Life of the Evangelist – Imprint
We’re confirming the Word about the life of the evangelist. What’s important is that you do not do this with your thoughts, but confirm God’s Word. It’s not a specific Word but it’s God’s Word. It is not the pastor’s word, but it is God’s Word. Our standard is always the Word, but the problem is, we’ve never had a chance to confirm it. But we imagine things about God, but because they don’t know the Word, they go according to their experiences and designate God in that.
There’s a problem, but why is it a problem? Because that’s according to their experience. You need to shine the Word of God upon this, what does God’s Word say, because only then can you receive the correct answer. People say whatever they want, and even though it’s not a problem, they say it’s a problem, why? Because it’s a problem according to their level and experience, but they’ve never tried God’s Word.
What’s God’s standard? I’m not going to receive what I want, but what’s God’s standard? The life of the evangelist is confirming God’s Word, but if you can’t evangelize, you’re thinking your own thoughts. What does God say? You live according to your thoughts prior to God’s Word coming upon you. You have a scar? Why? Because you think it’s a scar. Until you confirm God’s Word, you’ll live according to your scars. But you can come out of it, meaning you come out of yourself. Everyone interprets, judges, and thinks of everything not as God’s word, but they think that’s correct.
Only Christ. You can’t think of this just as a song, why does the Bible speak of only Christ? People hear the Word but selectively decide what they want to hear, based on their experiences, so they hold onto their individual Christ. That’s why if you’re not prepared to hold onto the Word, then don’t come in. This is what the Word is for. Come only when you’re ready to confirm with the Word. Until you confirm it with the Word, you’re only going to imagine things until you know.
But as you read the Bible verses you’ll realize it’s different compared to what you’ve imagined until now, so you must confirm because if you’re just going to listen, you can listen at home, but that’s useless. When I was in Korea, a pastor said, “People don’t do this, but go home and confirm the Word.” Prior to the core message, there was a meeting of pastors. I went to that meeting, and the room was packed. I stood in the back, but there was a place where no pastors were standing, and there was a seat there.
I wondered, “What will God tell me at this time, this year, just to the pastors?” People receive different things, but that’s what we’re like. People receive different pulpit messages, but do you know why people who go to church for a long time will receive the pulpit message haphazardly? If anything, new believers come with more anticipation because they don’t know what to expect. Perhaps it’s because they don’t know, but people who’ve come for a long time will think worship is taking place, so even if someone comes to church once a year, they anticipate the Word, and the Word will really go into them.
This was 5-6 years ago, maybe 7 years ago. But as I did this, I changed. I look for the Word together with you and change; you try to change by listening, and that’s good, but if it’s not confirmed, you’ll think all the words are the same. But there’s logos and rhema. Logos comes to us exactly as it is. If you read the Bible 100 times, that’s not bad, but it’s not good, either. You just read it based on your own experiences. But if you read God’s Word and confirm it by yourself, the Holy Spirit is going to work. Always do this when you go home.
Even pastors don’t know this, don’t pretend you know this. If you pretend, then you’ll convey something fake and Satan will work through fake things. Don’t do that. At this time, please confirm the word, that’s what we keep looking at. If you’re not prepared to look for the Word, then leave. You can listen online. What does that mean? It has no effect because we’re talking about the same word for many years now. But the words of the Bible don’t change; I change, why? Because the problems of life are being seized by Satan and we keep talking about this. Some people think that’s just what it is.
One day, this word enters into them, “I’m really seized.” Then it’s different. The moment you confirm this, you confirm only Christ. Everyone thinks they know this. Sin. It’s thinking God’s Word is a joke and not absolutely needed. It’s a sin of wanting to find your hope and delight in something other than God’s Word. Then you’re seized by the forces of darkness.
Why do we repeat these words? There’s a time schedule. It’s something you’ve always heard but one day it goes into you. So, people who emphasize the knowledge of Bible study, even though they go through all the world for hundreds of years, cannot know this. Even as they have Christ and know this, this is still their imprint, root, and nature. Therefore, only Christ. Once you have this, the only thing left is to confirm it.
