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The Field of Answers of 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
My and Our 237 Empty Places (Matthew 28:16-20) 1/10/2021
This year, we want to take some time to confirm and apply the mission God gave us for the three fields. In the three empty fields, there are answers that each of us will receive and blessings that our church will receive, which we must discover for ourselves. In the passage, Jesus tells his disciples to “go and make disciples of all nations.” This is quite unrealistic. However, if we lost hold of the blessings within these words, at least three things will happen.
First, even after receiving salvation, we and our descendants will live a life in spiritual captivity, slavery, and colonization.
Why does this happen? The representative figure is Jonah. The Nineveh people, whom Jonah did not care for nor want to evangelize to, eventually ended up crushing the Israelites and taking them captive. What must we do when the world becomes more and more evil, and there are evil people around us? We can either leave that evil world, save them and live with them as neighbors, or suffer under their evilness.
Second, if we lose hold of this mystery, we will lose hold of all the answers and blessings that God has prepared within that. Joseph was sold as a slave but what was the blessing he enjoyed? He ultimately blessed his owner Potiphar and gave answers to the prisoners and ultimately the king. The King realized who God was through Joseph (Genesis 41:38). All of this was evangelism and missions. That is why we must interpret all problems and situations with the gospel, evangelism, and missions. That is God’s absolute plan.
Third, if we lose hold of this mystery, there would be no reason for us to enjoy the greatest blessing, which is the authority of heaven and on earth.
What was the reason Christ, who has all the authority of heaven and earth, promised to be with us until the ends of the earth? It is because we must be used for the work of saving all nations; the absolute work that Christ came to this earth to fulfill on the cross.
- What is the most important key that we must hold onto in order to save all 237 nations?
1) Christ, who has sent us and is with us, has all the authority of heaven and earth.
The authority of heaven is the authority of the triune God that has created this world and is governing it with his absolute sovereignty. Our life, death, success, and failure are up to him. Authority on earth is the authority to break down all the forces of darkness that dare to hinder God and his people. The one who possess all this is with us.
2) This blessing is a spiritual blessing. It is an absolute blessing that transcends time and space. The world is connected through the internet, but it cannot transcend time. Spiritual things can.
3) This is when you can realize how tremendous true worship and prayer is (1Samuel 7:10).
When you receive grace and strength through worship and experience prayer in your life, that strength will be relayed (to children, workplace, missions field).
4) When we realize this spiritual reality, we can understand and embrace all nations and 237.
5) That is when the throne, the world and we become one. That is where we will be (oneness). We are living in the same world, and we face similar problems, but we are living a different life. That is called the spiritual standard, spiritual summit.
- The 237 empty places and “me.”
God desires to bless you to use you to bless and save the world.
1) Enjoy Christ, who is the absolute answer in all problems, as “only.” The works of uniqueness and recreation will arise.
① Problems are not a problems (John 19:30). Look at is with spiritual thoughts and eyes. No matter how hard Satan tries to work, he will be broken down.
② “Only” does not mean you will not need anything else. It means that you are able to have a deep relationship with God. Amidst problems, you will be able to see and feel God’s depth (His deep love, deep heart, deep plan).
2) Thus, we must allot a time for concentrating on him in our daily lives.
① The important element of concentration is meditation. What is the difference between meditation and transcendental meditation? Transcendental meditation is emptying ourselves. It is perhaps necessary. However, if it ends there, you will face spiritual problems down the road (Matthew 12:44-45). Meditation is going further and filling up with God’s things.
② We are filling up with the covenant and the word, thinking about God’s will, and applying it (the principle is analogous to cow’s rumination).
The Bible emphasized the blessing of meditation (Genesis 24:63, Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:1-3, Psalm 19:14).
3) Pray about your own evangelism and missions.
① First, pray for all the commissioned missionaries as a spiritual watchman.
Even if there is a web of network, you must be connected to be able to use it. There are platforms where those webs are gathered, and there are people who maintain it. We can now be a part of a greater, spiritual network and perform the role of a watchman.
② When you continue with this, even if you do not go, there may be individuals around you from the 237 nations ( Acts 2:9-11). Just like deacon Phillip, he will attach the right people at the right time (Acts 8:26, 29, 39).
- The 237 empty places and “our church.”
When we gather our strength and become one, great doors of world evangelism will open up and we will be able to handle great works.
1) The church must be strengthened through us as individuals.
That is why each department is important. This is why in the wilderness the Israelites were broken up into 12 tribes and 70 elders. It is like the members of a body. Someone’s small devotion is precious (Ephesians 4:16).
2) The church must go into true concentration. We must pray so that our church can bear the role of being the watchman of 237 missions. The church can do many things, but there are things that God desires, needs, and are absolute. IT is evangelism, missions, and saving the next generation. When we gather, we pray, and in our fields, we evangelize and carry out our missions. Those blessings will be inherited to our posterity. The flow of the family and the church will be determined by what the 1st generation parents focused on.
3) Many specialists in our church must gather strength to do specialized missions.
① Medical missions, military missions, and college missions is the beginning.
We must devote until there is a system by which this becomes consistent, the next generation inherits, and the remnants arise.
② The IT mission team, media mission team, and cultural mission team in this age are historical ministries. It will radiate great influence. There are hidden talents in our church. There is already a system in which these people can go forward together in the Upper Room ministry. Our church needs someone to raise this flag and gives their devotion in 24-hour prayer.
Conclusion – Why do we use the term “empty place”? It does not mean there is no one. It means there is no one that will relay the gospel. If we give the spiritual answer through the work that Christ has done, we can heal and save everything. We are the spiritual watchman of this age.
My and Our 237 Empty Places (Matthew 28:16-20) 1/10/2021 January 9, 2021The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
Give Every Firstborn unto the Lord (Exodus 13:11--16) 1/3/2021
We have welcomed 2021 in the absolute journey that God has granted to us. Today is the first worship. How you first start is important. The Israelites began their first start within the Passover blessing. The Passover blessing is the saved person’s blessing. An important word was said at that time in the passage. They were told to give the firstborn to God when they enter the land of Canaan promised by God. The firstborn, as the word itself says, is the first thing one gain. It means it is that precious. The first hour, the first worship of a new year is important for the same reason. We must start by holding onto the important covenant within the phrase, “Give every firstborn unto the Lord.” For what reason were they told to surely give the first thing to God?
- God gave us His first son first. He is Christ. It is the blessing of true salvation.
When the Israelites came out of the 400-year destiny and curse when they killed the lamb and spread its blood, what did that signify? We too have such destiny and curse. All of that which brings me difficulty and failure comes from this.
1) God let His most precious first Son die on the cross so that we wouldn’t live in that destiny and curse.
① Why is Christ the first Son? Furthermore, His resurrection after His death was called the first fruit of the resurrection. This means there are sons continuously. It also means that the resurrection will continue. Who does this signify?
② It is us who have been delivered by Christ’s blood and have become children of God (adopted child). It says that we will become inheritors with Christ and enjoy all blessings and glory (Romans 8:17). This is the absolute love, absolute plan, and absolute blessing of God for us.
2) Whatever we do, we must hold onto what kind of God’s absolute love and absolute plan we are in.
① How could someone unaware that he is in God’s love and plan enjoy God’s blessings?
They do not have assurance concerning their life in a world where problems and suffering continue. They always doubt, complain, and resent, so what kind of fruit would come out of that? All of that becomes spiritual problems (Israelites in the wilderness). Depression, addiction, panic disorders, and personality disorders do not simply come out of nowhere. It is because they do not have assurance concerning their life.
② The works of Satan that took place in my life will break when this is restored.
It was a completely new start when the Israelites spread the blood of the lamb. However, on the other side, the firstborn of the enemies who oppressed the people were killed (even Pharaoh’s first son is killed). What does this mean? The works of Satan must be crushed in all the ways we go into this year (Romans 16:20). It is rightful evidence I will enjoy if I restore myself.
③ We have begun by holding onto the covenant of the evangelism disciple who saves the empty places of the three fields (237, healing, summit) this year.
How do we save the world? With our strength and will, we will be worn out quickly and may get scarred while helping. We must start in the assurance of God’s absolute love, plan, power, and authority that is in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:13-14). We must always experience being strengthened, happy, and sufficient through Him (3 todays).
- It means to give so that the Lord may use the firstborn that has been given to me. It is the blessing of true devotion.
God does not desire what is mine and asks us to devote ourselves because He lacks something. We are entrusting what we are giving.
1) We are entrusting to Him who has given to us everything. It will return to me as a great blessings.
① Who gives my life, health, time, and materials? If he reaps today, we have to leave everything and go.
You overcome most scars and temptations if you at least realize this for now (Job 1:21-22).
② When it says to give the first things to God, it means to see what kind of fruits God makes with that.
This is why we begin the first hour with the word and prayer. Each day’s fruit is different and there is something to enjoy lifelong. Give tithes from our income is also giving the first gains. We are not giving the leftovers of our spending.
