January 18th 2009 Sunday Message
Original Message by Joshua Jung Myung Seok
Summary by Will Yeh & Shaun McMillan

Scriptures: James 3:1-5, Luke 6:27-30, Matthew 7:28-29

People must be taught well about the relationship between God and man and must be taught correctly about how much God does for man. If things are taught wrong, things will not turn out the way people want. Even animals will astonish people and move people by performing with people in animal circuses if they are taught well and trained well.

If we teach that God does everything for people, everyone who hears it will be happy and follow at first. However, when they actually believe it, live it, and realize that it isn’t true, they will become disappointed along the way.

He said, “If you don’t do the things you can do and do nothing leaving everything up to God and the Lord, then you will starve to death.” He also taught, “Don’t be lazy but let’s take action diligently.”

If you live passive lives just waiting for others to do things for you, you cannot enjoy the joy and blessings of life that God gave you. It is through work that we experience joy, enjoy satisfaction, and become full of joy. Each of us must worship God, praise Him, give glory and do the work that each of us are responsible for. All of this is already outlined in the bible.

If we have no work to do in the world, there is no fun and we can’t exist. The missions and work that God will give to each of us when we go to heaven are joys that we expect and look forward to. Work is done for the sake of mutual existence.

The bible must be taught and learned correctly, in detail, and carefully like the Lord taught it. And it must be put to practice whole heartedly. Then new changes will happen in this time period and we will stand even stronger. If people don’t learn the bible correctly and live without correct understanding, they will never break through the limits because they will live with the wrong thinking.

The Lord does not want people to be forced to believe in him. He wants people to want to know and believe and follow on their own. Love, faith, work done for the Lord, evangelism, giving offerings; he wants people to do all these of their own will.

In others words, people must do it of their own will. If people don’t do things of their own will, it is useless. If the Lord does everything for us, there is no one who can’t receive salvation and no one who can’t go to heaven. There are few who go to heaven and many who go to hell. The reason is because everyone must do their responsibilities.

The Lord taught us to “Do it with all your heart, will, and life.” Although these words are hard to hear at first and bitter to the heart, they are correct teachings. Correct words are bitter but when they are obeyed, they make hopes come true.

January 21st 2009 Wednesday Message

Title: Learn From Me Well and Teach Well.

Scriptures: Matthew 23:1-12, Hebrews 5:12

We will look at the Lord’s teaching through today’s main scriptures. The Lord told the disciples, “Listen to and obey the teachings given by the so called teachers and leaders. However, don’t learn from their examples. The teachers and leaders teach but don’t put their own teachings to practice. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Don’t learn from their example.”

If anyone is considered big among the brothers, they are people who serve and live for others. If you want to exalt yourself, you will be humbled. If you work hard, you become big among your brothers.

The Lord rebuked saying that the followers are ignorant because the teacher is ignorant. There is no need to teach the bible by arguing and by coming up with complicated theories to make people believe in the Lord. All you need to do is teach people why the Lord is our savior and make people believe in him and love him. Teaching people clearly why the Lord is Messiah is what is important.

Your hearts must be hot and inspired in order for you to follow and take action on the Lord’s Will. You must receive and teach with Holy Spirit’s inspiration. Then the Holy Spirit will make you teach what you must teach. Then you will become spiritual people and the Lord will make you preach intensely through your lips. You must be people who are hot or cold; people who take decisive action. Everyone who has faith that is lukewarm who is neither this nor that must be changed in new ways.

If the bible is taught in a way that doesn’t make sense and is out of line with reality, people cannot believe it, it becomes forced, and people will even think unreasonably about the Almighty and All-knowing God. If the bible is taught wrong, the Lord’s Words become hard to believe and people will not believe heaven because it will become nothing more than a dream because it doesn’t make sense and they will have no confidence in it. Teaching the bible incorrectly in a way that doesn’t make sense then becomes a problem for salvation.

You must shine the bright light of the gospel to those that are searching for the path of life in the midst of darkness. You must make the Word of God shine powerfully so that the Word of God can be the lamp to your feet in the darkness, and teach them so that they can receive hope. You must teach them in a way that after hearing this great Word, they would want to preach it too.

You must teach them so that they will live considering God and the Lord as their greatest hope. Even if you teach the same Word, you must teach them according to their individual needs so that they can find the path of life properly. If people are taught the living Word well, their mentality becomes proper and they will do well on their own.

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