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Let us read John Chapter 3:1-18.
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There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a
Pharisee.
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After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said,
“we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs
are evidence that God is with you.”
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Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again,[a]
you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
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“What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back
into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
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Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God
without being born of water and the Spirit.
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Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth
to spiritual life. 7 So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You[d] must be
born again.’
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The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but
can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t
explain how people are born of the Spirit.”
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“How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked. Jesus replied, “You
are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these
things?
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I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet you
won’t believe our testimony.
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But if you don’t believe me when I tell you about earthly things, how
can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
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No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man has
come down from heaven. And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a
pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
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so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.
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“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal
life.
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God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save
the world through him.
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“There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone
who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing
in God’s one and only Son. Amen
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Please repeat, "If a sloppy vessel encounters the Truth, what will
happen?"
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Today, I will make a unique title for the sermon
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Before Jesus had come to the world, there was always the Law and the
Law had always been the standard.
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But there was one thing that even the Law could not resolve. That
was...
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People had sinned in the past, they still sin in the present, and
people will continue to sin in the future due to their sin nature
which is inevitable. People could not find the solution to resolve
this matter.
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For this reason, ultimately, Father sent His Son to the earth and
Jesus the Son understood Father's will. Therefore, Jesus had
determined all things through obedience. Hallelujah!
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Therefore, wherever Jesus had gone, He had manifested the work of God.
But instead of focusing on the manifestation from the work of God,
people needed to focus on Jesus.
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Even when it comes to the manifestation of the power of the Holy
Spirit,
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ultimately, you need to focus on how to properly believe in Jesus,
transforming and becoming a new creation. After all, we all need to go
to heaven. Hallelujah.
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Therefore, God has chosen you, called you as His laborer and granted
you the power of the Holy Spirit.
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We can never replace the mission that was granted by God with anything
else
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Wherever Jesus had visited sick people, He healed them and the
identity of Satan was exposed.
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God had accomplished a lot of work through Jesus.
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God found the lost saving them, healed the sick, cast holy fire and so
on. The revolutionary events had occurred.
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Jesus even healed the sick only through the Word.
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When Jesus had showed up at the place where there were fakes:
formality, superficiality and the word of tombs painted over with
white paint, He would correct everything. Jesus will turn all things
upside down with the Word.
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When it comes to carrying out the work of God, how will you influence
others with the gospel and the method will you use through your life,
to yourself and for this generation until you go to the Kingdom of
God. you have a free will to make a choice.
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Even when it comes to the receiving the power of the Holy Spirit, you
have the free will to to choose or not to choose. Hallelujah!
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Therefore, when people receive the holy gifts, although it is the Holy
Spirit's work, He also sees and respect our will, observing how much
we long our choices.
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For our church, the Lord's Church, for you and I, before we go to the
Kingdom of God/heaven, God had first manifested His work through the
baptism of holy fire. Hallelujah!
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Just because there are manifestations of the Holy Spirit does not mean
there is no Word. We also preach the Word of God with diligence. God
has added His power and holy gifts on top of the Word. The work of God
will be accomplished.
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Today, I feel really good because I've realized that after we have
overcome tests and difficulties as a church, as a family and as an
individual,
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now we as a church is experiencing blessings. The members are
individually receiving their blessings, and my family and I are also
receiving our blessings.
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You and I had experienced several tests, about 3-4 tests.
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Test came to the church. We had a difficult time getting a new church
building. The group that had left our church gossiped that I have
spent all our funds designated for the new location
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But we only prayed before God on our knees. We diligently prayed to
God to show us the good site for the new church building. Hallelujah!
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I am very thankful that God has resolved all difficult matters.
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Brethren, those who are watching through the internet,
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Although you are listening to the Word of God. praising and
worshipping God through the internet service, the wind of the Word is
blowing, and the wind of praise and worship is blowing. The Holy
Spirit is working there for you as well.
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If you watch TV, the realm of TV the wind of news will blow and enter
into you.
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If you keep on watching things related to politics, the spirit of
politics, the wind of politics will blow and mess up your soul. Of
course we need politics, but
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the problem is that politics become people's life's master.
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Therefore, if you read the Bible, the Bible will enter into you. If
you listen to the Word of the Lord, the Word will enter into you. When
you pray, the Holy Spirit Who is the spirit of praying will enter into
you. Isn't this true?
