February 8th 2009 Sunday Message
Original Message by Joshua Jung Myung Seok
Summary by Will Yeh & Shaun McMillan

Scriptures:    John 14:1-6, 14-15

“No matter who you are, don’t let your hearts be troubled.” If he tells us to stop doing [something], then we must stop. If we do, we elevate the Lord’s Words to a higher level of authority and we stop agonizing and being worried in our hearts by not being troubled. Obeying those Words becomes the medicine that heals us.

Will comes from faith. Absolute reliance comes from having absolute faith. Salvation changes according to the faith. The stronger one’s will is, the more concerns vanish and the more one is not worried. Man’s will [or desire to take action] is great source of strength for life. It makes people strong.

The Lord said, “The road to destruction is wide.” The Lord is a narrow path/way of life. In every time period the people who find the Lord are few. We must evangelize so that people will find the Lord and make them walk that way/path.

The Lord is the way of life. The Lord becomes the way at each time we face problems in life. When you face dead ends in the course of your life, don’t think, “What should I do?” and try to come up with other ideas. Instead, you must look to the Lord. Then the Lord who is the way of life and the Lord who is the way of the Word will reveal to you, “Do like this,” through dreams, situations, or some other methods.

The Lord is the way. He is the way of life and the way of living. When you face problems and reach a limit, you must not think centering on yourself and don’t do like a person who starts making a new road. Instead, you must call out to the Lord who is like a path that is already made on the cliff.

You worry about, “What path should I take for my future?” right? It’s really frustrating and makes you anxious right? You must ask the Lord even if you have to ask a hundred or a thousand times.

[The nature of roads/paths] is such that if you went on the wrong road for just a little bit you can return from it but if you go on the wrong road for a long time, you will run out of gas on your way back, run out of energy, run out of food, and you will end up standing there not able to come or go. I’m sure you will regret saying that it would have been better for you to know the road from the beginning before you went on it.

When the road is blocked, impatient people will go through thorn bushes, weeds, fields, or cliffs. Then they face terrible hardships and go thorough hardships that are 10 times harder and suffer. Even if it takes time you must find the road/path and follow it. It’s easier if you travel on a road/path. When things don’t work out, you must change the method. And you must be patient and endure because things that didn’t work out at first sometimes work out in the end.