The Lifestyle of the Evangelist – Heavenly Mandate

God we thank You.  We pray that the evangelist’s lifestyle will be our life.  We pray that this time of training will be a time of answers.  In Jesus Christ’s name we pray, amen.

Lifestyle of the Evangelist

Life – Jesus Christ

An evangelist’s lifestyle is one where the Holy Spirit leads forward with power.  Evangelism is where the name of Christ goes in so people have life.  In order for life to be revived, the name of Jesus Christ must be testified.  That’s where God’s power is revealed, so the life of the evangelist is one where the power of God is revealed.

Only Christ (Answer)

Satan, Sin, Separation (Hell)

Sin began with Satan, and human beings sinned against God and we completely departed from God. The fact we are separated from God means we go to hell after living a hellish life on earth, and that’s the beginning of all fear.  To get rid of this fear, people choose religion. It doesn’t matter what you try or how much you succeed.  In Genesis 11, they were afraid of being scattered, so they raised the Tower of Babel so they wouldn’t be scattered over the earth. That’s human.

In Genesis 6, it says they became mortal, because they were living a physical life.  They are spiritual beings, but instead of living for the spiritual things, they lived for physical things and faced disaster.  Satan worked in the age of the Nephilim.

In Genesis 3, after departing from God, they were afraid, even if they were standing still, and they hid because being separated from God is fearful.  When God said, “Where are you?” Adam said, “I was naked and I was afraid, so I hid.”  If you’re separated from God because you’re dead, you have a natural fear. The answer to that is Christ, you have to know this.

People live so diligently and look so great but it’s actually because of their fear of death, and that’s Genesis 3, 6, and 11.  Why do we serve idols and have religion?  To escape the fear within me, we worship idols and participate in religion, and it’s the same reason I do transcendental meditation, so I’m completely seized by Satan and have no choice but to face the 12 life problems. 

But people who haven’t begun with this will think, “We have to succeed and make money, how can you say that only Jesus Christ is the answer?” That person is a physical being with no interest in the spirit, in reality, they have no interest in Christ.  Because they don’t have the answer of Christ, they’re afraid and they have to build up kingdoms for themselves and build up their tower higher and marry whomever they like, but it doesn’t work out.  They married whomever they chose in Genesis 6 and that’s not good.  Because people have a fear, after being separated from God, they think if they marry whomever they like, that fear will go away.

I’m not saying that getting married often is an issue or not, but I’m asking, why does someone do that? It’s because they’re trying to overcome and get rid of their fear.  Christ is not their answer. If Christ did become their answer, they wouldn’t do that; whether they’re married or not, it’s fine.  There’s no need to feel like you have to marry, and there’s no need to marry multiple wives.

Me, Physical, Success

The core of Satan, sin, and separation is me.  I’m the one who feels afraid, and as soon as you’re separated from God because you’re spiritually dead, you’re centered on yourself, and in order to get rid of the fear, you have to save up a lot of the physical things you see.  You think you won’t be afraid when you accomplish what you want. That’s a physical person.

There are people who go to church like this, but they’re always afraid, even if they have Christ, so they always live for “me,” physical things, and success because Christ isn’t their answer.  There are actually more people like this, so even though they live their walk of faith, it’s not an answer. Christ is an answer but it is not their answer so they have no choice but to live for physical things because they have this fear. It’s not like they can walk away from their walk of faith, and it’s not much better.

Kingdom of God

Word, Heavenly Host

God is seated at the throne, and God controls everything from here, but the problem is, God’s kingdom must be established on earth. God and I shouldn’t be separated.  God reigns over me with His Word, giving me the Word on the Lord’s Day and fulfilling it.   That’s why even if you’re sitting, holding onto God’s word, God mobilizes the heavenly armies of angels, transcending time and space, to fulfill the Word.

Mission

This is the 237 nations, and if you pray holding onto this, God shines His light.  Today during second service, Stephanie and Dre came a little late, and she said her daughter loves the church so much, especially me, and I don’t really know their culture so I don’t know what she means when she says that, and even though I don’t know the cultural meaning, I can sense she likes the messages, so her husband comes because they no longer work on Sundays.

