2026.03.15 Sunday 1st Service
「Jericho Is Bound To Fall」
(Jos 6:1-7)
Right now, we are offering worship together in Immanuel Seoul, Busan, and various branch churches. Specifically, Remnants throughout the nation and the world are listening to the Word together. The answer we must receive today is not that a crisis has come to us, but that an insoluble problem has been placed before us. They came out of Egypt with great difficulty and passed through the wilderness for a long time. Right ahead of them, the great city of Jericho is waiting. Now, what should be done about this?
※ A situation where you must surely go, but you cannot go, and you cannot return.
Our Remnants, young adults, and married people sometimes find themselves in situations where no one can help when they go out into the world. In fact, there can be such great difficulties that only you suffer, which are hard to speak of to others. Therefore, a situation has come where you must surely go, but you cannot go. That being said, you cannot return either. Now, in such times, non-believers have used this phrase: “Jin-toe-yang-nan” (a dilemma/impasse). You cannot go forward and you cannot go backward—suffering such difficulty. Therefore, they used the phrase “Jin-toe-yang-nan.” Today, because you are God’s people here, you must correct a few things before you go.
1. You are God’s child; God’s covenant does not change.
There is no “Jin-toe-yang-nan” in God’s covenant. You are not the people of the devil. You are God’s children. God’s covenant does not change. You have used the wrong word. You have made a mistake. [People say], “Before us, there are always two things. There is anxiety and there is hope. There is despair and there is opportunity.” No.
2. Mistake – The oldest city, the existence of a trade route toward Philistia, a prepared city, the fortified city of Jericho.
Right now, the city of Jericho is a massive city with the nickname “The City of the Moon.” They crossed the Jordan, and the city of Jericho is 8km ahead. I mean, looking at some records, they express it as “one of the oldest cities in the world.” This Jericho has a trade route toward Philistia and is a city with immense preparation. As expected, the city of Jericho is a fortified city that guards this town. Most people might think, “Wow, it’s scary. How will we win against the world?” That is a mistake.
3. Fact – Because of the evidence that had been there, the people inside Jericho fled and lost strength.
Because of all the evidence that had been there during that time, the people inside Jericho all fled. They have already lost strength. You must not be deceived. It is not a scary city. Many people expressed it that way, but it is already recorded in the Bible. It is recorded as being empty. However, the people of Israel have not come on a picnic now. Right? You must quickly identify the reality. They haven’t come for a vacation. Right now, it is correct that this is a life-or-death situation.
▣ Introduction_ Things You Must Know First
Looking at this Word, there are three things you must surely know first to receive an answer at such a time.
1. Do not use non-believer methods.
This is the first thing you must know. Do not use non-believer methods.
1) Fortune-telling, exorcisms, legal, military strategic, business, political talk, public opinion, atmosphere
When non-believers encounter a problem, they visit the demon-possessed to have their fortunes told. Is that correct? When non-believers suffer difficulty, they perform exorcisms. Is that correct? Many people will also speak legally. They will also speak in terms of military strategy. Also, they will speak with the eyes of a merchant or an entrepreneur. They will speak with the eyes of a politician. They will talk about much public opinion and the atmosphere. Now, this is the situation. If you listen to these words, it will actually be a disaster.
2) You are a person of the covenant. Grasp the covenant properly.
You are a person of the covenant. The thing you must be most careful of is: Do not use non-believer methods. No, then is it that I shouldn’t fight? That is not the word. Is it that I shouldn’t file a lawsuit? That is not the word. I am saying that on an important journey, the advice of a non-believer is not helpful. Grasp the covenant properly. There is no “Jin-toe-yang-nan.” On the way to Immanuel Ulsan, there is no “Jin-toe-yang-nan.” There is only difficulty. There is no failure. It’s only that the city of Jericho is sturdy. It only looks that way. Right? At this time, you shouldn’t listen to the words of people or make the sounds of people.