2) Give it to God as the most precious thing. At that time, we could become another firstborn that bears fruit that saves the world.
① Give the God-given talents unto God to be used. No matter how small, it will become God’s masterpiece, the evidence of the age, and an inheritance for the posterity. (God who worthily used George Beverly Shea who wrote “I’d Rather Have Jesus).
② Pray so that important figures who can save the fields of the empty places of the 3 ages will be raised as pastors.
As the covenant of the first was spoken of again in Numbers 8:14-17, it said that the Levites were separated as firstborns. When the Israelites descendants give birth to their firstborn, they had to offer them to God, but the Levites took their place instead. All saints of God are the spiritual Levites of this age (1Peter2:9), but directly speaking, the Levites are the pastors. How important are pastors? Pastors are directly related to the blessings that the church members will receive. That is why God had the pastors eat a part of the offerings that the members gave (Leviticus 2:10, 7:33).
- There are firstborns that God looks for in the field. They are the remnant disciples who are hidden in the field. It is the blessing of the true future.
1) The one person, a prepared remnant, could be around us.
① There are people to receive the gospel and be saved, people to receive healing, and a remnant who will be used as a life-staking disciple. Time will tell. Before that, help without reason and condition. The eighth remnant could be by me.
② Saving one person could save the age. Share the mission with that one person, give internship or attach people to that person, and have forum so that all glory may be given to God.
2) We can do this with the small things we possess (small prayer, small devotion, small help).
① God makes works of uniqueness and recreation even with our small things (the miracle of the five fish and two loaves of bread). When? It is when we start with Christ’s grace and love. This is why Jesus asked Peter, “do you love me?” and said, “feed my lamb” (John 21:15-17). It is when we hold onto the mission of the kingdom of God which breaks the works of Satan and the power of the throne takes place (Mark 16:17-20). It is when I hold onto the power of the Holy Spirit and not my strength (Acts 1:8).
② We must start with small things like this and make it into a system that saves the church and age (this is the true O.U.R.S). No matter how the headquarter messages may be proclaimed, it is up to how the churches actualize them. We, one person, can become the system. In silence, try this with one heart, whole heart, and continuation. You will surely enjoy the blessings that God gives to you.
Conclusion – Hold onto the covenant of the firstborn and go into the absolute journey that God has prepared. Hold onto God’s absolute love that gave His first Son and go. Make it so that my precious things are given to God. Start as the one person remnant.
Give Every Firstborn unto the Lord (Exodus 13:11--16) 1/3/2021 January 2, 2021The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
Evangelism Disciples of 237, Healing, and Summit (Acts 1:6-8) 1/1/2021
Even as years go by, there are two spiritual realities that do not change. Satan will continue to make this world a difficult place. Because Satan has his own day of judgement, he will work to bring even more evil. There will be numerous disasters, wars, corruption, and suffering (Matthew 24, 2 Timothy 3). However, there is nothing for us to fear or worry about.
All we need to do is to accurately hold onto one spiritual fact. It is the work of the holy spirit onto those who are saved in only Christ Jesus. That is the main point of the book of Revelations, which meticulously predict the end times. Satan’s works will be strong, but God will hold onto his evangelists with the work of the great holy spirit. From the beginning, Revelations talks about Christ among the seven lampstands and the seven stars in his right hand, and how the people who are sealed by the spirit will have victory. The end of the book also concludes with this blessing.
We are saved people of God, who have been chosen inside God’s absolute sovereignty, love, and plan. The path that we must take is not just a normal path. We are going on an absolute journey in which we can experience God’s absoluteness. Our goals for this year or the things we wanted to are not important. When we hold onto his absoluteness, He will show us his absolute mission, absolute power, and absolute blessing. May this year be a deep time for us to experience God’s absoluteness.
- God has four absolute time schedules (Ecclesiastes 3:1).
Verse 7 says that all time and place is in God’s authority. All we need to do is to realize what God desires to do, at the time and place that God desires, and follow.
1) Time schedule for the age. There are things that God desires to do in every age.
① For this world, this age is a disaster. It is the age of 4th industrial revolution, but for humans, it is a sad reality. The point is that there are prepared individuals in every age whom God will use. They are the remnants
② The Upper Room evangelism movement is a movement that will save this age. This is why we should realize the heavenly mandate, calling, and mission for this age and go forward together as we listen to headquarters messages.
2) Time schedule for this region and nation. What is God’s time schedule for America?
① People who shout “Make America Great Again” must have this answer.
We must take a look at what God did when he established America. In the 18th century, there was Sunday school movement and repentance movement. In the 19th century, there were pastors like D.L Moody that led the revival movement. In the 20th century, there was the C.C.C and the Navigators, as well as pastors like Billy Graham who furthered world evangelization.
② What is the Upper Room ministry? It is a discipleship movement that encompasses all these things to save the next generation, the church, and the world.
The 7 remnants were all disciples that were used in the hegemonic nations of their age. They were individuals who knew the reason for their lives, the reason for receiving answers, and the reason for dying. They lived as witnesses in the superpower nations with the accurate gospel.
3) Time schedule for our church within those greater time schedules.
① 2021 marks the 25th year anniversary of One Mind Church. As we look back, there are not enough words to express how God has perfectly led, held onto, and blessed our church. All of that has been organized into our church’s 3 goals, 3 ministries, and 3 teams. Building on this prayer topic and answers, we are to save and heal the 237 nations, as well as raise summit disciples.
② In order to do that, the church must have power. Only then do we have a future, and only then can our posterity rise to do world evangelism.
Through the pulpit message, see the accurate time schedules, be led by the holy spirit, and enjoy those blessings (Acts 2:42 Early Church)
4) Time schedule for us individuals.
① As individuals, we are standing here together in this time schedule to enjoy this blessing together.
Hold onto God’s absolute covenant that he has prepared, and discover what we must see in advance, as well as what we must hold onto, enjoy, experience and fulfill (My CVDIP). Be strengthened every day, find things to be thankful for every day, and discover things to renew and challenge for (3 todays).
② There are prayer topics that only you can pray, things that only you can do, and things that you must initiate (remnant, parents, lay leaders, pastors).
You as one individual are what is important. One remnant can save the family (Joseph), save the church (Samuel), and save the age (David). That is when the five systems of the field can be established (upper room, team evangelism, mission home, specialized ministries, and regional ministries).
- In this time schedule, there are three fields we must challenge towards. That is the field of 237, healing, and summit.
What is the most important thing for a disciple? It is the field that God entrusts you. That is the reason that God must hold onto you with his absolute blessings.
1) The field of 237. 237 is the number of nations in this world. Besides that, there are about 5,000 tribes.
① When Korea, China, and Japan were at its worst times, they received the gospel. Light was shown into their land of darkness.
Now, we must go. We must give as much as we have received. God’s children are people that live as missionaries for their entire lives. Embrace 237 in your heart. There are more than 85 tribes that have not heard the gospel. There are empty places around us.
② The one who sends us is Christ, who has all the authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18-20).
When we realize that, we, the throne, and the world will become one (missionaries who go, watchmen who send).
2) The field of healing. People’s hearts are breaking, and mental illnesses will become more and more severe (depression, addiction, schizophrenia).
① Why do such problems continue? Many hearts are empty. The gospel and the Word can fill that void. In that void, seven demons can enter (Matthew 12:44-45). It can start as emotional disorders but develop into spiritual problems.
② That is why only those who know only Christ, God’s kingdom and the power of the holy spirit can do this work (spiritual doctor).
Enjoy this spiritual blessing first as you take care of yourself and receive healing. You will meet people who need to hear your story. We must pray that specialized workers arise and specialized healing center be established in our church.
3) The field of the summit. The field of the most intense spiritual battle is the field of the summit.
The few people who hold important positions can determine whether there will be suffering or hope in this world.
① There are many who make it to those high places and end up taking their own lives. We are standing as the summits to save those individuals.
The system for saving those people must be established in the church. Saving just one individual can change the world.
② True summits must arise among our future generations. This is why we do remnant ministry (mission, internship, life forum).
Remnants, heed to the 10 standards of summit training (stand alone, stand before the absolute reality, break your paradigm of thought, synergy that comes from being one, choose crises to obtain opportunity, yield for success, challenge for the summit, experience the wilderness, questioning God’s will).
Conclusion – We are still walking the absolute journey that God is leading. May we stand as evangelism disciples of 237, healing, and summit.
Evangelism Disciples of 237, Healing, and Summit (Acts 1:6-8) 1/1/2021 December 31, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
The Closing of the Absolute Journey of 2020 (Phil 3:12-14) 12/27/2020
It is the last week of a very difficult year due to the unpredicted Covid-19. How should we wrap up this year? How we end this year will determine how we will begin anew.
2020 was not a year that happened to go by nor a year that was just simply difficult. This year was undoubtedly a time that unfolded within God’s absolute plan and time schedule. There are blessings and gratitude that we must discover. That is called God’s absolute journey. The upcoming year is also a time that is being given to us within God’s absolute plan and time schedule. When we realize this, we will be able to see the new blessings and answers, things to renew and challenge for.