I told her daughter to join the choir, “If you keep burying her talent, it will go away. Don’t utilize this talent in a grand or fancy place, but use it for the Lord.”  So I said, “You can join the zoom night practice and come on Sundays for choir. You have to use the talent God gave you to glorify God,” and I only said this to her because she came to church today. 237.  Because the light of the gospel has gone into them.  Why would they come all the way to Koreatown for a Korean church?  They are dragged by the light of the gospel, and you are establishing God’s Kingdom.

Only the Holy Spirit

If you want to evangelize, you need power.  I said this earlier, but where are you going to use a nuclear missile?  To catch tuna? If you want to catch tuna, you just need a sharp spear, you don’t use a nuclear missile to catch tuna.  You only use a nuclear missile if you’re trying to fight against China or Russia. Where does God pour out His Holy Spirit?  God pours the Holy Spirit upon you when you fight the spiritual battle against Satan.  That’s the Holy Spirit.

The reason the Early Church seemed weak but was not weak was because the power of the Holy Spirit came upon them.  If the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you can conquer until the ends of the earth. Conquering means saving, you are destroying the kingdom of Satan and saving people.  That’s the filling of the Holy Spirit.

So I said this during the EM worship, but pray for the filling of the Holy Spirit upon your not-so-great brain because you must do world evangelization.  Your talent and everything are within filling of the Holy Spirit, why? Because you’ve already finished everything with only Christ.

Heavenly Mandate

Today, it’s the heavenly mandate, a command given from God.  There’s no way other than Jesus Christ to solve the 12 life problems.  Let’s look at the Bible, Ezekiel 3:18-21.  It means if you don’t relay the gospel, harm will come to you.  A righteous person is someone who is saved and goes to church, but you must correct them.  Sinners refer to unbelievers, but it may seem like a threat, “If you don’t proclaim the gospel, you’ll die,” but it’s not a threat.  Because if I’m not delivering the gospel, it means I live a physical life.  That physical life will ultimately make me fail. I have no choice but to ultimately fall into disasters and fear.

What does it mean to deliver the gospel? It means I enjoy the life, and it means everything I’m doing is used to testify of the gospel of the life.  This isn’t a threat.  Apostle Paul said, “Woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel.” So, a heavenly mandate is a blessing. 

But physical people say the heavenly mandate is a burden because they have to do physical and manual work as well, so their walk of faith is burdensome, so they don’t want to do work when they come to church. “My life in the world itself is a burden already, just trying to survive and eat,” so everything in their life goes astray.

Genesis 1:3

Before the light was shone, there was a state of emptiness, formlessness, and void. If the light of Jesus Christ doesn’t go into people, this will also be their state. If the light of Christ doesn’t go into them, their spiritual state is also in disorder and Satan seizes these people so the light of the gospel cannot enter into them.  That’s why a person can only come to life if the light of the gospel comes into them. 

God gives you your talents and specialization in your fields to shine this light, so remnants, there’s nothing for you to worry about, all you have to do is remain within the stream of the gospel and the Word and prayer.  But if you’re working so hard right now to get rid of your physical fears, you’re just struggling by yourself. I’ve already lived like that, with specialty and diligence, so I laugh at people who work hard.  I’m not laughing at their diligence, but I laugh at what they work diligently for.

Some people are anxious when they don’t work diligently, and I was like that.  It doesn’t matter how much I drank when I went out, when I went home, I had to study a little bit to be at peace. I had to read at least a few pages of my books every day for me to be at peace, and I was an unbeliever, and I acted out of fear, I was so anxious if I didn’t do that.

It manifests in many ways, like being a workaholic. You shouldn’t work while worshiping.  But if you don’t do this, you’ll say, “Worship takes too much time away from me,” because you’re physical, then it doesn’t matter how much you live your walk of faith, there’s no answer to your diligence.  If you’re diligent, you might be earnest as well, but it won’t solve your anxiety. This is a great blessing.

Genesis 3:15

This is our heavenly mandate and answer.  We were separated from God, trapped under Satan, sin, curses, and disasters, and the answer is the offspring of the woman.  There are two things here, the offspring of the woman would crush his head, and there’s another one, that Jesus Christ would die on the cross.  These two things are important.

You have to know the devil exists, and you have to know that sin exists.  These two are connected, and the reason it says the serpent will strike his heel is because he must die on the cross and destroy the devil. It’s connected to the earlier message. If the gospel of the cross hasn’t finished everything for you, he will dig into your fear.  He completely destroyed Satan and died on the cross on my behalf. That is the answer.