2. Look at the biblical and historical flow.
Then, the second thing you must do first emerges. Look at the biblical and historical flow.
1) Flow of Evangelism
Because there was no Gospel, they ended up going as slaves. God restored the Gospel through Moses. They came out of Egypt. Now they are going to the land of Canaan. They must go and world-evangelize. How is it? You must look at the flow of evangelism first. Right?
2) Flow of the Word
Then, how has the Word been during the times you suffered difficulty? God delivered them from Egypt with 10 miracles. He made them cross that difficult Red Sea. God also made them cross the Jordan. Now, you must look at the flow of the Word, right?
3) Flow of Prayer
Every time, many people complained, but when people of prayer prayed, God worked. You must exactly grasp such a flow and evidence.
3. Absolute
Then, the third thing you must do first is seen.
1) Absolute Sovereignty
The one who governs our lives is God. You come to believe in the Absolute Sovereign. Sick people, do not worry. If God is going to call you back, He can call you even if it’s not a disease.
2) Absolute Plan
But I mean, why did He give the disease? It is that there is work the Absolute Sovereign will do. You must find that. Why did He bring them before Jericho? It is that there is God’s absolute plan. Right? Do you not see the plan? I see it. You must come before Jericho. You must come before a crisis. Only then do the people of Israel live. When Jericho collapses, the darkness of the entire world collapses. It must naturally come. You must realize it this way.
3) Absolute Covenant
When you see the absolute plan, the absolute covenant of God’s Word appears. No matter what anyone says, Israel goes to the land of Canaan. Why? The absolute covenant is the Gospel. Because it won’t do without the Gospel, they must go.
4) Absolute Journey
From this time, you go the absolute journey, and I’m saying this journey is Jericho. The hardship you suffer is the absolute journey. Right? The happiness you suffer is also the absolute journey. I’m saying it is God’s absolute journey.
5) Absolute Goal
Commonly, some people say, “A person like me is old and has no value,” even out of humility. God does not look at it that way. There is an absolute goal. Right? You look exactly at this.
Today, you have met a problem like Jericho that we cannot win with our strength. In some aspects, everyone is like that. Every church is like that. I am saying strengths that we cannot do remain before us. What on earth should be done? We have already reached the answer for three things. Do not use non-believer methods. You will be used by Satan. Look at the flow through which God has worked until now. Then it is seen. The absolute plan is seen, isn’t it?
▣ Main Body_ Actually Experience God’s Power.
But I am saying what should be done. God instructed a strange method. This is important. I’m telling you He instructed a strange method. What did He say? Just go around. What? Just go around the city. This is important. What does the word to “go around” mean? We know God’s power. We believe in it. However, it is to actually experience it.
1. Experience the fact that it only works by the Gospel and God’s power.
First. Experience the fact that it only works by the Gospel and God’s power given to us. Other things look like they are correct, but they are wrong. you must do the experience that it only works by God’s power. Then, even if you meet something like Jericho on the way you go, it is the fact that God’s power is together with you. Experience that.
1) Verse 1 It looks like the massive city of Jericho, but the gates are closed, and no one goes in or out.
In verse 1, “The gates were already closed,” it said. Right? You only need to go around. The gates were already closed. What did it say in verse 1? “No one goes in or out.” We are being deceived. On the way you go, it already looks like the massive city of Jericho, but the gates are closed, and there is no one who will win and fight you.
2) Verse 2 The king of that city and the warriors became powerless.
It is recorded in verse 2. “The king and warriors have already become powerless.” All the while you thought you were suffering, it all changed into evidence. What would happen if those kings and warriors mustered strength in the city of Jericho and stood against you? These people have already lost all their strength.
3) Verse 2 [I] have given – You are going to achieve what God has given.
