Following God’s Word in Faith (Deut. 28:58-68)
We will finish Deut. 28 today, and it has a lot of content regarding curses. There are more words about curses than there are about blessings in this chapter. That’s how much the Israelites lives in that way. As you look through the Old and the New Testament, you must come to the conclusion that human beings’ lives are not blessed because of their actions. It’s not about whether humans do this or do that; you must realize the standard is about God’s Word. So, the absolute condition that is constantly repeated is, “If you follow God’s Word,” and if you do not, then you will go into curses and disasters.
The content we read today was about the curses and diseases and disasters that will come upon you. In Deut. 28:60, “He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.” That means similar to the coronavirus, which has spears and lots of spikes, it kind of clings to your DNA, that’s what these diseases will do. In Deut. 28:62, “You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.”
In Deut. 28:63 it says, “You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess,” which means that you will not be able to rule over that land correctly. In Deut. 28:64, it says, “The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There, you will worship other gods–gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.” Every time the Israelites did not obey God’s Word, they were taken off as captives in war. But the world tells us, “If you just act right, you will be good,” but those are the words of the devil. The standard is not you; the standard is God’s Word.
There’s no reason for you to think so deeply, you must simply stand before God’s Word. If you think so deeply, that’s like transcendental meditation, that’s like philosophy, that’s like religious people trying to reach Enlightenment. There is no answer there; we must stand before God’s Word. There is no reason for you and I to think so deeply about this or that, we must simply go before God’s word. it’s not about, “Why did I do this?” We must come before God’s Word. As a result of the problems between me and the word of God, all other problems will result and you need to realize this quickly.
It’s not a problem of your circumstance. The problem is not about COVID. If God blesses you, then things work out, but intelligent people will make excuses, “My life is like this because of COVID.” Those words sound smart, but they are foolish. You have no idea how many young people committed suicide because of COVID, it’s because the Word of God wasn’t going into them, so you and I must stand before God’s Word.
In Deut. 28:65, it says, “Among those nations, you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There, the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.” In other words, all problems will come. It’s not because you made a mistake. If you simply hold onto God’s Word, the Word says you will be blessed whether you make a mistake or not.
However, if you are separated from God’s Word, then whether you make a mistake or not, you will be cursed, and our minds are always anxious, that’s always the problem. Isn’t it things like depression, things like panic attacks, we’re afraid and anxious, why? It’s not all of a sudden; these are things that result because we have separated from God’s Word. We will have despairing hearts, meaning kids will not be able to concentrate on one thing. They’re wandering around, working so diligently, but their minds are so disconnected. They cannot do anything correctly before God’s Word.
Deut. 28:66, “You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both day and night, never sure of your life,” meaning you will be afraid of death. Moment by moment, we are always under the fear of dying. These are the results of falling out of God’s Word. Deut. 28:67, “In the morning, you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”–because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see,” meaning you wish that time would pass by faster. At night, it’s so difficult and you can’t even sleep, you wish it were morning already. Then once it’s morning, you’ll wish it were dark and evening soon. That simply means in the morning and night, all day long, you are suffering. It’s not because of somebody.
Deut. 28:68, “The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.” At least you need to be sold in order to go into somebody’s house and make your living as a slave, but if no one will buy you, you will starve to death. This is God’s Word.
The Israelite people lived lives like this repetitively, they lived their lives thinking lightly of God’s Word, and they listened deeply to the words of people. That’s why they thought of God’s Word as a joke. Jesus Christ took all of these curses and disasters that should have been upon us, and paid the price with His death. Knowing what we would be like, the LORD already paid the problems of our past, present, and future in advance.
So, He has finished all problems and He is with me and He is with us, then how do we need to live? This is not saying that, now that Jesus has finished all of our problems, we can do whatever we want, but there are a lot of people who understand it like that. That’s what you call someone focused on salvation. Those are the people who say, “Now that I’ve received salvation and I’m going to go to heaven no matter what, I can live my life however I want, doing whatever I want.” It’s possible they have not received salvation because if they truly receive salvation, they cannot be like that.
Why? Because the Holy Spirit interferes with them. Because God’s grace is upon them, they cannot live like that. If there is somebody who thinks that way, there is a large possibility they have not received salvation. Even the Israelite people were under the misconception that they were saved. Even though they saw Jesus Christ personally, they didn’t need him. It’s because they incorrectly believed in and misunderstood God’s Word. If they truly receive salvation, that person is bound to change because the Holy Spirit is inside of them and is interceding with them. If they have not received salvation, that’s the first thing they must solve.
