2026.07.19 District Message Week 29
「The People and Field That Perished Separated From God」 (Ge 19:1-38)
Chalkboard
“RT, multi-ethnic, 5000”
“Those who left God, receiving destruction, and the scene”
1. Success — pride
2. Development — hardship (suffering)
3. The three economies — disaster
“Main”
1) Great powers (war)
2) Small nations (slavery)
3) Israel (?)
1) Angel
2) Sodom/Gomorrah — homosexuality
3) Children
4) Word
5) Salvation
“Worship”
“Conclusion”
1) Recovery
2) Proclamation
3) (garbled)
Genesis 19:1-38
01 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
02 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
03 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.
04 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
05 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
06 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
07 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.
08 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
09 “Get out of our way,” they replied. And they said, “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.
17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please!
19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.
20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.
25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.
32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today.
38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
Summary
RT, Multi-ethnic, 5000
Remnants, especially multi-ethnic Remnants, and among them the Remnants of the 5,000 people groups, must be taught why destruction is coming upon so many people right now. These people are people who inevitably face destruction because they have left God. This is where we shine light.
■ Introduction
1. Success – Pride – You can succeed even without God, and that’s why you fall into pride.
2. Development – Hardship – You can develop even without God, so hardship keeps coming.
3. Economy – Disaster – You revive the economy and it lives on, but disaster keeps coming.
■ Main
The Bible alone reveals this. It’s the same now as in the past.
1. Great powers (war), small nations (slavery), Israel (should have shared the gospel)
Great powers alike start wars, weak nations become slaves, and Israel, having received the gospel, does not share it.
1) Angel – God was with them and sent His angels, clearly gave the word, but they don’t believe.
2) Sodom and Gomorrah – There were many homosexuals. This is not a crime, but it is spiritually deviant, so it inevitably brings severe spiritual problems.
3) They regard God’s children as having no value whatsoever.
4) Why does God’s word matter so much?
5) Salvation means nothing to them.
2. We must do it now.
1) Recovery – We must recover according to Jeremiah 33:1-9.
2) Proclamation – We must proclaim light to many people according to Genesis 19:15.
3) We must do it with a sense of calling. Many people don’t even realize it.
4) Evangelism, missions – Those who do realize it must be given complete commissioning so that evangelism and missions occur. The gospel came into our country weakly and haphazardly, but within 100 years our country began to change. The power of the gospel is a fearsome thing.
5) We must believe that the light has already come. We need not fear the forces of darkness.
3. The next generation
It’s important for the next generation to find out what God called me for, what He gave me, what is truly mine.
1) Deception – Satan uses deception, according to John 8:44.
2) Temptation (worship) – Satan even came and tempted Christ, and demanded to be worshiped.
3) Authorities, powers, lawlessness, idols – According to Ephesians 6:12, Satan infiltrates authorities, powers, those who act completely lawlessly, and many idols and strange religions.
4) He makes us fall into worry.
▷ Light has come to us. Testify to this light. Proclaim it. Then darkness will flee.
■ Conclusion_ Worship
So that we can succeed in worship today as well — today too, Satan wants to steal your worship. He has already stolen your prayer, and now wants to steal your worship. All this must be recovered.
Transcript
– RT, multi-ethnic, 5000 –
We must let the Remnants know why people are being destroyed. Especially multi-ethnic Remnants. And among them, Remnants from the 5,000 people groups. This is something we do every year, but for these people this is an extremely important day. For most, it may even be the first time in their lives. Some want to come but cannot. Some want to come but can’t because of visa issues. So for these people, participating in this Remnant conference is a miracle in itself. So when these people receive great grace, darkness will be broken all over the world.
「Those Who Left God and Are Being Destroyed, and Their Scene」
So many people don’t know right now why destruction is coming. If you saw the scene a bit, you would feel it more — “Ah, this is destruction.” Our children have never seen anything like this. These are people who inevitably face destruction because they have left God. This is where we shine light. How should we do it? We don’t need to do anything fancy. We just need to shine the light.
■ Introduction
1. Success – Pride
These people are slightly mistaken in thinking they can succeed somewhat without God. So they fall into pride.
2. Development – Hardship
Also, they can develop without God. How much can they develop? So hardship keeps coming. The more they develop, the more hardship keeps coming, I tell you.
3. Economy – Disaster
So now they revive the economy and it lives on. But disaster keeps coming. We must block this.
■ Main
Only the Bible reveals this. It’s the same now as in the past.
1. Great powers (war), small nations (slavery), Israel (?)
Great powers alike start wars, and weak nations become slaves. Exactly the same. At this time, those who received the gospel matter. Israel, who received the gospel, matters. This Israel does not share the gospel. They just think of it as ordinary. So they are sent as slaves to the great powers. This same thing is happening even now. You may know that you must work to survive right now, but you feel no reason why you must do missions, why you must evangelize. That’s how it’s become this way. Great powers keep running Satan’s errands, and small nations keep dying, while Israel just sits idle. If they were all captured and just became slaves it would be fine, but they get completely absorbed into idol culture. Such serious things are happening. Israel has no thought about this at all. If we’re not careful, we could become like that too. So important words — people don’t even believe them.
1) Angel
God was with them and sent His angels, clearly giving the word, but they don’t believe.
