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God’s Absolute Reason, World Evangelization (Exodus 3:6-12) 10/25/2020
Last week, we discussed world evangelization in the aspect of covenant completion through Joseph. Today’s word will be about how world evangelization is the reason for everything. David said, “Is there not a cause?” when standing before Goliath. For the saved person of God to live a life that enjoys God’s absolute answer and absolute blessing, there needs to be an absolute reason that leaves God with no choice but to work that way. Discover that as world evangelization. Why did God save me? He will use me who has been saved first to save the world. Why should God heal us who are sick and weak? Because He needs to save the world through me who has been saved. Why should God bless me, my posterity, and business? So that He may bless the world through me who has the evidence of this blessing. How do we come out of the problems and hardships we face? If we are people of God, we must solve that with world evangelization as well. We are always immersed in trying to solve the problem and fall into despair and helplessness there. Once the problem gets solved, it is over. Is that God’s will? We see this in the life of Moses from the passage. I thought I was a failure, but God had an absolute plan to save others who are like me through me who had failed. Why am I this incompetent and lethargic? Incompetence is the state of having no power or ability. Being lethargic means having no energy to do anything when experiencing failure and helplessness, and also having no desire or passion to do things rightfully. This happens when people with power go through depression or spiritual problems. Likewise, I thought my incompetent and lethargic self couldn’t do anything, but it was a time to experience God’s absolute power. This was how people from Moses to all the people who were used by God were used as evangelists who saved the age. Once you realize this, all impossible and despair ways (No Way) become every way (every way) and become a time to save everybody (everybody). Why did problems of this age come? It is because of human’s corrupted greed (2 Timothy 3) as well as the works of the fallen Satan (Revelations 2, 12, 13, 18, 20). However, God will utilize all those times as an opportunity for world evangelization to save all nations (Matthew 24:14). Even this time of hardship is a great opportunity for evangelism and mission for the individual and church who has held onto the reason of world evangelization that will save the world.
- What is the absolute method of God who does World Evangelization?
Moses who once lived as a prince of Egypt became a fugitive and lived in the wilderness for 40 years, and now he is 80 years old (Psalms 90:10). He thought it was the end of everything, but God came to him and made him realize three things.
1) I am the God of Father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob (verse 6).
To save me to save all nations and to bless me to save all nations is the conclusion of God’s covenant. God came to Moses to fulfill this covenant. “All nations will be blessed through you and your offspring,” Jesus has said to us once again,” You will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). World evangelization is the conclusion of conclusions of the covenant, the identity of identities, and the reason above all reasons. God will use the person who relays and carries it over to the next generation.
2) God came to earth to fulfill that absolute plan of God (verse 8). That is the Gospel.
The 400 years of slavery in Egypt that the Israelites experienced is like the fate and curse that man cannot solve.
① God came because I cannot do it on my own. I cannot solve the curse of original sin that works behind all suffering and failure humans face (sin’s nature), the spiritual curse (works of Satan), the eternal curse (the curse of hell). That is why He came in the form of God’s Son and He is Christ (Colossians 1:15-17. Romans 1:16-17).
② He finished all problems with the three authorities of Christ (John 19:30). He came as our Priest died for us and solved all our curses (Romans 8:1-2). He came as our King and crushed the head of Satan (Genesis 3:15) and destroyed the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). He came as our eternal Prophet and became the way (John 14:6) and is with us forever (John 14:16-18). All curses come to an end when Moses went to Egypt and kept the Passover, killed blood, and spread its blood; this signifies all curses coming to an end.
3) To use Moses who realized this gospel, God said that He would be with him (verse 12). This is the method of methods. Blessing of blessings. Old Moses had no power and all he had was his staff, but that staff became one of power when God was with him. Things we grasp without the gospel are eventually meaningless and leads us to crumble. However, the small things become God’s tool in the Gospel. His hands without God are incompetent hands but when God was with him, those hands became healing hands (Exodus 4:1-4). I have nothing. I am incompetent. That is not true. I, whom Christ is with, am one who possesses everything (2 Corinthians 6:9-10).
- If it is true that you are in the Gospel which is God’s absolute solution and absolute method, then start an absolute challenge.
1) Remnants, be thankful that God has called you at your young age and form the foundation, basics, and basis. God chose Moses from a covenantal family (Exodus 2:1). Realize that growing up under parents who possess the covenant is the greatest blessing. By being abandoned in a river, living in an Egyptian palace which was a field of unbelievers, and living the loneliest time in the wilderness, God was preparing Moses. God had Moses prepare three things by experiencing those times.
① The basis is the spirituality of enjoying the relationship with God (preparation of the spiritual summit). When he was young, through his parents, and when in the wilderness he stood before God 1:1. Always consider worship first and enjoy personal prayer.
② Basics are the interpersonal relationships (preparation of the cultural summit). Usually, people are trained in the family. It is training the leadership of having a considerate heart and communication skills for others, etiquette, the sincerity of heart, and responsibility to save people.
③ Foundation is developing a specialty in talent, studies, and workplace (preparation of the skill summit). Hold onto God’s absolute reason for world evangelization and challenge yourself so that it may become uniqueness through God’s blessing.
2) Do you think you are old and too late? No. Go into deep prayer.
That is why if you enjoy the filling of the Holy Spirit, all of my past becomes a message, platform and you will dream a new dream from God (Joel 2:28).
3) Meditate on the ten postures of life that the people who were used by God possessed and receive answers. (Experience of only to enjoy in the time alone, stand before the absolute fact, into an inverse concept that changes the frame of thoughts, the synergy blessing of being with God, choosing crisis into an opportunity, yielding and being victorious rather than competing, the challenge of the summit, the experience of the wilderness, the question that discovers God’s will).
Conclusion – May God’s absolute covenant become my absolute reason. In that, may world evangelization become the reason for everything. Do not live a life of conflict because of other reasons in the world. We are those who have God’s absolute reason.
God’s Absolute Reason, World Evangelization (Exodus 3:6-12) 10/25/2020 October 25, 2020The Answers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RUTC:
The Completion of the Covenant: World Evangelization (Genesis 45:1-8) 10/18/2020
Following Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, today’s word will be about Joseph. Joseph’s life is a model of world evangelization, the completion of the covenant. He was sold as a slave by his brothers but ultimately, God used Joseph to evangelize that age. That was the conclusion for all of Joseph’s pain and suffering, as well as it is ours. All of the problems and disasters of every age also ends with this conclusion (Matthew 24:14). That is the completion of the covenant; world evangelization.
The past months of the Covid-19 pandemic has been very difficult and long. Some say that the 2nd wave will hit now. What kind of God’s covenant should we hold onto? Joseph was able to meet his brothers after becoming the governor (verse 2). How did they meet? The land around Egypt was struck with famine. Two years have passed, but there were many more to go (verse 6). Joseph’s brothers heard that Egypt still had food, so they went to Egypt.
If we are truly sure of the covenant, and we truly are the ones to do this world evangelism, then God will bless us this way. If we are the ones to give answers to personal problems, family problems, and the problems of this age, then there are separate answers that we will receive. We know how God blessed the Antioch Church when a famine hit. They were blessed financially and were able to support the Jerusalem Church (Genesis11:28-30), and that was when they commissioned Paul and Barnabas as world missionaries (Acts 13:1-3). From the time of Abraham, the final conclusion of this covenant was this. “All nations on earth will be blessed through you” (Acts 12:3, 26:4, 28:14).
- How did God fulfill world evangelism in that age through Joseph?
God gives us the absolute covenant and fulfills it through his absolute method.
1) God sent Joseph to the nation that was moving the world as a superpower – Egypt.
① A superpower is a nation where the best of the age gather. Those people gather to move and control the world. If we are not careful, we become extremely stressed by the competitive nature of schools, workplaces, and businesses. Drugs, endless crimes, and spiritual problems will continue. The Bible prophesizes this (the seven superpowers, Revelations 18:1-3).
② We are living in the United States, the superpower of this age. What does God desire from us? He wants us to hold onto the conclusion of the covenant. God has planned for you and your family, your posterity, and your church to save this world. He will bless us and use us to save this dying land.
2) Joseph faced many difficulties in Egypt but that did not matter. God was with him.
① God was with Joseph, with everyone around Joseph, and with everything that Joseph did.
Satan tries to destroy us with many problems, but as long as Christ is with us, he can’t (Revelations 17:14).
② What is the start of evangelism? It is when others and the world see that God is with you. Potiphar saw that God was with Joseph (Genesis 39:3), the prison guard saw this (Genesis 39:23), and the King of the palace saw this (Genesis 41:38). “No matter what circumstance, and no matter what environment, God is with me.” We just need to hold onto this. This is what Jesus trained his disciples (Mark 3:14, Matthew 28:20). When you enjoy this 24 hours, God will save the world through you.
