2025.12.21 Sunday 2nd Service
237 Missions Committee Devotional Worship
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 2:1-8
Thank you. “Faith is God’s gift”—every time you worship and every time you pray, you must know what is happening right now.
[ The Triune throne (angel) binding darkness ]
Because it cannot be believed at all and cannot be seen with the eyes, the Triune God is working now by the Spirit. Answers will surely come. That is why it says, “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” Right now, at this time. Jesus promised that at this time the power of the throne and the kingdom of God will surely come. At this time God also dispatches the angels of the Lord. It is the same thing, but He also sends the heavenly army. At this time when you are praying now, darkness is surely bound. That is why prayer is tremendous. Satan is bound, I am saying. When does this happen?
[ 1, 3, 8 fundamental strength ]
This is to make it easy to understand. You must surely remember. When does this happen? God is working so that you receive fundamental strength by holding onto the bartizan, journey, and guidepost that Christ gave. Beyond simple health and things like that, the standard of prayer is that fundamental strength is produced. This is the standard of answers. What was said at this Friday overnight is that you must hold onto two lines. So treatment is what doctors do. This is talking about what is fundamental. If your hand breaks right away and you pray and just wait, would that work? You must go to the hospital. But your true health is not talking about that. It means this is the time to cultivate fundamental strength inside your body, spiritually fundamental strength.
[ Direction – goal ]
And what else? There is a direction God desires. When you go that way, God is bound to work. No matter how excellent something is, if the direction is not right, the further you go, the more you lose. There is surely God’s goal. You must hold onto what is certain. No matter how difficult the wilderness is, they go to the land of Canaan. That is God’s goal. No matter how much persecution comes, world evangelization will happen. And every day you must receive fundamental strength with this. Even now you must pray to receive that strength. There is something more important left.
[ the remaining one, pilgrim, conqueror, scattered one, watchman, spy, the road ]
The remaining one. The one God left behind. This person is changed into the one who remains and the one who will leave behind, and God mobilizes all blessings to find this person. They have been prepared. We, Immanuel Church and all churches doing the upper room movement, are finding these people across the whole world. If you go to 10 places, you find 10 people. There is surely one in one place. If you go to 1000 places, you find 1000 people. Because God prepared them, we do not waver.
God left behind pilgrims who will be prepared and who will pilgrimage and evangelize. It is not only that. He is not leaving behind people who only receive your help, but conquerors who can reproduce and conquer darkness. There is no doubt. God sent them in advance. The scattered ones. These are important things in the Bible. It does not end with this. He prepared watchmen who save a region. This is what you must always remember when you offer your missions committee dedication worship. It is not only that.
They are spies who go to save the age of disasters without anyone knowing. Spies do not go because someone tells them to come. They go in and find it. Without being known. In English it is a little strange, but it is “Spy.” No one told them to come, but they went. It is not originally used like that, but they go in even when they are blocked from entering. Later, for all peoples they raise a banner. These people build up the road.
What we are making now—the three courtyards, the three-day weekend age, the holy meditation age—is a road that will raise up tremendous works in the future. God cannot help but work like this. So in a sense, Jesus said not to pray, did He not? Just enjoy this. Just enjoy the kingdom of God. He said it at the end as well. For 40 days, the kingdom of God. I am confident. Just enjoy that.
▣ Introduction_ Ephesians 6:12
Now, why is that? We are looking at Ephesians today. At the very end of Ephesians, it says like this. What does it say? “This Satan—your battle is not against flesh and blood, not against people, but a battle against Satan.”
1. Rulers
This Satan is gripping rulers and killing people. It is clearly recorded that Satan is doing this. That is right. There are even countries that kill people. Possessed by Satan, they kill children. They go and, just because someone believes in Jesus, they shoot and kill them. Politics is like that. It is strange, right? Politics blocks other religions from entering. It prevents people from believing in Jesus. You must be able to overcome this. That is what I am saying. He spoke of the secret to overcoming that. He says He will make you overcome it.
