2025.11.30 Sunday 2nd Service
Church Construction Devotional Worship
Scripture Reading: Acts 18:1-4
Gorin Evangelism Church and the temple.
Paul – Priscilla
When we talk about the Corinthian church, two people are representative. It was Paul and Priscilla, the married couple.
[ Personal picture ]
From now on, you must each draw your personal picture.
[ 1. Church leaders – Moses, Paul ]
Our church leaders must not think, “We are old.” That is not a biblical statement. Be like Moses. Moses started at eighty. He worked forty more years, and it says that even when he went to be with the Lord he was still strong. And when Paul was close to eighty, he said this: “I have not yet attained anything.” And then he spoke about what he would accomplish in the future. That was when he was in a situation of being almost eighty.
[ 2. Young adults – 300% ]
And our young adults must prepare for 300% starting now. You must always draw this picture in your mind. Then even during worship it becomes prayer. Then when you go to the field it becomes prayer. Because this picture is not clear, we keep changing from time to time.
[ 3. Remnants – imprint, root, nature ]
Especially for our young remnants, this is now completely the time to imprint the bartizan, the journey, and the guidepost. We are doing these three things.
[ Historical buildings ]
Because God builds the temple, as you know, in the early church, church leaders were raised one by one. They left behind historical buildings that you simply cannot understand. Many people go to see them when they travel. “How did they build this?” Even though they are old, they do not collapse. I went to some places and they said that the pillars alone were a thousand years old.
[ Heart, thoughts, brain, soul, throne ]
So the meetings of these people became extremely important meetings. And there are times when what is contained in your heart and what is contained in your thoughts become the same. This becomes imprinted on your brain and imprinted on your soul. This connects with the throne.
[ Answers ]
Then answers absolutely come. This is the principle of answers. The United States is a big nation. So underneath it we say South America, and above it we call North America. But while North America, the United States, is well off, South America is not. Why? Because they keep thinking about receiving help. Then they must continually be helped. If you keep speaking unbelief, the fruits of unbelief will continually appear. You must discover God’s blessings, but if you do not discover them and keep living like that, your life becomes like that. These days our nation has become much brighter, and because we must do world evangelization, many blessings are coming. Even when we say the same word, in Korean we say, “The bird cries.” We see a bird and say it is crying as it makes a beautiful sound. In English they express it as, “The bird sings.” When something shocking happens, in Korean we immediately bring out all kinds of harsh consonants. But when something shocking happens to them, they immediately say, “Oh my God!” It means, “Oh, my God.” Even in very urgent situations, when we get angry, we say all kinds of things, but they say, “Jesus Christ.” The words are a bit different. So as you, as individuals, grow older, you must draw a clear picture. Because the seven remnants had a clear picture, everything changed into blessings. Because Joseph had a clear picture of world evangelization and held onto it, everything became blessings. For Joseph’s brothers, everything turned into hardship. They were all sons of the same father, but it was like that.
▣ Introduction_ The first temple [ David ]
So what about this temple—what was the very first temple? The representative figure here is David. He prepared this.
- The temple of the heart (imprint)
What did he do first? David first built the temple in his heart. He prayed in his heart that it would surely be built. That began to be imprinted. So God said to David, “Just by looking at your heart.” - The temple of faith (root)
And he first built the temple of faith that would save the whole world. This began to take root. - The spiritual temple (nature)
Then God revealed everything about how to build it. He completely built a spiritual temple in that. This became completely David’s nature. Before the physical temple was built, he used the word “temple” many times. So from now on, it is fine for the remnants to make it visible to their eyes. Draw a clear picture.
▣ Main Message
Now then, we need to go into the main message a bit, using the book of Acts.
- Priscilla and Aquila – The temple of faith
This is what you must absolutely enjoy first. It is the temple of faith that the Priscilla and Aquila couple built. You must absolutely have this.
