2026.10.25 Sunday 2nd Service
237 Missions Committee Dedicational Service
Despair Indicates a True Start
(1 Kings 19:1-8)
Summary
You who are offering the 237 Mission Association Dedication Service are in the ranks of Romans 16. Satan fears evangelism and missions the most. So he hinders by all kinds of methods. So every time there was an evangelism movement, persecution came. So he drops you into despair. However, despair is the true beginning. China, Muslims, and North Korea hinder the gospel a lot. But it is okay. Only then do true disciples arise there.
▣ Introduction
1. Genesis 40:1-23 Joseph was imprisoned, but that was the beginning of becoming prime minister.
2. Exodus 3:1-20 At the time when Moses said he could not do it anymore, God called Moses.
3. 1 Kings 19:1-8 At the time when Elijah had collapsed, God sent an angel, gave him strength, and made him go to Mt Horeb.
▣ Main
1. Angel of the Lord, Work of Evangelism – Transcendent Power
He sent the angel of the Lord to Elijah, who was in despair. It is something that happens only to people who evangelize and do missions. He gives transcendent power to that person. If you are truly the person who will do the gospel movement until the end,
1) Exodus 14:19 He sends the angel of the Lord whom He sent to Moses.
2) 2 Kings 19:35 He sends the angel of the Lord whom He sent to Hezekiah in the time of crisis.
3) Daniel 6:20-22 When Daniel was in urgent danger, He sent the angel of the Lord and shut the mouths of the lions.
4) Acts 12:1-25 When Peter, who had to do the gospel movement, was about to die, God sent the angel of the Lord. That night He took King Herod.
2. Preparation of 7000 Disciples A certain future is prepared.
1) God prepared 100 prophets. Obadiah was in this rank.
2) He prepared 7000 disciples.
3) The Dothan movement arose. The heavenly army was surrounding Dothan. The person who knows this blessing wins without fighting.
3. Preparation of Disciples of the Age, Elisha, God’s Timetable Behind the work you do, He has prepared disciples of the age who will save the age. A disciple who knows the spiritual world came out.
1) 1 Kings 19:19-21 He was called, abandoned everything, and followed.
2) 2 Kings 2:9-11 Elisha, who knew the spiritual world, asked for a double portion of the spirit.
3) 2 Kings 6:8-24 This person spread the Dothan movement.
▷ Transcendent power, a certain future, God’s timetable: you will enjoy these three answers. Otherwise, you cannot do world evangelization. God has prepared everything for the person who will do the evangelism movement. Because my limits come with the physical world, if you do not know the spiritual world, you cannot do world evangelization.
▣ Conclusion
1. Mission – Confirm what prayer you will actually pray regarding 237 missions.
2. It must come out in prayer during the 6 days.
3. You become a three-day weekend witness.
▷ If we have the covenant in the gospel, we come to want to boast. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that your remaining life will be that of a witness.
Transcript
Thank you. Many people try to succeed. So they do succeed. Still, they succeed only to the degree of barely eating safely. They cannot resolve the spiritual problems that follow. Much less can they do world evangelization. Because the Bible did not teach that way. In the Word of God, it says to come into God’s preparation that can overcome the world. That is the bartizan of the throne that Obadiah made first, which we must make at today’s 1st service.
Many worldly people go out and try to compete and fight. The Bible says to win with spiritual power. So Obadiah was used in spiritual warfare. And he stood out as a witness. Many people try to win within competition, but Obadiah was a witness who prepared 300%. That is today’s 1st service message. You must enjoy it all week long.
As you do the method all week long, if you check the message at the Tuesday meeting for what to do, an answer that will surprise you will come out. You will see answers coming. When you go to the core service, that flow gets organized. Then the Sunday service will again grasp that important flow, the mission. It must be shown naturally like that, and when it becomes like that, I will be in the position of doing world evangelization.
First of all, you who are now offering the 237 dedication service are in the names of Romans 16, in that rank. So when you evangelize and do missions, three things definitely come.
