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2026.10.11 District Message Week 41
Jacob Who Remained Alone
(Genesis 32:24-32)

Summary

We must make good use of the church’s three-day weekend, and holding onto the flow of the word for the week, we must worship all day on the Lord’s Day. On the Lord’s Day, we must pray all day and find the answer while looking at the flow of the word. When a problem comes to me, I just need to wait, and when conflict arises, I must not try to change the other person but must change myself. Joseph changed himself so that he walked with God. And when a crisis comes, it’s finding the answer first at a fast speed. That’s why it says to do concentrated prayer.

The background of today’s Scripture is that Jacob was returning having become very wealthy, and he first sent not just a gift but almost all his wealth to his brother, but his brother came with an army of 400 to kill Jacob. At that time Jacob completely knelt before God. Having sent everyone away, it’s ‘Jacob who was left alone at the Jabbok River.’ We must have this kind of time during a crisis. No one can calculate God’s power. At this time, He gave him the name Israel, which can overcome the world. It was the end, but when he met a crisis, Jacob came to confirm the important timetable in which God was with him.

▣ Introduction_ God does two things through incidents.

1. It is bringing down Satan’s bartizan.

2. The Lord’s bartizan – Don’t be discouraged or impatient, but build the Lord’s bartizan. Because this is not visible to the eye, no one brings it to you, and no one takes it away.

3. Life bartizan – The Lord’s bartizan must become my life bartizan. Because God blesses us from the throne, it’s the bartizan of the throne. Only then do you go on the journey of the throne and leave a guidepost.

▣ Main

1. Crisis – anxiety

Jacob was anxious because this looked like a big crisis. Here you must absolutely not be discouraged or give up. Here there is surely an absolute plan that God carries out.

2. Angels → Hebrews 1:14

He was left alone by the riverside, and God sent the angel of the Lord whom he couldn’t even imagine. God sends helping angels when we pray. The angels of the Lord run God’s errands. So if you pray this prayer a lot, God sends angels and directs the work.

3. Peniel – God (Immanuel)

Peniel means he met the face of God. The greatest experience while we live is meeting God. The greatest answer is God being with us. The blessing of Immanuel has come upon our studies, work, and everything we do. When unbelievers look at us, the most important realization is, ah, God is with them. Looking at Joseph, Potiphar said God is with you. When Daniel was about to die, the king said the God who is always with you will rescue you.

▣ Conclusion

1. Enjoy the blessing of prayer in ordinary times. In the morning, you must restore the strength God gives without fail. If you study and work with that, a masterpiece is bound to come out.

2. During worship, you must confirm the five roads. You must hold forums on the five things of that flow. Then surely, whether a problem comes or an answer comes, it will come before us.

3. Concentration – It’s concentrating with this. What did Moses do?
1) To Mt Horeb. He concentrated.
2) Jabbok River – Jacob concentrated at the Jabbok River.

Transcript

If I were not a minister but an elder, I would do this. Every now and then, I’d invite family members, also our close people, people like that, and hold a three-day weekend festival at church. How good is that? Pitch tents and hold a prayer meeting together. Eat something delicious together. And then attend right up to the Lord’s Day worship. For the children, that becomes a memory they will never forget. Those kinds of things have an invisible influence. I still remember going to relatives’ houses with my parents when I was young. That’s why you must make good use of the church’s three-day weekend.

And holding onto the flow of the word for the week, worship all day on the Lord’s Day. In a way, when the breakfast session meeting gathers, there should be no seats so it’s a problem. If you’re really going to receive prayer answers, now it’s lesson time, and everyone should be here at this time. I’m not saying everyone come. If too many come, it’s hard. But I mean individually it’s like that. On the Lord’s Day you must pray all day. And you must not just pray. So that you find the answer while looking at the flow of the word. The conviction must come, ‘Ah, this week I must go holding this covenant.’ That’s everything. “The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time.” This is everything. The word coming, that is the answer. God makes the fulfillment happen. That’s why this Lord’s Day must be the best day for you. ‘Ah, looking today too, it’s the military mission conference, and today we’re worshiping like that at the end.’ You must realize that meaning too.

Now, this week’s lesson is what to do when a problem comes to me. When a problem comes, in a way you just need to wait, but what do you do when conflict arises? That’s also simple then. You must not try to change the other person. You must change yourself. Joseph must not tell his brothers to change. Those people don’t change. Joseph changes himself. How? So that he walks with God. That’s success.

Now, then what do you do when a crisis comes? A crisis coming is a somewhat urgent situation, right? When a problem comes, you just need to wait, but a crisis isn’t like that, right? What do you do then? And what do our Remnant do then? I’m telling you a crisis came.

Answer – Egypt

So it’s finding the answer first at a fast speed. That’s why it says to do concentrated prayer. When some crisis comes to you, coming on the Lord’s Day, when you concentrate while worshiping all day, this (answer) comes out. So already, unless he’s a fool, for Joseph, when his brothers were at home trying to kill him, the answer had already come out. Right? Because the sun bowed down. The moon and stars bowed down. He had already found the answer. The faster you find this, the better.

Now, seeing it that way, what you must do is, there are times when things don’t work out, right? That is the most important time. This time when things don’t work out is not a time to struggle desperately but a time to truly realize myself. But a crisis has no such timetable, it’s not something I make, a crisis has come. This is an opportunity. Not just an opportunity, not a vague opportunity, but an opportunity to obtain the answer.

Now, the background of today’s Scripture is that Jacob returns having become very wealthy. God blessed him. So now having become very wealthy, he returns home. While returning, Jacob was actually worried. The thought was, will my brother really welcome me well? Because before, when that brother tried to kill him, he ran away. Now he’s returning. First he sent gifts. And not just gifts but many, almost all his wealth he sent. Then the brother would think, since my younger brother did this for me, I’m so thankful, right? He did it with that thought in mind. Since it’s all in the past, let me forgive my brother, he’d do that, right? But what’s this? His brother is coming with an army of 400 to kill Jacob. Now, he’s really met a crisis. Now he can’t even go back, and it became this kind of situation.

At that time Jacob completely knelt before God.

「Jabbok River – Jacob who was left alone」

At the Jabbok River. It’s Jacob who sent everyone away and was left alone. It’s an important story. He sent everyone away and was left alone. You must have this kind of time during a crisis. No one can calculate God’s power. This is that famous Jabbok River, and it’s the answer God gave Jacob at that time. You know it, right?

[ Israel ]

He gave the name Israel, which can overcome the world. The name of the nation of Israel now is, simply, Jacob’s name. He gave a tremendous answer. Jacob probably had the covenant he received when he ran away before. Now at this end, when he met a crisis, Jacob now came to confirm the important timetable in which God was with him.

▣ Introduction

God does two things through incidents.

1. Satan’s bartizan X

It’s bringing down Satan’s bartizan. It’s certain.

2. The Lord’s bartizan

To do that, He first builds the Lord’s bartizan. Don’t be discouraged or impatient, but build the Lord’s bartizan. Because this isn’t visible to the eye, no one brings it to you. Because you can’t go to the market and buy this, no one takes it away either. People who just eat, live, and die don’t know it, so there are no competitors. Today and next week you must make this. Especially today, our military mission teams don’t just do military mission, but with the conference we held for a week and while worshiping today, you must build a bartizan in which I completely find the answer.

3. Life bartizan

What? The Lord’s bartizan must become my life bartizan. You start that. Then you come to realize. ‘Ah, so this is what the bartizan of the throne is.’ You come to realize. Because God blesses us from the throne, it’s the bartizan of the throne. Only then do you go on the journey of the throne and leave a guidepost.

▣ Main

1. Crisis – anxiety

Jacob saw this as a big crisis. So he was anxious. Anyone is anxious when they meet a crisis, right? Today the story from earlier comes out. Before meeting his brother, he gave all the gifts and did everything and thought he’d forgive him, but a big crisis like this came. You must absolutely not be discouraged or give up here.

Absolute plan

Here there is surely an absolute plan that God carries out. Until you find this, you must not give up or be discouraged, right? It’s surely there. God doesn’t have just a plan but an absolute plan.

2. Angels

Jacob was left alone. He was left alone by that river, and what happened? At that time God sent the angel of the Lord whom he couldn’t even imagine. It looks like he came and wrestled, but that is now the process, and ultimately God sends helping angels when you pray. Because this is invisible to most people’s eyes, they don’t know its value. Is your body important, or is your soul important? It’s okay if your body hurts a little somewhere. But if your soul goes wrong, that’s not okay, right? If the soul leaves, you die, I’m telling you. Only, you can’t take a picture of this soul, and it’s not visible. People don’t know it. This is important.

Hebrews 1:14

God surely sends the angels of the Lord to those who pray. Hebrews 1:14. They run God’s errands. So people who pray must remember this when praying today. If you pray this prayer a lot, God sends you today angels visible to the Lord’s eyes and directs the work.

As for the rest, what’s in the Bible, you can look it up and read it together. I’m telling you so you don’t miss the important thing.

3. Peniel – God (Immanuel)

It’s a word that came out then. Peniel. The face of God, it means he met God. If the greatest experience while you live is something, it’s meeting God. If there’s a greatest answer for you, it’s God being with you, I’m telling you. The blessing of Immanuel comes upon your studies, work, and everything you do. When unbelievers look at you, what’s the most important realization? ‘Ah, God is with them.’ Looking at Joseph, Potiphar said, “God is with you.” He said, “God is with you in everything.” When Daniel was about to die, this king said this. “The God who is always with you will rescue you.” He said that. It’s what an unbeliever said. You must surely enjoy this blessing.

▣ Conclusion

For people who meet a crisis, God surely has this (Main).

1. Ordinary times

So enjoy the blessing of prayer in ordinary times. In the morning, you must restore the strength God gives without fail. Only then do you study and work with that. Then a masterpiece is surely bound to come out. That’s the three prayers.

2. Worship

During worship. I’ll talk about it later during today’s worship, but during worship you must surely confirm the five roads. That flow. You must hold the five forums. Worship time is a very important time.

3. Concentration

Then surely something will appear before you. Whether a problem comes or an answer comes, it will come. You concentrate with this.

1) Mt Horeb

What happened? What did Moses do? To Mt Horeb. What did Elijah do? To Mt Horeb. That doesn’t mainly mean they went to a mountain, it means they concentrated.

2) Jabbok River

Today Jacob, to the Jabbok River.

I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that this blessing will surely be with you today. Let us pray.

Prayer

We thank God. Let today be a day of gaining strength all day, let today be a day of being healed all day, and send the armies of heaven so that the kingdom of God is accomplished. We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

2026.10.04 District Message Week 40
Laban’s Schemes and God’s Blessings
(Genesis 30:25-31:16)

Summary

▷ Jacob fled to Laban’s house to escape hardship. Laban used schemes to torment Jacob, but God blessed Jacob. We must not be discouraged because of people, and we must not trust people too much either. The reason Uncle Laban used schemes is that he thought only of his own benefit and position. We must see people with those eyes. Some people trust people too much and get defrauded, or fall into temptation. What school teaches is fighting and winning. Even between parents and children, if it’s not beneficial to oneself, they have a hard time.

▣ Introduction_ Triune God
There are three things the Triune God does through us. We must focus on that.
1. Covenant
God is fulfilling the covenant even now. So holding on to the covenant precisely is important.
Numbers 23:19 God carries out what He has spoken
Genesis 26:1 It was fulfilled just as He had spoken to Sarah.
To Jacob, He promised, “I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
Confirming the covenant and the Word whether we’re having a hard time or a good time becomes a blessing even if you can’t hold on to that Word. If you’re agonizing over filial piety, you’re already a filial child. Agonizing over how I can hold on to God’s covenant precisely is itself a blessing.

2. Prayer – Life, worship, focus
God surely answers prayer. Therefore, enjoy prayer through life. During worship time, confirm the very important 5 ways and 5 forums. When something important comes up or something difficult happens, don’t worry, but focus and pray to God.

3. Salvation
Because God is accomplishing the work of salvation even now, we evangelize. Even if we don’t do great things, we just need to be in it.

▣ Main_ Faith
1. Material blessing (identity – authority)
God gave Jacob material blessing. His identity is a child of God. And because He gave the authority to overcome darkness, God naturally blesses.

2. Answers to prayer (region)
The reason He answered Jacob’s prayer is that he had the mission to save the region.

3. Family blessing (world evangelization)
The reason He blessed Jacob’s family is world evangelization.
▷ These three things of the Main were given by God, so you must believe them. Because He gave the identity and authority to overcome darkness, God unconditionally blessed materially wherever Jacob went. He answered prayer and blessed the family. To do world evangelization. So we too must hold on to the Word and begin to pray.

▣ Conclusion_ Flow
1. You must see what the flow of the Word given to me is.
2. You must see the flow of answers to prayer.
3. You must see the flow of the work of salvation, evangelism.
4. You must see the spiritual flow of the field.
5. You must see the flow of one nation.

Transcript

「Laban’s Scheme and God’s Blessing」
Jacob fled to escape hardship. He went to Laban’s house. But Laban keeps using these kinds of schemes. But God blessed Jacob. Perhaps as you look at this, you must not be discouraged because of people or do such things. And you must not trust people too much either.
This Laban is actually his uncle. Why does he keep using schemes on Jacob? Think about it simply. Everyone thinks of their own benefit. Everyone thinks of their own position. We must see people with those eyes. Because of what am I discouraged? There’s no need for that. Also, because of people I do so much of something? There’s no need for that either. Some people, you know, get defrauded by listening to someone and lose all the property they gathered with such hardship. It’s trusting people too much. Also, I fall into temptation and have a hard time because of people? That’s not it either. People can’t help it.
When we go to school, what they already teach is having to fight, winning, they teach that, right? Three great heroes came out in Japan, but what those people taught was to keep fighting and winning, they taught that. Even between parents and children, it’s like that. If it’s too unbeneficial to themselves, they have a hard time.
Now, in such a situation, you lose strength because of people? You gain strength because of people? You must think about that a little.