It said so in chapter 1, but in chapter 2—no, chapter 6—it said again, “[I] have given.” We are going to achieve what God has given. It is certain. For the one who has received salvation for their life, you are going to achieve what God has given. There is only a little hardship. Looking historically, despite the hardship, those who built the temple and such left behind masterpieces. “Ah, there shouldn’t be hardship. It won’t do because it’s difficult.” An king who pretended to be for the people saying, “The people are suffering,” left behind nothing. Right? It is achieving what God has given.
2. Experience the fact that the secret of prayer moves the universe, the world, and the future.
Why does He tell them to go around? This is the second reason. Experience the fact that the secret of prayer moves the universe, the world, and the future.
1) Just go around the city following the Ark of the Covenant – Build a bartizan of prayer.
Earlier, He told them to go around following the Ark of the Covenant. What is this? Just go around the city. Simply put, build a bartizan of prayer. It’s not difficult, is it? He spoke of what we can do. Build a bartizan of prayer. Everyone, you must do this experience in your life. Right? ‘Ah, this is what a bartizan of prayer is like.’ You must do this experience. Otherwise, you will keep being shaken, for the Remnants. No, even if not a Remnant, even if it’s an elder or a pastor, without this experience, they are shaken. I have received many answers through difficulty. I have conviction. Yes, difficulty is a good thing. Do not tell lies. Be certain. You sick person, you have met the greatest opportunity now. Right? “You worry about the economy every day, but you have met the opportunity right now where you can go from the bottom to the greatest place, to the Summit. What you did was always tell lies. It’s not the bottom. You must go down starting from the bottom.” If God is together, going up is simple.
2) Verse 3 Go around every day for six days – Experience the bartizan of prayer regarding your important life.
Go around every day for six days. In verse 3. Regarding your important life, you must truly experience what the bartizan of prayer is.
3) Verse 4 Let the priest (servant of the Lord) carry seven trumpets and go before the Ark of the Covenant. Go around blowing trumpets and carrying the Ark of the Covenant.
Let the priest carry seven trumpets and go before the Ark of the Covenant. Right? That is what the servants of the Lord have to do. Blow the trumpets, carry the Ark of the Covenant, and go. And go around. Then it’s okay.
A pastor’s wife I know—it’s truly funny. They had to buy a church, but the land was ugly. She said she went around while praying every day. It makes sense. It looks foolish, but it makes sense. She said she truly went around every day. She said a non-believer took the lead and made them buy it all. So it’s a truly amazing thing. What? What did that pastor’s wife experience? She experienced, ‘Ah, this is what prayer is like.’ If you cannot do this experience, you have no strength even if you enter the land of Canaan. Right?
The fact that difficulty has come before you right now is truly an experience of the covenant God gives, but you must do the experience of prayer. I am saying it is the time to exactly confirm God’s Word regarding how my life has lived and how it will go. Now, how did you do when you went around? Prayer has no choice but to come out. While going around that great city. Our school Remnants—there is a walk, isn’t there? While walking and praying, they have many experiences. Therefore, at RLS school, they are doing what talented people cannot do. Conviction comes that those children will truly have a future. Today, make a resolution in a short time. Something like Jericho before me is for me to experience the covenant and experience prayer.
3. Experience the power of united prayer – On the last day, go around 7 times and shout all at once.
Third. What do I mean? On the last day, go around seven times. And shout all at once. There is a great reason for this.
1) Before Jericho, create a relay so that the entire church members are completely connected to prayer, evangelism, and the Word.
What is the power of your united prayer? In the Bible, every time they were one in heart and prayed together, works occurred. Now, for Ulsan, you must also do individual prayer, but the time schedule for doing such united prayer has come. When the session met this morning, I said so. “Create a relay so that the entire church members are completely connected to prayer, evangelism, and the Word.” You must experience it. One day, a church member grasped this and prayed, and—oh? As time passed, God answered this way. You must have that experience. Your children grasped one Word, and one day this Word was fulfilled. I am saying that child comes to save their entire life with that one thing. He tells them to do this now before Jericho. You must grasp it firmly.
