Sunday 2nd Service – Worship Committee Dedication Service
Title/Scripture: The Path of Destruction and the Path of Life (Matthew 7:13-14)
Speaker: Pastor Ryu Kwang-su
Date/Location: January 16, 2022, Immanuel Seoul Church
“The Path of Destruction, The Path of Life”
Introduction – Worship [Everything]
1. Diseases 2. Religion
1) Mental illness age 1) 3 organizations
2) Addiction age 2) Church
3) Drug age 3) Alternative medicine
4) Cancer age 4) Alternative religion
5) Impossible social life 5) Future
3. Satan’s final method
1) Matthew 4:1-12
2) Hebrews 10:25
3) Revelation 2:1-10
4) Revelation 12:1-9
5) What to do first
4. Temptation of the wide road
1) Satan’s 12 strategies
2) Great nations (murder)
3) Success
5. Path of destruction
1) My own thoughts
2) My own claims
3) My own position
Main: Worship
1. Genesis 1:3, 1:27, 2:7
2. Master of the throne – Trinity
3. 9 powers of the throne
4. Three feasts, three ages
5. Future throne (background)
Narrow road, confined, difficult road
Matthew 13:11-13
1. Cross road
1) Genesis 3:15 (Joseph)
2) Exodus 3:18 (Moses)
3) Isaiah 7:14
2. Path of suffering
1) JX execution
2) Jews
3) Rome
3. Path of restoration
1) Resurrection
2) Acts 2:1, 13:1-4, 16:6-10, 19:1-7
3) Acts 17:1, 18:4, 19:8
Conclusion. Spiritual background
Matthew 7:13-14
13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Summary
▣ Introduction_ Worship must be able to ‘resolve everything.’
▷ Here two paths emerge: the ‘path of destruction’ and the ‘path of life.’ If worship cannot resolve everything, one cannot survive going forward.
1. An age of illness is coming.
1) Age of mental illness – There are many now, but there will be far more ahead. Without the gospel and worship, life will be hard.
2) Age of addiction – An age is coming in which people fall into various addictions.
3) Age of drugs – The world is falling deeper into drugs with each passing day.
4) Age of cancer – Now when someone says they are sick, it is cancer – that kind of age is here.
5) Age in which social life is impossible – Social life becomes difficult. Without knowing worship and prayer, life is hard.
2. Religion cannot solve this.
1) 3 organizations – The Nephilim movement, meditation movement causes even greater problems.
2) Church – The church cannot solve it either. Churches that are supposedly reviving are doing many strange things and destroying the next generation entirely. The church must finish everything through worship alone.
3) Alternative medicine – Because so many people are getting sick, alternative medicine emerged, but it only extracts money through various lies.
4) Alternative religion – Since religion doesn’t work, alternative religion has emerged, and there are even organizations that do only meditation. Serious problems are occurring.
5) Worry about the future – Since nothing works, people worry about the future and go to fortune tellers with money to have their futures predicted.
3. Satan’s final method
1) Matthew 4:1-12 – Satan’s final method is to make worship fail. He deceives people to change the object of worship.
2) Hebrews 10:25 – In the last days, worship collapses. To be able to resolve all problems through worship alone is to worship rightly.
3) Revelation 2:1-10 – Ten kings persecute to eliminate worship. Even so, those who know worship and the gospel cannot be overcome.
4) Revelation 12:1-9 – In the last days, great chaos erupts.
5) What to do first – First be reconciled with your brother and come to worship successfully. Also, by first seeking His kingdom and righteousness you can obtain everything; and before criticizing others, remove the plank from your own eye. And in today’s passage He says ask, seek, knock – go the way of eternal life, the way of life, the narrow road.
4. Temptation of the wide road
1) Satan’s 12 strategies – Because they are so attractive, one can easily follow. They only make worship fail.
2) Great nations (murder) – Having become slaves of Satan, they killed and murdered many people. This was regarded as something great.
3) Rising in the world – If you serve the great nations well you rise in the world, and this was regarded as something great. The broad road that many people travel has no truth.
5. The path of destruction
1) My own thoughts – Not knowing worship means I unknowingly fail to enjoy God being with me, so I end up consumed with my own thoughts – this is the path of destruction.
2) My own claims – One thinks one’s own claims are supreme.
3) My own position – One does not know others’ positions and thinks only of one’s own.
▣ Main
If one worships rightly, one can do all things.
1. Genesis 1:3 – The moment the light of creation shines is the moment of worship and prayer. If you worship well, all illness is healed.
