The Message of the Cross

2025.12.07 Sunday 1st Service
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

1. Find the excitement of worship In today’s worship, I bless you in the name of the Lord that there will be the greatest new grace. What happens when we give worship? The unseen work of the Triune God takes place. The unseen power of the throne comes upon us. So you must be excited during the time of worship. If you cannot find that, in fact, you will not see answers.

Praise When our choir offers praise, what kind of time is that? The heavenly armies are mobilized, and great things happen at the throne. Also, when you sing praise together, amazing works that move heaven and earth actually take place. Therefore you must truly be filled with excitement. That is proper praise.
Representative prayer When the elders give representative prayer, God is set to answer that prayer. Right? So together with an excited heart, you must pray for the elder.
Offering When you give offering, many people just casually toss it in like a flick. It is the only way for the 3 economies to be restored. Right? Since I realized that, I have never faced economic hardship. Wherever I went, the evangelism movement arose. Worship must be exciting. Look at married people. People dating. They are thrilled and spend 24 hours together every day, and after 3 years, they say they cannot even stand to look at each other. Why is that? Because that excitement did not continue. Right? The excitement did not continue. Right? Why? Because they do not have it or they fail to find it. So they say they live together because they have no choice. They say they live like comrades. There is no excitement. There must be excitement in worship.
Empty time And during the empty time, you must hold onto the Word and wait for God to work upon you today. So internally I say, “Oh, the churches say they don’t have a budget.” Inside I say, “That makes no sense.” It is because they have not received blessing. Right? In fact, they do not know economy. Moreover, they do not know the light economy, the missions economy, the Remnant economy. So when you give offering in the church, in all churches, people must be excited. You must change your thoughts for answers to arise.

2. Change your thoughts and open your eyes To those in underdeveloped and difficult nations, to the Remnants, I ask you: you must think differently. Not, “We must receive help,” but “Which 5,000 tribes must we save?” In fact, there are surprising things among those 5,000 tribes. Astonishing resources are buried there. Right? Not long ago, I saw that the time of using solar energy is coming and that 90% of that energy is in Africa. I rode a train for several hours across the wide land in Thailand. There are tremendous energy resources. Remnants serving in America must not be deceived. America is the wealthiest nation in the world. Right? It is not “We need to receive help.” It is “Whom must we help?” You must open your eyes to this.

3. Special prayer topic Many churches are closing. This is a serious matter. Why is that? Today, I will give you a special prayer topic. For those who will become pastors, politicians, or those who will become legal professionals or professors, or those who will become medical personnel, and those who will become special professionals—for such people, there must be an elementary school inside the church. You must imprint them properly. If not, they cannot move the world. In the end, they will merely serve the world and leave. They do this and that and say, “Maybe I should try becoming a pastor?” Would that work? You must raise them starting in elementary school. Politics is a harsh road. Right? It can be considered a road of death. If they do not gain spiritual strength from elementary school, they cannot overcome. Just at this time, there is a person arising in our church who can do this, so we must truly do it while praying.

▣ Introduction_ Imprint from childhood

Joseph What kind of answer was this? The background that enabled him to understand Genesis 37:1–11 must be formed in childhood. Benjamin is okay. Why? He never saw his mother’s face. No problem, right? He thinks not having a mother is normal. When Joseph was young, his mother suddenly passed away. That became a scar. How did he overcome this? From early childhood Joseph learned and was taught prayer through God’s blessing. He changed the world.
Moses As you know, Israel became slaves in Egypt. The adults had no strength to overcome. God placed a kindergarten-aged child into the Egyptian palace. He placed him there after clearly teaching him the gospel and prayer. You know what happened.
Samuel During the time when fourteen generations of leaders changed, Israel continued to suffer under the Philistines. It could not be solved by generals. It could not be solved by soldiers. God planted power in the newborn Samuel. We must teach that.
David When David was young, while guarding the sheep, he already learned prayer, praised, and wrote all his psalms. It happened in childhood. What happened to David was a natural result. In the past, politicians taught incorrectly telling people to have fewer children, so now people do not have children. That is a natural result. Do we have children when we are in elementary school? They even posted that inside classrooms. They should have told that to married women. Even when I was in elementary school, I saw posters saying, “Do not discriminate between son and daughter; have only two and raise them well.” They kept teaching not to have many children, so this result came. God has a plan. He will open the age of multi-ethnicity.
Paul If you do not imprint them from childhood, they cannot move the world. That is why Paul sought out the synagogue. Remember this.
Deuteronomy 6:4–9 Love the Lord with all your heart, and imprint the amazing works that have happened up to now in your children. Then what must we teach and what must we enjoy and teach? When God brought them out of Egypt, He spoke: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. Teach the amazing works that have taken place until now to your children.” It is not just that. “Bind them on your forehead and on your wrist.” You always see it. When it is on your forehead, you see each other. “Write them on your walls, on your pillars, on your doorposts, on the ground.” What does that mean? Imprint in childhood. Then unimaginable things will take place.