▣ Introduction_ Triune God
Why? The blessing you have is different. What is it? There are three things the Triune God does through you. You must focus on that. You must not focus on people.
It’s good to check through it once with the lesson book, and if needed, also do a forum.

1. Covenant
God is fulfilling the covenant even now. Holding on to the covenant precisely is what’s important.
In Numbers 23:19 it says God carries out what He has spoken. Unless I hold on to only wrong words, if you hold on to God’s Word, that covenant is fulfilled, I’m telling you.
In Genesis 21, I see that in verse 1 it was fulfilled just as He had spoken to Sarah. He spoke to Jacob like this too. He promised, “I will not leave you until I have done all that I have promised you.” He is fulfilling the covenant even now. Whether you’re having a hard time or a good time, confirming what the covenant is, what the Word is, becomes a blessing even if you can’t hold on to that Word.
“How can I be filial to my parents?” This person, already, even without doing filial piety, is a filial child. “Ah, how can I hold on to God’s covenant precisely?” This itself is a blessing.

2. Prayer – [ Life, worship, focus ]
And He surely answers prayer, I’m telling you. Then what prayer should I pray?
Don’t worry about anything, I mentioned three things, right? Enjoy prayer through your life. Confirm the very important five ways and five forums in today’s worship time. When something important happens to me or something difficult happens, don’t worry but focus and pray to God. Because prayer is surely answered. I only do this, with 7·7·7. It’s fine.

3. Salvation
Because God is accomplishing the work of salvation even now, we evangelize. I am within the work of salvation God is accomplishing? That’s the most blessed thing. You don’t have to do great things. You just need to be in this.
The woman called Hannah did nothing until she was old. She was just in this. But she left behind an important covenant. You just do it this way. In some ways Laban is a bit foolish.

▣ Main_ Faith
1. Material blessing (identity – authority)
God gave Jacob material blessing. Why is that? Why did God give Jacob much material blessing? It’s natural. His identity is a child of God. Because He gave the authority to overcome darkness, God is naturally bound to bless. You must definitely remember this. It doesn’t say you become God’s child; it says, “He gave the authority to become children of God.” This is very important.
Why does God give you material blessing? Because He gave you the identity and authority to overcome darkness, He gives material blessing.
Now, as for that content, now look up the Bible once with the lesson book.

2. Answers to prayer (region)
Why did God answer Jacob’s prayer? Because you must know that reason. Because he had the mission to save the region. You must definitely remember this.

3. Family blessing (world evangelization)
Also, why did God bless Jacob tremendously? What is the reason He blessed the individual and the family? God blessed this Jacob, starting from the individual to the family, through Joseph, I’m telling you. The reason is simple. It’s world evangelization. God called you to do world evangelization. You don’t need to remember other things. You’re very interested in other places. Just do this.
You don’t have to worry about making a living. Because God gave you the identity and authority to overcome darkness, He is bound to give material blessing. Because the region must be saved wherever he goes, God answered Jacob’s prayer.
He blessed the family altogether. What is the reason? It’s not us saying give us blessing, give us blessing, right? Why did He bless the family? To do world evangelization. Without a doubt. As you know, we started here in earnest in ’88, but until now we have talked only about world evangelization.
So I don’t know how people whose spiritual eyes are dark see it, but right now doors are opening tremendously to the whole world. If you are truly a person of prayer and your eyes are opened, what you must see is, “Ah, around this time, what multiethnic children should I invite over one year?” You must pray this prayer. There’s no need to look at the person next to you and check, “What is that person’s problem?” It’s someone else’s problem. Right? “What’s in their bag?” That’s visible to the eyes so it can’t be helped, but don’t do that with other people’s problems. You must quickly find what’s mine. Especially on Sunday, for six days, when you gather in the district or the branch church, you must share this blessing.

Faith
These three things are to be believed. Why? Because God gave them. If it seemed like I made them, there would be no need to believe. Because I’d just make them. Because He gave the identity and authority to overcome darkness, wherever you go, wherever Jacob went, God unconditionally blessed materially.
God answered Jacob’s prayer. What is the reason? Because God must work in the place Jacob goes. He blessed the family altogether. To do world evangelization. You just need to remember this.
And then, all day today, you just need to hold on to the Word and begin to pray.

▣ Conclusion_ [ Flow ]
So during today’s worship you must see the 5 flows.

1. Word
“Ah, last week as well as today, what is the flow of the Word God gives me?” you must see. Someone preached? It doesn’t matter. You must see the flow of the Word God gives me.

2. Answers to prayer
There’s a flow of answers to prayer, right? There’s no such thing as no answer to prayer. There’s a flow, I’m telling you. You see that, today. That which you think is no answer to prayer is also an answer, so you must see that flow.

3. Work of salvation
So God is accomplishing the work of salvation. So you see that flow of evangelism.
I started long ago from evangelizing directly on the street, and now I’m going in the flow of that evangelism to the 5000 tribes.

4. Spiritual flow of the field
And surely wherever you go there’s a field, right? There’s no need to see other things there. You precisely see the spiritual flow of the field. That’s why He called you. Why? No matter how outstanding, unbelievers don’t know spiritual things. No matter how, no matter how successful a person is, they don’t know what spiritual flow is, I’m telling you. Actually, the most important thing for people is spiritual flow, but they don’t know it. But because they don’t know that, they make shrines and bow, I’m telling you. What problem arises from that? Tremendous works of evil spirits happen.

5. Flow of the nation
Then there’s one thing that grips your heart squarely. It’s the flow of one nation. I can’t know all of many nations. But the flow of one nation is seen.
This year, just the children who paid all the registration fees to come to the World Remnant Conference but couldn’t come in because they couldn’t get visas numbered 1000. Then you can immediately catch things like, what should be prepared around now? You can see the flow, right? It’s never something that takes some great strength either. For the 5000 tribes over there, if you help with just 50,000 won a month, those people faint. So it’s not a money problem, I’m telling you. How do I pray and see this flow? This is important. Then without even knowing it, where am I? You have to go into this to be in it. You are being used in breaking darkness. You are within saving the region and world evangelization. How thankful is that?
We received a lot of persecution and attacks over several decades while doing this. You don’t have to care. Those people originally do that kind of thing 24. What can you do? They are people who attack others, slander them, and do that 24, I’m telling you. I met one police officer who is a person with a mission. I told that person, “Hey, you’ve spent your whole life only searching for thieves, so you really must pray and receive grace.” “You’ve done thieves 24 your whole life. Because you have to catch them. So now you must receive grace.” What are we? We just need to do this 24.
Today too, while you are worshipping and praying, without you even knowing it, three things happen. Darkness is broken. While you worship today, the kingdom of God is accomplished. More important. While you are worshipping, the power of healing appears to you.
Especially the branch churches in all regions of Seoul, Ulsan, Changwon, Geoje, and especially the people connected abroad over there, are listening to the Word now. Do not listen to my sermon, but find the flow God gives.
Let us pray.

Prayer

Let today be that day, let it be a day of healing for those who are sick, let it be a day of answers for those suffering hardship, and let it be a day of realizing the plan God gives. We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

2026.09.27 District Message Week 39
The Path of Refuge Toward Blessings (Genesis 28:10-22)

Summary

There are times when we face hardships while living. Sometimes we even feel that a crisis has come. We may even face something extremely urgent. Such a thing happened to Jacob. Because he had stolen his brother’s blessing, his brother actually tried to kill Jacob. But that became ‘the road of refuge toward blessing.’ So when hardship comes, new family members can see it as God’s timetable to give me new grace that I did not know until now. You must see that God’s things are prepared. Also, for church leaders, God is surely trying to give a blessed new mission. Especially for Remnants, the hardship that has come is all preparing them. You must have that answer in advance. Then how can you overcome hardship?

▣ Introduction
1. Daily Strength – 3 Concentrations
Before hardship comes, first obtain the strength given daily. It is the prayer done in the morning, afternoon, and evening.
1) Restoration, strength – In the morning, there must be a prayer that restores all of me.
2) Confirmation (eyes) – During the day, it becomes the time to confirm all the many blessings.
3) Answer – When praying at night to finish, the answer doesn’t come immediately, but the answer is seen.
2. 3 Settings – Then it becomes the time when a platform for which God cannot help but answer, a watchtower that can shine the light that saves other people, and an antenna that connects with God’s power are set up.
3. 3 Answers – Answers come to problems, conflicts, and crises.
It was the time for Jacob to make this because this was not in place.
Prayer is what makes you enjoy tremendous things.

▣ Main_ Refuge
1. With – I will be with you.
1) Fatigue – He was so tired and worn out that he collapsed, and at that time God was with him.
2) Ladder (angels) – It showed that our prayer connects to God and that God answers us.
3) Word – It is going through hardships, roads of refuge, and the world with this blessing.

2. Covenant
1) Now – The place where you are lying is God’s temple. He is with you now.
2) All peoples – Through you, all peoples will be saved.
3) Fulfillment – I will not leave you until this promise is surely fulfilled.

3. Strength – He gave the strength to go the remaining road.
1) Tribulation – Blessing – He realized that the great tribulation was a road that gives him God’s blessing.
2) Walking together – I will walk with you.
3) Temple – The place where you are is the house of God and the gate of heaven. The place where you are now is the temple.

▣ Conclusion_ First
Remnants, like Jacob, obtain the 3 concentrations, 3 settings, and 3 answers first before going out. Also, those who may be facing hardship, don’t worry, and first confirm this blessing that God is truly with you. When you hold the covenant and keep praying, you restore much strength. You go the remaining road with the strength of God being with me.

Transcript

There are times when we face hardships while living. Sometimes we even feel like, a crisis has come. We may even face something extremely urgent like this. Such a thing happened to Jacob. For the reason that he stole his brother’s blessing, this brother actually tried to kill Jacob. Nowadays it might be somewhat impossible, but in the old days it was possible. Well, it’s not like there were police, and it’s not like there was CCTV like now; back then, if you killed a person, they just died. Jacob, now facing such great hardship, since his brother was trying to kill him, came to run away.

「The Road of Refuge Toward Blessing」

So simply put, that became a road of refuge truly toward blessing. It’s content that must be talked about with many people this week. He thought he was running away because he faced great hardship, but I’m saying this became the road going toward blessing.

So if by chance hardship comes, our new family members can see it like this: ah, it’s the timetable in which God is giving me new grace that I didn’t know until now. Everyone has new things, but new family members must see that God’s things are prepared. Also, our church leaders can face hardship too, right? For church leaders, God is surely trying to give a truly blessed new mission. Especially for Remnants, the hardships that come are all preparing them. You must have that answer set in advance. Ah, the hardships a Remnant faces are all preparation. You just must not be deceived. There are so many things you won’t understand. Those are all preparation. To say it a little differently, I’m saying God prepares great figures greatly. Then there can also be great hardships.

▣ Introduction

Now, first then, how can I overcome this hardship? This is important, right? Ah, as a person lives, there are hardships and hardships come, but how should I overcome this? I’m saying that in some ways, the act of overcoming itself is hard.

1. Daily Strength

So before these hardships come, regardless of whether they come or not, first obtain the strength given daily. You must have this set. What is that? It is the prayer done in the morning, afternoon, and evening. No matter what anyone says, what did you do this morning?

1) Restoration, Strength

In the morning, it must be confirmed unconditionally that I obtain strength. In the morning, there must be a prayer that restores all of me. Understand?

2) Confirmation (Eyes)

Then during the day, it’s the time for you to confirm all the many blessings. Your body is very sick and you went somewhere and met a hard thing? It’s harder. If you wake up in the morning and truly get the strength of prayer, your eyes to see the day change. ‘Even if hardship comes, it’s okay.’

3) Answer

Then when you pray the closing prayer at night, the answer doesn’t come right away, but the answer is seen.

– 3 Concentrations

Looking at this, it’s called the 3 concentrations.

2. 3 Settings

Then there is something you must have first, before facing hardships, before going out into the world. It is the three settings. You must do it. What is that? A platform for which God cannot help but answer is made. Today you seem to be sitting here worshiping, but you must hold onto it. It is the time the platform is made. Today, hearing this message, the whole world is listening to the message now, right? This time is truly the time God’s bartizan is made, the time of making the platform. Without knowing it, you can shine the light that saves other people. It is the time the watchtower is set up. And it is the time the antenna that completely connects with God’s spiritual power is set up.

3. 3 Answers

This is the third. Three answers come. Answers come to problems, conflicts, and crises.

Now, how is it? Today’s story is the story of Jacob. In a word, Jacob didn’t have this (Introduction) in place. It’s the time to make this. If you see it this way, it’s accurate. The hardship that came to you is not hardship; it’s the time to make this (Introduction). Never, ever be deceived. When your body becomes weak, it’s easy to be deceived. Also, when there’s no one helping you and I’m placed in a difficult environment, a person is shaken without knowing it. I’m telling you, when my circumstances become too difficult or things like this happen, I’m shaken without knowing it. That’s what happened to Jacob. You must know the reason this comes out first in the Introduction. For God to give this blessing to Jacob.

When you go to Seoul, the senior elders are sitting right in the most visible seats. They’re wearing nice suits, sitting there. In Busan, our kwonsas are sitting all lined up. In Busan, now, the senior elders have been pushed out by the kwonsas. So I’m saying in Seoul the elders are sitting there with spiritual strength. It’s so nice to see. In Seoul, our kwonsas are also trying hard not to be pushed out. Good. Because people don’t know the structure of the brain, the structure of the universe, the throne, things like this, they just think of it lightly. Prayer is a tremendously important thing. What National Assembly members do is important. Right? But the things you do are different things. Things those people cannot do. And prayer makes you enjoy tremendous things. So last Sunday’s sermon said, what to do in times of crisis? Set up the bartizan of the Lord. Today in the 2nd service, what happens when that bartizan is set up? We follow that flow.

▣ Main

So the story of Jacob came out now.

[ Refuge ]

He ran away to avoid death from his brother. He went, and God gave him three things at this time.

1. With

Simply put, it’s this blessing. It’s saying, I will be with you.

2. Covenant

And He didn’t just give that. He also gave the covenant.

3. Strength

And now He gave the strength to go the remaining road. You can’t go with only the covenant, right? He gave strength.