The first one is this: it is not that Satan dislikes it, but that he fears it. This Satan, the forces of darkness, fears evangelism and missions the most. So he hinders by all kinds of methods. So every time there was an evangelism movement, there was victory, but every time persecution burst in. It was like that almost without a single exception. Strangely, whenever an evangelizing group came out, the church blocked it. It is evidence that appears in history. Satan is smart too. Why? Because he has to use it that way. Because he spoke of the gospel in the church, they branded Martin Luther a heretic. Originally there was no such thing as Catholic and Protestant. Originally the church was one. After that, when people like John Wesley or Moody came out and evangelized, they unconditionally made them heretics. So they almost dropped them into despair. You must keep this in mind.
「Despair Is the True Beginning」(1 Kings 19:1-8)
However, despair is the beginning. It is the true beginning. So now in places like China and Muslim nations, they hinder the gospel a lot. Still, it is okay. Rather, it is good that it continues. Only then do true disciples arise in China and in North Korea. When I heard someone’s story, this is the work of the Holy Spirit; even though they cannot receive the Word, they say there are true disciples inside North Korea. So they say they carry around our gospel letter, from wherever they got it, right now. They say they read it, passing it around like a treasure. So they said they saw someone in China holding one that was all worn out. And then what they said was, “Pastor, there are true disciples in China, in North Korea.” That’s what they said. Of course. Because this is completely God’s doing. So when you preach the gospel even to Muslims, not just anyone receives the gospel, but true disciples receive it. Those people do it even while being prepared for martyrdom, don’t they?
▣ Introduction
1. Genesis 40:1-23
So it looks like despair, but it is when Joseph was in prison in Genesis chapter 40 verses 1 to 23. But this is exactly the beginning of becoming prime minister. Because he had to become prime minister to do world evangelization, that was the beginning.
2. Exodus 3:1-20
It is when Moses was tending sheep on that mountain and abandoned. It was the time when, although he had the covenant, he said, ‘I can’t do it anymore.’ God called him at this time.
3. 1 Kings 19:1-8
In the text read today, we read 1 Kings chapter 19 verses 1 to 8. Despite having won, Jezebel said she would completely kill Elijah. When you ask how determined she was, it came out to this extent: “If I do not kill Elijah, the gods will punish me.” So Elijah, too, as it became too urgent, ran away. He ran away to Beersheba and collapsed under some tree. In the Bible it says ‘broom tree.’ There he says, “God, take my life.” How hard must it have been for him to say that. “Take my life.” And then he says, “I am no better than the ancestors who have been until now.” That was the moment. When he collapsed and was like that, God sent the angel of the Lord and touched this Elijah. And He gave him water and bread and told him to eat. It must have been completely in a vision, right? But He touches him again and tells him to eat. He says he must walk 40 days and nights to Horeb. And then it is the content of arriving.
▣ Main
1. Angel of the Lord
Now, God completely sent the angel of the Lord to Elijah, who was in despair. It is something that happens only to people who evangelize and do missions. Today you worshipped, and our elder led the service, and the elder prayed, you see. At this time God is sending angels of the Lord who are not visible to the eyes at all.
[ Work of Evangelism ]
In the work of evangelism, God definitely sends this. When it becomes accurate that you are the person who will truly evangelize, God sends the angel of the Lord to your business.
1) Exodus 14:19
If you are the person who will not listen to people’s words and will do the gospel movement until the end, God sends the angel of the Lord whom He sent to Moses in Exodus chapter 14 verse 19. This angel is not a being that dies. That’s why it is still alive and working now. It runs errands where God works.
2) 2 Kings 19:35
If you are truly a servant of the Lord who will go to the end of evangelism and missions, God even now, when you face a crisis, sends the angel of the Lord whom He sent to King Hezekiah. There’s no need to send people. There’s no need to send an army either. He sends the messenger who brings and takes human lives. This is an exact fact. When you go to heaven, it’s not that someone, a friend, comes and takes you. Right? When it’s about time for you to go to heaven, you know, it’s not that someone who was closest to me comes and takes me. God’s angel of the Lord comes and takes you. To those who will do the evangelism movement, the mission movement, God definitely sets this in motion. You must believe.
