[Message] Pastor Jung Myeong Seok
[Scriptures]
John 5:24
Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
1 Corinthians 15:50-53
50)I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51) Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--
52) in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53) For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
16) For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17) After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Hallelujah! I bid you the eternal love of God and the peace of the Holy Son.
If you look at one of today's scriptures, John 5:24, it says this about resurrection:
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life
and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.”
Resurrection is
‘the <spirit> transforming along with [the body] by the <body> believing in God and the Messiah and listening to and taking action on that Word, and so coming out from the domain of death into the domain of life.’
‘It is not ‘a dead corpse’ that comes to life.
‘When a person who was dead in the domain of death comes to life in the thoughts and actions of their bodies along with their soul and spirit by listening to and taking action on the words of the Messiah, who is sent by God, and by believing in and loving God, they are said to have ”Come to life. Became resurrected.”
Now is the time of <the rapture resurrection>. It is the resurrection of becoming the Holy Trinity's bride, the ultimate resurrection that will never happen again.
Just as when cooking rice, you cook until the rice is completed,
just as when putting on makeup, you do it till it is finished,
just as when eating, you eat it completely,
just as when putting on clothes, you dress until the end,
we also must live the ‘life of the rapture’ while listening to the applicable Word everyday and taking action till the end.
We still have many parts to be resurrected.
we should resurrect ourselves from giving up on ourselves, from our character, in being thankful, loving the Trinity and the Lord, and rejoicing and celebrating.
Today, which is the Resurrection Day,
by giving thanks and rejoicing for being given the <joy of the rapture resurrection>,
without holding back and without regrets, let’s give glory of love to God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son!