1. With

How was He with him?

1) Fatigue

In chapter 28 verse 12, most, completely, how hard must it have been on the way that he collapsed and slept? I’m saying he was so tired and worn out that he collapsed, and at that time God was with him.

2) Ladder (Angels)

He showed one thing. He showed the ladder. What does that mean? It showed that your prayer connects to God and that God answers you. At that time, it showed the spiritual thing of the Lord’s angels, messengers, going up and down the ladder.

3) Word

And with that, He gave the Word.

You go through the difficult roads of refuge, the world, with this blessing.

2. Covenant

What does He promise?

1) Now

The place where you are lying now is God’s temple. He is with you now.

2) All Peoples

And it’s not just that. How much strength must you gain? Through you, all peoples will be saved.

3) Fulfillment

I will not leave you until this promise is surely fulfilled. Does it mean He leaves once it’s fulfilled? No. I will not leave you.

3. Strength

1) Tribulation – Blessing

At this time, Jacob realized that this great tribulation was, for him, going on the road that gives God’s blessing. All saints, make hardship and tribulation into God’s blessing. To say it accurately, it’s not making it. It’s seeing it. God is not the kind of God the Jews know. The Jews know God wrongly. They think if they suffer and suffer and keep all the law, He saves them. God knew you couldn’t keep all that law and promised Christ from the beginning. Many Christians now know it wrongly. They understand it like religion. Ah, I did this and was blessed, did that and got punished; it’s not that kind of content. It’s that He will give this Jacob the promise promised to Abraham, the power of world evangelization. That’s what I’m saying; it’s not the time to fight with your brother now.

2) Walking Together

So He makes promises, and how great are the promises He makes? “I will walk with you.”

3) Temple

And He says an important word. “The place where you are is the house of God, the gate of heaven. The place where you are now is the temple. The very spot where you are now is the house of God.” He said a very, very important word. This church is also a temple, but the places you go are God’s temple. And He said it is the gate of heaven. It’s tremendous, the gate. Jacob completely realizes it here.

▣ Conclusion_ First

Now, after this many things come out, but what is today’s conclusion? Remnants, before going out, like Jacob, before going out, obtain this (Introduction). Also, those who may be in hardship, don’t worry, and first confirm this blessing that God is truly with you. When you truly hold this covenant and keep praying, you restore much strength. We must go when God calls us, right? Before that there’s nothing else. With the strength of God being with me. We go the remaining road. Understand?

Today too, please give strength so that this blessing Jacob obtained is delivered to me, and next Sunday to the future generations. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that all day today will be a day of receiving great grace, a day of answers. Let us pray.

Prayer

We give thanks to God. Please make today a day of healing. Please make it a spiritual day that the people of the world do not know, and let us walk with God, which is more important than answers. Please let the places we go, the greater answer, be the temple and the gate of heaven. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Title / Scripture: Jacob’s Spiritual Greed and the Anger of a Carnal-Minded Person (Genesis 27:1-46)
Speaker: Pastor Kwang-Soo Ryu
Date / Location: September 20, 2026, Immanuel Church (Seoul)

Summary

[3 John 1:2] Soul, All Things, Health

In 3 John 1:2, “Beloved, as your soul prospers,” many people have no interest in the soul, but if your soul leaves, you are dead. Only when this goes well do all things go well. After that, good health comes. Your life, healing, and answers are all included this way.

[Reason for Prayer] Most people do not know why they pray, the reason for prayer.

Thought (Brain) Everything you are thinking is imprinted on your brain.

Soul What determines our tremendous life is what is imprinted in our soul. That is why the Bible said the soul must prosper.

[Throne] This is connected to the throne.

[Answer to Prayer] is the same.

Throne The answer to prayer begins here first. God who sits on the throne begins to work with power.

Kingdom The Kingdom comes without being seen by our eyes at all.

Work Then the work of the Kingdom of God takes place.

▷ This is how the answer comes. So do not be discouraged at all, and you must first build up this power. If you build spiritual power, without knowing it, a connection comes to this side. Then the result comes out. You must look at it scientifically.

▷ If you worry every day, fret every day, and use humanism every day, what will happen? Looking at people with cancer, it is rather that kind people get it more. People who lose their temper rarely get it. The Bible says not to worry even about that. Paul said, “Do not worry about anything. Present everything to God with thanksgiving. Then the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds.” You must remember it.

[7·7·7] Find happiness in this all day long, enjoy it, and gain strength. Just be comfortable all day. From opening your eyes until closing them. Especially on Sunday you focus.

▷ On Sunday you ask about the mission and find it. You find With, Immanuel, Oneness and Only, Uniqueness, Re-creation. Empty time is very important. During that time prayer must come out so much that you have much to write down. You must gain spiritual power. Evidence occurs as much as you do.

In the morning you must gain strength leisurely and come. The way you see the day differs by the strength you gained in the morning. The way the night’s result differs is by how the day differs. The older you get, the more you must gain strength.

「Spiritual – Fleshly」

Today is the story of Jacob and Esau. A spiritual person and a fleshly person. Then should we ignore the flesh? No. The spiritual part must first receive the answer for the rest to follow. We offer our flesh for the sake of the spiritual. Unbelievers lose the spiritual for the sake of the fleshly. Both are important. But the spiritual part is certainly more important. So if you grasp the exact covenant, the answer begins. Because God is the God of the covenant. You are the people of the covenant. It begins from the time you grasp the exact covenant.

▣ Introduction_ First (Cause of the Problem, Solution)

You must first know the cause of the problem and the solution. This exists only in the Bible.

1. Genesis 1:27, 28

Humans are animals that have the image of God. Other animals do not have the image of God. Therefore He said to rule over them. Because they were created in the image of God, if humans lose the image of God, they become strange. So a man named Pascal said, “God created a void in the human heart. But this void cannot be filled. Trying to fill this void is like trying to quench thirst with seawater. That void can be filled only by God.”

2. Genesis 3:1-6

Humans left God and completely collapsed. It is because they were deceived by Satan’s temptation.

Genesis 3:16-20 Suffering began to come from this time. Only the Bible clarifies this.

Genesis 6:4-5 To add one more, they lived without knowing but were caught by Satan. The Nephilim.

Genesis 11:1-8 They tried to the death but in the end there was nothing. The Tower of Babel.

3. So God promised.

Genesis 3:15 The offspring of the woman will crush the serpent’s head.

Genesis 12:1-3 After the Tower of Babel collapsed, “Leave your homeland, relatives, and father’s house. Go to the land I will show you. I will make you a source of blessing. Through you the nations will be blessed. No one will be able to stand against you.” Abraham had a hard time until he found this.

▣ Main

1. Jacob – Spiritual Blessing (Israel = 12 Tribes)

In a word, Jacob used many schemes, but he regarded spiritual blessing as important. He was given the name Israel, and world evangelization began with the 12 tribes.

2. Esau – Fleshly Blessing (Edomites)

Esau ignored spiritual blessing. So he knew only fleshly blessing. You must know both. So it produced a terrible result. It created a tribe called Edom. The Edomite tribe is a tribe of destruction completely fallen into idolatry.

▷ The line you stand in is passed on to the next generation. The son Abraham obtained through unbelief is Ishmael. They are the tribes now making the whole world suffer, causing war in the Middle East. “Beloved, I pray that in all things you may prosper and be in good health, even as your soul prospers.”

3. Covenant – Answer

So just grasp the covenant. That is the answer. “Believe that you have received what you asked for.” To Joshua, “I have given you those tribes of the land of Canaan.” Why? Because he grasped the covenant. There is also a flow in the covenant. Grasping that is worship. To say “It is fine not to attend Sunday worship much” is the same as saying that God doesn’t need you. The person who realized, “Ah, this worship time is so important,” has found life. Why?

Fulfillment – God

Fulfillment is done by God.

Result – World Evangelization

The result is world evangelization. Being world-evangelized is your level. The success standard of the Remnant.

Transcript

3 John 1:2, Soul, All Things, Health

In 3 John chapter 1 verse 2 there is this saying. “Beloved, as your soul prospers,” many people have no interest in the soul, but if your soul leaves, you are dead. It is a part many people do not know, but the most important part for a person is this (the soul). Only when this goes well “all things go well,” it said. After that comes good health, it says. In this everything is included. Your life, healing, and answers are all included here.

Reason for Prayer, Thought (Brain), Soul, Throne

Most people do not know why they pray, the reason for prayer. They do not really know why they must pray. Everything that you are thinking is in fact imprinted on your brain. So even if the memory disappears, the effect of it remains. It’s frightening. Someone tried to quit drugs and changed all the blood in his body. But the memory of the drug remains in the brain. It really is frightening. If our Remnant go outside, or abroad, and unknowingly do drugs following friends, they get caught and cannot get out. What determines our tremendous life is now imprinted in our soul. That is why the Bible says the soul must prosper. This is connected to the throne. It is this important.

Answer to Prayer, Throne, Kingdom, Work

Then how does the answer come? The answer to prayer is the same. It goes in reverse like this. The answer to prayer begins first from here. God who sits on the throne begins to answer with power. So it doesn’t matter whether prayer takes a long time or a short time. In some cases it may take a long time. But how the answer that is here comes is that it comes upon us like this (the Kingdom) without appearing to our eyes at all. Those who don’t know, somewhat ignorant people, spiritually ignorant people, think there is no answer to prayer. Then the work of the Kingdom of God occurs. This is how the answer comes.

So do not be discouraged at all, and you must first build up this power. When you build spiritual power, before you know it, now a connection comes to this side (all things). Then now the result (good health) comes out. So there is no need to be discouraged. Truly, faith is faith, but you must look at it scientifically. That is why I said prayer is spiritual science. It’s accurate. It looks as if what you were thinking about does not get answered right away, but it comes out this way.

If, on the contrary, you worry every day, fret every day, use humanism every day, what will happen? Actually, looking at people who got cancer, kind people get it more. People who lose their temper and such rarely get it. Really. So I said to someone, “You will never get cancer. Because your temper is foul.” I said that. People who endure a lot suffer loss to their bodies.

The Bible says not to worry even about that. What grace Paul received was “Do not worry about anything,” he said. “Present everything to God.” And that also with thanksgiving, “present to God,” he said. Then how high must God’s IQ be? “The peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds.” That is the beginning. So you must remember it. There is no need to be discouraged while praying, and no need to have strange thoughts while praying.

[ 7·7·7 ]

So I made up my mind altogether and all day long find happiness in this (7·7·7), enjoy it, and gain strength. Just all day long. Comfortably. From when I open my eyes until I close them, just like that. I find that more comfortable. Maybe because my character is less developed, if I set a fixed time, it doesn’t work well. I just start right away when I open my eyes. It’s so good.

Especially on Sunday you focus. Just now with our session members today I gave a word, a message, but on Sunday you ask about the mission and find it. Truly on Sunday you find With, Immanuel, Oneness and Only, Uniqueness, Re-creation. It’s fine even if you can’t grasp it firmly in hand. We usually miss Sunday. On Sunday you must not just listen to worship and leave it at that. You have empty time, don’t you? This is very important. During that time, prayer must come out so much that you have a lot to write down. Because it is the day you focus without even knowing, you must gain spiritual power abundantly. “Ah, but it still doesn’t work for me.” That is being deceived. Evidence occurs as much as you do. Sunday is a day of focus. That is why this (7·7·7) is very important.

What were you doing in the morning before you came? Did you come in a hurry in the morning? You have missed the morning. In the morning you must gain strength leisurely and come. Without your knowing it, in the morning you are busy, chased, impatient, and someone says something. That’s a big problem. Because the day looks different depending on how much strength I gained that morning. Right? And depending on how different the day is, a different result comes at night. Today we were going to hold a meeting with the elders, but as you get older you must gain strength. You must not be deceived. There is something you are not realizing now. Right now there is much talk about AI. It came out that when the AI age comes, eight places will make money. Right? Do you know what one of them is? These people saw well. They said my thinking was right too. They mentioned eight places, and do you know where one is? The senior sector. Money is made in the senior sector. That’s right. So it’s just that we keep falling behind; being old has nothing to do with God’s power at all; it is something that must be obtained.

Today is the story of Jacob and Esau.

「Spiritual – Fleshly」

Simply put, a spiritual person and a fleshly person. “Then should we ignore the flesh?” No. The spiritual part must first receive the answer for the rest to follow. We offer our flesh for the sake of the spiritual. Unbelievers lose the spiritual for the sake of the fleshly. Right? Both are important. But certainly this (spiritual) part is more important. It comes out from here (the spiritual). So if you grasp the exact covenant, the answer begins. Because God is the God of the covenant. You are the people of the covenant. It begins from the time you grasp the exact covenant.

▣ Introduction_ First (Cause of the Problem, Solution)

So there is a part we must first know. It must be known. There is the cause of the problem and the solution. Because this is revealed only in the Bible, I proudly think of the Bible as the Word of God. It is only in the Bible. What is a human? It is only in the Bible.

1. Genesis 1:27, 28

Humans are animals that have the image of God. Other animals do not have the image of God. So eating beef, dog meat, chicken and such is God’s will. He said to rule. Because humans were created in the image of God, if the image of God disappears they become strange. No matter what they do they are not happy. So a man named Pascal said this. “God created a void in the human heart. But this void cannot be filled. Trying to fill this void is like trying to quench thirst with seawater.” The more you drink, the thirstier you get. “The void in the human heart can be filled only by God, only with God.” He saw it well.

2. Genesis 3:1-6, 3:16-20, Genesis 6:4-5, 11:1-8

We must know the second one. Humans simply left God and completely collapsed. Of course, there is no excuse. It is because of Satan’s temptation. Of course it is not even Satan’s responsibility. Right? Because Adam himself was deceived. Suffering began to come from this time. Only the Bible reveals it. There is none elsewhere. It gave the exact answer. To add one more, now they had lived without knowing but were caught by Satan. They become Nephilim. They tried to the death but in the end there is nothing. The Tower of Babel. That you are now saved and come to the Sunday worship seat, receive the 7·7·7 covenant and look at the world is a great thing. They studied all their life, tried all their life, lived not long, enjoyed nothing and went. They lived a life having nothing to do with world evangelization. When they quietly open their eyes and look, they see they were only running errands for unbelievers.

