Lifestyle of the Evangelist – Mission
Today we will be talking about mission. The most fundamental thing to us is only Christ. If Christ has finished the three fundamental problems, then He has finished all problems. Otherwise if you shake in these problems, everything will be shaken. But what we must throw away is our me-centeredness, physical-centeredness, and success-centeredness. We must throw this away.
The church will be raised on the rock as its foundation, the gates of hades cannot overcome it and you’ll have the answer of only Christ. If you don’t come to the answer of only Christ, you’ll fall into problems and you can’t escape. Already, the problems are finished.
God guides us with His Word and gives His mission with His Word and answers with His Word. That’s the 24 hour answer. What’s the answer? Is it about getting money? Our thoughts changing are the answer. People live at the level of the earth. It doesn’t matter what you do, you can’t escape from problems. No matter how hard you try to escape from the 12 problems, you’re already within the frame of problems, even though it’s not a problem.
Was being naked in the Garden of Eden a problem or not? People say it’s a problem to be naked. People say if they feel naked, they’re scared and try to do everything they can to get rid of their fear, and that’s the world. Until we meet with God again, that fear in our hearts won’t disappear no matter how much we try to solve our problems or to cover ourselves with fig leaves. It must not be a problem for you to be naked, but we incorrectly diagnose the problem thinking that being naked is the problem. That’s why people try everything they can to try to cover up their nakedness with legalism, good actions, or religion, but nothing works.
People try this when they go to church, so it means they haven’t come to the answer yet. God personally had to clothe them with leather skin to cover their shame. When they were with God, their nakedness was not a problem, so this is very important. If you don’t understand this, you’ll keep living your walk of faith and complain. There’s no thankfulness. God is answering you now, but we’re not thankful. “This is a problem, that’s a problem,” but the problem is finished and now we have to find God’s plan, isn’t that right?
I hope you always remember this. Everyone says that being naked is a problem, but that’s a lie. If you’re with God, being naked isn’t a problem. Because you’re with God, the problem is an answer, and this must take place for evangelism to take place. If you keep giving them the wrong answer, God will block you. The one who actually has the answer of only Christ will go into God’s reign, and only then will the working of the Holy Spirit take place.
Therefore, if you don’t have the answer in only Christ, it will be hard. It will be difficult with your diligence. No matter how much you try, you can’t overcome Satan because you’re already lost in your frame of lies. Is your physical disease a problem? “That’s why people say, even if I believe in Jesus, it doesn’t do anything.” Does that mean if you believe in Jesus, you won’t die? If you find the answer of God’s plan within your disease, it’s not a problem.
Paul had a disease his whole life, and Paul prayed about this. God responded, “My grace is sufficient for you,” the disease itself isn’t the problem, but if you see what God is doing through the problem, it’s not a problem. If you’re stuck in the 12 states of the unbeliever, then even after believing in Jesus Christ, you have your disease. God gave it to you because you need it. If you don’t need it, God will take it away, but you’ve determined something for yourself. The real answer is the problem not being a problem.
You have to understand this to understand the pulpit. If you don’t understand these words, then you understand from the 12 problems. We cannot change this state with our efforts; our spiritual state has already been changed through Christ, through faith. Immediately, our spiritual state is liberated into God’s Kingdom, His Word. Whenever we pray, the Holy Spirit works and we are witnesses. That person will evangelize no matter where we put them, but if they don’t see this, they can’t do it.
I was talking to Tiffany earlier, she moved into a different department in the same company. Her manager is giving so much work that everyone is leaving the group. Do not misunderstand evangelism. If you misunderstand, you’ll lose hold of it. The answers are in front of you, but you lose hold of evangelism. All her teammates talk badly about her manager behind her back and she talks badly about them because she wants to get along with her coworkers, so she lost hold of her mission for evangelism.
What is evangelism? She realized later on that through her manager, she was receiving training and renewal. Don’t misunderstand. In your business field, God will create an incident, and if you don’t know this, you’ll always have to run outward. Before they understood evangelism, God made the 12 disciples run into the field, but God sent them out to evangelize to understand the field. But once they went into Mark’s Upper Room, it was different, that people from 15 nations were already in the field.
