Sunday 1st Service
Title / Scripture: The Gospel That Cannot Possibly Be Understood (John 7:25-36)
Speaker: Pastor Ryu Kwang-su
Date / Place: October 2, 2022, Immanuel Church (Busan)
Summary
This week, try praying while focusing on just one of your problems.
▣ Introduction
1. Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is equal with God, and He is the Savior who saves us – The future generations of the Jews, who thought (mistakenly) that a madman had appeared, were massacred for 2,000 years, and the 120 who understood this fact conquered the world.
2. When you have a serious illness or fall into crisis, there is no one who can help. The answer is one. It is holding on to the covenant of the gospel and world evangelization.
1) Joseph – The gospel covenant (Genesis 3:15, 12:1-3) and the covenant of world evangelization (Genesis 37:1-11)
2) Moses – He firmly held on to the covenant of the blood sacrifice and liberation.
3) Samuel – Only the burnt offering and the Mizpah Movement
4) David – Only Christ (covenant) and temple construction
5) Elisha – Only the Holy Spirit and the Dothan Movement
▷ Satan, disasters, and the background of hell that bring you down fear only Christ.
3. What to check first
1) What the people of the world still do not know (Genesis 3, 6, 11) – The Garden of Eden incident (Don’t believe in God, you become God!), the Noah’s flood incident (Nephilim Movement, contact with spirits), the Tower of Babel incident (You can succeed even without God.)
2) The 3 curses the people of the world do not know – What Satan does (fortune-telling), this land itself is the background of hell, disasters that keep coming
3) What the people of the world do not know at all – The Bible (There are parts that unbelievers may read, parts that those who believe in God read, and parts that only those who know Christ read.), the Jews (They come with something else, with wrong thinking, and ask for grace.)
▣ Main_ The 120 saints of the early church who conquered the world with only the covenant
1. Those who have the prophesied covenant
1) Genesis 3:15 The offspring of the woman will crush the head of the serpent.
2) Exodus 3:18 On the day you offer the blood sacrifice, you will be liberated.
3) Isaiah 7:14 The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel
4) Isaiah 53 The birth, death on the cross, and resurrection were prophesied. The main character has come.
2. Those who are in the fulfilled covenant
1) Matthew 16:16 They confessed, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
2) Matthew 17 Neither Elijah nor Moses is needed. Only Christ can overcome darkness.
3) Acts 1:1, 3, 8 That Christ explained the things of the kingdom of God for 40 days and promised world evangelization.
3. Those who are in the covenant to be fulfilled
1) Matthew 28:18-20 With all authority in heaven and on earth, I will be with you to the end of the age. However, make disciples who will spread this news.
2) Mark 16:15-20 Go to convey this covenant. In My name demons will be driven out. When you place your hands on the sick, they will be healed
3) Acts 1:8 Through Christ, the kingdom of God and the blessing of the throne are present → Witness
▣ Conclusion_ The gospel that cannot possibly be understood
1. You must change your desire – God’s desire is to give spiritual things, but my desire is for fleshly things
2. You must also change your faith – God wants to give eternal things (to enjoy the authority of heaven and earth), but I am holding on to what I will eat first.
3. You must also change your method – Not with the things of the world or the things of people, but with God’s method
Transcript
Through today’s text, this week, I hope you will try praying while focusing on just one of your problems.
▣ Introduction
A man named Copernicus said this. “The earth is not flat, but round and it rotates.” Then, all at once, the scholars and the medieval church said, “That person is crazy.” They burned him to death. But the earth is round and rotating. They learned it later. Also a man named Newton said, “Why doesn’t this seawater pour out? There is a pulling force on the earth.” They said the same thing. That he’s a madman. But the evidence that Newton’s words were right has now come out. A doctor named Meyer said, “This appendix of ours, we can just take it out. There’s no need to keep it and die. We can operate and take it out.” He said this. All the doctors looked at that doctor and said he was a madman. So this doctor, who became a madman, removed the appendix using his own daughter as the model. From then on, groundbreaking medical techniques began to develop.
1. Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is equal with God, and He is the Savior who saves us
Why do I say this? When He said, “Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is equal with God, and He is the Savior who saves us,” all the Jews said, “A madman has appeared,” right? Do the Jews not know the Bible at all? They know it, so why are they like this? They are mistaken right now. So from that day on, the Jews’ future generations came to be massacred for 2,000 years. The 120 who understood this fact conquered the world.