- When we speak of God’s absolute journey, there are three things (what is rightful, necessary and absolute) we must discover. In the passage, Paul talked about the kind of life we must live as a saved people of God as his own confession.
1) He said what we have gained or fulfilled is not important. For others, this is very important.
Paul confessed, “Christ Jesus took hold of me” (12).
① The life of a child of God is in God’s hands. It does not mean we will be dragged on by God against our will. It means that from the moment we received salvation, we have been captivated by God’s absolute love, absolute choice, and absolute plan. We have been freed from all curses within Christ and became his children. We have been saved and chosen to enjoy heavenly blessings within God’s love (Ephesians 1:3-5). This is called absolute grace (Ephesians 2:8-9).
② It is rightful for us to receive these blessings and enjoy these answers as people who are within this grace on earth (rightful).
When we realize this, there will be nothing for us to boast about. There will only be gratitude.
2) Paul said, “I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me” (12).
What we want or what we like is not important. That is a life of a non-believer. We are following God’s absolute plan. That is a life that is led by the holy spirit.
① Why do we always fail, commit regrettable things, and become deceived by Satan? It is because we are not led by the holy spirit. If we are led by our flesh, and we follow the world, we end up following Satan (James 3:15, Roman 12:2).
② On the other hand, what would it be like if we laid down our standards and greed to follow God’s desire and be led by the holy spirit?
Even if you fail or face unjust situations resulting in a loss, all of those things will become good in the end (Roman 8:28). God will be responsible. This is a necessary blessing and result (necessary).
3) “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward” (13-14).
① This is the conclusion of a saint. Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. What is ahead? It is eternal glory and prize in Christ Jesus that God has prepared. These individuals do not fear or worry about others. Compliments and awards from people do not matter to them. They can yield everything.
② What will be the result of the small tasks, small prayers, and small devotions that come from a correct place of heart?
We did something small, but it becomes God’s blessings and turns into a masterpiece (Matthew 25:20-40). It becomes something rather absolute (absolute).
- How did you spend your 2020? If there were blessings or answers received, we must look at it in these three ways.
1) It was rightful because we are people of God, saved by God’s absolute love, choice, and plan. All we can do is be thankful and praise for that grace (Ephesians 1:6). We must restore this before this year is over. To people like this, God constantly gives His word that will be fulfilled, s well as rightful answers and blessings. Living life itself will be a blessing.
2) We only need to receive the guidance of the holy spirit. Then you will be able to see exactly what God needs (God’s mission).
In this difficult time, in our fields, and in our church, we will see what God needs. Necessary answers will come.
3) To people of God holding onto this covenant, inexplicable things can happen, and Satan can try to hinder.
Just hold onto the covenant, receive strength through prayer, and wait. There will be a victorious day where Satan kneels before you (Romans 16:20). It will be a time of experiencing God’s absolute blessing. We are standing as the witnesses to go io 237 nations.
- Was 2020 difficult and hard? If you look at it in three ways, you will come to the answer.
1) Why were the Israelites taken as slaves, captives, and colonies?
① It was not because they lacked effort or character. They lost hold of God’s covenant and Satan took over. It was rightful. Even if we received salvation, the 12 spiritual problems are our imprints, roots, and nature. In decisive moments, our thoughts of the flesh take over. Satan keeps deceiving us with the 6 states of the non-believers. Sometimes we fall into fortune telling and become mere religious people. This was Cain’s reason for failure (Genesis 4:7)
② This is why we must always be alert (1Peter 5:8). It does not mean we should always be nervous. It means we should always be holding onto the covenant, ready to receive strength and fight whenever necessary (Ephesians 6:10-11).
2) Does God just let his people fail and live with hardships?
① Through our problems, we can see how Satan works in us and what we can change and renew. That is God’s necessity. This was the reason God took the Israelites through the desert. “to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you” (Deuteronomy 8:16).
② This is also why Go allowed Peter to betray him (Luke 22:31-32). God allowed this to Peter to end the hidden scars, greed, personality, and things that were becoming channels for Satan. Theologically, this is called sanctification, where our lives become more and more holy and complete as we experience difficult times.
3) What is the absolute thing that God desires to do through his people’s failures and problems?
① He told Peter, “And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
God desires us to uplift and save people like us. Wherever Peter went, many people gained life.
② What was the absolute blessing that Job received after his sufferings? His spiritual eyes opened (Job 42:5), saved his friends that mocked him (Job 42:9), and enjoyed double portion of blessings (Job 42:10).
Conclusion – We have walked God’s absolute journey this past 2020. May you discover God’s rightful, necessary, and absolute things inside all problems and restore thanksgiving. May the absolute journey that God has prepared continue for you in 2021.
The Closing of the Absolute Journey of 2020 (Phil 3:12-14) 12/27/2020 December 27, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
Into the Blessing of Establishing God’s Throne (Luke 2:8-14) 12/20/2020
Last week we looked at Paul, who used to persecute the church and oppose the gospel but later became a historical vessel for evangelism that saved the age. The core of the pulpit last week was the blessing of gospelization. If people who are saved by the gospel enjoy the blessing of gospelization, they will experience inevitable and deep healing, vessel for the gospel, and changes in their posture toward life and be used for world evangelism.
Today is Christmas Sunday. Due to Covid-19, Christmas this year will be quieter than usual. However, it may be more meaningful. If you look at the passage, the shepherds were quietly tending their sheep when God sent his angels to notify them of Christ’s birth. Verse 9 says, “An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them.” Verse 13-14 says, “a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
Even if you are alone. May Christmas this year be a time of enjoying God’s grace and angels singing. This blessing is called establishing God’s throne.
- What is the blessing of establishing God’s throne?
1) It is enjoying the glory of the triune God who saved us and desires to save the world through us.
① “Throne” means “seat of the King.” It is not just any seat. It is the glory of the triune God itself. That triune God created universe and is governing over it. Following the corruption of Adam, Satan is dragging this world into corruption and suffering, but God is in the position to declare judgement upon Satan himself.
② The Bible says that there are entities that surround the throne.
They are armies of angels that fulfill God’s word and help the chosen people of God (Isaiah 103:19-21). There are even more important beings. They are the saved people of God that develop holy perseverance and stand before God. That is the vision of seven spirits and 24 elders in the book of Revelations (Revelations 4:4-5).
2) What does it mean to enjoy the blessing of the throne? It means that God’s people are enjoying the glory of our God in heaven here on earth.
① If we are truly the ones that have been saved, given God’s love, and are people who will be used by God, then God will be with us with that very glory of the throne. He will show us and allow us to feel it in our lives. The 900+ praises of Fanny Crosby, who lost her sight in her childhood and lived as a blind woman her entire life, shows this very blessing. Most representative piece is “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O, what a foretaste of glory divine!” With what kind of heart do you sing these praises?
② When you do God’s work, and face crises and tribulations, God undoubtedly mobilizes his angels. God speaks to you through His word and brings you into His deep place. That is true prayer. When Satan commits evil things and brings tribulations, God mobilizes his armies of angels to hold us (Exodus 14:19-20, Daniel 6:22). Especially when evangelists are proclaiming the gospel, the Christ of the throne intervenes and gives us evidence (Mark 16:19-20).
- When we enjoy the blessing of establishing the throne, there is evidence that comes from it. It is the peace that Christ gives.
“peace to those on whom his favor rests.” There are at least three types of peace.
1) It is peace with God.
Before we received salvation and realized the gospel, we were enemies with God. Christ reconciled that relationship between us and God through the cross, and now we are able to go forth before God inside the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2:14-19). Why must we repent and hold onto the cross even after our failures and still go before God? That is the only way things will open up.
2) it is the inner peace that springs up within us.
Even with all the money, power, and fame, non-believers do not have true peace. They suffer from depression, panic disorders, substances, and mental illnesses. Believers cannot be deceived by Satan. We are deceived because we cannot transcend our environments, realities, physical things, and our own standards. Look upon Christ and the things above. Even if all sides are blocked, the door above is open. That is when you can have true peace (John 14:27). That is the kingdom of God that takes place within us (Romans 14:17). That is when the forces of darkness that tried to deceive us give up and flee away.
3) Peace within the world.
It goes beyond overcoming all problems. Wherever you go, conflicts and warfare will change into peace. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). Wherever you go, whomever you meet, in your families, workplace, church, and in all other fields, you will make and relay peace.
- This is when we can truly do God’s work that God desires. That is called the mission.
1) God allows us to do the things that non-believers and people who do not know this blessing cannot do.
① They do not know and will not understand. They cannot see nor can they go.
Joseph, who went as a slave, saved Egypt that was full of idols. Deacon Phillip saved Samaria, where everyone else refused to acknowledge. Persecutor Paul staked his life and saved Rome, the end of the earth of that age.
② Those places were the ends of the earth, desolate places, abandoned places, and empty places of Acts 1:8.
