Mark 1:35-39
35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
36 Simon and his companions went to look for him,
37 and when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!”
38 Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.”
39 So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.
Summary
▷ No theory, no church movement, has ever succeeded. Only the Remnant who holds the sure gospel can bring change. That word is Remnant. That’s why we made RLS, RGS, RTS, and RU, and today is a day to pray for this.
▷ How can we really receive the answer that will save America? And how can you, scattered all over the world, save your nations? We must ask this question seriously. How can someone like me change my own family line? More importantly, I have no strength — how can this happen? We must ask this question seriously.
▷ Today’s text is the word of victory that the Lord gave in the worst possible situation, when the early church had become a subject nation of Rome and was branded a heresy both by law and by public opinion.
▣ Introduction_ Only when we make three discoveries in Christ do we truly begin to receive answers.
1. Watching a church pay more attention to unimportant things, I discovered prayer. – If I can pray, then it doesn’t matter what trials the church faces, what mistakes the elders make, or whatever happens to me and my household.
1) If I can pray, it doesn’t matter where I am.
2) If I enjoy the power of the gospel, what I go through doesn’t matter.
3) If I receive an answer, I can save them. – What I discovered at this point was the 7 Remnant. What happens around Joseph doesn’t matter. It was actually a blessing.
2. While doing evangelism, I discovered the reality of people 100 percent seized by Satan and running demons’ errands. – The answer that came out of this was Mark 1:39, “he… drove out demons.”
1) I discovered many outstanding people and successful people carrying even greater difficulties.
2) Freemasonry — practicing, at an advanced level, a Nephilim movement that leaves Americans completely possessed through three organizations, engaging in daily spirit-communication to produce works — as a result, the spiritual problem has spread throughout America and Europe.
3) Churches with no interest in this at all. Churches that talk only about other things. The bigger problem is that churches are closing their doors.
3. At this point I discovered the two kinds of authority Jesus gave. – He gave us the authority to overcome Satan, and the authority to move the heavenly army through prayer and worship.
▣ Main_ God who gave us three special kinds of authority
1. He gave us the authority of children who can overcome all darkness.(John 1:12) – authority of identity
1) Mark 3:15 – The reason he called us was to give us authority to drive out demons.
2) Luke 10:19 – When the seventy returned from the field, he spoke of giving authority to overcome Satan.
3) Matthew 28:16-20, Mark 16:15-20 – He works with us always, holding all authority in heaven and on earth.
4) Acts 16:16-18 – Paul used the authority to save an entire town in the name of Jesus.
5) Acts 12:1-25 – When the church was in difficulty, the church leaders gathered and prayed, and that night God sent his angel, struck down King Herod, and rescued Peter.
2. Jesus entrusted this authority to us.
1) Jesus, who healed the sick who were too poor to receive help and the disease the world could not cure (leprosy), and drove out demons (Mark 1:39-42)
2) He entrusted this authority to us.
3) Believe and try praying. It simply doesn’t come at the time I want — but the answer will surely come.
3. He gave us the authority to pray for the salvation of the world.
1) If someone with strength who holds this authority arises, people can be saved and the world can be changed.
2) Jesus prayed in the early dawn.(Mark 1:35) – We must rise at dawn to pray, prepare, and use this authority. Remnant must develop the habit of rising early and finishing things ahead of time.
3) After his resurrection, Jesus gave a wonderful blessing concerning prayer.(Matthew 28:16-20, Acts 1:8) – He told us to wait. That means to pray.
▣ Conclusion_ Go into a solitary place. Go into prayer.(the 7 Remnant)
1. Joseph, who went into prayer in the midst of extreme loneliness with no one to help him
2. David, who while being pursued went into prayer moment by moment and found his answer – he confessed, “my shepherd, my refuge, my fortress”
3. Jesus, who prayed at dawn – there is nothing more to be said for us
4. The church leaders of the early church, who in the midst of hardship became one and went into prayer – from here Mark’s upper room church, the Antioch church, and the figures of Romans 16 were born.
Transcript
Many things have happened in history until now. But it has been confirmed that no theory has ever succeeded. The world is now harder than ever. No church movement has ever succeeded. So only the Remnant who holds the sure gospel can bring change. That word is Remnant.