2. When you have a serious illness or fall into crisis, there is no one who can help. The answer is one. It is holding on to the covenant of the gospel and world evangelization.
Today you must hold on to the covenant well. If a person really gets a serious illness? There is no one to help. Right? If I am really in a crisis? There is no one to help. Day and night, the fear called death follows and tries to kill, and you have to run away. What will you do? There is no one to help. We keep thinking there is someone to help, but there isn’t.
1) Joseph
Joseph was miserably dragged away as a slave and lived as a slave and in prison. No one could help. There was no one to defend Joseph.
Especially, there was no one to help Moses, who committed a murder in Egypt. There was no one. Thinking there is someone is a mistake; there isn’t. Even if there is someone to help, it doesn’t help. Look at that. Not 1 or 2 years, but for decades they mobilized an army and tried to kill David, right? The answer is just one. This Joseph firmly held on to the gospel covenant received in his grandfather’s time that everyone had missed, and the world evangelization covenant of the sun, moon, and stars bowing down. He cannot die. You must hold on to that covenant. It’s not that I must live. He cannot die.
2) Moses
Moses firmly held on to this covenant of liberating Israel by offering the blood sacrifice.
I ask our pastors across the nation and the world, if you preach something else, it’s a disaster. That makes people receive curses. It doesn’t work with anything else. Absolutely not. That’s why churches of the world are closing their doors now. It’s the pastors’ responsibility. You may dislike me a little, and it’s fine to curse me, but hold on to God’s Word. It’s a disaster. Nothing else works.
Moses held on to the blood sacrifice and liberation.
3) Samuel
Only the burnt offering and the Mizpah Movement.
4) David
If you look at the Psalms of David, there is a great deal about Christ. Only Christ and temple construction; they cannot kill him. Those of you who have fallen into difficulty, don’t listen to what other people say, but precisely hold on to God’s Word today. That is prayer, and you just need to wait. Don’t be deceived. Don’t be deceived by swindlers. Everything else is a fraud. When that great difficulty came, they couldn’t help.
5) Elisha
At this time, Elisha, only the Holy Spirit and the Dothan Movement. Absolutely they can’t kill him. He absolutely cannot die. The conditions for him to die are not there. Right?
You hold on to this covenant. Don’t be discouraged, and don’t keep listening to people’s voices, wrong voices. Jesus looked at those people and called them thieves and robbers. Right? Those who bring all the wrong truths so that you cannot receive your precious blessing are thieves and robbers, I’m saying. Jesus said this. It comes out next week. In today’s text, a tremendous dispute is now taking place, trying to seize and kill Jesus; Christ came, and they try to seize and kill Him, it’s right, it’s not, this kind of talk. The timetable had completely come, and not long after this day, Israel was ruined, and for 2,000 years their children, imagine your grandsons and granddaughters going around the whole world as beggars.
Long ago, I was holding a meeting together at a hotel in Gwangju, and a strange person appeared and acted up, and even just that made me uneasy, I’m telling you. They followed David around for decades to kill him, so how hard must it have been? Simply put, David held on to only the covenant and temple construction. You must hold on to the covenant today. Hold on to it this week. Why? The darkness that brings you down fears only Christ. It absolutely does not fear anything else.
Pastors across the nation and the world must not be deceived. Because the pastors are deceived, the church members are deceived. Don’t do all sorts of things. That kills church members. Satan fears nothing except only Christ. In the end, I’m saying, this force of disaster that will drag you and the earth to destruction, the force of darkness, the background of hell, does not fear anything but Christ. Now, today, this time of choice may be passing talk to you, but it is a tremendous time. For the Jews now, it is whether their future generations will go or live for 2,000 years, now. “Even so, I know who your mother is and who your brothers are, how are you the Christ?” That’s it. “No, still, isn’t he the son of Joseph the carpenter? Does it make sense that he’s the Christ?” Even though all the evidence is in the Bible. “No, and besides, He should appear tremendously from the palace. What kind of Christ is like that?” That’s what it is now. Looking at some other people, “Ah, still, seeing the signs, it seems right.” It’s like this. Even John the Baptist was confused, ‘Is He the one? He must be, right?’ At first he sent his disciples, right? To ask whether He was the Christ. They are confused about this kind of thing. To that extent, these people make a plan to seize and kill Christ.