3) God gave Joseph evidence wherever he went.
① God gave evidence when Joseph was living as a slave in Potiphar’s house. Even when he cleaned and labored, the owner acknowledged him.
God’s blessings were upon Joseph and everything in the house and the field (Genesis 39:5). Receive God’s blessings at your lowest place. It will not be something small. It will be a beginning for God (Psalm 78:70).
② God gave evidence when Joseph unjustly went to prison. Joseph stood as someone that gave answers for people he met.
He was so diligent that the prison guard untrusted the prison’s work. He also prayed deep prayers. God gave him the wisdom to give answers to important individuals’ dreams. We are people with the answer of Christ. God will change everything into evidence when we stand as witnesses of Christ.
③ Ultimately, Joseph went to the palace. He became the governor and stood as someone that saved the age. Joseph gave the answer of the age there. He saw in advance that there will be famine all over the world. God gave him that knowledge. God opened Joseph’s eyes so that he can see the age (worldview, view of history and eschatology). Remnants must become people that have and give answers at important places. Remnants must study to see the problem of the age. There, you will be able to see the spiritual reality (Revelations 12:17), and discover the heavenly mandate, calling, and missions from God.
- Whatever you do and whatever you are in the midst of, solve everything with the conclusion of world evangelism.
If Joseph did not have this conclusion, he may have fallen into anger, despair, depression, and mental illnesses.
1) Be sure of your identity. You must have assurance in your identity in life, at work, and in your businesses.
① Who am I? Your existence itself is important. You are someone that God hand-picked, saved, and will use.
Why must we do the things we do? It is to give the answer of Christ, save the church, the world, the future and the posterity with the blessings we receive, Everything will be an absolute journey.
② If Joseph was sure of his identity, his dream was a dream of world evangelism.
What you put inside your heart and prayers come out in your dreams, reality, and the future.
2) Realize where I am(my present address). Stay in God, and enjoy Him. Then your content for prayer and challenges will come.
① Challenge at things that others don’t do and dislike. Take is as something that God allowed you to do. Without any competition, you can hold onto the covenant of only, uniqueness, and recreation. Then, it can become a system.
② Devote yourselves to places abandoned and deserted. God’s hidden individual went into slavery and prison. Do not waste your time making fake connections. You can find hidden individuals like Joseph. Keep in mind the 6 tools (leverage, content, transmission, platform, masterpiece, outsource).
③ Do the work of silently changing the flow of your field. It is possible because there is light inside you. There is a flow of the forces of darkness. We must change that flow into a flow of the holy spirit and blessings.
Conclusion – The completion of the covenant is world evangelism. It is God’s absolute time schedule. When you realize that your problems that you are going through is a message that will save people like you and a platform for world evangelism, it will no longer be a problem. When will this pandemic end? For evangelists like us, it is the best opportunity. Our conclusion is world evangelism, and as we stand in this flow, we are God’s conclusion.
The Completion of the Covenant: World Evangelization (Genesis 45:1-8) 10/18/2020 October 18, 2020The Answers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RUTC:
Into the Covenant of Restoration and Blessing of Bethel (Genesis 35:9-15) 10/11/2020
The covenant Abraham held onto was the original covenant and the covenant his son Isaac held onto was the covenant of succession, and Jacob, Abraham’s grandson from the passage held onto the covenant of restoration.
Why is it called restoration? The covenant and blessing that one generation held onto had become faint after two generations. The result of that was lifelong suffering and created extensive times of pain. The difference between America 100 years ago and America now after two generations are beyond words. Churches are closing, seminary students are decreasing, and the few pastors who are left are exhausted and barely enduring (today happens to be the National Pastor Appreciation Sunday). Pastors are not the only problem. All Christian families and children are going down the same road. This is the reason we pray and devote to the remnant ministry with a consuming passion. The covenant we are holding onto needs to blossom and bear fruit in the next 30 years, but what should we do the leaves are withering and falling? We must look at Jacob and look into the future to that point, hold onto the covenant, and discover the absolute mission. Jacob surely knew the covenant and was born into a family and household that enjoyed this blessing. However, all problems began when he deceived his father and brother and attempted to receive God’s blessing. Jacob flees from his brother and father and goes to Haran and gets married there, but even his marriage did not go smoothly. He spent all his days supporting his uncle who was also his father-in-law. He finally made it to his homeland but a conflict with his brother awaited him. His daughter gets sexually assaulted by descendants of Canaan and is at the brink of war. At the most despairing time, Jacob made an important resolution. All pain and problems ended and became a new start to restore everything that God had prepared. That was the incident of going up to Bethel from the passage (verses 1-8). God ended the enemy to where Jacob no longer needed to go to war (verse 5).
- Why did Jacob have to live this kind of life?
When we face many problems and suffering, they may be environmental problems, reality problems, and interpersonal problems.
1) However, we must first consider the spiritual responsibility of the parent when a child faces failure and suffering.
① Even if we may be unable to help in every other aspect, we must clearly relay God’s absolute plan and absolute covenant for our Children within my life and prayer. His father Isaac failed to do this. When Isaac had twins God said, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided, the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger” (Genesis 25:21-23).
② Isaac lost hold of God’s absolute plan and poured everything into the first son (Genesis 25:28).
The first son was at a level of selling his birthright to his younger brother, and later Jacob disguised as his brother and received his father’s blessing.
2) Jacob himself had problems.
① He received the covenant through his parents. However, it only became greed for God’s blessing.
② So when Jacob was fleeing, God Himself came to Jacob and told him about the covenant (Genesis 28:13-15). God revealed to Jacob that He was the God of Jacob’s grandfather Abraham and his father Isaac. He told him that the land he laid on will be given to him (Canaan Covenant and Covenant of Christ), all nations will be blessed through him and his descendants (evangelism and mission, the covenant of world evangelization), and said that God would not leave him for the sake of fulfilling this covenant (Covenant of Immanuel). Jacob set up a pillar in that place, poured oil on it, named it Bethel, and prayed a prayer of an oath. However, Jacob lost hold of the covenant his whole life and did nothing like his oath. He lived almost like a nonbeliever.
- What is the answer that God gives within this reality? Now God Himself will restore everything.
God used all the problems and incidents that Jacob experienced. All the problems and incidents we face are time to restore everything that God has prepared for us. God confirmed three absolute covenants.
1) God first changed Jacob’s name to Israel (verse 10). It is a covenant of identity.
“Israel” means “to be ruled by God.” It is the blessing that God’s people and children will enjoy. It was a name he received when he broke his hip socket from wrestling with God at the Jabbok River, and it was confirmed once again. Jacob’s entire life was about competing and wrestling with someone. Once he lays himself down and receives God’s reign, that ends (filling of the Holy Spirit).
2) This is the covenant of God’s absolute plan that He desires to do through the saved Children of God (verse 11-12).
① God will let it be so that I will enjoy God’s blessing even without struggling to receive blessings (covenant of the source of blessings).
He says, “I am God Almighty, be fruitful and multiply”. Lay down my standards and greed and enjoy the blessings from God.
② He said, “A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body” (Covenant of Posterity, Summit Covenant).
Look to the time schedule that will come through the posterity of our flesh, our spiritual posterity, and remnants. You will see what you need to challenge to when you see this in advance, hold onto it and enjoy it (heavenly mandate, calling, commission, and mission).
③ God said that He would give Jacob the land that was given to Abraham and Isaac and that it would also be given to his descendants (covenant of world evangelization).
“Give land” signifies that He will entrust all fields (school, work, business). He will give the evidence there. Why? It means to do evangelism and mission there. It is my mission field. Do everything as you pray to receive this evidence.
3) There is a resolution that Jacob made while holding onto this covenant (verse 14). He found an absolute mission that included a personal contract with God.
① He builds a stone pillar at the place where God spoke to him. He left a sign at the place where he made a personal contract with God.
Write down a covenant oath regarding what kind of covenant and mission you will challenge to before God when you go to school, receive a position, bear children, and receive important answers. Reading this once becomes your confession of faith.
② It said that he poured a drink offering on it. Pouring wine on the offering signified that he would devote himself with all his life. It carries a meaning of martyrdom of staking one’s life (2 Timothy 4:6). This is the determination of evangelism disciples.
③ It said that he poured oil on top. Pouring oil signifies the work of the Holy Spirit.
He believed and prayed that God would help me in the personal contract, devotion, and mission I hold onto through the Holy Spirit and triumph over the works of the forces of darkness. Pray for the filling of the Holy Spirit over everything. God will help, guide, and give evidence.
Conclusion – We consider what it would have been like if Abraham directly taught Jacob (generational education). Abraham experienced much pain and suffering, held onto the covenant with a consuming passion, and relayed it. Later on, Jacob relays this covenant to Joseph and blesses His grandchildren. Bethel was a place where Jacob deeply confirmed and experienced God. May the House of God be established in you.