▣ Main_ What to enjoy and teach
So what must we enjoy and teach?

1. Spiritual imprinting – healing of darkness
First. There are three things we must surely do, and this is the first. In early childhood, imprint spiritually so that healing of darkness takes place. Therefore, the Remnants who must do great works must be trained from infancy and toddler age; the most important time is elementary school. From elementary school, plant the power of the gospel and prayer. Because this problem comes from birth, we must do it.

Genesis 3, 6, 11: the Garden of Eden incident, the Nephilim age, the Tower of Babel age In the Garden of Eden, Satan tempted Eve and collapsed Adam. Right? In the time of the Noah flood, the Nephilim age came. Then the age of building the Tower of Babel where humans thought they did not need God. It continues. Our posterity must live in that world. So we must imprint the spiritual and heal.
Acts 13, 16, 19: idolatry, believing the words of demon-possessed people No one even teaches them, yet they go to worship idols. They bow to something they made. They do not believe God’s Word but go to hear demon-possessed people and believe what they say.
Six states of unbelievers In the end they think they are living as they wish, but actually they are tied as children of the devil. Naturally, spiritual problems come. Soon physical problems come. And these are transmitted to descendants. Right? It does not end there. They have a completely different background. The fact that we received salvation is an enormous statement. The background is different. Haven’t you seen people when they die? They cannot lie at the moment of death. They say what they see. Those who are not saved all say the same thing. They are afraid. Because they must go to hell. Because the devil comes to drag them. How frightening must that be? Some even grind their teeth and tremble horribly. The background is different. Those who are saved, naturally, ask for hymns to be sung. It is different.
Darkness that entered the family line and home This tremendous darkness entered the family line and household. So for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary children, we are laying a foundation that lasts into eternity.
Darkness that entered me In Seoul, in the church, there is an elementary school. And now teachers have begun rising here in Busan saying they will start one. Until elementary school, an unchangeable foundation is formed. That is why even when they become adults, they cannot pray. This is serious. Their spiritual state becomes desolate, so they cannot pray. At best they can do program prayer—like going up the mountain and shouting “Lord!” three times. But they cannot truly pray. One day spiritual limits come. They studied well but spiritually are weak. It is certain. What must we do? And some with excellent academics lack spiritual strength and say, “The thing I want most is to die.” Because it is too hard. That is what will happen to our children.
Darkness that entered the church Even if you go to church, it is useless. People say, “How could Apostle Peter make such a mistake, eating at Cornelius’ house?” They say that. They might have said to Peter, “The church atmosphere here is like this.” Never say such things. No matter how many flawed people gather, the church is God’s church. Do not misunderstand that. No matter how incompetent the people are, the church is God’s church. Then, of course, those people must come. Jesus said, “Satan has built a house inside you.” Second Corinthians 10:4–5 says, “He has built a stronghold.” So they cannot pray and cannot live the life of faith. They serve the devil as the god of this world and the ruler of this world. We must heal this in childhood.

2. Spiritual strength – the root
Second. From early childhood, what must you first enjoy and give? We must plant spiritual strength. Right?

Because they know nothing spiritual, they have no real strength at all They do not know anything spiritual, so they have no real strength.
(1) Those who will perish see the gospel as foolish and worthless (verse 18) What is lacking? “The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.” It says that. They think sitting like this is foolish. To those who will perish, the gospel seems laughable and worthless. That means they are children of the devil and doomed. Our children must go into such a world.
(2) Because one cannot know God through human wisdom, God saves through the foolishness of preaching (verses 19–21) Verse 19 says, “It is written.” That means there is evidence. “Has God not destroyed the wisdom of the wise and frustrated the intelligence of the intelligent?” He presents evidence. Throughout history, have not those considered wise created problems? Verse 20 asks, “Where is the wise person?” If someone like me asked, it would have little meaning, but Paul was very learned. Paul asked, “Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? Do you not know?” He is questioning. Remnants must know this. Faith is not something simplistic. Verse 21 says, “With their own wisdom they cannot know God.” So “What you consider foolish, the foolishness of preaching, God chose to save.” If we do not quickly heal our Remnants from childhood, problems surely come later. Then we must teach what real power is. They have no real strength, and they do not know what the result will be.
(3) We believe and preach Christ crucified (verses 22–23) In verse 21, “Not only can they not know God by their wisdom,” verse 22 says, “The Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified.”
True power – Christ So verse 24 says, “Christ is the power of God.” And he begins to explain true power.
(1) Christ is the power of God (verse 24) Verse 23 says, “We believe and preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks.” And what does it say next? “But to those who are saved, Christ is the power of God.” We must teach this.
(2) Which is better: God’s foolishness or man’s wisdom? (verse 25) Verse 25 asks, “Which is better, God’s foolishness or man’s wisdom? Which is better, man’s highest ability or God’s most basic thing?” He questions. Our posterity must be within this blessing. We must teach this power.
(3) The reason He called you Why did God call people like you who have no status or wisdom? Strangely, “He chose the foolish to shame the wise, and He chose the lowly to shame the noble.” Why did He call you? He is confessing: “No flesh can save itself. You cannot save yourself. That is why God put Christ on the cross to save us. No one can boast. We boast only in the Lord.” This is true power. We must teach this.
Power to overcome the world We must be able to overcome the world. We must not be deceived. That is power. Even though the scammer is bad, the one who gets scammed is also partly at fault. Right? Why are they deceived? Because they try to gain something. They bring many things to us saying, “This is a great thing…” We do not even listen. We say, “Take that great thing to someone else,” and they rarely return. So many things come. We do not need them. The greatest power is this: not being deceived. The answer also appears in the second service, but today you must know what true spiritual power is. Then even when problems come, you are not afraid. Because you know.