3. What to check first
Today, before you receive answers, there are a few things you must first check. In the introduction, you must check a few things.
1. What the people of the world still do not know
There are things the people of the world still do not know.
1) What the people of the world still do not know (Genesis 3, 6, 11)
The Garden of Eden incident. It’s still happening now. It’s at its most flourishing right now in America, right? “Don’t believe in God. Become like God.” The Garden of Eden incident, that is called the New Age Movement. It’s happening, right? You can’t deny it. There are pastors who say Genesis is a myth, right? Those pastors, come to your senses and take a look. It’s happening now. It’s a tremendous incident.
The Noah’s flood incident. From then on, the Nephilim age came. What does the Nephilim Movement now is the Freemasons, right? The shamans do it, right? They do the spirit contact movement and perform gut (shamanic rituals). The shamanists do it. Why deny that? They don’t teach it.
What’s next? The Tower of Babel incident, you can succeed without God. You just need money. You just need to succeed. You just need to join forces. They’re always doing this, right, now. That is Satan’s trick. That’s why the Tower of Babel collapsed. The people of the world don’t know at all. No matter how I look at it, the Bible is the Word of God, this is the answer. It’s all there, but people don’t know.
2) The 3 curses the people of the world do not know
Also, the three curses the people of the world do not know, they don’t know.
As for what the first is, they themselves go and get their fortunes told and do everything, and they don’t know this is what Satan does. And they wonder whether they will go to hell or a good place when they die. This land itself is now the background of hell. So what comes? Disasters that politicians can’t even mention keep coming, right? They come. More will come in the future. To the point that you can’t live because of anxiety. You don’t know what disaster will come.
3) What the people of the world do not know at all
There is something the people of the world do not know at all. What is it? They don’t know the Bible. “Looking at the Bible, there are some right words, huh?” they say. Even theologians say, “There are things in the Bible that are right and things that are not right, huh?” It’s like this.
(1) The Bible
The Bible has parts that unbelievers may read. The Bible has parts that those who believe in God should read. Anyone may believe in God, but there’s no way. Right? There is a way in the Bible that only those who know Christ read.
(2) The Jews
So the Jews now keep holding on to what is wrong, something else, now. So they cannot hear. They’re all like this. Starting from Nicodemus, all of them. They already came with wrong thinking. There are many people like this.
What worries me is, isn’t today’s church like that? They come with something else now and ask for grace. Nicodemus, you know, did that, right? Nicodemus was a tremendous person. He can’t even be compared with us. He was a member of the Sanhedrin council, which had only 70, and he influenced the law of Israel. There was an organization of 6,000 that formed a worldwide organization. That was the Pharisees. It’s tremendous. But it was so hard, right? He was a somewhat smart person. So their country had become a vassal state, right? Still, he was a somewhat enlightened person. So he went to Jesus. He came to Him, but he came with something else. I have to do this tremendous thing, but I’ve reached my limit, what should I do, that’s what he meant. Jesus immediately said, “Unless you are born again, you cannot enter or see the kingdom of God. The wind is not visible to the eye, right? If you don’t know the work of the Holy Spirit, you will die.” These were Jesus’ words. “You need light. Why? You are already in darkness.” Jesus said that. It’s a tremendous message.
Many churches today, there are things they really don’t know well, right?
Long ago I went to America to hold a meeting. We borrowed a big church to hold the meeting, and since I was the speaker, I went. It was a church in the middle of LA, and the church was big, I saw. American churches themselves are not message-centered. They made it echo loudly, so you can’t hear the sermon well. So how hard it was to adjust that, but I did it anyway. I endured for 3 days. While preaching. At the last session, I thought I had to say something. My conscience just couldn’t stand it. It was nothing else, but they had filled the church building with idols, right? In the sanctuary. And there were ancestral rites being held. In the sanctuary. Wow! This is not right, is it?
So when I finished the sermon, I said it. Then, as I was coming out after finishing the sermon, an associate pastor protested to me because I had criticized his church. So I said, “Come find me at my lodging.” “Let’s talk biblically. Let’s talk theologically. Why did you put these things here?” “Even so. You could have just told us quietly. If you speak about it publicly” “Public or private, you can’t leave it like that.” I said it boldly. “I’ll wait at the hotel, so bring the senior pastor.” I said. They didn’t come.