Genesis 1:27 – Worship is my soul being clothed in the image of God.
Genesis 2:7 – Worship and prayer is the time in which I receive the breath of life that God breathes in as life.
2. Master of the throne – Worship is enjoying the Trinity God who is master of the throne being with me.
3. Worship and prayer is the 9 powers of the throne being manifested at this very moment.
4. Three feasts, three ages – Worship and prayer is when the three feasts and three ages are fulfilled, in which we have escaped from Satan’s authority, the Holy Spirit works, and we enjoy the background of the heavenly throne.
5. Future throne (background) – The future throne we will enjoy for eternity is our background.
▷ Enter through the narrow road, the narrow gate. It is a confined and difficult road. That is going the way of life. There are two things to be careful about. In Matthew 13:11-13, God blocks the eyes of the world’s deceivers so they cannot receive this blessing, making the road appear narrow and difficult so they go to the wide road instead. The other thing is that those who walk that narrow, difficult road did not think it was difficult at all.
1. The way of the cross
1) Genesis 3:15 – Joseph appeared to go into suffering, but he did not truly go into suffering.
2) Exodus 3:18 – Moses understood this. It is the way of the cross, not the way of suffering.
3) Isaiah 7:14 – Daniel and his friends, and Esther, chose this path.
2. The path of suffering
1) The execution of J.X. – All those who ate miraculously and were healed fled; only those who knew worship and the gospel remained and saved the world.
2) The path of Jewish persecution – Originally, merchants persecute when the true gospel is preached.
3) The path of Roman persecution – Politicians do crazy things when it doesn’t earn them votes.
3. The path of restoration
1) Resurrection – It is the path proclaimed by Jesus after His resurrection.
2) Acts 2:1, 13:1-4, 16:6-10, 19:1-7 – It is the path that saves 70 regions and 70 nations.
3) Acts 17:1, 18:4, 19:8 – Paul went into the synagogues to save the next generation.
▣ Conclusion_ Spiritual background
▷ True answers come after the spiritual background is established. When the Remnant had this spiritual background established, answers came that no one could block. The answers that the 7 Remnant, the people of Hebrews 11, and the Paul team received will come in the same way.
Transcript
I was asked to lead the Worship Committee Dedication Service, and I thought, ‘Why, what, why are we doing this?’ I thought, ‘Well, everyone is worshiping anyway, and our church has many worship committee members, so is that why we’re having a dedication service?’ Something like that. But then I received tremendous grace.
▣ Introduction_ Worship [All Things]
With this worship, we must be able to resolve everything.
“The Path of Destruction, The Path of Eternal Life”
Here two paths emerge. The path of destruction and the path of eternal life, the path of life, emerge. These two come out. Therefore, if worship cannot resolve everything, you will not survive going forward. There are five reasons.
1. Illness
First, because the age of illness is coming.
1) Age of mental illness
With each passing day, the age of mental illness is coming. There are many now, but there will be far more ahead. So if you don’t know the gospel and don’t know worship, life will be hard.
2) Age of addiction
As a result, an age will come in which people fall into some kind of addiction.
3) Age of drugs
And now the world with each passing day – it’s the same kind of addiction but slightly different – has fallen into an age of drugs.
4) Age of cancer
And now when someone says they’re sick, it’s cancer. This kind of cancer age is coming.
5) Impossible social life
What’s even more of a problem is social life has become impossible to a degree – even now there are many such people. Social life is hard. This kind of age of illness is coming. It was like this in the old days too. Going forward, if you don’t know what worship is, you also don’t know prayer, so life will be hard.
2. Religion
This religion cannot solve things.
1) 3 organizations
The 3 organizations are doing the Nephilim movement, the meditation movement like this, and causing even greater problems. So America is a country of 3 organizations, you know. Compared to ten years ago, the mentally ill have now tripled – to three times. You can’t say anything. Politicians can’t say a word right now. Because there’s no solution. There are so many, and now they’re just out in the streets, you can’t tell who is who.
2) Church
So, since if you don’t know the gospel rightly you don’t know worship, the church also can’t solve this. Right now, I’ve looked a little at churches that claim to be reviving, and they do all kinds of strange things. You can’t do those things. It destroys the next generation entirely.