2. Authorities
Authorities. This is the individual. A powerful person is captured by Satan and blocks the gospel. In Ephesians it is explained like that throughout.
3. World rulers
What did it say as the third? “The world rulers of this darkness.” Simply put, those who practice evil lawlessness are gripping the world. Satan moves this and makes it happen, so block it.
4. Evil spirits
And look again. “The spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Strange idol-worshiping groups come out, especially, and stir things up.
▣ Main point_ salvation
Then, since we have the qualification to receive this answer, what on earth is salvation? We must first know and enjoy this. What is salvation? You could understand it as, believing in Jesus and becoming God’s child. If you do not know salvation well, you evangelize in a strange way. If you go to a hospital and say, “Believe in Jesus and go to heaven,” that person can feel very bad. Of course, you cannot say wrong things just so that the person will not feel bad. But that is wrong. You see someone holding a sign that says, “Jesus heaven, unbelief hell,” and it is right but wrong. You must never do that. What must you say? “You are becoming God’s child now.” Right? “Life and death are entrusted to God. You are becoming God’s child now. And when you become God’s child, you pray in that name.” You must teach like that. Then this person hears the accurate gospel. If a person is living perfectly fine and you go and say, “When you die, go to heaven,” it is right but wrong.
1. Past problem solved (Ephesians 2:1)
This is the first. What is salvation? Solving the past problem. Today, Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1 clearly says, “dead in transgressions and sins.”
1) 12 strategies
Now they have fallen into Satan’s 12 strategies. They cannot come out.
2) Sin, transgressions
And sin and transgressions, simply put, original sin and personal sin. They are bound. Transgressions, personal sin—if you repent, it can be dealt with somewhat, but original sin cannot be solved by repentance. Right? People do not understand sin well, but “sins and transgressions”—if it is transgressions, it is what we did wrong. But true original sin cannot be solved.
3) Dead state
So it says they are in a dead state. Do dead people work? They cannot. This has been solved, I am saying. This is salvation.
2. Present problem (Ephesians 2:2)
Salvation is going to heaven later, but it is also that the present problem has been solved. This is Ephesians chapter 2 verse 2. It is expressed very precisely in Ephesians. What does it say?
1) The ruler of the power of the air
Right now you are being liberated from the hand of the ruler of the power of the air. Right now. I am sorry, but the churches of the world will not evangelize well. Why? Because they do not know what is real. So it will not go well. They will all close. Quickly, the Remnants of the whole nation and the whole world must rise and deliver the correct gospel.
2) Three organizations
Now many spiritual problems are taking place in many three organizations and religions. They are extremely capable organizations. Where is their main stage? America is the stage. But the place with the most mentally ill people in the world is America. In the world. Now it has become even worse. In the past, people who were mentally ill were obvious. But now it is not obvious. Before, there were differences—people taking drugs had strange eyes and things like that. Now they sit there neatly and fashionably. But they are insane. If they feel offended, they shoot. If you look at them while passing by, they feel offended that you looked and they shoot. They go into schools and shoot students studying and kill them. They are insane. It has increased greatly in Japan too.
3) By nature children of wrath
What does it say? In Ephesians chapter 2 verse 3, by nature children of wrath. Could it be otherwise? Because they are bound here. Being liberated from here is salvation. Telling this is evangelism.
3. Future problem (Ephesians 2:6)
Salvation is solving the future problem. This is Ephesians chapter 2 verse 6. “He raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.” If you truly pray for evangelism and missions, if you pray for 237, God will mobilize everything with the power of this blessing. And those who have no answers must quickly realize. Why? Because the direction does not match God. No matter how high your IQ is, if your direction does not match God, your goal does not match either.
3. Future problem solved
1) Hell background
You must convey this fact, but what is it? Even before going to hell, they are living in a hell background. It is not that they go to hell later. Of course they go. They live like hell now and then go. For us, going to heaven is natural. We enjoy the blessing of the throne and then go. This has been solved here. Solving this is salvation.