I went to Taiwan again. It’s the most orthodox big church in Taiwan. I went to the biggest church, and looking around, there was a dragon painting inside, a dragon. Well, fine. At the main entrance to the church, they had put up “Great Fortune for the Beginning of Spring” (立春大吉). But they had put it up, and our members are peculiar, right? They tore it off. Tearing it off is fine. The pastor of that church, I don’t know if she was a woman pastor or the pastor’s wife. All chaos broke loose. Chaos broke out then, right, during the meeting. “Why, you come to our church and tear off the decoration we put up?” That’s it. So there was a commotion for a while. So I said, “I’m sorry we removed what someone else put up. But why did you put that up?” I asked. “You just need to believe in Jesus, why that ‘Great Fortune for the Beginning of Spring’ (立春大吉)? And why did you put a dragon there?” That pastor’s wife’s answer is another masterpiece. She said the dragon in Taiwan is a good dragon. I was dumbfounded. This is how the church is now. How can they save people? Taiwan, I’m sorry to say, is full of mental illness. If you ask 10 children, seven or eight raise their hands. Saying they have nightmares.
Haven’t you been there? Haven’t you been to the Russian museum? Haven’t you been to the Louvre Museum? It’s surprising. It’s the same. Do you know what is the same? There are almost idols. That much is fine. So these days I don’t go to museums. When you go to a museum, there are always artworks, right? Because they were countries with a Christian background, those famous artworks are all Christian works. The paintings are the same. They didn’t plan it together, and the painters are all different, but it’s the same, I’m telling you. Mary holding a small baby Jesus. They paint all of that. Subtly, they promote Mary. And if you look at the head, there’s a line, right, something like an aurora, right? Mary has two, Jesus one. And in some places, Mary’s ring is thick and Jesus’ is thin. Really, even when doing the devil’s work, they do it in a dumbfounding way. Look at South America. Catholicism went in and they all became beggars. They all worship idols. Still, the Louvre Museum developed a bit, even so. There’s one more painting. Jesus carrying the cross and collapsing, that kind of thing. They painted that, look. Seeing Jesus collapse, Mary takes His hand and lifts Him up, right? They painted exactly this. It’s dumbfounding. That’s why darkness is covering the whole world.
What I’m saying now, if unbelievers hear it, 99.9% will look at me and say, “That person is crazy.” That’s possible. Many pastors will say, “There he goes again, showing off.” But that’s not it, now.
▣ Main_ The 120 saints of the early church who conquered the world with only the covenant
Our saints, don’t be deceived. 120 conquered the world.
1. Those who have the prophesied covenant
This is the first. They had the prophesied covenant. Right? God has no choice but to work. I’m saying they had the prophesied covenant.
1) Genesis 3:15
It said, “The offspring of the woman will crush the head of the serpent.” That was fulfilled. They know that prophesied covenant.
2) Exodus 3:18
“On the day you offer the blood sacrifice, you will be liberated.”
3) Isaiah 7:14
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son. And will call him Immanuel.” They were people who had the already prophesied message. They absolutely cannot be ruined.
4) Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53 explained it in detail. “How He will die by suffering on the cross.” It was prophesied, I’m telling you. “He will be born in Bethlehem, it was prophesied. He will be laid in a manger. He will be mocked and die on the cross. But He will rise again.” It was all prophesied. That main character has now come.
Everyone, how fearful is the gospel? If you don’t receive it, that person is in big trouble, right? It’s good to receive it. The text is introducing this moment when Israel was in crisis. If we make a mistake, we may come to resemble them.
2. Those who are in the fulfilled covenant
This is the second. These people are those who are in the fulfilled covenant. It’s precise. They are in the fulfilled covenant.
1) Matthew 16:16
They are people who confessed, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
2) Matthew 17
On the Mount of Transfiguration, Elijah is not needed, Moses is not needed; only Christ can overcome darkness.
3) Acts 1:1, 3, 8
That Christ explained the things of the kingdom of God for 40 days and promised world evangelization. “It will work, it won’t work.” There’s no need to even use these words. They cannot be ruined. No matter how excellent you are, if you don’t know this? You are naturally bound to be ruined. They don’t know that now. The church doesn’t know, and now religious people and the people of the world don’t know.
