120527 At the time when the two will be divided

Today's word of life comes from Matthew 24:36 through 44, Matthew 28:8-2, and the book of Daniel 12:3. We have three different verses today.

Matthew 24:36-44. "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the son, but the Father alone. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark. And they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away. So will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then there will be two men in the field. One will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left. Therefore, be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. But be sure of this: that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. For this reason, you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think of."

Matthew 28:18-20. "And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.' Hello, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Daniel 12:3. "Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever."

This is the word of God. Amen.

Through our main passage reading today that God has given us. The sermon title is: "The Final Victor of the Two Who Will Be Divided Then, Is Who Would That Be?" Who would the final victor be? Is the one who evangelizes to the day his breath stops. In terms of family, if a man and wife believe well together, they will go together. But if they don't believe well, then they will be divided. The same thing goes for your children, your children-in-laws. We have our ministers here. We have nearly 100 ministers at our church. We have more than 200 elders, eldesses, deacons, deaconesses. We have more than 3,000. But in the end, they will all be divided. How wonderful would it be if we could all go together, but there will be division. So if we don't wake up, if you're not on the alert, and if we do not prepare ourselves and can say, "Well, it's the same today or it was thousands of years ago." When would the second coming take place? When would it be the end of the world? And yet people are not interested in this. However, Jesus' Eve is still coming right now. Whether he will arrive today on earth or is it going to be a few days later or a few months later, he is coming.

That is why we told we must be ready at all times. Therefore, today's title is "The Final Victor of the Two Who Will Be Divided Then." Now, "then" refers to the end of the world, and the final victor of the two is the one who evangelizes. Today is year 2012, month of May. The last week of the month of May, celebrating the New Life Festival. The Bible speaks of how God leads the fall of mankind to His kingdom, and God's compassion, God's mercy, and God's love will do this. And all of this together is expressed as longsuffering. So, in order for all mankind to understand this, the book of the Bible is recorded. However, pastors or evangelists or elders or elders and all those people who claim themselves to be believers do not appreciate the Bible. The Bible is something that we must read every day, and if we don't read it every day, that will become sin. And yet we are don't have any conscience of sin and we just totally forget about the Bible when we come to church. Once you are born into this world, there are so many times that you've deviated from the word of God, and even from the ethics and moral standards that we have committed sin that we cannot be forgiven of this. But God takes and He bears our sins every day, and God says, "I will save you." But even that is completely forgotten as we live. No matter how well you believe in Jesus, and let's say you are very accurate when it comes to faith, your faith life, although did you know, even if you live like that, did you know that God is bearing our sins every day in order to save us? The Bible says that the Lord who bore bears our sin daily. We must praise God every day, 'cause He bore our sin. But yet we have no thanksgiving to God. We have no gratitude. As in Romans 21, it says that we know God. We know God very well, but nevertheless, we do not honor Him by giving thanks. There are so many people who are like that.

The Bible speaks of how God leads the fallen mankind to His kingdom according to the plan and providence that God has set before the ages. And all of these works of God have been recorded historically. And therefore, the book of the Bible is the book of salvation. So the redemptive history of mankind from the beginning to the end is recorded in the Bible, and the center of the world history is the history of redemption, and the center of the flow of the history of redemption is the single purpose, the single purpose to save the fallen mankind. God desires not to miss out or even lose a single believer, and God has put all of us into His pockets and is racing toward the kingdom of God.

If we think about it, we just cannot be but so sorry to God. Whether men or women have been completely engrossed by fame and power and money, and they are all ignorant when it comes to the work of salvation of God. So uninterested. God is gearing everything toward a single purpose, and that is the salvation of mankind. That is the unchanging truth. The center of a history of redemption is only one: Jesus Christ. By Jesus Christ. The history of the world that has been divided into BC and AD. Jesus Christ is the crossroad of the world history, and He is the signpost for the history of redemption.

So please listen carefully. You know, Socrates, concerning his country in Athens, by his own country in Athens, he was sentenced to death. He was sentenced to death. The judge said to bring poison, and as he was watching it, he poured poison into a bowl and they said to drink it. And the person, Plato, Plato was watching this. And after he drank this, Socrates' face turned pale within a few minutes, and he was paralyzed. And he touched his body, his legs, and his body was turning cold. So Plato said to Socrates, "How is it? My eyes are getting dimmer. I cannot move my arms or my hands or feet." And then at the time, Socrates said, "I have one debt." "If I die to ask, can you go and pay my debt?" "Yes, I will pay the debt for you." "Do you have anything else too would you like to say?" And he doesn't answer. And Socrates' eyes were closing. This is the world-famous Socrates, right before his death. He talks about the debt, the one single debt that he had, and he asked Plato to pay the debt for him.