There are churches in America that sing like nightclubs. They’ve failed. There are churches that hold every kind of festival. They’ve closed their doors. Really… even if you don’t know other things, a person who attends church must have clear spiritual eyes. This – churches shouldn’t do other things. It must end with worship. When you feel unsatisfied with worship, you must quickly find out why. Quickly. It’s not about finding something else – why isn’t it working? If that doesn’t work, that church is failing to be the solution – that’s the problem.
Here too I see them bringing in movie actors, putting on something like a show, and at those times I see the internet views shoot up. Still fewer than ours. They do everything. But faith life is not a desperate frenzy. Right? Faith life is serving God, not a desperate frenzy. I truly felt the leading of this Worship Committee Dedication Service. This – if you don’t know worship well, there will be big trouble ahead.
3) Alternative medicine
Because so many people are getting sick like this – ‘This won’t do’ – alternative medicine emerged. Does alternative medicine work for you? It doesn’t work for you either. It just extracts money through various lies; it can’t work.
4) Alternative religion
Recently, another strange thing has come out of America. ‘After all, the religions in America won’t do.’ Out of that came something. Alternative religion. “Just don’t believe anything. Just meditate.” Organizations like that have emerged. These serious problems are occurring right now.
5) Future
So in the first place, since nothing works, people are now worried about the future. Being worried about the future, they go to things like fortune tellers, and people go carrying money to whoever claims to predict the future.
3. Satan’s final method
1) Matthew 4:1-12
You must remember this. Do you know what Satan’s final method is? Because you are saved, and because Satan knows he cannot change that, in Matthew chapter 4, verses 1 through 12, Satan’s final method is to make worship fail. Satan is originally a deceiver. He shows all the kingdoms of the world and says, “Bow down and worship me.” Does Satan give all the kingdoms of the world? That’s a fraud. And saying, “Worship me. Change the object of your worship.” If your worship fails, you become worse than a beast. You become the same as one.
2) Hebrews 10:25
In Hebrews chapter 10, verse 25, when the last days come, worship collapses. You must absolutely not be deceived. Being able to resolve every problem through worship alone is what it means to worship rightly. You must remember this.
3) Revelation 2:1-10
Looking at Revelation chapter 2, completely – well – ten kings fully persecuted to eliminate Christianity. Even so, they cannot prevail. They cannot overcome those who worship.
4) Revelation 12:1-9
Looking at Revelation chapter 12, verses 1 through 9, in the last days, great chaos pours out. Even so, those who are victorious in worship, those who know the gospel, cannot be overcome.
5) What to do first
So Jesus explained last week what to do first. “You must succeed in worship. Be reconciled with your brother and come to worship. What kind of worship are you doing while being enemies with your brothers and fighting? Do that (be reconciled with your brother) and then worship. You can obtain all things. First, if you seek His kingdom and His righteousness, you can obtain everything.” These are the words Jesus spoke. “Stop cursing and criticizing others every day. Remove the plank in your own eye first.”
After saying all that, Jesus says – as I mentioned in the first service – “Would you give what is holy to dogs? Would you give pearls and jewels to pigs?” And then, “Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.” And today, “Go the way of eternal life, the way of life, this narrow road.” That is what He is saying.
4. Temptation of the wide road
Now, there are a few things you must know – this wide road is something you can easily follow.
1) Satan’s 12 strategies
Satan’s 12 strategies – because they are so attractive, you can follow them so easily. These strategies (Satan’s 12 strategies) are so outstanding. What is the thing you cherish most? Isn’t it yourself? That’s what he touches. When I’m in a bad mood, everything is bad. When I’m in a good mood, everything is good. Becoming like God – how wonderful that sounds. All the meditation movements now say, “You become like God.” After setting that up, they drive in all 12 things to kill you, and that way they make only your worship fail.
I mentioned it at cell group worship today. If you take what you have heard from the Word, organize it all, and keep doing the 24 (responses), you keep seeing the flow of the Word and the future becomes visible. That is faith life.
2) Great nations (murder)
What does Satan do? These great nations are completely slaves of Satan. People think this is something so great. These great nations kill and murder many people, and from ancient times people have thought of them as great nations.
3) Rising in the world
Now, the people of Israel who serve the great nations well – they rise in the world. Since the Jews were a subject nation, if they served Rome well they rose in the world. This was thought of as great advancement. The broad road, the road many people travel – there is no truth there.
5. The path of destruction
Not knowing right prayer and worship now leads to the path of destruction. You all must completely restore your worship today.
1) My own thoughts
Because when you don’t know worship, unknowingly you fail to enjoy God being with you, and unknowingly you spend all night consumed in your own thoughts. Your own thoughts! Things like all-night prayer vigils are not good. You’re just consumed in your own thoughts all night long – that’s not an all-night prayer vigil. It becomes strange. This is the path of destruction.