3. Genesis 3:15, 12:1-3

So God promised. The offspring of the woman will crush the serpent’s head. A tremendous prophecy. After the Tower of Babel collapsed, in Genesis chapter 12 verses 1 to 3, He told Abraham to come out. “Leave your homeland, relatives, and father’s house.” That is not what is important. What comes after is important. “Go to the land I will show you. I will make you a source of blessing. Through you the nations will be blessed. No one will be able to stand against you.” He said it clearly. Abraham had a hard time until he found this.

▣ Main

1. Jacob – Spiritual Blessing

In a word, this Jacob today used many schemes here and there. That is completely unnecessary. I can’t tell you how many clever schemes Jacob turned. It is unnecessary. Jacob saw one thing as important. Spiritual blessing. Then the lesson and this, we will look up the Bible together and talk together. We must give the answer first. Jacob saw spiritual blessing as important.

2. Esau – Fleshly Blessing

Esau ignored spiritual blessing. Right? So Esau knew only fleshly blessing. You must know both. So you must know the order. Esau knew nothing but fleshly blessing. So he produced a terrible result.

1. Jacob – Spiritual Blessing (Israel = 12 Tribes)

Jacob gave the name Israel. He began world evangelization with 12 tribes.

2. Esau – Fleshly Blessing (Edomites)

Esau created a descendant tribe called the Edomites. An amazing result comes out. These Edomites are tribes of destruction completely fallen into idolatry. The line you stand in is passed on to the next generation. It seems not at all so, but it is accurate. The son Abraham obtained through unbelief is Ishmael. Right? The tribes now making the whole world suffer, causing wars in the Middle East, are Ishmael’s descendants. Amazing, isn’t it? Even within the church, there are people who know nothing of the spiritual and continue with only the fleshly. Absolutely not. “Beloved, as your soul prospers, all things go well and I earnestly seek that I be in good health.”

3. Covenant – Answer

So just grasp the covenant. That is the answer. Right? Grasping the covenant is the answer. Today. If you know this saying: “Believe that you have received what you asked for.” Why? Because you grasped the exact covenant. To Joshua, “I have given you those tribes of the land of Canaan.” Why? Because you grasped the covenant. You must remember. This grasped covenant is the answer. There is a flow in the covenant too, isn’t there? You must grasp that. That is worship. “It’s fine not to attend Sunday worship much.” That’s a big thing. Do you know what that is the same as? God doesn’t need you. It’s the same thing. Right? “Ah, it’s fine not to work well at the company.” Then the company says “We don’t need you.” It’s the same thing. “Wow, this worship time is so important.” That person has found life.

Fulfillment – God

Why? Fulfillment is done by God. So from today do not worry even as much as a fingernail, and you must gain strength.

Result – World Evangelization

The result is world evangelization. Becoming world-evangelized is your level. How much must the Remnant succeed? The standard (world evangelization).

Today, next week, your cell group lesson and the branch church gatherings, I have told you the core. For the rest, just look at the lesson, pray, and find the Word again. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that today be a day when you truly gain strength.

Prayer

Thank You, God. Let today be a day of an important covenant, let it be a day of new grace, let it be a day when invisible healing occurs, let it be a day when all the darkness around us is bound, and let it be a day of the blessing of the coming of the Kingdom of God. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.

2026.09.13 District Message Week 37
Isaac Who Received and Enjoyed Blessings
(Genesis 26:12-33)

Summary

Some people find it hard to pray. But when you struggle trying to pray though it isn’t coming easily, that is when the greatest spiritual healing takes place. Studying is also good, but when you’re absorbed in trying hard to remember something forgotten, that is when the brain develops and comes alive most. Simply asking what God’s will is, is itself a blessing. The very fact that you have received the gospel means you have already left this darkness. You are called the light of the world. Among the figures of Scripture, the person who received and enjoyed the greatest blessing most smoothly was Isaac. Isaac had three things engraved in him.

Three Engravings
Prayer engraving, gospel engraving, answer experience
▷ Isaac’s parents were childless for a long time before he was born, obtaining him through prayer at the age of 100. They kept telling him, “This is how you were born.” This is the prayer engraving. Second, at the very moment Isaac was about to die on Mount Moriah, God prepared a ram in Isaac’s place. However much a human being struggles, they cannot escape Satan’s fate — but the ram that made escape possible, the true priest who blocked disaster, the true prophet through whom we meet God — the gospel — became completely engraved. Also, he grew up witnessing everything that happened to his father Abraham, especially the experience of answered prayer of Abraham becoming wealthy. In Abraham’s time, the person who owned many wells was the wealthy one.

▣ Introduction
1. No darkness – there is much darkness around us, so it must be torn down.
2. He gives us the power of the throne.
3. Delivering it.
This is the blessing we have received.

▣ Main
1. Genesis – Scripture alone explains what a human being actually is.
1) Genesis 1:27 – only humans were created in God’s image.
2) Genesis 3:4-5 – Satan took the form of a serpent and came to tempt Eve. “Don’t believe God, you are the best. You must become God.” This is the New Age movement.
3) Genesis 6:4-5 – the Nephilim. Even now, three groups practice spirit-possession movements.
4) Genesis 11:1-8 – wars continue today because people are still building towers of Babel.
5) Genesis 12:1-3, 13:18 – this is when God called Abraham

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and said, “Leave your homeland, your relatives, your father’s house. Go to the land I will show you.” But Abraham wandered for a time before one day beginning to build an altar.

2. Prayer
1) Wisdom (John 14:16) – wisdom comes that the world cannot teach. Jesus said, “The Helper, the Holy Spirit, who will be with you forever, will make you understand.”
2) Plan – when you pray, God’s clear plan becomes visible.
3) Testimony – others come to know that God is with you.
4) Witness – you become a witness for evangelism and missions.

3. Received Blessings
1) 100 years – he farmed and received a hundredfold return in a hundred-year answer. That’s what enables missions.
2) Promise – all the promises given to Abraham were fulfilled.
3) Source – Isaac was made to discover the source of the spring.
Abimelech – an unbeliever who witnessed this and was moved.

▣ Conclusion
Daily – enjoy this blessing every day starting now. In the morning, recover all the strength to conquer the universe; during the day, confirm it; at night, prepare for world evangelization that produces 300%.
Sunday – think of nothing else and focus entirely on prayer. Pray focused on your health, and for those with problems, focus in prayer until answers emerge.
Special – if something special happens, focus specially exactly as Scripture teaches.

Transcript

Some people find it hard to pray, there are such people. It’s fine — there are times when you struggle trying hard to pray because it isn’t coming easily. That is when the greatest spiritual healing takes place. Also, studying well is good, but when you’re really absorbed trying to remember something you’ve forgotten, that’s when your brain develops most. Also, when we have a good experience and think “ah, that’s nice,” that’s also a kind of recovery, but recovery also happens when I try hard to remember something I can’t recall. And some people ask, “What is God’s will?” You don’t need to know. You don’t need to know His will. The very act of asking that question is a blessing. Right? A person sunk in darkness doesn’t even ask such questions. They think, “Someone else did wrong,” or “Why is this happening when I’ve done nothing wrong, and it’s my spouse’s fault” — that kind of thing.

Now, the very fact that you have received the gospel means you have already left this darkness. To put it more precisely, you are the light of the world, it was said. Don’t waver — just knowing you exist as light is enough. Right? Just that opens the door. But instead, we keep thinking, “What am I failing to do, what should I be doing,” over and over like that.

Among the figures in Scripture, there is one who received the greatest answer most smoothly. Others had very complicated processes, but there is a person whose process wasn’t complicated and who cleanly received such a great answer.

“Isaac, Who Received and Enjoyed the Blessing”

This is Isaac, who received and enjoyed this blessing. Isaac received such a blessing. Why was that?

[Three Engravings]

These three things were engraved in him. To have Isaac, they had been childless for a long time and finally had him through prayer. They obtained him at 100 years old, at 100. Right? When Abraham was about 75, God said he would have a son, but he had no son. But after continuing to wait, the child born was Isaac, obtained at 100. This fact must have been told to him countless times. “You were born at 100 years old.” Isn’t there a story like this we heard from our mothers when we were little? That matters. “You know, this is how I gave birth to you” — like that.

[Prayer engraving, gospel engraving, answer engraving]

This is the prayer engraving. And what’s more important is that prayer is something everyone can do, and every religion does. What is the second, more important thing? One day, Isaac was about to die on Mount Moriah. But at the very moment he was about to die, God prepared a ram in Isaac’s place. He came back to life from death. Would this be engraved or not? This is important. The gospel was completely engraved. A human being cannot make it, no matter how hard they struggle. A human being cannot escape Satan’s fate, no matter how hard they struggle. The ram that made escape possible. The more a nation develops, the greater the disaster grows. The true priest who blocked the disaster. We have no ability to meet God on our own. So, the true prophet, the way to meet God, was engraved firmly in him.

Now, why must we die? Original sin. We cannot know. We cannot know why humans ended up this way. That is original sin. The sin of not knowing God. The sin of leaving God. That is original sin. If that were all, it would be fine, but we’ve been captured by Satan. We don’t know it. We keep bowing down before this without realizing it, and why does an answer come? That is demonic activity. A shaman goes to the seashore and beats on something and power appears. That is demonic activity.

So Isaac had the gospel completely engraved in him. However low your IQ, “I died and came back to life” — that you remember. Right? Also, Isaac watched everything that happened to his father Abraham. He witnessed the answers. Especially seeing Abraham become wealthy. He grew up watching that. In our country it’s different, but in that region — which today is the Middle East — right? Back then, who was the wealthiest? Whoever had many wells. If you had many wells, the whole village would gather around that water source to survive. So having many wells made you wealthy. What was Abraham’s distinguishing feature? He dug many wells. So we can say Abraham did business well. Isaac grew up watching all of that.

▣ Introduction

So why does God do this? Giving these kinds of blessings. We don’t really understand why we receive answers, or even why we come to church.

1. No darkness

There is much darkness around us, so it must be torn down.

2. The power of the throne

It’s not just at that level — it’s the opposite. He gives us the power of the throne. Tearing down darkness.

3. Delivering

And now what? Delivering this fact. This is the blessing we have received.

▣ Main

Now, this is only found in Scripture.

1. Genesis

It’s remarkable. What is a human being anyway? Only Scripture explains this. What’s the difference from a dog? What is a human being?

1) Genesis 1:27

Genesis 1:27. Only humans were created in God’s image. That’s what makes us human. Dogs, cattle don’t have that. Only humans were given God’s image.

2) Genesis 3:4-5

But why did the problem come? Genesis 3:4-5. It happened in the Garden of Eden. This is a story found only in Scripture. But it’s happening in reality right now, isn’t it? Satan took the form of a serpent and tempted Eve. What did he say? “Don’t believe God. You are the best. You must become God.” He said this. Isn’t it the same? Exactly the same. Those three groups, the New Age movement. “You will become king.” The exact same words. What’s the phrase — “you will become a Buddha.” Same thing — humans crushed by Satan being told they will become gods. This continues to this day.

If you have somewhat opened spiritual eyes, you know the books coming out these days? 90% of them are New Age books. Even churches in America have New Age culture penetrating them. A Remnant living in America wanted to go to seminary for evangelism training, so I said, “Come to Korea and do RTS.” “For a higher degree you might stay in America, but if you study there, you won’t be able to evangelize.” That’s what I said. You must see this (Genesis 3:4-5).

3) Genesis 6:4-5

I thought living like that was fine, but one day I realized I had been captured by Satan. Genesis 6:4-5. This is called the Nephilim. This story is found only in Scripture. Even now, three groups practice spirit-possession movements. Right? What are these shamanic beliefs disturbing Korea right now? They’re practicing spirit-possession. Exactly the same. Scripture reveals this.

4) Genesis 11:1-8

Why then, despite human effort, do wars keep breaking out and problems keep coming? Because they build towers of Babel. It’s the same today. Wars never end now. They’re building towers of Babel against each other.

5) 12:1-3, 13:18

This is when God called Abraham. So the first thing God said, looking at Abraham, was “Leave your homeland, your relatives, your father’s house. Go to the land I will show you.” He made this promise. At first, Abraham wandered aimlessly. But one day he realized, and began building an altar. This is an important story found only in Scripture.

2. Prayer

When you know this blessing and begin to pray, four things come.

1) Wisdom (John 14:16)

Wisdom comes that the world cannot give. In John 14:16, Jesus said the Helper, the Holy Spirit, who is with you forever, will make you understand.

2) Plan

What do you see next? God’s clear plan becomes visible. While praying.

3) Testimony

And what else? Now others come to know that God is with you. Testimony comes.

4) Witness

Then you become a witness for evangelism and missions. You must remember this.

3. Received Blessings

Now let’s look at what blessing Isaac received. You don’t need to receive it again, but it’s worth referencing what he received.

1) 100 years

He farmed and a 100-year answer came. That’s what enables missions.

2) Promise

Also, all the promises given to Abraham were fulfilled.

3) Source

Before, Abraham was blessed with many springs and wells, but God made Isaac discover the source of the spring.

[Abimelech]

At this time, Abimelech, an unbeliever, witnessed this and was moved. This is the kind of answer you will receive. An unbeliever seeing this and thinking, “Ah, I too must become a child of God.” Abimelech witnessed this and received that kind of blessing.

▣ Conclusion

[Daily]

So, enjoy this blessing every day starting now. Understand? Daily. Morning is the time to recover all the strength to conquer the universe. Daytime is the time to confirm it. Night is the time to prepare for world evangelization producing 300%. Do this daily.

[Sunday]

Especially on Sundays — today being Sunday — think of nothing else and focus entirely on prayer. Those who need health should pray focused on health, and those with problems should focus in prayer until the answer comes. On Sunday. That’s why it’s called Sunday. Try it. Experience it. Sunday.

