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Are you really living by the Lord?
" My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me"(John6:55-57).
I used the word "unbelievers" several times in the Saturday Bible study class last night. The level of the Corinthian church is, in Paul's view, unbelievers in Jesus. Therefore, Paul sends an ultimatum to test your faith and confirm it (2Cor.13:5). From that perspective, the whole world becomes a religious marketplace for non-believers in Jesus Christ. It's a transactional belief. The Church of Laodicea, the church of the last days, has become universal. The spectacle of faith is full within, but Christ is outside. Therefore, the sacrament they partake of is fake. Christ is outside, and they put on the show of eating and drinking of the body and blood of the Lord.
Watching the pastors who are leading the popular movement in Korea fighting with each other right now, I criticized them for tearing the body of Christ, and I've commented on the video, sayimg, "if both are fake, it's ok, but if they're real, it's like a whole family messed up." In my view, they are saying that it is the truth or untruth, but they fully admit their religious passion and mental, but they are all blind to the truth. Those who have the truth do not say it is untruth, but say it is a lie, as the Lord said. It's fake. Those without revelation in Jesus' day continued to question whether the Son of Man Jesus was the eternal Christ. They could not even imagine the process of dying as Jesus and rising again as Christ the Son of God. Even John the baptist, who testified that Jesus was the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, asked, "Are you the one to come or we have to wait for someone else?" (Mat.11:3). That is why the Lord only says that John the Baptist is the greatest among those born of women. It means that he is not born again from heaven. So, on earth, John the baptist is the greatest, but in heaven he is said to be less than the least (Matthew 11:11). The problem is that the current world church is full of little ones who only know the baptism of John. There are few people who know the baptism of the Holy Spirit to be united with the body of Christ according to the way of the cross of Christ (1 Cor.12:13) and testify of the Word to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
In John 5, those who hear the word of the Lord and believe in God the Father and believe that they has been crossed over from death to life, that is, those who have heard the Son's voice and are alive.
In John 6, we are qualified to eat the flesh and blood of Christ. These days, there is a saying that the chuch overuses baptism to secure the number of members due to the corona crisis, but that is like a mold that produces unbelievers. Do those who become baptists in that way know the secret of eating and drinking the body and blood of Christ? If we need to repent and be baptized following dying and rising again of the Lord, it is for receiving the forgiveness of sins that escape from the place of sin and the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts2:38). The presence of the Holy Spirit in us is an absolute condition for salvation. From the position of believing in Jesus, that we entered the realm of Jesus becoming our personal Lord and Christ. There we can legally eat the body and blood of Christ. The Holy Spirit seals and guarantees, and directly reminds and teaches the word of the Lord. The Holy Spirit teached that the bread set before you is in remembrance of the body of Christ, and that the cup is to be drunk in remembrance of the blood of Christ, and confirms that it becomes a reality. We become one bread, one spirit, and one body with Christ. We become one life in His blood. We have eternal life because the life of Christ is in us(John 6:53-54). Because of this, according to the model in which the Lord lived by God and through God, we too can live through Christ. Not my life, but the power of the Lord's life.
To be more specific, Jesus is not the shepherd who gives eternal life but Christ is the shrpherd who gives eternal life (John 10:28). If you are gaslighted for a long time when you say that Jesus is Christ and that we are in Jesus and Jesus is in us, your faith will grow as if it were a virtual pregnancy. However, seeing the sight of life, he struggles with his own life. In the end pastors are stained with money, descent, etc. That means life hasn't changed. Since we are not changed into the image of Christ by the life of Christ, our earthly glory has not changed to heavenly glory, so we take on the glory of the world. If we do not cross over following dying on the cross and rising again of the Lord, we fall into agnostic faith like the people of Jesus' day who were not sure whether Jesus was the Christ or not. It is the logic of believing in God without questioning how do we know all about God. If we emphasize faith without knowing the truth, such a phenomenon will occur. But now is the time for us to answer with certainty whether we know that the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ are true (real), eat it and live by His life.
Otherwise, they become a group of unbelievers like the church of Laodicea, and become a whore who serves both heaven and earth due to the values of the earth. Because the Lord is outside, the Church of Laodicea has no way to eat and drink the Lord, so there is no victory over the world, and since they cannot sit in heaven, they have no choice but to look at the earth (Rev.3:30-21). The desire to possess both heavenly and earthly blessings is the value of a harlot. God gives His servants the blesding of living the life through the Lord Christ Jesus, not money. Because the servants of the Lord have blessings, they are blessing others. Like Jacob, like Moses, like David.
Just as lsrael passed through the glory of David and Solomon, was taken captive to Babylon, and then returned to Jerusalem, after the brilliant Christian flower blooms, the world enters the church, the Christians of today become a harlot church that seeks to occupy both heaven and earth, and organizations and institutions united to become Babylon, where many souls were held captive. It's simple if you keep track of what your values are, If you try to possess both heavenly and earthly things at the same time, you will become a harlot, and if you make power and subdue people with a powerful force, you become Babylon(Rev.17,18)
An ugly scene is unfolding in which the church is moving toward successism in order to blossom the world's vain glory, the church turns away from the glory from heaven and pursues earthly things. So, in Revelation 12:12, the most important verse in Revelation, "Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short." Those of the heavens eat the food of heaven, and those of the earth and the sea eat its food. In Genesis 1, people who were created in God's image are given seed-bearing plant and every tree that has fruit with seed in it for food(Gen.1:29). But other living things of the earth are given green plant for food(Gen.1:30). Those who belong to heaven and those who belong to the earth have different food. The flesh and blood of the Lord become food for the children of God who are in Christ according to the grace of the atonement through the cross of the Lord as they are called by God. They are true Christians who have learned the mystery of living not only by bread alone, but by the word of God, that is, by the Spirit and life of the Lord. Therefore, depending on the food, the constitution or properties change, and consequently the fruits change. Just as food famine is a concern in the last days, spiritual famine will become indescribably serious. Please bear the cross of Christ in our bodies, eat and drink the flesh and blood of the Lord, so let us live by the strength we get from the bread of life, and overcome the world with the power of that strength to achieve the final victory.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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