That is the field of Nobody, No way, No time, Nowhere, and No answer. It is going to places that others cannot, opening the paths, and making that time God’s time. It is giving the answer to wherever you go.
2) In all the fields that we go into, the kingdom of God, in which the power of the throne works upon, takes place.
① The forces of Satan will break down, and the work of the Holy Spirit will surface (Matthew 12:28). God desires us to fulfill this kingdom of God on earth.
② Why is this world so difficult? It is due to mankind’s greed and the work of Satan. However, there is an even more important reason.
It is because we are not able to act as a watchman. That is why the prayer and evangelism of one person is so important. It does not matter if you do not see immediate answers. Our prayers will be accumulated up in the heavenly throne through angels (Revelations 8:2-5). It does not matter if you do not see immediate results. The seeds that you have sown for evangelism will undoubtedly become eternal fruits (Galatians 6:7-9).
Conclusion – The core of the blessing of establishing the throne is enjoying the glory of God in this earth. It became a deep spirituality and deep prayer. May you have that deep time with Christ, who is our main character during this Christmas season.
Into the Blessing of Establishing God’s Throne (Luke 2:8-14) 12/20/2020 December 20, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
My Chosen Instrument (Acts 9:10-15) 12/13/2020
God used Paul, who persecuted and tormented the church and its believers, as the evangelist that saved the age. In our standards, it is difficult to understand. It is especially hard to understand from the perspective of the victims. That is because it is God’s heart and God’s method. Saving, healing, and blessing me in order to save, heal, and bless the world is God’s heart and His method. Here, we are able to see God’s absolute love (Romans 5:9), absolute grace (1Corinthians 15:10), absolute power (Romans 1:16-17), absolute authority (Matthew 28:18-20), and absolute conclusion (Acts 1:8). God will give this blessing through His son Christ. That is called the gospel and covenant.
- God’s absolute love and absolute grace is the heart of God.
1) God does not want anyone to fall into judgement and destruction (John 3:16).
The Bible says that God is love (1John 4:8, 16). Jesus is compassionate toward people who are suffering (Matthew 9:35-36). He lowered himself and went through all kinds of suffering to sympathize with us (Hebrews 4:15).
2) When we realize the heart of God through our problems, our pain, and our failures, we will get to see our mission. We must see ourselves truthfully. As someone who is receiving this love and grace, what must we live for and what must we do with our lives? Paul regarded his life worth nothing if for this gospel of grace (Acts 20:24).
3) Those who truly realize God’s heart can persevere through all problems and failures.
Our pasts do not matter. Our weaknesses and incompetence do not matter. There is only one conclusion. You will save people like you. In a way, all your pain, tears, illnesses, failures, and everything else will be your specialized ministry. Having studied diligently without any pain or suffering is specialized knowledge, not specialized ministry. Paul from the passage also specialized knowledge. But with just that, you cannot save a single individual. Paul was initially a persecutor of the church. Stephen spoke about his in Acts 7. He was used as he walked through his own 40 years of wilderness.
- All we need to do is hold onto and enjoy God’s absolute power and absolute authority.
1) God has given us all authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18).
① What is authority of heaven? It is the authority to meet and connect with God. How do we connect with God if we are full of sin and transgressions? That is why Christ died for us (Priest), became the way to meet God (Prophet), and crushed the power of Satan that blocks us (King).
② What is the authority of earth? It is the authority to overcome the forces that are leading this world into corruption, darkness, and pain (1John 3:8, Luke 10:19, Romans 16:20).
2) Enjoying this authority of heaven and earth is gospelization, establishment of the throne, and establishment of the summit of this age.
Why was Paul transformed at Damascus? It is because Ananias, who enjoyed the mystery of prayer, was there.
① Is it not just the gospel. It is not just knowing the gospel. It is the blessing of gospelization.
Paul experienced the gospel in his life, and the standard of his thoughts and judgement as well as his lifestyle were transformed into the gospel lifestyle. In our normal standards, Paul is not someone who we can work with. However, if He is someone that God has chosen, to do things that God desires to do, then our standards are not important (Galatians 2:20). God gives His word to those people to save others and abandoned fields, and He fulfills His word (Mark 16:20).
② Not only will we enjoy the background of heaven, but we will be able to realize the deep things of God (1Corinthians 2:10-12). This is the blessing of the establishment of the throne.
Ananias heard God’s voice in a vision. It is not important what he saw. You can feel connected to the throne while you listen to His word. You may feel God’s presence while you pray for a bit of grace.
③ We are not talking about success at the worldly level. We will become a spiritual summit that will save the world. This is the blessing of the establishment of the summit of the age.
More accurately speaking, blessings of the throne will be upon the evangelists (Matthew 28L18-20, Mark 16:20). Ananias, who have been enjoying this blessing within prayer, prayed for Paul and things like scales disappeared from his eyes. Paul was previously full of his own standards, legalistic standards, and secular standards, but in that moment, his spiritual eyes opened. Ananias helped make this happen. Joseph lived a similar life (Genesis 41:38). Samuel’s words never fell to the ground (1Samuel 3:19). Such works arose for David, who praised God (1Samuel 16:23). Individuals who experienced the blessing of spirituality were used in an important place that for the work of saving the age.
3) The blessing of the evangelist is not simply about evangelizing.
① They are full-fledged ambassadors of Christ(IICorinthians5:20). Depending on which ambassador you are, your attitude towards different nations and the work that you do will vary.
We possess the authority of Christ, break down the forces of darkness in our fields, and pray for the kingdom of God (1Peter 2:9). In this age that we live in, depression, panic disorders, addiction, psychopathic and sociopathic disorders are very serious illnesses.
② Only we, who have this gospel, can do this. God has sent us to save all people of all nations.
To Ananias who believed and prayed, God attached Paul who will be used as a historic evangelist.
③ Then, God’s absolute financial blessings will also be restored (economy of light, economy of missions, economy of the future).
- Interpret everything through God’s conclusion: evangelism (evangelism 24).
1) Through your pain, see God’s pain, and through your problems, open up your eyes to see the world.
It is the reason God named Paul His chosen instrument (verse 15). The Gentiles and the Kings of Israel who were failing without the gospel was Paul’s own past life.
2) With everyone you meet, think about whether God has a plan to save them through you (Acts 13:48).
Surely, not everyone is prepared. That is why we must always train to receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit for evangelism. It may be crucial to wait for them to open up to you, gain their trust, and wait for their time schedule. If there are things you have lost or yielded because of the gospel, you will receive a hundred-fold, and it will be stored up in heaven (Mark 10:29-30).
3) We must receive healing, answers and be used by God in order to experience the five systems of evangelism in our lives. If you enjoy the gospel even by yourself, upper room evangelism will take place. Even if you just meet one person to go with, it will become team evangelism. Your house will become a mission home for mission home evangelism. At your workplace, specialized ministry will take place. You will begin to change the spiritual flow of your region and establish a regional church.
Conclusion – Saved people of God with the gospel are the chosen ones to save this world. May you enjoy God’s absolute blessing of evangelism.
My Chosen Instrument (Acts 9:10-15) 12/13/2020 December 13, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
Enjoy God’s Absolute Blessing (Jeremiah 33:14-22) 12/06/2020
When the Israelites were experiencing great hardships, God sent prophets to give them the covenant of the absolute blessings that they were to enjoy. When people face problems (personal problems, family problems, church problems, generational problems), they first worry about how to escape from that problem. Later, they expect time to take care of it. That is the wrong way to look at it. God desires us to discover and enjoy prepared and hidden blessings within those problems.
That is the introduction of Ezekiel 33 (verse 1-3). When the nation as falling apart and prophets were locked up in prison, God’s word came upon Ezekiel.
God is the one who created and fulfilled all the things of the world. So truly, when we look upon God, he will show us great and unsearchable things. Did your problems and the problems of this age come without God’s knowing? Whether those problems were of your fault or someone else’s, what is the one sure fact? Satan is always trying to discourage and destroy you and make you give up. But God uses those things to carry out “great and unsearchable things”. Those “great and unsearchable things” are “God’s absolute blessings”.
Acts 1:6-8 says the same thing. Leave the time and day for when the problem will be solved up to God and find the absolute blessings that you must enjoy. Within that time, experience the power of the Holy Spirit, and enjoy the blessing of those problems becoming evidence for you to be used as someone who will save the world. Problems may come endlessly, and different conflicts may befall you. We must discover and enjoy God’s absolute blessings.
- It begins with the blessing of gospelization.
1) Verse 15 says, “I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land.”
① What covenant is this? This is the covenant of Christ; the covenant of the gospel.
What does it mean to do what is just and right in the land? The life we live is very unjust. We have to face eternal curse of hell due to the sin committed by Adam, and the curses that flow down in our family line. Some people say they would rather not believe in God if this is the case.
