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2017.12.31_He Will Return in the Same Manner (New Year’s Eve Service)

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  • Senior Overseer Ki-Dong Kim

[Acts 1:6-11]

God
is truthful.
The words of His covenant are forever immutable.
The Word is God (Jn 1:1).
God gave His words, swearing upon Himself (He 6:13-16).
His words are words of righteousness,
and God’s righteousness and justice
are the foundation of the throne (Ps 89:14).
After He resurrected, Jesus Christ ascended to heaven (1 Co 15:4-8),
which 500 people witnessed together.
From heaven, He sends the Holy Spirit,
which is the new covenant (Ac 1:4-5).
The Son of Man will return in the same manner
that we saw Him go into heaven (Ac 1:11).
On that day, He will return to take us, the saints.
When He returns, we will be glorified as His brides,
and meet the Lord in the air (1 Thess 4:14-17).
Our faith is the evidence of things unseen
and the substance of things hoped for (He 11:1-2).
Jesus will return in the way we saw Him go,
and this is what we believe.
The one who believes must, in hope, zealously love the church
as an evidence that he loves Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit seals those who have such an evidence (2 Co 1:22).
◌ The Church is the hope of waiting for Jesus Christ who will return.
Those who await Jesus love the Church.
◌ A man of Jesus Christ is the saint who awaits Him;
he is a holy saint, the bride of Jesus, who will meet the Lord.
Let us be dressed in fine linen and wait for that day.
◌ The fallen souls will not be able to see that day.
Let us love the Church so that we do not fall away.
That is the love of the faith of waiting for Jesus.
※ We long for that love of Him who will return as our Groom.
We will see the Son of Man who ascended to heaven on the clouds
return in the same manner.


2017.12.31_What Words Do You Desire to Hear

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  • Senior Overseer Ki-Dong Kim

[John 6:60-71]

God
is everlasting life.
He
has revealed and made Himself known to mankind
by the Word (logos) (Jn 1:1).
The Word became flesh and shed His blood;
and the Word has come inside us as spirit.
Parables were first given before the Word came.
The Law and the prophets are parables (He 9:1-10).
A parable is a seer and a guide.
It is not the object of faith but acts as priming water.
The object of our faith is Jesus Christ (Mt 16:16-18).
The words of Jesus are spirit and life (Jn 6:63).
What is it that you are attentive to hear?
It is only the spirit that gives life –
only God’s word (logos) gives life.
Jesus is the Word that gives life.
The flesh and blood of Jesus are the words that give life (Jn 6:53-55).
We have to experience the Word (Jn 14:7).
The Holy Spirit enables us to experience it.
◌ What words did you come to the church to hear?
Only the word of God can save you.
Jesus is the Word that saves you.
◌ People are absorbed in parables, unable to break away from it.
However the Law will lead you to death rather than save you.
The truth alone is the spirit that gives you life.
◌ Jesus is the words of eternal life.
Unless one understands His words, he will depart from the Lord.
Let us abide in the words of eternal life.
※ The truth is the words of eternal life.
They are the words of the eternal God
who does not speak with a double tongue.


2017.12.25_Immanuel (Christmas Service)

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  • Senior Overseer Ki-Dong Kim

[Matthew 1:18-25]

God
is love.
He loved His Son
that He appointed His Son heir (Heb 1:2),
and for Him created heaven
in order to place a throne in heaven
at the right hand of God (Mk 16:19).
Thus the Son did not take equality with God (Php 2:6-7)
but desired to be a servant in obedience to the Father.
Hence, He became the Son of Man to taste death (Heb 2:9).
At that time, the throne in heaven was kept unoccupied
and God had an angel speak as a representative
in the name Jehovah (Ex 3:15).
Out of jealousy, an angel named, Lucifer,
rebelled against Jehovah and became Satan that fell (Isa 14:12-15).
Satan took the chance and rebelled
while the Son of Man, who is God, vacated the throne.
He was bound in darkness
until the Son of Man would come to judge him (2 Pet 2:4).
When the time came, the Son of Man was born from the virgin.
He is Immanuel.
It is mankind that receives the Son of Man who is Immanuel (Mal 2:15).
Hence, although man is a little lower than the angels,
he will be glorified with the Son of Man by the Holy Spirit
when the Son of Man ascends to heaven (Rm 8:16-17).
◌ This is our faith: Immanuel.
He was born from the body of a human according to prophecy.
He is God.
◌ His name is Jesus,
for He is God who will save His people from their sins.
◌ He was born from the stem of King David and the roots of Jesse.
He is God.
※ We must believe that the One
who came from Bethlehem as thus is God
in order to be saved and have eternal life.