In this last final wish of Socrates, represents a complete, he's tidying up his life completely before he departed this world. We can see the guilt of conscience that he has before his death. Our passage reading talks about what Jesus said, and this was Tuesday, and a few days after Jesus would die. And this word was given three days before his death. This was spoken on Tuesday on Mount Olives. He's speaking of a clear and accurate time of the end of the world, and he only has three more days left in his public ministry. Among the three, 33 years of life, he only has three days left, and this was on Tuesday. In this time where his life was at a crucial state, he's prophesying again because he loves the human race so much. Matthew chapter 24, Mark chapter 13, and Luke chapter 17 and Luke chapter 21 precisely all speak about the end of the world, the signs that will take place in the end. Matthew chapter 24, verse 1-14, and the great tribulation in the end time. Matthew chapter 24, verse 15-28, and also Jesus Christ has to come back. So Matthew chapter 24, 29-31. So we must be able to discern the time of the end of the world from chapter 32 to 36. Nobody knows this date of the second coming, nor the angels of heaven, nor the Son. Only the Father knows alone.

So in Matthew chapter 24, verse 36 through 41, so when the disciples were curious about the end of the world, and they asked Jesus, but Jesus said, "Don't try to know what the date is, but first of all, be on the alert." If thoughts of flesh is death, thoughts of spirit is life and peace. Romans 8:5 says this, right? So Jesus says, "As a conclusion, you must be on the alert." Matthew chapter Matthew 4:42-50.

So this is a lesson for the preparation for the end of the world. It's about preparation. The Bible clearly tells us to be on the alert. Be ready. Matthew chapter 25. In the parable of the wedding banquet, Matthew chapter 25:10, Matthew chapter 25, verse 13, chapter 24 and 25, in both of these places, unanimously say, "Be on the alert and be ready so that you will not miss out on the end of the world." If the groom is here, you must be ready with the oil for your lamp and light up the lamp, and you must go out to the entrance way. Those people who are not ready may have a lamp, but have no oil.

Dear saints, according to Genesis chapter 6, verse 1-3, the world was not only corrupt, but it was filled with foul odor. Without a permission from their parents, men sought after women who were pleasing to their eyes, and women sought after men who were pleasing to their eyes. So God was so infuriated, and He said, "My Spirit shall not strive with men anymore," and so His Spirit departed. So Genesis chapter 6, verse 3 says, "The man became flesh, just a chunk of meat, the same as the beast, like the pig or the horse or whatever." So the human being no longer can become worthy. So in the end time, Matthew chapter 23:39 and below, it says, "The coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah." The violence was filled in this world. There's no love to be found anywhere. There is no righteousness or justice. There is no trace of truth to be found. Then also the children will beat the parents to death. In the times of Noah, I'm speaking about, just like today, God sent His angel, but they were so wicked that the men from the town gathered to the home, and their beautiful people went into your house. Let them out. If you, what are you going to do if I bring them out? Oh, I, we want to have relations with those people. They just outright say this to them. "All you have guests, right? Bring them out here 'cause we want to sleep with them." Thousands of men came and said they want to have relations with the guests. So according to the Bible, Lot said, "I have two daughters who do not know men. I will give you my daughters, so you can do whatever you want to do with those two women. But these people who have come to my house are the angels. Aren't you afraid? Do you want to sleep with angels?" But people were still stubborn. So God, not God, could not put up with what he had to hear. So He made all the men at the door blind. But now is exactly the same as in the days of Noah.

15, 16-year-olds today, they have relations. "What do you care? That's what they would say. I can't sleep with you." That's what those little girls would say to older men. In Moonsan, we went to a home visit, and then I was told, you know, although she's only 15 years old right now, she has guests, she has customers. And then she would say, "What is the point? It's okay, come in. Why do you care about my age?" So what if you had a daughter who was 14 and 15 years old? You probably say, "Oh, my daughter is still so young." But in absolutely no way you're safe from this. You must pray for your daughters. It's today's exactly the same as the days of Noah. And Jesus said, "The coming of the Son of Man. His return will be just like the days of Noah." People will get married, even after marriage, they would like to eat and drink and buy and sell. But they are completely uninterested when it comes to the coming of the Lord. So the Bible says that there was a flood, but not into their thrill. But the water went into their nostrils, and they were about to death, and even till then, they didn't understand. Matthew chapter 24 says that they didn't understand even when the water was going into their nose. The people of this world refers to the corrupt generation as the now. The end of the world has come. Although they say that they do not care to prepare for this end, they don't prepare. They're not ready. They are so uninterested. They don't care. The history of this world is governed by the Creator of the entire universe. And according to His administration, in order to save the elect, and the remaining people will be abandoned, and yet people don't care. The history is racing toward its destination. It's racing very swiftly to the end, and this world will surely have its end. And Matthew chapter 24, verse 32 and 39 clearly states that Luke chapter 21, from verse 32-36, says there is clearly the end of the world. Therefore, we must be on the alert, and you must keep yourselves in prayers. If you are ready, if you know the end of the world is coming, then you can be on the alert. You can be ready, and you can escape from the tribulation. Luke chapter 19, verse 41-44. Luke 23:28-31. Isaiah 66:E1-16. Were people ready when they were told that Jerusalem will collapse in 70 AD? General Titus came and put out in 35,000 men, and a million people died. In a matter of three months, they were besieged, and they were captured in the city. They had no food. So they ended up eating the flesh of their own sons. Next day, they'll eat the flesh of their daughters. That's what they did. This is indescribable. So General Titus and Masta, this is the last fortress. It was what he conquered, and he conquered, and there a million people died. They had such a tragic death.

