October 21st, 2009 Wednesday Message Summary

Scriptures: Acts 2:21, Acts 4:12

“No matter who you are, call me, then you will be saved,” Jesus said. God sent Jesus for the purpose of saving people. If anyone calls on the Lord, they will receive salvation.

When people think of salvation, they usually think it’s only after you die that you receive salvation. When we first start out our life of faith, our spirit lives inside our bodies like a baby inside a mother’s womb. Our spirits and our bodies are intertwined.

If the body lived having absolute faith in God and Jesus, then the spirit will follow the body and go to heaven. If the body doesn’t do that, the spirit will go to death. In this way, the body and spirit have an absolute counterpart relationship towards each other. If our bodies do well, our spirits will do well.

A life where your body receives salvation is not a life where you center on yourself, it is a life that cherishes God and follows and centers only on Jesus. Then you will be a person who has received life and have come out of the domain of death.

There’s no such thing as salvation where only the spirit is saved. Both need to be saved because they are a counterpart.

It is most ideal for both the body and the spirit to do well, but in times of tribulations, one often has to suffer for the other. For example, when you fast, your body suffers, but your spirit is allowed to increase and become stronger.

During hard times, parents can endure hardships when they think about their children; likewise for the children to their parents too. If you move forward while thinking of those you love, you will be able to endure pain and suffering.

What is your mind focused on? What is your mind consumed with? This is the issue? People who forget their pain and instead go out to the world and seek pleasure, they are people who in their body and spirit are ultimately going to be miserable. No matter what you go through, you must call out to the Lord.

No matter who you are, you must call on the name of the Lord then you will get out of perilous situations and succeed. Everyone must call out to God in order to receive salvation.

Wherever you go and whatever you do, you must first call on the Lord. If you call on the Lord, the Lord will save you first. Calling is man’s responsibility, and saving is the Lord’s responsibility. When man does his responsibility, the Lord will want to do his responsibility.

When people encounter hardships, they look for physical people to be their saviors. However, you must not only receive physical salvation temporarily. You must receive the kind of salvation that only God and Jesus can give. Only in this way can you receive eternal salvation.

What is anything worth if in the end, your spirit goes to hell? Foolish people play with snowmen, wise people play with sculptures. We must be people that invest in eternal things.

Invest your entire body for the spirit. The spirit lives forever. You must achieve salvation for the spirit. The Lord is anxious about the spirit’s salvation. Your body must call the Lord. If your body calls the Lord, your spirit is calling also. Only those who receive will know.

You must overcome when things are hardest for you. There are times when things are the hardest right before the end. You must endure and win. Things will work if you help each other. Don’t do things on your own. You must become one and do things together. Be a part of the group. Just like the Trinity works as a unit to rule the world, you must work as a unit too.

Fulfill God’s will and testify for each other and become one.