[Message] Pastor Jung Myeong Seok
[Scripture]Matthew 24:29-44
29 “Immediately after the distress of those days ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
30 Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.
31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
32 Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.
33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.
34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.
41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."
Hallelujah! I bid you the love of the eternal Father God and the peace of the Holy Son.
This is a message that God gave through ‘Jesus, the Messiah’ regarding <the time of the Advent> that was coming in the future. When you look at the four gospels of the New Testament, [you will see that] Jesus said multiple times, “I do not speak on my own. I do not take action on my own.” Like those words, [the things Jesus said] were not words that Jesus said on his own. They were Words that God spoke ‘through Jesus.’
When Jesus was ascending, He said, “When the Holy Spirit comes over you, you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all of Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
As a result of that, the gospel of Jesus spread to the ends of the earth.
The same is true for this time period.
Now, everyone must rise up and be ‘witnesses.’
WITNESSING is testifying about the changes that have happened to you--the grace you have received and the story of how you received salvation. It is also testifying for the time period, and testifying for the Word of the time period.
No one can testify about the grace you have received, so you, yourself must testify about them.
THE PERSON WHO PREACHES receives the biggest fire.
The fire that A PERSON WHO PREACHES receives and the fire that A PERSON WHO LISTENS receives is as different as heaven and earth. That is why now, I urge everyone to be witnesses and to testify.
The core is always the Holy Son, the Lord’s Word. What you need to do is testify and preach with that as the core.
Listening to today's message, I bless that everyone will preach and bring out the working of the Holy Spirit.