I told her, “Right now, all your coworkers are going through a problem, but if you say, ‘God gave me a message while praying that our manager is training us,’ then you can witness.” However, if Tiffany receives this, it becomes an opportunity for evangelism. Unbelievers don’t care if she believes in Jesus Christ, but if they see this testimony, it’s evangelism. I’m giving the answer of Christ through the answer I received, but if we lose hold of that and say, “Let’s go elsewhere to evangelize,” that may be wrong but it’s separate from her business. The true evangelism field is one where our She realized thislater on, this is the evangelism that you businesspeople do.
Evangelism is not separate from your business, so I told her, “This is why you must pray for everyone and God will work, transcending time and space. When you go about your job, give the answer of God and the people in your field will be connected. If she doesn’t understand that this is evangelism, separate from work?
Yes, we can go on a special evangelism trip just like Jesus Christ and His disciples, but they ran away when Jesus Christ died. Jesus sent them out so they could know the field, the true evangelism started from Mark’s Upper Room, and we talk about the biblical evangelism. The ones who have this answer gathered together as a team to evangelize the whole region. They had the evidence so they went into the field as a witness.
Employees don’t know evangelism and that’s why they must open their eyes. Until your eyes are opened, there’s nothing bad, but at first, there’s evangelism you do and you help people, but you can’t raise any disciples. So, we go out to evangelize but that’s just the first level.
If you have a heavenly mandate, you see what you must do at your time schedule, and that’s your calling. This depends on your age, position. What must be done in the church right now? God’s heavenly mandate for world evangelization is absolute, and the mission God wants. Even after Joseph was governor, he said, “Once I die, bury my bones in Canaan. Without knowing this, you’ll be confused.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all of this through Him who gives me strength. One without a mission from God must do their best with their own efforts, but the mission is holding onto this for their whole life. Being able to run a pastoral ministry means everything else is irrelevant, but to relay the accurate covenant to the next generation. If you have a mission, your eyes will change. No matter where you are, God fulfills this. Everything else is not really interesting. People say something about this or that, it doesn’t matter what anyone says, that’s not my mission.
A disciple who says only Christ, the disciple who relays only Christ, the remnant who will be the evidence of only Christ. Pour everything into this. Not “I” but I can do this through Him who gives me strength. Without this mission, you use your physical strength? When you’re older, you don’t have a job or money or strength, so you fall into spiritual problems. Already they’re sad because they don’t have money, they have nothing, but it doesn’t matter to those with a mission.
Moses was 80 when he started. God gave him a staff that turned into a snake; God’s power was with him, so that’s how these words are different. Everything else is of no interest; for everything else, you can pretend to be interested, but you’re only interested in the mission. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says because we don’t have enough time and ability to meddle in each region. But I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. Have you received your mission of saving your regions?
This is the evangelist’s life. This is revealed when God’s Word comes into me, so I have no choice but to evangelize. If you don’t know your mission and you’re flying around, you’ll stop eventually. You have to go with the rest of your life, you live the life of the evangelist for your entire life. Paul, Moses, they all did it like that. Paul was martyred, they left when their missions were done. These are the people who must arise. There is a time schedule.
If you don’t have the mission of only Christ, you don’t have the right mission. There’s a personal mission given by God. “I can do this through Him who gives me strength,” the power that God gives me.
Isaiah 43:12
I am a witness that God is God. If you’re a witness, it’s easy. Who has an easier time talking about a lion? One who has seen one or not? If you’ve never seen one, but you need to describe it using your knowledge, it’s hard. You may be able to speak very well, you can express the characteristics of a lion based on book knowledge but you’ve never seen a lion. You’ve never had the evidence of God being with them, so evangelism is hard. It’s the same thing for her. In the exact same situation, it’s so easy to evangelize. But if she’s in the same situation without an answer from God?
Scholars may debate what a lion looks like but when a witness arises, they all have to shut their mouths. The witness can describe the gaze and fierceness of a lion. The others don’t have the evidence. They know it so well through studying but it doesn’t matter. Because there’s a witness who heard the roaring of a lion and saw the color of his fur. That’s evangelism.