② But that is not the case. God sent His son Christ to prevent you from that kind of failure (Gospel). Verse 16 says, “in those days Judah will be saved” (He died to free us from all curses – priests), “Jerusalem will live in safety” (He will crush Satan’s head and protect us – king), “The Lord will be our righteous savior” (We will enjoy His blessings and fulfill His will – prophet). The moment you accept Christ, you have been brought into this gospel and this blessing (With, Immanuel, Oneness).
2) The issue is that this gospel must be your own enjoyment. Even if you have really good things, if you can’t enjoy them, it is meaningless.
What is the start to enjoying the gospel? We must train ourselves to see everything with the eyes of the gospel. This is the reason God gives us problems.
① What are you struggling with? Do not be deceived but rather look at it with the eyes of a freed individual. No problem can bring you down.
② Are you dealing with unjust situations? Even murderers and evil people that we see – if we see them with the eyes of the gospel, we can be empathetic (Acts 7:60).
Those people do not even know they are being deceived by Satan. They may be aware but fall into it because they lack answers and strength to overcome.
③ Are you going through a despairing time? If God is really with you, he can change all things into evidence.
3) As these times come and go, there will be a time when your life becomes entirely a gospel lifestyle (gospel 24).
① The reason we must listen to the word of the gospel is so that this gospel will become imprinted in our brains and soul.
② The reason we must hold onto the gospel and pray when problems and suffering comes is so that this gospel must become rooted in us.
③ When these two things continue, this gospel will become your lifestyle. Your standards, judgement, and thoughts will change, and your depression, mental illnesses and health will be healed. Your life itself will change (1Thessalonians 5:16-18). The words of your mouth will become prayers, and your thoughts will become prayers (Psalm 19:14). Answers will overflow beyond your thoughts (Ephesians 3:20). Going beyond just yourself, the people around you and the place you reside will experience a change in the spiritual flow.
- Enjoyment of your spiritual identity will come. That is the blessing of establishing the throne.
1) From the moment we received salvation, we’ve become children of our father God in the heavenly throne (John 1:12, Romans 8:15-17).
We were given the privilege to enjoy the authority, background, and support of the throne (7 privileges). We can boldly go before our father, and ask for anything (Hebrews 4:16, Matthew 7:7-11). Because we are His children. In all your circumstances, have pride and esteem of being a child of God, as you enjoy the background of the above (prayer 24).
2) There is another covenant of identity among the privileges of being His child (20-22).
① It says that we cannot break His covenant with the day and covenant with the night. This signifies the covenant that God, who reigns over all the earth and its creation, made (covenant of creation). God will love the world until the end (John 3:16).
② God then speaks of the covenant of the two tribes that he made to save, heal, and bless the world. First, He speaks of the covenant he made with David. David was a king. Wherever he went, all his enemies fell, and peace came upon his people. Second was the covenant God made with the Levite priests. Priests are people who free and bless others. These two covenants were given to us as the covenant of an evangelist (1Peter 2:9).
③ Boldly live as an evangelist through 24 evangelism. Evangelists will undoubtedly enjoy the blessing of the throne.
What was the covenant and evidence that Jesus gave to his disciples who were evermore lacking? (Mark 16:16-20)
- What is the blessing that follows gospelization and establishment of the throne? It is the blessing of establishing the historical summit.
“I will make them as countless as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore”(Verse 26)
It means that God will send them to the important place. They stand as a summit to save the age.
1) Even when you are taken as captives, there will be remnants like Daniel and his three friends that will save the age.
“Remnant” originally means “the abandoned ones”. But We just need to experience God’s power. It is filling by the Holy Spirit(Acts1:8). Summit is not just position. He is the person who has power. Enjoy the absolute power of God filling by the Holy Spirit. This is our prayer topic of prayer topic.
2) We can go to the wilderness, empty places, places of despair and abandonment at that time. There is no need for competition there. We stand as the person who can save 237 nations there. That is the blessing of the historical summit.
3) In those places, all you did were small things and helped small people in Jesus’ name, but those become things that you did for God (Matthew 25:21,41).
From there, comes masterpieces that God makes, and everything becomes blessings and platform that you will relay to the next generation.
Conclusion – The world is difficult, and you may have hidden hardships. May it all become a chance for you to enjoy God’s absolute answer.
Enjoy God’s Absolute Blessing (Jeremiah 33:14-22) 12/06/2020 December 6, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
The Watchman that God Raises (Isaiah 62:6-9) 11/29/2020
The world is a difficult place. COVID is difficult, and all the mental conflicts, financial instability, and political chaos that come with it are also very difficult. What does God want us to do during this time? What is the promise that God gives us?
Verse 6 says “I have posted watchmen on your walls.” Watchmen are people who are prepared to spot the enemies first and fight them if they attack. The walls symbolize our lives, but what do watchmen represent? If you look in the bible, they represent the angels that are used by God to protect His people (Hebrews1:14, Psalm91:10-11, Acts27:23-24). There are also people that God uses as watchmen. They are the spiritual summits (Genesis 39:41), spiritual leaders (Deuteronomy 33:29), and the commanders of God’s army (Isaiah 55:4). These people are evangelists and disciples. We call them the “remnants,” the ones who God have remained (Isaiah 6:13, Romans 11:4).
God does not need many people. Even with a small number of individuals, God can save and change the world through them. What is this Upper Room Ministry? It is a movement that seeks out evangelists, disciples, and remnants to train them and send them out into the world. We are the people living in this age, within the blessing of this age. We must be confident of three things.
- Fundamentals of a watchman. Eyes to see the problem and the world must be opened.
If we want to protect someone, we must know who might want to destroy that person and what kind of strategy the enemy has in mind. That is the fundamentals. Who wants us to fall into destruction? It is Satan (Ephesians 6:12).
1) Satan knows exactly how the world will be destroyed and is working on his plan.
① Human greed (Genesis 3). The endless greed and selfish thoughts of humans are destroying the world.
② Satan covers up our spiritual eyes and makes us fall into secular things (Genesis 6). Those secular cravings create sin (James 1:15).
③ Satan makes us do anything for success (Genesis 11). Endless competition and conflicts come from this.
2) Satan knows how to accurately destroy oner person at a time and is carrying out his work (6 states of non-believers).
① He has taken over all the souls that are separated from God (John 8:44). This is where worshipping of idols and Satan come from (1Corinthians 10:20). Those spiritual problems create mental problems (Acts 10:38), physical problems (Acts 8:4-8) and leads to eternal judgement (Hebrews 9:27).
② It does not end with you. All those curses get handed down to your children and their children (Exodus 20:4-5).
Half of the children’s problems are from the parents and their family line. The Gospel of Christ is what completely ends this.
3) Satan knows how to accurately destroy the church and is carrying out his work.
① He just needs to make you lose hold of the Gospel of Christ, that breaks down the forces of darkness (Matthew 16:13-18).
Satan does not fear legalism, mysticism, or any other programs out there. This is a crucial reason for the destruction of churches.
② Slowly and quietly, Satan shows off powers and makes people fall into shamanism, fortune telling and religion. The New Age movement is like this. They are unifying all the religions and drag people away from “only Christ” (Acts 4:12).
③ What about the churches? They are powerless. They possess the shape of holiness but not true power (2 Timothy 3:5). Satan brings conflict and quarrel.
- The identity of a watchman. You must discover how important you are.
1) Watchmen must have assurance in who they are. That assurance comes from above, to people who know God’s promise.
Before you do anything else, you must find this. Think about how the United States train their men to have pride and provide lots of benefits.
2) Verse 6 says, “you who call on the Lord.” They are remnants. They are precious individuals that remain in God’s memory always.
① You may feel alone and lonely in the world. Do not be deceived. You are within God’s absolute plan (Joseph).
② You may face unspeakable failure and miserable times. Do not be deceived. You will remain with God’s grace (Moses).
③ You may face unjust and heartbreaking situations. Do not be deceived. You will remain with God’s power (David).
④ You may face persecution and feel like you don’t belong anywhere. Do not be deceived. You will stand as the one to testify this Gospel to the world and your posterity and leave behind disciples that will do the same (Early Church). We are the missionaries of this world (field missionaries, remnant missionaries).
- The mission of a watchman. This is what we should really do, and we can only do so if we discover our own worth.
1) We must live with the watchman’s mission of five fields (yourself, meetings, family, business (school), region (nation, age)). Build an ark for yourself (yourself). You will be able to save others (even enemies)- (team ministry). Just like the Early Church, your family will be a space that God uses (mission home). Like Joseph, your workplace will receive blessings through you, and doors of evangelism will open (specialized church). Phillip gave the gospel to Samaria and the flow of the entire region changed (regional church).
2) If you receive spiritual strength first, this blessing will begin. That is the blessing of prayer.
Verse 7 says give God no rest. It may seem like you are the one working, but it is the work of the Holy Spirit that God carries out. The Lord has sworn by his right hand and mighty arm that no enemies will steal your hard work (verse 8).
① When saved people of God pray in the name of Christ, they will open the doors of heaven (Matthew 16:18, Matthew 18:18-19).
