[Lets move on to God] By Pastor Kim Taehoon
Hebrews 10:19~25
Hello, Im Pastor Kim Tae-hoon, who was called as a woodcutter in Daegu. Last week, we heard about the words of a revival through seminars and establishing a shelter. In order to be raised by redemptive raising, we have to move on near to Jesus who are on top of eight blessing Mountains. We have to move close to God. In todays text, lets look at three things about how to move forward to God.
First, we have to move forward with faith.
We are saved when we believe in Jesus as the savior who died and lived again for my sin. You are saved by faith, not by action, just like being saved by grace. Starting with being saved by grace, we must move closer to God every day. By dying on the cross for our faith, the insignia that had been placed between the sanctuary and divine center inside the temple was torn, opening the way to God. Faith is to believe that the cross, where Jesus body is torn, is the way to live. It is also to tear away pride, greed, and laziness with the help of Jesus blood. If I decide to die in Jesus, it opens an unexpected new path. However, we must trust that Jesus, the great priest, will rule us because we cannot do it on our own. This is faith.
I was committed to being the Lords servant, repenting for my greed and obscene crimes, but I had no intention of entering the sanctuary or tearing my body apart with the help of Jesus blood. I left the community in 2013 to study in the United States for success and ambition. However, God came to my second sons cerebral palsy disorder, which came prematurely while studying in the United States. I broke my ambition and joined the community again, but I still avoided it, blaming others. Since a few years ago, my son has had abnormal symptoms of crying and screaming day and night due to regression and seizures, and through this incident, the Lord tore the insignia of my tough self-love, pride, and avoidance, and realized that the whole family was bleeding for my salvation and mission, and I repented with severe wailing and tears. Now, through obedience to faith, I have a desire to bring peace and good to the family and the church.
Second, you should hold on to our hopes.
Hope arises from faith and is grown and preserved by faith. To hold on to your hope is to hold on to God and to hold on to his promise. Promise is the word of God. We receive the words given through QTin every day and the words of God that resonate through the pastor every week as promises. To believe in it and live with it is to hold on to our hopes.
I was called as a pastor in charge of the Daegu Chapel, and I was filled with excitement, fear and anxiety at the same time. However, tears poured down my eyes at the loud confession of apostolic faith with fellow loved ones when I officially worshiped the first Sunday at the Daegu Center in the second week of November. He promised me, 'I will give peace to the Lord of all armies, for the later glory of this temple is more than the previous glory.' Now, whenever I am fearful, I look at the God and hold firmly on to what God promised to us. I bless you for sticking to this QT and caring community until the end.
Third, we should encourage and love each other.
To us, who are confused by the drowning of the iron ax, the Lord asks us to look after each other and encourage love and good deeds. If you hold tight to your son Jesus, who is the great priest who rules the house of God and has become intact forever, you will have the time and strength to look after your family and body next to you, confessing 'Peace!' even during the hardships. I am striving to gather to encourage love for each other. A mature person is a person who knows my end. The closer I am to my end, the more I have to work hard to gather together, attend services and ranches in the same way, and be raised and should raise others. I believe in that you will save one soul and save one family.
When I was in Daegu for various preparations and meetings for the Daegu Chapel, I took a taxi because I wasnt feeling well. I tried to close my eyes for a while, but the driver in his early 60s kept telling me. At that time, I thought of the pastor Kim, Yangjaes upbringing, Treat even the smallest meeting! One soul is important! so I listened well to him, and I came to say that I was the pastor. Then, he frowned and cursed a lot. It was embarrassing, but I said, 'I think youre still thinking a lot about your faith and you have a heart for the church.' Then, the driver, who was full of anger and anger, suddenly became soft and shared the incident where his iron ax fell into the water. He said that his life was so difficult, such as business failure, divorce, and suicide attempts, that he bought and read the Bible, and asked the pastors questions about his life, but he did not get answers from them properly and only avoided them. In Ezekiel, the words You should live even if you are covered in blood seem to be what God is saying to that night, and that God saved him and kept him until now. He wanted to see me again, telling him that I wanted to see him again, too. The Lord encouraged love and good deeds, encouraged us to gather in the community, and I felt that God was stamping him.
Dear all, to move forward to God, we should move forward with faith, hold on to our hopes, and encourage each other with love. I hope that in Daegu, a barren place of ministry, one soul and one family will be saved and that we will become a family and church country that moves closer to God. I also bless the Korean churches in the name of the Lord for the words of the redemption history and the QT ministry to flow like a river.