Into the Covenant of Restoration and Blessing of Bethel (Genesis 35:9-15) 10/11/2020 October 11, 2020The Answers of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
Into the Blessings of the Covenant of Succession (Genesis 26:1-5) 10/4/2020
Last week, we confirmed the fact that God has called us individually within the same covenant and blessings as those of Abraham. The word 2 Corinthians 15:17, “If anyone is in Christ, the creation has come,” has at least three spiritual meanings.
First, it means that from the moment you accepted Christ, God’s seed of life has been planted in you (Isaiah6:13 “holy seed”). It may seem like nothing has changed, but that seed will grow and bear fruits that will save the world (John 15:16).
Second, it means that through you, who is in Christ, God will begin new works for the sake of your family, family line, and the world (Isaiah 43:18-19). Even if you lack in every way (Nobody, Nothing), you will be the ones to save and bless all people (Everybody, Everything). Is there a kind of pain, weakness, or failure that only you know? God will make all of that into evidence that will allow you to save people just like you.
Third, it means that it will be the beginning of God’s work, which will be to relay this absolute covenant and absolute blessings to our posterity and the world. It is confirmed in Genesis 18:18-19. Abraham becomes great, and through him, all nations are blessed. God says that he has chosen him, so that “he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
God takes Abraham through his last test on Mount Moriah, and promises him, “through your offspring, all nations on earth will be blessed” (Genesis 22:17-18). “Your offspring” means three things. First, it is Christ who will come as Abraham’s descendant (Galatians3:16). Second, it is Isaac, who is his biological offspring. Third, it indicates all saved people of God (Galatians 3:29). All of this is about the blessings of our posterity (biological posterity, church posterity, field posterity). This is the blessing of raising remnants. This is God’s absolute blessing.
- Make this covenant of posterity entirely your own. That is God’s greatest interest.
Within prayer (worship, scheduled, continuous, 24, concentration), this covenant will become your imprint, root, and nature as it becomes fulfilled.
1) When we received salvation, God has chosen and called us as the ones to relay this covenant and blessing (Genesis 18:18-19).
① Abraham received his calling at the city Ur of Chaldea. It is a region concentrated with the Babel Tower’s idols and demonic culture (like Korea). It is where the best of the best were gathered (like the United States). That was where Abraham was raised, with many spiritual problems. When he headed for Canaan, he was empty-handed (Isaiah 51:2).
② Abraham renewed himself countlessly, ultimately raised 318 soldiers, and his descendants became a great nation. Just like Abraham, we only need to hold onto God’s absolute covenant, continuously renew ourselves, and challenge ourselves (prayer challenge, financial challenge, missions challenge)
2) Go all-in on how you will relay this covenant and blessings to your children. You will find your all-change and all-out.
① Pray as you contemplate on holy worries that will make God happy (2Corinthians 7:10)
You must do this as you age, and when you do this while you are young, you will be able to enjoy the blessing of raising many remnants.
② In the passage, Isaac faces a very difficult time in Canaan. However, God makes everything into tremendous answers and blessings, just as He had promised Abraham. Every time, there is something God said to remind Isaac. “I will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham” (3). “Because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him” (5). “For the sake of my servant Abraham” (24).
3) The resolution and absolute faith of Isaac, who will succeed this covenant and blessing.
① A famine hit the land just as it did in Abraham’s time (1). Why was this emphasized?
It may seem like a spiritually inherited problem. Do not be deceived. We have been completely freed.
② Isaac holds onto the sure covenant, listens to God and does not leave Canaan.
He transcended his parent’s spirituality (Genesis 12:10). That is why remnants must hold onto the covenant of saving the adult generation. It does not matter even if your parents are non-believers. Be thankful for bringing you into this world. You are the one that will be used importantly.
- All remnants must find your CVDIP in terms of how much you will receive answers and devote yourselves.
The 1st generation is there to help the remnants discover their dreams, visions, and missions within the absolute covenant that God gave them. This is why we must help them see ahead, possess ahead, enjoy ahead, conquer ahead, and challenge ahead (planting missions, internships, life forum). From this comes the blessing of “platform.” It is beyond making a living for yourself. People, finances, and disciples will gather around you.
1) Isaac planted crops and reaped a hundred-fold because the Lord blessed him (12-13).
① He had so many flocks and herds and servants.
Even the flocks and the servants were blessed through Isaac. This is also that Joseph enjoyed (Genesis 39:5).
② Blessings regarding everything you do (studies, jobs, businesses). This blessing is called “platform for saving businesses.”
As Obadiah worked as a public official, he hid and supported a hundred prophets that the king was trying to eliminate. That is how blessed he was (1King 18:4). Simon, who provided a place for Peter to pray, was a leatherworker. Lydia, who supported Paul, was a seller of purple cloth. All of Romans 16’s protectors, coworkers, and supporters received this blessing and were used for the work of saving Rome.
2) God gave Isaac the blessing of discovering a well wherever he went (19-22).
① Isaac yielded to everyone who grew jealous, but God gave him the blessing of a well everywhere he went (source of wells, Esek, Sitnah, and Rehoboth).
Water is a source of life. Wherever he went, the work of saving lives arose. This is evangelism and missions.
② Joseph saved people even in prison. This is called the “platform for saving the field.”
Deacon Phillip went into Samaria to preach the gospel, and such works arose (Acts8:4-8).
3) God raised Isaac as someone who received the King’s blessings (26-31).
① The king came to Isaac and acknowledged that he was blessed by the Lord. Isaac was even able to have a feast with the king.
Obadiah was King Ahab’s secretary of state. It was his faith in God that he hid a hundred prophets that the king wanted to kill, but he was also someone that the king could not get rid of. He deemed even the non-believer king precious.
② God led all the remnants of the bible in front of the king through these blessings. It was to save that age. This is called the “platform for saving the age.”
Just like Abraham from last week (King of Egypt, Sodom, Philistine), this is the blessing of the summit that will save the summit.
Conclusion – To someone who has the absolute covenant, problems and crises are an opportunity. Through prayer, challenge yourself to see ahead, possess ahead, enjoy ahead, conquer ahead, an fulfill ahead. May you stand as the successor and courier of this covenant and enjoy the blessing of the platform of this age.
Into the Blessings of the Covenant of Succession (Genesis 26:1-5) 10/4/2020 October 4, 2020The Answers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RUTC:
Into the Original Covenant and Blessing (Genesis 12:1-4) 09/27/2020
Last week, we said that there is a family and household that was used by God despite the age being in much hardship. Three households were used in the conquest of Canaan which seemed impossible. The household of Moses, the Levite tribe (Exodus 2:1). Caleb’s household, the tribe of Judah. Joshua’s household, the tribe of Joseph. If a few households like this arise within the entire Upper Room and our church, it will change the age. This week, we will give much thought to the first person who held onto the Canaan covenant. It is Abraham from the passage. Abraham is not merely only the first of the Judah ancestry. Matthew 1:1 says, “This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.” This shows how accurately the covenant was fulfilled before the coming of Christ and explains how Abraham and his descendant David was used in that. Galatians 3:29 states that if we belong to Christ then we are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. Hold onto this original covenant and blessing.
- There are at least three important meanings when using the word original.
1) Original, as stated, means the beginning.
Depending on who started it and what began, the people around and the following people are influenced.
① What does original sin mean? As one man, Adam, committed unbelief and disobedience, all of us who were born after lived under sin, death, and curses (Romans 5:12). Even if it seems unfair, it is how it is.
② Someone else came as the first or original person. The very Son of God had to come because we, the descendants of Adam, cannot do it on our own.
He is Christ. By obeying God’s will, all lives gained life (Romans 5:19). More importantly, if anyone is in Christ, they have another new start (2 Corinthians 5:17).
2) There is a blessing that we, who are the originals or firsts who started in Christ, need to enjoy.
① That is why verse one said to Abraham “Go from your country, your people, and your father’s household.”
There is a flow of blessing and a flow of failure and curses in that family and household. Be thankful for the good things and develop them. The problem is the flow of curses and failure. Do not be held by that. We have been freed in Christ.
② The blessing promised to Abraham in verses 2-3 is the blessing we will enjoy in Christ.
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great and you will be a blessing.” It is a promise of blessings. It says, “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who cure you.” It is a promise of absolute victory (Romans 8:30-37).
③ What is the conclusion in verse three? “All people on earth will be blessed through you.”
It is the blessing of a witness who will save the world and a blessing of the evangelist. If this is truly a promise given to us who are saved, we must grasp it with our life on stake. These are not simply words of comfort and encouragement. It is a covenant that will surely be fulfilled.
3) This original is a platform for the future.
① God desires for the covenant and blessing that I enjoy to continue, be relayed, and completed in the future and posterity.
There are instances where the posterity degenerates or discontinues what the original had and also people who develop that and create greater results. We must make it so that the posterity has no choice but to inherit the original. This is the correct delivery.