② You will know God’s deepest things and will fulfill God’s will in all problems and circumstances (Jeremiah 33:3, Ephesians 3:20).
③ To fulfill God’s will, He will mobilize his heavenly angels (Isaiah 103:20-21).
④ Whether or not you see answers right now is not important. All prayers are built up on the throne of heaven (Revelations 8:3-4).
3) There are three blessings that follow. It is the blessing that takes place in your life.
① True blessing of Gospel will begin from within you (Gospelization).
Your thoughts will become the gospel standard. In all circumstances, you will be able to pray (prayer 24) and give thanks (thanksgiving 24). You will begin to see the work of Satan and formulate opposite thoughts (reverse idea). This is the gospel lifestyle, and gospelization.
② The blessing of the throne will take place (Establishment of the throne).
Your level will be that of seeking the things from above. If you can’t enjoy this, you will revert to being centered on secular things and lose hold of all the important, spiritual things. As you enjoy the authority of the throne of heaven, the things of this earth will follow. When you enjoy this blessing, you will be able to save the church. All that you have harvested, you will eat and drink of it in the courts of the sanctuary (verse 9).
③ Blessings of the summit will take place that will save the age (Establishing the historical summit).
Real summit is living above common sense. You will see blessings within problems, renewals within conflicts, and God’s prepared time schedule within crises. When you yield everything, you will gain. Even when you give up, you will conquer.
Conclusion – God has raised us up as the spiritual watchmen. May everyone around you gain life through you.
The Watchman that God Raises (Isaiah 62:6-9) 11/29/2020 November 29, 2020The Answers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RUTC:
The Feast of Thanksgiving in the Wilderness (Deuteronomy 16:13-17) 11/22/2020
Everyone is in the most difficult times due to the COVID-19 pandemic during this Thanksgiving. However, the thanksgiving we offer right now may be the true thanksgiving that God desires. It is because the first feast of thanksgiving was kept in the same way. The Israelites were told to keep the feast of thanksgiving while they were passing through the wilderness after being enslaved for 400 years. A wilderness or wasteland is, as it says, an abandoned or empty land. In terms of life, it may be the times that seem lonely, difficult, and helpless. The first Thanksgiving in America was the same. There were 102 people who came on the Mayflower, also called the Pilgrim Fathers. 50 of them died from the cold or starvation, and those who survived through the help of Natives gave their first thanksgiving in tears. It is a historical fact that the United States today received God’s blessing and arose on top of that first thanksgiving. Thus, “God bless America” is not just a saying.
- This is why God said to keep three feasts in the wilderness. It is because the covenant is within that.
A covenant signifies God’s absolute plan for us that was given to us as a promise. Sometimes, there are contracts that are required when making a promise with someone (“suntheke” in Greek). However, there is a promise that is made by making a blessed plan because of love. That is called the covenant of grace (diatheke in Greek). God placed this covenant while the Israelites were passing through the wilderness and told them to keep the three feasts.
1) The Passover. It is the blessing of salvation.
① It was the time the Israelites came out of the 400-year destiny-like curse through the blood of the lamb.
To us, this symbolizes the covenant of salvation and the blessing of salvation.
② After the fall of Adam in Genesis 3, every life is separated from God and unwittingly bound by the curse of original sin, the curse of Satan, and the curse of hell like destiny.
God did not create us to live this way. Hence, He leads His Son to die and allows us to come out of all curses and granted us to be children and people who will enjoy God’s blessing.
2) The Pentecost. It is a blessing that the saved person will enjoy.
① We are no longer alone the moment we are saved. The Holy Spirit is with us (John 14:16-18, 1 Corinthians 3:16).
This is why the Holy Spirit comes upon the people of God who believe in Christ and receive salvation just as the promise of Acts 2. This is so that we may walk with the Holy Spirit, receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and experience the works of the Holy Spirit within our wilderness-like life.
② Despite being saved, why do I live a life that is lonely, failing, and without answers?
It is because we lose hold of this covenant and blessing of the Pentecost and live according to my own standard, the standard of the flesh, and worldly standard.
3) The Feast of Thanksgiving is also called the Feast Tabernacles or Feast of Ingathering. It is the blessing of life’s conclusion that the saved person will enjoy.
① It is called the Feast of Ingathering because they harvest fruits and put them in storage.
Each of our lives is God’s fruit. Do not misunderstand that you are living your own life. God planted life within me, heals and guides me who is insufficient through the word, and will surely raise me as a witness before the world and posterity. Other fruits will arise through me in that way (evangelism and mission).
② It is called the Feast of Tabernacles (Tent) because they built temporary tents while in the wilderness. They were to never forget that.
Our lives on earth are like building temporary tents. Do not be so infatuated with things of the flesh and world. They are all passing away (1 Corinthians 7:29-31).
③ Then, where is the destination or original hometown we must go to? It is eternal heaven.
It is the new heaven and earth where Christ will reign as the eternal king when He returns (Revelations 21:1-4). This means there is a time set aside where there are no tears or suffering but one where we enjoy eternal life, rest, and peace. Hence, we are told to stack our treasures in heaven, not on earth (Matthew 6:19-20), to look at things above and not of earth (Colossians 3:1-3), and to look to only Christ as we run the race of faith towards that day (Hebrews 12:1-2). We call this journey and/or progress.
- How were they told to keep these feasts? Shouldn’t there be a meaning in keeping this feast?
1) The people of God were told to be joyful during this feast (verse 14-15).
① What were they to be joyful for? It does not say to be joyful for what they have already received.
They were told to be joyful “For the Lord your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.” Thanksgiving is a feast to reflect on the past year and simultaneously to prepare for the upcoming new year. Within this, there are five things to do in advance (see, hold onto, enjoy, experience, and challenge God’s plan in advance).
② The difficult time of this pandemic must become a time to prepare for the future.
Therefore, spend more deep time with God, become healthy, and discover the real mission. Eventually, the person who sees, enjoys, and himself in advance will lead this age and stand in the place of a leader and summit.
③ Who must you share that time with? Aside from rightfully sharing with my family, it says to share with the Levites and especially the foreigners and fatherless and widows.
They are the people who must become oneness in this covenant. This is evangelism and missions. Look to all the people who have given their labor during this feast, and those who may be lonely and accurately plant the covenant.
2) Do not come empty-handed in this feast but give in proportion to the way the Lord has blessed you (verse 16-17).
Thanksgiving is the last core of the three feasts. This is why we prepare and give a special thanksgiving offering as well.
① There is something God wants to train as He teaches this thanksgiving. That is gospelization (evangelization).
The gospel is within these three feasts. The problem is that the gospel must become my gospel, my enjoyment, and my everything. To become my everything means that I have experienced it being that worthy and precious.
② Change everything into thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6-7). God’s absolute power (miracle) will be revealed in that just as promised.
Start by reflecting on what I have received and giving thanks. Later on, you will give thanks in all circumstances (1 Thessalonians 5:18). You will start to give thanks in suffering (Job), give thanks despite knowing you will be thrown into a lion’s den (Daniel), give thanks despite having no harvest (Habakkuk), give thanks before the crisis of death and mighty storms (Paul). They were the witnesses and evangelists of that age. The world and the devil tried to bring them down but failed to do so. The world was not worthy of them (Hebrews 11:38).
Conclusion – We are people who are in the absolute covenant. The absolute solution (Christ), absolute conclusion (World Evangelization), absolute plan (witness) is within that. Change everything into thanksgiving and prepare for the future during this current time of difficulty. May you become those whom the world is not worthy of.
The Feast of Thanksgiving in the Wilderness (Deuteronomy 16:13-17) 11/22/2020 November 22, 2020The Answers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RUTC:
The Water of Life that Flows from the Sanctuary (Ezekiel 47: 6-12) 11/15/2020
During a time when Israel had completely crumbled, God sent them a prophet and answered how they would be restored as the people of God. This is God’s absolute covenant (the absolute solution, absolute conclusion, and absolute power are within this). The main prophet is Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. Those who would be used as witnesses within this absolute solution, absolute conclusion, and absolute power were called the “remnants” in Isaiah and “the army of God” in Ezekiel. Even if there may be those who have completely lost hope like dried bones, there will be works that go beyond simply coming to life if they hold onto only the power of Christ, only the power of the Word, and only the power of the Holy Spirit. Now, they will save the world and become God’s army. Ezekiel’s dream from the passage reconfirms to us what the power of Christ, the power of the word, and the power of the Joly Spirit that we must hold onto and enjoy is. Water flows from the sanctuary and that water saves the whole world. At first, the water comes to the ankles, then to the knee and hip, and could be measured. Later on, the water makes a river and goes into the sea and saves everything (verse 9), by then, the water could not be measured.
- What does the water that flows from the sanctuary signify? It signifies the boundless gospel of Christ (Ephesians 3:8).
1) This gospel saves all life (Romans 1:16-17).
① Even the life that separated from God died from trespasses and sins, and became enslaved to the world will live when they hear the gospel (Ephesians 2:1-5).