- Acts 2:10
First, they participated in the Mark’s upper room, which was the field of the greatest answers. They also passed this picture on to Apollos. - Acts 18:1–4
Then, because they faced hardship, they had to leave Rome, but that changed into the greatest blessing. So you do not need to worry about hardship. At the moment you think about it, hardship seems worrisome, but that is not so. In the end, they were almost driven out of Rome, but they were not driven out. They came to meet the evangelists of the age. - Acts 18:24–28
They passed on this picture of the temple and of prayer to Apollos. - 1 Corinthians 16:19
Before the temple was built, the regional temple was made first. That is 1 Corinthians 16:19. - Romans 16:3–4
And as you know, they once again jumped into the evangelization of Rome. It has been confirmed that their graves are currently in Rome. This is the temple that is built first. Right now, all of you are doing ministry to multiethnic people and healing ministry. This is already building the temple first.
- The temple God desires
If so, what is the temple God desires? These days, as I think, one thought keeps coming: if we had done the temple construction according to our original prayers, it should have finished ten years ago. Right? If it had been like that, we would have missed the important message we are now holding onto and seeking. This must be done first. The temple must first be established in my heart, in my faith, and spiritually, and then the works follow. It is not that things will be done just because we have a building.
[ The temple that people cannot help but come to ]
The important thing here is that, in the future, we must build a temple that people cannot help but come to.
- Three courtyards – a place of rest
If we prepare three courtyards, people will have no choice but to come. We must make this 300%. Answers will continue to come. Later, it will become known all over the world. A wind can blow among the multiethnic people saying, “Let us go to Immanuel Church in Busan.” Then we just need to train them and send them out. That is why we must not just do things thoughtlessly; we must teach them one skill at a time so that, when they go back, they can reproduce. Our elder Kim Sung-su and others who are currently working with the multiethnic people are doing so thankfully and well, but if multiethnic people come, it is also fine to have them learn a skill and send them back. In our country it might not be that popular, but abroad, things like hairdressing are 100% popular. So while it is important to invite them, cut their hair, and send them back, what is more important is to call people from there, teach them the skill, and implant it. Taekwondo is now difficult to run in Korea, but it is very popular abroad. In the past, when Americans did not recognize Korea, one of the things they recognized was Taekwondo. So we must make it so that they can reproduce. Therefore, the most important thing in the three courtyards is that they must be a place where multiethnic people, the sick, and remnants can rest. With multiethnic people, you cannot be too strict and overly clear-cut. There is a hidden reason that these people cannot settle down in a church in Seoul. What is it? They keep hiding. They keep changing churches. So we cannot train them as disciples. Why is that? Visas. There are many with no visa. If they are too exposed, they get caught. So they keep avoiding such places. In the United States there are also many people who are caught because of visa issues. There are many Koreans like that too. So it must be said, “Immanuel Church is a church where you can rest.” It must be, “It is the safest church, like my own home.” If you continue to edit, plan, and design just a little more, this will come out. Here too, 300% comes out. Then multiethnic people have no choice but to flock. The sick will not come saying, “I hurt here and there,” but those who feel, “Ah, I need fundamental healing,” will gather. We show the way to the remnants. If we make this, people cannot help but come. Right now is just the beginning. Is not the Word frequently given and fulfilled? - The three-day weekend age – concentration
