2/19/2009
2/17/2009
Prayer..
2/16/2009
I will Follow Heavenly Mother!
2/15/2009
2/14/2009
Until Christ is Formed in You 5
Through the Bible, let's see Father and Mother cleansing us from sin and impurity.
God cleanses us with the living water and puts a new spirit in us. He removes from us our heart of stone, which makes us get offended or angry over words that hurt us even in the smallest way and makes us turn away from the truth, and gives us a heart of flesh. This is possible when we have our heavenly Father and Mother?the spring of living water?in us. When we always think of Father and Mother and consider carefully Their will, we can be changed into the image of Christ, as the people who are taught by Him.
I see my brothers and sisters in Zion becoming perfect in faith day after day by putting their faith into action. I hear many say that they would get angry easily towards brothers and sisters over trifle things before but now all the Church members look so beautiful to them and their only hope is that all the members will keep the faith till the end and go to heaven together. Those who do not have the heart of God may consider them foolish and scoff at them. However, we are to have God at our center and try to live in accordance with the teachings of God.
It is not easy to have Christ formed in us. However, God gives generously to us if we ask Him. Let us earnestly ask Father and Mother, so that They will always live in us. Then we will be able to spread the aroma of Christ throughout the whole world. By having Christ be fully formed in us, let's lead many souls to salvation.
2/13/2009
Until Christ is Formed in You 4
Let us be kind and compassionate to one another. If Father and Mother live in our hearts, we will be indifferent to anger or jealousy and try our hardest to lead our brothers and sisters along the right path to salvation by putting God into their hearts, although we suffer the pain of childbirth, as did the Apostle Paul. When our hearts are moved by such meaningful work, each of us can be called a true Christian with the heart of Christ.
Father and Mother have sealed us with the promised Holy Spirit and made us children of promise, so that we may inherit the kingdom of heaven. As Isaac received Abraham's inheritance, so we are given the promise of God, being called "children of promise like Isaac" (Gal 4:28). What if we neglect God's word, easily become hot-tempered and greedy, thinking that we are going to heaven because we have received the promise of God? Can we enter heaven? Certainly not. God says that even a blessed person will be deprived of the blessing given to him if he becomes unworthy of it and will be judged according to His words.
2/12/2009
Until Christ is Formed in You 3
Gal 5:16-26 『So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. … The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.』
If we live by the Spirit, worldly desires find no place in our mind. When we let the Spirit direct our lives, all the desires of the sinful nature will be removed. However, if we live according to the sinful nature, our hearts will not be filled with the desires of the Spirit.
Those who live after the flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God. The Bible repeatedly says that no one can enter the kingdom of heaven if he participates in the fruitless works of darkness.
Eph 5:1-14 『Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us … But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person?such a man is an idolater?has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. … Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. …』
The above verse tells us how we should live our lives. I believe most of you have already understood it and live a gracious life. If anyone claims to live by faith but often forgets the great task of saving souls, being absorbed in the vain desires of the flesh, he must take them all away without hesitation.
When God looks down from heaven, the earth is nothing but a speck of dust and a drop of water in a bucket. To save us, who live in this small world, God left all His glory in heaven and chose a lowly path, taking on human form. If the God of love lives in us, what shall be our primary concern? ‘What should I do to lead his soul closer to salvation?' ‘How can I help him come to God rightly?' If Elohim God lives and works in a person, saving souls will be his greatest concern.
What about the person whose heart is full of idolatry? He is more concerned about showing off and exalting himself rather than thinking how he can help brothers and sisters come together to salvation. The devil assails such a person by various temptations. How much will God's heart ache when He sees His children still yielding to such vain and empty things?
We can be reborn as perfect beings when we have the spirit of self-giving for the salvation of souls like Christ. A potter continually works to mold and shape clay into a vessel until it is complete. However, if it is made into the vessel he wants it to be, no longer does he need to shape the clay on the wheel, put it in the kiln and enamel it, does he?
Until Christ is Formed in You 2
Those who embrace Elohim Gods have a burning fervor to save all mankind just as They do. They have the aroma of heavenly Father and Mother, who do not break a bruised reed and do not snuff out a smoldering wick, who love Their children and patiently wait for them to turn to the way of repentance and salvation.
Through all ages, many people have made every effort to cultivate their minds and hearts, but none of them have attained a perfect personality by their own efforts. Our personality naturally changes if we have God within us. Only when Christ lives in us, we are able to participate in the "divine nature" (2 Pet 1:4). Since the Apostle Paul realized it fully, he spared no efforts until Christ lived in him and until Christ was formed in the saints.
The saints of the Early Church went through a lot of trial and error until God was formed in them. As they did not fully receive God into their hearts, some members of the Churches in Corinth, Galatia, etc., went astray; some of them loved this world and deserted the truth like Demas. Paul's heart ached for them, and he willingly went through the pains of childbirth for the saints until Christ was completely formed in their mind.