So the first thing we made was the Remnant Leaders School. That’s RLS. We also made the Remnant International School. That’s RGS, the Remnant Global School. We built a seminary. Remnant Theological Seminary, RTS. That’s our seminary. And it’s just a beginning, but in the most important nation, America, we built Remnant University. That’s RU. Today is the day for you to pray for that. It seems like a day made simply so that you at RU would offer some financial gift — that’s the plain expectation. That’s necessary, but I believe something more than that is needed.
How can we really receive the answer that will save America? And how can you, scattered all over the world, save your nations? We must ask this question seriously. How can someone like me change my own family line? More importantly, I have no strength — how can this happen?
This is the message given during the worst conditions the early church faced. It had become a subject nation of Rome, and it had also been branded a heresy. Even more frightening, this was made into law. Even more frightening than the law was that public opinion was formed this way — public opinion was set that “those Christians of the early church are heretics.” At that very moment, Jesus gave a message of victory. All of you must now take hold of this covenant.
▣ Introduction_ Only when we make three discoveries in Christ do we truly begin to receive answers.
Honestly, since I attended church from childhood, I didn’t even know what prayer was. I didn’t know the gospel well either. And I didn’t really know what an answer to prayer was. I just went to church. I later realized how foolish that was. Once I came to realize it, I began by thinking, “Ah, I must do gospel movement.”
But the real answer was that I discovered three things in Christ. I had to discover those first.
1. Watching a church pay more attention to unimportant things, I discovered prayer.
As I watched this church, I thought, “Ah, they’re paying so much attention to things that don’t matter compared to what really matters!” I saw this from my youth. “If we really had the power of the gospel, that alone would be enough, yet we spend so much time on other things.” You can’t just do nothing, of course. Church work matters. “As we go about doing the work, we lose sight of what truly matters.” So “the church suffers more from trials than it receives grace.” I’m not saying that’s true of our church — I’m speaking of what I saw from childhood. It makes you realize a great many things. The church should be full of grace, but it becomes hard. I saw that.
1) If I can pray, it doesn’t matter where I am.
This is where I got a great answer. “It doesn’t matter.” I realized that if I am God’s child and hold the gospel, it doesn’t matter. “Rather, if I receive answers, I should pray for them.” That’s what I realized. Before, I was always resenting the church or resenting people, but I realized, “That’s not it.”
Many people say, “Well, when the elders make mistakes, the Remnant fall into trial…” That’s not true. It doesn’t matter what circumstance you’re in. If you can pray, it doesn’t matter where you are. That’s what I realized.
2) If I enjoy the power of the gospel, what I go through doesn’t matter.
If you enjoy the power of the gospel, what you go through doesn’t matter. From that point on, the answers came. Before that, honestly, I didn’t even know what prayer was. No matter how much I studied the Bible, I still didn’t understand prayer. You must remember this. Theological study? I still didn’t know what prayer was.
3) If I receive an answer, I can save them.
Whatever happens around me one day, it really doesn’t matter. I don’t mean it has nothing to do with me — I mean it has nothing to do with the answer. If I receive the answer, I can save them. Right? Whatever happens in the household, it doesn’t matter. If you receive the answer, you can save your household. Right? That’s when I discovered the 7 Remnant. Whatever happens around Joseph doesn’t matter. It’s actually a blessing.
2. While doing evangelism, I discovered the reality of people 100 percent seized by Satan and running demons’ errands. – The answer that came out of this was Mark 1:39, “he… drove out demons.”
And that’s how I really came to do evangelism this way. As I did evangelism, I discovered another astonishing thing.
1) I discovered many outstanding people and successful people carrying even greater difficulties.
I met successful people. I met many outstanding people. As I got older and more active, naturally that happened, right? But I found that these people also carried even greater difficulties. At that time, a word I had never thought of in my life struck me.
In today’s verse 39, Jesus said something theologians pay no attention to. What does verse 39 say? At the end it says, “So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.” It seems like nothing much. Since pastors don’t use this word, I thought it was nothing significant. But I saw this in the evangelism field. “Ah, this is it — this is why Jesus said this.” I saw it out in the field of evangelism. People are 100 percent seized by Satan, running demons’ errands. When I said this, the Korean church united and pushed back, saying, “Is this demonology?” No. From that point on I understood why this prayer is needed.