[Special]

As we go along, special things happen to us sometimes. Special days come too. Right? Suddenly getting sick — there are times like this too. In such times, focus specially exactly as Scripture teaches. Try it. Don’t just pass over it — you must receive this answer.

Holding onto this covenant, how much should we pray all day today? Pray so that your strength is restored, both spiritually and physically. Truly. I will pray now.

Prayer

May today be a day filled with the abundant grace of the Holy Spirit. May it be a day of receiving new spiritual strength. May it be a day of healing. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

2026.09.06 District Message Week 36
Isaac Who Received Delayed Answers (Genesis 25:19-26)

Summary

Within me: The Bartizan of the Throne
On the Path: The Journey of the Throne
In the Future: The Guidepost of the Throne

We cannot answer accurately how long we will live, whether we will get sick, or whether our business will succeed. But those who triumphed in faith had one thing: the bartizan of the throne within me, which no one can give and no one can take away, the journey of the throne on my path, and in the future, God leaves a guidepost at an exact timetable He sees. But Isaac’s answer came a little late. Yet he received the answer that enjoys the most. Even when the answer is late, figures who were not deceived emerged. Joseph, who spent 13 long years in prison; Moses, who became 80; Samuel, who started the Mizpah movement; David, who fled for decades. Also, Rome became evangelized only after 250 years.

▣ Introduction

1. The word is being fulfilled. About 7,000 promises have all been fulfilled. Only one has not yet been fulfilled.
2. Covenant prayer answers are happening.
3. The witness of the gospel has never ceased.

▣ Main

1. The answer comes in three ways.
1) Immediate answer
2) No answer – This comes as no answer because we don’t need to receive it.
3) An answer that must be waited for – This is the most common.

2. Reasons
1) He wants us to know the secret of the gospel.
2) He wants us to know the power of prayer. The sicker a person is, the more they must gain the real strength of faith; the older one gets, the more spiritual strength must be gained.
3) He is establishing a great plan.

3. The invisible answer
1) Absolute plan – Absolute covenant – Absolute mission
God’s absolute plan becomes visible. If we don’t see it, as we wait and pray, it is fulfilled, and the absolute covenant comes out, and the absolute mission comes out.
2) No darkness, the power of the throne, heavenly hosts – At this time, in ways we don’t know, darkness collapses, and because it is the power of the throne, the heavenly hosts are mobilized.
3) Special bartizan – At this time, the wrong bartizan we held is changed into a bartizan that knows God, and a special bartizan is established.

▣ Conclusion_ 7 Point

That’s when the 7 points are found. People get confused when the answer comes. When Rome declared Christianity the state religion, wealth piled up in the church and the priests went crazy. At this time, God is holding the 7 points that save the future for us. We must always ask. Do not be deceived when I become weak. That is the time you become the strongest. God’s real prayer answers happen so often through weak, elderly people. The 7 Remnants were all in difficulty, but they were not deceived. The devil by nature deceives. In John 8:44, the devil is the one who deceives, the liar, the father of lies. That’s why all fortune-tellers are deceived.

Transcript

We don’t know how long we will live. Also, I don’t know whether I will get sick or not. Also, now, whether my business will go well or not, I cannot give an exact answer to that either. But those who triumphed in faith had one thing.

[The Bartizan of the Throne Within Me]

I had within me the bartizan of the throne, which no one can give and no one can take away. Here, what we must be careful about is that we don’t die right away just because we hold some great grudge. But one day, a problem will inevitably come because of it. So when you’re going through faith life and get wounded like this, you must resolve it completely. You’ll almost get caught up in it. Conversely, praying doesn’t bring an immediate answer either. But it always comes. So you must build the bartizan of the throne within you.

[The Journey of the Throne on My Path]

And you go on the journey of the throne on your path. This is usually a word that ordinary people in the world absolutely cannot understand.

District Study (Week 36)
Category / Speaker: Rev. Kwang-Su Ryu
Date/Location: September 6, 2026, Immanuel Church (Seoul)
Title/Scripture: Isaac, Whose Answer Was Delayed (Genesis 25:19-26)

[The Guidepost of the Throne in the Future]

Then, without fail, the answer of world evangelization comes on your path. When? In your future.

So because we’re human, even Moses thought, “What age am I now?” But God’s word had not yet been fulfilled. He thought he had no strength now, and that’s natural to think. But one day, an event happened. From our perspective, it happened on some particular day. But to God who sees, it is an exact timetable. Right? Also we think, “Oh, I made a mistake, and because of that someone died.” But that’s not right. We came at God’s timetable, and we leave at God’s timetable. It’s certain. We must enjoy this in the meantime.

Ah, people, when they lose money, tend to have a hard time judging things properly. What you must be most careful about is that as people age, they sometimes become weak or sick. Also, even when young, when illness comes, people become discouraged in themselves. You must be most careful about this. There’s no need to. Ahn Yi-suk gave true thanks to God upon learning she had cancer. And then the cancer was healed. She didn’t become overly delighted about that either. People of faith are like this. We are here. The bartizan of the throne. We go on that journey. We leave this guidepost.

“Isaac, Whose Answer Was Delayed”

But sometimes the answer comes a bit late. And Isaac’s answer was a bit late. But he received the answer that enjoys the most.

People are all similar, right — when we have no answer at all, nothing visible, we think this way. That’s how you get deceived. Figures who were not deceived emerged. Joseph was in prison for 13 long years. Not a short time, right? Within that, Joseph was enjoying this (the bartizan of the throne, the journey of the throne, the guidepost of the throne). His brothers, when they saw him, said, “Joseph, look at him, he’s crazy.” “That kid is strange.” They themselves were the strange ones, but they called Joseph “strange.” All of you, try telling this to a group of unbelieving friends gathered together. They’ll say you’re crazy, right? But that person’s life was governed by this. How foolish, right?

Even Moses at 80 was like this — while hiding in Midian for 40 years after being driven out, that time was actually his best time. He wrote Genesis, which we absolutely cannot do without. We find every answer in Genesis. People don’t know. Why do spiritual problems come? It’s all recorded in Genesis. Even when we tell religious people not to worship idols, that worshipping idols brings spiritual problems, they don’t understand. The reason is explained in Scripture. It’s amazing. Some countries you visit — rooms, outside, everywhere is full of idols. The problem is these people don’t know how bad this is. It’s hard to name the country, but practically half of that nation’s people are mentally ill. And it’s going to get more serious ahead.

Those of you sitting here are somewhat better, but going forward, in the 2030-2080 era, isn’t it said that 90% of what people can do will disappear? That future is coming soon. So our elder deaconesses and older folks — don’t think you’re too old, you all must study these machines. You don’t need to become experts, but you must be able to function enough. Going forward, if you’re careless, you might reach a point where you can’t even order at a restaurant without knowing this. In this situation, we are still going to school and work. We really cannot afford to not know this power.

As you know, not one word of Samuel’s fell to the ground, they say, and after that, trouble came upon Israel. There’s no mention of Samuel’s presence during that time. Later, this Samuel starts the Mizpah movement. So the point I’m making is this — we keep getting deceived thinking that biblical prayer answers aren’t happening now. So today, in the first service, I was going to explain what the answer is, but before that, you must know that some things take a long time to arrive and are waited for. David spent decades fleeing. If you only look at that moment of fleeing, how would you feel? That’s the important part. Did he know and endure it? Or did he just endure without knowing? He was in that kind of situation.

More importantly, how much difficulty comes matters — if too much comes at once, people get confused. Right? Never get confused. 250 years — how long is that? People die without even seeing it. Turning Christianity into a strange group and persecuting it — that’s exactly what the devil does. Turning it into a strange group and persecuting it. That has to be a year or two, but this was 250 years. Ten Roman emperors persecuted the gospel over 250 years. It’s a situation where survival is impossible. That could happen. But the important thing is, even amid that persecution, there were people enjoying this (the bartizan of the throne, the journey of the throne, the guidepost of the throne). That’s astonishing. But when you look at the records of these people, they were all recorded as having been happy. Even amid that persecution. But one day, Europe was completely evangelized. Rome bowed before the gospel. Does that make sense — 250 years? Many people died without seeing it. We are easily prone to this kind of misconception. You must remember this.

▣ Introduction

1. Fulfillment of the word
What is clear is that the word is being fulfilled. About 7,000 promises have all been fulfilled. Only one has not yet been fulfilled.

2. Covenant prayer answer
Even now God is answering exact covenant-based prayer.

3. Witness of the gospel
And what’s important now is that the witness of the gospel has never once ceased. Even though it was blocked for 250 years, it never stopped. If so, we are within this.

▣ Main

There are a few things to remember.

1. Three ways
1) Immediate answer
There are three ways the answer comes. Some things God answers immediately when we pray.
2) No answer
Also, some things come as no answer because we don’t need to receive them. If your prayer wasn’t answered, it’s not because you lacked ability but because God isn’t giving what isn’t needed.
3) Answer that must be waited for
But there is an answer that comes after waiting a long time. This kind of answer exists too. But the third one is the most common. So what must we be careful about? When the answer comes after a long wait, how do we live out our faith in the meantime? So from the start, though given, what Jesus finally promised is this (the bartizan of the throne, the journey of the throne, the guidepost of the throne). Keep praying this and it becomes visible. This is important, right? If you keep praying this (the bartizan of the throne, the journey of the throne, the guidepost of the throne), you don’t need anything else. Keep praying this and it truly becomes visible. Then age and position don’t matter. If you are within this (the bartizan of the throne, the journey of the throne, the guidepost of the throne), one day it starts to become visible.

2. Reasons
Especially, the reasons become visible. What becomes visible?
1) Secret of the gospel
He wants believers to know the secret of the gospel instead of struggling while attending church.
2) Power of prayer
And He wants you to know the power of prayer throughout your life. The sicker a person is, the more they need the true strength of faith. The older you get, the more spiritual strength you must gain. Don’t listen to what people say. That’s how you get deceived. The older you get, the more strength you must gain.
3) Great plan
What else? God is establishing a great plan. He’s establishing a great plan. I mentioned this before — a smart Remnant came from abroad. He studied well. His faith was good too. Though a young child, his faith was solid. Whenever he met me, he’d say he was studying to become a doctor. He said he wanted to go where there were no doctors, to a remote area. So I told him plainly, “Don’t make that plan.” “You don’t know how greatly God will use you. You can go there later.” He seemed a bit hurt by that. “God may call you somewhere greater before you go there. Many people make their goals clear. But a truly prayerful person has no goal of their own.” Right? Someone who truly sees God’s plan doesn’t mean they don’t set their own plans — they can’t set them. This plan remains for you. God is not delaying the answer for these things; He’s making Isaac realize this.

3. The invisible answer
First, the invisible answer comes first, you know?
1) Absolute plan – Absolute covenant – Absolute mission
What’s the first? God’s absolute plan becomes visible. It was that way for Hannah too. You have no need to rush. While enjoying and praying, this becomes visible. If it’s not visible, just wait while praying. Then the absolute covenant that will be fulfilled comes out. All 66 books are absolute covenants, but the absolute covenant that will be fulfilled comes out, they say. So then the absolute mission — not optional, but absolute — comes out. Now, you all are due to receive that kind of answer. If you attend church just for fun, you’ll receive a fun kind of answer. No — some people attend faith the way they’d have “some” religion just to have one. That kind of person won’t receive the answer. This remains. It’s not delayed. This is about trying to know it.
2) No darkness, power of the throne, heavenly hosts
At this time David confessed this. Things you don’t know are happening. Darkness begins to collapse. This is invisible. And what else? Because it’s the power of the throne, this manifests, and the heavenly hosts, which Scripture describes the most, are mobilized invisibly.
3) Special bartizan
At this time, this is invisible to us. The bartizan changes. Right? Up until now, we easily hold onto a wrong bartizan. What people who study well should think about is that their studies weren’t wrong, but they kept learning things apart from God. Now we’re different. We change it into a bartizan that knows God. What is the last ministry for our elders? Establishing a special bartizan. You don’t have to do anything. Just establish this and it’s done. Amazing things happen. In fact, my mother did nothing at all. Just this one thing — prayer. But that answer, words cannot describe it. Now, real, visible answers begin to come. That’s when people get confused. Don’t get confused.

▣ Conclusion_ 7 Point

What do we do then? We find the 7 points. Try receiving many answers. It gets confusing. When Rome declared Christianity the state religion, what happened? Wealth just started piling up within the church. That’s when the priests went crazy. Right? In the old days, people were called heretics and beaten to death, but now this became overwhelmingly powerful. It became enormous. So, in our terms, when a pastor or pope appears, there’s an uproar. Everyone loses their minds over it. That’s not it. We are holding the 7 points that save the future for you all.

You must remember this. You must always ask. Don’t be deceived. There are times I become weak. Don’t be deceived. That is the time you become the strongest, right? We keep getting deceived. “Oh, I’m too old now, I have no strength.” That’s deception. God’s real prayer answers happen so often through weak, elderly people. Right? We keep getting deceived. Remnants get deceived saying “my environment is like this, my house is like that.” The 7 Remnants were all in difficulty. They were not deceived. Conclusion: the devil by nature is the deceiver. John 8:44. The devil, the deceiver. The liar, it said. The father of lies, it said. That’s why all fortune-tellers over there are all deceived.

May you all experience healing of even unknown illnesses as you pray all day today, in the name of Jesus Christ. I will pray.

Prayer

God, thank you. May today be a day we gain spiritual strength. May it be a day we grasp Your word. Open our spiritual eyes so we are not deceived. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

2026.08.30 District Message Week 35
The Death of Abraham (Genesis 25:1-11)

Summary

Everyone faces this once — the death of Abraham. In truth, we hardly know where our life came from or where it is going. We hardly know when we were born or when we will die. And we do not decide for ourselves which country we are born into or which country we die in. But there are a few things that are certain.

■ Introduction
1. Original sin — salvation — because we are born carrying original sin, we must be saved.
2. Power of the throne — those who are saved must recover the power of the throne. The way to recover the power of the throne lies within the throne’s bartizan, journey, and guidepost.
3. A monument comes into being.