② This is why God said He will make me into a source of blessings and raise me as a witness of that blessing.
Abraham experienced many conflicts and failures but became a person who had clear faith and evidence. The event in which he offered his son as a sacrifice was the last test. His son saw that. It was the best covenant delivery.
- The three contents and systems that must be created within the life of this original.
Things will gather around us as much as we do this (Isaiah 60:1-7). This is called the blessing of the platform.
1) We must completely imprint, root, and nature this covenant in our prayer (spiritual summit).
① What is prayer? It is holding onto God’s promise, looking upon God, and enjoying God. It is the enjoyment of the relationship with God.
This is what Abraham excelled at. He built an altar (worship prayer) wherever he went and always held onto the word there.
② Problems are the content of that prayer, and what is important is the system to enjoy that prayer for 24 hours.
Prayer is not merely crying out and writhing. The content of prayer is the covenant. This is why there is prayer when one accurately listens to the message and organizes it. Continuous training is needed for prayer to become a system. Prayer within continuous worship, individual scheduled prayer, and a continuous prayer that looks upon God in one’s thought and looks for God’s will. 24-hour prayer is a stage where the very life I live becomes prayer. My heart is always with God. David excelled in this (Psalm 19:14).
2) Economical blessing (skill summit) is one of the important blessings within the given evidence
We do not need an economy that only makes ends meet. It is the economy that can save the church, save the posterity, and save the world.
① Abraham who went to Canaan empty-handed received the blessing in which 318 trained men were formed.
He saved his nephew Lot when war broke out in the land of Sodom and was enough to give tithes with the possessions from the war. When one is at this point, we call it a financial content and financial system. Abraham did not just become rich. He had a clear content and actualized it. Giving tithes to the high priest was basic (Genesis 14:18-20) and he was enough to refuse all the things the king of Sodom offered him aside from the share that belonged to his men (Genesis 14:21-24).
② When God blessed America and Sunday schools were raised and missionaries were commissioned to the world, there were figures like Wanamaker and Rockefeller in the United States.
There are no businessmen and entrepreneurs like them anymore in America. Presently, the richest men in America are all unbelievers, New Age, and idol worshippers, and there are even some Satan worshippers.
3) Abraham showed evangelism and mission everywhere he went (culture summit).
Abraham’s life was evangelism. God gave him the evidence. This is where the evangelism content and evangelism system were formed.
① People saw God’s work that was revealed to Abraham (Genesis 21:22). This is the evangelism content.
The evidence was usually revealed before kings (Pharaoh in Genesis 12, nephew Lot and King of Sodom in Genesis 14, King of Philistia in Genesis 20).
② Lastly, it was the evidence that was shown when buying the burial site of Sarah after her death (Genesis 23). A system had been formed.
The people call Abraham “lord” and tell him to use any land he wants. He was acknowledged by the people. He eventually paid to use the land, but later on, it becomes the land of Hebron of which David’s kingdom is established.
Conclusion – Hold onto the original covenant. That itself is the content. Challenge yourself to a system. You will enjoy the blessing of the platform that will save the world.
Into the Original Covenant and Blessing (Genesis 12:1-4) 09/27/2020 September 27, 2020The Answers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RUTC:
As for Me and My Household, We Will Serve the Lord (Joshua 24:14-18) 9/20/2020
Last week, we reflected on the covenant, devotion, and challenge that was grasped by Caleb who chose the land of Hebron, which was the last obstacle before the conquest of Canaan. The conquest of Canaan was completed through the devotion of Caleb and his family, and it said that the land had rest from war (Joshua 14:15). According to the passage, there is another important devotion by an individual and his family in the Canaan conquest. It was Joshua and his family. Joshua saw the remnant age that would begin in Canaan and gave the last message. The message had said to never lose hold of the covenant under any circumstances and to never live a life that loses hold of God. He knew a time like that may come and prepared. There may be difficult times ahead. The United States saved the world when it was used by God. However, present churches in the U.S are crumbling and closing doors. What should we prepare and what kind of devotion should we offer now? Joshua resolved to do at least three things inside his confession, “But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
- It says, “as for me and my household.” It was the mission that held onto God’s absolute plan for my family and household.
This is the beginning of the mission. No matter how difficult the world is, there is a family and household that has been prepared to be used within that. Noah realized this during the flood. That family was used. Abraham realized this before going into Canaan. God used Caleb and Joshua in the Canaan conquest when they realized this.
1) God saved me to use me who saves my family, household, and the world (source (of the) covenant, original covenant).
The covenant given to Abraham when he was called was “you will be a [source of] blessing” (Genesis 12:1-3). Those who are saved in Christ are those who will enjoy this blessing of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). This is why the covenant I hold onto is important.
① We must actually hold onto the fact that we have become those who have been freed from all sin, curses, fate (household inheritance), and eternal curses and will enjoy heavenly blessings (Romans 8:1-2. Ephesians 1:3-5). My entire family will live because of the covenant that I hold onto.
② All of Satan’s authority that continuously deceives us will crumble and we must enjoy the whole authority of victory in Christ (1 John 3:8, 1 Corinthians 15:15, Luke 10:19). There is a spiritual victory in my family as much as I am spiritually victorious.
③ The Holy Spirit who is with us in Christ is our eternal way and our future (John 14:6, John 14:16-18). This is the covenant that He is with me (with) and with us (Immanuel) and within all our works and matters (oneness).
2) If this covenant is evident then all the problems my family and I face is a time of receiving God’s absolute evidence (covenant of the witness).
① So do not waiver no matter what the problem is and do not let it be a scar.
Scars that come from family relationships can be fatal. It said that your family can become your enemy (Matthew 10:36). However, it is a time of opening your spiritual eyes. We must be triumphant before Satan’s eyes. Afterward, you will realize the heavenly mandate.
② That is why the family must become the best team. Create a spiritual summit team. This time of worship in your home is the opportunity. The confession “but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” was possible because a team had already been formed in that family.
③ Especially, discard all unbelief concerning our children. God has called them as the remnants of this age. God prepared them (Ephesians 1:3-5). God chose them (1 Peter 2:9). God planted a holy seed within that (Isaiah 6:13). God will raise them (Genesis 45:5). God will make everything into evidence that will save the world and use them as witnesses (Acts 1:8).
3) Think and pray about how you will relay and inherit this covenant to the posterity (covenant of inheritance).
This is why Deuteronomy 6:4-9 said to love this covenant and God who gave this covenant with all your life and to stake your life in relaying it.
① Joshua is Joseph’s descendent. Joseph properly relayed the covenant. What was Joseph’s last will before his death? He requests that his bones be buried in Canaan when God leads the people into Canaan in accordance with God’s covenant. What meaning is in dead bones? It was so that the posterity may hold onto how God accurately fulfilled all covenants. How many generations had passed after Joseph up to Joshua? Joshua did not forget that and carried out the work (verse 32).
② Four judges come forth from the tribe of Joseph. The representative figures are Deborah and Gideon.
- It says, “we will [only] serve the Lord. It is the mission of successful worship.
When does God fulfill this covenant and give evidence in our life?
1) It is when we worship God who gave us this covenant. Worship is when we look upon, exalt and rejoice God. Humans were created as beings who worship God and enjoy all blessings prepared by God from the beginning (Genesis 1:27-28). People refuse God. They abandon God and even go against Him. That is the devil’s goal (Genesis 3:5).
2) How much did Joshua cherish worship?
① When he was growing while doing an internship under Moses, it said that he “did not leave the tent” (Exodus 33:11). All people who were used by God lived a life of worshipping God and enjoyed all blessings within that. Abraham built an altar everywhere he went (Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:4,8, Genesis 22:2). Moses was someone who worshipped as if he was facing God (Exodus 33:11), and David also received everything in worship (2 Samuel 6:15-16, 2 Samuel 7:1-13).
② He was a person who stayed awake at dawn and worshipped God when crossing the Jordan River and breaking down the wall of Jericho (Joshua 3:1, 6:12). Successful worship is the success of everything in life. The core of the ten things that Rockefeller’s mother left as her will is the blessing of worship.
3) What is the most important core of worship? It is important to give but you must also receive. That is the word.
What Joshua did well was always following the word. All of his ways became prosperous (Joshua 1:7-8, Isaiah 55:11). The word should be communicated within families as well. The kingdom of God and God’s reign will take place in that family at that time.
- “My family and household will serve the Lord.” It is the mission of saving everyone.
Although everyone else goes down the path of unbelief, at least my family will commit to a correct devotion and go down a path of saving everyone. If even one person resolves to do this, that home will be used to save the world. That home is the mission home.
1) Find the mission in which even the smallest thing my family does is for God’s glory and one of which my family is devoted to doing things others do not.
2) Start with small things in saving and helping at least one person with what my family has. This is an internship.
