Life of the Evangelist – Recreation
The lifestyle of the evangelist is a lifestyle to save the world. It’s not that, “I want to listen but not really,” but it’s about God’s desire to save. This is a lifestyle where we receive healing even when that’s not the original goal.
Only Christ
Anyone can say “only Christ,” but the meaning is different. Everyone thinks that they know it, but there are also those who confess, “I don’t need anything else except this.” It is about enjoying and relaying this answer, but without this answer, you cannot relay it. Why? You think other people are doing better than you and you think they don’t need it. So, you have to know your own story. Why is it only Christ? Mankind has very specific problems, but people are deceived into thinking that it’s something else. The problem is Satan. Money is not a problem, but Satan uses money to give us problems. Why is Satan a problem? This entity works to disrupt us, separating us from God. With this lie, we are separated from God and fall into sin. He makes us follow after the authority of hell. Everyone here is deceived into seeing these superficial problems, but they cannot see the underlying problems, so they ask for God to take away their surface problems instead of seeking God’s plan.
If you still cannot understand “only Christ” now, you will fall into more problems as you cannot overcome your problems, and you’ll be overcome by mental problems, trying to lie to yourself and claim that problems aren’t problems. People look at these fake problems and start shaking. The answer to this problem isn’t just “Jesus,” but it’s “only Jesus.” You must throw away your self-centeredness because it’s actually a trap, you’re trapped into thinking, “Why did this happen to me?” and they become depressed for no reason. If it’s something they could cure by taking medication, that would be okay, but depression doesn’t go away with medication. So, something else must be the problem.
Many study medicine to become doctors and nurses, but they don’t want to hear this because they have learned that depression is a result of hormonal imbalances, not a spiritual root. But if depression could be cured with only medicine, that would be fine, but in analyzing a patient, you can view the fMRI for brain activity, but in the face of these medical findings, they reject spiritual things. Spiritual problems are manifest physically, so you need complete, holistic healing. But because we don’t present it this way, they think about spiritual things as mystical. Others who only rely on spiritual things will reject medication. In order to save, we must have both.
As long as “only Jesus Christ” is proclaimed, the problems of self-centeredness, materialism, and success-centeredness will all disappear. But instead of proclaiming Jesus Christ all the time, the churches proclaim something else, so that is why the church gets filled with these problems. Churches are focused on materialism, praying for success. Why do we keep talking about prayer? You pray in a self-centered way. You don’t pray for the filling of the Holy Spirit, but you pray to work hard and to have success. You think you know the content, but you turn around and do something else.
God’s Kingdom
When I pray, God’s throne is moved along with the heavenly armies of angels. But there’s also Satan who is working through demons. That’s why we talk about God’s Kingdom where I am connected to the throne of heaven, and the angels fulfill God’s Word. From here, God gives us a mission, but let’s say you don’t have a mission? Then it’s useless. God is alive so He must give us a mission, but because we don’t have a mission, we even wonder if we should continue to live in America. If I live with a mission, I’m moving in God’s desire, but if I don’t have a mission, I will be an obstruction wherever I am. But if I have the wrong mission, I’ll run after the wrong things.
Only the Holy Spirit
If you live for yourself, you’ll always be poor, but if you live for God, God will provide abundantly. Look in times of war, where everyone becomes poor. All the amassed wealth becomes taken away. For worldly success, people go to Harvard or Cornell, but students commit suicide there. No matter what you do, life doesn’t matter if you don’t have the filling of the Holy Spirit. Some people even have hyenas as pets. Do you know how much upkeep that would cost? But they go all into their animals, staking their lives for them. One man thought that marriage would solve his problems, but that didn’t work out, so he got a pet that he doted on, calling it, “Dodo.” People think that political power will establish a family, but they collapse because of that power.
As evidence that these three things have come to you as an answer, your family problems will become an answer and blessing. Why? If your family problems are solved, you’ll have a happy life? God gave you those problems and has absolute sovereignty, so He gave you these problems so that you may know Jesus is the Christ. Lois testified at her dad’s funeral that, through this, she was able to confess only Jesus Christ, and so that become a platform for blessings. When things don’t work out in life, people want to avoid their problems, but Satan will relentlessly follow you. It doesn’t matter whether someone has money or not, but people of a similar spiritual state will be attracted to each other.
Heavenly Mandate, Calling, Mission
You need to overcome your family problems to discover your heavenly mandate. “God, through my family problems, help me to believe in only Jesus Christ, so that I can relay this to others who may have the same problems.” Right now, Lois is working on her PhD to complete her God-given heavenly mandate. From then on, there is a calling that God has for that work. You can’t skip your calling; you won’t be able to do world evangelization. But the work that Joseph did as a slave was integral for him to become governor, because that’s how he was exposed to the field. Then, this work will be connected to eternity. While we have different heavenly mandates, God brings it all together for the same mission.
Rightful, Necessary, Absolute
Proclaiming the gospel is rightful because, if you know the answer to the problems, of course you’d have to proclaim it. If you don’t think of proclaiming the gospel as rightful, what would happen? It’s not special but you’d begin to think that it is special. All the problems you have right now are rightful, and if you have only Jesus Christ, it’s only rightful to proclaim Jesus Christ, but without only Jesus Christ, problems will rightfully come. Holding onto only Jesus Christ as the solution to all problems, you will rightfully proclaim this. Without seeing the real problems, you’re seized by that.