■ Main
1. Sojourner (eternal life) — Abraham’s death points to the fact that human life is that of a sojourner. The word “sojourner” is not an ending. A sojourner must go to his hometown, his own home. Our life is neither an ending nor reincarnation. Our soul exists on unchanged, staying briefly within the body before departing one day. It exists forever. This is why he gives us to obtain eternal life.
1) Destruction — an unbeliever must be saved because that state of destruction is eternal.
2) Life is eternal. It looks as though we live long on this earth, but we live only for a brief while. The mayfly’s whole life, having gone through everything, amounts to 24 hours.
2. During life — what we do during this time becomes our blessing. Eternal life goes to an eternal place, but what matters is the brief time spent in the body before going.
1) Salvation — you are only saved while your soul is within your body.
2) Evangelism — you can only evangelize while your soul is within your body.
3) Reward — everything you do while alive becomes your reward.
3. What is left behind
1) Personal salvation and blessing.
2) It is passed on to your descendants. Even without directly teaching your children, spiritual things are passed on.
3) Evangelism — the blessing we have received is the evangelism that saves others.
4) Missions — missions that save other nations.

■ Conclusion
1. Absolute sovereignty — when are we born and when do we go? We do not know. It is God’s absolute sovereignty.
2. Absolute plan — God without fail holds a plan for world evangelization.
3. Absolute bartizan — journey — guidepost — this is what we search for and follow.

▷ On the Lord’s Day, we must pray that we can see what word we truly need, what prayer we must offer, what answer we must receive, and how our work can be made 300% to save others. What matters even more is that when we worship and pray today, the Heavenly Power, Thronely, and Eternally that break the one who holds authority in the air are formed. Take hold of this and go on to 24, 25, and eternity.

Transcript

“The Death of Abraham”

Everyone faces this once — the death of Abraham. In truth, we hardly know where our life came from or where it is going. We hardly know when we were born or when we will die. And whether I was born in this country or that country, that is not something I decided for myself. Most of us here are Korean, but it isn’t that you chose to be Korean and were born that way. You simply woke up and found yourself Korean.

■ Introduction
But there are a few things that are certain for us.

1. Original sin — salvation
Because we are born carrying original sin, we must be saved.

2. Power of the throne
Those who are saved must recover the power of the throne. The way to recover the power of the throne is not asking for something specific. It lies within the throne’s bartizan, journey, and guidepost.

3. Monument
This surely comes about. A monument does appear.

■ Main
1. Sojourner (eternal life)
First. Abraham’s death teaches that human life is that of a sojourner. The word “sojourner” is not an ending. Right? A sojourner must go to his hometown. Right? His hometown, his own home. Our life is not an ending. Many people think it is an ending. Unbelievers think it’s the end. That is a mistaken idea. Some religions speak of reincarnation. That is a misunderstanding too. Satan teaches falsely like this, and that’s why people get confused. It is neither an ending nor reincarnation. Buddhism-like ideas about this are truly a frightening thing — the notion that you were reincarnated as something, or that you had a previous life — that is nonsense. Your soul continues to exist and goes on. It does not stay in the body forever, but departs one day. It exists eternally. That is why He gives us eternal life. You must remember this.

In Genesis chapter 41, verse 9, Jacob confessed that his life had been a sojourner’s journey. You can use this in the study. Isaiah 40:6-8 says it this way: grass withers, flowers fade. It says, “But the word of the Lord stands forever.” Grass withering and flowers fading refers to human life. Our lives will surely wither and fade too. But the word stands forever. In Genesis chapter 4, verses 16 and 18, we see that when Cain and his descendants departed from the word of God, they fell into torment from that point on. The people of the covenant no longer simply walk the path of a sojourner but walk it together with God. That is what all this is saying. So what we must remember above all is this.

1) Destruction
Why must an unbeliever be saved? Because that state of destruction is eternal.

2) Life
Life — that is eternal too.

So if it were like unbelievers say — if it simply ended when you die — that would be fine, but it does not end. That is why you and I, though we appear to live long on this earth, only live briefly and then go. Take the mayflies of summer, for instance. To them, that is their whole lifespan — 24 hours. To us it seems like just a day. But for them, that is a whole lifetime of every kind of hardship. Ask them — they’ve been through everything within those 24 hours.

2. During life
What matters is what? Abraham’s life was being told, but what you do while you are alive becomes your blessing. Now, eternal life goes to an eternal place, but before that, what happens during the brief time in the body is important. Refer to the scripture verses.

1) Salvation
You are only saved while your soul is within your body. This is very important. It means that only while your parents are alive can they be saved — meaning, only while the soul is within the body can salvation happen. Once it leaves, it is over. As for people who say they saw something after they died — all of that is nonsense. Do not listen to that kind of talk — look to the word of God instead.

2) Evangelism
You can only evangelize while your soul is within your body. Once it leaves, you cannot go anymore.

3) Reward
Everything you do while you are alive becomes your reward.

3. What is left behind
So you have a guidepost to leave behind. What is that guidepost?

1) Personal
Personal salvation and blessing. So there is nothing else we need to do.

2) Descendants
This blessing is passed on to your descendants. Even without you directly teaching your children, spiritual things are passed down.

3) Evangelism
And the blessing you received is what saves other people — evangelism.

4) Missions
Missions that save other nations.

When it comes to evangelism, we always think of it only as going out to preach the gospel, but think of it the other way around. Every single day, disaster is coming upon the whole family. They cannot even speak of it. If you go there and preach the gospel that saves a soul just once, that is evangelism. Put in words, if you go into those foreign countries, there are problems there that words cannot even describe. I was shocked. Killing a person is an everyday matter there. So many countries are full of this. Shining light into that is what missions is. If our lives can be that, there is no greater blessing than that. In the end, Abraham realized this and left it behind.

■ Conclusion
1. Absolute sovereignty
This is the conclusion. When you are born and when you go — you do not know. See this as God’s absolute sovereignty. You must believe it.

2. Absolute plan
And God without fail holds a plan for world evangelization. Absolute plan.

3. Absolute bartizan — journey — guidepost
Here, God gives you an absolute bartizan, journey, and guidepost. Go searching for and following this.

On the Lord’s Day, you must pray on the Lord’s Day so that you can see what word you truly need. On the Lord’s Day you must confirm what prayer you must offer and what answer you will receive. There is no distinction of high or low among our various work. You must pray how to make your work 300% and save others — that is what you pray on the Lord’s Day. What matters even more is knowing what happens all day long when you worship and pray today. The Heavenly Power that breaks the one who holds authority in the air arises today. Then, because your vessel fills up, next comes the throne — Thronely. Today, as you pray, what comes out? Eternally. Forever. It is being formed. Take hold of this and go on to 24, 25, and eternity.

The Lord’s Day is the greatest day. Today, do not listen to people’s talk — pray earnestly. Do not speak ill of others on the Lord’s Day. Hold onto God’s word and pray earnestly. So that the five paths clearly come into view. As this accumulates, the door of world evangelization will open for you. I bless that today may become a day of covenant, all day long, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Prayer

We thank You, God. May today be a day, all day long, in which the throne’s bartizan, journey, and guidepost are fulfilled. We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

2026.08.23 District Message Week 34
The Servant of Faith Who Followed God’s Guidance (Genesis 24:1-67)

Summary
▣ Introduction: Prayer
It is truly hard for the Remnant to pray. But once you know why, it becomes easier.

1. Genesis 3, 6, 11 (original sin) (a different spirit) — We are born already caught up in Genesis chapters 3, 6, and 11. We call this original sin. It means a different spirit is currently at work. It is not possible to keep every law, but even keeping it fully does not resolve original sin. The root problem is that we have left God — that is why it cannot be resolved. What is remarkable and frightening now is a spiritual current that does not know about original sin. It is a state of being completely captured by Satan, self-centered — that is what original sin is.
2. Engraving, wounds (roots, constitution) — things unrelated to God that have been engraved into us without our knowing, wounds engraved even more, taking root over and over until they become one’s constitution. That is why we cannot pray.
3. Spiritual problems — there are unspeakable spiritual problems in one’s family and household that cannot be resolved.
▷ Nothing else can resolve this. So we use only the word gospel; original sin is resolved only through the word Christ. We tend to trust human words more. But here Abraham breaks completely free of that, and now receives God’s guidance. Once we receive this guidance, God’s bartizan forms, and we go on a journey, and set up guideposts.

▣ Main
1. What Faith: 1) Ability — Our ability has its limits. We trust God’s ability. 2) Way — We also believe in Christ, who is the way to meet God. This was all prophesied in Isaiah 53. 3) Prayer time is not just “important” — it is the time that resolves everything. 4) Matthew 6:33 (background) — Jesus promised this. “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Our background is God’s kingdom, the throne — that is why when we pray, we can receive everything. 5) 1 John 5:13 (the name) — “Praying in the name of God, and asking according to God’s will, whatever it is, will be answered,” it says. 6) Daniel 3:8-23 — the decision of the three young men. When you make a decision of faith at this moment today, darkness is broken. ▷ We must operate within God’s ability — if we keep doing only worldly things, what is spiritual collapses. This small decision of faith set off events that changed the world.

2. Confirmation: 1) Plan — whenever it is God’s plan, an answer is bound to come. 2) Will — what is God’s will? That is what we pray about. 3) Way — at that time, God has already prepared a way for us.

3. Principles of Life: 1) Beginning (Camp 1) — when we begin, we confirm through prayer whether God’s work fits or not. We call this Camp 1 in our terminology. 2) Progress — the Nephilim (Camp 2) — wherever we go, the Holy Spirit is bound to work. The Nephilim are bound to be broken. That is the standard. 3) Conclusion (Camp 3) — finally reproduction, re-creation, and a new challenge arise. That is our conclusion.

▣ Conclusion: My Prayer
What is our Remnant’s prayer? This is what must be asked. How should Remnant members pray? How should our church leaders pray? What is a minister’s prayer like? How should the sick pray? It is written in Scripture. Do not learn from people; ask God and find it. We must have the secret of receiving prayer answers directly from God.

Transcript
▣ Introduction: [Prayer]
Especially our Remnant need to be helped — praying is truly difficult for them. But knowing the reason makes it easier.

1. Genesis 3, 6, 11 (original sin)
We are born already caught up in Genesis chapters 3, 6, and 11. This is called original sin. Very few religions know about this original sin. They only know things like “don’t do bad things, do good deeds” — they don’t know what original sin really is. Original sin is having left God. So this is truly a frightening thing. (A different spirit) A different spirit is currently at work.

So the distinctive feature is that Jewish people don’t know what original sin is. So it comes out like, “if you just keep all the law, you’re fine.” It’s not possible to keep all the law, but even keeping it fully does not resolve original sin. The root problem is that we have left God — that’s why it cannot be resolved. What is remarkably terrifying right now is that spiritual current. Even the Catholic Church doesn’t know what original sin is. What does the Catholic Church teach? That a baby who died right after being born — what sin could it have? It sounds nice to hear, but that’s how they explain it. Whether one is born one day old or lives 100 years, it’s the same kind of life. That’s how you can tell they don’t know what original sin is. It is a state of being completely self-centered, captured by Satan — that is original sin.

2. Engraving, Wounds (Roots, Constitution)
Also, things unrelated to God get engraved into us more than we know. This too is frightening. Some people have wounds engraved like this. This keeps taking root. Little by little it takes root until it becomes one’s constitution. That’s why one cannot pray. So our Remnant — you absolutely need to be made able to pray; if you can do that, you win.

3. Spiritual Problems
On top of that, there are things that can’t be spoken about in one’s family, things that can’t be spoken about in one’s own household, spiritual problems belonging to oneself — these cannot be resolved. And so one becomes unable to pray.

Only the Gospel
Nothing else can eliminate this. That’s why we use the word “gospel” alone.

Christ
This terrifying, present original sin is resolved only through the word “Christ.” So you should now be completely strengthened, because it is finished.

“Faith – Guidance”
It is faith. We trust human words more. We trust human words more than the word of God. Some people even trust the words of the demon-possessed and stake their lives on it. That is now an extremely dangerous thing. But what you must know is — “but that demon-possessed person guesses things really well, doesn’t he?” He guesses well. But John 8:44 itself is a lie. Satan’s very existence is a lie, and that itself is a lie. So you must now completely break free of that in order to receive an answer. Right? Abraham completely broke free. And so now he receives God’s guidance.

Bartizan, Journey, Guidepost
Once we receive this guidance, we come to have God’s bartizan, and go on a journey, and set up guideposts.

Now, there is a certain amount that people should moderate. But this is something you cannot moderate. We should moderate most things, right? But this cannot be moderated. It is completely finished. That’s why Paul — to what extent did he take this? He was shocked. To what degree was Paul shocked after this (introduction) was resolved? He felt so ashamed and sorry — that he had been boasting of knowledge that was worthless up until then. He felt it was shameful and harmful. To what degree did he even go? He considered it garbage. God used Paul. You too must resolve your problem and go to that place as a witness who saves others.

▣ Main
1. What Faith
So what kind of faith is it? That is what I want to talk about this time.

1) Ability
Our ability has its limits. We trust God’s ability.

2) Way
We also believe in Christ, who is the way to meet God. This was all prophesied in Isaiah 53.

3) Prayer Time
The time we pray is not just “important” — it is the time that resolves everything. You must believe this. Today, do not remain within this (introduction) — completely finish with it. This is complete unbelief, so throw it away.

4) Matthew 6:33 (Background)
And there is something important God gives us — Matthew 6:33, Jesus promised. “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” He even explained our background. Our background is God’s kingdom, the throne — that’s why when we pray, we can receive everything. You must believe this.

5) 1 John 5:13 (The Name)
And in 1 John 5:14 also, it says that if we pray in that name, whatever we ask will be answered. Praying in the name of God, asking according to God’s will — whatever it is — will be answered.

6) Daniel 3:8-23
Especially Daniel chapter 2, verses 8 through 23 — this is, as you know, the decision of the three young men. When you make a decision of faith at this moment today, darkness is broken. Do not listen to what other people say.