So, when difficulty came while I was evangelizing in the past, [I thought], ‘Yes, for this, God [wants] nothing else. He tells me to experience covenant prayer.’ Why? Because I’m a witness. So you must grasp it exactly.
2) Verse 5 On the last day, shout with a loud voice.
On the last day, shout with a loud voice. Scientists explained that when a truly big building, an old building is empty, I’m saying it could also collapse by some kind of loud sound, scientifically.
3) Verse 10 Do not open your mouth while going around, and make a sound all at once on the last day – Do not listen to the sounds of people, grasp the covenant, and pray as one.
A more important word is verse 10. Do not open your mouth while going around. Do not open your mouth while going around. On the last day, shout all at once. This is an important word. While you are praying regarding an important thing, if you listen to all this sound and that sound of people, you don’t know how much loss you suffer. When you do an important task, you become exactly one in prayer and pray while grasping the covenant. What is the reason? It is world-evangelization.
▣ Conclusion_ Grasp the Evidence.
So, I will conclude. Grasp the evidence.
1. Abraham’s family who grasped the Genesis 3:15 covenant – God used Joseph in world-evangelization.
Abraham’s family who grasped the Genesis 3:15 covenant changed the world, and God used Joseph. The key is not even conquest. It is world-evangelization. It is not being a slave in Egypt. It is world-evangelization. You must grasp the evidence exactly.
2. 7 people grasped the covenant to go to offer a blood sacrifice in Exodus 3:18, and works occurred.
Exodus 3:18, “Go to offer a blood sacrifice.” 7 people grasped this covenant and works occurred. Who are they? The mother Jochebed. Moses. Aaron. That father-in-law. Joshua. Caleb. Rahab. There are 7 people and it’s finished. Grasp it. If all church members become one, a miracle occurs, but there were many places where works occurred while a few of you were praying. Elders and church officers have nothing else to think about. It is the last of my life. Isn’t it so? If God calls me tonight, there is nothing I can take. It is God’s grace that I am alive, but it is so. I will truly make a masterpiece in my life. You must grasp it.
3. In the Mizpah movement in 1 Samuel 7:9-10, Philistia was completely blocked by 4 people who were involved in the blood sacrifice covenant.
As you know, it is the Mizpah movement in 1 Samuel 7:9-10. Do you know what the most important thing is? Philistia invaded thinking they were gathering. At that time, this Samuel offered a blood sacrifice of a young lamb. What kind of work occurred? God emitted thunder and broke all of Philistia. These four people who participated in this covenant—the mother and Samuel, Jesse and David—completely blocked Philistia.
4. 5 Remnants who grasped the covenant that the way to live in captivity is Immanuel in Isaiah 7:14 overturned Babylon.
No one believed. “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son. His name is Immanuel.” They thought [he] was crazy. “What sound is that?” So, “Our country goes as captives. The way to live is Immanuel.” Because Jeremiah said this, they ended up putting Jeremiah in [prison]. They ended up killing Isaiah. That strength is not strength. It was fulfilled as it was. Five Remnants who grasped this covenant appeared. The three young men and Daniel, Esther appeared and overturned [it]. Grasp the covenant exactly.
5. Church officers who helped Paul
The number of church officers who helped Paul is not many. These people became one. They established 24 bartizans. According to the elder’s prayer, they are going the 25-journey. Therefore, you must establish the guidepost called eternity. I hope you do.
