2025.11.16 District Message 46th Week
Scripture Reading: Genesis 41:38
Israel suffered many great hardships in Egypt.
▣ Introduction_ Egypt
Joseph was sold as a slave.
- Absolute impossibility – [ Not failure, not success ]
He could not do anything. He fell into absolute impossibility. We also face such times. A person may fall into great difficulty where someone is trying to kill them. Joseph was falsely accused and sent to prison. No one can overcome that. We may also experience such things. Absolutely impossible situations can come before us. Some people have children, and their young child is diagnosed with an incurable disease. What can they do? After Joseph became the prime minister, they thought everything would be restored, but afterward the king gave an even greater hardship: “Now kill all the Hebrew boys.” It is difficult. Such situations arise. Here is something you must absolutely know. In our lives, extremely unjust things, painful things, and situations that feel like death come to us. You must remember this: absolute impossibility is not failure. And even though it looks like you are suffering here, Pharaoh or Egypt is not success. You must catch this first. If great difficulty comes to you, in one sense it is not failure. If Joseph had said, “I am completely ruined,” when he was sold as a slave, it would have been a disaster. When he was falsely accused and thrown into prison, he could have said, “I am completely finished.” That is how it looks. But we must always remember: it is neither failure nor success. Right? Then Pharaoh killing many children with his power—was that success? Joseph and the Israelites suffered many hardships—was that failure? - Absolute plan
There is something you must see at such a time: God’s absolute plan. It is not difficult to understand. Leaving Egypt and going to Canaan was God’s absolute plan. When would it happen? You cannot know. But one thing is certain: it is the absolute plan. Even if you cannot go there now, you must still do what you must do now. Right? - Absolute possibility
This is what they saw—absolute possibility. Joseph saw it. He waited for the timetable when he would stand before the king and explain. Moses’ mother Jochebed made a plan to send Moses into the palace. - Absolute plan – [ Salvation ]
You are never failure or success. You must find what God’s absolute plan is. God’s absolute plan is salvation, so you must set your direction toward salvation. Sometimes you may think, “Should I take revenge on this wicked person? Should I fight?” At such times, choose the direction of saving. Even if you have done nothing, when you discover this one thing, all works begin to happen. - Absolute possibility – [ Moses ]
Among them is Moses, in today’s passage. What did he see?
「Exodus – 300%」
It was the Exodus. It was God’s plan. He saw the 300% of the Exodus. We must remember something here: how do you see the absolute plan? What was the reason he went as a slave? If you know this, you understand why this happened. Why did they become slaves and captives in a powerful nation?
World evangelization (spiritual epidemic)
It was because they were not doing world evangelization—so God pushed them toward world evangelization. Being in Egypt or in Canaan was not the issue. Without world evangelization, the spiritual epidemic cannot be stopped. You must remember this. Coming out of Egypt is not the issue—you must see this (the spiritual epidemic). The hardship you face is painful, but that is not the important thing. God’s absolute plan and absolute possibility are important. If you see this (the absolute plan—salvation) even through hardship, you will surely see absolute possibility.
Many remnants say, “My home and environment are not good,” but that is not a bad thing. It can be a foothold. Others say, “I have no background,” but having a background can become a bigger problem. That is why it is neither success nor failure. When people face difficulty, they say, “This is success,” or “This is failure,” but for you, that is not the case. You must see God’s absolute plan. “Is this incurable child’s disease the parents’ sin or the child’s sin?” This is what people ask. People think like this. “What did I do wrong?” But why would your child get an incurable disease because you did something wrong? Jesus gave the answer: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.” That is the answer.
So the Philistines kept attacking. Later again. The Philistines were not the problem. Even when they were taken captive, in Haggai 2 it says captivity was not the problem. Rather, “Hurry and return and rebuild the temple where God’s power will be restored.” So when Jesus said, “You will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth,” they asked, “Will You at this time restore the kingdom?” He said, “That is not the issue.” “The real answer is that you must be set free from this darkness.”
