October 11th 2009 Sunday
Message by Joshua Jung
Summary by Will Yeh

Scriptures: Luke 17:22-30, Genesis 19:12-17

Now is the time that the Lord’s second coming is really close. Unless the Lord tells us directly, we can’t tell just how close his time is. He doesn’t tell us exactly what date, but he tells us the approximate time.
As the time approaches, even the Lord can’t hide it any longer. Unless he teaches about his second coming properly, the people who are waiting for the Lord won’t be able to conduct the last preparation. In this way, the Lord is revealing his plans to us.

The advent will not happen in the way people imagine. It will happen in the way God has planned. People expect about the Lord’s advent and the rapture in various ways. Instead of thinking about that though, we must think about how we can be fully ready and prepared. Full preparation is more urgent and it must be done.

Our generation has rejected the Lord and is causing the Lord to bear the cross again. Religion is not functioning well and we are not repenting adequately for our sins. From the spiritual stand point, so many people do not know Jesus’ heart and are drowning in sin. Even today, Jesus is bearing the cross for our sins and is crying tears of blood.
If you do not repent for your sins, you are dragged by satan and cause the Lord to be crucified again in order to save us. In this age too, Jesus is still hung on the cross for the sake of sinners. If you realize this fact and quickly obey the word, the suffering the Lord is experiencing will end. We must quickly repent. Those oblivious to the Lord’s heart are crucifying the Lord daily.

Salvation doesn’t simply come because we believe in the Lord. Believing doesn’t mean we will gain salvation. We have to understand that our savior pays a tremendous price to save us. A person who doesn’t know the value of the Lord cannot receive salvation. Even if you receive it, you will end up losing it because you do not know the value. Salvation is something a person fulfills through a lifelong struggle. It doesn’t just happen in a moment. It happens throughout your whole life. You have to struggle. But even if it is a lifelong struggle, it will benefit you forever in eternity.

People become corrupt and society becomes corrupt in the last days. If you put food aside for a while it decays. In the same way, a generation also rots after a long time. This whole generation has become so filthy. When we become filthy, we must clean ourselves. When your thoughts have become corrupt, you must first repent in order to be cleansed. When you’re filthy you cannot connect to the Lord. You must atone through repentance. Repent by confessing each and every sin to God.

At the end of time, before God judges, the generation takes the final course of action. When the last day of a person’s life approaches, a person lives engrossed in whatever gives them pleasure and lives according to their own thoughts and the physical nature. In the last days, people only love themselves, they get caught up in sexual immorality, they love money and wealth, and the love grows cold. Because God is afraid that those actions might bring their bodies and the world to decay, God puts his hands on the world. The signs are already appearing.

As long as you are counted as the righteous, you do not face destruction. Even if your bodies die on that day, your spirits will go to heaven. If you are sinful, if you get judged on that day and die, your spirits will go to hell. Since none of you know when you are going to die, you are told to repent completely.

You must get your senses back within a week. If your level is low, you cannot go to heaven and live there. People at a low level easily fall into the things that are of the low level. People of a low level cannot go to heaven. The world is at a low level. Even shows that air on TV are such low level. Instead of watching TV, pray, receive the word, save lives, etc.

Even those who are to go to heaven, fail to go there because they lose their time while being addicted to the world. We must be at the level of being able to give things up that God asks us to give up, even though it is hard.
Disaster takes place in an instant. Although the angels warned Lot and his family not to look back, Lot’s wife looked back at the risk of her life. Even in this time, anyone who doesn’t believe in the Lord’s second coming will become just like her.

No matter how much people hurt the Lord, considering their spirits, the Lord suffers and drags them back. Jesus’ love is so great. Jesus’ love endures to the very end. People of the world do not know how much the Lord has loved each one of them. They will know if they give the love back to the Lord.

Now is the time like when the angels blinded the accusers’ eyes. The eyes of the generation have been darkened. Now is a time when angels reveal God’s plan and are urging us to call to our families to escape. People don’t believe that this is the time for the Lord’s second coming because they have been blinded.

The Lord is pulling everyone by the hand at this time. He’s pulling people who are not believing, people who do believe but their faith is imperfect, etc. Don’t look back, it’s only a moment. Cut your attachments. Do not hesitate.

Sincerely call out to the Lord to save you. You must cry out to Jesus just like the lepers that cried out to Jesus as he passed by. Examine your faith. Look at how you’re living. Examine your faith and do not sin. Now is a time when you must never sin.

Complete your responsibilities, wait on the Lord one on one, and live your life knowing that you are living at the end times. Prepare well at this time. We are living in a different time now. We must put in even more effort. If we do just like what we used to do, we will not be prepared.