3) Always be thankful for what God has given and hold conversations that only give glory to God. That is the forum.
If one church officer, pastor, businessperson, and specialist come forth from this, that person can change and save the world.
Conclusion – Hold onto the three covenants and find the mission within that. God will raise the family and household that God will use through me. Successful worship is the success of everything in life. My household will be used in the works of saving all 237 countries and nations.
As for Me and My Household, We Will Serve the Lord (Joshua 24:14-18) 9/20/2020 September 20, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
The Challenge of Hebron and the Kingdom of God (Joshua 14:6-12) 9/13/2020
One blessing that we enjoy when we receive God’s reign is the blessing of being able to challenge for works that pleases God. This is the sermon that Peter who was a failure preached for the first time with the passage of Joel 2:28 after experiencing the works of the Holy Spirit in Mark’s Upper Room. There is a well-known saying by William Carey who lived as a shoemaker in his early life, experienced the works of the Holy Spirit and became a missionary to save India. “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” Edison who changed the 20th century said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” It may seem like he is emphasizing effort, but he is actually highlighting the one percent inspiration. He said he had a percent of inspiration that others did not have. He said the secret to this inspiration was his prayer. When asked the secret to be able to work so passionately even in his eighties, he said, “it is because of my faith towards God who has prepared an eternal world.” Caleb who an 85-year-old man makes an important decision and challenges himself in the passage. He asked for permission to conquer the land of the Anakite descendants whom the Israelites feared the most. Hebron was the land that brought mourning and despair to the Israelites because of the ten spies to Canaan who reported that this land could never be conquered by them forty years ago. It was a land that they had still failed to resolve even at a time when they should have completed the conquest of Canaan. This land becomes Jerusalem later on and the land of Caleb’s descendant who comes as Kind David. More importantly, Christ comes through the descendants of David. Although it may seem like there are problems, what would you do if that was a time of opportunity for God’s absolute answer and absolute future? At that time, some people push off work to others, give up, and run away, and those who devote and challenge themselves.
- How were these devotions and challenges possible?
The world calls it passion and spiritually it is called faith, nonetheless, it is from God. The foundation is the covenant from God.
1) It is a prophesied covenant. It is a covenant of an eternal answer and eternal conclusion.
We must find everything in the prophesied covenant. That is the Bible. God said that he does nothing without revealing through the word (Amos 3:7). Therefore, we must discover three things when reading, listening, and meditating on the word. It is the comfort and courage of God that is given through the word, things we must realize and renew, and challenging for the future that God has prepared.
① The covenant of Christ who is the eternal answer is within the prophesied covenant.
It was that Christ would come to solve the three fundamental problems of life that humans can never solve. Disbelief and disobedience to God (original sin) and being separated from God (curse) resulted in a life that is oppressed by the world and the devil (spiritual problem). Christ who will eternally fulfill this covenant would come to the land of Canaan. This is why Canaan was called the promised land. Abraham first realized this (John 8:56), then Moses realized (Exodus 3:18).
② God will save all nations and people of the earth through us who met Christ first.
This is what God promised Abraham as He sent him off to Canaan (Genesis 12:1-3). He will save me to save the world and bless me to bless the world. Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8 emphasizes once again that Christ has given this covenant to us. Christ needs to return, and a time of a new heaven and earth needs to open (Acts 1:11, Revelations 21:5). This is the eternal conclusion.
2) It is a fulfilled covenant. The covenant being fulfilled is called evidence. The Bible is a book that has recorded both the covenant and evidence.
① If we realize and meditate on the Bible a little more deeply, we will know how accurately this covenant has been fulfilled.
Christ came as the Bible said, died, and resurrected and is with us just as the Bible says (1Corinthians 15:3-8). Paul confessed that this Christ came to him and that a person as inadequate as him is being used like this.
② What kind of fulfilled covenant did Caleb hold onto?
First, it was relayed through Moses. He confirmed this fulfilled covenant within the Israelites’ history in the wilderness and his life. Is it difficult? It is not a problem. We must be raised as the witnesses of this age once again. It is time to receive that evidence.
3) It is a covenant that will continuously be fulfilled. If it is already fulfilled, is there more to fulfill? It is the covenant we must relay.
Even if we may pass away, the covenant we relay to our posterity must be inherited, fulfilled, and completed.
① Caleb saw that the remnant who would remain as the inheritor of the covenant of Canaan would arise and challenged.
② He chose this land of Hebron that no one wanted and devoted himself because he saw this in advance.
It is through Othniel, Caleb’s son-in-law, that this land is conquered, and through his descendants would King David be born.
- He held onto the covenant and gave a confession of faith and God gave him the strength to conquer that land.
It is God that allows us to embrace God’s desire within us and challenge ourselves, and God who carries out those works (Philippians 2:13).
1) Train the prayer of enjoying the kingdom of God.
The heavenly background helps me, the Holy Spirit holds onto me, angels are mobilized at that time, the enemy the devil that blocks us crumble, and all doors open (Matthew 16:19, Revelations 3:8). This is the spiritual prayer that all believers must enjoy.
2) While praying this prayer of enjoying the kingdom of God takes place, I experience the filling of the Holy Spirit and gain strength to follow through.
How could an 85-year-old man compare to a man in his forties? The land of the Anakites was a fortified city. However, he believed that God would give him the strength to follow through (verse 12). If we look upon God 24 hours, no one can stop us (Isaiah 40:31).
- Hold onto this covenant, always enjoy the kingdom of God through prayer, and challenge to do three things (mission).
1) Challenge yourself to the way that no one else does and goes (way of nobody). That becomes only.
This is only possible through the gospel. Save the multiethnic and all 237 nations with this gospel, and there is a person that will be healed only through this gospel. Think about this in your school, workplace, and all meetings. These thoughts are ones that please God (2 Corinthians 7:10).
2) Challenge yourself to the abandoned and empty place around me. That becomes uniqueness.
Find something that only you who has the gospel and only you can do. Gospel content is needed for them (media ministry). This work may call for loss and persecution. However, there is an answer and blessing we received set aside (Mark 10:29-31).
3) He will gather people around me. It is the blessing and vessel of the platform (Isaiah 60:1-4). Recreation to save the world will be fulfilled.
Works that change the world will arise (transmission). You became a slight platform (leverage) and they will stand as another disciple (outsourcing).
Conclusion – Our movements make works. It creates the works of the kingdom of God. Those works begin in the challenge of those who hold onto God’s covenant and believe that He will fulfill that covenant. May you become believers who enjoy this blessing.
The Challenge of Hebron and the Kingdom of God (Joshua 14:6-12) 9/13/2020 September 13, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
Conquest of Jericho and God’s Kingdom (Joshua 6:1-7) 9/6/2020
In order to conquer Canaan, there were three obstacles that the Israelites had to face. It was the Jordan River from last week, and the Wall of Jericho of this week. Next week, it will be Hebron. Canaan conquest is the blessing of conquering the world with the gospel (world evangelization). The core of it is that God himself will have to break down Jericho and the city of Hebron, as He split the Jordan River. There was no way that the Israelites, who were slaves for 400 years and have been in the wilderness for 40 years, could ever do any of that.
Do you feel as if it is impossible for you, your family, and your church to be used to conquer the world ? That is the truth. We must begin with that truth. Only then, will we be able to experience the work of God. This is true evangelism and true success. Your life must become a forum of God’s grace and power (life forum). How did God complete that work? He promised (absolute covenant), went ahead before us (absolute power), and told us to follow him. He will accurately lead us in what we must do and where we must go. Enjoying this blessing is called “God’s kingdom” and being under his governance.
Follow God to find out and experience how He fulfills perfectly all that he has promised to you. As you continue to experience this, you will be able to see that God will do and what answers and blessings he will give. You will have assurance as the one who possesses it in advance. You will come to believe and enjoy it. Later on, you will have already conquered it in your heart, and you will thus experience it in advance. This was what happened with the Wall of Jericho. God had promised this long ago, and in order to fulfill that promise, he had been orchestrating everything in advance (Deuteronomy 1:30). We must experience this in our work and business lives. We must experience this in our evangelism. We must experience this in our entire journey of life. Everything will become easier (Joshua 1:7-9). How accurately did God work on the Wall of Jericho? It says the “gates of Jericho were securely barred” and “no one came in or out” (verse 1). Their hearts were melted in fear (Joshua 2:11), and everyone had run away. The Israelites had victory before the battle.
- Why does God need to orchestrate things in advance?
There are three things we must hold onto in order to experience God’s work taking place ahead of us in our lives.
1) God’s absolute reason for the land of Canaan to crumble. We shared these three things last week.
God had to save the corrupt and idol-filled land of Canaan (evangelism and missions). Through our posterity, this absolute plan of God (desire) must continue, be inherited, and brought to completion (remnant ministry). And on that land, Christ must come. We are waiting for Christ to return. This reason that God has must become the reason for our lives.
