04,March,2026,Wednesday_The New Believers and Church(Acts 11:25~26)

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04, March, 2026, Wednesday.

The New Believers and Church(Acts 11:25~26)

  Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to Iook for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So, for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

Hymn #210 Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken(Unified Hymn 245)

  For new believers, the most important thing is the church. Jesus became very angry when He saw that Herod’s temple no longer had the three courtyards. These three courtyards are a system, and you need to find what part of this system you must understand. Jesus rebuked the Jewish way of keeping the Sabbath, because the Jews thought they must not do anything on that day. You need to discover what you should focus on in the Three Day Weekend Age(Time Schedule). Jesus healed the sick right in the field in a way that exposed how ridiculous the old system was. Truly enjoying this is the holy meditation age. Healing is the method of relaying and curing those who are sick both physically and spiritually. This is also holy meditation. Holy meditation is the method of prayer that focuses on God. During Jesus’ three years of public ministry, there were things Jesus told you not to follow which include the kind of blessing, prayer, and religious life that traditional religious people talked about. At the end He said to receive the Holy Spirit(John 14:16, 26, 16:13, Acts 1:8). So then what is the reason why so many traditional churches fail today?

1. Escape from Religion(Acts1:1~14)
  The Gospel isn't a religion. If you don’t know this, disasters will never be solved. The reason you came to church is because God saved you by His grace. You’re saved by believing in this fact. Being a child of God isn’t about calculation but it’s about your relationship with Him(Grace). God didn’t call you as a one of the crowd. He called you as his disciple. He called you as a witness of the power of the Throne, the presence of God’s Kingdom, and a disciple of the works of God’s Kingdom.

2. Escape from the Words of Man(Acts11:19~30)
  People attacked Peter with their traditions and systems because he had gone into a Gentile’s house(Acts 11:1~18). God poured His blessing only on the Antioch Church that the scattered ones risked their lives to build(Acts 11:19, 25~26, 28~30).

3. Escape from Physical Legalism(Galatians2:11~20)
  If you don’t come out of the legalism of religious people, disaster comes, and if you don’t come out of their systems, the posterity will suffer. Paul said he’d been crucified with Christ and that Christ now lived in him(Galatians 2:20).

  You must completely tear down the bartizan of disasters. Jesus said that Satan builds bartizans, houses, and strongholds inside you(Matthew 12:26~30, 43~45, 2 Corinthians 10:4~5), and that he acts as if he’s a king and a god(John 16:11~14, 2 Corinthians 4:4~5).

237 New Believers and Field Ministers' Training, Lecture 3 / 06, May, 2025.

[Gospel Memory Verse] 1 Peter 5:7~8.

[Bible Reading] Psalms 126:1~127:5.

[Covenantal Prayer] Dear God, help the new believers know the accurate church. Help them escape from religion, words of man, and legalism. Instead, help them enjoy true grace and God's power. May it be a time where disasters completely crumble down. In Jesus Christ's name. I pray. Amen.