I met the Lord through the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit 10 years after I started believing in Jesus as my Savior. While studying theology I have realized that even at the graduate level, it was utterly impossible to know the essence of Jesus Christ through such theology. “Ah! It’s utterly impossible to know Jesus. The more I learn about the Bible, it only gets harder to comprehend. I can understand every variation of Christian doctrines – I can memorize every detail of soteriology, systematic theology and pneumatology – but the Bible is different. One day I think I have a firm grasp on it, the very next day I am uncertain. The more I study the Bible, the more confused I get.” So I rather gave up. I eventually thought to myself, “I am quite ignorant of the Bible.”

When I first believed in Jesus, I thought that I knew the Bible fairly well. Although I claimed to have believed in Jesus as my Savior, everything I thought I knew came into doubt after 10 years. Fortunately, I realized the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit while reading the Scripture. Through it, the sins of my heart were completely blotted out. I received God’s blessing of being born again by knowing and then believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit through the written Word of God. That gospel of the water and the Spirit states, “Jesus terminated all the sins of the world by receiving the baptism from John the Baptist and by dying on the Cross.” Only after I had known the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, I was able to truly meet with Jesus my Savior. In short, when I knew the gospel of the water and the Spirit, I was truly able to meet Jesus.

Since then, I have been able to preach the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. When I shared the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit, those who heard the message were able to meet the Lord properly just as I have met the Lord my God.

In retrospect, I had an incomplete belief in God before I knew the gospel of the water and the Spirit. However, my faith is quite different now. I am quite busy with work, but when I take some time off to pray and read the Bible, a thought occurs to me; “How did I meet with God?” This was a question that I couldn’t answer precisely before.

“Lord Jesus, You have come to me with the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. You have visited me by coming into this world in the flesh of man. You took all my sins onto Your body by receiving the baptism, and died on the Cross in my stead. On the third day, You rose from the dead, and ascended into the Heavens. The Word You had spoken was recorded so that I may know myself and God through it. When I know in my heart and believe that God has delivered me from all my sins, I receive my salvation. This was utterly due to Your grace and love. How could I meet with God any way otherwise?” I cannot help but confess like this. What I am saying is that it was not through the efforts on my side by which I met with the Lord. The Lord has delivered me from all my sins by His grace, He has loved me by His grace, and He met with me and you by His grace. I give thanks to God, as I reflect on these.

I am a mere creature, weak and deficient, having nothing to boast about. Not only before God but even before people I have nothing to boast about, but He met with me out of His love. “He became a human being for my sake and brought salvation to humanity by coming down to us by the water and the Spirit. That’s why the Lord desires to meet not only with me but also with the rest of the humanity. The Lord always is near to the people. Yet, most of them have not met with Him, although we have.” My heart is gladdened whenever these thoughts occur to me. As I see the congregants and servants of God’s Church, I am glad because I feel that “They are people who truly have met God.”

Dear fellow believers, how many people are there in this world who have believed in Jesus and met with the God of Truth? Are there many? Dear fellow believers, there are not that many Christians who have met God by the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

This is why we are serving the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. The reason we hold revival meetings at God’s Church is so that those who have not met God yet may indeed meet with God. Although the Bible is a pretty thick book, it can be summarized into a few words: They are the gospel of the water and the Spirit. If after hearing the Word you understand it and check it and discover yourself through it, the Lord will come to you. If you know and believe that Jesus bore all your sins and expunged all your sins by the baptism and the Cross, then you can come to meet the Lord.

You may inquire, “How it is possible for mere creatures to meet with God?” If we meet the Lord through our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we comprehend the gospel of the water and the Spirit at that moment with an exclamation of “That’s it.” However, those who lack a humble heart are difficult to receive this special love of God. Numerous babies are being born every moment. Yet, is there any one who has met God, the Creator of the entire universe, through his own method? No, no one can meet Him for himself.

Then, how can I receive the love of God and the blessing from Him? The correct answer is that “The Lord has met with me.” In order to meet with me, the Lord came to this world in the flesh of man like mine: He took all of our sins onto Himself by receiving the baptism from John the Baptist. When He died on the Cross, He received the judgments for all our sins in our stead. And on the third day, He was resurrected from the dead. Through these righteous acts, the Lord has met you and me. Thus, we have received our salvation from all our sins.

I am standing before you as a pastor who believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Though I am insufficient in many areas, it is my sincerest desire to lead all people who have not met the Lord to the Him and to introduce to them about the God and Jesus whom I have met. I am not a VIP. I am comparable to a tour guide. Like a guide at a tourist attraction, those who have met the Lord through their faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are gospel preachers, leading others to Jesus. If we are to be good spiritual guides, we need to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and receive proper spiritual training. Regardless of how articulate a person is, unless he knows about the tourist attraction and about the role of a guide, he cannot be a good guide. Therefore, we, first of all, have to know about the Gospel of the water and the Spirit.