Through Christ you meet the Triune God and now we’re the people of God. God gives us the mission to go to all nations. “Oh, it’s irrelevant to me, it’s only for missionaries,” but that’s why no works take place. One day, when that word becomes my word, works arise. But they just think they’re just words until now. You haven’t become one with the word, so because that word is distant from me, I’m distant from God.
There’s a darkness in America, and you must see this. If you can’t, then you just repeat “darkness,” works will not take place. There’s a time schedule but you won’t be able to pray. Unless it’s the working of the Holy Spirit, this cannot arise. If you’re like that, you’re being influenced as well and you don’t know it, then what about your children? Nothing to say about them. Then, rightfully they won’t be able to worship and they’ll be distant from God, but they themselves don’t know. They don’t know they’re trapped within the background of darkness. If even one person in the family line can see this, the forces of darkness will be bound. It just needs one person.
You know this but you don’t see it so you go past it. You think it’s okay because you don’t see it. The evangelist is getting fired up talking about the 3 organizations, but the pastors just say, “Is that so?” Even in America, they just say, “That’s just what it is,” and the word isn’t becoming theirs. But he keeps changing the terminology because people just know the Word and assume they know. For people like me who are sensitive, we think the pastor is confusing because the word is changing so much with different context. Why would he do this? Because we have to save lives.
Because I’m relentless, I can do the same thing over and over for years, and those who are okay can do this for years, but others just leave. This is my experience and my testimony. You think you know, but you don’t really. Just because you use the word “Satan,” does that mean you know Satan? You don’t really see. There’s a satanic organization in this region. You think you know because you hear the words. If you see, you’ll do this mission, how? Only the Holy Spirit.
That’s why you pray. What’s there to pray about if everything is finished? Everything is finished in their lives so they have nothing to worry about. But some don’t have the mission yet. Then saying this again, it’s because there’s a time schedule.
Heavenly mandate, calling, mission. Every place needs Christ. It said in the core message that to raise the church, we must devote to three things to save the church. I’m asking the church lay leaders to not misunderstand. You think your talents will be used to raise your children, but it’s not. The Word hasn’t gone into someone who thinks like that. “My talents must be used to save the church.” But you don’t agree, your heart doesn’t agree. I’m sure some agree but others will not. People emphasize finding their children’s talents, because we say God will use talented people, but they will not use their talent to save their church.
God wants to raise the church, but there’s a virus of inaction in the church. That person has already failed and will continue to fail. Why? Because if you don’t use your God-given talent, God will take it away if you try to hide it and give it to someone who will do it. So, I’m not just saying to do it haphazardly, but do it as the Lord’s work and talent given to you to do it. It is not the world’s work; it is God’s work. You’re not trying to receive this talent for your children’s success because then they would fail, but you are given this to use it for the Lord’s kingdom.
But at church, they do nothing even though they’re diligent in the world. That means this person’s time schedule is still worldly. God’s Word absolutely says this, but they think it’s something else. I’m not saying to come to church and work; you should come to relax here, but what I’m saying is, the person who has this ideology. This is relayed to the kids. Then the kids come to church and do nothing, they just stand around because that’s what my parents did, but they’re diligent in the world because they live for the things of the world.
Why do I know this? I grew up as a unbeliever and knew nothing of the church, but I saw as an unbeliever. So, the church is seen as a place where you come receive the Word and go out into the world and just live, why? We come with the same knowledge of the church but interpret based on what we know, but the church is the body of Christ. We are connected to Christ, we are inseparable, and to raise that church, God gave us the talent.
But we think of this as something unprofitable. We can’t have money so why work hard? We work hard when we receive money but that’s a person in whom God’s Word has not penetrated. I’m not trying to say to work diligently, I’m saying that God has absolutely given us something to raise the church. Know that God will bless you to do that work. Then the Lord’s work done in the church and the field must all be done before God.
