June 23rd 2010 Wednesday Message Summary

Scriptures: Matthew 25:14~21

The message will be about living for yourself, for your family, for your nation, and for the world, and about living for the kingdom of heaven. If you pray and live for yourself, you will prosper and you will eat and live well. But if you pray and live for your family, you will prosper along with your family and you will eat and live well. If you pray and live for your nation, you will prosper and enjoy a good life along with your nation. If you pray and live for the world, you will prosper and enjoy a good life along with the world. If you pray and live for the will of God and the Lord, both God’s Will and your dreams will come true, leading you to prosperity.

Whether they were an individual, a family, or a nation, those who accepted the gospel thrived and those who rejected it went through various woes and great disasters. What happened is this: because they opposed and refused the will of God and the Lord, who work according to this time period, they faced woes—individuals on an individual level, families on a family level, nations on a national level, and the world on a worldwide level. The prayer of one person is also truly significant. It may be a single person, but that is how powerful it is when God works through someone fulfilling a heavenly mission.

In Noah’s time, during the judgment by flood, was it a natural disaster that caused everyone except Noah’s eight family members to die? Noah started making an ark obeying God’s words ten years before the flood. People of that time would have said that they were dying because too much rain fell due to an extreme climate change. People of this time period think in the same way when faced with woes or disasters. At times, disasters are caused by human beings who fail to fulfill their responsibilities. Yet, a tremendous number of natural disasters and catastrophes take place because of God’s judgment. God does not judge the righteous. He judges the wicked.

You can say that there are three major reasons for disasters. First, people suffer from woes because they have failed to complete their responsibilities. Second, they suffer from disasters because they have sinned. Third, when the righteous receive God’s mission and work for the Lord, their ignorant opposers unjustly persecute and torment them. The reasons for blessing are the same. First, people receive blessing because they have completed their responsibilities. Second, they receive blessing because they have done righteous deeds. Third, they receive blessing because they receive missions from God and work for the Lord. Therefore, when you meet misfortune, you need to consider these three reasons and discern correctly.

In times when you are undergoing unjust suffering and pain; pray, endure, persevere, overcome and triumph. Then when tribulation has come and gone, you will regain what you lost during the tribulation and you will gain something better. So don’t lose heart but keep pressing on more passionately with hope. ‘The time of tribulation’ does not mean that you will only face harms. It all depends on what you do. Through tribulations, you will be trained. You will suffer and receive torment from tribulations but because you chose the path of life, you will gain more at that time than what was allotted to you.

Today, the message is that you must live and pray for yourself, your family, your nation, the world, and the Lord. If you live and pray for your church and think about your church only, you are a small person. You need to live and pray for your nation’s Providence in order for you to become a ‘patriot.’ Furthermore, you need to live and pray for the world of Providence in order for you to become ‘a great person.’ You need to live for God and Jesus to become “a bride of the Lord.’ If you live for God and the Lord then you will receive a big mission from God on a world scale and work in a big way, and your merit will shine at the level of a nation, the world, and heaven even in the spiritual world.

P. Joshua Said, “The Lord always made me kneel down and taught me, “First, live for yourself. Then live for your family. Then live for your nation. Then live for the world. On a bigger scale, live for me.” He also taught me by drawing charts. He said, “An individual should live for the family, the family for the nation, and the nation for the world. The world should live for the heavens, in other words, God and me, Jesus.”

Things are contained according to the size of a vessel. You have vessels containers at home, right? They are small, medium, or large. Water or things, or food is placed in its rightful vessel. Clothes also ‘contain’ people’s bodies according to their size. In the same way, you contain yourself, your family, your nation, the world, or the heavens according to the size of your vessel.

Surpass yourself, your family, and your nation. Run, pray, and live for the benefit of the world and for the Lord only. Then you will shine on earth and shine in Heaven; you will perform miracles and the Lord will be happy. No matter how much honor a person may gain in the world, they cannot be compared with those who are recognized by the Lord, living with heavenly power and missions, receiving the glory of heaven and shining forever.

In this world, the poor and the rich, the ruler and the ruled, and people of high, middle, and low classes all live together. The powerful, the tycoons, the famous, the celebrities, the righteous and the wicked all mingle and live in the same world. However, it is different in heaven. People’s spirits will go to Heaven or Paradise or domains of thousands of levels in the earthly spiritual world, according to their deeds in this world. They cannot move from their domain to a different place. In their own domain, they can’t visit the domain a level higher or a level lower. They can go about and live only within the domains that are determined for their spirits.

If your spirit does not transform into the heavenly level spirit while living in this world and if you don’t go to Heaven at the first attempt, even if you receive salvation, you will only receive a failed salvation. Only those who know this secret will live in this world with all their heart. They would be able to go to heaven if they live enduring everything just a little bit more for the Lord in this world even though things are difficult and hard.

If you have been given a mission but you are without the word that is appropriate for the mission you have received, you cannot become a person of mission. Power goes out from you according to your mission. You rule and control according to your mission. You should treasure the words of the Lord. You should value them.