I was able to approach God because I first met with the gospel of the water and the Spirit. And only because the Lord chose to meet with me by the gospel of the water and the Spirit, I was able to meet with the Lord. I have worn the love of the Lord because the Lord has truly loved me first. Because I have worn the love of God, I am trying to spread that love all over the world. Also, because I have met Him, I am trying to introduce Him to you and lead you to Him. Because I am thankful of the fact that the Lord has met with me, I am so happy that the Lord has also met with you. Through these sermons, I hope you all experience how honored and grateful we should be that the Lord has met with us. Still, I am confident that we are of one heart, since we have all been born again of the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

The gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit is the cornerstone of salvation for all sinners. If we lack the faith in this Truth, we are unable to meet the Lord. If any of you does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, you will be deceived by the false ministers and deprived of your souls as well as your money.

Is there still any one among you who has sin in your heart? How can you say that you have accepted Jesus as your Savior in your heart, when the sins in your heart are still intact because you do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit? What other Truth is there besides the gospel of the water and the Spirit by which you can encounter Jesus and receive salvation? Your foolish claim that you have been born again without believing correctly in the gospel of the water and the Spirit is leading you to hell. That’s why we must continuously blow the trumpet of salvation so that everyone of the world may hear the gospel Truth and be saved from sin. If people fail to meet the Lord and receive eternal salvation again because they choose not to hear to the gospel of the water and the Spirit when we are faithfully preaching it, the blame is on them.

We should love, thank, believe, and glorify God during the days of our lives. We should share what we have received. And as God met with us, we should also share the gospel of the water and the Spirit and introduce God to those who are ignorant of Him so that they also will meet with Him. That is what we the righteous should do.

The Lord has delivered us from all our sins. We should live our lives praising the Lord and giving thanks to Him.

Jesus Christ,  Our Life

<John 1:1-4>

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.”

How Great Is Jesus Who Loves Us So Much That He Has Delivered Us from All Our Sins!

John chapter 1 describes Jesus as the Creator of the entire universe. If we were to compare ourselves to the boundless universe that God created, we would realize what small and dismal creatures we are. This is why we cannot thank God enough for being able to meet such great God. It was the greatest of all miracles. Even now, I think that it is the greatest of all miracles that I have met with God, who came by the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Jesus was the Creator, who created this vast universe that spreads millions upon millions of light years wide. God has also prepared the eternal Truth and the true salvation, which are invisible to our eyes. God is truly an amazing God. God’s utmost work was creating humans, out of all other God’s creations, as His own children.

Yet, how could we not give thanks to God, when we were able to encounter such a great and marvelous God? God has accomplished such great works that are impossible for us to comprehend with our intelligence. The world that God has created is full of mysteries which are incomprehensible to the human mind. We cannot but help praise God, since we were able to meet with such a great God on our own discretion. We cannot help but praise God, when we look at the universe that is filled with many galaxies that are beyond our imaginations. The universe, which God has created, is magnificent. We are such small beings who are incomparable to God’s created world. Each person is no larger than a flake of dust in the eyes of God. Still, how could we not give thanks to God, when such small beings as we were able to meet with God, the Creator of this magnificent universe? With a heart full of gratefulness, I give my thanks to God once again.

However, it is a shame that there are so many people who are trying to meet with the great and holy God without having the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. It is absolutely impossible for us to meet with Jesus without first having faith in this true gospel. Also, it is impossible for us to receive the remission of sin without the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Then, how is Jesus Christ able to meet with us humans? There is no other way through which God is able to meet with us except through Jesus, who became a human just like you and me. Jesus received the baptism from John the Baptist to take all our sins onto Himself at once, and He wholly blotted out all our sins once and for all by being crucified on the Cross. Through His baptism and crucifixion, Jesus made it possible for God to adopt us as His own children. In other words, there is no other means of salvation except the coming of God as our Savior, who has delivered us from all our sins once and for all. However, if God were to meet with us in His fundamental character, no sinner would have been able to escape the judgments accorded to their sins, for He is the most holy and solemn Judge. Because we were fundamentally sinners, we would have died if we were to stand before God’s holy light. Thus, for God to meet with us, He had to come to us in the flesh of man, just like us.

Our Lord Himself has thus come in the flesh of man so that He could meet with us and deliver us, who are weak and insufficient, from all our sins. In order to take the flesh and blood of a man, just like the bodies we possess, Jesus was born into this world through the Virgin Mary. Just as it is written, “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14), God has come to us in flesh and blood like ours to be with us. This promise was prophesized by the Prophet Isaiah over 700 years prior to Jesus’ birth. If our Lord had not lowered Himself to our humble level and approached us, you and I would have never been able to meet with the Lord. Our Lord had come to this world in the flesh of man, just like ours, to meet with us.