November 27th 2011 Sunday Message Summary & Audio

Scriptures: Matthew 13:18-23, Acts 1:8, Romans 1:16

There are many people who don’t believe because devils tempt and drag them away, but there are truly many people who don’t believe because they themselves don’t want to believe. Whoever it may be, the destiny of a person’s spirit is determined according to their heart and thoughts, according to their efforts and deeds, and according to their free will, and they either go to Heaven or Hell. Therefore, you must realize how important your thoughts are and you must control your heart. Both when you believe and when you don’t believe, God and Jesus always make you realize through your consciences and make you realize by showing various situations in nature so that you will be able to believe. However, whether you believe or don’t believe is up to your own heart and thoughts. In short, the issue is your heart and thoughts.

Even if a farmer planted a fruit tree, fertilized it, and took care of it by doing his best, if it doesn’t bear fruit, the farmer has no choice but to forsake it, which is the natural course of action. In the same way, I realized that even if God and Jesus love human beings and do Their best, because human beings don’t believe and don’t like believing in God, their spirits eventually end up going to Hell, Hades, or death according to their deeds.

No matter who it may be and no matter what time period, this is the situation with everyone around the world. Throughout people’s everyday lives, God and Jesus make them realize about God through their consciences by showing them signs through nature. God and Jesus make them realize by showing them churches and crosses and by preaching the gospel to them. Also, God and Jesus work upon them to believe by sending people to them directly. But still, they don’t believe because they, themselves, don’t want to, so nothing can be done about it.

In order to lead all human beings to the Lord’s Will, the Lord chooses an appropriate person in advance and teaches him the Lord’s shimjeong and the Word beforehand. The Lord then sends him out to the generation as His body. Therefore, this person excels all other people on the globe. He excels in wisdom to a great degree, too. Therefore, people who blindly refuse to accept him and his words are ignorant people.

Even if people come to the new history after hearing the new gospel, being amazed and thankful, and even if they live listening to the same Word, their levels of salvation are determined to be high, middle, or low according to each one’s heart, mind, and thoughts. People take action according to their heart, mind, and thoughts; thus one’s level of faith is determined to be a faith of a bride, a faith of a sibling or a child, or a faith of a servant before God and Jesus. I realized this and, from early on, I took action with faith. Also, I have been making history while preaching about human responsibility.

When a person rejects the gospel at their most opportune time to follow, it means that they have missed their salvation. For individuals, God and Jesus send an evangelist to them and preach the gospel to save them. That moment the gospel is preached is a time that determines the fate of their entire life. It is a time when they must hear the gospel and fulfill their salvation. However, if they listen to bad people’s words and make an incorrect judgment, or if they don’t listen to the Word at that time because of a strong ego, stubbornness, or arrogance, or if they refute the gospel using other theories and then reject it, then the time that should be spent on listening to the gospel and receiving salvation is spent in the opposite direction and it will end there for them.

Life happens one time; it is not two times. The body lives once and comes to an end. The lifetime of your body is the opportunity when you can perfectly save your body and spirit. Whether or not you believe the Word of the times is your free will and your human responsibility. Preaching the Word of the times is the responsibility of the man-of-mission. Jesus always gives a better gospel in each time period, He guides people to believe and act upon that Word, and He thus enables them to receive the greatest blessing of their time period both in the body and spirit. Then this determines whether or not they receive salvation and also determines their level of salvation.

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