Especially, what is the three-day weekend age? We must absolutely think about utilizing the mountain. Because we need a place where people can concentrate. In reality, for an individual, it should be that you come, read the Bible alone, pray, rest, and then come to the worship time. But there is no such place. Surprisingly, Buddhist temples have all of that. So even though temples do not evangelize, they keep increasing. Groups even come from outside to tour the temples. When they come, there is much to see. In this way they skillfully deceive people. Right? As I said in the morning, among your prayers there is the prayer of raising your voice. It is the most effective. But where do you have a small room to shout and pray? The church does not have such a place. Your prayer of raising your voice, the prayer of breathing, and the prayer of meditating on the Word are tremendous prayers. For example, if Elder Kang Chil-se sits in some corner and starts shouting, Elder Jo Ki-beom will be surprised and wonder, “What is he doing?” Right? It becomes like that. We do not understand the power of concentration, but when we concentrate, tremendous power comes out. Without realizing it, the brain comes alive. That is why, when you see a good environment and just say, “Ah, this is good,” you become revived. Just seeing that beautiful sea and the horizon and saying, “Ah, this is so good,” makes you come alive. So we must make it so that people cannot help but come. But the perfect opportunity is that this land of ours is no ordinary land, in fact. We bought it without knowing, but the land of Immanuel Seoul Church is no ordinary land. From what I see, we can do all three things there. We can have some place to rest, some place to concentrate. When Dr. Kim Jun-gon was alive, I often met him, and once he contacted us saying that he would visit the RUTC. It was just before he passed away, and he toured our RUTC. Then he told me something somewhat important. He asked whose the mountain was. I said that some of it was ours and some of it belonged to others. He said, “Make this a place of prayer.” And he said, “And if possible, when you gather people from all over the world, it is fine to put up tents here in the summer and hold conferences. Make it a place of rest where people come and rest.” That is what he said. It was quite an old-style suggestion, but I thought, “There is truth to this.” When hundreds of thousands of multiethnic people gather, there is no other way. - Holy meditation – crying out
And as we open the age of holy meditation, this must be a temple where our members can do holy meditation. Among prayers, the greatest prayer is actually the prayer of crying out. The church cannot do this. We cannot do it during worship, and apart from going alone to a place where there are no people, we cannot do it. That is why He did not just tell Jeremiah to pray but said, “Call to Me.” In the past, when I drove my car alone, I did this prayer a lot. Truly a lot. These days, if I did it, our secretaries would be surprised, so I do nothing and stay quiet.
- The temple that remains in history
Now, it does not end there. We are preparing a temple that remains in history.
[ Eternity ]
The temple that remains in history means that, while you are here for just a short while and then go, the gospel movement and the temple are eternal.
- Footprints
You must leave your footprints here. - Monument
Especially, we must at least leave something that says, “Ah, they did missions in such and such a nation.” Whether we receive blessings or not is not the issue. The direction God desires must be correct. - Answers
Here, we leave three important answers.
(1) Bartizan of the throne
What is that? It is the bartizan of the throne that Jesus taught. The number can be whatever you receive in your answers. While I was praying, I found seven places, and because they were connected, I went out with them. There can be more, or there can be fewer.
(2) Journey of the throne
(3) Guidepost of the throne
When we come to the temple and pray, we must see the journey of the throne and leave the guidepost of the throne. This is eternal. So it becomes a church that people cannot help but come to. The people who first built the temple by faith gather there. And we go forth holding onto this picture. Then, if necessary, when our church reaches that point, all the members can take turns fasting in a relay, one day at a time. If you fast one day, your stomach shrinks and it is very good. So we keep doing it. When we were in the basement, we did this for three years. After doing it for three years, the door of world evangelization opened. It did not make sense. People from all over the nation and world were flocking to a 35-pyeong basement, and we could not handle it. We put up tents and borrowed other people’s houses, but even then we could not handle it. One pastor came in and stayed, but so many people were pushing in that he said he could not breathe. At that time it was to that extent. Now God is finally guiding us with the timetable of opening the door to the 5000 tribes.
▣ Conclusion
But there is something we must look at carefully.