I used to think prayer was only to God. I hadn’t looked at the world, so I hadn’t seen, “Ah, it’s dying like this.” So today, Jesus says — this comes up again in the second service — “in order to give authority to drive out demons.” That’s what Jesus said. Is Jesus crazy? Is Jesus a demonologist? Was Jesus demon-possessed? Jesus saw it as something important. Today again, “he preached and also drove out demons.” Honestly, I was quite shocked.
2) Freemasonry — practicing, at an advanced level, a Nephilim movement that leaves Americans completely possessed through three organizations, engaging in daily spirit-communication to produce works — as a result, the spiritual problem has spread throughout America and Europe.
What shocked me even more was going to America and seeing it. “Ah…” Americans do things you can’t even imagine. They practice a completely demon-possessed Nephilim movement at an incredibly advanced level. This involves three organizations. I was shocked. I didn’t even think about the people living in America, but seeing it in person shocked me. Isn’t it hard enough just being here at church today? These people are Freemasons, gathering every day to practice spirit-communion. And through this, they produce musical works and all sorts of things. Do these people have that much time? They’re successful people. A representative figure among them is someone like Bill Gates. A representative figure among them who died is someone like Michael Jackson. And people who died from spiritual problems, like Steve Jobs.
3) Churches with no interest in this at all. Churches that talk only about other things. The bigger problem is that churches are closing their doors.
I was quite shocked. The church has no interest at all. Is that even a church? A big church that talks about something else entirely — even Pastor Robert Schuller’s church closed down. That shocked me. Why does the Bible speak of Satan and demons from Genesis 3 all the way to Revelation? I never even thought about that before. When I was at a “higher level,” I didn’t think about it at all. Now that I’ve seen the field, maybe my level has come down.
Because of this, the spiritual problem is now spreading throughout America and Europe. What are they doing about it? We’ll cover that in the second service — for now, it’s simply too serious. The bigger issue is that these churches have now begun to close their doors.
3. At this point I discovered the two kinds of authority Jesus gave. – He gave us the authority to overcome Satan, and the authority to move the heavenly army through prayer and worship.
Absolutely not. At this point, God is calling the Remnant and calling you. Will people mock you? They always have. Whenever someone insignificant arose to save the world, everyone mocked them without exception. Especially, they mocked the early church. “Those ignorant people.” “Those nonsensical people gathered together.” “What — leaving the temple to gather in an upper room, those madmen.” That’s what was said.
The content is completely different. At this point I discovered something important Jesus gave us. What is it? Authority. “Ah, this is why he gave it.” He gave us authority to overcome Satan. I realized this deeply. He gave us authority to move the heavenly army when we pray and worship. He gave these two. The Korean church questioned me about these two. I want to discuss this again. This is important. This is what I discovered. “Ah, that’s it.” Seeing it out in the field — he gave us tremendous authority. Of course, without it we can’t win. We have no strength. God gave us authority to break through darkness — that’s it. Of course the Triune God is with us, and he also gave us authority to move and be helped by the heavenly hosts. I discovered these two things.
▣ Main_ God who gave us three special kinds of authority
Please confirm this by checking the Scripture, looking at history, and confirming through the field. This is what RU must do, and this is the answer you who pray for RU will receive. He has given us three special kinds of authority to enjoy. In content it’s two, but right now, when God’s work happens, darkness is broken and the heavenly army is mobilized — this is happening right now, and the question is what he gave this for. Please remember — there are three.
1. He gave us the authority of children who can overcome all darkness.(John 1:12) – authority of identity
He gave us the authority of children able to overcome all darkness. John 1:12. “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” — this is entirely an authority of identity. Now, if we neglect this, what happens? What we must do matters, but even more so, darkness rises up enormously, and he gave us the authority of God’s children to overcome this.
1) Mark 3:15 – The reason he called us was to give us authority to drive out demons.
And Mark 3:15 says, “The reason he called you was to give you authority to drive out demons.”
2) Luke 10:19 – When the seventy returned from the field, he spoke of giving authority to overcome Satan.
When the church leaders — the seventy — returned from going out, Jesus spoke in Luke 10:19. “I have given you authority to overcome Satan.”
3) Matthew 28:16-20, Mark 16:15-20 – He works with us always, holding all authority in heaven and on earth.
After his resurrection, Jesus said again, “I have all authority in heaven and on earth, and I will always be with you.” And in Mark it says, “In my name drive out demons.”
