Why Do I Need to Receive Salvation (Ro. 1:16-17)
Righteous – Considered Righteous (Ro. 3:24)
Intro
Word of God =
Eternal, No Change
It must be the Word of God, the words of the gospel, the words that save, the spiritual words. That’s why you listen to God’s Word at this time. What happens when the Word of God comes into you?
Imprint
Your situations may change but the word of God will never change. If the unchanging word of God is established in you today, that’s what we call a blessing. Success in worship means the Word of God is established in you, that’s why worship is everything as the Word of God is everything. If you’re just reading the Word of God by yourself at home, that’s just you. Where is God in worship?
Worship
Worth
This is the greatest worth, that is the worth-ship we’re giving to God today. Then, depending on your reaction, your worth will change, meaning your attitude and reaction to the Word of God will determine the direction of your life. The Word of God determines your life and your future. The Word of God changes your past into a blessing. Then, you need to really feel that this Word of God is the greatest value for you to know the Word God has given you today.
What is the Word of God that God gives you today? “God, may the Word You desire be established in me today.”
God (John 1:1)
Creation has been finished, but now we have re-creation. That is through God’s Word. It’s what the seven remnants did. Joseph, he was beaten up and chased to death and sold as a slave to his older brothers. However, the Word of God was imprinted in Joseph so no one could stop Joseph. God fulfills His Word through the person who has the Word imprinted. For anyone who disturbs the Word of God, they will be destroyed. Anyone who doesn’t have the Word of God, it doesn’t matter what happens to them out in the world. If they are blocking someone who has the Word of God, they are blocking God. That’s what Saul did, and later on, his life ended in death.
Same for Joseph’s older brothers, they had to crawl back to him later to receive food. The Jewish people are like that. I hope none of you will block God’s Word; may you be the ones who have God’s Word holding onto you. That’s the successful one. I hope you will change your sense of success, the success nonbelievers talk about is fake. Whatever you accomplish with your own strength is not success; it must be the success of God’s Word being fulfilled, that is the person who can save other people. Otherwise, you’ll always be dividing people and causing fights. If someone like that becomes a president, you have to create more fights. Even after they succeeded, they cause division and wars. Uniting people is only possible by the Holy Spirit.
Politicians always divide people. The really great person can unite all people. That is possible for the person who has God’s covenant. Then today’s question, why do I need to receive salvation?
Gospel = God’s Power = Salvation
Sin = Curse
Satan
Separation
If everybody does not know about this problem, they think of Christianity about physical blessings. Esther’s friend says she wanted her grandmother to live a longer life; if God exists, how could her grandmother die? They think of this blessing physically. Tell them this. If you do tell them this, you’ll tell them, “Your grandma had these problems solved. The fact that you believe means she is with God through Christ.
Christ = With
Her friend doesn’t know anything about this tremendous blessing she received. She said, “Why would God exist if He just made my grandmother die prematurely?” Everybody dies once. Whether she lives 1 or 5 more years, she’s going to die. After she dies she will go to the eternal Kingdom of God, that’s such a blessing. That’s what you need to tell her. Why are you unable to tell her that?
The light is not being relayed. It’s not that we don’t evangelize, but we can’t. If you have the opportunity, tell her this. It’s not that we don’t have the Christ, but we are not able to apply the Christ, meaning it’s not being applied to you. Right now, this is a curse; we’ve been set free from the curse. We’re all going to die eventually; who cares if you get what you want and you live a long time if you go to hell? Our life on earth ends when our mission from God ends. Even when your grandmother was born, it wasn’t because she wanted it, but she was brought on this earth.
Testify of the power of the gospel of God. May you be within God’s power. If you proclaim the gospel, you are within God’s power. This is something only God can do. If you’re in your school to proclaim the light of this gospel, you’re within God’s power, so make a Christian Club in your school. C4 made a Christian Club at Fairfax High School. John Burroughs has a Christian Club but they just eat and pray because they don’t have a messenger. I hope you will make Christian Clubs in Rise Kohyang and Larchmont. Why? We must relay the light. No one can block the power of God.
First for the Jew, then for the Gentile, for in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed.
Righteousness
We must have the righteousness of man to maintain a nation, but this cannot solve the problems so illegal activities increase. These individuals have no choice. They don’t acknowledge God in their hearts, so they can’t. If you receive the gospel, God sees you as a righteous person. God called Noah, “Righteous.”
