SERMONS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BECOME OUR COWORKERS (I)

Let’s read the Word from the Gospel of Matthew chapter 24 verses 6 to 8: “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” The Lord said that, when the end times come, we will hear of wars and rumors of wars and nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes. And this is really true.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

It’s raining outside. This rain is a sign of spring. I would like to have worship service outside sometime. Flowers are blooming in the southern cities, but the flowers in our city are blooming late because of the cold weather. Next Sunday may be the perfect time to have an outdoor worship service. We just read from Isaiah 1:21 through to 1:31. These days I often preach from the book of Isaiah. I feel like watching a movie whenever I read the book of Isaiah. Does every movie not have a plot? To me, the work of God unfolded in the nation of Israel seems like a perfect story in a movie.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

In today’s Scripture passage, the Lord spoke to all the people of this world, not only to those who believe in Jesus. The main point of today’s Scripture passage is that we must enter by the narrow gate. For it is written, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). The Lord tells us to enter by the narrow gate. He tells us, “Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life.”   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Hello, Brothers and Sisters! I have recently been to a revival meeting. During my stay there, I also took a good look at some buildings for our new church there in Cheonan City. Evangelist Choi’s family will go down to Cheonan and start their ministries there this week. Also, we will open a new church in Jinjoo City and carry out God’s work in the vicinity of Pyeongtaek City.Last time, I delivered a sermon on 1 Kings 11. Today, we will take a look at God’s Word in 1 Kings 11:26-40 to see how pseudo Christianity was formed.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Today, I want to preach a sermon on today’s Scripture reading in continuation from the sermon I shared with you yesterday. Yesterday, I spoke from the Book of Exodus and the Book of First Kings about the fact that the Israelites replaced God with golden calves and worshipped them instead of God and that, as a result, God’s wrath fell on them and they were destroyed. The Word from Isaiah chapter 1 that we have read today is of the same teaching as the Word we shared yesterday. The Israelites, both from the southern kingdom and from the northern kingdom, took these golden calves as their gods and honored them in the temple and offered up sacrifices a few times a year according to due season. They worshipped before these golden calves even on the Day of Atonement and God could not tolerate their sin any longer when He saw such great sins of the Israelites. The Israelites established these golden calves as their gods on their own, burned incense, and offered up burnt offerings to these golden calves. Dear fellow saints, how can such a thing take place? However, such a despicable sacrificial offering had become official for the Israelites. Such a worship service had become official. Thus, worshipping golden calves had become a tradition to the descendants of Israel.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

When the Lord came to this earth, He bore all the sins of the entire human race by being baptized by John the Baptist. After receiving this baptism, the Lord was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and upon completion of this fasting He was tempted by Satan. When the Lord faced Satan’s temptation in various forms, He stood up against him and overcame him by trusting in the will of God the Father and His Word.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

We are making mission homepages for our coworkers all over the world, and I have faith that they will make good use of these homepages we have made in order to spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit more effectively. Right now, we the workers of God are living out our lives loyally for the spreading of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. However, some workers go on working with the thinking that is like this: “If the spreading of the gospel turns out well, then it’s good. If not, let it be so too.” I feel deplorable whenever I see such reluctant workers. But I am sure that there are so many faithful and dedicated overseas coworkers who devote themselves to the spreading of the gospel. I thank God for their devotion, and we the domestic workers here think of them as the same workers of God as us. I am thankful because we are able to spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit to people all over the world.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Tomorrow evening is Christmas Eve. We will celebrate and thank the Lord for the day when He came to this earth to save us from all our sins. The Lord has done many wonderful things for us this year, and we thank the Lord not only for what He has done for us this year but also for the many things that He will do in the coming New Year.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Before I begin preaching on this Scripture passage, I want you to know that the very first thing Jesus did in His public life was to go down to the Jordan River to be baptized by John the Baptist to take away the sins of the entire human race. Shortly after that, He was taken to the wilderness by the Holy Spirit. There he ate nothing for 40 days and went through Satan’s temptations. He was tested in all the physical temptations a person can go through. There He defeated all temptations by faith in God the Father and in His Word. As soon as He found out that John the Baptist had been imprisoned, He went towards Galilee. From then on, He started to preach to the people, saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15). As I just said, the Lord first received the baptism from John the Baptist and then He fasted in the wilderness for 40 days, and then defeated Satan’s temptations by faith in God and His Word. He then only said, “Repent, the Kingdom of God is at hand,” after He left Nazareth and went to Galilee.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

How have you been these days? I went to Inje Discipleship Training Center and came back after constructing a huge greenhouse there. I am thankful to God because we have erected it with minimum expenses and the minimum amount of effort. It is Wednesday already. Today is the last day of April, therefore tomorrow is the beginning of May. The time is going by so fast and seasons are also constantly changing.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

This evening I would like to share the Word on Noah’s ministry and how he found grace in the eyes of the Lord God. What kind of age was Noah living in? I’d like to examine this question first before delving into today’s sermon.The human race began to spread over the face of this planet earth from the first man Adam, who begot Seth and all the descendants that followed. It’s from this lineage of Adam and Seth that Noah was born. This genealogy is the lineage of faith, and God has thus concentrated His concern on this genealogy. God is the Master of the history of the human race, as the saying goes, “History is His story.” So, from the very beginning, the history of the human race was the history of the people of God. When Adam fell into sin, God not only saved him from his fall but also gave him descendants of faith.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

He is saying, “Do you have the Spirit of Christ or not? If the Spirit of God abides in you, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ. On the contrary, if the Spirit does not live in you, you are not His.” The Apostle Paul draws a clear line of salvation like this. He confirms the Word of God that those who have the Holy Spirit belong to Christ, and they are God’s citizens and servants. However, those who do not have the Holy Spirit of Christ have nothing to do with God. Only those who have the Spirit are God’s people.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35