December 13th 2009 Sunday Message Summary

John 13:17
Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Matthew 5:48
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Matthew 11:29-30
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Matthew 22:30
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

The Lord says, “Act with knowledge,” “Make sure you act with knowledge. Don’t act before you know the whole thing. Whatever you do, first find out the details pertaining to the matter and the people. Afterward, discern and judge 100% correctly whether or not you should act upon it.” With knowledge, you can immediately discern and judge whether it is something you should do or not.

This is the Lord’s instruction and coaching. The Lord is giving you a lesson so that when you are alone, you will protect yourself from deceptive conmen, devils, and their harm. Know that the Lord wants to teach this before He leaves. You need to check on all sides. Never believe or judge only by what you hear.

The Lord does not answer if your prayer does not please His heart. A prayer may be said, but if it does not please the Lord’s heart, it may not be accepted by Him. You choose not to become close with someone who disagrees with your tastes. It is crucial for [you] to know the Lord’s shimjung. You have to satisfy His mind, thoughts, and shimjung in order for you to be connected with Him. You certainly have to know His mind.

When you pray to the Lord, long prayer doesn’t guarantee connection with Him. You have to dial the Lord’s number exactly to come on the line with Him. During prayer, don’t just chatter away. Instead, call the Lord and ask, “Lord, I live like a blind person, don’t I?” or confess, “Lord, I have lived a truly hypocritical life. You know that, too, right? I have realized how I have lived,” or ask, “Lord, I have accomplished only one tenth of what you expected from me, right?” If you know about yourself first and make a confession that pleases the Lord’s heart, then you will hear an answer from Him together with what you have confessed.
You absolutely have to have knowledge, wisdom and understanding about yourself; knowledge about God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus; and knowledge about the world.

The Lord kept saying, “Know about yourself. You must have knowledge about yourself.” The Lord said, “If you don’t know yourself, you will incur losses and suffer, weighed down by worries, concerns, and anxieties while your hard work becomes useless. Therefore, you need comprehensive knowledge about yourself.”

In this way, you are asked to know about yourself. Know both your merits and demerits. Because you take action without knowing yourself, you suffer losses, get caught in fraud, have failures, and make vain efforts. Without knowing yourself, you do things and pray hard with faith that you will prosper as long as you call on the Lord. This is the reason why it has not worked out for you.

Everything must be repented of before Christmas. This Christmas is the “Christmas of love.” You must repent completely in order to receive the Lord. Even if you have followed the Lord for ten years, if you have not repented, your sins remain the same. Make absolutely sure that you repent.

Many people of the world, even unbelievers, predict that the earth will come to an end in the year 2012. They agree to it and talk about it with deep interest. Living a perfect life at all times before God and the Lord and preparing to receive the Lord’s coming properly is more important than knowing when the last day or the end of the world is. Because, that way, you won’t fear whether the end arrives, the world comes to an end, or any disaster breaks out.

I urge you to listen carefully. As the genes of a male and the genes of a female unite, a life is grown through the mother’s womb until it comes out to the world. The Lord enlightens that, likewise, “The mind of the Lord and our minds unite and give birth to a revelation through our heart and mind.” The strongest and purest genetic factor of a male unites with the purest genetic factor of a female to result in a life. When the true and perfect Word of the Lord, which is without blemish, flaw, or contradiction, unites with the strongest and purest thoughts and ideas among many thoughts we have; a revelation of the Lord is born from our minds.

I repeat how love with the Lord is made, since there are people who still don’t know it clearly. You shall love the Lord with knowledge. If you love Him without knowledge, you may grow old, not being able to love the Lord properly even once. Listen keeping in mind what I said about ‘the mind’ earlier.

Will it work in the world of spirits like in the world of bodies? “The principle” is the same in both worlds. However, the spiritual world is different from the physical world. It is different in tens of thousands of ways.

In order for His spirit and our bodies to be united, the Lord’s spirit and our spirits have to be united and combined in love. In other words, the minds of our spirits need to be united with the mind of the Lord. The center is not the forbidden fruit like for the body; but ‘the mind’ is the fruit of love and the center. The mind is the fruit of love for the Lord also. The love of heaven is completely different from the world where love is fulfilled physically. We can say, “Love is the unity and oneness between the Lord’s pure and flawless mind and our spirits’ pure minds.” In heaven, the mind is the fruit of love.

The physical love of the world is sensual love and physical excitement. But the spiritual love is mental love and mental excitement. The Lord said, “It is the heaven of the mind.” The body declares that heaven is the pleasure of physical love, eating, and enjoying. The spirit declares that heaven is the joy from the spirit eating, wearing, loving God and the Lord, and living by the Holy Spirit. If a person transcends physical love and maintains spiritual love and feels heaven, it is like dropping a toy car and taking a new limousine instead.

You enter the spiritual world, according to ‘your mind.’ The mental world and the domain of the soul are the entrance level of the spiritual world. When you open the door of the mental sphere, you can go through the realm of the soul, before you climb up to the spiritual world, which comes next. A right mind is necessary in order to talk with the perfect Lord.

Whether you pray in predawn hours or hear the Word during the day, if you don’t concentrate your mind, Satan sneaks in through the crack as if a rat crawls into your guts through your bottom. Don’t allow the Devil to infiltrate. The Devil invades through a crack, which may sometimes be sleep or money, some other times, love or a lie. When you don’t pray, when you don’t give thanks, when you hate your brothers, when you are ignorant, or when you don’t spend your time valuably and do something [worthless], you create a hole through which the Devil attacks.