Sunday 2nd Service, Lay Mission Dedication Service
Title / Scripture: The Crown of Thorns Given from Above (John 19:1-16)
Speaker: Pastor Ryu Kwang-su
Date / Place: November 27, 2022, Immanuel Church (Seoul)
Summary
2000 Years of Disaster, World Evangelization – Whether the future generations will be in disaster for 2,000 years, or in world evangelization, this is the crossroads. Here, Jesus wore the crown of thorns. The charge was self-proclaimed King of the Jews.
▣ Introduction_ Dedication – Where you line up and dedicate yourself is important.
1. Destruction – The Pharisees lined up wrong, and their future generations were struck down and died for 2,000 years.
1) What kind of Christ is a carpenter? Even though it was prophesied in the Bible, they did not see it because they were arrogant.
2) Power – Jealousy – They thought that if things went wrong, He would take away all their power.
3) He doesn’t even keep the Sabbath
4) They thought He just made wine and gave it to people to drink.
5) Sending away the adulterous woman, eating with tax collectors, they asked what He was doing with lepers.
2. World Conquest – They dedicated themselves absurdly, but this conquered the world.
1) The sick, the poor, the incurably ill – As soon as Jesus came, He went to find them and healed them.
▷ Do not go to a church that does not deliver the gospel. Big trouble. Many people have lost their spiritual strength.
2) Crucifixion – Matthew 27:25 The Jews said that if it was wrong, the price of that blood could be laid on their future generations. Luke 23:28 Jesus told them to weep for their children.
▷ It is a dedication that chooses a hundred years, a thousand years; you must hold to the covenant so that it becomes worship.
3) Resurrection (Mission) – Mark’s upper room – Meeting the risen Christ, they ended all doubt. At Mt Olive, He gave a clear mission. They gathered in Mark’s upper room.
▣ Main
1. Crown of Suffering – You must wear the crown that looks like suffering.
1) He was struck with whips.
2) He wore the crown of thorns.
3) Caesar as king – They said Jesus is not our king, Caesar is our king.
Suffering – Suffering received because of the gospel is a great answer and becomes the path of world evangelization.
2. The Uncrowned King – The uncrowned king who needs no crown, the king who overcomes darkness.
1) Acts 1:14-15 (Law) – Even though they were blocked by law, they were not caught by the law and evangelized the world.
▷ They spread the Word movement in families, in homes. This is the way to evangelize China and the Muslims.
2) Acts 11:19 (Tribulation) – They established Antioch Church, which evangelized the world.
3) Acts 13:1 Paul, sent out as a missionary for the first time – the beginning of changing the whole world
3. Ambassador of the Triple Office
1) King – The king who overcame Satan on behalf of Jesus
2) Priest – The priest who blocks the disasters of the whole world
3) Prophet – The whole world has no way. The prophet who announces the way
Christ – The word that combines these is Christ.
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▣ Conclusion_ Really try it once.
40 days – If you pray for just 40 days without listening to people’s voices, works will arise.
10 days – There is no one to help you pray for ten days without listening to people’s voices.
Acts 2:42 Only then does Sunday worship come alive.
Acts 2:46-47 “Every day in the temple, in homes” – healing took place.
1,000 Bartizans – The mission of missions is to make 1,000 bartizans inside the church with platforms, watchman bartizans, and antennas so that 237, healing, and summit can come.
▷ You must conclude that you can do everything through prayer. Only Christ, only the Triune God, only the power of the throne, try praying.
Transcript
Today, this scene is a very important scene.
[ 2000 Years of Disaster, World Evangelization ]
Whether the future generations will be in disaster for 2,000 years, or in world evangelization. This is the crossroads.
「The Crown of Thorns Given from Above」
Here, right now, Jesus is wearing a crown of thorns. You know what this means, right? He was put on trial, and the charge was King of the Jews. Jesus never said He would be king, but the politicians were afraid, because so many people were flocking to Him and works were happening, they got scared. So, to put it simply, if someone committed a crime, there would be a charge, right? The charge was King of the Jews. So then, He was crucified with the charge attached, and when the Jews saw it, they said even that felt bad, so they added one more word, “self-proclaimed King of the Jews.”