As time goes, the world is falling deeper into corruption, various curses and disasters are continuing, and lives are crumbling within that. People will wander with no answers, become obsessive, addicted, depressed and various serious spiritual problems will continue but they will live if the Gospel enters them. It’s not about surviving alone. The fruit that saves and heals the world will come forth through that person (verse 12).
② Only God the Creator can save the world and save lives.
God created the world through the word and the word came to us as life and light through Christ (John 1:1-4, 14).
2) We need to meet Christ who came as this gospel within the word.
People will eventually crumble and die no matter how much they read and study the Bible if they do not meet the gospel of Christ.
① There are historical facts in the Bible. It does not mean simply study history.
Historical facts being recorded is to show how God’s Word was fulfilled in history as evidence.
② There are laws (legalism) in the Bible as well. Some words say to keep the law and to be saved and whole (perfect).
This is what God desires. The problem is that we cannot keep the law and meet God’s standard of righteousness. Why? All life became slaves to sin after Adam (Romans 3:10, 5:12, 6:17). Humans were held by the devil who pulled down Adam and was left with no choice but to follow idolatry and the rotting world. Then why was the law given? To see myself that had no choice but to live that way (Romans 3:20) and to hold onto Christ who died for me and completed the law (Galatians 3:24).
③ So what is the most important core of the Bible? What is the covenant of covenants? It is only Christ (John 5:39, Luke 24:44).
This Christ is the Son of God and is the unique power of God that can save us (Romans 1:4). This Christ firsthand solved our sins and curses with the authority of the Priest, Prophet, and King (Romans 8:1-2), destroyed the works of the devil behind that (1 John 3:8), and became the way to meet God (John 14:6). When we know, accept, and look upon this Christ through only, God’s absolute power and power of the Holy Spirit is revealed (John 7:38-39). At that time, everything we do becomes uniqueness, and recreation that saves the world.
- We must discover and enjoy three things in the word after we meet Christ (John 15:7).
1) There is a covenant that must be fulfilled in the word.
There is a covenant that will be fulfilled in at least five fields (myself, meetings, family, work, region (country and age)). That word comforts me, renews me, and gives me a mission (darakbang/ upper room meeting). God lets His will be known through meetings (team ministry) and heals and uses my family (mission home). I will receive evidence in my work, and it will become doors of evangelism (specialized ministry), and I will stand as one who will save my region (country, age) (regional church). Everything comes to life (verse 9) and it becomes a place for the spreading of nets (verse 10).
2) There is a flow in the word. The passaged says that water flows from the sanctuary and flows into the river, sea, and entire world.
① It is a flow that saves. It is a spiritual flow (John 6:63). That is why one must know how to see the spiritual facts in the Bible.
Simply put, what is the spiritually fallen angel, Satan, from Genesis 1:2 doing (1John 3:8, John 14:30, Ephesians 6:12, Revelations 18:1-3)? On the contrary, what does the Holy Spirit who is the spirit of Christ do? Satan corrupts, creates fights and division, brings sickness, destroys, and kills. The Holy Spirit is the opposite. He allows the fallen to repent, creates unity, heals the sick, restores the broken, and brings the dead to life and makes him into a person who saves.
② The flow that saves is the flow of evangelism.
Noah’s ark was Christ and was a work that saved (Genesis 6:14-20). The covenant of Canaan was the covenant that saved Abraham and all nations (Genesis 12:1-3). The three feasts and tabernacle and temple was a covenant that even saved foreigners (Isaiah 56:7). Why were they sent as slaves and captives? They were sent to save because they would not go otherwise (Isaiah 54:3). It is a great blessing for my life to be one that thinks of evangelism and mission. It is following God’s word and flow.
③ It is the flow of answers.
Evangelism and mission become easier if I receive answers to all my problems. God will attach me with people who need to hear my testimony. Answers will come when I accurately go with the flow (time schedule). The mystery of finding the flow of answers and going into the flow is the pulpit message. There was no such thing as the pulpit message in the Old Testament. Christ comes and Peter shares the word after the Holy Spirit comes upon them in Acts 2. This is the start of the pulpit. The apostles held onto the word had the forum and prayed and that is when all doors opened (Acts 2:42, 1 Thessalonians 2:13). The dream of the water that flows from the sanctuary that saves me and the world signifies this blessing. The flow of the pulpit is important.
3) A journey starts from when holding onto the word and following the word (Covenant Journey, Evangelist Journey, Remnant Journey).
Nothing happens for no reason. It is a journey in which God is with us to fulfill the word. It won't matter whether we go as slaves or captives or if disasters come upon the entire world. The word just needs to be within me (meditation). God sends the heavenly armies of angels and fulfills the word (Psalms 103:20). Paul held onto “the covenant of the ends of the earth” of Acts 1:8 and had a dream and vision of “I must also see Rome” (CVDIP). God fulfills that. In prison, God said to him “you will testify in Rome” (Acts 23:11), and when before a storm He said, “You will stand before Caesar” (Acts 27:24).
Conclusion – We are God’s army that saves and protects the world and me. Look upon only Christ. Firmly hold onto the word of the gospel. Go into the flow of the word. Our life will become a journey that God is with. May you become triumphant believers.
The Water of Life that Flows from the Sanctuary (Ezekiel 47: 6-12) 11/15/2020 November 15, 2020The Answers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RUTC: The Exceedingly Great Army (Ezekiel 37:1-10) 11/08/2020
Something that should never happen to God’s people happened. The nation perished, churches crumbled, and all the posterity became enslaved. It was a time where all hope and the future were lost. If you carefully meditate on the Bible, God countlessly warns that such events will continuously take place during the final days. God does not leave His people to perish. He gave them answers, saved them, and led them to victory and conquest. That is the blessing of world evangelization. God calls them the remnants and the holy seed in Isaiah. In verse 10 of today’s passage which is the core of Ezekiel, they are called the army of God. They were not just any army. They were an exceedingly great army of God.
- Why an army? The Bible emphasizes God’s people as an army at least three times for three reasons.
1) The Israelites were called the army of God from the moment they were saved from Egypt (Exodus 12:41).
Israel had lived as slaves for 400 years in Egypt. It is an inescapable curse, destiny, and fate.
① They came out of the 400-year destiny the moment they killed and spread the blood of the lamb.
What is the blood of the Passover? It is the covenant of Christ. The curse of original sin that I was unaware I was in, the family curse that I did not choose, the curse of Satan of continuous spiritual problems, and the curse of hell where it feels like hell until one actually goes to hell, all ended through His death. We have been liberated. We have become ones who enjoy God’s blessings, not curses.
② They were called the army of God from the moment they came out of Egypt so that they may not lose that blessing once again.
“At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt” (Exodus 12:41). In the eyes of people, they were people who came out of slavery but to God, they were hosts (army). This is our identity the moment we are saved.
③ What and who is this army for? It is an army to protect ourself and the blessing that God has prepared.
The soldier must begin with saving himself. The devil prowls around like a roaring lion to destroy me who has been saved (1 Peter 5:8-9). It is to take away my faith so that I may always live in helplessness, despair, unbelief, and the world. This is the reason God said to Noah, “build an ark for yourself” (Genesis 6:14). When I live, my family and children will all live (Genesis 6:18).
2) When Israel finally conquered Canaan, they were called the army of God.
They were told to differentiate those who could go to war from twenty years old and upward before going into the wilderness (Number 1:3). There were wars in the wilderness, but the most important war was the war in Canaan. It was a war to rule and conquer the land. For this, the commander of the army of the Lord appeared to them before the first war in Jericho (Joshua 5:14-15).
① What does the Canaan War signify? It is the war we fight to establish God’s kingdom in our field.
This is the second reason for needing an army. It is to establish a kingdom and protect it. Veteran’s Day is a day of remembering their sacrifices. Now we must all live as God’s veterans. This land where I study, work, and live is the place to establish the kingdom of God. Who is controlling that field? Our enemy, the forces of darkness, is completely controlling it. It said that the whole earth will be covered in darkness (Isaiah 60:2). The forces of darkness have taken control of all politics, economy, society, and culture (John 14:30, Ephesians 6:12, Revelations 18:1-3).
② Christ leads the war and fights with us in the war (Revelations 17:14).
He has given us His authority (Luke 10:19). Darkness is bound by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of God is established (Matthew 12:28). Pray that darkness may be bound, and the kingdom of God be established during your personal prayer time in your school, work, and business. The forces of darkness that deceive, create conflict and blocks will be bound and all doors (evangelism doors) will open (Matthew 16:18-19). If there is one person that can be with you in this and pray together, that place becomes the kingdom of God (specialized church) (Matthew 18:18-19).
3) God calls the remnant disciples who will save the age and future, soldiers of Christ (2 Timothy 2:3-4).