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We've met through the blowing wind of God, blowing wind of the Holy
Spirit, and the blowing wind of the Baptism of holy fire.
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But as time passes, the wind of politics entered our church, the wind
of the world entered our church, and as you give your ears to the news
of the world...although we need news,
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you don't know what the priority is for your life.
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The more you watch these things, you will become more messed up. But
we've become a person of the Holy Spirit and with the Baptism of the
holy fire, we've come to this place and are gathered by the guidance
of the Spirit of God.
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You can't even discern the tests and what you need to overcome.
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If you do not first realize what kind of grace the Lord has granted,
you will all leave the Lord.
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After dark one night a Jewish religious leader named Nicodemus had
come to Jesus.
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He has heard a lot of things about Jesus.
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Why do you follow Jesus? Why do you believe in Jesus, why do you pray,
and why do you long for the power of the Holy Spirit?
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It won't work if you just come to church once and be touched by God
one time. Reading the Word of God once won't do anything.
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You have sloppy faith. It's like a toy. This is why I titled today's
sermon "sloppy vessel."
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What will happen if a sloppy vessel encounter's the Truth? The vessel
will change and become transformed. Hallelujah!
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When you encounter the Truth, you will make a determination. But
Nicodemus did not make a determination.
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But why? Because he has been living satisfied within the sloppy faith,
he was already recognized by the people as a teacher and a leader.
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But with the one Statement of Jesus, he had to make changes and it was
too difficult for him. But at the same time, he felt anxiety within
him.
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The reason why Nicodemus came to Jesus at night is because he wanted
to check something.
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'My beloved Lord, there is a very deep hurt within me, in my soul, in
my mental area and in my body and in my heart.'
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Although he didn't say it, the reason why he came at night is because
since everyone would recognize him. He wanted to secretly be diagnosed
by Jesus of his deep hurt within him.
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"Teacher, I know that God sent you. What is the truth that you are
speaking about? What is the truth?" Nicodemus wanted to know.
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A Jewish religious leader who was a teacher of the Word wanted his
problem to be diagnosed.
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'There must be a reason why I'm crying inside before the Lord. Some
kind of a problem is within me, what could the problem be? What could
be the cause?'
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Nicodemus has been doing certain things for his internal problems
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He studied the Law a lot. He studied a lot. He read the Bible a lot.
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Nicodemus wanted to be diagnosed, his passion, his daily lifestyle so
far, and all the things that he believed so far. He wanted to know how
the Lord was perceiving all of his life
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What does it mean?
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When Nicodemus showed himself before the Lord,
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and all things that he has been doing or accomplished were sort of
"fancy toy." His "toy" is full of flaws and his "toy" is too sloppy.
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Do you know there are so many people like Nicodemus on this earth and
within many churches?
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When you stand before the Lord, your faith, your background, and
belief will only look like a "toy." Nothing but a sloppy toy. Nothing
but a Fake.
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Of course, I'm not saying it is really fake, but when you feel like
what you posses are only fake(indicating humility),the Lord's work
will manifest. Hallelujah.
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'I really don't know what kind of problem I have...What do I have to
fix?' You need to use your free will on your Mental area, spiritual
area and physical area.
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Depending on what you see, what you think and what you do, the wind
will begin to blow.
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And the wind will begin to enter into you. Hallelujah.
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When it comes to people, in order to make other people on their side
or like them, they speak words of flattery, lie and resort to many
things
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Proverbs 23:7 says, "For as he thinks within himself, so is he."
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Even if a person believe in Jesus, if the person thinks bad, then the
person is a bad person.
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Even if a person believes in Jesus and prays, if he/she keep on
cussing, keep on speaking nonsense, lie, drive a wedge between people,
and being jealous/envy of others, then that's who he/she is.
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If the person is a believer of Jesus and doing the above things, then
the person is sinning a lot.
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Even if you constantly repent, if you repeatedly criticize others, you
are a person who criticizes. You are a considered a "non-believer" and
a person who does not know the Bible. Do you understand?
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Like I said a moment again, the reason why Nicodemus came to the Lord
was because, to ask Him about himself and about things that he has
been believing
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After he had met the Lord, he was convicted because every words the
Lord said was truth.