You are now offering a dedication service, and what you dedicate is important, but where and how you line up and dedicate yourself is extremely important.
▣ Introduction_ [ Dedication ]
This is something that happens only once, this is everything, so the question is where you do it. Today you must definitely confirm it in two big ways.
[ Destruction ]
They said they were dedicating themselves, and they did well, with faith, but that was destruction. Can that be? There is evidence, isn’t there?
[ World Conquest ]
They started absurdly without any power, but this was world conquest. You must at least have the eyes to see this. At least. Isn’t that right? If I were a businessman with assets and my time to die had come, what would I do? Then what will you take with you? Will you give it to your children? Are your children that lacking in ability? If you give it to children without ability, it becomes a burden, right? Haven’t you tried living life well? Who will live in your house? It becomes a laughable situation. It’s over on this earth. Right?
I cannot give it here (destruction). If I were a company and had power, I would give it here (world conquest). The Pharisees did nothing wrong at all. They lined up wrong. You think of it as ordinary. Because they lined up wrong, their future generations were struck down and died for 2,000 years. It’s easy to say, but imagine your children, your grandchildren dying miserably. Just imagine your little child being kidnapped by someone right now and suffering all kinds of pain and torture. Could you sleep? We would try to bring them back even if we had to risk our lives, would we say, “Well, take care then”?
The descendants of the Jews were like this for 2,000 years. But you must not be deceived. Why did these people do that?
[ Destruction ]
1. Carpenter (Bible)
Shouldn’t He be born in a palace? What kind of Christ is a carpenter? They were mistaken. It was prophesied in the Bible, wasn’t it? Everyone, once a person becomes arrogant, they can’t even see the Word. “The son of a carpenter comes, and that carpenter is the Christ?”
2. Power – Jealousy
So He performed powerful works, right? Because He performed powerful works, there would be people who thought, “Ah, His power is tremendous,” but mainly what they thought was, these people were afraid. They were jealous. “Wow, if things go wrong, that guy is going to take away all our power,” they thought like this. Because of that, they chose wrongly. It’s all in the Bible, it was prophesied. They don’t look at the Word of the Bible. Everyone, you must choose well. No matter how good something is. And these people held tremendous positions at the time. Everyone, there are only 70 members of the Sanhedrin council. They move all of Israel and the people scattered across the world. Among them, the Pharisees below them numbered about 6,000 across the whole world. So their eyes were darkened.
3. Sabbath
“That guy, I mean, he doesn’t even keep the Sabbath.” They (the Jews) think they believe well in their own way.
4. Wine
“And what’s more, he just makes wine and serves it to drink. Going to places like that.” People who think they are very excellent couldn’t understand it from their perspective. “No, this kind of power, it’s not a scam either. The carpenter’s son, what is this?”
5. Adulterous Woman, Tax Collectors, Lepers
“The adulterous woman, I mean. She should be stoned to death. He forgave her and sent her back. And I mean, he eats with tax collectors. And I mean, he goes to a leper’s house and eats. What on earth is this man doing with lepers?”
We also easily make this mistake. So the Jews saw this and were completely mistaken. “Oh my, that’s not the Christ, the Messiah should be Messiah-like.” When they looked, it wasn’t like that.
[ World Conquest ]
1. The Sick, the Poor
As soon as Jesus came, He went to find the sick and the poor. He went to find those with incurable diseases that no one could heal. He healed them. Which one is right? When a person lines up wrong, they suffer such great pain. I even say this to my relatives. “Hey, don’t attend a church that doesn’t deliver that gospel.” Big trouble. It looks like they live well, I’m sorry, but big trouble. So among those who attended church for a long time, it’s not because of character or people, there are many future generations who fell into spiritual trial and don’t attend church. Those future generations, you know, it’s not because they have bad heads. I mean, they don’t go to church because they can’t understand that churches or pastors are a bit lacking? It’s not that. Really, those people, smart people, spiritually those people have no reason to go, right? There’s no reason to attend a Pharisee church. So they lost spiritual strength. There are many. Among pastors’ children, elders’ children, excellent children, there are many who lost all their spiritual strength. Even now, you must line up well.