Faith
We just have to believe in the work that has already been done, so it is faith. The one who believes in Jesus Christ is righteous, only by faith. Why is it faith? Because whatever you accomplish is not faith; it’s just skills. But Jesus Christ is the only One Who has finished these problems, and you have to believe in that for this to become yours. In order to have faith, God’s Word must be upon you first. You can just study science but if something is invisible, you must receive God’s grace to first, then one day, you’ll believe in invisible things.
Romans 3:10, 23
Everyone is a sinner. Jesus Christ was a person, but he was not born of a man and a woman; he was born of the Virgin Mary and has no sin. He is completely God and completely human. I want you to read this once and have this imprinted in you, so I hope you will receive extra blessings today.
Romans 3:24
No matter how much money someone has, you can’t purchase a person. You can only buy a person through death. But if a sinner dies for another sinner, that’s not worth anything. Someone who has no sin has to die for a sinner to pay the price for that redemption. So, we were saved by the grace of God without having to pay even a dollar. That is how we are regarded as righteous by God, so we receive the blessings of the righteous.
But the devil deceives you, Satan deceives you into looking at your actions, “You’re not righteous.” At that time I hope you will tell Satan, “I’m righteous because of Christ. My actions cannot be righteous but because I believe in Jesus Christ, God says I’m righteous.” So you can be bold and confident. Even if you fall, you say, “I had no choice but to fall, but I’m righteous because of Jesus Christ,” so you keep receiving the blessings of a righteous person.
People will not call you righteous. People will judge you based on your actions, that’s what people do. But God doesn’t look at your actions, He looks at your faith and calls you righteous. So I hope you will escape from your thoughts, centered on actions, but?
Romans 8:2
Law of Sin and Death
God gave us the law, and because of the law, our sin is revealed; because of our sin, we have to pay the price of death.
Satan
The law of sin constantly pushes you into curses, and because you’re spiritually separated from God, you’re in a state of death.
Jesus Christ
Law of Life & Spirit
Now, we are under the law of living by the guidance and the working of the Holy Spirit in us, do you get it? Because of Jesus Christ, we cannot change this law, even if I want to go back into the law of sin and death, I can’t. Because the law was made by God, there’s no one who can change the law. We are living in the law of life and spirit. Life, the fact we’re made in the image of God means we’re created to live in the life of God. If you’ve been separated from this because of your disbelief, that is the state of death. Because of our sin, because of sin. But now the spirit of Christ is in you, meaning you can pray to God about anything, then He will answer you. It’s easy, right? You’re righteous, you have life. If a fish is in the water, they can do whatever they want and breathe. But if the fish is outside the water, it cannot breathe so it flouders about and dies.
If you pray, you receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to come to the conclusion, “If I pray, I receive answers.” Because you pray in the name of Jesus Christ, God is bound to answer because only Jesus Christ’s name binds the darkness. Only in the name of Jesus Christ are you righteous. God is not with unrighteousness; He is not with sin. He is with the righteous. Because I believe in Jesus Christ, I’m righteous, so whoever prays in the name of Jesus Christ, God is upon them.
If your depression comes to life, it means it goes away. All your bad habits, if you begin to pray and the Holy Spirit works upon you, it goes away. But the devil prevents you, “Look at everything you do, you’re nothing.” Many people around you say that. You don’t know who you are. Even though our actions are sinful, because I believe in Jesus Christ, I’m righteous. But people don’t think like that. People say, “Look at what you’re doing, you’re this kind of person. God doesn’t look at that. God looks at your faith in Jesus Christ.
Because you believe in Jesus Christ, He covers over all our actions and calls us righteous. Then what is the Kingdom of God? It means Jesus is reigning over me. If you reign over yourself, that’s the Kingdom of Satan. If Jesus Christ reigns over you, that’s the Kingdom of God. The reason you’re suffering is because you’re trying to reign over yourself and it’s hard to study because you are doing it with your own strength. If anyone is unmotivated or powerless, or if people are lazy, they have no strength. We need to receive strength. The Holy Spirit must reign upon me.
I hope that those who game a lot, pray for the Holy Spirit to reign upon you. The Holy Spirit will always win over the evil spirits. Your bad habits are from the devil, so one day, the Holy Spirit will cast them out. But if you’re trying to fix yourself, you cannot. “May God reign over me and establish the Kingdom of God.” Then praying is so easy. God tells us to do easy things. But everything seems so hard because you don’t know the Word of God accurately. When you face a problem, God gives you the answer. If you’re the Lord, you have to solve the problem, so you’ll get lost. You have to look into what God is doing; He is the Lord.