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All of Nicodemus was being exposed before the Word of truth.
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His fancy hypocrisy, academic clique, and his background are good for
nothing.
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The more Nicodemus listens to the Word of the Lord, the more he felt
uneasy inside.
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Therefore, he kept on asking the Lord questions and the Lord said,
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"There is some type of hidden potential."
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To the eyes of the Lord, all people posses some type of potential to
receive the power of God. Hallelujah!
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Although it may seem a little complicated, while Jesus kept this in
mind, He talked about being born again to Nicodemus.
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We have potential to repent, we have the potential to become
corrupted, we have the potential to draw near before God, we have
potential to live spiritually, we have the potential to correct
ourselves, we have the potential to receive God's powerful blessing.
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Hallelujah. We are the people who posses such potential.
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The Lord especially saw the real potential of how he can become born
again with the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Lord spoke with him.
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There is a genuine spiritual character that is hidden inside of you.
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Ordinary people use their own character/personality. But the people
who desire to become born again, they need to use the new spiritual
character within them, and this way, they will become born again.
Hallelujah!
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But if you don't, if you don't use the spiritual things, if you don't
find the spiritual things within you and if you don't use it, you will
not become born again.
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Even if you become born again, if you do not constantly and repeatedly
use the spiritual character, you will become a worldly person. A
spiritual person becoming a worldly person is only a matter of time.
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People who received the holy gifts and a mission can suddenly become a
worldly person when they watch a certain type of news and entangle
themselves with politics.
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These type of people will not be any different from the worldly
people. They will always talk about politics.
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Is there anyone without a problem? All have problems.
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Don't be misled by any other things.
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But instead, we need to live a life that is led by the Holy Spirit.
Hallelujah.
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You need to check and see if what you possess and all things that
you've been listening and watching were "sloppy toys" or not.
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And ask, "What does the Lord want from me?"
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"Was I born again with the Holy Spirit? If I am a born again person,
why would I easily become shaky with this and that words?" Whatever
you see and hear may be wrong things.
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You need to come back to your proper self.
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Your proper self is the spiritual self and you need to come back to
the wind of the Holy Spirit.
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You need to come back to the way the Lord desires.
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But people won't.
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Nicodemus could not figure this out.
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He did not know what the gift of God was. He did not know what being
born again was. He did not understand what the wind of the Holy Spirit
was. He did not know where the wind begins and where it stops.
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He understood the meaning but he did not know the significance of it.
What should we do when we do not understand?
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Do we just leave because we don't understand? Like Nicodemus?
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Out of nowhere, the Lord told Nicodemus about being born again with
the Holy Spirit. "You need to become born again."
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"The reason is that within Nicodemus, he has the desire to know the
knowledge of spiritual things. But you do not know it yourself. You
are trying to understand only with your soul and you only try to
receive it in a physical way."
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Nicodemus possessed the spiritual knowledge. Also, he was an excellent
man and a man of character soulish and physical.
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Although he says he longs for spiritual things, in reality, he had a
difficult time accepting the Lord's statements.
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We call this, a test. A test. Please repeat after me, "I need to
overcome the test."
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What this is that,
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Nicodemus's spirit wants to know the deeper things before the Lord.
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That is why Nicodemus instantly came to the Lord.
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There will be moments when all people will be spiritually activated.
When people have inner problems and are in a difficult war against
themselves, there will be a momentary of spiritual energy that will
initiate you to go to the Lord, pray, and read the Bible.
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But they do not possess enough "spiritual energy" to go on. So they
will not last long.
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"I will live spiritually!" But will not last long.
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Some people last one year, some people last two years and some people
last 10 years. I want your spiritual persistence lasts until you enter
into the Lord's Kingdom. Hallelujah!
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What could be the crucial events? There are forces that are trying to
stumble you with tests and temptation.
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When you try to live spiritually, do you think the devil will let you
be?
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There are things that your flesh likes. You have some kind of habit
and your own style.
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The devil will throw a bait according to what your flesh likes, your
habit and your style. For Nicodemus, the devil said, "Hey you are a
teacher but you don't understand. So, why won't you leave? A lot of
thinking was shifting.
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He had spiritual knowledge, longed for spiritual things and he wanted
to know the Lord deeper.