3. Those who are in the covenant to be fulfilled
This is the third. They are those who have the covenant to be fulfilled. There are three things. They had the prophesied covenant. They cannot be ruined. Now, they are now in the fulfilled covenant. More importantly, they are people in the covenant that will be fulfilled in the future. Who could stop them? Experience it. Everyone, go into this and try praying for just one week. Many answers will come out. You will become convinced that the difficulty you are facing now is not a difficulty. You will come to know that the poverty and illness you are facing now are not that. Absolutely.
Then, let’s put it another way. Is it hard for you? Then was Joseph ruined? No, he wasn’t. Is it hard for you to live in the world? Then David would have been ruined, right? But he wasn’t. You must not be deceived. Since you already have the covenant to be fulfilled, who can stop it?
What Isaiah prophesied was fulfilled in Matthew, right? In Matthew 1:19 to 23. He gave as a promise that it would be the evidence, right?
1) Matthew 28:18-20
Jesus said, “I have all authority in heaven and on earth, and I will be with you always, to the very end of the age. However, make disciples who will spread this news.”
2) Mark 16:15-20
And He clearly said, “Go to convey this covenant. In My name demons will be driven out. When you place your hands on the sick, they will be healed.”
Today, everyone, I hope that while praying deeply during worship, the work of healing in the name of Jesus will happen. ‘I have a bit of a spiritual problem, I have a bit of depression?’ Don’t worry. Originally, entertainers, outstanding entertainers, outstanding musicians, people with outstanding minds get spiritual problems. People with very low IQ don’t even get them.
3) Acts 1:8
So what does that mean, then? Then it means the answers you will receive spiritually are tremendous. Don’t do it hastily. Just enjoy it so that it goes away on its own until your spiritual blessing, the blessing of the throne, comes deep into your soul. There is that time, that timetable. In our thinking, we want to be healed quickly, isn’t that so?
Actually, look at Anne Sullivan. Everyone else gave up. “Hey, you’re hopeless.” But one teacher, you know, did not give up. It’s not that she was healed because the teacher didn’t give up. The power of the throne, the power of Christ’s cross, penetrated into Anne Sullivan’s soul. That is the standard. But it extends it so that the standard is fulfilled, so that everything is done, I’m telling you. During that time, Anne Sullivan was not only healed of illness. She completely acquired the qualifications to become a teacher. Isn’t that so? This way, this person begins that ministry. ‘Since I was healed like this, I must help people with spiritual problems.’ Of course. As you know, that person produced someone like Helen Keller, right? The funny thing is, if you look at the record, Helen Keller’s parents told Anne Sullivan it was no use, that she should give up on their child. “The spiritual problem is serious, I know better, do you know? She’s our child. I’ve raised her so I know. She’s hopeless. Don’t bother her anymore.” The teacher doesn’t give up. She keeps going to the end and saves her, right? She made her a doctor, a doctor. Do you know what that standard is? It doesn’t work with anything else. Through Christ, the kingdom of God and the blessing of the throne were present in that soul. Don’t be discouraged. In a sense, don’t even listen to what people say. Respect what people say, but don’t listen to what people say. The people here are all precious people, people to be respected, but you must not listen to their words. You must listen to God’s Word. People all speak wrongly. They all speak according to their own feelings, speak as they heard, speak as they saw. Will your life of faith work by listening to that? Firmly hold on to God’s Word. You will surely win.
▣ Conclusion_ The gospel that cannot possibly be understood
I will conclude. The gospel that cannot possibly be understood. They can’t understand it. What does that mean?
1. You must change your desire
If you don’t change your desire, you can’t understand. Right. God’s desire is to give spiritual things, but I’m saying my desire brought worthless fleshly things.
2. You must also change your faith
You must change your faith. God wants to give eternal things, to enjoy the authority of heaven and earth, but I came now with what I will eat first. You must change it. It’s not too late.
3. You must also change your method
You must also change your method. We must save the world, but we do it with the things of the world; we must save people, but we do it with the things of people; we must change. We do it with God’s method. We must do it that way. It’s certain. Today, I hope you will pray for a week so that Christ will be proclaimed across the nation and the world. Let us pray.
Prayer
God, do not let us follow the foolishness of the Jews. Let us be witnesses who follow the path of the 120 saints who had only the covenant. We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.