[Message] Past Jung Myeong Seok
[Scriptures] Genesis 22:2, Isaiah 45:23
Hallelujah! I bid you the love of the eternal God and the peace of the Holy Son.
People build houses and even buy land in the places with stories. They also love, marry and live with the people who have stories.
The omnipotent God, the Holy Spirit and the Holy Son set a purpose in the place that has a story and a Will and they work toward that [purpose] through the physical body of the person who has a story with Heaven.
Abraham was going to offer his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice to God on Mt. Moriah. That was Abraham’s absolute faith and obedience toward God. God accepted his absolute faith. And through King Solomon, Abraham’s descendant, God caused His temple to be built in that place with the story of Abraham’s absolute faith and obedience.
Also, on the path Jacob traveled heading for his mother’s relatives’ home after receiving God’s blessing, there was a place where a gate of Heaven opened up and angels climbed up and down, and Jacob built a stone altar and prayed there. In that place with a deep story, Bethel Church was built. That location became a place where they loved and worshipped God, so a history of deep stories was made there.
Also, in the New Testament, centering on the Messiah Jesus, they made history by preaching the gospel, and also built temples in the places that had deep stories with God, the Holy Spirit and the Holy Son; so their descendants served and gave glory to God there.
In this way, God, the Holy Spirit and the Holy Son carry out a history with a story in the place with a story with the person the Trinity love and his followers.
The story of how you wept and called out to God in the past, the story of how you earnestly asked for and sought the truth and the right path, the story of how you looked up to Heaven, believing that God existed, the story of how your ancestors or parents prayed for their descendants to succeed, the story of how you lived in the former faith believing in Jesus and loving him, the story of how you lived in the world wondering whether a person could fulfill the purpose of his life by eating well, living well, going to a good school and getting a good job, and felt the emptiness of life and sought the Divine Being, God chooses people who have stories and calls them to this history.
If you forget or do not think about your own story, and if you do not know the value of it, you will end up going your own way. Therefore, by listening to today’s message, I urge you to not forget the stories of the past and the stories of the valuable relationships you built with Heaven. By doing so, I bless you to make God’s great history of stories! By doing so, I bless you to make God’s great history of stories!
<Pastor Jung Myeong Seok’s sunday message summary on August 16, 2015>