3. Spiritual mission – the nature
Third. We must plant spiritual mission. This power must take root, but this mission must become our nature. What kind of mission?

God led those who went to the lowest place to the highest place Those who went to the lowest place—God led them to the highest place. Joseph went as a slave, yet God brought him out as a prime minister. Moses went as an adopted child, yet God brought him out as a world leader. This is spiritual mission. We must teach this. Samuel was separated from his parents in childhood, yet God made him a leader who moved the world. A shepherd became a king. From the lowest place to the highest place. This is the true power of mission. He taught this. They were taken as captives yet began teaching the kings of the nations that took them captive. This is the power of the gospel. For 250 years, ten emperors of Rome brutally killed Christians. Yet something unimaginable happened. After 250 years almost all became Christian. Politicians originally have little real power—what counts is votes—same then, same now. They had no choice but to declare Christianity the state religion. Who could stop it? When you plant the gospel correctly in one little child, especially a multi-ethnic child, you do not know what will happen. There must be excitement about that. Without excitement, no answer. Right? “What Word will God give today?” There must be excitement. “What blessing will He give this week?” Right? Because it is certain. That must exist.
You will be witnesses of what Jesus Christ gave over 40 days Jesus Christ gave something truly exciting and tremendous during the 40 days. The Triune God said, “You will be the bartizan of the throne. From now on, go the journey of the throne with that power.” Something even more amazing: “Wherever you go, you will establish guideposts of the throne. You shall be witnesses to this.” You must be excited. Pastors listening to this message all throughout the nation and the world—somewhere, absolute bartizans are already prepared. You must be excited. “Where are they?” If that excitement is absent, that is not evangelism.
Paul, who obtained this answer Paul received the most answer regarding this. Right? So Paul laid down all his knowledge. He laid down everything he boasted of. And he testified everywhere he went that he met Christ. More importantly, Paul was not present during the 40-day teaching. Yet he testified boldly about the kingdom of God.

▣ Conclusion

What remains at the end of life – the souls evangelized (1 Thessalonians 2:19) What remains at the end of your life? When God calls us, what remains? All the things you stored at home are useless. You cannot take them. You must go. All that money saved because you did not give offering—useless. You cannot take anything. Nothing remains. But 1 Thessalonians 2:19 tells what remains. “When we stand before God, what is our crown? It is you.” Right? If you go to the eternal world—heaven—and there is not even one soul you evangelized, what will happen? What remains is only what is eternal, and that is all. So you must make a decision.
All suffering and answers are part of the process – fulfillment of the Word (world evangelization) is the greatest answer and blessing The Remnant 7 faced suffering. It was not suffering. They also had many good things. That was not the answer. It was the process. What happened to the Remnant 7? God’s Word was fulfilled. World evangelization was accomplished. There is no greater blessing.
Because we are not aligned with this, He promised to be with us with all authority in heaven and on earth Being aligned with this is amazing. Because we are not aligned, He promised, “I am with you always with all authority in heaven and on earth.” That is why He explained the power of the throne. Today, as you pray throughout the day seeking the answer you must receive, you must pray to God earnestly with an excited heart. A person can die from the shock of a moment. Right? On the contrary, healing can happen in the moment one is filled with the Holy Spirit. What if the work of the Holy Spirit arises in your work field, in your studies? What is happening right now? What took place in Mark’s upper room is being fulfilled exactly. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that today will be the day you receive important power.

Prayer. We give thanks to God. May today become that day; may it become a day of new grace; may it be a day when darkness is broken; may it be a time when every disease is broken; may it be a time when all human evil is broken. May it be a time of healing. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.