2) God had been fulfilling this covenant all along the past.
We must understand the flow of history in order to have faith and be able to see our tasks (heavenly mandate, calling, mission). God had promised the land of Canaan to Abraham (Genesis12:1-3). Even then, God was leading and working in places. Joseph, who knew and experienced this, buried his late father in Canaan land (Genesis 50:13). Moses, who realized this, led the Israelites. These work all works of God. It is beneficial to know history (Bible history, church history, world history).
3) God had told and promised this to his servant Joshua (Joshua1:3-5).
This is the spiritual significance of the pulpit message. God speaks to his servant first, allows the servant to experience it in his life, and then relay the word to the congregation. Joshua relayed the word of God to the Israelites. The covenant of the pulpit and the time schedule of the pulpit is very important. It is the covenant I must hold onto now, and a blessing I must enjoy in this time schedule.
- What must we do when God is working before us?
Can we sit around and do nothing because God will do it? There are things we must truly do and experience.
1) Prayer experience (Ezekiel 36:37, “I will yield to Israel’s plea”). We must remember two things when we pray.
① Receiving immediate answers and results is not what is important. That is up to God’s time schedule. The important thing is our spiritual state in which we can pray and the strength and system to be consistent. Answers will follow according to the time schedule. Prayer is trusting God and following. We must train it continually. Only then, can we experience the work of God taking place before us.
② When we pray, God works within us through the Holy Spirit. We can enjoy the filling of the Holy Spirit and the kingdom of God. In that moment, our scars, unbelief, and our own standards vanish. There are problems that only then finish. The authority of Satan, who continues to deceive us with our scars, unbelief and standards, will crumble. God desires to guide you through what he has prepared, but we continue to become deceived. For six days they marched the tower once. On the 7th day, they marched seven times. It is a time to restore our faith and lay ourselves down.
2) Oneness experience. In the Bible, all miracles and absolute power arose when the people of God held onto the covenant and became united (in front of the Red Sea, Mitzbah, and Mark’s upper room). When God’s people who hold onto the covenant become one, they become God’s army (Exodus 12:41). God is the leader of the army (Joshua 5:15). This was emphasized before the Israelites conquered the wall of Jericho.
① What is the most important thing for an army fighting in war? Oneness, or a team mentality.
They were not to speak while they marched around the tower (verse 10). That is what happens when you truly believe in God.
② “When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout” (verse 5). That is when the wall will collapse. The trumpet is made of lamb horns. This signifies the victory of Christ. When people of God worship together and pray together in one heart in Jesus’ name, amazing things will happen (WWII 9 o’clock prayer, Korean War and the prayer of pastors in Busan).
3) Future experience. It did not end with the destruction of the Jericho wall. It was an experience in preparation for the blessing God will give until the end.
① When this Canaan is completely conquered, the age of the remnants will come and the time schedule for saving all nations will come. David’s kingdom was built in that Canaan land, and through the descendants of David, Christ the eternal king was to come.
② We are preparing to be used for that day (platform, vessel, leverage). For that day, we must prepare our content. You are now just studying to earn a degree. You must study meaningful content in order to stand as the one to save the world. You are not working or running your business in order to make money and live comfortably. Your devotions must be meaningful for the sake of world evangelism and the remnants.
Conclusion – God has prepared everything and is leading you ahead. Try learning how to go by his side. That is God’s kingdom.
Conquest of Jericho and God’s Kingdom (Joshua 6:1-7) 9/6/2020 September 6, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
Conquest of Jordan River and God’s Kingdom (Joshua 3:7-13) 8/30/2020
We have been discussing the blessings of God’s Kingdom that saved people of God must enjoy. In simpler words, God’s kingdom is the state in which you are under God’s governance. First, we talked about the blessing of God’ kingdom in Eden. That was complete happiness. Second, it was the blessing of the Ark during Noah’s flood. It was the protection and preservation of God’s people. Last week, we shared the blessing of God’s kingdom of the tabernacle in the wilderness. God perfectly guided their paths. Even if every day is filled with anxiety, you can receive God’s governance. Today we will talk about the blessings that allow us to conquer and win over problems and obstacles that come our way. In life, we face so many obstacles. What do we do then? There are people who give up under immense stress. There are also people who stake their lives on trying to figure it out despite the pressure. They become unwell and unhealthy. God wants us to enjoy the kingdom of God. Enjoy the blessing of God’s interference in your life’s problems.
- First, the Israelites must be sure of the reason they are crossing the Jordan River and heading to Canaan.
When problems come, we must hold onto the absolute plan, absolute goal, and the absolute covenant of God. We must hold onto the three absolute reasons that guarantee God’s work. We must be able to apply this in everything that we go through.
1) The Israelites must save the land of Canaan, which is filled with idols and corrupt cultures.
What is God’s absolute plan for us? He desires to save us to save the world, heal us to heal the world, and bless us to bless the world. That is why he saved you first, and he will turn your pain and tears into evidence to raise you as a witness (Acts 1:8). “Lord, raise me up to be a witness that will save the world.”
2)The Israelites must save the land of Canaan because it will be the land that their posterity will live in.
① What is God’s absolute goal that we must fulfill until the end? We are to prepare the future for our next generation. This gospel and blessing that we enjoy must be relayed onto our posterity. It must be inherited. It must be completed.
② That is why we must relay the covenant (Deuteronomy 6:4-9), pray for them (Luke 23:28), and give true devotion (Matthew 25:40). When the Israelites crossed the Jordan River, the representatives of each tribe brought out a rock with them to make a monument (Joshua 4:6-7). Give your truest devotion to your physical children, the children of the church, and the children of the field that we must save. Before them, all their obstacles will crumble, and God will give us absolute evidence.
3) There is a bigger reason. It is because Christ was to come to the land of Canaan as promised in the Bible.
① This is the absolute covenant we must hold onto for eternity. We are waiting for the Lord to come again. What we must do in the meantime is share the gospel with the world (Matthew 24:14).
② Those obstacles will crumble is we truly hold onto the covenant of evangelism and missions. That is the absolute reason. Interpret everything in your life with evangelism and missions. Hold onto evangelism and missions as your life’s conclusion. God will govern, take responsibility of, and bless the lives and the paths of those evangelists.
- How will we enjoy God’s kingdom and experience the obstacles fall before our eyes?
The priests carrying the ark of the covenant went first (8), and all people listened to the word of God (9). When we truly hold onto the promised word of God, God will work according to those words. This is why Jesus told his disciples to hold onto the word (John 15:7). This is why the members of the Early Church held onto the word being relayed by the apostles (Acts 2:42). When they hear and believe the word as God’s word, God himself will work (1Thessalonians 2:13). The passage promises that God will work in three ways.
1) God promised to drive out all enemies that stand against the people of God (10).
God said he himself will fight our enemies. When? When we hold onto the word. As God governs over the world with his kingship (Psalm 103:19), he will send angels when we hold onto the word to fulfill that word and move his heavenly army to fulfill his will. (Psalm 103:20-21). We must experience how Satan runs away in fear of the word that we held onto (Matthew 4:1-11).
2) God’s Ark of the Covenant will pass before us (11).
① What were the three things that were inside the Ark of the Covenant? Inside was the covenant of blessings that God granted us.
Aaron’s staff with a sprout was God’s absolute power. Manna was God’s absolute supply. The Ten Commandments, the word of God, was his absolute covenant. Because we cannot keep the ten commandments, Christ came to complete that covenant (Matthew 5:17). He fulfilled all and finished all (John 19:30). This is what we call the gospel.
② Because we are lacking, God went ahead and completed it (Micah2:13).
The life in which we experience God’s lead is the kingdom of God. Do not try to go ahead, but let God go before you. Enjoying that blessing is the walk of faith. That is why God confirmed the fact that despite the Jordan River, He will lead the way before you.
3) When the disciples step into the Jordan River, it will split (Vs.13).
① What do the priests who are carrying the Ark of the Covenant and the twelve representatives signify? In terms of the church, they signify the pastors and elders that must hold onto the covenant and stand before the people. Spiritual leaders. The faith of the spiritual leaders in the household is very important. When fathers possess that spiritual leadership, works of Holy Spirit will arise. If not the father, the mother must hold onto the covenant and the faith the step into the river.
② The Jordan River was flooding at the time the Israelites were about to cross it (Vs.15). That is when they stepped in. This is what God’s CVDIP - seeing ahead, holding onto it ahead, conquering ahead, and fulfilling ahead – means. It may seem like the water is flooding and things are getting worse. But when you show your faith, God’s absolute power will show. Does it seem like everything is getting worse? Hold onto the covenant now, because this is the time to show true faith. God must have control over our soul, heart, and mind. That is the prayer that will seek and enjoy God’s kingdom.