3) Daniel 6:20-22
In Daniel chapter 6 verse 20, verse 22, God sent the angel of the Lord when Daniel was in urgent danger. So it says He shut the mouths of the lions.
4) Acts 12:1-25
In Acts chapter 12 verse 1, verse 25, it says that when Peter, who absolutely had to do this gospel movement, was about to die, God sent the angel of the Lord that night. A miracle happened. No one can interpret it, what happened. But the historically important fact is that that night God took King Herod. He took King Herod, and what is recorded is that he was eaten by worms; the angel of the Lord himself struck him, and he was eaten by worms and died.
[ Work of Evangelism ] – Transcendent Power
So God gives you transcendent power when you work. It’s okay even if you have no strength. It’s okay even if you are old. It’s okay even if you have no background. If you truly enjoy this blessing, this happens.
2. Preparation of 7000 Disciples
It’s not just that. A second thing follows. It’s not my many skills and abilities, and He didn’t just send the angel of the Lord, but 7000 disciples are prepared.
[ A Certain Future ]
This goes beyond this transcendent power, and a certain future that God prepared is prepared. It’s the fact that to you who are offering the 237 dedication service today and to all servants of the Lord, God sends the angel of the Lord and is now accomplishing God’s important work.
1) 100 Prophets
God prepared, made ready, the 100 prophets I spoke about this morning. Now, the person who was in this rank of blessing is Obadiah.
2) 7000 Disciples
But neither Obadiah nor Elijah knew. God had prepared 7000 disciples, I’m telling you. It’s tremendous. It didn’t end with that.
3) Dothan Movement
If you just hold this covenant, as I told you at the 1st service today too, the Dothan movement arises. It’s a story ordinary people can’t even understand, but at Dothan, you see, it says God sent the heavenly army and surrounded it. The person who knows this blessing wins without fighting. Our Remnants must go out to the whole world and win without fighting. If you prepare 300%, they come to fetch you like this Obadiah. And you enter the field of darkness and win without fighting. It’s certain. This kind of blessing is prepared in 237 missions. It’s not just that.
3. Disciples of the Age
[ Elisha ]
God has prepared disciples of the age who will save the age behind the work you do. God has prepared everything. This person is Elisha.
[ God’s Timetable ]
Now then, you can enjoy three blessings: God’s transcendent power; a certain future you don’t need to worry about; and, among many important things, God’s timetable, the most important. You will enjoy these three answers. Otherwise, you cannot do world evangelization.
A transcendent power that people simply cannot understand will appear. These are the contents the Bible speaks of as most important. Even among pastors and theologians, there are many who don’t believe. There are many who don’t believe. You don’t know well, but these days there are many strange theologies. Some theologian even came out and said this: “The Word of God is also in the Bible.” A person named Karl Barth said that. He is a famous theologian. What did some theologian say? “The stories in the Bible are just legends. No need to believe them.” There are theologians like this. It’s called liberal theology. There are many odd things. There’s political theology too. “We should go out and demonstrate and fight; will sitting still do? Is that God’s will?” This is political theology. So they don’t believe these facts.
When the Korean church picked a quarrel with me, the top theologian in Korea asked me a question. “Why do you talk about angels?” He asked like this. So I answered like this. “It’s in the Bible.” I said that. “It’s there at every important event in the Bible.” I answered like that, you see. But this theologian made a mistake. “It’s in the Old Testament but not in theology.” He said that. That theologian said it, I’m telling you. So he’s ignorant, in a word. So there was even a time when a pastor in the audience raised his hand and shouted, “There is such a thing in theology, in the Bible.”
What does this mean? They don’t know the spiritual world at all. How would they believe in the Holy Spirit? How would they believe in the invisible God? Then what becomes of my invisible spirit? So every day they fight, and what they talk about is only physical things. It’s a big problem. You must believe the Word of God.