2. Crucifixion
He was crucified, I talked about it earlier. Crucifixion is a miserable highest penalty. This is something that only a Roman judge must allow. They deliberately dragged Jesus to Pilate. Why? To have Him crucified. How spiritually far gone were these people? “If crucifying Jesus to death is wrong, let the price of His blood be on our future generations.” (2,000 years of disaster) Not even knowing how terrifying it was. Ah, isn’t that what liars usually do? “I promise on my life,” they say, but what is your life? Without even knowing well. Liars are naturally like that. People who don’t know are like that. “I promise on everything I have.” That’s how it is. Running their mouths without knowing anything, it turned out like this (2,000 years of disaster). That’s what those people said at that time. How convinced they were: “Kill this carpenter, this man. If that’s wrong, can’t we just put the blood price on our future generations?”
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Matthew 27:25
It was said here, wasn’t it? As Jesus carried the cross and went up to Golgotha, among the many people there would be some weeping.
Luke 23:28
At that time Jesus turned around, and even in that situation said, “Do not weep for Me.” He said something meaningful and painful. “Weep for your children.” An amazing thing would happen, wouldn’t it?
The dedication service you are offering is not just a dedication service; you must hold to the covenant so that it becomes worship that chooses 100 years, 1,000 years.
Now, Jesus wore the crown of thorns like this; to put it simply, it’s the content of “You’re the King of the Jews, right? I’ll give you a crown.” So they told the people below, “Guys, he says he’s king, so put a crown on him.” It is recorded that Jesus said nothing at all. He just stood there comfortably, to a frightening degree. So it’s not like they brought the crown of thorns and just placed it on Him. They forced a small-made crown of thorns on Him, so blood came out. They mocked Him in that way.
Even now, the Jews and those who mock the gospel should look a little and think. Do you know spiritual things? Do you know what Satan and darkness are that are now destroying your family? You don’t know. I know that person who curses the church the most. His child also walks around almost like a zombie. I know. Then did he die a few years ago? It came out in the news. He cursed Christianity a lot. I don’t know why he cursed like that. I won’t say the name. Uselessly cursing the church like that, that’s what he did. Without knowing anything. His own child was shriveling up and dying like a zombie; he should have prayed.
3. Resurrection – Mark’s Upper Room
And these people met the risen Christ. From this point they ended all doubt. Here they gathered in Mark’s upper room.
(Mission)
Before gathering in Mark’s upper room, Jesus gave a clear mission at Mt Olive. You must definitely hold to this.
▣ Main
For you who do lay mission, there are three things.
1. Crown of Suffering
Because Jesus wore the crown of thorns, you must wear the crown that looks like the same suffering.
1) Whip
Looking here, they whipped Jesus. This whip has things like blades attached, and they say it’s the kind of whip that, when it strikes, digs into the flesh.
2) Crown of Thorns
What crown is it? It’s a crown of thorns, and they put the crown of thorns firmly (on His head).
And while doing so, they shouted wildly. Looking at verse 4, Pilate said, “I find no fault in Him at all.” Looking at verse 6, “The chief priests and officials shouted, saying,” screaming strange cries, wicked cries, “Crucify Him.” So they shouted so much that this governor, this judge, couldn’t handle it.
3) Caesar as King
So this judge, even while saying, “I am innocent. I cannot take responsibility,” did it that way. Then in the end, all the people say, “Our king is only Caesar.” “Jesus is not our king, Caesar is our king.” That He wore the crown of thorns amid these (whip, crown of thorns, Caesar as king) tells us many things.
〔 Suffering 〕
If you suffer because of the gospel, because of what these people truly don’t know, because of the gospel, that itself is a great answer and becomes the path of world evangelization. You must definitely keep this in mind.
2. The Uncrowned King
You who evangelize, it’s okay even without any reward. You are uncrowned kings who need no crown.