In ordinary life, the people's purpose in their lives are different. Members of Pangju church, even when you go to work, it should be for the Lord. Even when you get married, it should be for the glory of God and for the kingdom of God. Same thing when you do your business. On the outside, it may look the same. You know, whether you have relations with relatives, your daughter-in-law, son-in-law, my house, my husband, my wives, it may you guys look the same to on the outside. But in the end time, you will all be divided. So the angels of heaven will come down, and the grace of the Spirit will come and will divide all those people into "you have believed," "you have not believed." Those people who have believed will be separated to the right. Those people who have not believed will be separated to the left. Instantly, at a twinkle of an eye, they will be transfigured. The clothes they wore will all be loosened from them. And those people who are transfigured, those people are bound to heaven, will become sources of light like sunlight. They will be illumined. I am saying this exactly as what the Bible says. Therefore, we have to wake up.

Look at Socrates. When he died, he left only one single statement, and it was concerning his debt, and he said, "Could you pay this debt?" And Plato said, "Yes, I will make sure to pay the debt for you." And says, "That's the only thing I want to say." At his deathbed, he's thinking about that one thing that he wasn't able to pay back. Our forefathers said that you should not have a single trace of shame under heaven or earth. Our forefathers said that we should not have a single shame under heaven or heaven. Under heaven or on earth. Now, then the Bible says, "Then the two will be divided. The two will be separated." There's no point in saying, "Oh, honey, you can't even say that out." The judgment is so grand and so magnificent that you will not have any courage to utter a single word.

Matthew chapter 24:40. It says, "Then there will be two men in the field. One will be taken and one will be left." One will be taken and one will be left. In verse 41, Matthew 24:41, he says, "Two women were grinding at the mill. Maybe they're making something and they are grinding some kind of crumbs at the mill." And he says, "One will be taken and one will be left." Two women were grinding at the mill, and instantly one disappeared. Such a word of Jesus has very solemn, profound meaning, and this we must understand.

Dear saints, the end of the world will come to you, and nobody will be accepted from this, whether children or to adults or men or women. The end will come to you no matter what. After so got on the flight because I only want to go to Singapore, and I was all fine. So we usually get on board a flight about 30 minutes prior, right? So I was about to get on the plane, but instantly everything just blackened out. So in Mount Juri, I felt that after receiving the word of His redemption, He said, "This word will be proclaimed throughout the world, and until all the world will come to you, I will protect you, and you will not die." So when I collapsed, I said, "Oh, my time has not come yet." While even I was collapsing, that thought occurred in my mind. So there is an entrance way, a corridor that connects to the flight right, and there were many steels, and then Pastor Philip Lee and Pastor Elder Shin, as they saw me collapsing, they held on to me, and so I sat on the chair, and in my mind, and even before then, I was like, "Oh, I don't want to make this trip this time." And I said, "Oh, maybe you should go, and I don't actually don't want to go." I actually told that to myself. So even just unboarding, deboarding from the flight, you cannot just do it easily. So because of me, all the 200 people from the plane got off, and then the airport said that you don't have to be sorry, this is the regulation. And so everybody had to onboard the plane, and I had to be stuck in my seat. And then two officials came in, and they inspected the entire flight, all the craft, and they checked whether there is any belongings left to make sure that there is no bombs or anything like that will threaten the lives of the passengers. And I could not leave on my own either. And the two bodyguards that will have to lead me out, and then I gave them the my passport and all the vis, all the stamps have been all cancelled. So I had to actually make through three different checkpoints, and it took me about 45 minutes, and they escorted me out all the way to the out of the airport and said, "Please stay healthy." And so I came back, and some people cried who were with me, and I said, "Why are you crying? I'm not going to die." While I prayed, for three years and six months, it God told me that this word will be proclaimed all around the world, and all the nations will come back to me. Until then, I'm going to protect you and keep you. So I came back, and I read the Bible, and I prayed, and that happened a while ago. It was just an instant moment. I was walking fine, and right at the corridor, all of a sudden, everything just blackened out. So at the moment I collapsed, before I hit the ground, the people who are next to me held on to me. So if I had no faith, if I had not heard that voice from Mount Jerry, I probably thought that that was the end of my life. But it was not the case.

So then in Greek is "hora," then is "hora" in Greek. It is in singular form. It is a specially appointed, precise time. Then also in Greek, it is "that day." That day is He. That day the Lord comes back. It's "he" in Greek. And also when there was a parable of 10 virgins, the same word "hora" was used. Matthew chapter 11 also, when there's a parable of the goat and sheep in Matthew chapter 21, is also that day was used. So Hebrews, "the day when He who is to come will come," and that day. Thessalonians 1:10, "On that day He will come." Also, Philippians 1:10, "the day of the Lord." Luke 17:26, "the day of the Son of Man." 1 Corinthians 5:5, "the day of the Lord Jesus." 1 Corinthians chapter 1:8 and 2 Corinthians 1:14, they talk about the same thing. And 2 Peter 3:12, "This is the day of God." The last day, the day of God. And John 6:39 talks about the end day, the last day. Jude 1:6, "It is the great day, the unprecedented day in the entire history of mankind." It's the great day. It's very terrifying. The stars of God will fall, and of the heaven will fall, and there will be nobody who can live, can survive this to the point they said, "Mountains, cover me. Rocks, please crush me so I can die," because it is so terrifying. Mountains, rocks, you can kill me. That's such a terror. Matthew chapter 10:15, Romans 2:5, "It's a day of wrath, day of judgment." Ephesians 4:30, "a day of redemption."