2) My own claims
Not knowing worship – your own claims become supreme. Your own thoughts are supreme, and your own claims are supreme.
3) My own position
You don’t know other people’s positions. You just think of your own position alone. That’s what it becomes. And then Satan gets a complete grip on you, just like that. Everyone, I hope you will be victorious in worship from today.
▣ Main_ Narrow road, confined, difficult road
Worship
What is right worship and prayer? We must first confirm this. If you can worship rightly, you can do everything. “What does ‘if you can’ even mean? For the one who believes, nothing is impossible.”
1. Genesis 1:3, 1:27, 2:7
What is worship? In Genesis chapter 1, verse 3, the moment the light of creation shines is the moment of worship and prayer. I am a little sorry to the doctors here, but if you worship properly, all illness is also healed. Genesis chapter 1, verse 27 – worship and prayer is my soul being clothed in the image of God. In Genesis chapter 2, verse 7, God breathes in life – the breath of life. The time in which I receive that is worship. That is prayer. That is worship.
2. Master of the throne – Trinity
Worship and prayer is enjoying the Trinity God who is master of the throne being with me. So when worship ends and the benediction is pronounced, it is a blessing in the name of the Trinity God. That is worship.
3. 9 powers of the throne
There is nothing to worry about. Worship and prayer is those 9 contents of the power of the throne being manifested at this very moment.
4. Three feasts – Three ages
What is worship? Worship and prayer is when, in this time of worship, the three feasts and the three ages are fulfilled. What are the three feasts? We have already escaped from Satan’s authority. Wherever you go, the Holy Spirit works. Our background is the heavenly throne. It is solid.
5. Future throne (background)
So the future throne to be enjoyed for eternity – it remains. This is our background. This is what we enjoy. Do not be deceived. ‘It seems like answers are not coming right now?’ Do not be deceived. Without question, you can run at the top of the world.
Narrow road, confined, difficult road
So in enjoying this blessing ([worship]), Jesus spoke. “Go the narrow road. Enter through the narrow gate. There it is somewhat confined and difficult.” He said to go that way. That is the road going the way of life. There are two things to be careful about here.
[Matthew 13:11-13]
Matthew chapter 13, verses 11 through 13. Since the world’s deceivers must not receive this ([worship]) blessing, God blocks their eyes. With what does He block them? By making it appear like this (narrow road, confined, difficult road) He blocks them. Then they don’t come. The deceivers don’t come. ‘Why would I go down that difficult road?’ That’s how they think. They don’t go where it’s hard. Not knowing that if you open the door and enter there is this ([worship]), where do they go? They just go to the wide road. To roads like these (introduction). No need to complicate things by analyzing everything. This ([worship 1-5]) is worship. At a glance it looks like a narrow road, a difficult road. Here ([Matthew 13:11-13]) there is another important thing. Do you know what it is? Those on that narrow, difficult road did not think it was difficult at all.
1. The way of the cross
First. That road is the way of the cross.
2. The path of suffering
That road, at a glance – as Jesus said – is confined and difficult; it is the path of suffering.
3. The path of restoration
But that road is the path of restoration.
1. The way of the cross
1) Genesis 3:15 (Joseph)
Now, it is the road of Genesis chapter 3, verse 15, and Joseph understood this. Joseph did go into suffering, but he did not think of it as suffering.
2) Exodus 3:18 (Moses)
Exodus chapter 3, verse 18 – this blood covenant – Moses understood this. The path of suffering, no. It is the way of the cross, the path of suffering – no. Read the Bible carefully.
3) Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14 – Daniel who understood these words, and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, those friends, chose this (way of the cross) road. A person like Esther chose this kind of (way of the cross) road.
2. The path of suffering
1) The execution of J.X.
Now, look at it at a glance. God – in a certain sense you could see it as a trick. Jesus Christ was executed on the cross, that’s what this is saying. After saying that, how many people would follow? All those who miraculously got food ran away, all those who were healed ran away. Only those who knew what worship was and what the gospel was remained, and those people saved the world.
2) Jews
This road is the road of Jewish persecution. Without understanding. Originally, merchants slap a heresy label on those who preach the true gospel and do things like that. Otherwise their business doesn’t work. What can you do.