2) Eternal things
What is this? Now it is connected to eternal things. Not just a simple future. So we do not die. We go to an eternal place. Our soul is not buried somewhere after dying. It just leaves our body.
3) Deliver to the next generation
So we must deliver this tremendous blessing and fact to the whole world and to the next generation. Being born well in the next life? You must not believe such blatant lies. There is no such thing.
▣ Conclusion
Then God gave these amazing blessings, but how do we receive salvation? How do we receive this blessing?
1. Cannot be saved – Christ
We cannot be saved. We have no condition or ability to be saved. Already we are not God’s children, and because we are fallen into this darkness, God must solve this problem; we cannot be saved. So God promised Christ. We cannot be saved. We cannot meet God. So He gave the word Christ. We were not saved by faith. By grace. God gave it. The method is not the condition; the method is “through faith.” The condition is not faith. “By grace.” We have no condition to be saved. God promised and sent Christ, and by that grace we have been saved through faith. “And this faith also is God’s gift.” He explained God’s tremendous work.
2. Grace
That we were saved is God’s grace. Faith is also God’s gift. “He will show it in the coming ages.”
3. Every day, every hour, every matter
What does that mean? You must enjoy this power every day. Why? Because you must convey it to the coming ages. If you were not going to convey it, there would be no need to pray. If you stay still, you go to heaven anyway, so why do anything? Every hour, you must confirm now. Now is the time answers come, and what is now? We gathered using the phrase 237-5000 tribes, a phrase used nowhere else. Why are there so many terms? If you want to do it, there are many terms. If you have many children, there are many names. If you have none, you do not need names. Every hour. And you must succeed enough to do world evangelization. Every matter, 300%. That is what it is.
Resolution
So you must make several resolutions. Because the conclusion has come. Now those who have fallen into darkness, into that swamp, are waiting. If you move, you sink more. You must not talk about conditions there. Such people are filled there. You must not talk about law there. They have fallen into the swamp. You have seen a swamp, right? A swamp is different from water—if you swim, you sink more. You cannot come out and you keep sinking. Then you die. At that time you must not talk about conditions. You must throw a rope unconditionally and tell them to grab it. You must rescue them. You must have that 중심. Everyone is in the swamp.
So our Remnants, in order to rescue them, must have strength. Have summit time. Prepare to go out into the world. They listened to Jesus for 50 days, 40 days, and then prayed for ten days, and on the day of Pentecost, works took place. What does that mean? Go out with spiritual strength. You must not go out without strength. Especially our young adults, go out after preparing 300%, unconditionally. 100% refers to your expertise. The other 100% refers to field research. Field research does not need to be grand. You must actually do it. If you go to evangelize a high school, you must research where the bad kids hang out, and where the kids who wander around hang out. You must research everything. There is a gangster in the school who does not listen to teachers, and he even looks like an adult. I called him to a bakery. I did not hit him hard, but as he came in, I slapped him. I slapped him confidently. Why? Because this is an elder’s son. If you do not investigate, you do not know. I did the background check thoroughly. This is an elder’s son. He fell. So he was shocked. He is a kid who is not afraid of teachers. So I knew he was an elder’s son, and remembering myself in the past, I shared my testimony. He changed. It is filled.
Those who are sick must fear nothing and receive fundamental healing. Receive fundamental strength. Try and see who wins. Go with a fundamental mission. That is your evangelism and missions. Open the road of the three ages of our church. God cannot help but answer. Conscientiously, do not keep lying—if the evangelism answers in the Bible do not come, it is nonsense. Right? Do not endure. Why are you enduring, trying not to receive God’s blessings? Do not endure. Pray correctly. You must not keep holding out while it does not work. The churches of the whole world are closing now. Pray correctly and go to save them. This is not my story. It is what Jesus said. Now one year is ending. From next year, may you surely receive greater real answers, in the name of Jesus Christ, I bless you.
Prayer. We give thanks to God. Let us match the direction God has given, make us witnesses who receive true answers by doing what God desires most, and give us strength so that we can deliver the gospel to places that have not heard it at all. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.