If the Lord has finished everything on the cross, then we no longer need curses and disasters, and there are people who live however they want because of that. 99% possibility they have not received salvation. It’s impossible for them to live like that because the Holy Spirit lives within me and the Holy Spirit prevents me from living however I want. God gives us grace, so how can we continue living how we want?
But there are some situations where I want to believe but it’s hard to believe, but I did receive salvation. Then, it’s not about living however I want, I want to believe but it’s hard to believe. Those are people who are living with the idols they had before they received salvation. In other words, there are people who relentlessly hold onto their own ideologies. Everything is finished and they need to receive those answers, but they are holding onto their idols. Satan uses that as a channel to continuously bring that person down.
What is that idol? If they are holding onto anything other than Jesus Christ, that becomes their idol. That idol can be success, your children, money, anything. The reason is because everything is finished, but you don’t personally believe that, so you need to hold onto something else. There’s no reason for you to hold onto that anymore because He has finished everything and He is with you, but Satan will continuously use that as a channel in order to drag this person to another direction.
That’s why we need to quickly get rid of the things of our past. There is the idol of religion. There are people who don’t hold onto the gospel, but instead are so entrenched in religion that they think that their life is dependent on their actions and doing something. We are here to give worship, it is not the location that is important, but maybe the Catholics emphasize the location. But for us, we pray that we come here to worship the Lord. We don’t pray that we’re here in this location; the location has no meaning. God doesn’t see that.
We pray, thanking God to guide us to worship. In the Buddhist sense, they have a specific sanctuary, but all of those are unnecessary. Catholicism, religion, the things that are visible to the eyes are all unnecessary. You need to get rid of your religion. God is with you, invisible to your eyes, and your scars, you must discard them. Everything is finished, but you are holding onto your scars, being dragged around by Satan. We are living our lives, and it’s impossible not to receive scars. You need to be aware of them and fight against them, but if it simply passes by, it becomes a channel of Satan.
You must overcome them; you overcome them by faith. However, if you remain centered on yourself, your own standards, and your own thoughts, then Satan will continually bother that. So, even though everything is finished, you will not be able to hold onto that answer, blessing. If everything is finished, then all we have to do is receive the guidance of God’s Word, but instead of that, we keep on thinking that things need to work out according to my thoughts, and we keep thinking that people need to listen to our words, and we keep on thinking “I need to do something.”
That means it’s not yet finished for you, and you have to keep going in. “If I don’t make this decision, then the demon of disappointment will come in.” If somebody else does everything, you’re going to feel left out, and that’s not being centered on the gospel. That’s how we lose hold of all of our blessings. We need to receive the guidance of God’s Word, everything is finished on the cross, and now we need to live our lives centered on the gospel. But instead, we are so centered on ourselves, centered on my position, my power and influence, that other people need to listen to me. That’s a channel for Satan, why? Because everything is not finished yet.
The Lord has finished everything, and if we simply hold on that, no matter what happens, we can simply follow God’s Word. We may say, “I am so weak,” and yes, that is true. You say, “I have no money,” and yes, that is true, but that person is irrelevant to the fact that the Lord has finished everything. You’re exactly like an unbeliever, unbelievers say those words too, then what does the gospel have to do with us? Regardless of us, we have died on the cross and now the Lord lives within me.
The fact that I have died on the cross means it is no longer about my standards. But we keep saying things like, “I have no abilities, I’m weak, I’m poor, I’m old,” those words may be correct, but they’re wrong. Those words may be correct, but where is the Lord? So you keep on kicking away the fact that everything is finished, and ultimately, it means you do not believe in this gospel. Because you’re not finishing everything with the gospel, you’re getting caught in Satan’s lies and running his errands, so you need to quickly turn the past into a springboard and overcome with the gospel.
“My poverty–I’m so poor,” yes, those words are correct, but where is the Lord? That is why we don’t enjoy the gospel. For us, it’s not about our circumstances, but we overcome the circumstances with faith in the gospel. But if we’re always saying things like, “I’m so old, I’m not even making money,” then you’re living like an unbeliever, because instead of following God’s Word, you’re following your environment. Instead of following the Word of God, you’re listening to and following the words of people.
