January 8th 2012 Sunday Message Summary & Audio

Scriptures: Matthew 25:31-46, Hebrews 4:12-13

By giving glory to the Holy Trinity, we should do well from the beginning of the New Year, and continue to proceed living attached to the Holy Trinity. We have to fasten the first button well to be able to properly fasten the rest of the buttons, all the way to the last one. The period of fifteen days of giving glory to the Holy Trinity is a period of time where we are fastening ‘the first button.’ During this period, we need to pray, praise, and also raise our level by making our hearts and thoughts clean.
If your heart is not the same as God’s heart and you live with your thoughts wandering elsewhere, then your life will become one that has nothing to do with God. In other words, it will just be your own life. I’m sure you’ve heard your parents say many times, “I can’t live with you because our hearts don’t match. I can’t live with you because our personalities clash.” In this way, if your hearts don’t agree, you cannot live together. The same is true between God and people, too. If we don’t have the same heart as God’s, we cannot live together with Him.

Throughout the six thousand years of the history of salvation, God has made a history of separation. From the time of Adam until now, in the course of making the history of salvation on earth, God clearly separated the good and the evil, and He has been making the history of salvation solely for those who are good.

God and Jesus give the absolute truth, and if a person, no matter who they may be, fails to obey that Word, then God and Jesus consider that disobedience to be sin and wickedness and declare, “They are a sinner. They are wicked.” God gave such disobedient people a chance to repent, so that if they repented, they would become the good instead of becoming sinners and the wicked. If they didn’t repent during that period of repentance, then God judged their sin and wickedness, and separated them from the good. God separates the good and the evil only when the time comes. It is only when the time arrives that God judges and blesses.

When Adam and Eve failed to obey God’s words, God deemed that act to be sin, deemed Adam and Eve to be wicked, and He separated and sorted them out. Also, with their sons, Cain and Abel, God looked into their hearts, personalities, and deeds, and He separated them as good and evil. Abel did not hate Cain, but Cain always hated Abel who was the symbol of the good. Even though they were brothers from the same parents, Cain’s heart was wicked and that’s why he hated his brother.

A central figure is the representative of all the people of that time period, the representative of the nation, and the representative of the entire world. A central figure does things before God as the representative of all mankind. Therefore, if the central figure does not do well, then everyone does not receive blessing; and if the central figure does well, then everyone is blessed. Also, even if the central figure does well, if the people of that time period deal with him ignorantly without knowing him then the entire generation is punished; and if they treat him well, then everyone receives blessing.
From the time that Jesus came to the earth, we have been offering service to God by becoming the offering ourselves. Therefore, we must separate the good and the evil in us and we must be clean in order for God to receive our offering. If we commit unlawful deeds and give off the stench of sin, then God will not accept our service. If we have sin we must repent. Only then will God receive our service. As for Cains, they must become united with the central figure of the time period and give offering to God through the central figure. Only then will God receive their offering. God is the Almighty. I hope you realize this.

You must separate and get rid of the evil in your heart by not committing wicked deeds, and you must separate the good and evil in your heart and actions by praying and repenting. You must separate in order to become perfectly good. You must separate and sort out all falsehood, and all the abnormal thoughts, and actions from your heart, then you will become an absolutely good person and stand on the side of Heaven.

When I prayed a few days ago asking the Lord to separate good and evil, God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus said, “Separating good and evil is My Will.” We must separate. Then we will be able to manage and evangelize. We have to separate listeners and then teach them according to their level. Without separating, the evil will spread.

Human beings are not determined to be a good person or an evil person from the beginning. It is not that ‘the body’ is a good person or an evil person. But it is ‘the heart’ that becomes good or evil, causing the body to act following the heart, and then the person becomes good or bad.