Jesus Christ is absolutely necessary, and what follows is the establishment of God’s kingdom, and then there’s an absolute plan that comes from here. In the working of the gospel and the filling of the Holy Spirit, the rightful problems come to you, so I want you to find God’s absolute plan in the midst of that. I find that, the more I believe, I’m not able to lie. Lying doesn’t change my life’s state, but life will work out according to what I hold onto. Just because I package myself doesn’t mean it will be solved, but what is inside me will come out. If only Jesus Christ isn’t the answer, I’ll have no choice but to hold onto other things. For others, it is a blessing and opportunity. Problems that come are an opportunity to share the gospel.
One Heart, Whole Heart, Continuation
It’s Christ, what other heart do you have? Even when you die or live, you do it for Christ. Even when you hear bad words, you hear Christ. When things happen unfairly, you see Christ, because then the name of Jesus Christ is proclaimed. People get hurt over the words that are spoken all the time, so they’re filled with scars. If you have a scar, even if someone else is talking about someone else, you think they’re talking about you.
Whole Heart, go all in. Are you going to go all into the disco club? Are you going to go to Vegas and stake your life on a slot machine? Casinos work so that they will statistically make money, but if you’re seized by an evil spirit, you can’t tolerate that. The demon of greed grips you, so you can’t calculate what will be a loss to you. If you don’t go all into the Kingdom of God through only Christ, you’ll go all into something else.
Continuation is power, we’re talking about spiritual things and how people in the world succeed. Nobel Prize winners mention that they have “only,” that if it’s not something, then it won’t work out. They live with this mission, and whether or not it’s their strength or the strength from a demon, they have this strength. They can do work that nobody else can do, and it will not be a burden. Beginning with the covenant, the lifestyle follows.
Only
Only Jesus Christ. You have to study and do your work in only Jesus Christ.
Uniqueness
Anything that comes from anything that isn’t Jesus Christ is not uniqueness because individually, God has given you a talent, so everyone has a talent within Christ. It is the uniqueness of something only you can do. To find uniqueness, you have to start from the beginning. It’s not about being good at studying or not, but start from the basics. Why is it that people are unable to study? They don’t have a sense of what they’re capable of and they think, “I just don’t study well.” But you have the blessing of uniqueness, where you do your job because it is God’s calling, not for any other reason. Just do well with what you are given, because you are doing it well for God.
Recreation
Today is recreation. What is recreation? It’s to be completely changed, even if you have nothing, there is something. Where is this possible? It is only possible by the power of the Holy Spirit, the working of God, and for people who know this, no problem is a problem because the Holy Spirit will work. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and even the weakest person will receive power. People say, “I’m weak, poor, and incapable,” but because the Holy Spirit gives you power, you will be able to go. When I hold onto “only” and find my “uniqueness,” I will have recreation to save lives. Many people may win Nobel Prizes, but no one has used their Nobel Prize to save others’ souls. What does this mean? Through that, God wants us to use that as a tool to save others’ lives. Through those people, God will work. God will even change laws for those holding onto the covenant.
You won’t be seized by your limitations, but this blessing has already come to you. Believe this; don’t cast it aside. You don’t pray for the filling of the Holy Spirit because you don’t have faith. You must believe that this works, then your five powers will be restored, including your finances. If you say, “I’m too old, I can’t do it,” then God will attach those to you to help you do it. You might not be smart, but God will help you. Wake up earlier, listen to the word and receive strength. Pray as you sleep. The working of the Holy Spirit makes me into a witness for the world. Close your eyes, concentrate, and this incredible strength and power will come upon you.
2 Corinthians 4:16. Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly, we are wasting away, yet inwardly, we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 5:17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come.
Galatians 2:20. I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 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. So, when you worship, let go of everything else.
Acts 2:1-47. God promised the filling of the Holy Spirit, and it came on the day of Pentecost. The filling of the Holy Spirit is within God’s timeline. When I wake up in the morning and need the filling of the Holy Spirit, this is something I need every day. If I don’t have it every day, I will be influenced by darkness. Even when we study, we will study for useless things, so we need the filling of the Holy Spirit every day.
When the Holy Spirit comes upon us, we will receive power. That is why, according to God’s time schedule, He will attach people to you. Money doesn’t just come to a business, but people will give that money to you, and that’s why God Himself came down as man. He had the ability to come down with no form, but He came down in the form of man. The work of the Holy Spirit comes through the blessing of meeting. So, we receive the filling of the Holy Spirit and have the blessing of meeting, imagine how God is pleased. But people have meetings without the filling of the Holy Spirit, so what is happening? It’s for the three things that work unseen to our eyes, so I’m saying, don’t pretend and assert your thoughts and get sucked into the fundamental problems. You may think you’re winning, but you’re seized by darkness. If you lose your temper, you may feel like you’re winning, but you’re seized by darkness. Winning without fighting is only possible by the filling of the Holy Spirit.
Conclusion
The next things, Acts 11, 13, 16, and 19, are concerning the filling of the Holy Spirit. Don’t just listen to these words, but put these words into practice in the field. Don’t just end it here, but really take it into practice. The dumber you are, really hold onto it and pray. Your weakness and lacking are nothing to complain about. Anyone can do this.
Prayer
Father God, we thank You. I pray that you will help the evangelist’s lifestyle be imprinted in all of us. In Jesus Christ’s name we pray, amen.