When you go out into the world, you live for yourself. When you go into the church, you can’t do it because you’re focused on success, power, honor, and reputation. But others receive answers, how? It’s not that they did this diligently but they received grace. So, there are kids who move irrelevant to their parents. Before, the parents controlled them and they moved at the level of their parents, but now they move according to the standard of the church. There are blessings like that.
So, in the age of the 70 workers, I want the layleaders to hold onto the same mission as the pastor and go worship and receive training. Saying it again, the church leaders have to receive this as their mission and God will give them this accordingly. The 70 workers are the same as the apostles; they just had a different title. God gave us the Word, but we think “70 workers” is irrelevant to us, and we receive answers according to the level they can understand.
There is a calling, according to the church’s mission. If it passes me by, it just passes, but there are people used for this, they receive answers and as time passes, things change. The God-given mission. We are always living according to the mission God gave, but people misaligned with this will think things so difficult. God is constantly giving us the Word from the pulpit so we can do the mission God gave to us, but it’s irrelevant. We decide, “I like this and that word,” but what’s important about that? There’s a biblical word and the church has a mission. Within that mission is my lifelong mission and the Word is proclaimed through the pulpit.
Christ is rightful. Jesus Christ is the answer, rightfully. People say “Christ” like a chant. Some pastors in front of me keep saying “Christ” and I think they’re crazy, but now I know why. In the middle of the conversation, when his scar is touched, he repeats, “Christ.” But instead of holding onto his scar, he holds onto Christ. I was able to realize this later on. You have to realistically confirm this problem for “only Christ” to be an answer. It’s not enough for you to know that He’s the prophet, priest, and king. You have to confirm the problems to which Christ is the proper solution. Because you’re not able to confirm these problems, you cannot confirm Christ as the accurate answer.
Someone is seized by Satan, but they don’t know Christ, so they hear the word but Christ isn’t an answer, because they’re seized by this. Why do we keep talking about prophets, priests, and kings? Because these three problems are opened. You do your walk of faith for a long time, but people are embarrassed. You think it’s weird. But when you say, “Jesus, Jesus,” will a demon-possessed person receive the answer? That’s why it’s important.
Rightful, then necessarily, God’s kingdom comes upon you. Then as part of God’s absolute plan, evangelism will take place because it’s something God does. If I go into the accurate thing, God is going to do it.
One heart, it’s one heart for someone who has one heart for Christ. Whole heart and continuation. Even for the people who have succeeded, look at those who do business well. It’s one heart.
The only talent outside of Christ will fail you spiritually, so of course you need to receive answers. Uniqueness. If you have only Christ, then rightfully you’ll have the answer of specialization within the only talent within only Christ. Re-creation. It is my specialization that will be connected to the field such that the evangelism movement has no choice but to take place. That’s why this is so important because there’s a talent only I can do with only Christ.
You have talents, but unbelievers also have talents. If you can change your talents into a specialization, you can succeed. For us, it’s the God-given talent within Christ, then there’s an answer of specialization and uniqueness, what will make money for me. To do what? God will change you so you can do the works of changing the culture and field.
Last time we did 24. 24 hours, God is with you. When are you going to do it? God is with you, 24 hours. It’s not right now or later, it’s 24 hours. God is with me for 24 hours, for eternity, and the moment I know this, that’s the beginning. 25. If we enjoy 24 Christ, then of course we can receive the answer of 25. There’s nothing for us to talk about with answers, because God will just give the answers to us. Then it’s the eternal masterpiece. What do we have for eternity? The salvation of souls, the temple construction.
If you try to do it, it’s burdensome, but it’s a lie. You cannot do it, but you say you can, so you keep rejecting it. We’re talking about the masterpiece of eternity that comes from only Christ, only God’s Kingdom, and only the filling of the Holy Spirit. Then you have to relay this to the children so they can do this.
If you’re within this, then within the world, nothing will be so detrimental to you. People think they’re too old, “I’m so old, what can I do?” But your dreams will be realized through your kids. Jacob’s dream was realized through Joseph. When you open your eyes and think, you’ll realize it’s you and your children.