Why do kids continually lose their identity? It is because they listen to the words of the people around them, and they look at themselves and it’s correct, so they fall and are deceived. You must hold onto God’s Word, the gospel. I am a child of God, what does that mean? It means God’s authority is upon me, it means that God’s power is with me, and this must go into the remnants. Otherwise, the poor kids will always remain poor and the stupid kids will always remain bad at studying, and that person’s irrelevant to the gospel. That means, they think their lives are determined based on themselves, but the Lord never says that.
If you have received salvation, it means your life is now determined and changed because of God, but you keep looking at your own situation saying, “I cannot do this,” this is a person completely irrelevant to the gospel. If it is God’s will, it is possible; what do you have to do with it? “I have died on the cross, but why does that ‘me’ keep coming back up?” You say you are powerless or unmotivated. Those words are correct but it’s wrong. That means, “Dead on the cross,” but why does that “me” keep coming back up? I’m not an unmotivated person, I am not a person who has no money nor is powerless; God’s plan is with me, and therefore, He will do it.
Only then will you overcome the curses of poverty and your failures of your past, and that’s how remnants overcome as well. If somebody tells you something, those words may be correct but they are wrong. That problem has already been finished by the Lord, the LORD is with me, and I’m the remnant who will do world evangelization. Only upon the person who holds onto that, they will be blessed whether they go in or out, whether they fail or succeed.
The Word of God must go into you very well. You need to get rid of the things that focus on you, because your life is not determined based on you; your life is determined based on God. You’re a child of God, and for the children of God, your life is based on the power of God. But instead of focusing on that, you keep on looking at yourself and if you do a little well, you’re up in the clouds again, and if things don’t work out for you, you’re completely discouraged. You’re completely irrelevant to the gospel and irrelevant to the cross. That’s the reason the devil never leaves you alone; he is dragging you along the curses of your family line and past.
We must not misunderstand. The new “me” is where everything has been finished on the cross and now the Lord, the Triune God, is with me forever. Are you weak? That is an opportunity for the power of the Triune God to be upon you. Because you’re weak specifically. If you’re lacking money, that is an opportunity for God to give you money. Why do you keep focusing on that? If your health is weak, then that’s an opportunity to restore health, because that is the way to glorify God and to do world evangelization.
I hope you will stop saying, “I’m like this or that,” that is how you separate from God’s Word. You just leave on your own, but it turns out, Satan is in the background, destroying you with words that are incorrect. If you have this faith, you relay it naturally to your kids. “You’re okay, it’s okay even if you’re not that smart, it’s okay even if you’re ugly, because regardless of how good looking or how bad you are at studying, you are bound to live by God’s power.”
Do you think if you’re born with better things, your life will be better, or if you’re better at studying, your life will be better? Maybe you’ll be able to live physically better, to eat more expensive foods, but how are you going to block the disasters theBibletells us about? If it’s morning, you’ll wish it’s the evening; if it’s the evening, you’ll wish it’s the morning, you cannot block that, and the devil will continue to attack your mind, body and heart. Everything is finished; it’s irrelevant to me, now only God’s Word. God’s background is my background. I receive and use everything from there.
Do not misunderstand, it is not about you working hard and earning things. That may be correct, but it is wrong. Then, where is God? Do you think God is standing still and you are working hard by yourself? You keep saying words that deny God. Because the children of God belong to the kingdom of God and not to the kingdom of Satan, we receive all answers from the kingdom of God. Then it doesn’t matter even if you have nothing. For unbelievers, if they have nothing, they die, because they are their own god. There is nothing else for them to rely on, because they are their own god, so if they have nothing, they have to kill themselves. But for us, it’s irrelevant; we receive the answer of 25 hours from the Throne of God.
It’s okay if nobody helps me because God is helping me. Why do you keep worrying about what people think? If you keep thinking about what other people think, you’ll be bound by people. Stand before God. God has given me this job and God has given me these studies; you must do it before God, and you stand before God to use this as a tool for world evangelization, that’s the honest way.
Standing before God is the true, hoenest way. If you’re standing before God’s Word but you think you’re working earnestly? You’re not, so it doesn’t matter how earnestly nonbelievers are working, it’s all garbage. It says in the Bible that all of that is rubbish. However, when you stand before the Word of God’s gospel, that’s true earnestness. With that honest work, we are studying and doing our business. It must be right before God’s Word in order for it to be honest; if it is not from God’s Word, it is not true.