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Then he needed to draw more closer to the Lord, he had to chase after
the Lord even more and he needed to ask many more questions.
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"Lord!! I don't understand! What's the use of being a teacher of
Israel! What's the use of being a person who teaches the Word! I don't
know! I'm only a sinner!" If you do this, the Lord's method of
handling you will be different.
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If Nicodemus reacted this way, we know for sure what would have
happened next. If the Nicodemus said, "Lord, I don't know! Lord, teach
me!
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Lord, You are not a teacher but the Son of God." If he confessed like
Peter, the Lord would have been very touched! Hallelujah!
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The Lord will just take you! It could have been 13, 14, 15 and more
disciples.
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Just because people long for spiritual knowledge, does not mean they
will be the Lord's disciple, does not mean they will be touched by God
and His grace and it does not mean they will follow the Lord.
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Just because they want to know and go deeper, it does not mean they
will be with the Lord to the end.
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In order to receive such type of grace, you need to continue to
wanting to draw near to the Lord.
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Please draw me closer to You, Lord.
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I desperately want You only, Lord.
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Please fill me with Your Love, Lord.
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So that I may give you true worship.
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Please draw me closer to You, Lord.
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I desperately want You only, Lord.
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Please fill me with Your Love, Lord.
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So that I may give you true worship.
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My thirsty spirit and soul is calling You, Lord.
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So please touch my heart Lord.
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I only want You, Lord. I want You More.
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Pease touch my heart Lord.
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My thirsty spirit and soul is calling You, Lord.
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So, please touch my heart Lord.
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I only want You, Lord. I want You More.
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So, please touch my heart Lord.
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My thirsty spirit and soul is calling You, Lord.
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So, Please touch my heart, Lord.
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I only want You, Lord. I want You more.
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Please touch my heart, Lord.
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Hallelujah!
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Why did Nicodemus leave the Lord?
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But he came to the Lord due to his spiritual longing.
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He had willingness, he wanted to listen to the Word of the Lord, and
he heard how the Lord could diagnosed him.
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He heard how the wind of the Holy Spirit blows through the statement
of the Lord.
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The Lord advised him to be determine and the Lord reproved him. "You
are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these
things?"
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The Lord personally and straight forwardly said such a statement to
him. But why did Nicodemus left?
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Nicodemus possessed his own identity and he had clear rationale behind
his identity.
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Despite the fact that his identity is only considered a "sloppy toy",
although he had encounter Jesus, the Truth, although he wanted to
experience a miracle, he wanted to return, he wanted to be restored,
and he wanted to be determine, but he didn't.
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But when you encounter such grace, do not leave.
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You need to approach the Lord even more. Even if He "pushes" you away,
you need to draw closer, even if He says, "Go away!" you need to draw
closer.
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"Just say the word, and my servant will be healed!" The Lord was
astonished. “A captain of the Roman army has greater faith than anyone
I have encountered in Israel!"
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"I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have
authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or
‘Come,’ and they come. Lord, I am not worthy to have you come into my
home. Just say the word!"
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People who do such type of confession will possess the Lord's full
attention. Hallelujah!
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Even if you don't really understand, even if you have a hard time
believing, you may feel not satisfied right now, even if it is very
hard to be determined and difficult right now, still, do not leave the
Lord.
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Even if you need to stay all night and converse with the Lord, "Lord!!
What should I do? I am a teacher and a religious leader of Jewish
people. What must I do?"
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He needed to ask the deeper questions and he had to expose everything
about him.
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All people have some kind of hidden "camouflaged net" within them.
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But you need to get rid of that in order to obtain the spiritual
possibility or a chance to come before the Lord
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Everyone possesses such possibility or chance even today. Hallelujah.
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We call this, "Identity."
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You have your own identity, but when your identity is
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standing before Jesus, it will be exposed as fake.
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It isn't a real identity but a fake. It means,
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you've understood your fake identity as real which was originated from
a false source. You've lived your life as you were obstinate about it.
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Therefore, we are all sinners.
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When we stand before the Lord, all sins we've committed are exposed in
detail. You will be exposed as a fake. Hallelujah.
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This is why we need to be saved.
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If you say, "I'm not wrong!" it will be difficult for you to be saved.
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"I'm sure about what I say! What I say is true!" Even if what you say
is right or true, don't be obstinate about it!
