April 26th 2009 Sunday Message
Message by Joshua Jung Myung Seok
Summary by Will Yeh and Shaun McMillan

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 6:14-20. 1 Corinthians 12:27, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 1:4-5, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 2:13, Hebrews 10:10, Revelations 5:9-10.

“People must run according to their missions and compete according to what they have learned. A soccer player cannot compete in a volleyball game. People of faith must compete with their faith and must work according to their mission. Then they will be victorious in life.”

The Lord must do things from the beginning till the end. Even if your body belongs to you, you must entrust the Lord with it until He brings us all the way to Heaven. You must pray to the Lord and entrust the Lord with it and ask Him to save it.

Our bodies were already given over to the domain of death and were on their way to satan’s world because of the sins we had committed. Like 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 our bodies are not our own. We don’t belong to ourselves because the Lord bought us with the price of his blood. But people live their lives using their bodies the way they want.

We are people like the dirty waters. We became people who are polluted and rotten through using ourselves in the world. We must become purified. Even purified water becomes polluted and dirty again once it is used. However, we can’t use unpurified water for drinking, washing, and for our lives [just because of that.] We must purify it again before using it.

Our bodies and minds become polluted like water because we use them in our lives every day. Like a purification plant where tap water is purified, we must make ourselves clean with the precious blood of the Lord and then use ourselves.

We must become purified by flowing into the ocean called Christ. Then we will be transformed into water that will never rot. Our bodies, minds, and spirit that are like polluted water and rotting water must reach the ocean called Christ. Then we will become bodies that do not rot. This is our bodies, minds, and spirits becoming born again through water and Holy Spirit.

Even if it is hard you must never give up or become discouraged.

If you use your bodies for yourself, then your bodies are your bodies. If you use it for prostitutes, it becomes the prostitute’s body, and if you use it for the world, then it becomes the world’s body. If you use it only for the Lord, then you are the Lord’s body. You absolutely must be the Lord’s body and use yourself for the Lord. Then the Lord will be with you, keep you from walking needless paths, and makes you become used valuably in the world too.

Don’t think about your pride, reputation, or prestige but resolve issues with your brothers if there are things to resolve between you and your brothers. Things that require words to resolve must be resolved by talking it out. You shouldn’t live with guilt when just one sincere word from you will make things clean. If you feel uncomfortable talking, then do it through writing a letter.

If you have done wrong against the Lord, you must talk about it and not keep avoiding the Lord because you feel sorry. You must repent to the Lord. The Lord always forgives with mercy and gives people chances. You absolutely must not stay away or avoid just because you’ve done wrong. Repent and diligently work hard again. Then you’ll be fine.

April 29th 2009 Wednesday Message Summary

Title: Your Body Isn’t Yours. It Belongs to The Lord Who Bought You by Giving His Life

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 6:14-15, 19-20, 3:17, 12:27, Romans 12:5, Ephesians 1:23

Some people say, “When did Jesus buy my body? I never sold my body to Jesus but why does Jesus say that he bought my body?” We buy things of the world like houses, land, animals, etc., with money. But when it comes to someone we will love and live with for a long time, we buy them with true love. Life can’t be priced with money. Life is something that is bought with life.

Jesus came to this world with the words of salvation and life given by God. He preached those words and made people put those words to practice. The people who heard the words became like children who were given birth through the word and raised with love. People who lived in the domain of death came out to the world of light and the world of life. They were resurrected. They became people who are saved. They all became the Lord’s body.

However, the believers of God of that time period said that Jesus was not a person sent by God. They accused Him of acting on His own, breaking God’s Laws, and began to say all kinds of baseless, ignorant, and wicked things about Him.

Jesus died on the cross and bought all the lives by paying the price. The Lord died for all mankind. He paid the price with His blood and bought the lives of the sinners who were in the domain of death. Everyone’s bodies are the Lord’s bought in exchange for His life by dying.

If that time period did not reject Jesus, if Jesus did not die because everyone believed and followed Jesus, everyone’s bodies would have been purchased by the Lord with the gospel and would have become bodies given birth by the Lord. If people had believed the words of the gospel, obeyed, repented of their sins, received forgiveness from the Lord and believed and followed the Lord as the messiah, their bodies would have been purchased by the Lord through all that, received salvation, and would have been able to go to Heaven.

If we make our bodies and spirits belong to the Lord and live that way, we will absolutely not go to Hell and instead will go to Heaven because we follow the Lord. Even if the Lord bought all mankind with his blood, people who don’t know this fact and don’t believe in the Lord will meet a tragic ending. You must love the Lord always.

If people treat righteous people who have no sin as sinners, then they are sinning on top of their sins. That is why people must not misunderstand people without sin as being sinners or treat them that way. If the righteous person holds back, prays, and carries their sins for them, then the sinners get a chance to repent and live. If they don’t repent, then everyone must take responsibility for their own sins and receive the consequences.

I’m sure the Lord doesn’t give you clear answers. I’m sure you’re frustrated. Talk to the Lord when you meet Him during dreams or during prayer. Ask Him what He would like each of you to do. If you don’t meet the Lord, then pray. The Lord will tell you something.

If you want to go to Heaven where God exists, then you must live accepting the fact that your bodies are the Lord’s bodies bought by paying the price with blood. The Christ’s heart must be inside your bodies and minds. Then you become living spirits and living bodies.