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January 4th 2012 Wednesday Message Summary

Scriptures: Luke 8:22-25
From today’s scriptures, the Lord awoke from sleep and rebuked the wind and the raging waters. Then, at the Lord’s words, the wind and the raging waters subsided and became calm. The Lord said to His disciples, “Where is your faith?” The disciples failed to set their faith in Jesus. Their faith was weak. Because they lacked faith, even though they were accompanying the Lord, they weren’t able to control the storm, they became fearful, and they failed to manage the situation when it occurred. The disciples on the boat didn’t understand fully that the Lord was the Messiah, the Almighty Savior. Because they didn’t know, they weren’t able to defeat and control the waves by rebuking them in the name of the Lord.
The same is true in this time period. No matter who it is, a person must know about Jesus correctly, and they must furthermore have the correct knowledge that pertains to this time period. Only then will they be able to control and manage the tribulations that they face and also be able to control and manage all other things for the sake of lives.

‘Eternal life’ is fulfilled through knowing the Christ. ‘Faith’ also begins from knowing the Christ. Again, ‘faith’ and ‘action’ arise from perfectly knowing the one sent by the Lord, enabling you to control all situations and enabling you to manage yourself and other lives properly as well.
You have to know that Jesus is the Son of God, the Holy Son of the Holy Trinity, and the Savior. And you have to know that, for the sake of His Advent, He first resurrects our bodies from the domain of death into the domain of life and He raptures our bodies on earth. The more you know about the Lord and the more you keep His Word and put it into practice, the more you can manage yourself, manage others, and receive salvation.

The Lord wants us to solve all our problems in His name by laying them all down before Him and petitioning Him while knowing and believing in the Lord correctly and while taking action.

When Moses was leading the Israelites and escaped Egypt, a wonder took place in which the Red Sea divided and stopped. When Joshua was leading the Israelites toward the blessed land of Canaan, there was a miracle of time that made it seem like the sun stopped. When Jesus came to Israel in the flesh, a miracle of the wind and waves stopping took place.

In this time period too, because I took action believing in the Lord’s power, a history in which nature obeyed took place. You have to testify about the things that God and Jesus have carried out in Providence. Then God and Jesus will work upon us even more.

Through the tribulations, you should pray more, strengthen your faith, raise the level of your physical life and spiritual life, and also raise the level of adorning yourself as a bride. This is how you should spend this period of time. You must go to the end. Only those who endure until the end and only those who go to the end will come to Heaven.

Some people manage their brothers well so their brothers are saved, but then fail to manage themselves properly, so they, themselves, end up leaving to the world. Everyone should deal with their everyday problems in a wise manner, and everyone should manage themselves according to Jesus’ Will. Nations, families, and individuals must all manage themselves thoroughly in living their lives. Life exists as much as you manage.

Also manage the health of your body everyday on your own. When it comes to your body and your faith, you have to be responsible for yourself and manage it before a problem occurs. In addition, you should manage the issue of safety on your own and protect yourself. Furthermore, manage yourself by being careful, by being on alert everyday, and by taking action every hour so that there is no blemish or crack in your faith.

I urge you to be faithful and enthusiastic, do not look away to the world, prepare yourselves even more perfectly as the Lord’s bride, and take action with the Lord.

January 1st 2012 Sunday Message Summary

Scripture: Luke 8:22-25

The theme for the year 2012 has been decided to be ‘The Year of Managing and Evangelizing with the Lord.’ Today, I will speak to you about managing and evangelizing lives.

Today’s scriptures describe a situation where wind and waves had arisen and were about to strike the boat that Jesus and his disciples were in. When the disciples pleaded with the Lord to save them, He took care of the problem and managed the disciples by rebuking the wind and waves. The wind and waves in this time period refer to the work that Satan and wicked people are carrying out as well as the tribulation that we are going through. When we are faced with any problems, we can overcome tribulations in the name of the Lord and our problems will be resolved if we petition the Lord and also do what we are supposed to do.

Just because you are told you shouldn’t live physically, it doesn’t mean that you should live like a beggar. It doesn’t mean that you should be strong only spiritually and work hard while starving yourself, fasting, depriving your body of sleep, and not taking care of yourself physically, making your body becomes weak and feeble. Do not manage yourself in a way that you ‘confine’ yourself by being isolated from the world, but manage yourself in a way that you won’t get caught up in the world while being active in the world.