- A church where disciples gather
First, because this important gospel disappeared, these temples have now all changed into places where tourists gather. These people built monumental temples showing how they had received answers. In places like England, when you see the temples, they are so big that you are shocked. But there is no worship, no believers, no gospel there, and only tourists gather. Because so many tourists come, they make money. At such a time, we must be a church where disciples gather. From now on, we must look at the age and prepare 300%. Especially for our two elders who are in music, you must prepare so that tourists who come to our church can see praise and musicals and such things. You must prepare, with much prayer, what to prepare. These things are greatly related to the opening of the multiethnic age. So we must be a church where disciples gather. In that sense, even if you remove all other skills in the future age, music and praise will become first priority in missions. I said something about this to Seoul already, but there has been no response; please study it. Why are those thirteen or fourteen island nations so important? Because they are the way to the 5000 tribes. So you must go once when they hold music festivals in places like Vanuatu. Only then can you praise together with those people. If you have never seen them once, it will take much more time. Then, we went to Africa. You have seen them praise in Africa, right? There is something amazingly different from us. Not a single person reads sheet music. They just do it. But they are good. Then, what must we do in order to hold a grand performance with them, using our sheet music together? So when we went last time, the president asked us to help educate their children. We must be a church where disciples gather. - 300% by field
So, all the specialists in every field among you must prepare 300% in your respective fields. Then even if you tell them not to come, they will come. - Picture of the temple
So, when you pray for the temple, what picture should you draw, besides your personal picture?
- Multiethnic people (the three-day weekend age)
You must draw the picture of multiethnic people flocking in and being sent out. This is mainly what we do during the three-day weekend age. - 2000–700 (holy meditation movement)
Next, in Seoul there are 2000 regional churches, and in Busan we have 700 regional churches, right? What must arise in the 2000 and in the 700? The holy meditation movement must arise. This becomes a tremendous door of evangelism. - 24, 25, eternity (three courtyards)
Next, you must draw the picture. You must make the three courtyards such that they become 24, 25, and eternity. You must continually draw this picture. Answers will begin to come in an amazing way. Once temple construction progresses fully, it is good to also give the members the Word they must hold onto daily. Relay prayer is something that is connected and done, and the Word must be given to everyone, so that those who pray can hold onto the Word and pray together. The temple construction team can make this. In the past, when I went to the field to do evangelism, I first set up relay prayer. And every week I delivered the Word. Originally, I copied it onto a single sheet of paper and delivered it every day. But once, there was a person with a mental disorder who kept following me around, begging me to save him. So what should I do? I was busy. Then, though it was basic, I got an idea. I wrote down all the verses that could only but heal this person. It was according to my own standard, but I wrote them down and explained them in words he could understand. When I gave it to him, he took it and memorized it, looked it up, and did everything with it. So rather than giving many sermons to the evangelism disciples, I gave them the Word. At that time I felt something for the first time: I had only said with my mouth that the Word is living and works, but I experienced it myself. “Ah, the Word truly is living and working.” When I thought, “Ah, I should give this Word to this person,” and sought it, I felt that God was working in me.
[ Answer, imprint, assurance, six days, flow of the meetings, core, prayer diary ]
So what is the final conclusion? Among today’s message, you will find an answer that makes you say, “I must do this.” I said in the morning: even if you just repeat and meditate on this Word a little, it will be imprinted. Then you will come to the assurance, “Ah, I must receive answers in this part.” Like Rockefeller, you must be able to pray for six days. When this becomes prayer for six days, look once at the flow of the meetings that come out during the week. When you see the titles, you will see the flow. It comes out like this. Then you finish everything with the core. You also open the three-day weekend age and finish. Then imagine that you are doing this every day. You must absolutely do this. Remnants especially must do it. You write it down in your prayer diary. Because if time passes, you forget, so you write it down. You will be surprised. You will be surprised that you only did this. One day you will realize that you are inside the evangelism movement. You will find yourself in the position of success, even though you did not struggle to succeed. Then you will end up helping others. That is the beginning of evangelism. So you must absolutely receive this answer.
So during this one week, many fruits that are invisible to the eye are set to arise. Simply put, I came here in 1987 and spoke about the Darakbang. It developed little by little, and where have we now come? We have come to the 5000 tribes. Without missing a single time in between, the Word has been fulfilled up to now. This is not for me, but it means that God has the plan to save the 5000 tribes through you. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ that new grace will overflow this week. Let us pray.
Prayer. God, we thank You. Let there be the new grace You have prepared this week. Let darkness crumble wherever Your people go. Let the temple be prepared that people to be saved from all over the world cannot help but come to. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.