Sunday Service Summary 5/19/2024
Bishop Kim Yong Doo
Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 12:14, John 7:37-38, Acts 1:8, 2:1-4
Title: Shake the Spirit
We must preserve our Flesh, Soul, and Spirit well until the Lord returns again. When Jesus died, was resurrected, and ascended, we express this as ‘The Lord received glory.’ Now, the Lord is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. So when someone dies, they will receive judgment regarding Heaven or Hell from Father God, and then will receive judgement regarding rewards from the Lord Jesus Christ.
“The one who is faithful in the small things shall attend the festival in Heaven”
We believe in Jesus so that our Spirit would receive salvation and enter Heaven, but for this, we must be reborn by the Holy Spirit. When you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart, you become a person of God. This is why confessing with our mouth is so important. But this is only possible if the Holy Spirit works.
Although the Holy Spirit eternally dwells within our Spirit when we believe in Jesus, since we have a soul and flesh of intellect, emotions, and will, we cannot usually feel it. But in order to practice to go to Heaven, we must be trained in receiving the work and impressions of the Holy Spirit.
No matter how rich you are, or how well you are living by the flesh and soul, if your Spirit, which is the most important, is dead due to sin, then that person can not be satisfied and will be constantly thirsty. Because the wages of sin are death and there is judgement after death. But because God desires that not one person perish, He has given us a chance to overturn our destiny through Jesus Christ.
The living water that comes forth from Jesus, in other words, the work of the Holy Spirit and the Word, quenches the thirst of the Spirit. But if you sin, the process of quenching your thirst will be slowed down. Sin will stop you from giving true worship by birthing envy and jealousy, creating a judgmental heart and a guilty conscience. So whenever we sin, we must immediately rid ourselves of it. From the beginning, the Lord knew that there were people who believed in Jesus because of miracles and that even amongst the disciples, there were those who were awaiting a political Messiah. But He was patient, and didn’t expose their sin, nor did He let judgement pass them right away. This is because He is God.
But we judge and condemn. This is the guilty conscience and thirst. It can not be satisfied with a method that does not have Jesus. Is there Jesus in politics? Is there Jesus in the world? Is there Jesus in my words and daily actions? Even our being alive right now is because the Lord is giving us more time to repent.
The Holy Spirit appeared to the disciples in the appearance of a fire when they gathered and prayed at Jerusalem in accordance to Jesus’ instructions. At this time, Peter declared that the word of the prophet Joel had been fulfilled. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, you will be transformed, and if you don’t change, you must repent and make yourself be transformed. When you become a spiritual soldier, there will be tests, but let us not forget that there were 7000 hidden believers who prayed for Elijah.
God is shaking the Spirit. The Word of God states that there will only be a few people who will keep their faith, and nowadays, if there is the work of the Holy Spirit, it is temporary and doesn’t last for a long time. And still, the only way is to pray. Even the disciples were without strength, but after they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they could handle their duties. These days, people think that passionate people are being rebellious and that those who don’t pray are just being grateful, But these are the traits of the last days. Let us be thankful to the Lord for completely erasing all our sins that could fill the library in Heaven, and let us also be saints who are loyal to death and ones who volunteer with joy.
Bishop Kim Yong Doo