▣ Main. Liberation from Darkness
[ Fundamental strength ]
The answer you must receive this week is not about the events happening to you; it is to be liberated from darkness and to develop the fundamental strength of Exodus—the strength of liberation from darkness. If your body is sick, you must quickly go to the doctor and follow their instructions. But that is not the main thing you must do. Leave that to the doctor. What you truly need is fundamental strength. Many people lose everything because they cannot endure the hardships that happen to them.
- Liberation from darkness
First, being liberated from Egypt is not the main issue. As mentioned earlier, you must be liberated from darkness. Right? As they journeyed through the wilderness, those who did not understand this died even though they had come out. Jesus explained this: if you are not liberated from darkness, Satan still has a stronghold in you. If you are not liberated, other houses—other forces—remain inside you. - 237–5000
The second thing you must hold onto. Why? Because what you are going through right now is not the issue. God is going to give you strength to save the 237 nations and the 5,000 tribes by liberating you from darkness. Nothing else can do it. It must be by the covenant: “The offspring of the woman will crush the serpent’s head.” Nothing else can bring liberation. On the day of the blood sacrifice, liberation comes. When they went into Babylonian captivity, the same message was given: nothing else works except Immanuel. “The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Immanuel.” For the next generation, remnants must have this standard (237–5000). Older adults may simply pray for this, but for remnants, this must be the standard. You must develop your skills to 300%—enough to match the United States and Japan. Right? - Giving life
Then what do you do? You save many people. God gives you suffering to develop strength to save many. The man with an incurable disease sitting at the Beautiful Gate was raised in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. In Acts 13, 16, and 19, it says the Nephilim disease can be healed only by the gospel. Therefore, the issue is not liberation from Satan and darkness, but making Satan kneel. It is the eyes to see crisis and suffering. It is the answer God wants to give you.
To those who work in the field, I ask: if you are not prepared 300%, do not start. People hear others’ opinions and begin something with not even 30% preparation. That always fails. With prayer, what is 300%? If you do something based on others’ words, you are not even 50% prepared. You must be 100% personally prepared. Until then, even hard labor and errands are fine—because you are preparing. But you must not just start. Field: 100%. You must do it that way. System and future: 100%. Prepare exactly like this.
I have said several times before: we Koreans just open a store immediately. But McDonald’s, run by the Freemasons, surveys the field for months. They check even trivial things, like pressing a counter to track how many cars pass, how many cars stop, the age demographics—everything. Then when they start, they succeed. But we often start and fail.
Remnants must never be deceived. You must come out of darkness and save the 237 nations and 5,000 tribes—save many people. That is your mission.
▣ Conclusion
What is the conclusion? The seven remnants lived this way.
What was bound
They completely broke all that was bound.
Bound people
They set free all people bound in darkness. Paul did this.
This is the answer you must receive this week. Which is the most important? The great problem that has come before you is neither failure nor success. You must know this. Usually people say, “Such a great problem has come to me. I cannot do anything anymore.” They think this way. Jochebed, Moses’ mother, saw correctly. They could not defeat the king, but that situation was neither failure nor Pharaoh’s success. She saw God’s absolute plan. Then she saw the opposite—absolute possibility. And God revealed it to Moses. “I will be with you with a mighty hand,” He said. He spoke words only Moses could understand: “Say you have gone to offer the blood sacrifice.” Others do not understand this. Only you understand this. You are those who save people from darkness by the covenant of the blood. That is why you say, “We have gone to offer the blood sacrifice.”
They came to receive the Passover. Today, as you pray throughout the day, I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that God’s special bartizan may be established. Let us pray.
Prayer. We thank God. Give new strength today to all elders and church leaders. Open the eyes of the remnants to prepare 300%. Let the sick, the troubled, and those in hardship see with spiritual eyes that it is not failure. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.