Deceiving God’s Word is not honesty. If He says everything is finished, but I don’t believe in that, that’s not earnest. You cannot live your life with the honesty of the world. You cannot live your life with the righteousness of the world. You can only be righteous when you believe in the gospel. Only when God calls you righteous will the curses and disasters flee. The reason we have to keep listening to the words of the gospel is because we don’t believe it, and also, because it’s not rooting down in us, we keep wavering so we have to keep on listening. We are no longer belonging to the kingdom of Satan; we belong to the kingdom of God. We are now citizens of heaven and we receive all of our answers from there.
That is why, during the time of worship, we are sitting here in form, but we are actually sitting here to receive answers from heaven. God gives you His Word through the words of the pastor, it is given to you by God from the throne of heaven. On Sunday, we come to worship before that Throne. The location is not that meaningful; we are standing before God, we have come before the Lord, “God, we have come here for worship. God, please give us Your Word.” That is the posture with which you must come to worship.
Just coming to the location has no meaning, it doesn’t matter if we think this is a sanctuary or not, the location is not what determines it. Even when we leave, we stand before God; we work before God, we study before God, that is the living worship. But if you’re separated from God, you go down another path.
Because the power of the throne of heaven is upon me, I’m now able to save other lives, this is the blessing God has promised us. “God, please give me Your power to save the 237 nations, do the Temple Construction, to save the 70 disciples and 70 regions.” That’s how we pray, otherwise, if we don’t believe that, we have to keep working hard to make a living. Then what happens later? Because you’re living regardless of God’s life, you will be suffering. You’re working so diligently, but one day, it’s all gone. Those are the words of the Bible.
Yes, you’re working and building so diligently, but one day, it will all be gone. You earn so diligently, and one day, you get a disease and blow all your money. You make a plan to save up this much money and go and use it to play, but then you get diseased so you can’t even play. Why is that? It is because you’re separated from God’s Word. “But I went to church so diligently and my family has believed for 3-4 generations, and I’ve always gone to Sunday worship in this location.” I hope you will go before God, I hope you will stop coming here out of form, religion, or tradition, but stand before God.
I hope you will stand before God’s Word. “Oh, but I work so diligently, I studied so diligently,” where is God there? You’re not standing before God; you’re just working hard on your own, and one day, you con people and you lie. You have no choice but to do those things because you don’t have the power, that’s how you become a slave, colonized and captive by the world.
For us, we have no need. We stand before God and we live our lives for God. We do our business in order to reveal the name of Jesus Christ and to give Him glory. We are not living so pitifully, before people, to make a living. We stand boldly with the evidence given by God; as witnesses, we study and work. Only then will the darkness be broken. Those are the kinds of Christians who must continually arise.
Honestly, it’s much better to go to worship on Sundays than not, but I’m not talking about the religious kind of diligence. But I’m saying, if you truly come to worship by the grace of God, then you will do the same thing out in the field. Then you will be able to see God’s Kingdom being established in the field. When you go out in the world, there is so much competition. That is why everybody says, ‘Life is so hard, it’s difficult, it’s not working out,” and if things do work out a little bit, people think they did it themselves. It’s all the level of an unbeliever. Because they’ve lived their life separated from God’s Word, they’re following their situation and environment and the result is separation from God’s Word.
So you must not place your standards on the law, religion, or your actions. I’m not saying those things are unnecessary; yes, we do need them, but the content is more important. This is the conclusion why we continuously spoke the words of Deut. 28. “If you obey God’s Word, if you follow God’s Word.” What is that Word? It is the word that everything is finished on the cross. Do you follow that Word? Your brain might follow it, but inside of you, you keep on saying words like “I can’t do this,” that means you’re not following it. You need to say that everything is done by God’s Word, but if you say everything is done through you, then you are your own God.
Even if you are the President, you must stand before God’s Word. “Do you know who I am? Everybody needs to listen to my directions.” That person has lost hold of the gospel. It’s the same thing in your family, the family must stand before the gospel, not your words. Otherwise, they will die, but if you say ” You have to get my permission,” it’s not about that, it must be God’s standard. That’s evidence you do not follow God’s Word. So I hope you will stop acting so quickly start thinking about God’s Word. But for our nature, it just keeps coming up, and the devil uses that.
What does God’s Word say? What is best for everybody, right? If you keep talking about “me” and myself, what about everybody else? God desires to save everybody, but if you only talk about yourself, that’s not aligned with God, then even if that person goes out to work, they will not work out. If you go into your company, you must save everybody, but if you only talk about “me, me,” they will not work out. It is the “me” that saves everybody in the church, but if you keep saying, “me, me, me,” that is death.