If you become a person who belongs to the Lord and who lives by the Lord’s thoughts, then there is no need to starve, mistreat, or exploit your body and there is no need to keep your body from sleeping. If your body, according to its own thoughts, violates God’s laws, doesn’t comply, but disobeys the Word and lives tilted toward the world following its physical nature while only having a big appetite, then you cannot go to the beloved Lord.

If you live having perfectly made yourself into a person who belongs to the Lord, then the time that you use for yourself is also time you use within the Lord. But if the center of your thoughts and actions are wrong, then even if you spend time in the church within Providence, it is wrong. Therefore, in such a situation, you should listen to the Word and manage yourself. You are the one who feels and knows yourself the best.

You need to know Satan’s hideous schemes and manage yourself thoroughly while praying so that you will not be tempted by Satan. You should pray at least seven times a day that Satan cannot tempt you. Satan is like a snake that slithers into your room. And satans always make our spirits suffer. Therefore, you should manage yourself while continually investigating whether Satan is around you or not. Also, you need to manage yourself being aware of human satans who also operate together with Satan. You should manage yourself so that you will never be deceived and never be tempted by those who mislead and entice you to the world of wickedness.

When you manage yourself, you have to thoroughly manage your heart, thoughts, and mind. Also, you have to thoroughly manage your actions. You should manage yourself with the Word and with prayer. If you have been entrusted with a mission, you need to manage in a sense that you fulfill your responsibility, study the mission and put in efforts.

You need to manage lives according to reason, manage them gradually, manage them by helping and guiding them, manage them by teaching and making them realize, manage them by making sacrifices for their sake, and manage them by feeding them and giving them clothes to wear. When you manage, initially, you have to find out the details about the person you will manage. Also, you should manage them closely.

First, you have to manage them spiritually. Second, you have to manage them with a purpose. Third, you should manage them in a way that you coach them to be able to take action according to their ability once they have grown to a certain degree.

Without management, lives cannot exist. They will die. Management is life. You need to thoroughly manage your heart, mind, and thoughts every day and every hour, as if you are managing a child, so that your heart, mind, and thoughts won’t flow toward worthless things.

There is one thing that is most important in management: you have to manage in a way that you make the person’s faith strong and you must manage in a way that you arm them like a soldier that will be sent out to war. You should manage them as if you were putting armor on a child to prevent snakes from biting them and as if you were spraying repellent on their clothes to prevent snakes from even coming near.

First, you should evangelize while you manage yourself thoroughly. Then you will be successful in evangelism and management because you will manage the evangelized life just as you manage your own life. If you don’t evangelize, the fire of the new history goes out. If you don’t manage lives, they cannot survive.

December 25^th 2011 Sunday Message Summary & Audio
Scripture: Luke 2:14

God sent Jesus to this world as the King of peace. Consequently, Jesus, who is the King of peace and the King of all kings who represents the world, was born on earth. Jesus is the real entity of God’s love, and He is the King of love. Jesus saved lives that were living in sin and made them citizens of Heaven. He actualized God’s Will on earth, making a world of love, peace, righteousness, and justice.

A person who is born through the relationship of love between a man and a woman is like a person who undergoes surgery and is healed at the hands of a doctor. In this way, all the people of the earth were born through a relationship of love between a man and a woman. However, Jesus is different. Just as a person can be healed of their disease through the working of God and the Holy Spirit, Jesus was born by the Holy Spirit, through the body of a woman, Mary, without the involvement of a man, Joseph.

There is nothing that the omnipotent and omniscient God cannot do. He does as He pleases according to His desire. If God speaks, things are done exactly according to His words.

At every predawn, I pray for the sick, whether or not letters come from those who are sick. Therefore, I want you, who are sick, to pray for yourselves, too. Then, you will be healed by the power of the Lord, and for some of you, the Lord will heal you through the doctors’ hands.

