February 21^st 2010 Sunday Message Summary

Scriptures: Matthew 22:37~40, Luke 21:34~36, Proverbs 4:23

Because the words of Jesus are the words of life, it empowers us to take action.  The words of Jesus enables us to overcome our difficulties and tribulations.  If you want to be someone who remains in this history and keeps hearing the great words of Jesus, you must read the Bible with total concentration.  In addition, those who are alive in this time period must hear the words that pertain to this time period.

-Stories of getting rid of your self-centered wrong thoughts and know correctly through prayer-

This is what happened to P. Joshua in his teens.  He was living in the deep valley of WMD where he was pressed with the agonies of life.  He could not control his heart or his body, and there was no joy or hope in his everyday life.  Naturally, his days were filled with complaints.  Because of this, he could not love Jesus accurately and have a proactive faith.  He did not see hope in Jesus.  He thought it was his destiny to live in that way.  He decided that God had already determined every single human being’s fate.  As he lived, he came to this conclusion.  However he later realized that you should not come to your own self centered conclusions based on the things of your life.

P. Joshua abandoned himself and thought he was destined to live in the desolate place of WMD.  He thought everyone was predestined to live the way where they were at and that was it.  Truly, his life was filled with misery.  He prayed in his teens so much and really wanted Jesus to help him.  As he read the Bible and prayed deep prayers, he realized slowly that God had different ideas than what he thought of.  P. Joshua then set himself free from his wrong thinking and started working harder and realized that through hard work, he could escape his agonies.  He realized that when there are problems, the solution is not only by human efforts, but he should pray too.  He realized that if he prays, the Lord would change his situations.

Have you also had wrong thoughts about God and your own destinies?  As a result, you were worried and concerned.  If you have incorrect perspectives, your heart will be filled with worries and concerns and pains will overtake you.  Then you will feel like going away from Jesus and you will feel like you can’t believe.  You must understand God’s heart properly through prayer.

-The Lord answers to a wholesome heart and works upon it-

When we pray, answers will come quickly from the Lord.  But if you say things that don’t fit the Lord’s heart, you don’t hear any answers from them.  Ask this question: “Lord, you really love me, don’t you? But I don’t exactly know your love do I?” Answers come quickly to those who know the heart. Don’t look at things from your perspectives only.  If your mind is not correct, whatever you do, it will not work.  The Lord hears every prayer that we offer.  Don’t feel left out by the Lord.  Love him, plead with him, instead.

You must deeply realize that the Lord loves you.  Realize and confess how the Lord worked upon you and loved you in the past.  The Lord gives grace to each person differently. He works on each person depending on their individual paths of life.  Deeply realize about what you received in the past.  Realize also that you failed to maintain your life of grace because you didn’t live properly.  With a proper heart, make a proper confession to the Lord and he will speak to you.  He leads you into deep prayer.

When the messages are delivered, if you just hear them, the word will never penetrate deeply into your hearts.  You must pray deeply before listening to them.  Then the profound word will penetrate into your hearts.  These are words received through deep prayer and intense struggle.  If you hear it without dedication, it won’t sink in deeply either.  With the Bible too, if you read it without praying deeply, it won’t enter deeply into your hearts.  People understand only up to their level and the conditions of their hearts.

-The spring of life is within the heart-

We exist as human beings.  If our mind is made up in the wrong way, it will drive our bodies to do the wrong things.  The mind controls the body.  As a result, your life is like a car rolling off a cliff.  If your mind will drive your body in the wrong way, your life will face a serious accident.

If a person makes just one mistake, it will determine their entire life.  When a person sets their hearts on the wrong things and carries it out, they will end up breaking what they’ve built their entire lives.  You should definitely understand how valuable your mind and thoughts are. Think correctly and set your heart on the right things.  Make sure that you’re going to have the right ideas and right information from the Lord.  You must do everything patiently and with endurance.  If your mind is bad, evil, arrogant, lustful, etc., your body will shape in that way.  Your body follows the way you think.  As a result too, your spirit develops that way too and it will go to that eternal place.  You will be paid back for every action you’ve taken.  Rebuke and scold and cut off the bad thoughts. You must control those situations with the name of Jesus!

-Have a good and clean heart-

You must pray that satan and darkness will not influence you.  You must protect your hearts.  If you are happy, then everything you do is happy.  The Lord looks at the happy hearts and knocks on the door to enter.  If we have worries, concerns, irritations, insecurities, anxieties, envy, arrogance, hatred, conflict, laziness, etc., Jesus can’t enter our hearts. As for those who trouble Jesus’ heart, the Lord remains always in the position of bearing the cross for them.

Think of God and the Lord whether you’re in pain, worries, etc.  Think about Jesus all the time.  The Bible says that your heart is in trouble when you don’t think about the Lord.  Romans 8:28.  The Lord does not ignore us.  When we think about the Lord, joy will spring up.  When you think about him, nothing is that painful is it?  Think about God and the Holy Spirit! Since human beings can’t control their thoughts well, they need to leave their thoughts to the Lord.  They should do things leaving it to the Lord. Those who can control their hearts are true warriors.

-Since the body moves led by the heart, learn about God and fill your heart with knowledge-

From the body’s standpoint, ‘the heart’ of a human being is like the inner self and the spirit. The body is a kind of equipped machine and a tool. The heart is like electricity. Just as a machine starts running when it’s plugged into electricity, the body is run by the heart, that is, the mind. Therefore, a person with a weak mentality cannot do great things.

-The purpose of creation of mankind is for their spirits to go to heaven-

Seen from the spiritual world, the purpose of creation is for the spirit to go to heaven where they will love and serve the maker living ideal lives.  The purpose of growing fruit trees is not just to look at their beauty.  You tend to them and take care of them in order to ultimately pick their fruit.  This is the purpose of creating humans.

-The Spirit going to the heaven of heavens is determined by the heart-

You have to have the kind of heart that is righteous and one that absolutely loves the Lord.  In order for your spirit to be rapture into a wholesome heavenly spirit, you must be united with the Lord.  Your mind and heart must be united with Jesus. You must live perfect lives with all your heart, will, and life. All of the actions that the body takes led by the heart and the mind are transmitted to the soul, which passes it on to the spirit. When the body dies, the soul unites itself with the spirit. The soul now lives as the mind of the spirit, like being the mind of the body before. Now that the heart and action of the body are entirely transferred to the soul, and unite with the spirit, the unity seems like having happened between the body and the spirit.

Isn’t your physical nature too strong and you have so many areas that haven’t been corrected yet?  You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven until you fix them all.  You must fix them.  The spirits that fail to be qualified for the rapture cannot go to the heaven of heavens.  At the time their bodies die, these spirits go to the respective areas of the spiritual world according to each one’s level where they will receive education.  If they correct themselves, they will advance to the next level.  You must take action while fixing your bad characteristics.

Cast away all your physical dispositions!  Hot temper, weak minds, arrogant thoughts, etc.  Fix them all as Jesus has taught you.  If you don’t fix yourself because of the mind, you will end up unable to go to heaven.  How can you enter heaven with hearts of satan.  The more you are exposed to this physical world, the more physical your heart becomes and the more worldly a person you become.   Keep distance from this world.

-Realize how precious the heart is. Keep it clean and provide the spirit with a clean heart-

Through your daily life, fill your heart only with the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit: Joy, love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.