And at the end time, everybody, they went to work fine, and your same colleague. You're working at the same, you came into the company together, you have worked all of these years along together. But the day, on that day, you will be separated. There is a time that God has appointed, and that time will not change. Whether yesterday or today or tomorrow, God's word stays the same. Although this world will vanish away, my word will not disappear. In Matthew chapter 24:35, it is in this fact, "One will be taken and the other will be left."

Matthew chapter 24, verse 40 and verse 42. When you read this verse, your heart will pound in fear. "One will be taken and one will be left." And the two women were grinding at the mill. It's not like, "Hey, I'm going to go to the bathroom." The other party will know. But there is no announcement at all. And just at a twinkle of an eye, they would just vanish. Wouldn't you be shocked? "Oh, we were just here together. Where did that person go?" Taken. It's the same as how the people who are going into the wedding banquet, they're also taken as well. Matthew chap 25:10. Matthew chapter 25:10. That's not a lie, right? So the faithful servants will partake in the joy of the master. And also those who are on the right, "Hey, you can stand on my right. You have believed." In all vain in this world, and the center of your heart was not of faith. You live the life of a beast. You will stand on the left side. Who will say that? The angel will say that. Then there's nothing you can say against. God has seen all the center of your heart, and He will use the angel to say, "That person will be standing on the right. That person should stand on the left." So all the, if all of our lives until this point, you know, have not been an upright life, or the word of God is upright. In Psalm 19:7-8, it says, "The word of God is upright." Yet that person was not able to live an upright life. We're also really trying to see what other people think. We deceive other people. We're like spies who deceive themselves. And then God was saying, the angel said, "That person should go to the left. That person should go to the right." And the Bible says the angel will come and make and separate the people. So Matthew chapter 25, verse 33-36, it says the angel will separate the people to the right or to the left. And you can say nothing against this. First Thessalonians 4:16-17 says this: "Those who who are dead in Christ will rise first, and those who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." Now, being left means the door will be shut on you. You may pound the door, "Lord, Lord, please open the door." Say, "Who are you?" "I am a deaconess, blah blah, at Pangj Church." But He would say, "Oh, I don't have your name in the book. I never knew you." This will cause you insane. "Oh, I bought you sweet potato. I've bought you tomatoes. I've even given you my money." But He says, "In the book of life, your name is not found." Being left means your, the door being shut on you.

"Lord, Lord, please open the door. I am so-and-so." The Bible says, "I never knew you." Wouldn't you go out of your mind? He will say, "He never knew you." That would be the end. That person has lost the opportunity. In such a foolish case, the foolish virtue, the ones who did not prepare, who did not get ready, who did not listen to the word. And what's really important is that in the end time, there will be separation. They will be divided. They will be separated. I hope that all the Pangong church remembers. We're all within the same fence and will not be divided. And I hope that on the same moment that when the angel comes upon the command of God, that he, you will all be taken. So I bless you in the name of the Lord. How wonderful would it be, right?

The purpose of the coming of Jesus. Now this is the fourth week, the last week of a newcomers' new life evangelism festival. In Luke chapter one, it says, "And there is a tax collector in Jericho. He was a very wicked man. He's like a robber, but he met Jesus, and he repented." And when that happened, the tax collector said, "If there is anything that I stole from other people, I will pay back for four. If I, let's say, took uh uh $4, and I will take and then I'll get, I'll pay back $20. And if I would take $500 and I'll pay back $2,000, four times, right?" I mean, $2,000. And so when the tax collector confessed this, Jesus said, "I will stay at your house." But the many people were getting so skeptical about Jesus because he's such a wicked man. And at the time, Jesus said, "I have not come to the righteous. I have come to the sinner." So the tax collector, Zacchaeus, who was a tax collector in Jericho, from the perspective of God, he was also the last one. All the new people who are here for the first time, they say, "Your parents do not go to church, and the children do not go to church, relatives or our young siblings do not go to church." All of these people are the last ones in the perspective of God. We must find all of these people. We must find them. A wise, faithful servant is what we must become. And so we'll be able to give out food appropriate to its time. And when the faithful servant does that, and when the Lord comes, when the master comes and sees his faithful servant does that, then the servant will be blessed. The reason the Son of Man came is to save which was lost. Matthew chapter 18:14. All the cripples, all the people who are not even deemed as a human being according to the people of the town, he's not regarded as a human being. But to God, he is a precious soul. He will be saved. Then he will be more wealthy than the wealthiest person on this planet because God will give His inheritance to this planet. So let's say there is a beggar, and he's not even treated as a human being, and people will say, "Hey, if you hang out with that person, then your reputation will go wrong." But you should not care about something like that because that person is also a lost person to God's eyes. So that person who evangelizes such people will be greatly blessed. So please do not evangelize only those people who are wealthy and well-off, but please pray for those people who are really poor, who are in great hardship, so that they can come to church, and they'll receive the help of God, and we can all embrace each other, and we'll praise together, give thanks together, and singing together, and to our journey upward to the kingdom of God. Jesus said that in John 10:16, "There is a on earth there's a flock who's not of this fold, and we must find that that flock." It's in John 10:16. We must find that flock. Isaiah 68:56:8 says, "The Lord who gathers dispersed." Maybe he was a robber, and he was, um, doing, he was a criminal. No, he was sent to a prison. So that even his own, or even his own town people would not regard him as a friend. But if you were to evangelize him as such people, because he is also man in God's image and likeness, and when they live like that and be converted back to God with his own treatment, that will be such a blessing. And I say, although you may have family members who are really causing trouble to your family, if even that person, if he comes back to God, will become a great man by the word of God, and who can become beneficial to people who are here, to the family members, or even to the city. Thank you so much for coming to our church. I hope we will be in hand in hand, and we're blessed in this praising and singing together.