Unless God is formed in us, we cannot become partakers of the divine nature described in the Bible. As Jesus said, "If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit" (John 15:5), we can bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit if we become one with God. So God said through the Apostle Paul as follows:
2/11/2009
Until Christ is Formed in You 1
Before that day sweeps on like chaff, we have to reflect upon whether or not we are fully prepared to enter into the kingdom of heaven. As we look into the parable of the ten virgins in the Bible, the five were ready and met the bridegroom, while the other five were not fully prepared and missed their chance to get into the wedding banquet (Matt 25:1-13).
There are lots of things we have to prepare. First and foremost, we must have God in us to the fullest. It is important whether or not we fully rely on God. We should avoid all kinds of worldly thoughts and desires that lead to eternal death and always dwell in God rather than waste our God-given time doing meaningless things. Believing firmly that all the prophecies written in the Bible will surely be fulfilled, we are to put more effort into saving souls, without wasting a minute?not even a second.
Our body is the temple of God
Every saint of God is a place where God dwells?the temple of God. We, God's people, are to always put God in the center of our life and be holy, as God is holy.
Unless we correctly understand God who lives in us, we come to commit foolish acts of worshiping idols instead of God. It is just like the Israelites claimed to serve God but worshiped all sorts of idols such as Baal and Asherah in the temple, not realizing that fact.
Keeping in mind that we are God's temple, we are to perform our function as the temple of God?as the temple of the LORD in the age of the Father, as the temple of Jesus Christ in the age of the Son and as the temple of the Spirit and the Bride?Elohim Gods?in the age of the Holy Spirit. The Apostle Paul always had God within him.
Gal 6:14-17 『May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. … Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. 』
"I have been crucified with Christ." By these words Paul meant that he had died spiritually to himself. When I myself am crucified and dead to sin and only when Christ lives in me, I can be a true Christian.
Paul made lots of efforts to help God's people fill their hearts with Christ, not with worldly things, teaching them God's word, giving them hope for heaven and confessing his faith in public. By doing so, he began to imitate Christ in His suffering.
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2/09/2009
2/07/2009
The 27th Overseas Visiting Group from North, Central and South America, Oceania and Russia
Brothers and sisters share greetings in four foreign languages at the New Jerusalem Temple. They are all the members of the heavenly family, who understand each other in God's love just by looking at each other.
From early in the morning till midnight, Mother welcomed all the members, who flew from afar like doves to their nests, with Her constant love. A sister from Peru said that when she approached Mother, she was worried because she thought, Will Mother say I love you' to a sinner like me? She expressed the overwhelming emotion she experienced, saying, My heart felt like it was going to burst when Mother hugged me, saying, Te amo (I love you).'
Mother appreciated the efforts of the overseas members who came such a long way. She told them about the work of the Holy Spirit of the latter rain that occurred during the Feast of Tabernacles, and blessed them, saying, Receive the blessing of the Holy Spirit abundantly and bear much good fruit pleasing to God as great workers when you go back.
The members from Peru, Mexico, USA and New Zealand, along with the members from Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Russia who made their first visit to Korea, asked blessings for the Churches rather than for their own wishes, and desired that the world mission be quickly accomplished. Members from eight countries studied together and gave thanks and glory to God, encouraging each other and sharing fragrances of Zion .
2/05/2009
Voice from Heaven
2/03/2009
Mother's teaching-3
24th to Jerusalem, the holy land of love
New York, Colorado
2008.05.15~05.26
In May, known as “family month” in Korea, some members from America visited Korea and shared the true love of the heavenly family.
They felt at home in Korea, the country in the east, which is filled with the sacrifice of God Elohim. They improved their knowledge and understanding of the truth at the Elohim Training Institute and in some other places, and engraved God’s love deep in their hearts. They also shared brotherly love with Korean members, keeping the services at the New Jerusalem Temple, the Seogu Church in Daejeon and the Dongdaemun Church in Seoul. Through their visit to the Church of God History Museum, they saw the sacrificial path that Father and Mother had walked, and reaffirmed their will for the gospel.
Mother comforted Her children who had flown like doves as the prophetic heroes even in difficult situations, and blessed them, saying, “Be the great prophets by preaching God’s love to the whole world.”
2/02/2009
Heavenly mother
Let us confirm that there is both a male and a female image of God, through the book of Genesis.
2/01/2009
Elohim will appear in Their own time
There is no life in us, so we must go to God-Christ Ahnsahnghong and Mother-if we want to receive eternal life and salvation, because They are the only ones who have life. In order to give the everlasting water of life to mortal beings, God came down to this earth in this last age as the Holy Spirit, Ahnsahnghong, and the Bride, the New Jerusalem Mother. People who pervert or deny this Biblical teaching will never be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.