However, people do not take care of their bodies because they are lazy. Such people neglected their bodies for a long period of time, letting the cancer spread or while letting various other diseases progress. Only when they are in pain, do they go to the hospital and have a big operation, so they suffered greatly. They don’t fulfill their responsibilities but it is only when their condition becomes serious that they say, “Jesus, I have believed in you and loved you so earnestly. But why do you let me become like this?” and then they feel left out by the Lord.

There are followers who witnessed firsthand the works that I did with the Lord while I was in the foreign countries for the ten years I was overseas. I told all of them to record the things that they saw. So now they are making a record of it. Since I am being used as the Lord’s hands and feet and as the Lord’s body, Jesus, the King of peace, made the history of peace take place wherever I went.

Two thousand years ago, Jesus came to this earth in the flesh as the King of peace, the King of salvation. However, the people of that time period didn’t recognize Jesus and tried to kill Him. King Herod also tried to kill Jesus, but he was judged in the end and died. Ultimately, the peace that God had planned for that generation shattered.

The people who had believed in God and had served Him for four thousand years persecuted and killed Jesus, who came as the King of peace, and they persecuted and killed the ones who followed Jesus also. This happened because they didn’t know that the fate of Jesus was the fate of their own nation. Ultimately, the political power of Israel was handed over to Rome, and the people of Israel were brought under the governance of Rome.

The central figures and prophets in the history of the Bible appeared as the kings of their time period, bringing peace for the sake of the salvation of that time period. Moses, Joshua, and the judges appeared in this way. However, the generation that had been waiting for them disbelieved, rejected, mistreated, criticized, and persecuted them.

As for Jesus, He saved lives and has made the New Testament history of peace for two thousand years by even sacrificing Himself and dying for their sake. Now the Lord is making heaven on earth, the history of brides of peace, that is the Complete Testament history. The Complete Testament history will be made for a thousand years. Jesus has come in spirit and has been making history, using the body of the man-of-mission as His own body.

During the thirty years that I made the Providence history, wonders of peace have taken place thousands of times. On the other hand, in places where the people did not treat the one sent by the Lord peacefully, wonders of judgment took place. All of these were things that the Lord did by making me report to God about them.

In every time period, when God and the Lord sent people of peace to the earth, the generation confined and persecuted them out of ignorance, and blocked and rejected the gospel of the time period. At those times, God always treated each nation according to its deeds. Thus, the history of peace changed and turned into a history of judgment.

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December 21^st 2011 Wednesday Message Summary

Scripture: Luke 2:14

Jesus the Messiah, the last Adam, came to the earth, and by doing so, He fulfilled the history that God initially had planned to fulfill through Adam in the Old Testament. Jesus loved and served God with absolute love, and He took action united with God. Thus, He fulfilled the will of love that Adam was supposed to fulfill, and He allowed those who were living at the level of servants to gain the rights of children. Adam was a person of the flesh who was born on earth, and Jesus was the Holy Son who came from Heaven. Two thousand years ago, the almighty Holy Son in Heaven came to the earth in the body of ‘Jesus,’ in order to save people of the earth. And His body was also conceived through the Holy Spirit.

The Old Testament was four thousand years of punishment period due to Adam’s fall. When it had ended, God sent the Holy Son of Heaven, who is one of the Holy Trinity, to the earth, and had Him appear with the body of ‘Jesus’ and make history. The New Testament history was made for two thousand years, a condensed period of time compared to the four thousand years of the Old Testament history. When people of that time period did not recognize the Lord, but instead, distrusted and persecuted Him, thus blocking the path of salvation, Jesus fulfilled the Will by bearing their sins on their behalf and sacrificed Himself. By doing so, He forgave human beings for their failings and revived them. He surely fulfilled the salvation history according to God’s Word. Therefore, He led the two thousand year history of Christianity to victory.