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Even if you saw, even if you heard, and what you say is based on the
fact, when you come before the Lord, it's not what you persist. Your
standard and the Lord's standard are different.
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Our standard of how we must live and the perspective of the Lord is
different.
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Especially within the church, people who believe in Jesus need to
possess such understanding.
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Please repeat after me, "The Word of the Lord is different from what I
think."
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Hallelujah!
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Therefore...
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if you have realized that your identity was a fake, you come to
realization as you follow the Lord based on the Word of the Lord.
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But for Nicodemus, after the incident with Jesus, he disappeared. Only
after Jesus died, he was willing to provide his own tomb for Jesus.
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God desires people back to the original state of when they were first
created, God desires people to return to God's intended natural state
as human beings, God desires people to be transformed, and the Lord
wants us to be changed upside down through the Holy Spirit.
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Therefore, when we listen to the Word of the Lord, the chance will be
given to you.
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Chance to pray, chance to receive the Holy Spirit, chance to become
transformed and chance to receive the holy fire. Hallelujah!
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If I exaggerate a little, too many people were sacrificed by the plan
of the enemy.
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By Satan's tactics, and his play, too many people were sacrificed
within the church. People fall away from their mission. People
continuously fall.
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People leave the church due to many different reasons. They become
messed up.
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Even if you say, "That's not true!" it is.
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What kind of days are we living now?
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Many people,
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depending on their own thoughts, emotion and perspective, they define
the other people.
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Many people define certain group of people/individual, they judge, and
they make such group of people's/individual's image into a certain
image and going for the kill to "bury" them. This is the days we are
living in.
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Therefore, if people fail to handle spiritually, mentally and
physically, they commit suicide. Depending on their psychological
cause, mental cause and many different conditions,
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congressmen commit suicide, entertainers commit suicide, worst of all,
pastors commit suicide. So many people have hard time handling it.
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Many people are suffering from negative comments. We are living in
cruel days.
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If any congressman wrongly handles the political matter, they will be
blamed for everything.
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Not to mention entertainers and pastors.
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This is the reality of current days, it is Satan's game.
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People place you in a certain category for a life time. "You are a
cult" "For you, even if you repent, you will still be a cult!"
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"You are a cult who sold your country!" "You are a traitor who sold
your country!"
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Even if the person accepted, believe in Jesus, became saved, repented
and the Lord had forgiven all things, people will still condemn the
person.
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This is the work of the devil. Satan's game.
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Who were we in the past?
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We were sinners in the past.
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We are still sinners but forgiven. We've become a new creation in
Jesus Christ.
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We've become a child of God.
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We can receive all the Lord's love and forgiveness. Hallelujah!
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Despite the fact that the Lord forgave us, people still condemn.
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"You are this and that addict!" "You are a drug addict!" "You are such
such addict!" and so on...
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Then people avoid and do not accept such people.
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If a person was an alcoholic or a drug addict in the past but overcame
completely,
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that person is no longer an alcoholic or a drug addict but a new
person in Christ. This person has become a new person. Hallelujah!
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This is the Word of the Lord.
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But Satan try to hinder this.
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What do you see, what do you speak, and what do you listen?
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If you watch a lot of news instead of reading the Bible a lot of
times, you will become a person of new.
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If you experience, see and listen to the a lot of worldly things, you
will become a worldly person. Even if you attend church, you will
become a worldly person.
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Even if you attend church, you will be filled with worldly worries and
anxiety. You are like a thorny field.
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Thorns block you from growing and bearing fruits.
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The Word of God also falls on the wayside and it is not considered
soil. the Word falls on your heart but "birds" the evil spirits will
come and eat it up. You forget the Word after hearing.
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Some fall on rocky places. The soil is very shallow. When the sun's
comes up, it is scorched and withers. The sun burns and it withers
away.
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We have to go through many tribulation, suffering and test for the
Kingdom of God?
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We were led by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We were led by holy
fire, and because of the wind of the holy fire, we have gathered here.
Hallelujah!
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According to the direction of the Holy Spirit's holy fire wind, we
desire God to utilize us.
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Please hold onto today's word and be victorious through prayer.
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Let us be a proper person of prayer, a person of spirit, and a person
who longs for God's touch and grace.
