2025.11.02 Sunday 2nd Service
Church Construction Devotional Worship
Scripture Reading: Acts 16:16-18
Now, regarding the construction of the temple, all our church members must pray, and especially many teams that pray 24 must arise. Also, the disciples scattered across the nation and the world must pray together. This is what we must surely do: the three courtyards, and—as today’s passage shows—a healing temple. Yet the church right now is, in fact, not doing this. We must surely do it. But other religions are doing all of it.
▣ Introduction In other religions, they actually have all three courtyards.
1. The start of the Nephilim—12 strategies Why is this dangerous? Because it is the start of the Nephilim. Satan used twelve strategies, and with these they now falsely perform healings and do everything.
2. The Jews – the church Among the Jews as well, the Nephilim strategies have largely penetrated the church. Therefore, while praying, we must prepare the temple that God truly desires.
3. The three organizations The three organizations are doing all this now. Why are they dangerous? We have no grounds to call what the three organizations do “dangerous,” yet why do they do it? Though they do not know it themselves, they are now doing the Nephilim movement in everything. In reality, Freemasonry even does spirit-possession movements. And New Age teams do things similar to shamanic rites like those in Korea. In this way, all these make people be seized by Satan—that is the meaning of Nephilim. So, even to a Buddhist monk I meet, I say this: becoming a Buddha is the most dangerous thing. A human being cannot become God. Because we are, fundamentally, children of Satan born with original sin, we must be changed; how can I “become” something? It cannot be. And it is the same message now. New Age teams, too, while contacting spirits, teach that they become God.
4. Buddhism, “Do” (the Way), and shamanic rites Thus in our country, beginning with Buddhism, the conclusion is the same. Because they do the Nephilim movement, danger comes. Right now, we must rapidly understand this: the number of people with mental illness is rapidly increasing. Yet they do not know why. It is because of the Nephilim. So, without knowing anything, one says, “I will cultivate the Way (do).” That is extremely dangerous. If you cultivate the Way or do shamanic rites and such, problems will continually come.
5. Posterity And why does this problem become even greater? Because it surely goes to the next generation. Those who come out of shamanism—though it is painful—must fight and end it in their generation; otherwise it surely goes to posterity. The Bible says it goes to the third and fourth generations. So the third and fourth generations continue to be connected. This (Introduction) is more serious than you think. As I said last week, now even children commit suicide. In the past, when adults committed suicide, even then we could not understand it; now children commit suicide. As I mentioned before, among those brought to the hospital emergency room for attempted suicide, 87% are youths. Even elementary school students commit suicide. On the news, they say how many years they have lived, what life is like… It is to a shocking degree now. Even though such terrifying things are occurring on earth, this is not something scientists can know or politicians can know. They do not know. Therefore, even in the church there is little interest. There is interest in volunteer activity and such. Of course we should volunteer.
▣ Main Message There are several things we must surely remember now.
1. The blessings that have already come First, the three courtyards and healing have already come to you. You must not remain unaware of this. The blessing of healing and the three courtyards have already come to you.
1) 1 Corinthians 3:16 So in 1 Corinthians 3:16 it says, “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
John 14:16 So in John 14:16, Jesus said, “I will ask the Father.” “He will give you another Counselor, that He may be with you forever.”
John 14:26 In 14:26 it says, “The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name,” “He will teach you all things.”
John 16:13 In 16:13 it is written, “When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth,” and “He will declare to you the things that are to come.”
2) Remnants What did the seven Remnants do? They all healed, saved the Gentiles, and saved posterity—they did all this. Because God has already given us this blessing, it is only natural that we must do it.
3) John 2:12–25 And when Jesus saw that there were no three courtyards in John 2:12–25, He became angry. Acts 11:19–31; 2:9–11 As the Antioch church began, and also in Acts 2:9–11 as the Mark’s upper room church began, these courtyards began to be restored. There is no need to ask, “How shall we do it?” The blessing, authority—everything—has already come to you. Therefore, rather than receiving the laying on of hands from someone, your own prayer in the name of Jesus Christ is far stronger.