Although we may live in this world, we can live at the mass of 70 or 80 years, but we are going into this world, there's no death, that we can live forever. So I hope that you will all become very healthy, and then you will become loyal and faithful to God, and may all the people who are here for the first day, um, I hope that every member of a penguin church have great interest on you, and you'll take this journey together to the very end. Let us love to the end. Let us teach to the end, and let us lead them to the end. Let us pray. Proverbs 27:23, he says, "Know well the condition of your flocks and pay attention to your herds." May the members of the Pangong church remember everyone who have come to our church for the first day. May the members of Pangj remember them and pray for them and for their household. Please bestow your grace upon grace upon us so that we can pray for them to the end. Once they have registered to our church today, that we are one family, one household to the end until we enter into the kingdom of God. May we become one family, one household. Remaining ours are yours, Lord. May you be glorified. And to the very end, on this blessed Lord's Day, may we offer up to you praise and prayer and worship and really observe this glorious day, the holy day, very well so that we can ascribe delight and glory to you. We ask all these in the holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ in thanksgiving. Amen. Thank you very much.

And at this time, uh, last time, uh, Pastor Philip Lee went to Indonesia and to the States. There he went on a missionary trip into these regions. And for about 20 minutes, let us listen to his missionary report. On May 5th, I went to, um, Arizona Yuma in the United States, and LA in Washington, also in the United States. We had three different seminars. And at the Baltimore, we had a graduation ceremony for the PH degree in Baltimore. And then on the 21st, we came to Korea. And on the 22nd, we went again on a missionary trip to Singapore, Indonesia. And we arrived this morning. I would like to share with you, um, of what has happened during the missionary trip.