1) Acts 1:14-15 (Law)
This is Acts chapter 1 verses 14 and 15. Even though they blocked it with the law, they didn’t break the law at all, and they evangelized the world legally so as not to be caught by the law at all. This is a very important word. Blocked by the law but not caught by the law. Why is that? That’s why I named it. The secret of the early church’s world evangelization is one thing. The way to save China and the Muslims in the future is also one thing. The house upper room. They couldn’t block it. Every house has an upper room in the home, and the Word movement entered through there. Into the whole world.
You are not like worldly people who expect a reward; you are uncrowned. You don’t need a crown. But you are truly the king who overcomes darkness.
2) Acts 11:19 (Tribulation)
Now a great tribulation arose. There (where the great tribulation arose), rather, they established Antioch Church that evangelizes the world. You must keep this in mind. We go wearing the crown of suffering. We don’t need rewards. We go as uncrowned kings.
At this time, a strange thing happened. Everyone, if you hold to the covenant, it goes beyond imagination. Something beyond imagination happened, and what was it? The persecution became more severe: “Catch those who believe in Jesus and kill them no matter what. Those you can’t kill, catch and imprison.” That’s how it came out. Before, they only prohibited it, but now they made people who go around catching them by law.
Who was the leader there? Paul. Paul, who catches those who believe in Jesus. But it’s strange. Paul is a person who knew the Bible a lot. He is a person who knew the Old Testament a lot. But how serious their education was, Paul couldn’t open his heart. It seems something was bothering his conscience, but he thought, “Still, this (Introduction-Destruction) is right.” But Paul was such a smart person, wasn’t he? He himself was an honest person. You know, there are people who lie well. But this person himself was a person who couldn’t lie.
What is this? Everyone, if you really make up your mind to do the gospel movement, there is a work God does from above. He broke Paul right away. Well, what would you do? Suddenly light shone from heaven, and his name originally called at home was Saul, right? He called, “Saul, Saul.” As you know well, when that happens you’re out of your mind. He asked, “Who are You?” “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.” There, Paul was broken at once. And all the Bible words he knew came to mind; he was convinced. “Ah, He is the One who was prophesied. Now the timetable has come.” And so he participated in this town (Acts 11:19). It’s astounding. They told him to catch those who believe in Jesus, and that Paul went and believed in Jesus, completely.
Then an even more ridiculous thing happened. Volunteering, the Jews, these Jews are vicious. Volunteering, what do they do? “We won’t go home until we catch and kill Paul.” That’s how it came out.
3) Acts 13:1
At that time, Paul was sent as a world missionary for the first time since the earth was created. This is the first. Until then, because they didn’t realize, they went after being beaten, and (this time) they truly went. This was the beginning of changing the whole world. Before that, the whole world couldn’t interact or come and go. It started from this time.
3. Ambassador of the Triple Office
This is the third thing you lay people doing mission must pray for. You are the crown of suffering, and also uncrowned kings, but you are ambassadors of the triple office.
1) King
Not just an ambassador. You are a king who overcame Satan on behalf of Jesus.
2) Priest
The disasters of the whole world can’t be stopped. You are the priest who stops that.
3) Prophet
There’s no way. All truths are lies. So you are a prophet who announces the way.
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Christ
The word that combines these is Christ. While you offer lay mission worship, you just need to hold on to one thing. Don’t be deceived by people’s words. It’s lining up on God’s side. Try standing there. People who listened to people’s words, misunderstood, and stood on the human side ended up like this (Introduction-Destruction).
Jehovah’s Witnesses talk about it. Isn’t there anyone here who came out of Jehovah’s Witnesses? Jehovah’s Witnesses, before they gather for Bible study, there’s something they do. They criticize you a lot, and they curse you. So they must rescue them (Christians), that’s the theory.