It is not that Jesus failed to fulfill His mission because He died. If those who were supposed to be saved at that time had done their responsibilities, Jesus would have fulfilled history without having to sacrifice Himself. However, because people failed to do their responsibilities, history shattered. If the work could not be done because the world was blocking it, then even the almighty God would be unable to fulfill His Will. But when human beings fail to do their responsibilities so that God’s Will cannot be fulfilled, the almighty God fulfills His Will using different methods. When a river becomes blocked and the water cannot flow downstream, the water will eventually overflow and run over the blockage or seep into the ground and flow underground. It is the same with God’s history.

We have received the Lord as our Bridegroom in this time period and we have received the Lord’s Christmas with love. This time period is a time when the history of believing, treating, worshiping and serving the Lord as the perfect counterpart of love, as the Bridegroom, is taking place. At this time, when the history of peace is being fulfilled on earth and the history of glory is being fulfilled in heaven, we are living having received the time of brides.

We must listen to the Word of brides that the Lord proclaims through the man who set the condition of a bride in this time period, and both our body and spirit must change, be born again, and resurrect into the Lord’s beloved brides. We are to leave the domain of the New Testament and make the new history. We live loving and serving the Lord, and obeying His Word in this way, and when the Lord returns with the trumpet call of the archangel only the spirits that are perfectly prepared will receive the Lord, rapture, go to Heaven, and hold the wedding banquet for a thousand years.

The Lord’s history is a history of love. In the New Testament, they made a history of love as sons. From the time of the Advent, we have been making a history of love as His brides. At the time of the Advent, the Lord, as the Bridegroom of love, carries out the history of salvation and makes us into brides with the Word of love. Therefore, only those who love Him with 100% true and absolute love can become united with the Lord and resurrect into His brides. You cannot become the Lord’s bride while doing everything you like to do.

I hope that at the end of the year, you will not do things as you please, commit sins to no purpose, and become people that satans drag around. I hope you will not go through suffering and punishment for an entire year as a result. When you sin, you cannot receive what you could receive because of that. You end up bringing tremendous damage and suffering upon yourself.

At the end of the year, God’s judgment always happens in order for us to receive the New Year with a clean slate. It is cleaning up what is filthy in order to have a clean New Year. However, at the end of the year, God’s blessing always happens also. God gives blessings to those who have endured and persevered while taking action according to the Lord’s Word during that year.

I bless that you will celebrate the Lord’s Christmas receiving Him properly and that you will receive the New Year by leaping one level higher toward the Lord. I bless that the love of the Lord will fill every one of you in Providence even more abundantly during this ‘Christmas of loving the Lord.’ Merry Christmas!!!

December 18th 2011 Sunday Message Summary & Audio

Scriptures: Luke 2:14

The Bible records that when Jesus was born on earth in the flesh, God let people know the birth of the Messiah by showing them signs. Jesus was not a king of this world but the King from Heaven, the Savior sent by God. God showed the sign of a star shining brightly in the sky so that people could recognize that Jesus was the Messiah sent from Heaven. This is a sign that no human beings can show. Also there was the sign of the Magi coming from the east, from afar, to see Jesus. In addition, angels appeared to the shepherds tending sheep and told them that the Savior was born.

However, the Jewish priests, who believed in God and who were waiting for the Messiah, didn’t show any interest in the birth of Jesus. The priests of the Jews didn’t know that the King of kings, the Savior of all mankind, whom God sent, would come in such a humble way. The Holy Son, Jesus, came to earth in the body and grew up for thirty years in order to fulfill the history of salvation. Even though history was flowing by in that way, they didn’t know it properly.

When people don’t know, they don’t know no matter how many blessings God gives them. The difference between a person who knows and a person who doesn’t know is like the difference between heaven and earth. Therefore, no matter what it is, and no matter what work it is, we must learn about it. When we compare the blessings that we receive from knowing and the misfortunes we receive because of ignorance, the difference is like the difference between heaven and earth and it determines whether our lives go either to Heaven or to Hell.