People say, “My kids are so hopeless and I have no hope regarding them,” but God will send them down the path you send them down. Looking at the grandchildren, that’s where it continues. No matter what, do one heart, whole heart, continuation. Don’t try to calculate based on what you know because you’ll end up giving up, but God doesn’t give up. The Lord who is with me didn’t give up on me but saved me. Even though you give up, God is still working. When I say “this isn’t going to work out,” God will raise someone next to me to do that work. God entrusted that work to you but if you do not, then it will be given to someone else.
Imprint is editing it into your heart. Just listening is not imprinting because it hasn’t gone into you.
Psalm 23:1
The imprinted word will come out according to the circumstance. But what happens if it’s not imprinted? We act according to what’s imprinted in our heart, or what’s based on knowledge. So we read and write until it becomes imprinted. When you nail a nail to the wall, you can hang something on it. But if there’s no nail, you can’t hang anything. Just like that, if you’re able to nail God’s Word and imprint it into your heart, you can have the answers and blessings hanging on it.
Until it becomes imprinted, you’ll be listening, reading, and writing, but it will be imprinted one day. Then it’s going to be with you no matter what the situation, always. Isn’t that correct? If there’s a nail in the wall, then as long as the building doesn’t crumble, you can always hang something on it. Even if you keep saying, “Nail, nail,” if it’s not in the wall, you can’t hang anything on it. This is the Word I already know, but if I do this for 100 years, it won’t be caught for me. This Word has to come into me as my Word.
When do works begin? When Christ comes into you as “My Gospel, my Christ.” It is not everyone else’s gospel or Paul’s Christ or the pastor’s Christ, it is your Christ. We’re not talking about a general Christ, but the Christ who is the answer to Satan, sin, and the problem of darkness in our family line. That’s why, within the family line, if Jesus Christ is the answer, then the word will be revealed to future generations. If Christ isn’t my Christ, then within the family line, the light of Christ won’t shine.
Can you understand this? Every family has an incident. Their testimony is different from your testimony. Your family’s spiritual problems are different from that person’s spiritual problems. So, that’s person’s testimony cannot be another person’s, because Christ is Christ but the situation is different. You have to have the Christ who liberated you from these things.
You don’t force this; simply put, my daughter’s problems are my problems. My parents’ problems are my problems. This is within the family line. I’m liberated from this and can liberate others because my kids’ problems are the problems in my family line. At this time, it sincerely goes into them. But if you relay another person’s Christ, can that be an answer? No.
Why did God give us families? So we can stand as witnesses. If Christ is a specific answer to the family, you can relay it. When I received the gospel, I was able to understand my dad’s spiritual problem. It was at a time I was studying abroad and was a believer for less than a year, but I would go back to Korea during the breaks. I touched the spiritual problem for my dad as I saw it, otherwise Christ wouldn’t be the answer to that problem.
He tried to maintain his facial expression, but I gave him the answer and he couldn’t hide it. There was a pastor from another church who said he would send a female assistant pastor, but my dad said, “If you send her, I’ll kill her,” but when she came, he was quiet as a mouse. I never saw him like this, sitting there quietly like an elementary school student. I’m not talking about the incident, but I was able to touch my dad’s problem. Because I hit that problem, he asked, “What is this?”
I was not supposed to relay it at that point, so I said, “It’s not the time schedule,” and he drank rice wine and passed out. I was about to give the answer, but he wasn’t just drinking for the sake of getting drunk. It was something else. He became so docile like a child, but I could tell he was shocked. This is what happens.
His spiritual problems were mine as well, and I was able to see. If you say you have a scar because of your parents, it is because you don’t yet have the answer. If anything, once I came to know the gospel, I was thankful for my spiritual problems because it’s not just the gospel, but it’s an accurate gospel that became mine, and I’m thankful. Then, automatically I have this prayer for my family and a desire to save them. Because I was able to understand my dad, my family line, and child, there’s nothing else to say.
No matter how many useless words you say, it only ends up disturbing them. If I say anything other than Christ, it will block Christ. It is my gospel, the solution to my individual and family problems. Because I’ve come out of that, I’m able to see my kid and parents. That’s why you’re able to proclaim Christ as a witness, as an answer.