2) Sodom, Gomorrah – Homosexuality
Rather, in Sodom and Gomorrah, unimaginable crimes occurred. What’s especially hard to understand is that even back then — whenever “then” was — there were that many homosexuals. It’s quite serious now. Our Korea still hides and does this kind of thing, but in some countries they do it completely openly. It’s a strange situation. To what degree — a Remnant recently entered school. As they studied there, it turned out that basically everyone was homosexual. Not just our Remnants — everyone. This child was becoming strange too. Studying together, talking together, people are supposed to help each other, but this one child was being treated strangely. So I asked, “Is there really not even one other child who doesn’t do that?” and he said no. It’s probably a special region, but that’s the level.
So regarding people who engage in homosexuality, there’s a part we must consider — that some of it isn’t by their own choice. When I was young, I saw this — a friend of mine had a younger sister who, from childhood, acted like a boy. From childhood. We saw it because we were children ourselves at the time. From childhood, she’d go alone and cut her hair like a boy’s. From childhood. She’d stand and urinate. From that early age. It was astonishing to us. In the end, this — ah, this is a spiritual problem. Clearly she didn’t intend to become like that. In my view it’s a spiritual problem. If so, we must help all the more.
So some people ask, “What did we do wrong? Why is this happening?” people say this. “We’re not committing any crime, so why?” some people ask this way. Among those hearing my message, there may be some caught up in that themselves. So I’ve clearly said this before, and I can say it again now. It can be viewed as not being a crime. Right? It’s not a criminal act. It’s not like murder or theft. But it is definitely spiritually deviant. In the end, what they themselves must know is that this spiritual problem comes seriously. There’s no way around it. That’s why in Sodom and Gomorrah homosexuality was so rampant and strange things happened. This became a sea of fire, later.
3) Children
So they regard God’s children as having no value at all. What are God’s children?
4) Word
God’s word? “Ugh, why does that even matter” — that’s how it becomes.
5) Salvation
Salvation? These important words become meaningless to them. If we’re not careful, our young people could end up like this. “What is ‘God’s word,’ what is an ‘angel’ spoken of, what nonsense” — “So what if it’s homosexuality” — like that. It’s even getting to the point where drugs are becoming “what’s wrong with that” in our country too, coming to that.
2. Now
We must do it now. Do what?
1) Recovery
We must recover according to Jeremiah 33:1-9.
2) Proclamation
We must also proclaim light to many people according to Genesis 19:15. Now.
3) Sense of calling
Even without realizing it, we must do it with a sense of calling. Many people don’t even realize it.
4) Evangelism, missions
For those who do realize it, we must give them complete commissioning so that evangelism and missions happen, saving people.
The gospel came weakly and haphazardly into our country, but within 100 years our country began to change. Truly the power of the gospel is fearsome. In the past, there were Koreans who couldn’t even read. That’s when the gospel came in. Some people passed on just one Bible and died. Yet even so, history happened.
5) Light
What is that? That’s the power of light. You must believe that light has come. That’s why you need not fear the dark forces.
3. The next generation
This must be passed down to the next generation. This morning too I spoke with our elders — it’s important for the next generation to receive special education, go abroad, and study, but what’s most important is for these next generations to find out what God called me for, what He gave me, and what I must do.
1) Deception
Satan uses deception, according to John 8:44.
2) Temptation (worship)
Satan even came and tempted Christ. What mattered most was demanding to be worshiped. He takes away your worship completely.
3) Authorities, powers, lawlessness, idols
Satan comes to the next generation and deceives them completely. According to Ephesians 6:12, Satan infiltrates authorities. We must pray. He infiltrates powers too. He infiltrates those who act completely lawlessly. He infiltrates many idols and strange religions.
4) Worry
This makes us fall completely into worry.
So you must run errands for the next generation to grasp the covenant. If Remnants come and just realize, “Ah, this is the gospel. I am a child of God. I must pray” — that alone is enough. In the first and second services I’ll keep saying important things, but what you must realize most is that light has come to us. We just don’t know it. Light has come — that’s it. Testify to this light, proclaim it. Then darkness will flee. “You are the light of the world.” That was said. You must be confident. How do you become confident? Just wait. Darkness is destined to collapse. Right? Because you are light, darkness is destined to flee, I tell you. Failing to experience this is why Christians waver. A Remnant asked, “How do I evangelize?” “Don’t evangelize,” I said. “Wait,” I said. “Then the door opens. People trusting in darkness will come out into the light to survive. They’ll come to you then. Explain it then. Don’t force it unnecessarily.” So when you shine light, darkness is destined to flee.
While we worship today, all the darkness around you throughout the whole country and world will be driven out. You must believe this. “He called you a royal priesthood. The reason is to proclaim the light.” Truly, we don’t believe this — light has come into our family, but we don’t know it and keep suffering? This later turns into world evangelization. Our Remnants are a blessing. I attended church as a child but never heard the gospel. No one explained the gospel to me. I never heard the gospel. I never heard an explanation of who Christ is. So you see, our Remnants hear the gospel and the whole world gathers.
■ Conclusion_ Worship
So that we can succeed in worship today too. Today too, Satan wants to steal your worship. He dared to challenge Jesus, didn’t he? Right, dared to challenge Jesus. “Bow to me and I’ll give you everything” — Satan does such absurd things. He wants to steal your worship. He has already stolen your prayer, and now wants to steal your worship too. All this must be recovered. We must recover worship and recover prayer.
May today, through these two powers, be a day when darkness is broken all day long as you receive grace, in the name of Jesus Christ, I bless you. Let us pray.
Prayer. Give us spiritual eyes and permit us faith. Let us know that we are children of light. We thank You that the light of Christ dwells in us. Let that light bring healing to the sick. Let the life-giving light of Christ shine upon the many people suffering from spiritual problems. Let a work happen that shines light upon the 237, the 5,000 people groups in darkness. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.