First of all, um, um, on May 5th, along with Pastor E and Pastor Andrew Pac, we went to a place in Arizona called Yuma. And I knew America was very big, but I didn't know that America was this big. Arizona is complete desert, and the state itself is a desert, and we rode in a car, and it took like three or four hours or five or seven hours, and still it's only desert. And so I was very shocked that there's a place like this in, um, in the United States. And right at the border of Mexico, there's a place called Yuma. There are about, um, 100,000 men, and there are 100 Koreans, and there are three Korean churches. And there are over 4,400 people. That's a lot of church. And one of those churches actually invited us. And we had a, a, um, history redemption center seminar. And there's a Deacon Howard. He's a deacon at the church. He's a son of, um, Eldress Tang in Singapore. And he's actually the second highest ranking officer in the housing construction, but he has actually is a devout Christian. And there is an elder at the church, and he's more than 70 years old, so he's about to retire, so he wants to, um, establish Deacon Howard as elder to put him in charge over this church. And then this, um, Deacon Howard was so a godly Christian that he would get a compliment saying that, "I, we don't know who who the pastor raised you up is, but the pastor must be a really great man." And so we explained to that he explained to him about Senior Pastor, and he also read the books written by the history written by the Senior Pastor. And so this elder was so greatly blessed. But also it happened that the, um, pastor who was, um, ministering over that church had to go somewhere. So they no longer have any pastor. So they actually invited, and so we were sent to there. And there's another, um, pastor who rotates to come to preach the church. So when I went, the pastor that who was on the rotation, he said, "We will preside," and, um, he wants me to preach the sermon. So, but I later found out that he graduated from a codio, a business administration, and then also he graduated from he had a business administration in Korea University, and he graduated from Chongin Seminary College. And I also graduated from Seoul National University with a business administration, and he, I graduated from Chong University. I later found out that he was a fourth-year senior to me in the theological seminary. So we were so happy to see each other. And now that he actually, um, was not so clear about our church, he was skeptical about our church as well, hearing all the rumors of, um, the false accusation of our church. But after he read the Genesis genealogies written by our Senior Pastor, he realized, "A man who wrote a book like this can never become heretics, become a heretic." And so the pastors in Korea must be, um, misunderstanding something here. And so after we preached, and we, um, offered the Bible studies, and afterward, this pastor said, "To this day, I have preached the Genesis on Genesis many, many times, but I never knew that Adam and Eve lived contemporaneously for 56 years. And also because Adam taught the word to Enoch, Enoch believed this word, and so he was able to transfigure." All of these were unimaginable for him to ever understand. So how can you be able to expound or proclaim such a profound message during during worship services? And so he was confessing that our Senior Pastor is a remarkable man, and he has raised us up very well. So this pastor who was just on a rotation, he was there only for temporary. He said, "I cannot serve the church like this." So I believe that from Pangangj church, they need to send, um, a pastor who speaks English well, also Korean really well, to that church. So after we finished, um, our, um, seminar, and, um, you and I in LA, we went to LA. There had been a lot of interference by the outer pastors to prevent us from holding our redemptive history seminars before. However, um, it happened that the pastors around there, um, have actually researched into our history redemption books, and they, after the investigation, they confessed that our Senior Pastor, Abraham Park, is a has a firm foundation in all Calvin studies, and, um, He is an orthodox Christian and a conservative Christian. And this findings that actually had been established through the investigation in Korea had been published at the newspapers, Christian newspapers in the LA. So the pastors who had been contending against our assemblies, one of us, one of the members of the church said, "Why are you still accusing this church with all of these wrong accusations when already there had been outcomes from investigations like this?" So from then on, these pastors will not say anything against the church anymore. And also there had been a lot more pastors who came at the seminar this time. And there's a man who always sat in the front. He was white-haired, and he was present throughout the entire seminars. And he later came and introduced himself, and he was a worldwide theologian who researched in Sumerian language. So at Yale or Princeton, he actually held the office as the, um, professor there. He is the number one theologian in the language of Sumerian, Sumerian language. And in Korea, there's Dr. Chuch Chosu, who is a well-known for the Sumerian language as well. He's a professor at Sagang University in Korea. But he does not research, he did not research Sumerian language in terms of a history of redemption or according to the Bible. But here, this doctor is a world-renowned theologian in Sumerian language, and for the first time in the world, he has, um, interpreted, um, translated the Hebrew Bible based on the Sumerian language into English and Korean. And now this theologian has attended the seminar. As you're all aware, the Old Testament is recorded in Hebrew, right? But 40% of this language is Sumerian language. And this is a language that have been used in the land region of Chaldean, where Abraham lived. Sumerian language is the very first language that left the historical record. So because 40% of the language has been used, written by Sumerian language, if you understand the Sumerian language, then we can have a more profound understanding of the Old Testament. Now, this man had read the genealogies written by a Senior Pastor, and he attended throughout the seminars, and afterwards, he told me that there, if there is a flower of the Bible, what he discovered, and he discovered this flower, but the Senior Pastor knows how many petals there is to the flower, and even how many, and it's such a clear description of this flower itself. I even, he only discovered just that there's a flower of the Bible. But the Senior Pastor is deeply penetrated throughout the Bible in thousands of different branches, and he has complete grasp of the Bible. So he wants to actually come and meet Senior Pastor, and he will take lead in writing, um, the book review for the book Seven, and he actually has promised to come to our summer retreat. Among a conservative orthodox theologian, there's nobody in Korea who knows Sumerian language. And from Dr. Kong, he says he is a man who's well-renowned for the Sumerian, his expertise in Sumerian language, but he thinks that Senior Pastor has already penetrated through the Sumerian language because all the deep meaning is found in the history of redemption series that he wrote. There had been also many other people, and there is, um, special people, and there's a witness watchman, um, and there's a group of people who are very devout Christians in China. They were so devout that the people will accuse them as heretics. And now they have many different branch churches around the world as well. And the four members of that church actually attended our seminar. And after the seminar, they said that they had always been very confident that their word was very profound already, and that's why just the regular churches out here cannot satisfy them. But they have never seen how the Matthew genealogy and genealogy were connected into two had been expounded it all together. And also the 42 campsites in the wilderness journey is linked to how Jesus Christ had come after 42nd as a 42nd generation is also for the first time they heard. So they thought that they always been like the best in the world when it comes to word of God, but they realized that they have found something even greater. You know, Shinanji, um, is also a very, um, uh, prominent heretics in Korea, and they are very, very powerful because they also offer very, very deep Bible studies. But even at the Shinchi man says that he even studied, he studied at the very high level, and in the end, he realized that this is not right. So he was at the very last final step of studying that book, Revelation, he realized that Shinanji was not right. So he got out of the Shinji. But yet, once he's out of Shinji, he would go to other ordinary churches in this world, and he realized everything so lame because there's nothing that you can learn from these sermons. But this man had come to the history of redemption seminar, and he read all the books of history redemption series, and he has written in great detail his own notes of what the Matthew genealogies make and what the Lucan genealogy, um, is about. So he actually underwent his own research on the Matthew and Lucan genealogy. But after having attended the history of series seminar and reading the book, all those answers and perplexities had been answered. So I have realized that the church that can really quench the thirst of the word is our Pango church, which God is using right now. So after we finished the assembly in LA, we went to Washington, and over five different occasions, we had seminars there as well. In Washington, about 30 years ago, when Senior Pastor had gone to the United States for the first time 30 years ago, Washington was a place where he began his ministry for the first time in the United States. So after he, um, began his ministry in Washington, and then he went down to Florida for nearly 30 years. So people, um, were so shocked to find out a newspaper announcement that the Senior Pastor Abraham Park has written these books, and of these books, there will be a seminar. So these people have gathered 30 years ago. They have heard Senior Pastor preaching 30 years ago that there is a world that there is no death, and like Enoch, people will not die but will transfigure. About 30 years back, um, they, it was so difficult to make a living, and so they, all these words did not really come into their ears, but and so they deserted Senior Pastor, and then they just went off to other churches. And now they have been, um, raised up as like elders and really high officers at church. Now they have come back and realized that why was it that they were not able to hold on to this precious word of God that had been proclaimed 30 years ago, and so they repented, and then they really repented that they were not able to usher in this precious word, and they want to come back and now study the Eastern redemption. And what they said is that Senior Pastor had received this word, a precious word, by the precious grace of God, and they're saying that such grace had bestowed upon, and God had been, um, produced this fruition, and that fruition is the history redemption series. And also there's an American pastor called Pastor Tim. He has about 8,000.