The evangelist continues to talk about the problems of America, but because we don’t know it, it’s a vague gospel, we proclaim a gospel known individually to ourselves. The reason the churches close down is because the congregation members are leaving, going out to the world. Why is that? They’re being dragged around with no strength. Have they not heard of Jesus Christ? Do you think they’ve not heard of the three roles of Christ?
Even then, they’ve listened, but why can they not stand? They cannot see the problem. An answer without knowing the problem is not a proper answer. It is that you’re just throwing the answer around, and it gets caught on some aspect, but it’s not an accurate answer. So, why do I keep talking about the family line, religion, and the background of the family? You have to understand this. After I received Christ, even though I received Christ, whenever they talked about Satan, I felt negative about it, even though I was seized by Satan, the Word hadn’t come into me.
I heard about Satan but I couldn’t see Satan. I could see myself and the field, so where do I have to go to see this? You can only go and confirm in the places you see with your eyes. That’s why every Monday, I went to look for shamans. When I first went to visit shamans, I saw they were giving rice to the poor people, and I thought it was good, but that’s what demon-possessed people do. But how can demon-possessed people do such nice work?
There were medicinal doctors, and when they look at a person, they can see why the person is ailing. I was listening to the power of God at that point, but even the demons look at people and heal them. Then my unbelief started to get cut down, but that’s not everything. I went into the college ministry where you can’t see Satan’s work. At first, when I went into the university, and I would sit there and watch CNN the entire time because that was my spiritual state. My state at that point, even though I had grace to go that field, I was given the grace to learn English and was listening to CNN.
What I saw in the simultaneous interpretation class was that all the kids were speaking English. I could see their English skills but I couldn’t see how they were seized by Satan. How could I evangelize to them while I was being influenced? Later on, after I changed, I was able to see how the forces of darkness worked upon the field of academia. Because I follow directions very well, when I went to seminary, Pastor Ryu gave me the mission of going into the field for three years. 3 years to shamans, 3 years to the university, but I went more than 3 years.
We received the word to get lifelong answers, and now that I do pastoral ministry, I see what that word means. He’s talking not about knowledge from Bible study, but confirming Satan, sin, and darkness in the field and the answer of Christ that inevitably comes from this. If you’re unable to confirm these three things, you cannot continue with only Christ. Even though you talk about Christ, you try to give an answer to their leg problem while they have a heart problem. You say useless things, “You’re not working diligently,” so I think it’s very important to confirm this.
When we come to the American field, it’s different from the Korean field. Packaged within culture is the flow of Satan, sin, and darkness, and until you pry things apart, you can’t see this. That’s what we mean when we say to analyze the field. That’s what we’re talking about regarding the kids born and raised here, being able to see the field and to give the answer.
I’m sorry to say this, those who study abroad here cannot understand. They speak English but the background and culture are different. Even though they’re having a conversation, something is getting blocked. It’s the same with evangelism. Pastor Ryu never lived here, but he’s able to give the answer because he’s able to see by God’s grace. It will take time, he’s giving us the message but we’re doing it.
He says he can’t do pastoral ministry in America because legalism is intertwined with American culture, and he sits back and waits, so he can’t do ministry here. You have to see and know your field according to the work God gave you, only then can you understand fellow church members. How can you understand them if you don’t understand this? You don’t understand and go towards legalism. The other person is seized and unable to come out, but you wonder, “Why can’t you come out of this? We keep talking about it.” They can’t understand.
That’s why people with spiritual problems have no choice but to gather in a place with a spiritual message. Many people are like this even though you can’t see. This word must become imprinted in your heart. Imagine when you are really imprinted with, “The LORD is my Shepherd.” Then to the extent you’re imprinted with that word, then in your life, you’ll see the Lord is your shepherd.