4) Acts 16:16-18 – Paul used the authority to save an entire town in the name of Jesus.
Paul, knowing this, used the authority in the name of Jesus to completely save a whole town. Knowing this, figures like David said, “You mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word — bless the Lord.” That’s how David prayed.
5) Acts 12:1-25 – When the church was in difficulty, the church leaders gathered and prayed, and that night God sent his angel, struck down King Herod, and rescued Peter.
Looking at Acts chapter 12, the church faced an urgent difficulty. Let me say it again — it’s not a “difficulty.” Perhaps some churches in our current upper-room fellowship are experiencing conflict right now. I don’t see that as a problem. I see it as God’s ordering. I believe God is giving realization. I believe God is laying a new foundation for a blessed future. Right? If you understand it wrongly, you won’t receive answers. That’s why you keep running Satan’s errands like an unbeliever. It’s not a difficulty. At this point the church leaders gathered — in simple terms, the elders, deacons, and deaconesses — and began to pray. “That night God” — Scripture clearly records this — sent his angel, called King Herod away, and killed him. He sent his angel and released Peter. This speaks of this authority. He gave us exactly the authority of children.
2. Jesus entrusted this authority to us.
Even more important is the second point. Jesus entrusted this authority to us. He showed us these three examples today.
1) Jesus, who healed the sick who were too poor to receive help and the disease the world could not cure (leprosy), and drove out demons (Mark 1:39-42)
The poor who were sick and unable to get help — Jesus went and found these people and healed the sick. This is an important statement. Do you know what America’s sickness is? It’s sick. No one talks about it. All the children have fallen into drugs. No one talks about it. Why? Because there’s no solution. The UN once discussed it — what should be done? What can be done about the youth problem? There’s no solution. Later on, Jesus healed the disease the world could not cure — he healed leprosy. Today’s text also says, while healing many sick people, what came out? He healed a spiritual disease — a demon-possessed person, he drove out the demon. This is extremely important.
2) He entrusted this authority to us.
He gave us this authority.
3) Believe and try praying. It simply doesn’t come at the time I want — but the answer will surely come.
Believe and use it, please. Try praying. “No answer has come,” you say? No. It’s not that it never comes at the time I want — it always comes. From beginning to end, isn’t it always “me”? Set yourself aside. We think the answer is for me, prayer is for me, and even waiting is for me to wait for — no. It’s prayer toward God, the answer God gives — that’s what we must receive.
3. He gave us the authority to pray for the salvation of the world.
This third and final point — he gave you a special authority.
1) If someone with strength who holds this authority arises, people can be saved and the world can be changed.
What authority did he give? He didn’t just give us authority to overcome darkness — he gave us authority to pray for the salvation of the world. Isn’t that amazing? Don’t be deceived. You are children of God. Don’t be fooled by listening to impressive people. Are they impressive? They’re dying without God. Look at what politicians around the world are doing right now. Without God, there is nothing that can be done. We need the strength to save them. That is authority. If Christians today have no strength, we cannot help them. In the middle of it all, when someone with this authority, someone with strength, arises, that is what brings change.
2) Jesus prayed in the early dawn.(Mark 1:35) – We must rise at dawn to pray, prepare, and use this authority. Remnant must develop the habit of rising early and finishing things ahead of time.
Today, in Mark 1:35, it says Jesus prayed like this “in the early dawn.” At the break of dawn. Why? Because he had a body, at dawn. Please, rather than painfully forcing yourself to do dawn prayer, become truly a person of the dawn. You must rise at dawn to pray, create what’s important at dawn, and conquer at dawn. You must use this authority. I say this to the Remnant. Build the habit. The way for you to conquer the world is simple. Rise earlier than others. Rise early and pray. Finish everything before others even begin.
There was a famous basketball player, world-renowned, who has now retired — that player confessed this. He would rise alone at dawn, when the ground couldn’t even be seen yet. That’s what he said. He would rise when it was too dark to even see a coin dropped on the ground. Alone, he would make 500 shots without fail, every single morning, alone. Some would go in, some wouldn’t, naturally. But he’d make 500 successful shots. While everyone else was still asleep. By the time this person had prayed, washed, and gone out, there was no comparison when he faced others.
3) After his resurrection, Jesus gave a wonderful blessing concerning prayer.(Matthew 28:16-20, Acts 1:8) – He told us to wait. That means to pray.