It’s not about the action of evangelizing, but God has already given you the answer that leaves you no choice but to be a witness, so you must not misunderstand. If you keep teaching unbiblical evangelism, it’s your loss. Many movements fade. Most are done with hard work, but it must be biblical, and that’s how the solid background is relayed to the next generation. There are so many evangelism organizations, “poke them like a hot potato, and if it goes in it’s time for them to hear the gospel,” or burn their hand, “That’s hot, right? That’s hell.” But all of this have limitations; it’s easy if you have the evidence.
So our lives and evangelism are one, and it’s one with the business field, so we evangelize. Misunderstanding evangelism, evangelism and the field are different? What’s not biblical will disappear. There was a group that went into the colleges in a nonbiblical way. They wanted to make evangelism so easy for people, “If someone is wearing red, give them the gospel,” but that’s not biblical. Sure, for college students, those words are easy to follow. But that’s not evangelism. Or they say, “If you give the pamphlet of the pulpit message and hand it out like a talisman, something will happen.” They make these methods because they never received the message from God to give to the field.
That’s why people lose hold of the true essence and hold onto something else. But all those things are bound to disappear; they cannot last long. I received the Word of God and stand as a witness of that evidence. That’s the biblical evangelism movement, the word of grace God gave me, so I’m changed and healed and stand as a witness in my field of God’s Word.
Satan knows this, but you can do this with your life, as long as the churches stand up, you can continue. That’s why the evangelism movement took place through the Early Church in Mark’s Upper Room. Otherwise, you’ll think of evangelism as you think of it. But that will always block God.
This is the history of Darakbang. People who have unhealthy mysticism will have many works of evangelism take place because they mix the gospel with mysticism, so they have physically visible works but they disappear in the end. Then, there’s someone who goes into really deeply studying the Bible, there was an organization like that, once. At first, all the young adults gathered there, but then they eventually disappeared.
For me, I’m a witness, I saw everything and didn’t know everything. I saw the pastors slip away. God raised up Pastor Ryu and gives His grace.
Luke 24:47-48
Stand as a witness of what God gave you today. The God Who is alive and with me today is giving me His Word and I stand as a witness of that. That’s why evangelism cannot be separated from the church. You may be able to evangelize without the church, but your work will be limited. At first, people do well, but they cannot continue because they don’t know the church. God continuously pours out the work. That’s why God began the evangelism movement through the church. The evangelism movement is done through the church. What did Paul do? His evangelism movement was to raise a church in every region, you have to understand this system, otherwise you’ll be stuck in your thoughts.
Acts 1:8
Why do you think Jesus Christ said this? Look at Acts 1:6, what did they ask? “Are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” These people are always interested in physical things and cannot understand. They’re under the misconception that the Kingdom of God means they’re liberated from Roman colonization, but when does this happen? When the Holy Spirit comes upon them, they can stand as a witness.
Who can pray for the filling of the Holy Spirit? The one who has the mission to evangelize can pray this prayer; otherwise, it’s an unnecessary prayer. “Give me this and that, solve this problem, solve that problem,” even if they don’t have to. Having the answer to that problem is the issue. Without the content and mission, you can’t evangelize and continue.
Nobody told me to do anything. Nobody encouraged me or coaxed me to become a pastor, but I did. Because I have this mission, I do this until the day I die. “This is disgusting,” that’s foolish, you’d die that way. When you go to your company, “I’m not getting paid enough to do this,” it’s the same as your mission. If you don’t have a mission, you can’t do anything. Same with the pastor, many pastors quit without a mission. If there’s a pastor who has one member in the church and they keep doing this, it’s because they have a mission so some people say, “let’s combine churches,” no, each pastor has a mission.
Some church officers have ideas like mergers and acquisitions. If someone walks their entire life, led by God to be anointed or raised as a pastor, whether they’re doing well or not, “That church isn’t doing well,” and this example is from a long time ago, but they shouldn’t close. That’s the wrong way to develop, and if I had grief.
Even if this pastor is driving a taxi, their heart isn’t there. The pastor has a mission so you shouldn’t do whatever you want with them. I’m talking about a mission now, and I’m talking about pastors to express this to you. Am I someone who shouldn’t be a pastor? Should I stop because someone tells me to stop? Do you think if a very famous company asked me to work for them, I should quit and go? Do you think there’s only two members in the church? Why would I quit? I have a mission.