Congregation and within the church, there is high school and middle school. There were 70 acres of land and so this really huge church, 70-80 acres land lot for this church. It's a very big church, even for the scale of American churches.

He attended seminars and he said that he has read so many American books, but the other people's books, they all talk about the same thing and they repeat themselves and it's no fun and it's not worthy to read to the very end. However, the senior pastor's redemptive history series is from the beginning. It uncovers very new material. And as he says, he's never seen a book as profound as this book. And other books do not teach about the word that's in the Bible. It only talks about how a church can grow. It only talks about how they can really promote their own churches. But there's no book that really solves or expounds the mysteries in the Bible.

But in the latter years now, God is proclaiming God's mystery in the Bible. And to proclaim this mystery, he thinks that God has chosen the senior pastor. And to fulfill this will, God has published the history redemption series through the senior pastor. So he said, "I will gather my entire congregational church. Please come to our church and teach history seminar." And he also said, "And there are, um, he wanted to train, um, his own congregation and the discipleship and he wants to have a joint relationship with the theological seminars in the United States." But he has not seen any, um, any good theological seminars that truly teach the words of the Bible.

But he discovers about our Berry Theological Seminary that's from our church and he realized that this theological seminary truly teaches about the word of God. So he would gather all these elders and all the people from his congregation and will make them register for the Berry Theological Seminary. And also, we went to Singapore after this. And there is a pressing company called Perry Plus and that's the company where our redemptive history series is translated to English and published. Now, the owner of the company is Deacon Eric and his wife is Elder Christian Home. So they actually moved to a new house and so we worshiped there in the new house and we were very shocked when we visited this new house.

Singapore, Singapore has really small land, right? It only takes over an hour from one end of the country to the other end. So the land site is very, very expensive. And the region that they moved to is the most expensive area. It's three stories high and they have a swimming pool and a very great yard, a very, very great mansion that they have. So we asked how the price of the home was and they said in Singaporean dollars, it is so so it's 20 million dollars and so it's about $20 million. And what I was more shocked about was that I betted on in first 2 Samuel 6:1, it says because the ark of God, all these possessions and household were blessed, right? That their pressing company, once they start printing the senior pastor's book, they start receiving all these blessings and that's why they were able to move into a 20 million dollar house. So when we were ushering in the word of God, I believe that there will surely be a great downpour of blessings like that.

And right before coming to Singapore, we had a Faith Theological Seminary graduation. Eight of our pastors and evangelists have received a PhD diploma. And there was also another doctor who was graduating with us at the time and he was graduating in 10 years after 10 years, but we only studied 3 years and then we finished our dissertations and we graduated. So that PhD candidate then told us, "Wow, the disciples of the senior pastor are so remarkable. I've studied 10 years, I barely made it to my graduation." And he said he also read our dissertations as well and said that his dissertation, if nowhere, can be compared to the dissertations that we have that they have written.

And there's also a very renowned doctor in Illinois State and he was actually very impressed with the Jesus genealogies and he translated the book in Hebrews. And so the senior pastor's book is the very first book that had been translated into a book of Hebrew. And so it's a very first book. I can't even read this because it's all in Hebrew. It's a very first Korean authored book to be translated into a book of Hebrew. So this does not have any coding for all the vowel codes and so if you don't really know Hebrew, then you will not be able to read. So our Genesis genealogist has been produced in Hebrew and this has been published by the Perry Plus company as well.

After this, we went to Indonesia and the Indonesian church was greatly involved in various seminars and also the Malaysians also helped in this event as well. Now, Malaysians, they have no Korean people. But all these Malaysian congregations, they didn't have a church either. But recently, they actually made a church when we went there this time. And so they said, "We just want a pastor from Seoul. And so, just we have made the church ready. So please send this." And in Indonesia also, they have finished translating the third book of our senior pastor, "The Unquenchable Lamp of Covenant." It's the third book that's been translated into Indonesian.

So wherever we go in this world, God's word is prevailing. It's really being powerful. The word of God is powerful and it is able. Hebrews 4:12 says the word of God is alive and living. And on Acts 4:9, it says the word of God is prevailing and it's power. So if we hold on to the word of God and believe the word of God, then surely we will take a great role worldwide because Psalm 19:4 clearly says that the word of God will reach the end of the world.