Galatians 2:20
When Christ passed away 2000 years ago, I also died at that time. What does it mean that I was crucified? Through my sin, I was cursed, I myself was never pierced, but God deemed me as pierced and crucified with Christ. I no longer live but I’m alive, what does this mean? This word has to be imprinted in me for me to receive answers. What is it for me to not live anymore? The past “me” lived according to what I wanted, but it’s crucified: I’m no longer alive. I lived by my power and desires, and that’s a sin, so that was crucified on the cross.
It is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me, how? How can I see him? The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Oh, I have died on the cross and I confess this in faith. So I now go in faith. The past “me” seized by sin and Satan is no longer living, but crucified on the cross. Even though it’s the same physical “me,” living in the body, I’m now living in Christ.
This must be finished for me. My problems aren’t problems, I’ve been crucified so nothing is a problem. People keep saying there’s a problem because this Word hasn’t entered into them. So they try to solve it or shake before their problems. They are crucified with Christ, but this hasn’t been imprinted in them yet. When this becomes imprinted in you, from that point on, your problems aren’t problems. It becomes an opportunity for you to see the answers God has prepared for you through Christ. If you do not understand this, you cannot understand prayer. The Lord is inside of me, living, and if you cannot enjoy this in prayer, you’re not able to pray.
2 Corinthians 5:17
This is not just some word given to you during the new year, “The past year is gone and the new year is coming,” but it’s not imprinted in you because you think you know this word. Anyone has that answer, but if we remain in Christ, when Christ’s died for me and lives in me, then I’m a new creation. He called you a new creation, but we hold onto the old things and scars, “I used to do this and that,” and someone holds onto their past, “This went well, that didn’t go well,” but the Word hasn’t gone into them.
You are a new creation. Don’t dwell on the past. One time, I met a security guard. I asked him, “Why do you keep drinking?” He held onto his past success. “That past me is the real me,” but whether you were successful or not, that’s done. You’re a new creation and the Word is mine now, and God’s power is now mine. The past “me” is dead, so don’t talk about such dirty things. Don’t even look at it. The fact that you’re still looking back, massaging your past, means you haven’t tasted this.
It is the past, God’s things are mine. The “me” of the past and the “me” now are different. I used to do my work based on my experience and abilities but now it’s God’s Word and world evangelization is my business, so it’s a business where God has no choice but to work. If not then while doing your business, you’ll do failed businesses. The trauma will not disappear, the people who experienced 9/11 have trauma that won’t go away. What can they do? It’s the past. Who am I right now? The Word. God’s power is upon me. I have been changed to a person who will do world evangelization.
How dare a trauma try to shake me? How dare my spiritual problems try to control me? God’s things are my things, so how dare the devils try to mess with me? I stand with this. But there’s a time schedule.
There can be nothing else. I talked about this last time, my friend in the army, and even now, my friend behaves strangely. In my Kakao group, there are elevated people with status, but he can’t bear that. He studied psychology and dropped out, so he’s knowledgeable and strange. Most people are strange because they’re all unbelievers. But when someone challenged him, “Isn’t it like this?” he bears it until he can’t, then he’ll go out into the ocean and drink and come back the next day. He’s so strange.
So I told him, “You’re acting strangely. You don’t have to do everything,” but it seemed he had trauma from the army, “How do you know this as a pastor?” We talked about spiritual problems, and he disappeared and came back, but he realized there’s something to this. Then he said in the group, “I should talk to Pastor Park.” I told him, “I’m not trying to use mysticism, but I see spiritually because the spiritual things transcend the psychological things,” and he was thrown off.
I see the state of all my friends. Before, unbelievers would say, “How do you know this?” My unbeliever friends asked. “It’s because of the spiritual things.” Until this, they looked down on Christianity, but now they are attuned to spiritual things. You have to be in a state to open the doors of evangelism. The trauma has been imprinted in this person. When there was a similar circumstance, this guy was being attacked, but he ran away before receiving the answer.
We’re a new creation. It’s the past things that aren’t yours. Who am I? I’m the “me” whom God is with. The moment you’re imprinted in this, you are able to overcome. I hope you have this blessing.
Prayer
Father God, thank You. May the life of the evangelist be imprinted within me. May every aspect of my life have the answers. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.