September 23rd 2009 Wednesday
Message by Joshua Jung
Summary by Will Jung

Scriptures: Matthew 13:41-43, Matthew 11:12, Genesis 18:26

If you are not a person who is righteous, you are treated like a wicked person who is burned up in the fire. What is wickedness? It is not believing in God and not believing in Jesus. Your biggest form of righteousness is believing in God and the Messiah. If you are wicked, you can become a righteous person by repenting and doing acts of righteousness.
The days of Sodom and Gomorrah are happening to us in our time now. The people lived as if nothing would happen to them, but then one day they were destroyed. If there were even 10 righteous people in that land, God would not have judged them, but there was not even 10 people. Nowadays, the world is like Sodom and we must not be like Lot’s wife and look back. At this time we must only hold on to the Lord’s hands and obey his words.

In this time, we must look for the righteous people. Just like the time of Lot, they were struggling to look for the righteous people to escape with them. To every denomination and nation, God has determined how many righteous people need to be there in order for the judgment to not happen or be lessened.

True righteousness is loving the Lord, believing in him, and following him. Righteousness is so valuable it’s as valuable as your life. You must do righteous deeds every day. Even if you have obstacles, you must do it.
There is righteousness that we build up before God, the Lord, and the Holy Spirit. There is also righteousness that we build up before the earth/people.
Righteousness before God and the Lord

Regardless of who we are, Jesus who is the Messiah died for all of us. He died for all the people among mankind. If we love that Jesus and serve God, that is considered great righteousness and no matter who they are, will go to heaven. However they must truly love Jesus.

Really check yourself. If you know there are things you can rebuke yourself for, you must fix those things. God has the same things to rebuke us for that we would rebuke ourselves for. We must get to the point where we have nothing to rebuke ourselves for. You must repent and you must have a lot of righteousness.

Everyone must do acts of righteousness according to your positions. God would never ask a poor person to give a lot of money. Everyone is in a position that is advantageous for them to do righteous deeds. When it comes to doing the works of God, everyone is equal. God loves every single person and does not look at the outer appearance.

Those who have sinned cannot hold on to God without letting go of that sin first. You must only love after you have repented first. If your lover committed sexual sin and then comes back and loves you, would you take them back? They must first say sorry right? You only receive their love after they have repented. You must receive forgiveness first before you love the Lord.

Those who have sinned against God must repent. You must pray and repent. You must tell him that you want to do God’s work but you can’t because you have sinned and you want to receive forgiveness by repenting. You must express this.

Righteousness of the Earth and the World

Repentance also becomes righteousness. If you accumulated a lot of righteousness but then accumulated a lot of sin, as soon as you repent, all the righteousness you did in the past gets built back to you. If you don’t repent, you will get judged as a result of that sin.

You must realize deeply how important and precious righteousness is. We must do it night and day and build it up. It is because of the righteousness of the cross that we receive salvation. The ultimate righteousness is truly to realize that the Lord died for you. Live obeying the Lord’s words and comfort and love him.

These are the righteousness that you must do: righteousness of harmony, love, faith, giving glory to God, being thankful, evangelism, finding the lost sheep, living only for the Lord without getting married and managing lives. You must build up these types of righteousness.

Don’t live even a tiny bit for the world. Even if you do physical work, do it for the Lord. Only after a person goes to hell does a person realize that even though they lived that way because they liked the world, that was the reason why they went to hell. The pain of regret is even worse than the pain they experience from the fires of hell.

Do righteousness. Don’t lose the eternal world while trying to enjoy this world for a brief time. At this final time follow only me, Jesus. This is time to be contrite, weep sorrowfully, and pray.