What must I do to save everybody? If you stand before God’s Word, everybody will be saved, and that is why we follow God’s Word. We have no power, but God has promised to give you power, but He doesn’t give you power. God doesn’t give you power because you’re holding onto unnecessary things. Jesus promised to give you power to be a witness to the ends of the earth for world evangelization. If you’re holding onto your own ambitions and goals, why would God give you power? You would only become corrupted with it.
“I want the Temple Construction for world evangelization, but I’m weak,” so that’s why you have to pray for it. But there are some people who give up in the beginning and say, “I’m weak, I’m poor,” but that’s the way to relay curses to your children. This has nothing to do with me, if it’s God’s plan, God will work. If it’s not through me, it’s through my kids. “I’ll do this through prayer.” That is the watchtower of prayer, the light must be lit, even from the Early Morning service. Why are you staying at home? There’s nothing taking place there. “I do pray,” but that’s not really praying, there’s no earnestness in that. You’re just praying playfully.
“God, it must be this; God, we must break this curse of poverty, we must do the Temple Construction for the future generations and saving the 237 nations,” this must come to you as the covenant, otherwise you’re just playing around with prayer. That’s prayer you pray with your lips, not your heart. That’s religion. It must come from the heart. “Yes, I must come here to pray for the Temple Construction, the future generations, this region, and world evangelization.” If that is God’s will, God gives you His answer, and that prayer, watchtower must be raised, region by region, in the churches.
Just wait and see what answers come. There are some people who live their lives only following answers given to others, but other people receive God’s answers of the covenant. Just pray. What are you going to do? You need to pray and receive the answer of 25 hours. If you think this is optional, God doesn’t give you answers. This covenant must be rooted firmly in you, for a person, they need to be hooked onto something for something to take place. Even if somebody is conned or swindled, it’s because something got stuck in their heart. If there’s a conman trying to swindle you, if it doesn’t get hooked into you, then you will not get swindled, but if you listen carefully to their words, you will get swindled.
It’s the same with God’s Word, if it gets hooked in your heart, that’s what guides you around, and God will answer you, following His Word. That’s what we challenge for, what are we challenging? We are challenging in faith. It’s not my diligence; it’s a challenge of faith.
So, ask the Lord to give you the power of the throne of heaven. That’s how the church must come to life, and the church must come to life for the region to change, that is why we give what we have to God, and we give it in faith. Even if we just do this a little bit, God will pour upon us His blessings because that is how Temple Construction takes place. But if you just do it with your words, then what are you doing? A project at work? That’s nothing.
You need to really have that passion in your heart, those are the people who are bound to receive answers. For our church, that’s how it’s been; there’s always separate people who receive answers. Why? Because if they have God’s covenant, God answers them, and it’s the same thing today. Either way, we will do Temple Construction and either way, God will do it through the people who have the covenant. For the people who don’t have that faith, they simply observe the answers taking place and pass by.
It’s God’s time schedule, challenge. It’s not that it’s not taking place, but you do not have faith, but if you have that faith and you challenge, then God’s answers you accordingly. If you haven’t experienced that at least once or twice, you don’t have faith. If you’ve lived your walk of faith and you’ve never experienced this, you don’t have faith. It was the same thing when we moved in to this building, “How much does the church need? I will give this much.”
Even though my circumstances didn’t allow for it, I did it in faith, and one day, my apartment manager just gave me a lot of money, and I asked why, and he said, “I don’t even know why I’m giving you this money, “but we matched the amount we needed. There are times when we just get money in our bank account and nobody knows why. It’s very fascinating, these things. Why? Because we have faith in God’s plan. If I were a businessperson, God would have filled it in my business, but I’m not a businessman, so God fills it accordingly and I’m able to give exactly what God has given to me. How thankful is that?
If you haven’t experienced something like this once or twice, you have to repent for your lack of faith and without a doubt, you’re trapped by poverty and you’re always afflicted because of money, why? Because you don’t have faith in God’s covenant. We are not people like that. We don’t do it with our things. If God needs it, God will work with the things of heaven, and saving the region is God’s will. It doesn’t matter what the culture of a region is; God’s will is to save it. It doesn’t matter what the world is like; God desires to save it. When I fully participate or go into that Word, God will answer and work.
There are no excuses, why? Because God said He would do it. I hope you will be people of faith.