Conclusion – “Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel”(Vs.7) He said it in the introduction, but that was the conclusion. It seems like a problem, but it is the opportunity to go to the true summit. This is the conclusion. May this time become your opportunity to listen to the word, enjoy God’s kingdom, and reach the summit of saving the world and the posterity.
Conquest of Jordan River and God’s Kingdom (Joshua 3:7-13) 8/30/2020 August 30, 2020The Answer of the 1st 2nd 3rd RUTC:
God’s Kingdom in the Wilderness (Exodus 40:34-38) 8/23/2020
Today’s passage records how God guided and blessed the Israelites along their journey in the desert. He had the Israelites set up tabernacles to meet them there, lead them, and govern them. This tabernacle signifies Christ, the church, and the blessing of God’s Kingdom.
When we think about our future and the future that our posterity will have to face, we may feel frustrated and morose. Many specialists and economists are predicting a tremendous aftermath of Covid-19. The Earth is burning up due to environmental pollution. On top of natural disasters, all kinds of food are becoming contaminated and sick. Depression, addiction, and mental illnesses will surge. The aftermath of the 3rd (IT, digital age) and 4th (artificial intelligence) industrial revolution will be great. Like Timothy 3, people will become selfish, lose all dignity, and step into an age where we do not need humans.
There is an even more pressing matter. It is the fact that the 3 organizations are controlling the 3rd and 4th industrial revolutions. How did this become possible? The people of the 3 organizations have a different kind of power. They are practicing possession for a deeper power (Genesis 6’s Nephilim). Then they looked ahead, prepared ahead, and conquered ahead. These people are the leaders (people who are ahead) and the summits of this world. They are also leading the movement for unification of all religions. They plow into the church and block people from knowing Christ (2 Corinthians 4:4). One sure thing is that there are people that God had prepared for such times. They are the “remaining ones (Isaiah 6:13),” “hidden ones (Romans 11:4-5),” and “scattered ones (Acts 11:19).” We call them “remnants”.” God has called us to be those individuals.
What we must do is enjoy the absolute covenant of God that He gave to us – the remaining ones, hidden ones, and scattered ones of this age. Christ has undoubtedly finished all problems and is now residing within us. He will change all things into evidence by the power of the Holy Spirit to use us as His witnesses. The state in which we can realistically experience that is the kingdom of God. He is guiding us, protecting us, and blessing us to use us as the ones who will let God’s kingdom come upon this world once again. We must enjoy this blessing of God’s kingdom in this time of wilderness and problems. Three blessings will take place.
- Enjoy the kingdom of God within you by leading a life centered on the tabernacle.
In verses 34 and 35, it says that the “glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.” This is the kingdom of God we must enjoy first. “Life centered on the tabernacle” signifies a life that enjoys a relationship with God in all problems and circumstances through prayer.
1) From the moment you received salvation, you had become the tabernacle and the temple (1 Corinthians 3:16). For Adam, who sinned and was separated from God, and everyone thereafter, Christ died for all the sins (Romans 8:1-2) and became the way to meet God (John 14:6). Even now, Christ finished the work of the devil who drive us away from God into failure (1 John 3:8). This Christ is within me through the Holy Spirit and will guide me for eternity (John 14:16).
2) The state in which we are governed by God who is within us and enjoy his presence is prayer.
In Ephesians 3:16-20 says, “ I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through
his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” The reason we get scarred and fall into trials is because we have not experienced this.
3) Make these trying times into an opportunity to deeply train the 5 prayers (worship, scheduled, continuous, special, and 24 prayer). Be sure to enjoy the 5 blessings that come from these prayers (thanksgiving, flow of the word, power of concentration, healing, and future).
- As you enjoy God’s kingdom, you will experience what God has prepared. That is God’s CVDIP.
Before remnants go into the world, whenever you face all problems and circumstances, and before you do important things, you must experience this.
1) Covenant – It is the gospel. Christ has absolutely finished all problems and crushed Satan’s head.
Everything becomes an answer. Realize the problem, realize the gospel, then go into the gospel. If someone has wronged you, they were deceived by Satan because they did not have the gospel. From then on, you will see the prepared blessings within God’s absolute sovereignty (Jeremiah 33:3).
2) Vision – When you begin to have faith in looking ahead, you will receive assurance and strength. Then, the absolute plan of God that will be fulfilled will form inside your heart. That is called possessing in advance. (11:1) God’s absolute vision form inside you.
3) Dream - When you begin to have faith and strength in the covenant, enjoyment will take place inside of your heart. You are enjoying it in advance even before it is fulfilled (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18). Even when you face injustice or problems in your life, you will have joy and the strength to pray and give thanks. The covenant becomes a covenant that will surely become fulfilled.
4) Image – You will be able to visualize the specific picture that God gives you, as you prepare for your future in advance. Your standard will not be your standard. It will be that of God, which is your 25. This is when you will be able to become real witnesses. It will become your absolute journey, just as God led the Israelites accurately with clouds (36-37). These people conquered Canaan.
5) Practice – You are going forward, knowing in advance that God is fulfilling everything for the sake of the absolute goal – world evangelization. God himself will help and make happen (Isaiah 60:20-22). Even in the smallest things, our lives will be a God’s masterpiece that saves the world. Individuals like Lincoln, John Wanamaker, D. L Moody, Crosb, and Hellen Keller enjoyed this blessing in advance. There are others including Livingstone of Africa, William Carey of India, and Underwood in Korea.
- The blessing of being used for the work of raising coworkers who will together fulfill the kingdom of God, disciples, and next generations.
1) That includes our children, our spiritual children from church, and deserted children in the field.
If we are able to fully enjoy, we can influence those around us. We can relay the covenant and the blessings. Moses raised up young adults while he enjoyed the tabernacle (Exodus 24:4-5) and raised Joshua among them (Exodus 33:11).
2) Begin praying for the coworkers, disciples, and remnants in your life. Absolute disciple is one individual. When you meet someone, give them the covenant and strength. Help them discover their own mission and help them in way that you can (internship). Lead them to be able to have forum about the blessing that they receive from God in their lives. Continuation may not be easy. That is why you must hold onto the message first, and struggle in prayer.
3) That one person that you raise can save the world. Behind every historical figure, lies someone’s devotion.
Conclusion – Right now, it is like walking the wilderness. Hold on the covenant of the Tabernacle, enjoy the answers of God’s kingdom within you, the CVDIP that God gives you to enjoy in advance, and the one person that arises as an absolute disciple.
God’s Kingdom in the Wilderness (Exodus 40:34-38) 8/23/2020 August 23, 2020Blessing of the Ark and God’s Kingdom (Genesis 6:13-22) 8/16/2020
Noah’s flood was a message from God that relayed two important things. First, it warned that this world of evil surely face its judgement day. Second, it showed what the path of salvation is like and what it meant to live the life of a saved child of God. Even in the midst of all these disasters of the end times, people do not know why these disasters come or what the true path of life is. As saved people, we do not know what to go all in for (what to look up to), all out for (what we truly must do), or all change for (things we must truly change). Matthew 24 talks about tremendous disasters in the end times (wars, famine, earthquakes, and epidemics) as well as persecution toward believers and churches. Then it talks about the flood of Genesis. It says that just as people in Noah’s age were not able to realize before the flood, they will not be able to realize even when Jesus comes.
- Why do disasters happen in the world? We must have an answer to this.
It is the same reason there are failures and disasters within our individual selves and families. We call is Genesis 3. The curse that began when the first of mankind fell and became corrupted is continuing even now. As a result, all lives are going in the same path.
1) Human greed and corruption
① What is greed and corruption? It is living your life as if it were your own and acting as a master of your life. “You will be like God,” is what Satan told Eve when he deceived her (Genesis 3:5). This is where disobedience stemmed from.
② It is because we become the master and king of our lives. In other words, there is no God in you. You are will your own king. Before thinking of what God desires, you live the way you want, doing things that you want. Restoring from this is restoring God’s kingdom. The world’s disasters come from the greed of humans. All living things are also in suffering (Romans8:22).
2) Who enabled the greed and corruption of mankind?
① Satan is still dragging mankind into a life centered around their own selfishness (Genesis 3), the physical things (Genesis 6), and secular success (Genesis 11)
The Bible calls them the spiritual forces of evil (Ephesians 6:12), and powers of the dark world (Luke 22:53).
② We must truly understand that Christ had come to destroy the devil’s work (1John 3:8). We must also understand that our fight is not against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12). Because they do not know this spiritual reality, they cultivate hate towards others.
3) In that kind of life, there is no space for God, who created mankind and desires to bless them, to work. All have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). No one wants to be governed by God.
① What is God’s kingdom? It is a kind of life that is blessed by God’s governance within us and in our every circumstance. Some misunderstand the meaning of being governed. It means we get to know God’s love and power, and enjoy His guidance, protection, and blessings.