From His birth till His death, Jesus had been surrounded by misunderstandings, distrust, hatred, suffering, and hardships. Despite all that, He endlessly did the work of saving eternally the lives of spirits and, in the end, He gave up His body for the generation that distrusted Him and for all mankind who had many sins. Jesus provided us with the path of salvation that would lead anyone, who believes and follows Him, to Heaven. Afterward, He resurrected in spirit and went up to Heaven.

Jesus is the Holy Son. Even before He was born in a physical body in the land of Bethlehem, Jesus had already existed in Heaven as ‘the divine Spirit of the Holy Son,’ as one of the Trinity—the Holy Father, the Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit. God made things in such a way that when a person’s physical body is born, their spirit is born at the same time so that their spirit exists along with their body. The spirit is created in such a way that only when the body believes in God and the Savior, obeys His will, and does righteous deeds, will it transform into a spirit of Heaven according to the deeds of the body, and go to Heaven.

In order to fulfill the will in the world where people live in the flesh, Jesus had to be born as a human being. Only then would people be able to listen to His words, see His deeds, and fulfill God’s Will. So, God had Jesus’ physical body be born on earth through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Son of Heaven appeared using the body of ‘Jesus’ as His own, and He fulfilled the will of salvation and carried out God’s history.

Therefore, Jesus is different from Abraham or Moses, or any other figure in the Bible. Human beings are born through the principle of love of the earth, but Jesus was not born in another way. Jesus is not a human being from the earth like Buddha, Confucius, or Socrates—the so-called ‘saints of the world.’ The Holy Son of Heaven, who is at the standing of God of the Holy Trinity, came to the earth wearing the flesh of the world. Just as not everyone can become the same as a hero, a king, or a saint of the world, not everyone can become a person like Jesus.

People who were born on earth like Abraham or Moses only worked throughout their lifetimes and ended at that. Jesus, however, worked throughout the two thousand years of the New Testament history, He is still working today and He will be working and making the salvation history throughout the one thousand years of the Complete Testament history as well. Also, it is Jesus that will come back again at the time of the Advent, where He comes back in spirit. We must know this as we celebrate the Lord’s birth and give glory to God. Only then will our celebration and rejoicing reach up to the heavens.

This omnipotent and omniscient Holy Son appeared through the weak physical body two thousand years ago. However, at the time of the Advent when He comes back, in other words, in this current time, He has not come back in the weak physical body. He gave up His body on the cross, resurrected in spirit, and went up to Heaven. The Lord has come back in the almighty spiritual body, as the King of kings and as the entity of God, and He is making a new history.

Just as the magi from the east presented Jesus with gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh, we should celebrate Christmas by giving the Lord our body, ‘the body of a bride,’ that is full of love. We should, as His bride, celebrate His birth by becoming a life of gold, a life of incense, a life of myrrh, a life of shimjeong, and a life of love, and we should give thanks and glory to God who sent us the Lord.

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December 14^th 2011 Wednesday Message Summary

Scriptures: Matthew 18:21-22, Matthew 18:35

From now on, I will give you the important Word about ‘forgiveness.’ So those of you who have sins and those of you who are currently repenting, listen carefully. You must listen to the Word carefully in order for you to be resolved of the issue of sins through listening to the Word. Everyone must listen to the Word and be resolved of their issue of sins.

You need to know why I am telling you to repent when you commit a sin, whether it is big or small. The devil twists even a small sin and constructs a grotesque story out of it, as if you have committed murder or something, and he keeps telling God about it. He also continuously reproaches you who have sinned and treats you like you were the most notorious felon in the entire world. In this way, the devil makes even a person who has committed only a small sin feel downhearted and depressed for years, unable to look up to the heavens. The devil tells them, ‘This is the end for you! You are going to Hell,’ and makes them give up. On the other hand, to a person who has committed a big sin, the devil tells them, ‘You don’t even need to repent. Just give up. Just live loving the world and live in gluttony.’ Therefore, when you have committed a sin, whether it is big or small, you should put everything else aside and make repentance your top priority. Only then will you be able to live forgiven. You must repent in order for the devil to leave you. Repentance is forgiveness, repentance is coming to life, and repentance is immediately coming to the domain of life from the domain of death. Forgiveness is salvation.