2. They are waiting in the field Now, these three courtyards are still waiting in the field. You must remember this. They are already waiting in the field.
1) Acts 13:1–4 Therefore, the one who best understood this word was Paul, and he received the greatest blessing. The very first thing he did was to find the courtyard for the Gentiles. Acts 16:6–18 God blessed him: “Go to Macedonia.” Acts 19:21 In 19:21 also, “You must see Rome.”
2) Acts 13:5–12 He did these three things, but already in Acts 13:5–12 Paul broke the darkness. Acts 16:16–18 In today’s passage, he healed the demon-possessed. Acts 19:8–20 In 19:8–20, he healed the incurably sick by the authority of the name of Jesus Christ.
3) Acts 17:1; 18:4; 19:8 And more importantly, to transmit this blessing, he entered the synagogues. Paul did only this. Yet God gave all the blessings on earth to Paul. He gave all power as well.
3. The temple Then why must we build the temple? We must remember three things.
1) The three courtyards 24 A church where the three courtyards do 24.
2) The three courtyards 25 A temple where these three courtyards do 25.
3) The three courtyards eternity A church that teaches so that these three courtyards remain for eternity.
1) The three courtyards 24 [Organization] Indeed, we must build the temple facilities, but what must first be understood is this: what does it mean that the three courtyards do 24? Among the many multiethnic people now with us, I see that many very important people are coming. Among them, an organization must be formed within us of their own accord. Elders must surely help with this. Then we will receive the answers that Paul’s team received. And regardless of other organization matters, look once at next year’s organization. We must establish church leaders among them. If necessary, we must establish ministers among them. Among those who returned from being shamans—those with leadership—we must establish them as ministers. They are not those who say, “Give me much money; give me living expenses.” If we merely appoint them to the office of evangelist and give them just their fare, they are people who will work. Yet we are missing something tremendous now. Our church must open its eyes to this. We often worry, “How shall we structure the organization next year?” but we do not do what is actually important. The three courtyards. Furthermore, among the Remnant talents, we must establish prospective church leaders. The three courtyards. I see in our church that fine individuals who have grown up here are not only in Busan. They go elsewhere following positions. So, this young person had no choice but to go because of his job. Though he received all his training in our church, he was appointed as an elder in that church. This is not a bad thing. It is not bad, but there are aspects we should consider. Therefore, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), which most thoroughly seizes organization in America, they send young people—those whose faith is firm—and anoint and ordain them to go out. In reality, we now do not have the three courtyards. We do not understand: “The three courtyards? What does that mean?” In practice, we do not have them. They are absent in our organization. Therefore, when they see young and bright youths, when sending them out, they truly grant them an office and ordain them to go. It is different. You have seen the Mormon youths in suits going around, right? They are very bright youths. What office do they have? They are elders of the church. In this way they are sent. So while all others have declined in America, only Mormonism has rapidly risen. It is astonishing. I do not say this lightly: when we go to see Koreans in America, Europe, and so on, we find that they have no foreigner organization at all. Thus there is no place where foreigners can do 24. Therefore, we must observe foreigners well. There was a pastor, Ok Han-heum, at Sarang Church. In that area—Seocho-dong in the past—because of the neighborhood, many legal professionals came. Some churches have many entertainers, since it is Seoul. But that church had many legal professionals. So there were many families of judges and prosecutors. This pastor, with their consent, did something: he appointed all the wives of judges and prosecutors as evangelists. Not only did this give them a sense of calling, but visiting the families of judges and prosecutors, they could help them. Would these people ask for a salary? Not at all. If we misunderstand this, we may appoint children as elders—that is not what I mean. Some, having heard my sermon, immediately appointed a child as elder in their church. In reality, for world evangelization, the church has no organization where it makes the three courtyards—children, the sick, and the Gentiles—do 24. But the one who did this properly was Paul’s team. God brought all blessings to them. He had no choice but to give.