- What is the blessing that saved people of God must enjoy? It is the blessing of the His Kingdom(That is the Ark)
Regardless of the judgement and disasters that this world will face, we only need to have faith and wait inside the Ark. We should enjoy three things.
1) Enjoy the grace of God that chose you and saved you (Genesis 6:8). This brings absolute blessings.
① Noah was able to be who he was through God’s absolute grace. The same goes for all of us (Ephesians 2:8, 1Crinthians 15:10). Why must we enjoy this grace? It is to praise the glory of God’s grace within his great love (Ephesians 2:6).
② Deeply enjoying God’s love and grace is prayer (Ephesians 3:18-19).
This is the five blessings of true prayer (thanksgiving, word, concentration, healing, future).
③ As you go through this kind of time, you will receive the blessing of spiritual summit.
As you enjoy God’s absolute love, grace, and power, you will find yourself to be not full of scars and greed, but full of God’s works. The you that God initially created will be restored. That is God’s kingdom being manifested in us (Luke 17:21).
2) When we are enjoying this grace of God, He will give us the absolute mission. It is to build the ark.
① The ark is the mystery to saving you, your family, posterity, and the world.
We are to build the ark for ourselves (verse 14). In his grace, God wants to use us. When we truly enjoy grace, there will be things that you can do, and things that only you will be able to do. That is called mission. The runaway Moses realized this mission (Exodus 3:8-10). The persecutor Paul realized this mission (Acts 9:15).
② Once you come alive, your family, your children, and the Church will come alive. God gave us this as a covenant (verse 18). Later on, this family becomes the message that made new history and evidence (blessing of world evangelism).
③ God has given us everything we need to create this ark through His word. This is when you receive the blessing of skills summit. Through his word, God gave Noah all the dimensions, necessities, ingredients, and things to store. It was something that even science now cannot explain. Do you think God’s word is irrelevant to your life? That is why life is hard. God’s word makes you wiser than any other (Psalm 119:98-100). The word becomes our light when passing through dark valleys (Psalm 119:105). The word helps us win when hardships come (Psalm 107:20). It heals our spirit, soul, joints, and marrow (Hebrew 4:12). This is why we hold onto the pulpit message (1 Thessalonians 2:13). “Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” Live your life centered on hearing and following the word of God.
3) There is something we must do inside the ark. As they waited, they prepared for the future.
① God knows when the flood will cease. He also has the time schedule of the disasters of the world today. There undoubtedly is a unique time schedule for all of us. Are there persisting problems in your life? Do not be anxious and wait for God’s time schedule. On the entire ark, the only window was on the ceiling (verse 16). We are to receive strength from above and wit for the prepared time schedule.
② You may feel frustrated. You may be in need of training to create a new life system.
God has the CVDIP for your life. You are making a new flow in your life. There are people and next generations that you will help and save in the field. This is all regarding your future. You must relay God’s absolute covenant, absolute mission, and absolute blessing a you live your life on earth.
Conclusion – When you look upon God’s grace and enjoy the blessing that comes from it, you will also receive the blessing of the three summits. The state in which you enjoy this blessing on earth and into eternity is God’s Kingdom. Until disasters end, may you enjoy God’s kingdom within the covenant of the Ark.
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God’s Kingdom in Eden (Genesis 2:8-18) 8/9/2020
The absolute blessing that the saved people of God must enjoy is God’s kingdom. Absolute mission is when the kingdom of God comes upon the place where the people who enjoy this blessing reside. Happiness blooms around people who are happy, and unhappiness follows those who are unhappy. Because people think it is the other way around, they lose hold of true happiness. The world speaks of Eden as an ideal place. The Greek philosopher Plato explored the ideal of an ideal world, and said it was realistically impossible. He called it the “Theory of Forms.” In the book “Utopia” written by Thomas Moore in 1516, he described the place as a world with complete happiness. The origin of the word has the meaning “nowhere (no place).” Marxism-Leninism fought for socialism and communism for the creation of an ideal world, but that failed. The 20th century scientists spoke of a “technopia,” where, complete happiness of the human race can be achieved through technology. Is that really the case?
- What kind of a place was the Garden of Eden in the Bible? It was a place that God himself created, governed, and allowed mankind to enjoy.
1) Thus, mankind has three instincts.
① Instinct for God. Ecclesiastes 3:11 calls this “instinct for the eternal.”
② Instinct for goodness. We call this a conscience. We once possessed this but lost it to corruption (Romans 3:10).
③ Instinct for complete happiness. Everyone wants to be happy. They want a life without tears or pain. They seek for an abundance of everything, joy, and rest. When mankind fell and Satan became the king of this world, the entire world became covered in darkness and suffering (John 14:30).
2) The Garden of Eden possessed these three things.
① Why was it Eden? It is because God himself was present. God who created and governed all things in perfection. Why is it impossible to have a place like utopia? It is neither about ideologies nor institutions. It is about who the master and the ruler of that world is. This applies to where we are, our nation, our families, workplaces, and churches. It all depends on who had allowed it and is supervising it. The problem is that mankind wants to be king. The reason God allowed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in Eden was for us to acknowledge God as God (Hosea 6:7).
② Why was it Eden? It is because there were people of God who were under God’s reign. What did Satan say to Adam and Eve? “You will be like God.” Satan is at fault for tempting them, but they were also at fault for being deceived. Even now, people think their lives belong to them and therefore they can do anything they desire. They believe that they can be happy without God. It is the most foolish and doleful misconception.
③ Why was it Eden? It is because God had allowed it and placed his blessings upon the place. It is good to be kind and diligent, but ultimately, we must receive God’s blessings. Without God’s blessings, healthy, successful, and long life is a curse. It becomes Genesis 1:2, Hebrews 9:27.
- God has given us a promise in order for us to restore this original blessing. That is called the absolute covenant.
1) He has sent Christ to save us and change our identity (Acts 1:1). Through this Christ, we have been set free from all sin and curses and have become God’s child and His people. Before, we were foreigners and strangers irrelevant to God. Now, we are His people and His family (Ephesians 2:19).
2) Through Christ, we can now receive God’s governance. That is God’s kingdom (Acts 1:3). This means that God will take responsibility of us. He will be with us, guide us and use us to save the world (1 Peter 2:9). Realizing this is the mission of God’s kingdom.
3) With our own strength, we are not able to save anyone. This is why God promised us the blessing of the Holy Spirit, and the absolute power that comes with it (Acts 1:8). It does not matter what kind of problems, crises, and disasters we face, as long as God is holding onto us (Psalm 91:7, 11). The power of the Holy Spirit gives us the power to turn all our scars, failures, and pain into evidence (enjoyment of the 5 prayers, training).
- When this absolute covenant becomes our imprint, root, and nature, the blessing of Eden will be restored in our lives.
The day of complete restoration of Eden will come. That is the New Heaven and Earth that Revelations 21-22 speaks of. A new Jerusalem signifies the people of God who will enjoy God’s eternal blessings. When you acknowledge that God and receive his governance, the three blessings of Eden will be restored.
1) The place that God allows (Genesis 2:8). This is called absolute field. Be sure to receive guidance as to where you go and live in the region or country. Pray a little and ask for His guidance. When you go in prayer, receive God’s supervision and discover God’s mission. Find it through the flow of the word, in every problem and circumstance. Why did God send Joseph as a slave to Egypt? Why was a Jewish man, Moses, born in Egypt? They were to save that land and the people who are suffering in that land. God had poured everything down on them.
2) The work that God sanctions (Genesis 2:15). This is called absolute heavenly mandate, calling, and mission. We call it “vocation,” meaning that God had entrusted the work to us. Even at the lowest place, you are able to reach for the highest. David knew this even while he tended the sheep. Before God, and for His glory, David enjoyed God’s blessings in his work. Satan will try to take that away. You must enjoy the mystery of breaking the forces of darkness in your field (Matthew 12:28).
3) The meetings that God allows (Genesis 2:18). This is called absolute meeting, and from those meetings, absolute disciples are raised.
① Ultimately, people must enjoy the blessing of meeting that God permits. We meet or leave people based on our likings. A spouse must be found from a meeting that God allowed for the purpose of finding someone that will be your coworker for a lifetime (“I will make a helper suitable for him”).
② A married couple must be ready to help each other at all times. We must think of what we can do to help the other. Do not try to become happy through the other person. You must live with a mission to make that other person happy.
③ There is something else that is very important. We must hold onto God’s mission of healing, empowering, and blessing others through our families. Each family must discover their own message, enjoy God’s strength, and discover unique things that they can do (mission home).
Conclusion – There is a hymn that goes, “Where Jesus is, ‘tis heaven there.” May you receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit in all your places, works, meetings, and relationships as you give glory to God, give thanks to Christ, and live under the Holy Spirit’s governance to restore your blessing of Eden.
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