Now there are many people out there working in the world. You need to do that within God’s ability — if you keep doing only worldly things, what is inside you collapses. What is spiritual collapses. Take police officers, for example. Police officers always have to look at people with suspicion, right? A police officer looking at someone and feeling, “this person seems really nice” — that shouldn’t happen, right? They have to live their whole life that way. Without spiritual strength, that’s no good. And journalists too. I think journalists must have the hardest time — that’s how they live every day. Their spiritual state ends up in tremendous collapse. And their own personal spiritual problems come, but they’re too embarrassed to speak about it.

When you make a decision of faith, darkness collapses. It’s easy to be deceived. Civil servants have to read the room, don’t they? This (Daniel 3:8-23) small decision of faith set off events that changed the world. We really don’t understand faith very well.

2. Confirmation
And what else? Confirming. This is not doubt — it is confirming.

1) Plan
Whenever we ask, “What is God’s plan?” — you are bound to receive an answer.

2) Will
Also, “What is God’s will?” — that’s what we pray about. It’s a similar phrase, but “God’s plan” refers to a bigger future picture, while “God’s will” refers to finding something small in the present moment.

3) Way
And at that time, God has already prepared a way for us. This is what we confirm.

No matter what difficulty there is, you must grasp the covenant and confirm it. Then God’s distant plan and the will and way happening right now will be visible.

3. Principles of Life
So we can carry three principles of life. The reason for writing this anew is that today’s lesson has too many difficult words.

1) Beginning (Camp 1)
Whenever we begin, we confirm through prayer whether God’s work fits or not. We now call this Camp 1 in our terminology. Your life must begin exactly this way. “I have nothing right now” — that’s fine.

I told this story yesterday too. When I was attending college and graduate school, I had absolutely no money. So compared to others, I had nothing — no background. Originally my dream was to go abroad and just study like everyone else. I studied English hard on my own like this. But the way just wasn’t opening for me. So because I didn’t know what faith was, didn’t know how to pray, I always thought differently at the time. One day, as I was praying, an answer began to come. “What if you just don’t go?” Right? “If God’s will is not to go, then what should I do?” I made a very important discovery. I picked up a book and went to the field. To the evangelism field. I found all my blessings there. I nearly missed it and could have ruined everything. So it doesn’t lie in the difficult places.

We’re also listening in Busan right now, aren’t we? When I first went to Yeongdo it was pitch dark. There was no church building, nothing there. At that time I made an important discovery. “If we need a sanctuary, God will provide it later. That’s not what’s important right now. What matters is how these believers can spread the word movement in this neighborhood.” Precisely, in about 270-something places — did it reach around 300 places? We spread the word movement. At the same time. In that wilderness-like place, a thousand disciples rose up. Even I was surprised.

So — the beginning. Once you find your beginning completely guided by God’s Holy Spirit even once, it continues. If you lose your way, you keep wandering. Once you find it, it keeps happening from that point on, anytime.

2) Progress — the Nephilim (Camp 2)
How does progress happen? You may not know, but wherever you go, the Holy Spirit is bound to work. The Nephilim are bound to be broken. That is the standard. Camp 2. That’s why I call it a principle. You must absolutely receive this blessing.

3) Conclusion — Camp 3
Finally, reproduction, re-creation take place. That is our conclusion. Right now, many multi-ethnic people are coming. These people must be able to receive that same guidance when they go back. See that and call it Camp 3.

You have the right to receive this blessing. Why? It is God’s promise. It is a promise given directly by Christ. You must naturally receive it. From now, the door of world evangelization will continue to open. Naturally it will open. To these three courtyards, many multi-ethnic peoples will come to live in the future. Right? Of course. Here, prayer movements happen, healing history happens, and truly gaining real strength will happen. Abraham fully enjoyed the blessing.

▣ Conclusion: My Prayer
So what is the conclusion? What is our Remnant’s prayer? This must be asked. How should Remnant pray? How should our church leaders pray? This must be asked. Whatever else, this (my prayer) must absolutely be done. Our ministers too — what is a minister’s prayer like? Now, someone is sick. Never lose heart. How should the sick pray? It’s written in Scripture — like Paul. “I don’t even know where I am” — you must go that deep. When we face something important, what should we do? We must seek.

Today, if possible, do not learn from people, but ask God and seek. In some sense, you are the one confirming the evidence — you don’t need to just copy my prayer. You must have the secret of receiving prayer answers directly from God. In fact, that’s really the end of it.

This important part is a period of testing. When you have doubts, you must think about this. I said this last week too. “Ah, God is testing me.” It may look to you like difficulty is coming, but it isn’t. Those who have encountered a crisis, we will confirm today’s message in our first service. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that as you pray deeply and earnestly today, even illnesses you don’t know about will be healed.

Prayer
We thank you, God. Let today be a day of great spiritual blessing. As we pray intensely today, let sickness leave, let all darkness be bound, let all disaster leave, and let only your glory appear. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

2026.08.09 District Message Week 32
「Abraham’s Identity and Restoration」

Genesis 21:22-34

22 At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.
23 Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”
24 Abraham said, “I swear it.”
25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.
26 But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”
27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.
28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock,
29 and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
30 He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”
31 So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.
32 After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.
33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
34 And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

Summary

When we go through hardship, we can be shaken. There are things we cannot say, but our pride is wounded too. We believe in God, but we still think, “Why has this happened to me?” As we grow older our bodies grow weak, and our hearts grow weak along with them. Even a young person, when circumstances turn bad enough, cannot help but struggle. Abraham thought, even though God is almighty, “How can this be, when I still have no child?” Sarah was too old to be in a position to bear a child.

Hagar – Ishmael – Through the servant woman Hagar, Ishmael was born.
Isaac – Then one day Isaac was born, according to God’s promise. When Ishmael mocked his younger brother Isaac, Abraham drove out Hagar and Ishmael.
Abimelek (King of Gerar) saw this, and, remarking to Abraham how impressive he was, asked to join hands with him and work together well.

▷ Unbelief → Restoration of Identity
Unbelief ruins everything. To recover faith is to recover everything. Scientifically speaking, if you think or say you can’t take it anymore, it actually becomes imprinted in the brain. When our spirit is gripped by unbelief, we collapse completely. No matter what hardship comes, we must hold onto God’s covenant and draw strength from it—if our strength drains away, darkness sweeps in. Abraham completely recovered his identity out of this unbelief. Having faith is important, but our identity is restored when we know that we are children of God. Unbelief produces terrible results. The Arab wars happening now and the attacks against Israel—all of that comes from the descendants of Ishmael. Israel rejected Jesus Christ and nailed Jesus Christ to the cross in unbelief, and as a result, from A.D. 70 until 1948, they had no nation. The forces of darkness attack the breach of unbelief, as in Ephesians 4:27.

▷ Prayer – Turn all our thoughts into prayer. For the rest of our lives, let us abandon unbelief in every thought and turn to prayer instead.

▣ Main

This kind of timetable came to Abraham.

1. The unbeliever [is blessed] – Beersheba
The unbeliever sees and comes to realize this blessing, and comes to see the work of God. And so the word that came out when Abimelek and Abraham made their promise was Beersheba.

2. Promise
1) Personal salvation
2) Family salvation
3) National salvation
4) The salvation of the nations comes about.

3. Restoration
1) Identity
2) Authority – authority that comes with the identity of being God’s child.
3) Witness – giving evidence, so as to make a person a witness.

▷ Today, as we worship, we are taking hold of the power of the word and its mission. We are taking hold of God’s word as a covenant. Abraham, who had always doubted, took hold of God’s word as a covenant, and God counted it to him as righteousness through that faith. In the end, Isaac was born just as promised.

▣ Conclusion_ Test

God tests our faith in order to bless us. This is what is called, in English, a Test. It is different from the temptation that the devil gives.

District Cell Group Study (32nd Week)
Category: District Cell Group Study
Title/Scripture: Abraham’s Identity and Restoration (Genesis 21:22-34)
Speaker: Rev. Kwang-Soo Ryu
Date/Location: August 9, 2026, Immanuel Church

Transcript

Perhaps when you go through hardship, you become a little shaken. And now, even though there are things you can’t say, your pride gets hurt too. Even though you say you believe in God, when hardship comes you find yourself thinking, “Ah, why has this happened to me?” And as you grow older and your body grows weaker, your heart grows weaker too. And even a young person—depending on circumstances, when things are bad enough—cannot help but struggle. That’s what happens. It’s shaken like that. This is exactly what happened with Abraham. And so Abraham finally thought, “Even though God is an almighty God, how can this be, when I still have no child?” Even though God is the almighty Creator, Sarah’s age was now such that she was no longer in a position to bear a child.

[ Hagar – Ishmael ]

And so, through the servant woman named Hagar, he had a son. That son’s name was Ishmael.

Isaac

Then one day, Isaac was born just as God had promised. This is when Abraham was overcome with shock. “Wow, God really did give me a son just as he said he would.”

But now, when we look at this, it’s hard to understand. Once Isaac was born, Abraham drove out Hagar and Ishmael. As Isaac grew up, this Ishmael—by now a bit older—kept mocking his younger brother, doing things like that. So when Abraham heard about this, he drove out Hagar and Ishmael.

Abimelek (King of Gerar)

At this time, this person called Abimelek is the king of the nation of Gerar. Seeing all this, this king of Gerar said to Abraham, wow, this is really impressive. In other words, he was asking, let’s now join hands and work well together like this. This is Abimelek’s request. If I think about it plainly with my own mind, I don’t really understand it. “How can he really cast them out just because a child was born after all this waiting? Can a person really do that?” That’s the kind of thought it seems like it would provoke. The customs of that time were also a factor, but seeing all this, Abimelek even came and greatly praised Abraham—that’s what this passage tells us.

“Unbelief → Restoration of Identity”

Here I realized something remarkable. Unbelief ruins everything. To recover faith is to recover everything. This is the answer I arrived at. That’s right. And scientifically speaking, it’s the same thing. If you think or say, “Ah, I’m too exhausted, I can’t go on living like this,” it actually becomes imprinted in your brain. It gets imprinted, and scientifically, medically, that’s exactly how it works. This brain sends the message to the body that it can’t go on. In reality, when I gain strength before God or before people and feel that I can do it, the brain thinks that way too. This is even more scientific. Our spirit—when it is gripped by unbelief, it collapses completely. No matter what hardship comes, you must hold onto God’s covenant and gain strength from it—if you lose your strength, darkness sweeps in, I’m telling you. In truth, all of Abraham’s problems arose when he fell into unbelief. Ishmael being born—that too was a son, but that’s not really the issue here. Fundamentally, Abraham fell into unbelief. God’s word that he would establish Abraham so that the nations would be blessed sounded to Abraham like unbelief. It’s not really about what would happen to Ishmael—the important thing isn’t that Isaac was born and given as a son. Abraham experienced an astonishing shock. He fully recovered his identity out of this unbelief. Having faith is important, but recovering our identity means realizing, “Ah, I didn’t understand at all. I am a child of God. What God has promised will surely be fulfilled.” This is what he came to realize now. And so, in other words, identity is restored. This part is extremely important.

When I’m not out and about with our team, I often carry something to write with to a restaurant. Once I’ve been there and the staff there get to know me and see that I’ve come, they prepare a good room for me privately and make it quiet for me. But eating a meal itself doesn’t take even thirty minutes, not even an hour. When I do this, sometimes it takes several hours—that’s how I do it. The staff there understand and accommodate me fully. But the employees who bring the food out and so on—it’s hot outside, so it must be hard for them. But once they come to know who I am, then these people start to talk to me. The women working in that restaurant, almost all of them, their spirits are collapsed. “It’s too hard.” Of course it’s hard. So almost all of them are collapsed. So I think, “Ah, these people are all collapsed.” “Is there something I can do to give these people strength?” So I’ve talked with them, prayed with them, one time. And I realized, ah, this is why these people can’t help but struggle. They’re all collapsed. On the outside they seem fine while they’re working, but when their true feelings come out, you can see they’re all collapsed.

This unbelief we carry produces terrible results, I’m telling you. That’s why the Arab wars happening now, the attacks against Israel—all of that comes from the descendants of Israel. Because they rejected Jesus Christ, nailed Jesus Christ to the cross, and Israel fell into unbelief, what were the results? It’s easy to say, but from A.D. 70 until 1948, they had no nation. So on a larger scale you could say it lasted about 2000 years. To be precise, for about 1900-some years they wandered without a homeland. When we truly know that there is a real force of darkness, we realize how terrifying this unbelief is. In Ephesians 4:27, it attacks the breach of your unbelief. Because it cannot defeat you outright—because it cannot defeat a child of God—the moment unbelief appears, it attacks.

Today we must hold onto this covenant well and pray. We speak too easily—words too get imprinted, all of it. That’s why prayer becomes imprinted too. Prayer becomes imprinted on my brain, on my soul, on the throne. This is an enormous thing. That’s why unbelievers are made to think a great deal. That’s a true statement, but it’s a lower-level statement suited to people struggling in the world. Among unbelievers, even the truly outstanding figures have gone beyond their own thinking. Right? God tells us from the very start to go beyond our own thinking. Why? If I keep relying only on my own thinking, I stay stuck at my own level. It would be fine if my level were extraordinary, but it isn’t. My circumstances are not the kind that can move the world, and yet I stay trapped there. It looks like nothing, but that’s exactly how we end up.

[ Prayer ]

Turn all your thoughts into prayer. For the rest of your life, abandon unbelief in every thought and turn to prayer instead.

Now, this kind of timetable came to Abraham. So what happens?

1. The unbeliever is blessed – Beersheba
Simply put, the unbeliever sees and comes to realize this blessing. The unbeliever comes to see the work of God. He comes to see this. And so this is what he said when he came: “Come, let us join together. Let us make a covenant together going forward.” And so the word that came out of this was Beersheba. This is the word that came out when Abimelek and Abraham made their promise. If you hold onto the covenant without being caught in unbelief and receive an answer, then even unbelievers come to know it, I’m telling you. This becomes the start of evangelism.

