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The Bible enables us to be wise for salvation (2 Ti 3:15). Let us learn the true will of God from it.

The Apostles’ Thoughts About the Soul

“What will happen when a man dies?” “Does a man really have a soul?” “Where does a man go after he dies?” These have been the concerns and unsolved questions of numerous people for a very long time. Countless people have thought about the true meaning of their existence and studied it but nobody has been able to find the answer. They have created various kinds of theories, ideas and philosophies only with their eagerness to know, without realizing who created them. However, the knowledge about the soul, taught by Christ, allows mankind to know who they are, and it teaches the value of their existence and the purpose of their life exactly. 1. The appearance of the soul in…

Preaching, a Conversation for Salvation

We have many conversations with people around us every day. Sometimes we have business conversations at work, sometimes we have pleasant conversations with our family members, and we also say the words of blessing to our brothers and sisters whenever we greet them. Come to think of it, conversations are a huge part of our everyday lives. It is because without conversations we can hardly communicate and understand each other. So, conversations are an essential part of our lives. There are empty and useless conversations and also bad conversations that bring forth evil (Mt 12:34–37). So, God has taught us how to have a good, beautiful conversation. That is preaching. Preaching is a conversation that we have with a mind…

Jonah’s Ship and Paul’s Ship

When the human life comes to an end, judgment follows (Heb 9:27). Judgment is the process of making the final decision on whether a defendant is guilty or not and what the nature of the crime is if the defendant is guilty. It is the same for judgment in the spiritual world. The people, who do not know how horrible the pain of hell is, waste their time on this earth, and they will meet a situation where they will have regrets at the end of their lives. Since God knows what happens at the end of human life, He came to this earth in the flesh. He established the new covenant by offering Himself as a sacrifice for our…

Preparing for the Eternal World

The Bible says, “As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field” (Ps 103:15). This shows how short and vain human life is. However, there is a new kind of life after our life on this earth; we are to return to the place we came from. When this life is over, everyone must go to the afterlife. Now, let us take some time to think about how much time and effort we are putting into preparing for the kingdom of heaven we are going to. A servant’s advice Once upon a time, there was a royal servant who won the king’s favor. The servant was good and faithful, and he was also…

Do You Love God?

God loves us. He chose us before the creation of the world with love, cared about our safety even until the last moment when He breathed His last breath on the cross, and loves us constantly, even at this very moment. Do we truly love God? Although we are now walking the path of faith in God, let us take some time to think again about whether we truly love God. The Bible says, “May those who love you [Jerusalem] be secure” (Ps 122:6), and, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Co 2:9). In this spiritual Jubilee year, I want us all to cherish…

Preaching Without Fear

Lately, many of our heavenly family members have been returning to Zion, and God allows us to establish Zion everywhere in the world. The whole world is being filled with the message of the gospel as prophesied in the Bible (Hab 2:14; Mt 24:14). At this present time, when the whole world is being filled with the word of God, let us think about how loud we are raising our voices to preach the gospel. We must not hesitate to preach the gospel; if we are hesitant, we will regret it forever. There is an element of risk in preaching with fear, which can cause us to lose God’s blessings, but preaching without fear brings forth great blessings. Let us…

We Are Bringing You Good News

On arriving at Lystra, Paul and Barnabas are preaching the good news. There sits a man who has never walked. He listens to Paul attentively. Paul looks directly at him, sees that he has faith to be healed and calls out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that moment, the man jumps up and begins to walk. Seeing what Paul has done, the crowd shout, “The gods have come down to us in human form!” The priest of their temple brings bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd want to offer sacrifices to the two men. When the apostles Paul and Barnabas hear of this, they are astonished and rush out into the crowd, shouting:…

Words and Salvation

Words are very important in people’s lives. There is a breakdown in trust between people because of the words they say; they can lose all trust in an instant. This is a common occurrence in the world. We cannot live without speaking. When we talk to others, we need to be careful about what we say, being considerate of their feelings; we should think about how they will think, how it will affect their faith, and what result it will bring forth. The words spoken thoughtlessly or the words that have snowballed in the process of being transmitted from people to people can create discord and misunderstanding among people. In this physical world, words are very important. In faith, the…

The Life by Choice

Let us take some time to consider how blessed we are to live the life we have chosen according to God’s word in our journey of faith, so that we can go to heaven by obeying God’s word and making the choices that please Father and Mother all the time. When we look at the lives of our forefathers in faith—from Moses, Abraham, Noah, Adam, and Eve to Jesus’ disciples such as Peter, John, and James, they all lived their lives by choice. During the journey of the Israelites in the desert, the Israelites wasted their time by making unfavorable choices every moment of their lives. It is the same with our lives. Life is a series of choices. Every…

God the Mother, Eternal Life

Scientists have been curious about the origin and nature of life and have repeatedly studied it for a long time. As a result, they have recently discovered that the characteristics of all living organisms and their life spans are determined by the genes they inherit from their parents. However, there are still many unsolved questions regarding life. The Bible testifies about God who is the Creator of life and is eternal life itself. It contains the mysteries of life that scientists have not yet been able to solve. Now, let’s discover the mysteries in the Bible that have been kept hidden since the creation of the world. God has eternal life God, whom we believe in and preach, is the…

