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

Scriptures: Revelations 3:4-5, 12, 21

The title of today’s message is, “Win/overcome.” You must be people who win. If you win, you will become someone who can live forever and go to Heaven. The key point is to do deeds that are, “Righteous deeds in the Lord.” Just imply doing good deeds isn’t the point. You must do deeds that the Lord deems as righteous.

If you are a lover, then you must love the way your lover wants and live for them like that. What’s more, Jesus is the Almighty savior who saves you. You must love Him absolutely, obey His words, and do what He tells you to do. Then you will go to Heaven as a reward for that.

The Lord says, “To those who overcome/win, I will let them wear white linen, write their names in the book of life and make it so their names will not be blotted out.”

We fight against the world and the devil with our mentality. That is why our mentality truly must be strong. We fight by doing acts of righteousness. If we do righteous acts till the end, we are people living the winning life through righteousness. The bodies we each have are enough for winning. Every person has a heart, right? Every person has a mentality, right? You can win with that heart and mentality.

Satans and devils are our natural enemies. They are wicked. They are liars. They hurt us and make us sick. They work through people to upset our hearts, torment us, scare us, make us doubt God, and interfere with us so we don’t believe the Lord. Then they ultimately drag our spirits into Hell, give us suffering, put us into the fiery sea of Hell, put us in that boiling molten steel, make us drink that boiling molten steel, and inflict pain and suffering in hundreds of different ways. We must defeat those satans and devils while in this world.

People who pray deeply are winning people. You must become righteous by repenting of your sins. Then you become people who have won. You must not resent God, always give thanks to God, the Lord, and the Holy Spirit, and give glory to God and praise the Trinity God. Then you become people who win. People who make peace are the people who win. People who are humble are people who are winning. People who live for their brothers, make sacrifices, serve, and have compassion are the people who win. People who have self-control are people who win. People who endure till the end with a never changing heart are people who win.

People who have endured persecutions and tribulations are people who have won. People who don’t lie but only tell the truth are people who have won. People who do not give in to the tribulations and hardships, are thankful, and serve and love God and the Lord without stopping are people who have won. They are people already living the life of winning.

You must live winning the sexual temptations. People who didn’t get caught up with sexual temptations and remained sexually clean are people who have won sexually. They are winners. The devil works in the sneakiest of ways between men and women and causes them to fall accidentally/impulsively. People who don’t fall for this, people who aren’t deceived by this are people who have won against devils and demons that tempt them sexually.

We must fight with all these things and win. We win by receiving grace, receiving the Holy Spirit, having God’s Spirit come over us, by becoming one with the Lord and win with power, win by praying, win by being wise, and win by being joyful.

This is why you must win until the end. You must win by receiving the Holy Spirit and receiving God and the Lord’s love and win with power and love.