May 31st 2009 Sunday Message
Message by Joshua Jung Myung Seok
Summary by Shaun McMillan and Will Yeh

Scriptures: Matthew 12:25-26, 30-31

God knows exactly the situation of every person. Through the scriptures, he says that those who divide will be ruined and they will bring judgment upon themselves. During Jesus’ time, all the religious leaders were divided and fought against Jesus. Jesus told them that they will be ruined if they do this.
In this time period, the Lord says to everyone, those who divide others will be ruined. Why do you cause division among people? The people who even caused harm to one life must pay for that life. How can you expect to do well if you cause division.

What do the people who cause division do? They always complain and point out faults of others. These are people who have gone astray. These are people who have felt left out, gather together, and say all kinds of horrible things.
If you don’t immediately repent and turn back, you will fall deeper and deeper into a pit that you cannot get yourself out of. When the Lord is talking about it and giving this word, there is still time and a chance to turn around and repent and come out of that pit.

After the grace and mercy of God passes, there is judgment. After that point, it is finished forever. The Lord is a Lord of love and of judgment. After mercy, comes judgment.

When people don’t pray, satan enters them and causes division. You must always humble yourself before the Lord. Repent completely about the sins of the past. If you have sins, satan works on you. Satan makes you feel like you’re left out or you were treated unfairly. So you must get rid of all your sins so satan does not have a way to enter in our hearts.
Tribulations and hardships must be overcome. We are the ones that need to overcome. Carry the cross and endure, then salvation can be achieved. Make your hearts strong and firm. Carry that cross and achieve salvation.
The Lord said you must do well right now. There is no use to say you will well later. You must do well right now in the present, everyday. Focus on how you are living right now.

Which path will you choose? To the people who are wondering, the Lord is saying that there is a path of life and a path of death in front of you. Hurry and choose one. But people who are working hard and receiving grace don’t have two paths in front of them. They are already living the right path. They don’t face the dilemma of two paths.
Many walk the path they should not walk. You know who you are when Jesus says these things. Whenever you repent, Jesus is so moved that tears stream down his face. But people who don’t listen and continue to be stubborn, they will call Jesus’ name but Jesus will not listen to them. Instead, Jesus will look with fiery eyes and turn away from them.
Whether a person goes to heaven or hell is determined while the person is alive, not when the person dies. How terrific and amazing is it that we get to hear Jesus’ words every single Sunday.

Everyone is being judged or rewarded everyday according to their deeds. You know yourself. Live a life that is “God and Me,” “The Lord and Me.” Make yourself faultless. Be clean and repent.

June 3rd 2009 Wednesday Message Summary for GP

Title: You Will Get Judged By God Because of/for the Things You Said/Say

Scriptures: Matthew 12:30-37

Jesus preached the word of God by the power of the Holy Spirit. But the Pharisees were people who opposed Jesus and talked about Jesus in negative ways. They always said critical things about him. But Jesus said that if he drive out demons in the name of the prince of demons, that would be demons driving out demons. This doesn’t make sense.

People speak wicked things from the wicked things that are in their hearts. Good trees cannot bear bad fruit and bad trees cannot bear good fruit. On the day of judgment everyone will be judged for all the wicked and careless things they’ve said.

This is not unique to Jesus’ time period or even our own time period. This happens in all time periods. People always find fault with the people that God sends. They interfere with the followers to deceive them. This is why we have to know the deep secrets of satan. We must understand how people operate to know how they do things.

People who oppose God’s history and the Lord’s history always oppose and speak negatively and find fault with the word. These are people who are slandering the people of mission the Lord sent. They are extremely false.

People who have good things stored in their hearts only say good things. Every time you open your mouth, good things come out. But people who have stored up lies or wickedness in their hearts, every time they open their mouths, wicked things come out. This is why they’re called righteous or wicked depending on the words they say.

Everyone will be judged for every wicked word they’ve said in their lives. We must repent of all the things we said recklessly. People who tell lies live telling lies all the time. Because they have lies stored in their hearts, lies come out whenever they need to lie.

Everyone must repent. When you repent, bad words won’t come out of you anymore. You must repent about your fundamental tendencies and ways. The reason why bad things come out of a person’s mouth is because they didn’t repent. You haven’t become good trees yet.

You surely have to know, God is a God of love and judgment. He preached through the prophets for thousands of years. Even now, he is telling us through the prophets what will happen in the time of the last days. Tribulations have already started to happen.

The thing that God and the Lord hate more than anything else, are people who don’t obey. These are people who just laugh and disdain the words that the prophets and people of mission give. God is watching these people with fiery eyes of judgment.