Our walk of faith is so easy, right? Who makes it hard? You make the gospel hard because you misunderstand with what’s inside of you. Because you think the gospel is what people have told you about, you misunderstand. Don’t listen to the words of people; they speak from their own perspective, their own kingdom. But the Kingdom of God tells you the words of life. You need to discern that. Then, during the time of worship, this is the time when other people aren’t saying useless things. This is the time for you to only listen to the words of life, so it’s a blessed time.
As soon as you leave, those other thoughts will come that are not from the Word of God but they control you. “How do you know those thoughts are from Satan?” It’s simple, if it’s not from God’s Word, where is it from? “Those are just my thoughts,” but did those thoughts come from God or Satan? The Bible says we’re seized by one of the two. You don’t even need your thoughts. You can just think about God’s word then your thoughts will be healed and corrected, right? All you have to do is take the Word of God into your heart then your heart will be healed and go in the correct path. It’s easy, isn’t it?
If your body is diseased, you can’t do what you want to do, then pray for the Holy Spirit to fill you there. Why do you exercise? Don’t eat burgers and things like that, those things will make you diseased. Get it? Such people have bad skin, all the fried foods. I went to CSUN and bought a hot dog and soda for $5. It’s easy but it’s not good for you. Then, if you get used to that flavor, it’s delicious because you’re used to that taste. If you eat fast food like that, you’re in your car, eating for convenience, but it’s bad for your body.
Water, breathing. Do that. If possible, don’t go with your friends to get boba or soda, it’s full of sugar and rots your teeth. Those are just balls of sugar, how much does sugar ruin our bodies? I hope you’ll drink water. Our body is 70% water so we need water, and then breathe very deeply and long. It’s so good. If you don’t have the lung capacity to breathe in, just exhale first. People who are too lazy don’t want to inhale deeply, just exhale deeply.
“I’m too lazy to inhale,” they start and stop, that was me. So I’m telling people like this, exhale first, and exhale as long as you can. Once you reach capacity? If you can’t stop, bend over. If you do this, your body circulation will improve. Especially on Sundays, don’t sit around like Buddhist disciples. Why are you sitting down like this, with your eyes closed? Walk around.
If you just sit still after you eat, you’re bound to fall asleep. “What’s the point of reading these things?” You’re circulating in your imprints. When you come to church, you want to be on your phone a lot, so take away the phones quickly. If you just try that, see what happens to your nature. Some people are not going to be able to handle that, it means you’re already being imprinted. We shouldn’t be able to handle life without the Word; but you can’t handle life without the phone.
Just walk around outside and pray while you walk. Many trees were planted here, God did that for you so you can breathe, do you get it? Same thing when you go to school, the American campuses are nice, there are grass fields and trees, it’s nice. What are you doing during break times? Go and pray and listen to God’s word. That is camp. For God’s kingdom to be established there.
What will you do in class? Pray for your brain. Pray for the Kingdom of God to be established in me, in this class, upon the teacher, that’s camp. You need to do your everyday general camp well. One day, as time passes, the forces of darkness will be broken down. Same for middle and high school students. Your school is your field. During class, “May the Kingdom of God be established in me and the forces of darkness be broken.” But at first, when you pray, the Holy Spirit is within you so you’re bound to receive answers.
Do this the minute after you wake up or while at school, one minute at lunch. It’s easy, isn’t it? One minute while you’re on your way back from school. Just think about it. There are some people who don’t even want to do that. Just do it one or two seconds, “May the Holy Spirit of God come upon me.” Is that enough? If you guys are doing something, you’d need more time but God is transcending time and space.
When you go to class, pray for the people who have the most problems. You can tell who has the most problems. “Why did God allow me to meet with this person?” No matter what, God will work upon them. We don’t know when this person will meet someone who will give them the gospel. Do you understand? You’re not there to study; you’re a missionary, and when God’s time schedule opens up, they will tell you their problem. When they tell you their problem, give them the answer to their problem well.
Some people don’t understand that. I tell you to give them the answer to the problem, but they’re not able to do that. If someone suffers from depression and doesn’t know why, give them the answer. If they don’t know the cause, it’s darkness. Give them that answer, it’s easy. Whether they listen or not, give them the answer at least; Joseph and Daniel who gave this answer. That’s a remnant. But if you’re not able to, invite a pastor. Open up a Darakbang meeting, invite the friend, and ask the pastor to give the answer.
If I keep going by myself, it means you’re not giving the answer to anyone. The work of the pastor is to help those people to give the answer to people. 70 regions and 70 disciples. I hope you will give this answer, do you understand? At your school.
Prayer
God, we thank You. Bless the remnants. You’ve called them righteous by faith in the name of Jesus Christ. May they begin the prayer that establishes the Kingdom of God by the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.