Psalm 139:23 TPT
God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me thoroughly; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares.
One of the hardest things would be talking or interacting with people who firmly believe they are correct, the people whose pride is strong.
When Senior Pastor Steve and I see in people what needs to be fixed and changed, we try our best to help them realize their wrong perceptions/ideas/beliefs/thinking.
However, most people resist and do not want to receive. They might pretend to receive, though. People usually want to argue to prove something and continue pursuing their beliefs.
Their wrong beliefs/thinking/perceptions/ideas are engraved in them (stronghold) these are already part of themselves. So they are blind.
Most people have a tough time letting go of their beliefs. Even if they somehow realize their belief was wrong, it is still their pride that they can’t admit.
People are waiting to be delivered, blessed, rewarded, and have a breakthrough, but without giving up their wrong way of thinking and pride. But what they hope for won’t come unless they fix their wrong mindset and ways.
It’s like someone walking on a stony and muddy road when a clean, smooth road is just one step away. A better road is just one step away. However, this one-step change is hard for most people because of their pride.
Therefore, people instead suffer rather than admit to being wrong. I often say to certain people, “Your pride won’t feed you, house you, won’t pay your bills, but put you & your household under suffering. Not worth keeping it.”
Bishop Kim says, “When a head of household is stubborn and makes wrong decisions, the whole family will suffer.”
The main head would be a father/husband. But a wife/mother also has some responsibility because they are called to assist their husbands in making the right decisions.
I hope and PRAY that no one wastes another 5 or 10 years waiting to be vindicated. Cuz God won’t. God is waiting for you to do your part. God can wait eternally, but you have a limited time. He has many generations to raise, and I want to be that generation as well so that God can utilize them for His glory.
Pastor Steve and I decided long ago to dump our pride and flow in God’s will and plan. If we keep our rights, beliefs, and pride, we can no longer flow with Him.
We do not need to be proven right; we don’t need to have the last word; we should be able to listen to each other’s corrections/advice (as a husband and a wife) and submit to God’s instituted authorities. We do not want any blockages or hindrances on our way.
Moving forward is not that complicated if we make a firm determination. Let us not let our pride prevent us from moving forward with God.
Senior Pastor Yoojin Kim
Additional Comments:
What is spiritual rebirth? Most traditional ranks within Christianity say one is reborn upon acceptance of Jesus Christ into their life. I think this can happen depending on how you come to Christ. Many people come to Christ in different ways and some as the Bible says are no believers at all!
But what is rebirth? How can one know they are reborn? Rebirth is Resurrection. In order for you to be reborn, you must come to self-death and be resurrected into a new life. Can rebirth be progressive? Just as one is saved, one is also being saved and will be saved. But many stop at believing one is saved and make no progress in being saved.
We can suffer in two ways. We suffer with and for Christ or we suffer for our disobedience and sin but you will suffer! If we suffer with and for Christ, your sorrows will turn into joy. Your ashes into beauty. Your loss into gain. Your sacrifice into reward. Your pain into healing.
However, the latter has its own path and reward. If you decide not to suffer with and for Christ, you will suffer in your sins toward death, and it will not be self-death. If we refuse to surrender God’s process of sanctification which is the death of your old life and you do not let go, you cannot experience lasting and ongoing laughter, peace, victory, prosperity, restoration, and intimacy. It will only be moments in time- a taste. Maybe you cannot experience full rebirth or a resurrected life because the water is broken, but you are too stubborn to come out into the light!
There were two thieves on the Cross with Jesus. Both are sinners and both are God’s people – the Israelites. Both are now suffering in agony with Christ, but only one confesses Jesus is innocent, and the other confesses he deserves the punishment. The other criminal or sinner mocks Jesus in his anger and suffering. Which are you? The confessing criminal does not blame Jesus but asks if Jesus will save him as they both suffer.
When both criminals are crucified, we can look at it as one being disciplined, corrected, or rebuked. How you react to the pain shows which criminal you are acting like. Do not defend yourself when you are and have always been a criminal.
Therefore, choose truth and live!
How can one come to the love of God projecting God’s Love when we have yet to fully die to hate, unforgiveness, resentment, dictatorship, jealousy, anger, despisement, and the like? We then have not been resurrected in those areas but are tormented by the crows instead, looking for deliverance when we only just need to die to ourselves!🐦⬛
This is why you suffer in life! You are suffering for your sins rather than for and with Christ!
Maybe this is why some people do not get deliverance, because the method required is to die to yourself.
This is why your pastors do not go running to lay hands on your Uranus praying for deliverence. We are beyond that now. You need to choose to Die to yourself and stop the nonsense. We not in the business to entertain you with cliches, slogans, and a show.
I think judgment in this house will be on the planet 🌏Uranus.
Senior Pastor Steve Kim
One criminal will suffer with Christ as he awaits his resurrected life with Christ, while the other will suffer for his sin and judgment because, rather than coming to the revelation of his guilt, he continued to protect his pride and mocked God instead.
Then the devil comes and torments your mind and thoughts as the crow 🐦⬛ pecked at the criminal’s head. The crow can smell a good, decayed brain 🧠 from far away.