① All second-generation remnants must hold onto this covenant and identity. The generation does not simply become enslaved and fails when the generation loses hold of this. It goes beyond that. Churches will close doors and become dead churches. That is the dream of the wilderness of dried bones. Why did the Bible leave such pitiful and shameful facts? It was to wake us up during the final days (1 Corinthians 10:11).
② Oppositely, we will become the summit and those who save the 237 nations if we truly stand as soldiers of Christ.
That is the Remnant Age and the Age of RUTC in which the 7 remnants arose, which is what we have been waiting for and praying for.
- Then how can we live as the army of God and soldiers of Christ? He gives us three answers.
1) First, God asks Ezekiel, “can these bones live?” (verse 3).
① The prophet’s reply was faith and confession of faith that believed that only God could carry out. “O Lord God, you know.”
Where does the faith that believes only that only God can carry out come from? That is the faith that has realized the gospel (Romans 1:17-18).
② It is God’s Son, Christ, who came for God to do this Himself (Matthew 16:16-19).
Christ has finished everything (John 19:30), and His life, power, and authority can renew everything (2 Corinthians 5:17).
2) Now God says, “O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord” (verse 4).
① When we truly hold onto God’s word, the word saves, heals, and raises me as a warrior at that time (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
The Word was God and the Word came among us, and it was full of the Father’s glory and truth (John 1:1-14).
② Hence, we must hold onto the word, meditate on it, and make the life that follows the word into a habit and nature (personal system).
That word is shared as a testimony to someone and that person comes to life and rises as a warrior (field system, disciple system).
3) God said that He would breathe life into them(Verse 5).
① The English says, “I will cause breath to enter you. To let “breath enter” means He will fill us with His Spirit.
This expression was used when creating us (Genesis 2:7), recording the Bible (1 Timothy 3:16), and when pouring the filling of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples (John 20:22-23). This signifies the blessing of the filling of the Holy Spirit that the saved person must enjoy.
② The Holy Spirit is already with the one who is saved (1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 1:13, 1 Corinthians 12:3, Galatians 4:6). Now, enjoy His filling.
Seek this blessing when waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, while studying and doing important things, and during sickness and helplessness. He lets us know the deep things of God and grace (1 Corinthians 2:13). His power works in my weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). He lets me overcome my standard and level (Philippians 4:13). The masterpiece, platform, and blessing of the summit comes forth then.
Conclusion – It does not matter if my reality and form look like dried bones. God can do it. We are those who have been called as the army of God. May you all stand, not as an average soldier, but as soldiers and warriors who are victorious in all fields and problems.
The Exceedingly Great Army (Ezekiel 37:1-10) 11/08/2020 November 8, 2020The Answers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RUTC:
God’s Absolute Mission, World Evangelization (Isaiah 60:1-7) 11/1/2020
There are three incomprehensible events in the Bible. It is the event in which the people of God become slaves, captives, and colonized. During the period when Joseph had been sold as a slave, people thanked and respected his family and the Israelites. However, the situation completely changed after Joseph died. Egyptians grew jealous of them and later on, they become slaves. During the time of David, the nation was envied by the world and was a nation that saved the world. Later on, the same people face destruction by Assyria and Babylon and become captives. Why did events like this happen? The Israelites who had become captives returned after 70 years. Zerubbabel, a descendant of David, came forward and rebuilt the temple that was destroyed and restored Israel, but after 200 years, they become colonized again by Greece and Rome. This is not simply history. It shows that the people of God can become enslaved, captives, and colonized by unbelievers and the world. Our posterity could perish like that. With that, a time where the church crumbles, the temple is trampled on, and glory of God falls to the ground may come. This began from the first life, Adam. The life that was created in God’s image, to conquer and rule the world and enjoy glory, crumbled (event of Genesis 3). It lost the image of God, an image of the devil appeared, and instead of conquering and ruling, it became slaves of sin, captives of the world, and colonized by Satan. Then what should God do? Does He leave His chosen people, whom He created in His own image, to perish? No. He gives answers. He saves. He leads them to be triumphant and to conquer. In other words, it is called world evangelization. This is God’s absolute mission (Missio Del). God’s heart (John 3:16), desire (1Timothy 2:4), and dream (Joel 2:28) are within this. He will save, heal, and bless us first for this. It is God’s absolute reason.
- God calls Isaiah and restores three things for this absolute mission of God.
It will not matter what problems come if we restore these three things. Earthquakes, war, and epidemics will continue but it does not matter. God protects and leads the person who has restored these three things into victory. There are a separate blessing and answer we will receive.
1) Gospel restoration.
① Only God Himself can save me. Only God can save the world as well.
He needs to solve the original sin that humans possess (Romans 3:10, 3:23), the works of Satan that continue after Adam (Acts 10:39, Ephesians 6:12), and the curse of eternal hell (Matthew 25:41, Hebrews 9:27). He sent Christ for this (priest, king, prophet).
② The covenant of Christ is the covenant that is continuously given in Isaiah.
He will come among us (Isaiah 7:14) and come with the authority of the king (Isaiah 9:6). The Holy Spirit will rest upon Him (Isaiah 11:2), and He will die for us (Isaiah 53:5) and will remain in us as light and glory (Isaiah 60:1-2).
③ This blessing of Christ is God’s absolute grace and love (Isaiah 43:1-4). We call this the Gospel (Ephesians 2:8-9) The Israelites lost hold of this. What happens if you lose hold of how great God’s grace and love for you are? That is the history of Jews. They put in much zeal and if it does not go well, they are discouraged, fall into despair, and give up. Later on, they corrupt even more. Oppositely, if they think things go well because they are outstanding, they grow arrogant and live a life that judges and criticizes others (Pharisees of Matthew 23).
2) Evangelism and mission restoration.
① God saved me through this gospel and now, He will send me to the world.
This is why in the word “missions” there is a meaning of “commissioning.” Some people send and some are sent.
② “Arise, shine” from the passage signifies this. He gives the light to me within me and sends me.
No matter how dark the world may be, it just needs light. The problem is, what would happen if the person who has the light hides it and does not go to the world? Everyone will wander around, crumble and even the posterity will perish because darkness will continuously cover the world (Jonah is the main example).
③ This is the covenant that is emphasized the most after the Gospel.
God will use us as a light for the nations (Isaiah 49:6), as a witness, leader, and commander before all nations (Isaiah 55:4). God’s church will be used as a house of prayer for all people (Isaiah 56:7), and kings of all nations will come (Isaiah 60:3) which is why it says to prepare the roads and raise the banner for all nations (Isiah 62:10). It said that they will possess the land forever (Isaiah 60:21).
3) Restoration of the remnant who will succeed, continue, and complete the mission of this gospel and missions.
① Originally, the remnants are those who were left behind among the first generation. They seemed like a stump that was cut down, but God had left them behind (Isaiah 6:13, Isaiah 10:21, Isaiah 49:6).
That is where the remaining ones, those who will remain, and those who will leave behind will come from. The first-generation remnant church members are important. You are the platform. Your prayer and devotion will be remembered, and the remnant will stand on top of that.
② The second and third generations are holy seeds that have been scattered on top of this. It is an inexpressible blessing to grow up from a young age while holding onto Christ who is God’s absolute answer and world evangelization which is God’s absolute mission. God will work as much as this covenant becomes imprint, root, and nature. Continuously change and renew me in the covenant even if there are no fruits.
- Make God’s mission into my mission. Preparing for this is called content.
1) First, the content to experience and enjoy this gospel as mine. Prayer content.
① What is prayer? It is enjoying the covenant and identity that God has already given.
A time of holding onto what God has given to me and concentrating on that is needed. If true thanksgiving, healing, and strength come forth in all problems, then my spiritual state will change.
② Restore my scheduled prayer and scheduled worship. Take 10 minutes to meditate before sleeping (meditating the 62 points of the life of an evangelist).
Certainly, pray while thinking about the people to evangelize (field content). It said that they will surely come back (verse 4a).
2) The content to prepare while thinking about how I will be used in the works to save posterity. Future content.
① If you can share three things with the remnant, that time is the RUTC. This is the mission, internship, and forum God has entrusted to each person for world evangelization. Also, continuously be a prayer background. This is the time of shining light on the posterity.
② Pray so that our posterity may be used for world evangelization within my prayer.
There is a remnant that God will use inside the abandoned and lonely posterity. At that time, children who had left will return as well (verse 4b).
3) The content that will receive answers in the workplace and business to where it saves missions and remnants. Financial (economical) content.
① The abundance of the sea and the wealth of nations will come for the works to save missions and the posterity(verse 5-6). Hold onto this covenant and jump into a challenge that has a reason.
② The money I use for evangelism, missions, and the posterity is not being wasted nor will it disappear. It is being planted and stacked. It is an economy of light that will completely break the forces of darkness, an economy that will fulfill God’s mission, and one that saves the church (verse 7).
Conclusion – The other meaning of the mission is my life’s meaning and life’s worth. This is where dreams, visions and the masterpiece come forth.
God’s Absolute Mission, World Evangelization (Isaiah 60:1-7) 11/1/2020 November 1, 2020