Life Starts from Life

There was a lonely girl who liked painting and whose only joy was observing insects. The girl found a solid object on a tree branch, which looked like a stone or a seed. She observed the changes of that object for the whole season and drew them. When the spring came, the object flew away into the sky with light wings. It was a pupa that molted and became a butterfly. This girl who observed the magic-like metamorphosis for the first time was Merian, a German painter and the first female entomologist of the 17th century. Now we know that a gross-looking caterpillar that comes from an egg will turn into a beautiful butterfly in a little while, but people…

When We Are Called by God

When God calls us, we tend to examine our abilities first, thinking, ‘Am I qualified?’ ‘Do I have the ability to do it?’ If we think about whether or not we will be able to do what God has called us to do with our own abilities, we will all end up saying that we can’t do it. When God calls us, all we have to do is follow God’s calling, saying, “Amen!” Then the work of salvation will steadily proceed through the power of God. God’s calling us doesn’t mean that God will fulfill His work by using our abilities, but it shows His intention to help and guide us with His power to carry out His work, based…

God Dwells in the City of Zion, Being in the Flesh

One of the things that all Christians, who hope for salvation and eternal life, must not overlook is to meet God. The prophet Isaiah wrote, “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.” Through those words, we can understand that we are able to meet God only when God is near to us. Then, let’s find out when is the time God is near, where we can meet God, and how God makes us His people and gives us salvation. The City of Zion – the true church where God dwells Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode . . . There the LORD…

The Scent of Christ and the Scent of Mother

Now, every Zion that preaches Mother and Her love is making a gracious progress in the gospel of God. As we preach the truth about Mother, many souls stream to Zion from Samaria and the ends of the earth. What do you think the reason is? It is because there is the scent of Mother in Zion. The Bible compares God’s people visibly to light and gustatorily to salt (Mt 5:13–16), and olfactorily it describes the smell of the knowledge of Christ as the “aroma of Christ” spreading throughout the world. So, God’s people in this age of the Holy Spirit are the fragrance of Christ, who proclaim the Spirit and the Bride—God the Father and God the Mother. What…

The Sabbath of the New Covenant

God, who wrote the Bible for our salvation, warned against adding to or subtracting from His words at the conclusion of Revelation; this allows us to understand how much authority the word of God has. To receive God’s promise of salvation, we should cherish each and every word of the Bible without missing a single verse. There are many regulations in the New Covenant: the Passover, the Sabbath, the feasts, the veil, and baptism. Among the regulations of the New Covenant, let us study about God’s will through the Sabbath. The Sabbath Was Established at the Creation The Sabbath is the commemoration day of the Creator, which originated from the day God rested after He created all things in the…

The Sabbath and God’s Salvation

We will discover many precious things if we take a moment and look around us. However, because they are always next to us, we often disregard and take them for granted. Likewise, we may neglect the precious truth of the Sabbath because we have grown accustomed to keeping it. When God created all things in the beginning, He worked for six days, rested on the seventh day, and made it holy. God proclaimed the Ten Commandments 3,500 years ago and wrote on the stone tablets, “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” Since God inscribed this command with His own hand, there is no doubt that the Sabbath is essential for our salvation. Even though the Sabbath is very…

The Way to Love God

It is natural to express your feelings to the person you love. Nevertheless, what if you express love in your own way without considering that person’s feelings? You may even end up doing something the person dislikes. Can we call this true love? Then, how should we express our love toward God? If we truly love God, we should not insist on our own thoughts and opinions. God says, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa 55:9). So we should express our love toward God in accordance with God’s ways which are described in the Bible. God says, “If you love me, you will…

God’s Salvation

While the Israelites are trembling in fear for the overwhelming military strength of the Philistines, Jonathan son of Saul is heading towards the Philistines with a young man bearing his armor, without telling his father. “Come, let’s go over to them. God will surely deliver a victory to us. Nothing can hinder God from saving, whether by many or by few.” “Go ahead; I will follow you.” “If they say to us, ‘Wait there until we come to you,’ we will stay where we are and not go up to them. But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ we will climb up, because that will be our sign that God has given them into our hands.” As Jonathan and…

Wear Wedding Clothes

There are many things that we have to prepare in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. One of them is “wedding clothes.” The Bible says that wedding clothes stand for the righteous acts of the saints (Rev 19:8). We may wear sports clothes or short pants at home. But if we are invited to the official residence such as Cheongwadae (the Blue House: the presidential residence of the Republic of Korea) or the White House, can we go there in such informal clothes? The person who has no suit will immediately prepare one. In the same way, those who will go to the kingdom of God must not wear the clothes that only belong to worldly people. God’s people…

Global Leaders Who Save the World

We can watch the World Cup held in Africa live on TV at home. With just one click of a button, we can access real-time news from every part of the world. One sneeze from an infected person can spread a virus to people on the opposite side of the world. If a powerful nation’s financial markets are unstable, it can cause chaos in global financial markets. The 21st century we are living in is truly a global age. National borders are gradually becoming meaningless, and people all around the world are easily able to get together. At this point in time, the world is looking for a supranational leader who is suitable for the global age. A narrow world,…