[Message] Pastor Jung Myeong Seok
[Scriptures]
Isaiah 55:8-13
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
Matthew 5:43-48
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven.
He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good,
and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get?
Are not even the tax collectors doing that?
47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others?
Do not even pagans do that?
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
By the Word of God Almighty the life of all mankind,
the blessings and destinies of individuals, churches, nations and the world,
and whether people will be prosperous or not are determined.
People live by thoughts.
If believers fail to live according to God's thoughts,
then they are no different from non-believers.
The reason we say we are different from them is
that we live by our thoughts and we receive God’s thoughts and live by those thoughts.
If we run our life according to God’s thoughts, it will be easy and God will also work with us.
I bless you to turn away from everything that you could not do according to God's Will
and live by God's thoughts instead.