And this time I was really blessed by Pastor EJ Han. And Pastor EJ Han met her friend when she went to a PWA Woman's High School. This friend was very, very, very rich. And so Pastor EJ Han, although they are the same classmate, she was not even able to look at her face because she was that rich. Now, after many, many years, they have met again because the friend had come to immigrate to the United States. Now, this woman was, although she was a very wealthy lady, but she was all wrinkled up, really old. But our Pastor EJ Han was so young and fresh. So if this was an entire grandma, our Pastor EJ Han, she flies, right? You know, when she travels, she will have a backpack on her when she travels. And so from behind, she looks like she's in her 20s. So her friend told Pastor EJ Han, "How come you have never aged?" And Pastor EJ said, "I said, I take medication. What kind of medication? The Old and New Testament medication of the Bible." So in Korean, "yak" means medication. So "ku-yak" means Old Testament is an old medication. So the bottom line is that when we just take the word of God, God will give us power so we'll always place number one. So please diligently read the History of Redemption series so that through you, may God proclaim his word throughout the world. Thank you.

About 37 years ago. Um, when I was doing a ministry and he said that I said, uh, we should build a theological seminary from the Department of Education. Um, if we establish, you know, in order to establish a proper education institution, we need 13 doctors. So about four years ago, we had a Reformed Theological Seminary. We applied for it and we've also been recognized by the Department of Education as a proper education institution and so we were able to carry out with this theological seminary project. But the problem is that we don't have enough doctors. Um, so there are only a couple here right now. So I prayed and I heard the voice and I will send you 12 doctors from theological seminary. So I was like, okay, where would all these 12 doctors of theology come?

There are now three doctors who have received the doctor in theological theology. And so about five, six years ago, he said that you guys are pastors, but you have to become a PhD holder who teaches theology. You cannot have a PhD of divinity, but you have to have a PhD of theology. So along with Pastor EJ Han, Pastor, Pastor, Pastor, Pastor Joe Joseph, and Pastor, and Evangelist Paga, and Dr. Hong, and Pastor Py Jun, he's also a S National University graduate. But Pastor Pun, he submitted his paper one month later. He sent his dissertation one month later. So it wasn't passed. So it was postponed for another year.

So on May 19th, they actually walked through the graduation ceremony with thousands of people celebrating and the congratulations in our Panga church. All of our pastors and evangelists, they walked the graduation ceremony with their doctorate robes. And this graduation was with all the, among the, they were sitting together with the American and Korean students. When I received my diploma, I received it from Dr. McIntyre and then Dr. Hong Juni was selected to sing a congratulatory song, a favorite song that's by Dr. McIntyre. And then there was a really elderly guest there and then came out and really applauded Dr. Hong, saying that this was a really a favorite song for Dr. McIntyre. So they were really adorned. They were well praised, complimented by all the people who were there. And then also Pastor Phil Lee had been lecturing there about from two years ago. And so all the students were saying that our pastors are worthy to receive a diploma.

Next week, the Berry Theological Seminary, we'll have to write a dissertation and we'll have to go through a dissertation interview. And the first person who passed was Pastor Yinya. Next person was Pastor. All of them. They all passed through because they all wrote a dissertation on the History of Redemption series that I wrote. And because of this content, they were passed through. If they had written about something else, then they would not have passed through because I wrote it. It's new. People do not know. Even the theologians or doctors don't know. And so when our students will come out and explain, then the interviewers will say, "Wow, we understand that." And when I heard this news of their graduation, I was so happy and it was point to point of dancing and jumping up and down.

And about 37 years ago, they said, and so I heard that God will send us 12, 13 PhD holders. And now we have 10 PhD holders and we have three PhDs overseas. And so now we'll be applying to the Department of Education. We will have a worldwide theological seminary. The world will come to us. When will we believe? When will we evangelize? We must train our children at theological seminary and when they go out and shout, many people will come through these people. So next Lord's Day, everyone who has received a PhD will have a ceremony next week because our congregation have prayed for you. Our congregation have paid for all the expenses as well. And these pastors then don't even have a single penny. Our church, we have supported them. The motivation force was our church members, our congregation, out of faith, really foot through all of our new doctors of our Pang church. I danced about 37 years ago while I was praying. I was answered and it now really came true. So now we can establish our own theological seminary. And so from the Department of Education, they will approve because we now have 13 PhDs.

Please listen carefully. The Sumerian language is man's first language and this was the very first language ever spoken and written. So 40% of the Old Testament has been written by the Sumerian language. So it's been written by the Sumerian and Hebrew. So I received this from Mount Cherry and there's nobody who can do the Sumerian language in Korea. And Dr. Kong, he is a Korean and he is a well-known expert in Sumerian language and he saw my book and he was impressed. He thought he was the best in Sumerian language. But after reading the History Redemption series seminar, he said that was not the case. So he asked Pastor Philip Lee that he was going to come and he went over there as a seminar in the United States. He'd always attend and he said, "Do you know how blessed you are to be a part of a Pilg church? You know, these are things that I cannot even understand even after researching for 40 years." And so he asked Pastor Philip, "Do your church people, the congregation, understand these History Redemption series?" And Pastor Philip said, "They not only know it, they memorize it and they're teaching it." And so that's how great our Penguin church members are. So please let's give thanks to God.

And let us close our service with the benediction by Pastor Philip Lee. Now the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the infinite love of the Father God, inspiration, fellowship and fullness of the Holy Spirit will be upon all those who desire to become on the alert and be ready and be taken when the Lord returns upon their homes, upon their workplaces, and upon their churches, especially upon all the new family members. From now on and forever and evermore. Amen.