If I thought, “there’s already a lot of churches so I don’t need to do this,” but I have my mission and God drives me. There are many reasons to stop in the middle, and people will be weeded out. One time, Pastor Ahn tried to close his church because his church members left. I said, “Don’t quit.” I went with a bunch of pastors to worship at his church. He said, “I’m doing pastoral ministry but my church members all went to the East Coast, so maybe I should stop.” He misunderstood.
I told him, “Don’t stop,” but he said he was shaken. We’ll come to a point where we have no choice but to stop, but if we hold onto that mission, we’ll move quickly. That’s why this mission is so frightening. How many people with a mission are in the church? For someone who doesn’t have this mission, they say different things and leave when they face difficulties. But people with a mission won’t look at the pastors; they look to God with their God-given mission. If someone needs to be nice to you for you to do something, you’re not a committed worker. What person, what pastor would be nice to me? I just go with the mission God gave me.
Acts 2:32
They all witnessed, so evangelism is hard if you haven’t seen this. You haven’t seen the evidence of God’s Word through the pulpit, so evangelism is hard. If the Word of God is the answer to my problem, it’s easy to be a witness. We never saw Jesus Christ die or resurrect, however, if He is with you and is alive, and you have evidence of that, that’s biblical. I told this to a new believer, there’s another problem behind your daughter’s problem, so break the spiritual problem.
As evidence of God being with you, pray and God will answer. I gave them a prayer topic that has no choice but to receive answers. Jesus Christ died on the cross to solve a problem I could never solve and is with me now. He’s not just staying still. As I’m living my life, God continues to give me evidence that He is alive, with me. Then, because you have a problem, God gives you an answer and you stand as a witness to those with the same problem.
Everyone is tortured by the same boss, even within the same family, everyone is in the same environment. If my wife and I were struggling with problems, and my daughter prays and God answered her. She tells this answer to us adults. “I was praying to God regarding this problem and I received this answer,” age is irrelevant. Who is the witness? Who has the evidence? That’s how it’s possible for the remnants. But if you lose hold of this and do other things, you cannot go wrong.
Acts 3:15
All the evangelism of the Early Church that saw Jesus die, we testified that Jesus Christ is alive now, it’s evidence God is alive now, God is with me right now with the Word, that changes everything. That’s the content of evangelism. Without this content, you can package yourself but it won’t work. That’s what it means for a young child to change their family through evangelism. May you be a witness to the problems of the age and your job. My problem is now an answer so I’m now a witness. People are living in America the same way, but if I receive the answer then I become a witness to change America.
Hebrews 12:1-3
It says great cloud of witnesses, not cloud of people who memorized the Bible. There’s a great cloud of witnesses. Let us also stand before them so we may be a witness as well. How do you evangelize? How can we overcome the problems of this age correctly? All we have to do is receive an answer from God. Simply put, it’s a problem but it’s not a problem to me. The reason God gave us similar problems is so that we can stand as a witness in a similar problem.
These people form a team and go into a new region, because they’re going through the same problems, so I can explain the answers I received from the past or the ones I received today. This is evangelism, evangelism is the blessing. The problems of mankind are the same. Missions is where you go elsewhere, but if you think, “I have to go elsewhere but I’m stuck here,” that’s someone who doesn’t understand evangelism. You should be able to go outside and here
1 Peter 5:1
Peter is sending his letter to the churches as a witness. The Jehovah’s witnesses took this testimony, but we are witnesses of Christ. Maybe they study the Bible but they don’t know Christ. No matter what religion, they will have evidence. If you marry, you’ll have evidence of a child. If you have a disease? We are witnesses of God’s Word. The Word is God, how do you receive a living Word? If you think the Word God gives you will be separate form the field? It is an answer to the problems we’re facing.
Evangelism is easy, it’s not very far, may God make your studies and businesses connected to God, because think about it logically, if you go into a Muslim area, if you’re not facing persecution, save. They started evangelism. Because if there’s someone who goes against what God wanted. This message, this time, isa time to change our spiritual state with the Word of God so we will be witnesses may you have all these answers.
God, we thank You. Please imprint, root, and nature with the biblical life of the evangelist through the evangelist’s life. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.