After his resurrection, Jesus gave this wonderful blessing concerning prayer. “I have all authority in heaven and on earth, and I will always be with you.” At the very end he also said, “You will receive power when you are filled with the Holy Spirit.” So, “wait.” “Wait.” This word means “pray” — that’s what it means. When we worry about this world, he says, “Don’t worry about that. Wait.” When you see your problems, don’t worry. Pray. History will surely happen. Spiritual history happens invisibly, so it will surely happen. “You will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth.”
Back when I was a young evangelist, my pastor once told me to lead dawn prayer for a week while he was away somewhere. That was a busy time when I needed to study theology. But to get to that church for dawn prayer, I had to get up very early. During that week of dawn prayer, I was completely dazed with sleep. It was hard just to get up, hard just to go, and as I walked I’d be holding my Bible and dozing off, dozing off as I walked. One day, as I was walking along dozing, I ran into something — a utility pole. Thankfully, back then utility poles were made of wood. In our childhood. So I wasn’t badly hurt. I said to myself, “Ugh, who came up with this dawn prayer thing?” It was Jesus who came up with it.
Back then, once I received this grace and came to this realization, I made a decision to pray at dawn for 40 days and stuck to it. Why? Because no one could interrupt me. No one but myself could stop me. I was overcoming myself. At the time it seemed like the answer wasn’t coming, but that’s not true. The answers keep coming, again and again, without end.
▣ Conclusion_ Go into a solitary place. Go into prayer.(the 7 Remnant)
Those of you at RU, go into a solitary place. You don’t need to worry about anything else. You who pray for RU, go into a solitary place. This means go into prayer, that’s what it means. The 7 Remnant did this.
1. Joseph, who went into prayer in the midst of extreme loneliness with no one to help him
In loneliness with no one to help him, Joseph had a reason for not defending himself. There was no one to help him. He wanted to say, “I didn’t do it,” but there was no one to listen. This, everyone, is extreme loneliness. Right? Nowadays you’d hire a lawyer and speak up, but he had none of that. Joseph went into deep prayer in prison. Didn’t God give him special wisdom?
2. David, who while being pursued went into prayer moment by moment and found his answer – he confessed, “my shepherd, my refuge, my fortress”
Don’t worry — go into a solitary place. Start praying, that’s what I’m saying. Look at David while he was being pursued. In every single moment, David went into this prayer. Into prayer where answers can be found. And so he said, “The Lord is my shepherd.” How many battles must he have fought? “The Lord is my shield,” David said. “The Lord is my refuge, my fortress.” This is what he confessed.
Really do this. Don’t worry. Don’t be deceived. If you worry, you’ll be deceived. If you’re anxious, since you’ll be tempted to act rashly, there’s no need to worry. Blessing comes right after that, so why worry? The answer comes right after the problem, so why worry? Isn’t that right? Many people have problems, yet things are going well for them. But isn’t it going well when our own children go through hardship? Right? Why? Because it’s the process of making them into outstanding people.
3. Jesus, who prayed at dawn – there is nothing more to be said for us
And so Jesus himself prayed at this dawn hour. We have nothing more to say.
4. The church leaders of the early church, who in the midst of hardship became one and went into prayer – from here Mark’s upper room church, the Antioch church, and the figures of Romans 16 were born.
Representatively, when the early church leaders faced hardship, these leaders became completely one and went into prayer. From there, Mark’s upper room church was born. From there, the Antioch church was born. From there, the figures of Romans chapter 16 were born, that’s what I’m saying. Don’t be deceived by any deceptive word, don’t be deceived by public opinion either — hold on to God’s word and show the evidence. It will surely come. Spiritual history cannot be stopped by others. That’s why it comes. Spiritual history is something ordinary people don’t understand. That’s why it always wins. I bless you in the name of the Lord to become this witness.
America is urgent. Please pray for RU. Parents don’t know. Children are trapped in drugs. That children fall into immorality goes without saying — they are also caught in mental illness. Parents don’t know, and even when they do know, they don’t talk about it, because it’s too overwhelming. You really must be careful when sending our Remnant to study abroad. It’s that dangerous. We have our Remnant and also our professors in America and Europe. I hope you stay strong. I will pray for you.
Prayer
We thank you, God. By the authority you have given us, let us save the world. Let us save the next generation. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.