Prayer
Let us pray holding onto the Word God has given us. God, break down my unbelief, may the unbelief be thrown away; may I challenge towards God’s covenant by faith. Let us pray.
Thanks to your prayers, we were able to end the Pastor’s Synod and PK retreat by God’s grace. Little bit of good news, Pastor Sunsoo Park bought their building and they will move in February. What this means is that the naysayers will be destroyed in their naysay, but the people who follow in faith will receive those answers, because God doesn’t want us to do anything else; he wants us to do evangelism in that region.
He bought a Lutheran church and it is God’s will for us to buy the closing churches. That’s going to happen to us within the next few years as well. So, pray for that because as you pray, you receive the answer of 25 hours. He’s made this confession as an answer to the prayers of the people. There is nothing that happens without prayer, regardless of the words. People who talk a lot do so to deceive people, but we pray. We need to actually buy a bigger building than that, because they’re in the countryside and we’re in the city, and for them, their building doesn’t cost much, but God is bound to work accordingly.
The unbelievers will be destroyed because of unbelief, but the faithful will receive answers according to their faith.
We went to the pastor’s kids retreat, and I was personally not the child of pastor, but when I listened to the words of Sunsoo Park, I realized PK’s have it harder than church officers. For him, it was really hard because his father was a professional and then quit all of a sudden and started a church, and it was right next to their home, so they shared the kitchen and every morning, the believers would come into their house. When there was a leak in the roof of the church, the people would come and fix it all throughout the night, so the students would lose sleep, but this kind of suffering is unknown to most people.
The father, the pastor did that because he enjoys it, but the children of the pastor did not know that and did not choose to do that. There’s a doctor whose father is a pastor and he says, “I don’t like my father,” The father became a pastor because he enjoyed it so much, but because he did whatever he enjoyed, they weren’t feeding the family, so the wife had to work, even though she was 70 or 80 years old, and the kid said, “I don’t want to believe in this kind of God, that’s not biblical,” but even if the father did not believe in the words of the Bible, the children did not believe in it even more.
The son is a doctor now so he has some money, so he wanted to buy his father a car, but his father said he wanted a Sienna so that he could drive the church members around, but the son didn’t want to buy him a car anymore, and the reason he was so upset was, “Why have you ever thought of your wife like that? Why don’t you think of your family like your church members?” But that’s a pastor, called by God. Maybe that pastor went a little too far, but that’s a pastor, and for the children of that pastor, they are filled with disbelief.
There are pastors’ kids from young to old, and because there was the Word of God being delivered to specifically the pastors’ kids, I thought the environment was very good. I didn’t think about these things either, I didn’t know, because I grew up as an unbeliever and didn’t know, but my child did not choose to be a PK. There are things she sees as a PK, and as I talked to her, I realized she sees certain things because she’s a PK, and she wouldn’t have seen them if she weren’t a PK.
The first thought is that $2,000 towards future Pastor Kid’s retreats, and that is the business missions he does, business people meeting, he’s always giving and that’s how God is using him. I don’t think God gives him a lot of grace with things regarding the church, but God gives him a lot of grace regarding finances and money. What I’m saying is, because God gives grace, God gives money as well, and without grace, there would be no need for money. I want to report the things that went well.
The people who understand what I’m saying must understand quickly, but if you still don’t understand what I’m trying to tell you, it’s a headache. You need to understand that this is how important pastors are, and if you still don’t understand what that means, it’s a headache. I’ll stop talking about it, but I hope you will understand by the grace of the Holy Spirit.
God always works through necessities. Just because you’re poor doesn’t mean the church should have no faith, because if you’re poor, you should at least have faith. That is how the church is saved. If you have no faith because you have no money, that’s how the church will become. That’s why the more you’re a church officer, the more the church goes, because the church sways according to the church officers. It’s not about doing it as you’re poor or not, you do it according to your faith. May you enjoy that blessing.
Let us pray for the remnants and the multiethnic remnants in the church, and let us pray for the region as well. God’s will is regional evangelism, to Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. To the people who pray, they will receive answers. Let us pray for the remnants at our church, as well as the 70 regions, 70 nations, 70 disciples, and 70 tribes.
Benediction
Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the unending love of God, the indwelling, working, guidance, and communion of the Holy Spirit, be upon all the people of God, who desire to do the Temple Construction for world evangelization with only Jesus Christ, the Kingdom of God, and the filling of the Holy Spirit, be with us from now until forevermore always, amen.