At this time of worship today, God sends angels of the Lord to your work, to the places you must go, and accomplishes God’s work. If you don’t know this fact, there’s no need to pray either. Right? No need to worship either. Even less need for a dedication service. No need to go to the church building either. Then what? You should do nothing. Since it’s not needed? That’s wrong. So what’s evangelism, every day? They can’t evangelize at all. So the churches of the world began to close their doors. We are spiritual beings, so we must know God, and since we are spiritual beings, we must know the spiritual world. Without knowing this, how would you know Satan? And how would you know the demons that become enemies of spiritual beings? So it comes out like this: “Why do you talk about demons?” It’s serious.
1) 1 Kings 19:19-21
A disciple who knew this spiritual world came out. In 1 Kings chapter 19 verse 19, verse 21, he was called, abandoned everything, burned it, and followed.
2) 2 Kings 2:9-11
What does it say in 2 Kings chapter 2 verse 9, verse 10, verse 11 about Elisha, who knew this spiritual world? “Pioneer at Bethel.” All the prophets: “No, Jericho is better. We have to eat and live from now on, don’t we? Gilgal over there is better.” There were only prophets like this. So at this time Elisha, who knew the spiritual world, came out.
3) 2 Kings 6:8-24
“I don’t need any of that; give me a double portion of your spirit.” Now he knew. This person spread the Dothan movement. This is Dothan. God has prepared everything for the person who will do the evangelism movement. So tremendous power began to appear in Elisha. So when the Aramean army invaded, he knew all of their coming. So there was a commotion in the nation of Aram. “No, how does he know where we go and block it all like that?” When they said that, a certain servant spoke. “It’s because of a man named Elisha. Elisha knows all our movements.” So the king of Aram gives an order. “Capture Elisha alive and bring him.” Fearlessly, a huge army came down and surrounded Dothan. They came down at night and surrounded it without anyone knowing, so when he opened his eyes at dawn, the Aramean army was surrounding it. Then it comes out again. A seminary student who didn’t know the spiritual world: “Teacher, big trouble. The Aramean army is surrounding us outside now.” Same story. Then Elisha: “Lord, open the eyes of this servant. Those who are with us are more.” So when his spiritual eyes opened and he looked, more heavenly armies than the Aramean army were surrounding them. You probably won’t understand.
It’s okay even if you don’t understand. The armies of heaven are all unemployed right now. There’s no one for them to help. Because people don’t believe. This angel who helped Elisha is still active now. Right? The angel of the Lord who went before Moses and guided behind Moses is still there, I tell you. They don’t believe. If you don’t know the spiritual world, you can’t do world evangelization. Why? Because I reach my limits with the physical world.
▣ Conclusion
1. Mission
Because it’s an infinite spiritual world, today you must confirm your mission while offering this dedication service. ‘Ah, what prayer should I pray now? What prayer will I actually pray regarding 237?’ Someone who had been doing 237 and quit asked me, “How can I do 237 well?” I know that heart, what it means. He wants to just make a big splash and become famous. “Just meet multiethnic people.” I said that. “If I were someone doing 237, I would meet multiethnic people every week. If necessary, I would bring them to my house, have a meal, and talk with multiethnic people. Start with that.” I said that.
2. 6 Days
Precisely realizing our mission, second, it must come out in prayer for 6 days. How important is 237? The covenant you grasped today must come out as something in prayer for six days, I’m saying.
3. Three-Day Weekend Witness
Then you become a witness of the three-day weekend. If there is content in which I received grace, there’s no need to worry, ‘What should I say?’ Because you just talk about the grace you received. I can again grasp a shocking covenant about 237. Then I can’t help but speak. When we have something so good, we want to talk, I tell you. Right? Look at women. If they have something good, they tell their friends. Men do it a little less, but women, if they have something good, they talk, don’t they? Telling it everywhere. If they have a nice ring, they want to show it off, so they touch their hair. Why? Because they want to show it off. If we have the covenant in the gospel we have, we want to boast. Right? Boasting is not wrong. Witness.
I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that your remaining life will be that of a witness. Let us pray.
Prayer
Thank You, God. Let the throne, the kingdom, and that work be accomplished for the servants of the Lord leading 237 and all servants participating. Let them be witnesses to those who are discouraged. Let them be witnesses to those suffering from other things. Let them be witnesses to the 237 nations. Let them be witnesses to the 5000 tribes. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.