February 17th 2010 Wednesday Message Summary

Scriptures: Matthew 13:10-17

First, before and after listening to the sermon, you must read the main scriptures carefully multiple times. You must read it 7~10 times and understand the main scriptures first. People who deliver sermons without correct understanding of the main scriptures are like people who go to their lovers without knowing their address correctly; they are like people making phone calls without correct knowledge of the phone number; and like people drawing faces of people without correct knowledge of how their faces look. Do you understand?

Second, you must understand the meaning of what He is saying. When someone speaks, you must understand the meaning of their words well and you must understand their meaning well. Even if the person speaking on that person’s behalf memorizes everything they say, if they convey those words without understanding the intent, that person is not fit for that use.

Jesus’ words are difficult to understand because they are the words that are almighty and all-knowing. His words are difficult to understand because He speaks spiritually even when He is speaking in the ways of this world. In addition, if the Lord does not permit it, people cannot know or understand the words of Heaven which are secrets.

Understanding the scriptures: Matthew 13:1-17
After hearing this parable the disciples asked the Lord, “Lord, why do you speak to them in parables?” Jesus said, “It is because knowing the secrets of Heaven have been permitted for you but not to them.”

We must know who “they” are. “They” were the people at Jesus’ times who treated Jesus like a heretic, rejected him, caused Him injustice, slandered Him, found fault with the Lord’s gospel, criticized it, picked fights with Him, ignored the Lord’s words, determined the word to be bad, and criticized Him falsely. They were the time period’s enemies of the gospel. They were also the Pharisees and Sadducees. They dared do all kinds of evil against Jesus who was the King of Kings, the messiah, and representative of God.

In every time period there are people who oppose, persecute, accuse of heresy, slander, find fault with, and block the words the Lord proclaimed. Good and evil always existed in every time period. Not everyone could be good and not everyone could be evil.

In every time period God and the Lord proclaim the words through the appropriate person of mission and the Holy Spirit makes people realize by inspiring and moving them. People who can’t enter the gospel of the times, oppose, slander, persecute, say all kinds of evil through lies and block the words of God’s salvation history cannot receive the salvation of the times. People like these are people whose hearts are as hard as the road by the wayside, people whose hearts are harsh and tough like the rocky soil, and people who have hearts like the thorns and thistles.

You must keep praying to realize the bible and read focusing your mind. The bible is Jesus. People who try to listen to the sermons deeply without reading the bible are like people who haven’t eaten for awhile and eat only a few spoonfuls of rice even though they don’t have an appetite. It’s okay to do that a few times but if you keep doing that over a long time, your body will end up becoming like a chopstick.

Do you know why I am able to be absolute toward the Lord and endure even though I went through so much tribulations, persecutions, and suffering? It is because I took action with clear knowledge of the words that the Lord taught me. It was because of the word that I defeated satan, defeated the world, and followed the Lord serving Him in making Providence history happen. In times when you are going through the most extreme trials, persecutions, and suffering you must pray and receive word from the Lord.

If there is no word, you will stumble.

There were times I prayed to the Lord in the midst of the most extreme suffering and the Lord gave me just a few words. “Don’t worry. You have me. Although I love you, you must still go through the tribulations and suffering. Tribulations and suffering is like money. You must pay. Then you will go where you need to go and gain what you need to gain in the future.” The word is the Lord. If you don’t know the word, you do not know the Lord.

You must hear the word and get rid of the callous hearts of the past by praying and repenting. You must hear the word after doing that. Then you will realize. If you hear but don’t realize, then keep actively asking those who do know and did realize and ask them to teach you. By doing that, learn perfectly and bury the words deeply in your hearts and minds so satan does not take the word away. Amen.

Even now when the Lord speaks, the word is given to them in parables and they don’t realize the secrets of Heaven because their hearts are callous. People who have hearts that are like fertile fields acknowledge the Lord and follow His words perfectly. The disciples followed the Lord’s words perfectly. Because they will not understand if the word was given to them in parables too, the Lord called his disciples aside quietly after the sermons to the public and taught them the meaning of the parables.

Not just any person can realize the deep words of parables that appear in the bible from Genesis to Revelation. The Lord always taught them only to the people of mission and made them make history for that time period. Even though people read the same bible, the Lord enabled only those for whom there was Will to realize the fundamental meanings, and fulfilled the Will while letting only the central figures of each time period know the times and enlightening the people with good hearts.

Rapture is the essence of the resurrection and it is also the final resurrection. The rapture is the grandfather of the resurrection. First stage: the spirit becomes resurrected through using the body. Second stage: the soul and spirit becomes united as one and becomes rapture as spirits of Heaven at the final trumpet call of the archangel.

If “resurrection” applies to the body, mind, and soul, then “rapture” applies to the spirit. Only spirits that are transformed into something new will rapture and only rapture spirits can inherit Heaven, the place the Father is.