November 1st 2009 Sunday Message Summary

Scriptures: Matthew 22:1-14

In order for you to have achievements and fulfill your goals, you must check how you’re doing. Just like a person who is trying to get home before it gets dark, they are running and checking their watch to make sure they are going to make it. We must run like this right now.

There is a time for evangelism. This is the reason why Jesus is urging us to hurry up! In life, there are many methods and secrets to success. One of them is, when you do a job, you should hurry to get it done from the very beginning. You need to really rush yourself and move. If you keep urging yourself to do it quickly and push yourself, you will win.

A diligent person succeeds. A lazy person works at the beck and call of a diligent person. Diligent people snatch victory from lazy people. Life’s victory leans towards those who are alert and well behaved. Those who are negligent and idle lose to those who rush.

If something seems impossible, you should start right away if you have strength. You learn as you go. A person who learns as they go actually does things sooner and gets more things done. Don’t hesitate. Whether its evangelism or believing in God and the Lord, at first people can’t even conceive of doing these things, but you should just set out to do these things and learn more while keeping your faith. You gain as much as you take action.

Things that crawl will not be eaten up if they learn how to flow. But if they remain on the ground, bigger and stronger creatures will come and eat it up. The weaker something is, the more critical it is for it to fly to escape. Another option is they have to be really quick and fast.

Fly on the wings of evangelism, of prayer, of thanksgiving, of praise, of being able to preach, of love, of caring by managing people, of sparking the flames of the Holy Spirit, of boldness, of mercy, of self control, of forgiveness, of health, and the wings of faith.

In the scriptures, it talked about the wedding banquet. The king prepared a wedding banquet for his son and invited the guests, but they would not come, so he invited anyone on the streets. So when these people came, there was a man who was not wearing proper wedding attire and he was ultimately thrown out. Many are invited, but few are chosen.

For the people who attended the wedding banquet, whether they were good or bad, they were not driven up except the people who were not dressed appropriately. In this time, right now, it is a similar time. God has sent Jesus and his second coming is approaching. God is holding these banquets of grace in order to prepare us for the final time. Now is a time of the wedding banquet of the Holy Spirit where we receive Jesus as our bridegroom.

God is sending out messengers even today to invite people to the wedding banquet. We are those messengers. However, a lot of people did not come. So God sends us out again, and he is telling us to grab anyone who is willing.

It is a time when the Lord is calling and inviting anybody and everybody—the wicked, the righteous, those who have left Providence, those who caused problems, those who have been following well, the sinners, those who are suffering, those who are pressed with worries and cares, and those who have been forsaken.

There are certain things that are not sin in our eyes, but in God’s view, they are clearly wrong: doing things wrong to your brothers and sisters, hating and quarreling, not being peaceful, not enduring in faith, etc. All these things are sin’s that must be repented for. These things must be repented for in action and resolved with the Lord. You must sincerely repent and be absolved from your sins and then you will not commit the same sins again.

Only what you repent for is forgiven. Most people don’t know how dramatically it defines the fate of your life if you don’t repent. Satan has a list of people who have not repented and he recognizes those people.

You must repent. If you repent, the Lord forgives to no end. Realize just how valuable repentance is. Repentance is life. If you do not repent, the Lord will not forgive forever.

The first secret of rapture is, “Change.” You must be changed in order to be rapture. You must be transformed by the word by putting it into action. You must repent, receive the Holy Spirit, and put the word into action. Be changed like a child and you will go to heaven.