If a person sins for the 10,000th time and then repents, Jesus forgives without saying, “This is your 10,000th time.” Therefore, you must repent instead of getting discouraged. Only then will you live and not come to ruin. If a person repents, the Lord forgives them even if they are in a state where it is impossible to receive salvation. He gives them another opportunity to do their best because if the Lord does not forgive them, then that will be the end for them.

Let’s say a person who loves the Lord has committed a sexual sin. If they truly repent and receive forgiveness, then that sexual sin disappears completely, so God never again talks about the sin that has been forgiven. The person is in a state without sin. The only thing that remains is the record of them being forgiven that is archived in Heaven.

If the Lord does not forgive even though a person has truly repented after committing sin, then the Lord will not be able to love them again because it will be uncomfortable in His heart. Therefore, the Lord forgives them if they repent and He loves them again without any reservation. Once they are forgiven, their sin is done away with forever.

If you misunderstand the Lord and don’t repent or if you don’t repent because you are discouraged, then until you repent, you will live in sin, you will be unable to receive blessings, and you will go through the suffering of a living hell continuously because of sin. Some people commit a sin as small as a fist and live receiving suffering as big as a house from the devil. Some people commit a sin as big as a house, but repent right away, so they receive only a small punishment and then end with that. Those who have been forgiven must bear this in mind and obey the Lord’s Word. Only then will you not sin again.

If you repent, the Lord’s spirit will come and forgive you, and He will also forgive you through the one He uses as His body. The Lord is the owner of forgiveness, so the Lord has to forgive in order for the forgiveness to be fundamental. But if you keep sinning and just keep receiving forgiveness, you will become like a car which has gotten into frequent accidents and therefore cannot function powerfully, even though it was repaired each time.

There is no one who could not receive salvation because the Lord did not forgive them. People fail to receive salvation because they don’t repent. They fail to receive salvation because, even if the Lord forgives them, they break the Lord’s law again, and since it becomes hard, they fail to do their responsibility.

Let me tell you one more thing about forgiveness. If you repent, the Lord forgives you. However, He allots a period of punishment so that you will not commit sin again. Even though you are forgiven, you have to go through a probation period. This is a period in which, rather than carrying out a certain mission, you must restore yourself. If you don’t go through this period, you will have a problem again and you will need to go through the surgery again, but during the second surgery, you may die. A period of punishment is when you have to be on your best behavior so that satan will not interfere and make you sin again.

Among brothers also, you must repent to one another and forgive one another.

First, if someone repents to you of their wrongdoing, then you should sincerely forgive them. Only then will that brother live and will you also become a person without sin when you stand before God and Jesus’ throne of judgment. If you don’t forgive a person even though they repent to you, then God will not forgive you either. Therefore, you should make sure to repent to one another and forgive one another without holding back.

Second, you must repent to your brothers telling them that you have truly done wrong. If you don’t repent, you cannot be forgiven and thus cannot live with the Lord. In the same way, if you don’t truly repent of the sin that you have committed against your brother, then you cannot receive forgiveness and you cannot live together either. You have to repent of whatever troubles you. If you feel that something troubles you, then that is because you are thinking centering on yourself. You should think that the other person is the Lord and truly repent in words and in actions. Some of you committed a big sin against your brother like stabbing their heart with a knife and then you repent lightly like a soap bubble simply saying, “I’m sorry. I was wrong.” You must earnestly repent. The person who forgives sincerely forgives, but then should the person repenting repent so insincerely?

Today, the Lord is delivering a message about ‘forgiveness’ so that you can truly repent of all kinds of sins—the sin of betraying in love, the sin of betraying in faith, and so on—you must truly receive forgiveness and wrap up this year in a clean state.