2) The three courtyards 25 [Training] What is 25? The term 25 is, in fact, not a number we can compute. 25 is when the power of the throne comes—how can we calculate that? Now, among them, we must select elites and involve them in training the Gentiles. We can do this well. In fact, if you look person by person, there are many important people. I apologize for a personal example: someone like Prince—he is material for a head of state in his country. There are those in that country who think so. I see that he is a disciple. He has never missed a single training. He is far more faithful to training than many church leaders in Korea. He continually listens to the messages. Also, look at that Japanese elder who runs a restaurant. I have been quietly observing him, and though running a restaurant is hard, he has not missed a single Sunday. Thus, to this degree, God has created blessed talents among the multiethnic people in our midst.
3) The three courtyards eternity [Invitation] What is eternity? Now they can do it one hundred times better than we can. We must now directly invite the talents of those countries, bring them here, train them, and send them. Their inviting us is far more accurate than our inviting them. Therefore, when we open our spiritual eyes, we see we are missing the most important things. Evangelism is also easy. There are foreigners in the field with spiritual problems, the sick, and Remnants completely neglected—if we merely touch these, God blesses. Why? Because, in fact, these blessings have already come to us. Therefore, our church must be different. We must truly do according to the Bible. We must see what God truly desires.
▣ Conclusion Therefore, in this sense we prepare and pray for the temple. Today I said this after seeing it: when people enter the church, set up monitors in various places so they continually see a video about the construction. And cause the entire nation to pray, and cause the whole world to pray, and cause all church members to come and see. I went to Pyongyang and we stayed at a large hotel. They guided us. They would not allow us to go out. We could not freely go out; they guided us like this. It was a large hotel. They built it well on the famous side where the Tumen River flows. In the large corridors and in the back, they had monitors playing everywhere. They played it repeatedly and continually. From Kim Il-sung onward, they showed everything—in simple terms, propaganda. They showed it through and through. And we went to the stadium where the people gather, and one hundred thousand came out to do a musical. They even said the number: one hundred thousand. One hundred thousand performed rifle-bayonet drills. They had trained them so much—everyone in unison. Thus they say that North Korea is the country that does “card section” the best in the world. With what heart must we do this work?
1. 1 Chronicles 29:10–14 We must do it with the heart David had. For the building of the temple—first, to build the temple, the City of David must be built. Since the nation must be strengthened, he built the City of David and set up a thousand bartizans. When the Ark of the Covenant was brought in, it says he danced. And he always said this: “I sleep in a fine house, but the Ark of the LORD dwells where the wind blows.” He always bore that as a burden in his heart. The Bible says God blessed David even just for seeing David’s heart.
2. Malachi 3:1–10 When Israel returned, in Malachi 3:10 He speaks about the tithe. That is not mere talk. Rebuild the temple. In this way, the people of Israel all rose and joined in the rebuilding of the temple.
3. 9/10 But the early church—people like Priscilla and Gaius—did not give a tithe. They gave nine-tenths. Such people must arise among our Remnants. Those who give nine-tenths and still live well—earn much, then it is fine. For example, earn 10 billion a month, spend 1 billion, and offer 9 billion—this is just arithmetic. But such a person existed. People like Priscilla and Gaius. You must place this in your heart. Place the Word of God in your heart. In Psalm 119:10–11 it says so. Do not put it in your head. Put it in your heart. Our IQ cannot comprehend the Word of God. We must place it in our hearts by faith. When Joseph spoke of the covenant, it says “Jacob treasured it in his heart.” That will be fulfilled. What you place in your heart by faith will be fulfilled. In the first service today, I said: for the rest of your life, find what is within the absolute sovereignty of the LORD that belongs to you. Then you can go the road that Paul’s team went. Today: truly prepare the healing temple with the three courtyards. May there be God’s new grace this week as well, in the name of Jesus Christ. Let us pray.
Prayer. We thank You, God. May the kingdom of God and its work be fulfilled continually during this week as we continue in prayer. During this week, grant that we set up the bartizan, the journey, and the guidepost of the throne. May the Holy Spirit of the Lord visit the sick and heal them by the Holy Spirit of the Lord. For those in hardship, may the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, work by the Lord’s power. Upon the disciples scattered across the nation and the world and upon the Remnants, grant them the blessing You gave to the seven Remnants. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.