2. Promise
Your faith may seem like a simple thing, but it becomes an important promise.
1) Personal
Personal salvation.
2) Family
The covenant you hold onto saves your family. That’s how important faith is.
3) Nation
4) Nations
And now, look at this—in the end, exactly as he promised Abraham, he brings salvation to the nation and to the nations.
If you don’t believe this, none of it becomes visible at all. That’s why, today too, you must hold onto the covenant of faith and begin to pray.

3. Restoration
And so he restores what is important to us.
1) Identity
Identity.
2) Authority
The authority that comes with being God’s child by identity.
3) Witness
More than that, now he gives evidence, making us witnesses.

As you worship today, take hold of the power of the word and its mission. That is enough. Don’t worry for now about further practical application and such things. Take hold of God’s word as a covenant. Even though he had always doubted, when Abraham held onto God’s word as a covenant, God counted that faith to him as righteousness. In the end, Isaac was born exactly as promised.

▣ Conclusion_ Test

We too hold onto this kind of faith today, but God tests us in order to bless us. In English, this is called a Test. It’s different from the temptation the devil gives. Later, when he took his son Isaac and went to Mount Moriah, that too was “to test Abraham.”

If hardship has come to you today, God is administering a test. Right? He is giving you a test to give you something better, something real. When a teacher gives students a test at school, it isn’t to torment them. It’s to raise up their ability, however it may seem—it’s not meant to cause suffering.

May there be, throughout this whole day, confession of faith, prayer of faith, and praise of faith that tears down darkness, in the name of Jesus Christ I bless you. May today, as you pray, be a day when you recover strength in both body and spirit. And especially, though I know you’ll all be praying, please pray earnestly today for Elder Cho Gyu-beom and for those among our members who are ill. Your prayers carry spiritual power and combine together. May this be a time of prayer. Let us pray.

Prayer

May today be a day when unbelief is torn down, and as we pray all day, may darkness be torn down. As we pray all day today, may Satan, darkness, and every power be broken. May today be a day when our prayers are imprinted upon the throne. May it be a day when our souls and bodies are healed. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

2026.08.02 District Message Week 31
「The Seed of Unbelief and Its Descendants 」 (Ge 21:9-21)

Genesis 21:9-21 (NIV)

9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”
11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. 12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. 13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”
14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob.
17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. 18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. 21 While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

Summary

When hardship arises, we become anxious. And because we are anxious, unbelief arises, and the more we worry, the more we increasingly fall into unbelief.

Introduction_ Difficulty – RT 7
But is it really hardship? When our nation was struggling, there were three kinds of people. There were those who said our country is poor and has no strength; there were also those who confronted it and fought against it; and there were those who quietly worked to develop our country from behind the scenes. With which eyes should we look at this? This is the hardship that the 7 Remnants endured. Joseph was sold as a slave and imprisoned because of his brothers’ wicked act of human trafficking. But the hardship Joseph faced was not hardship — it was God’s blessing. John Bunyan discovered the blessing God had given him in prison, and wrote the world’s most important work, Pilgrim’s Progress. Abraham too, because of worry, had his eyes darkened, and though he believed in God, he did believe with anxiety. One day he realized this was not right and began to build an altar, and from that point God gave him a word, and that word was fulfilled. David, in his greatest hardship, said, “Because the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” David truly won. If we don’t properly understand this, look at the early church. If you go to the upper room in Mark’s house, it is breaking the law; if caught, you get arrested; if you keep doing it, you are put to death. Even though the strongest nation in the world, Rome, oppressed them, the gospel won. If we keep being deceived, our spiritual eyes go dark, and our physical eyes become sharp instead. We must see accurately. Once the seed of unbelief is planted, it becomes a problem all the way down to one’s descendants.

Main
1. Ishmael – This is the name of the son born when Abraham did not believe God’s word that He would give him a child, and instead had a son through another woman. Right now, the peoples causing the most problems throughout the world are the descendants of Ishmael (Muslims). These have become a complete axis of unbelief.

2. Isaac – God gave Abraham faith, and when the faith of the gospel arose, He gave him Isaac. We must recover our faith.

3. The work of God – God had promised Isaac, and He will surely raise up a movement of the gospel.
1) You look at your environment and fall into unbelief.
2) Conditions are not met. This is looking only at what is physical, and it is speaking only of results that are visible while not knowing the causes that are invisible.
3) You constantly employ humanism. It is easy to fall for this. There were three great heroes of Japan, and if you read that book, humanism looks extremely appealing. This is how people are deceived by just one book.
4) When a trial comes, you are shaken again. This is when unbelief comes out.
5) Public opinion – not listening to God’s word and instead listening to what people say. Those who died in the wilderness spoke words that seemed more right than Moses, Joshua, and Caleb. Moses, Joshua, and Caleb said it will happen unconditionally, while those who died in the wilderness spoke words that seemed reasonable. And so those people all died. If they had been righteous people, they would have said, “Coming out of Egypt is God’s will. Going into the land of Canaan is God’s plan. It’s fine even if we die here. Our descendants must go.” That is what should have been said. God’s promise said we go to Canaan.

Conclusion
1. Only Christ – We cannot overcome darkness, our circumstances, our problems, or disease. And if you look closely, the world cannot help us either. That’s why it becomes clear why it must be Christ alone.
2. Background – throne (darkness) – The background that appears here, we come to know it as the power of the throne. Without this power, I cannot even change my own destiny; without this power, Africa cannot be saved; without this spiritual power, the 5,000 unreached people groups cannot be saved. And in our nation, there is a dark power that keeps driving us into a curse. We must take this and break this darkness.
3. This covenant is what opens up the 3 eras.

Transcript

When hardship comes, we become anxious. And because we are anxious, unbelief arises, they say. As we keep worrying, we increasingly fall into unbelief.

Introduction_ Difficulty – RT 7
Now then, we must think about this first. Is it really hardship? When our nation was struggling, there were three kinds of people. “Our country is poor. We are struggling. We have no strength.” There were people like this. And then there were also people who confronted it and fought against it. And it wasn’t only people like that. There were also people who quietly worked to develop our country from behind the scenes. With which eyes should we look at this?
In truth, you all must think about this carefully. This is the hardship the 7 Remnants endured. Because of his brothers’ wicked act, Joseph was sold to a human trafficker. And so, though he was the son of a noble household, he lived as a slave. Just when things were becoming somewhat bearable, he was thrown into prison. But Joseph did not regard that as hardship. This is important. If Joseph had complained, “Ah, this is too hard,” then he would have lost. Sometimes you see even pastors resenting someone and being wounded. That’s losing. And then no matter how you try afterward, in the end you collapse. What Joseph endured was not hardship. It was God’s blessing. This is the perspective you must adopt first.
“But isn’t this really hard in reality?” You could say that. Ah, but you all know from real life. Some person suffers such hardship that they end up in prison even though they’ve done nothing wrong. At that time this person serves a very long prison sentence. What did he do at that time? He discovered the blessing God had given him. He created the most important work in the world. Who is this? It is John Bunyan. What did he create? He wrote a book called Pilgrim’s Progress. That book has been popular enough to be considered second in influence only to the Bible.
Especially you Remnants. If you already carry a wound about your parents, you have lost. And you will lose again. Surprisingly, elders who have a lot of experience and are living well also often hold wounds. If that’s the case, your spiritual eyes grow dim. Even Abraham had his eyes darkened because of worry. He believed in God, but he was anxious. “But I have to make a living,” these kinds of thoughts kept coming. “If I make a mistake, this could kill me,” these kinds of thoughts kept coming. Then hardship keeps coming your way. Abraham’s thinking wasn’t wrong. Why? Because it was truly hard. No. One day he realized this wasn’t it. From that point he began to build an altar. From that point God gave him a word. That word was fulfilled. It is exactly like that. Remnant.
And so, as you all know well, someone like David also endured a great deal of hardship. At that time David said this. At his greatest hardship he said this: “Because the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” But he didn’t just say it with his mouth. He truly did that. David truly triumphed.
If we don’t properly understand this, look at the early church, just once. You cannot. If anyone with a properly functioning head checks into it, they cannot. It was made illegal from the start. So then, going to the upper room in Mark’s house was breaking the law. In the end, if caught, you get arrested. Even so, if you kept doing it, you would be sentenced to death. What would you all do? But it doesn’t end there. Later, Rome applies pressure. Rome, the strongest nation in the world, begins to persecute Christians. Then, what is the clear proof? Did the Jews win, or did the gospel win? Did Rome win, or did the gospel win? Look at the historical evidence.
When we keep being deceived, our eyes grow dim. Our spiritual eyes grow dim. In the same way, once Adam and Eve were deceived and sinned, their spiritual eyes grew dim. Instead, their physical eyes opened. Their physical eyes opened, and they said, “Ah, we are naked.” That’s what happened.
So, all of you — especially our Remnants — I’m not saying this to comfort you artificially. We don’t need to comfort ourselves artificially, nor do we need to receive comfort. We must see accurately.

「The Seed and Descendants of Unbelief」
Do you understand how terrifying this unbelief is? Once this seed is planted, it becomes a problem all the way down to one’s descendants. That’s how you should see it. Here in the introduction there are various people of unbelief from the Old and New Testaments, but just take that as reference material.

Main
You only need to understand this part.

1. Ishmael
Ishmael. This is the name of Abraham’s son. Abraham doubted, and even though God said He would give him a child, he did not believe, and had a son through another woman. You must absolutely remember this. Later on, sending Ishmael away is not the real issue. Right now, in the present, the peoples causing the most problems in the entire world are the descendants of Ishmael. Right now. It is a frightening thing. It seems like nothing at all, but right now they are the ones waging war and causing trouble. Muslims — all of that is the descendants of Ishmael.

2. Isaac
God gave Abraham faith, and when faith arose, He gave him Isaac. And so, this unbelief continues on and on. This seed, it continues. As we go through this lesson, you must look at the lesson book a lot, but you must also recover your faith by looking at Scripture.

1. Ishmael → Unbelief
This becomes a complete axis of unbelief.

2. Isaac → Gospel
After Abraham had Isaac, he began a complete recovery of faith and the gospel. You must look at this closely.

3. History
When you remove unbelief, God works. These are the same three things. Ishmael’s unbelief continues. God promised Isaac, but He will surely raise up a movement of the gospel. Today’s lesson too, there’s no need to look at it in great detail. Just take hold of this: “Ah, I must get rid of unbelief.” What should you look at?
1) Environment
You look at your environment and fall into unbelief, right?
2) Conditions
And then, “the conditions aren’t right.” This is all looking only at what is physical, without any spiritual eyes. Whatever it is, there’s always an invisible cause that comes first, right? But we don’t know the invisible cause, and only talk about the visible result.
3) Humanism
What else? Today, being swayed by sentiment, is what’s called employing humanism, again and again. When you go outside and look at people, you easily fall for this, I’m telling you. I read a book about three great heroes of Japan. The three great heroes of Japan were impressive, and I learned a lot from that book, but once I finished reading it, what happened to me? Employing humanism started to look really cool. They use trickery and scheming, and that looked cool. It’s being deceived momentarily by just one book, you see. That’s how it happens to us. If we get rid of this unbelief, history happens. We think we need to do some great big thing, but that’s not the case.
4) Test
What else? When a trial comes, you get shaken again. Because a trial comes. You only find out when you go through a trial, right? You only know a person once hardship comes to them. Otherwise you don’t know. Right when a trial hits, that’s exactly when unbelief already starts coming out. What else?

5) Public Opinion
It’s more and more not listening to God’s word and instead constantly listening to what people say. That’s public opinion. Once you keep listening to what people say, your faith disappears. And even your leader starts lying now. Even though it’s their own thinking, they say, “Everyone is saying this,” and they even lie like that. Of course there will be some truth in it. So in any case, they make it sound reasonable enough to make you lose sight of God’s word.
You must not be deceived. Those who died in the wilderness spoke words that sounded right. Right? They spoke words that sounded right, I’m telling you. They spoke words that seemed more right than Moses, Joshua, and Caleb. Moses, Joshua, and Caleb said it will happen unconditionally, but those who died in this wilderness spoke words that seemed reasonable, I’m telling you. “But we ate well when we were in Egypt. There’s nothing to eat here in this wilderness.” That’s right, isn’t it? “We were eating well and living well, but now we’ve come to this wilderness and there’s not even any water. What do we do if we die? Then do we have to die on this sand?” Every single thing they said really did seem right. Right? And so all those people ended up dying.
If they had truly been righteous people, they wouldn’t have talked that way. If they had faith, they wouldn’t talk that way. “Coming out of Egypt is God’s will. Coming out of Egypt was God’s will. Going to the land of Canaan is God’s plan. It’s fine even if we die here. Our descendants must go.” That’s what they should have said, right? If they had reached that level, that would have been a somewhat intelligent kind of person. We aren’t even at that level. God’s promise said it goes forward. God’s word said it would bring them into the land of Canaan. You must remember these three things. When we remove this unbelief, God’s work happens. First, your eyes open.

Conclusion
And so, from this point, this is the answer that comes out.

1. Only Christ
Why is it only Christ? Now, this answer comes out. “Ah, we cannot overcome darkness.” We cannot overcome our circumstances either. Right? If problems and sickness hit me hard, can I overcome them? I can’t. Especially if you look closely, the world cannot help me either. The answer becomes visible. That is what it means to see that it is Christ alone.

2. Background – Throne (Darkness)
And so we come to know that the background that appears here is the power of the throne. Without this power, I cannot even change my own destiny. Without this power, Africa cannot be saved. Without this spiritual power, we cannot save the 5,000 unreached people groups. From this point it becomes visible. What it means to break darkness. There is a dark power that keeps driving our nation into a curse. This is what breaks that.

3. The 3 Eras
Today, too, this covenant is what opens up the 3 eras.
And so, many multi-ethnic peoples have now also attended WRC this time. It starts from next Sunday. May it be a week in which you all take hold of this covenant and pray a special prayer this week, in the name of Jesus Christ. Let us pray.

Prayer
Let today be the best day. Let it be a new day. Let it be a day of gaining new strength. Let it be a day of seeing what belongs to You. Let us recover the strength of God that can save the world. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.