Genesis 6:14

In the age of the Nephilim when everyone was so physical, the answer was the Ark.  Why did the rest of the people not see the ark as an answer? It’s because they were lost in physical things and couldn’t find the answer, so they just lived their life physically with flesh and blood. Because they didn’t have the answer, they worked diligently towards the things they could see.

Some people are addicted to shopping, they feel okay when they buy something, but you don’t realize there’s an empty fear inside of them.  They think they just have to do a lot of physical things, “I just have to spend a lot of money,” it’s because Christ is not their answer.  But for Noah, Christ was the answer.  The Ark represents Jesus Christ to come, why? Disasters came and no one listened, and they were supposed to drown in the flood but they lived.  We were supposed to die in our sins, but we were saved because of Jesus.  We must have this answer.

Genesis 12:1-3

He used to live in Ur of the Chaldeans, a land of curses and idolatry. Escape from that, therefore, escape from the place that lacks the gospel, and you must become a source of blessings. Only that is the answer. How can I escape alone?  You escape through the death of Jesus Christ, otherwise you cannot escape from the physical influences of the tower of Babel or Ur of the Chaldeans.

Exodus 3:18

This is the answer given to the Israelites after 400 years of slavery.  How can we escape? The blood sacrifice, the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ on the cross. There’s no other answer.  Moses was sent to declare this answer to the Pharaoh and he couldn’t understand it. The problem with the Israelite people right now is that they’ve lost the covenant of the blood and they just lived diligently as immigrants.  They just saved and saved, thinking “If I have enough savings, it will get rid of my physical fear,” but the more they do that, the more they suffer, why?

The blood covenant, the blood of the Lamb, only then will you escape from suffering. If you’ve escaped from suffering, what happens next? You have to enjoy this after worship, that’s the blood sacrifice. Even after, if you can’t enjoy this, you will go back into your fear, so worship must be your priority. Isn’t that right? You have to receive the spiritual blessing and then you will get everything else.

Isaiah 6:13

Israel was completely destroyed but God prepared the remnant, and that’s the answer.  Anything God hasn’t prepared is not the answer, you must look for this person. The remnant is the Holy Seed, what is that? It’s the one who has the answer of only Jesus Christ, and that’s our heavenly mandate.  There are people like that in our field and there are people like that in every nation.

Isaiah 7:14

This was told to them even before they were taken into captivity. You must hold onto the covenant of Immanuel. If you don’t hold onto the covenant of being with God, you’ll be enslaved by the devil. The answer is Immanuel.  Even right now, in everything that happens, the answer is Immanuel.  “Do I have to do this or that?” nothing else is the answer, that’s incorrect.

Matthew 16:16

Christ is the answer.  And when the one who knows the answer makes this confession, the darkness is broken.  Peter just made this confession out of God’s grace without even knowing what he was saying, and in that state, he didn’t know what he was saying, he made this confession by God’s grace so he couldn’t evangelize at this time, he confessed based on God’s grace without knowing the answer.

If you’re just shocked by Christ, you can’t evangelize.  By God’s grace, you received this shock, but keep your mouth shut because you can’t go in this state.  It’s because they didn’t have “only Christ” in Matthew 17, they received the answer that Jesus is the Christ but they kept following physical things, so they didn’t know the answer to why Jesus had to be the Christ, and they needed grace to know this.

Romans 16:25-27

Romans 16:25 the gospel from long ages past, and Romans 16:26, but now, and then forever, God’s glory.  The gospel is the answer for the past, present, and future. Even when we go to heaven, it’s the answer. You need to give them the answer of the heavenly mandate. If this isn’t your answer, you’ll give something else.  If you believe in Jesus Christ, you’ll be blessed and the answers is blessings? That’s not right.

The one who is blessed must do world evangelization, but most people don’t have the answer of Christ.  For those who have the answer of Christ, they begin solving everything with Christ first, and everything is resolved through worship.  The busier you are, the more you must resolve this in worship. If you don’t have the answer, you’ll live in your diligence.  That’s not God’s method.  May you enjoy this blessing.

Prayer

God, we thank You. We pray the evangelist’s lifestyle may be our answer, and may we be the blessed people who give the heavenly mandate as the answer.  In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.