April 21^st 2010 Wednesday Message Summary

Scriptures: James 1:12-13, Hebrews 11:36-39, Romans 5:3-4

In life, there are truly lots of sufferings that each and every person go through.  People who believe and people who don’t believe in God each have hardships.  In this world, people, animals, plants, and everything that exists in nature go through hardships.  They go through sufferings depending on the Will God has for them.  Once hardships pass, there is success, happiness, and joy.  Sometimes suffering is necessary in order for something to be fulfilled.

In the course of living, all human beings go through sufferings and hardships that come from themselves, and also those that come from others.

-Sufferings that come from yourself-

Hardships that come from oneself are things like diseases, health problems, etc.  These can be solved if a person focuses, works hard, and takes care of the body.  You can also pray so that the Lord and God can solve these problems with their powers through medical means.  There are also hardships from oneself by not doing your responsibilities.  If you diligently do the work you must do, you will not go through suffering that you would have gone through.  Instead, you will receive blessings and live with joy.  There are also sufferings that come from your wrong thoughts, that then turns into wrong deeds and actions.

No matter how difficult an environment or circumstance is, if you learn to master and control it, then you will reap benefits from it instead. For example the people of the past dreaded the winter time because of the snow, but nowadays, we are able to ski, snowboard, and play in the snow so it’s actually something we look forward to.  In the same way, master and control your environment.

Don’t ask for hardships to be eliminated from your lives. Prepare and cook your lives in various ways.  Use the sufferings to work even harder so you will live a more ideal life and live even better.  When you suffer, you demolish your old self and you end up building something better in its place.  God has blessed human beings to do well. If people serve and love God and receive his power and love, and also live and follow the Messiah, why would people get influenced by death and wickedness?  Control and rule over all these things.

The only way to live outside the sufferings of life and live outside of concerns, worries, and anxieties, is to train yourself to be stronger and control it.

-Sufferings that come from others-

First there are sufferings that you receive as a result of causing harm to others because you had the wrong thoughts.  You must pray, confess your wrongs to God, ask for forgiveness, and then go o the person and ask for forgiveness from the person you hurt.  Secondly, there are times you suffer even though you do good because someone else who is stronger than you torment you.  In the name of the Lord, ask for justice. Think to yourself that you must keep asking God,  knowing he will surely answer, and wait for the right time.

Adversities and sufferings in life are like waves in the ocean.  If you know how to ride the waves, then you will have fun instead of suffer.  If you learn how to swim, you will not suffer and drown in the deep waves.  In the same way, from an early age, you must learn how to overcome hardships and persevere.

People in this world live infinitely different levels of lives even though they live in the same nation, same region, same environment, and even in the same house. They all live according to their individual uniqueness according to each person’s heart, thoughts, and actions.

The same is true with salvation. Even though people believe in God and Jesus as others do, they do not receive the same salvation. They are infinitely different levels because each person is rewarded according to their deeds.

Human beings in this world live according to their mentality, character, and deeds. The life lived in each nation on earth are different, the life each person lives even in the same nation are different based on the region and traditions, and the life each person lives according to their deeds are different. The spiritual world is so big this world can’t dared to be compared to that world. In it people go to different worlds based on their deeds during the time they lived in the world and when they live as spirits in the spiritual world, they each live in different places according to their deeds.

In order for us to be saved and live in the same place as the Lord, it all depends on how much we obey the Lord and love the Lord while alive.  Stick close to the Lord and live as his bride in this world, and then it will be the same in the spiritual world.

The Lord is next to us.  Don’t live mute lives of faith.  Seek him and talk to him.  If you do nothing, the Lord has no choice but to leave you alone, because you aren’t doing the responsibilities the Lord has given to you.  The Lord will work with you if you take action.

Do things until the end even if you go through sufferings and tribulations.  Help each other like you would help Jesus, comfort each other, and support each other and lead each other out of the wrong path.  You must go through hardships in order to exist.  If you were born as a ship, you must live fighting the wind and waves and survive.  If you were born as a tree, you must fight through the wind and rain and survive.  When hardships come, overcome by seeking the Lord and talking with the Lord.  Don’t give up and don’t get discouraged just because you failed to get something done.  Jesus, who saves you, is here, and he will help you until the end.

Don’t run away from hardships and sufferings.  If you go through it, you will become stronger and you will overcome the wicked days ahead.  Think that right now is training for the future war.  There is a war of faith and a war of good and evil.  If you try to be comfortable during war time, you will die.

Make yourselves strong and take action courageously.  You have Jesus, the person who saved you, but why do you worry amongst yourselves?  Don’t you know that things will happen according to your faith in Jesus?  Gather your heart as one and Jesus will be with you.

Do everything because you love Jesus. Make this your philosophy of faith. Love is the final station and love is the starting station. Love is Jesus’ swift horse. Jesus is love’s essence. If you treat Jesus with love, you will connect with him immediately. Love is the straight road of light that connects directly with Jesus. If they leave out love, what will the groom say to the bride? Jesus cooks the food of the word with love, make the various side dishes with love, make your flesh of love become fattened, make your bones of love thicken, mature you through love and love you with love. In this way the groom makes the bride into a beloved bride through love. Don’t ever lose the love. Don’t ever lose this truth.