Yes, it’s nice to meet you. This is the third session of our time editing our lives with the recording. Gospel Letter Lesson 3: How can one meet God? How can one meet God? If you look at John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Amen. A few years ago, through the introduction of a church deaconess, I met a woman in her early 60s. This person thought she was living healthily, but she went to the hospital because her body didn’t feel well and was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. She heard news like a bolt from the blue that she could only live for about three months. This person met with me through the deaconess, and when I met her one morning, even though it was early, I could feel her heart and face seized by the fear of death. I told her that a problem greater than lung cancer had come upon her. What would a problem greater than lung cancer be? She is dying of lung cancer, so what could be bigger? God is clearly alive, but you are a person who has left God for a lifetime. God clearly created you as a spiritual being possessing God’s image, but your spirit is dead and away from God. Ephesians 2:1 says, “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, He brought you to life.” You are away from God, right? Your spirit is dead, right? The original sin starting from the first humans, Adam and Eve, hasn’t been resolved, so disasters find us humans because of it. And because the invisible Satan is seizing us who are fallen into original sin, John 8:44 says, “You belong to your father, the devil.” And for a person who has left God, the person’s life itself is hell, and after living like hell and dying, they actually go to hell; they are within the background of hell. Leaving God, the spirit being dead, being fallen into original sin, and being trapped within the background of hell by the devil—isn’t this, in fact, a problem greater than lung cancer? Therefore, today, what is more important and more urgent than curing lung cancer is meeting the living God. For our dead spirit to obtain new life and to receive liberation from original sin, Satan, and the background of hell that have come down since the time of Adam—that is a more urgent matter for you. Therefore, whether this disease is cured or not because you believe in Jesus today, I cannot know, but Jesus Christ, who resolved your fundamental problem—regardless of the disease, Jesus Christ, who died on the cross and was resurrected today to take charge of all our sins in our place, and who collapsed the authority of Satan, the authority of hell, and all original sin and disasters—Jesus Christ, who sought us out with the Spirit of life—I hope you accept Him as Savior and become a child of God. So she accepted Jesus as Savior with tears, and upon opening her eyes after the acceptance prayer, she confessed with great joy that it was the happiest day of her life, and after that, regardless of the disease, she continued to worship, listen to the Word, and pray, living so happily. Today’s Gospel Letter Lesson 3 title is “How Can One Meet God?” As it says in point one, God is the Creator God and He governs our lives, and that God is Spirit. Because God is Spirit, He is invisible to our physical eyes, and therefore a person cannot see, meet, or touch Him. However, because He is Spirit, He is not limited by space. Visible idols are limited, and God does not enter into idols made by visible people. Because God is Spirit, He is the omnipresent God who is not absent from any place, the omniscient God who knows everything, and the omnipotent God who can do everything. Therefore, God exists and works with the name Jehovah; it means “the one who exists of Himself.” The eternal God. The absolute Sovereign God, who created the world and us humans and governs the life, death, blessing, and curse of all us humans and governs the history of mankind, is alive even now and is governing the world even now. Therefore, because we humans were created as spiritual beings possessing the image of God, meeting this God is salvation; therefore, for humans, there is nothing more important or urgent than salvation. Now, however, as it says in point two, because we humans have physical bodies, we cannot see God with our eyes and cannot actually meet God physically. Because our human spirit is limited within the physical body, leaving the physical body is death, and while our spirit is within the physical body, it is an opportunity for salvation. Therefore, as mankind left God, they are in a state where the spirit is dead; because they are seized by the invisible Satan, mankind can absolutely never seek out God or meet God on their own, as we confirmed in the Word last time as well. So, as it says in point three, in order to save you and me, God came to this earth wearing the body of a man. God opened the way. God, who is Spirit, came to this earth wearing the body of a man in order to save us humans. That person is exactly Jesus Christ; therefore, Jesus Christ came to this earth as a true man without sin, but His spirit is God. Therefore, because Jesus possesses the nature of God, He can abolish the authority of Satan, and because He possesses the nature of man, He could suffer death by shedding His blood on the cross in our place for our sins. He who is God abolished the authority of Satan, and He who is true man atoned for all our sins; therefore, if you accept the resurrected Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life, you and I meet God and become children of God. When you accept this Jesus Christ into your heart, as the Spirit of life comes upon our spirit, our dead spirit comes to life, we become children of God, and we receive eternal salvation. The moment you accept this Jesus, the authority of Satan leaves forever, and we receive eternal liberation from original sin and actual sins, and we obtain eternal life. Therefore, if you truly believe in Jesus in your heart and confess with your mouth to accept Him as my Savior and my Owner, you and I will enjoy the blessing of becoming children of God. As it says in point four, if so, what is the evidence that God is with me? 1 Corinthians 12:3 says that no one can confess Jesus as Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit has come within us, we become able to confess Jesus as my Owner. From that time, the Holy Spirit guides our lives and sanctifies us toward the holy path. Now, when we receive the Word of God correctly, through the realization of the Holy Spirit, we correctly realize the Word of God, and when we follow that Word, we receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and if we repent for the sins we committed, God grants us great grace, forgives those sins, and guides our lives. Now, if we grasp the Word of God and set a time and a topic and begin to pray earnestly until the end, just twice a day, in the morning and at night, if we pray to be filled with the Spirit of the Lord who is within me, God pours out the promised fullness of the Holy Spirit to us, and Satan, who lost us, tries to deceive and attack us until the end, but if we receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit, we overcome our own limitations, we overcome the complicated world, and we overcome all attacks of Satan. When that happens, from then on, the evidences that God is with me appear in my life. Therefore, when other people see that God is with me or if I testify to the Lord who is with me, the door of evangelism is opened. The people around me come to know more about the Lord who is with me, and I hope that this blessing of evangelism, where those people also believe in Jesus as the Christ like me, appears to you and me as well. John 14:6: “I am the way and the truth and the life.” Jesus is exactly the way to meet God, the true truth that resolves all problems of us humans, and the eternal life that brings our dead spirits to life; while remembering that fact once more, I hope you truly begin prayer for the fullness of the Holy Spirit within Christ. When you open your eyes in the morning, if [you pray], “God, grant me the fullness of the Holy Spirit. With the Spirit of Christ, with the Spirit of God, with the Holy Spirit, make me full. Today as well, please be together in all my life and let me enjoy the blessing of God being with me.” While starting prayer comfortably in the morning, I hope you begin the day; and during the day, regarding the people I meet, the work I do, and all the places I go, I hope you experience God being with you in all of life within that prayer of enjoying the blessing of being with God, and before going to sleep, once more, so that the Spirit of God makes me full, it is even better if you can listen to the Word once. Before going to sleep, if you can listen to the Word of God, grasp that Word, and end the day while doing prayer that obtains great spiritual strength toward God, you and I will continue to experience evidences in our lives that God is with us. Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life—by accepting that Christ as Savior, become a child of God, and while receiving and enjoying the fullness of the Holy Spirit, I bless you in the name of the Lord that you all become witnesses of the blessing who daily experience God being together with me.