3) Rome
This road is the road that the Romans persecuted for a long time. That’s just how it is. Politicians do crazy things when it doesn’t earn them votes. That’s just how it is. You must not be deceived by such things. They went enjoying this ([worship 1-5]) blessing.
But what is even more grace-filled – and honestly what I feel sorry about – is that we don’t have that kind of suffering now. We just need to enjoy it right now.
3. The path of restoration
1) Resurrection
This road is the road Jesus promised after His resurrection. “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me, so go and make disciples of all nations. I will be with you always, to the very end of the age. They will place their hands on the sick and they will get well. In my name they will drive out demons.” He promised in the Bible. After His resurrection. That is the road. So there is complete restoration, you see.
2) Acts 2:1, 13:1-4, 16:6-10, 19:1-7
Going forward, there is the road that saves 70 regions.
Acts 2:1
“When the day of Pentecost came.” It is finished. The three feasts.
Acts 13:1-4
Just as it is in Acts chapter 13, verse 1 onward, in the first region of mission it happened just like that (Acts 2:1).
Acts 16:6-10
Before going to Macedonia the door was blocked, but prayer time continued in the same way.
Acts 19:1-7
Before entering Tyrannus, before going to Rome, the work of the upper room in Mark happened in the same way.
Try just enjoying this (Acts 2:1). For church leaders, 70 regions will open. Because disciples arise in 70 regions, there is no way that work will not succeed. For associate ministers, the work of completely beyond 70 sites – 70 regions, 70 nations – will arise. It will. Everything must be restored. Take a good look at this.
3) Acts 17:1, 18:4, 19:8
So Paul after that went to the synagogue. Because the next generation needs to be saved – to the synagogue. Because Rome needs to be saved – to the synagogue. He swept through restoration like this. If from now on your worship and prayer is restored, you can restore everything. Try praying. If you prepare just a little while worshiping, it is enough.
▣ Conclusion_ [Spiritual background]
True answers to prayer come after this (Main), right?
[Spiritual background]
It comes after your spiritual background is established. No need to worry. It was like that for the Remnant. Once the Remnant had this (Main) established, answers came that no one could block. Don’t worry. Hebrews 11, the early church. “Oh, I don’t have a place in the church.” Don’t worry about anything. Save 70 regions. “Nobody recognizes you?” Nothing to worry about at all. Save 70 regions. True answers will come – I have experienced it myself – true answers will come.
RT 7, Hebrews 11, Paul team
When that time comes, the answers that the 7 Remnant in Scripture, those in Hebrews 11, and those who were with Paul received will come in the same way. Age doesn’t matter either.
Among the disciples I train, there are two who are friends – they are female college students who are close friends. Well, they receive the Word well and they are very good disciples. The two friends are like that, at the same university and the same age and so on. But one of them seemed to have some wounds. Something about marrying someone rich. She said she wouldn’t go to someone without money. It seemed like she had some wounds about that. So, praying accordingly – in Busan, if you said the name everyone would know, that kind of large, well, almost like a chaebol family – well, she went and got married there.
And then the other friend just married a man who was living a good faith life. But then as time passed, this woman who had married into the wealthy family – she became invisible. So I eventually asked someone about this, and not being able to meet her I called her. And she confessed to me. She said, “This is not a home for people – it is hell.” I said, “What can you do about that? Well. But you have to overcome it, what else can you do?” She said it is truly not a place where people live. What could I do?
So then when we went to visit the home of that friend who was living a good faith life, the couple – without anyone saying anything – would bring out their Bible and hymnal right away. Well, who could make them do that? When I gave a message, the two of them would both kneel right down and sit there taking notes.
And so that sister who used to love only worldly things – embarrassed, she had already gotten divorced, and out of embarrassment she went abroad somewhere. Still though, maybe something in her heart… when I went to hold meetings in America, she came and found me at the meeting venue. I didn’t recognize her at first. She had completely changed – gained weight, become a different person. Well, you could tell. She was just living in complete resignation.
If you miss this ([worship 1-5]) – you’ve missed everything. Knowing this ([worship 1-5]) means even without possessions you are actually fine. If you are enjoying this ([worship 1-5]) blessing, you go according to God’s guidance. God’s guidance is – as in the first service today – He is a God who gives us something better than we can give ourselves. I am not a big witness, but I am a small one. Everyone, believe God’s Word and even if you suffer loss, it is alright. Be victorious in worship and prayer. I will pray.
Prayer. We give thanks for giving us today’s Worship Committee Dedication Service. Please let the Immanuel family restore worship and prayer. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.