Shincheonji, you know what they do, right? You already know everything, don’t you? They pick out whether you have faults or not, curse a lot, and say they must save them (Christians). That’s one of their basic evangelism doctrines. While giving such a lecture, a woman, judging by her accent she was from Honam, her lecture floated around on YouTube, didn’t it? Probably someone recorded it and spread it; they spread that woman’s actual lecture, and if you look at the content of the lecture, it’s ridiculous. “Killing the Korean church is simple.” That’s what that woman said. “If you go in and keep creating unbelief, it collapses at once.” That’s what the woman said. Go look at the tape (video) going around. “If you just persuade two elders, it’s over. Then slander like that. That way, bring down the church. How do you bring it down? First bring down the evangelist. And when you put in an evangelist, put in someone from our side. Slowly, steadily, diligently.” She gave that lecture and got caught. That lecture spread all over. So I said, “How can a right church, if they are right, how can they do that? If that’s right, that’s really not it.” The problem isn’t that; the point is that we keep missing blessings too much. Don’t miss them.
40 Days
Today I’m going to the ordination ceremony to tell them this; if you pray for just 40 days without speaking human words at all, works will arise. This is Mt Olive.
10 Days
If you truly hold on to the covenant, just 10 days, can a person pray for 10 days, if you pray for just 10 days without listening to people’s voices, works will arise. It’s pitiful. There are people who are spiritually struggling, right? If there is someone who will really help properly for just about 10 days, works will arise. That’s the only thing. People who have depression or are suffering mentally, it doesn’t work as they wish. Who do they get help from? There’s no one who will help properly for ten days.
Acts 2:42
Only then does Sunday worship come alive every Sunday.
Acts 2:46-47
So daily in the temple, daily at home, if you do this, then healing happened. It became healing.
1,000 Bartizans
I’m talking about Busan, Seoul, Ulsan, Changwon. The mission of missions is: make the 1,000 bartizans that don’t exist so that 237, healing, and summit can come. Inside the church. You must do this first. Build platforms where the many multiethnic people who have come to us can come, watchman bartizans, bartizans with antennas. You must not fail to understand this. Doing it at first and then quitting, that’s of no use no matter what. Make it so that even after you leave this land, 237 can come and do healing and summit 24. Leave the footprints of the elders. Right? Make a forum room for the elders. That’s what I want to say. Put each country’s name one by one, make forum rooms, and make it so that country can come and hold forums. What, does meeting briefly bring world evangelization? That’s not it. When you change one person, countless people rise up. You must definitely hold to the covenant.
You must conclude that you can do everything through prayer. Really try it. Jesus remained calm in that pain while being criticized, mocked, and suffering. Today, everyone, I hope you really start once. Try it. You’ll be a little surprised. You are not people who need to watch others’ eyes when you go into the world. If you don’t see answers, you have to watch others’ eyes. Right? When you go into the world, it’s not simple.
I always praise our Remnant when I see what they do. Big, a chaebol company in our country is tremendous, right? He got a job there. That excellent person, that person who has a lot, can’t help but have spiritual problems. Every so often he has seizures, epilepsy. When he has a seizure, the executives who were beside him run away. This friend held him and prayed. This is our Remnant.
When (the chaebol) woke up, he would know, right? So when he asked, he delivered the gospel. That top person, someone everyone in Korea recognizes, has that kind of problem. So he has no choice but to acknowledge this friend. It’s not that he boasted, nor did he do anything special.
He told me briefly. When I went to officiate the wedding, he (the chaebol) was coming. Of course. He’s such a busy person, but from his personal perspective, it’s not like that. Since he’s having a wedding, he said he’d come. What does that mean? You just need to not be deceived even a little. So I said to that friend, “Hey, look. Because you live your faith life so well, this happens.” “No. I’ve been deceived until now, and I’m barely trying to come to my senses,” he said. “Right, you’re trying to come to your senses and (like this) it’s working; how much more will it work when you come to your senses?” That’s what I said. It’s true. Please don’t be deceived, and there’s no need to say anything. Try it. Only Christ. Only the Triune God. Only the power of the throne. Try praying. Then works will arise. All of you participating in our lay mission today, I bless you in the name of the Lord that the glory of God will be revealed for generations of your descendants. Let us pray.
Prayer
Thank You, God. God who allowed us to have the lay mission dedication service, please grant us true peace. Please give us the true gospel. We thank You for giving us the true covenant. Please let us become witnesses who achieve in this covenant. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.