※ The figure we are looking for – Rahab who heard the rumor and realized the covenant, Rahab who went to the land of Canaan, the blessing of the descendants
I am concluding, and there is one important figure here. There is one important figure when Jericho collapses. We are looking for this figure. Who is it? It is Rahab. Until this time before Jericho collapses, the person who heard the rumor and realized the covenant is Rahab. Therefore, I’m saying she confessed that Jehovah is the true God. She spoke to the spies sent by Joshua. “That city is already empty.” Right? She tells him. It’s finished. You only need to go. I am saying this talk was delivered to Joshua. Therefore, Joshua began to advance. Because he had to collapse that terrifying city of darkness, he ended up going. At that time, there is a request Rahab made. “Because this city will surely collapse, please save us.” Amazing, isn’t it? He keeps the promise. He takes this Rahab and goes to the land of Canaan. There, this Rahab gets married and comes to raise immense figures. God simply blessed the descendants. Right?
※ Between lies and truth, there are words that save and words that kill.
You all must be able to discern between lies and truth. There are words that are truth but kill, and there are words that are lies but save. If you cannot distinguish that, you suffer for your entire life. “I only spoke the true words.” But there are words that kill oneself and kill others. You must speak the truth that saves. Clearly, Rahab told a lie. Right? The spies were hidden, but when asked, “Where are they?” I’m saying she said they had gone. ‘The Bible said not to lie.’ “They are here.” Is it that? Between lies and truth, there are words that save and words that kill. She realized this. An immense work occurred.
※ Offering where prayer was gathered
Because they are doing temple construction in Busan, a high school student—a high school student who is studying in Busan from the countryside. During the day, he also works. He goes to school in the evening. I’m saying he is a student who works with difficulty. Because [he heard] they are doing construction, he calculated his entire fortune. Well, there’s nothing. His entire fortune—living alone, if you add up the bag, clothes, and hat, it’s only 50,000 won. He made a request to the owner he works for. “Boss, I will surely pay you back, otherwise you can deduct it from where I receive my salary. Please lend me only 50,000 won.” This boss is not a bad kid, but he asked, “Why?” To do a construction offering. But this boss is a believer. He is an elder who does a certain church greatly. The elder spoke this way. “Because you are still a student, it’s okay. You don’t have to do it. There’s nothing to pay back. It’s okay.” He spoke an amazing thing to the elder. What did he say? “Elder, I had two older brothers die. Young is not just young.” It’s not a big talk, but this elder [thought], ‘Correct.’ “I will lend you 5,000,000 won instead of 50,000 won.” “Thank you. I will surely pay it back.” This elder [said], “You don’t have to pay back.” What is this? It’s not the amount. It’s that the prayers of these children were gathered.
There are a few blessings my mother left me, and one of them. Because my mother lived so difficultly and with hardship since I was young until now, I have never received pocket money. But I mean, God will know, she was so faithful with tithes and offerings for her entire life. At that time, I didn’t realize well. ‘What is she doing that for?’ I thought that way. During the decades of living, God guarded our health so that we wouldn’t be sick even once. From then on, God opened many economic doors on the way I go. He opened doors to the point where bad guys would be jealous and suspicious. It will be so in the future as well.
※ When God gives a mission to a person of mission, He sends them having achieved it. It’s just that faith must grow, so He plays a faith game.
Immanuel Busan, Seoul, Ulsan, Changwon—do not worry. When God gives a mission to a believer, to a person of mission, He sends them having achieved it. It’s just that God is playing a faith game. Right? I am saying faith grows only when you play the faith game of going 40 years in the wilderness. He [says] He will build the Tabernacle, He causes miracles—God is playing a test game regarding faith.
※ Build the temple quickly and create a 70-Special Forces. Completely save the region. Completely bind the power of darkness.
Therefore, what is it that the elders must grasp? Why did He establish the 70-church officers? Build the temple quickly and create a 70-Special Forces. Completely overturn Ulsan. Completely save Gyeongnam. Create a 70-Special Forces and completely bind the power of darkness. Laying down that picture, prepare for the temple.
From today, this prayer cherished in your hearts will be fulfilled. you must cherish it in your hearts. I will pray.
Prayer. We give thanks to God. Let today become a start for Jericho collapsing, and let us become witnesses who conquer the land of Canaan. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.