Take the Good, but Throw Away the Bad
Main Scriptures :
Matthew 13:47-48 “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away.
Hallelujah!
Today, I will deliver the Word with the theme, “Take the good, but throw away the bad.”
◎ Among their possessions, people keep the good things, but discard or sell the bad things. After they have kept various things, they need to tidy up when the time comes, so they discard or sell what is inferior among many things. Then they organize the good items and use them preciously for suitable occasions.
◯ Also, among many religious entities, people take the one that delivers perfect, good messages, and discard the rest.
The Holy Spirit said, “Listen carefully to see what this message is trying to tell you today.”
◯ Religions also newly emerge and gain massive popularity according to the times. In Korea alone, there were dozens of emerging religions and denominations during the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, those religions and denominations gained immense popularity. Providence began evangelizing and expanding our church at the same time as well. That was a time when people were flourishing, too. For the subsequent decades, each religion and denomination prospered.
Afterwards, just as [people] grow old and die, [those organizations] gradually disappeared. Today, the dozens of religions and denominations that thrived at that time have mostly been dissolved, so they have closed their doors and vanished. Only Providence is riding high like a national flag waving in the wind.
◯ Twenty or thirty years ago, viewing rocks and garden stones were immensely popular, so much so that tens of thousands of viewing-rock enthusiasts traveled all over Korea and the world, buying up viewing rocks and garden stones. I, Seonsang, also collected viewing rocks and garden stones one by one as mementos at that time while I did mission work by traveling around the world.
Now, after it was in full swing for a time, [the trend] is gone, and it is now quiet. Only Providence has purchased more in addition to what God has collected as mementos over time, and [He] has allowed a viewing rock museum and a garden stone museum to be aesthetically set up, let [people] view [the rocks], and carried out even greater history.
◯ It has been the same for religions. This means that, in the history of religions also, erroneous religions have all been cleared away, and only the good one, Providence alone, remains to fulfill the new thousand-year history. Through Providence, which flourishes now more than before, God is leading His thousand-year history.
◯ For the religions that taught untruths, their hopes were not fulfilled, and [they] perished as the times advanced. On the contrary, we have taught the absolute truth, so we prosper even more as the times advance. Falsehoods blossomed for a time and vanished, but the absolute truth has produced fruit, and it continues to prosper around the world.
◯ God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus had me, Seonsang, collect viewing rocks and garden stones from about 30 years ago. They recently had me select only the good ones, set up a museum in the Palace of God, and put the rest away. Likewise, as the time has come, God has cleared religions away, leaving only the good one. I tell you that this is what God is doing.
Even within Providence, God has kept only the good people and good things and cleared away the rest. Look at what God is doing. Isn’t this so true?
◯ Providence is indeed like a masterpiece rock that is the best and most expensive among many. Therefore, God and the Holy Spirit, who are the Owners, use [Providence] preciously.
Also, just as God preciously constructed a viewing rock museum
to place precious stones there while displaying large garden stones in His natural museum, God gathers the most precious people of the era into the history of Providence of the time period, into God’s palace, the Natural Temple, and looks at them and uses them preciously. Isn’t this true? He tells [me] to relay this so that everyone will realize [it], so I relay it. Even those who take action will know only if they are told.
◯ Now is the time when God is cleaning up and organizing Providence, religions, nations, and the world. The Absolute God is organizing and tidying up religions, politics, economy, art, what is filthy throughout the world, and those who make ignorant assertions, and He is carrying out the new history according to the time period. Knowing this, [we] must act beautifully and preciously with faithfulness even more.
◯ Religions and denominations of the old times that pursued only popularity have vanished. Only we are expanding and prospering. Among [the people of the old times], there are precious ones who have sought the new era. They find and come to the new era. They recognize Seonsang and Providence, and come. God and the Holy Spirit said, “Just like collecting viewing rocks and garden stones, find those human treasures, teach them well, and value them.”
◎ The present is this kind of a time: People purchased viewing rocks and garden stones at high prices from across Korea and abroad when they were widely popular in the past. Since that time of success has passed and since they themselves are aged and their time has gone, they cannot set up a museum even if they want to because circumstances do not allow; therefore, they are selling those rocks.
◯ Because Providence has received the time of a thousand-year history, the Holy Spirit looks and tells us what is good, so we buy only those that have stories and [God’s] will. Additionally, since we made viewing rock and garden stone museums, tens of thousands of people who follow the time period listen to the stories of the viewing rocks and rejoice just as they listen to the Word and joyfully practice their faith. Religious culture makes art and culture shine splendidly as well.
I am saying that in the history of “Providential life” as well, only we have remained, and we are riding high. You must not be unaware even though you are witnessing everything happening this way.
◯ People of the past era cannot wear the good clothes they have bought because they are aged. Those clothes are for young people, so they buy [them] for next to nothing and wear them. The clothes fit young people of Providence, so they buy them, while people of the old times cannot wear them even if they buy them because they are aged and past their time. Even with rocks and trees, they have used those items, but they are old and the time for them to depart has come, so they are busy disposing of them and leaving the world. Aren’t they like that? This is how the real world is. It is the same for religions. They are busy packing up and leaving the world.
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◯ I send a 40-year-old car to an auto repair shop and have them install new parts to make it like a new car, and I let people ride it. Even though the car is 40 years old, it runs well, so I let everyone get a ride. Don’t they say afterward, “It is a new car”? <Video 1> end
◯ Old faiths must be made anew in order to run further and avoid becoming like scrap cars. If anyone realizes the time period and takes action, they will become convicted about being an owner of the time period and act joyfully, thinking, “So this age is like this.”
◯ If you visit the homes of viewing rock enthusiasts, there are hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of rocks that they bought from Korea* and overseas when viewing rocks and garden stones were extremely popular in the old times. Yet, good stones and precious stones with [God’s] will are rare among them. The age of viewing rocks and garden stones has passed, and now it has become an age of stocks.
{Translation note: Literally, “our country”}
◯ Religion was also like that. Thirty to forty years ago, Christians gathered by 1 million or 1.5 million for assemblies at Yeouido Plaza in Korea, declaring the Lord was coming. Dozens of other emerging religions and denominations also proclaimed, “[We] are making the new history. The one sent by God has come. The Messiah has come.” Now, the times have passed, and it is over for them.
◯ Also back then, during the time of garden stones, everyone made stone gardens in their own way. Now, that time has passed, so it is quiet, and some have already disappeared after being used.
◯ As for Providence, we have built the most beautiful, majestic, and mysterious rock gardens designed by God. Since [we of] Providence are the owners of a thousand-year history, we build [things] radiantly, beautifully, majestically, and marvelously and use them according to God’s will.
In the past, when viewing rocks were popular, I, Seonsang, obtained viewing rocks pertinent to the new era one by one. Now that the time has come, I have selected only the good ones and built a viewing rock hall in the Palace of God. Only the ones that God meaningfully gave [us] for the thousand-year history shine.
Other places have no visitors coming to see [their items], but we have visitors flooding in from all over the world. Only the new history shines. They ran for about 40 years. [But] Providence is a thousand-year history. Therefore, we will go on for a thousand years.
◯ Ordinary cars become junk and come to an end after running 100,000, 200,000, 300,000, or 400,000 km. However, a good car continues to run even after running and racing a million kilometers. Providence is like this. Even after running for a thousand years, it will continue to run at high speed. Yet, it will need frequent reinforcements and supplements.
◯ Cars are made in factories. Viewing rocks and garden stones are in the water, underground, or among grass. Among them, only the good ones are brought and placed naturally in God’s gardens.
People search eagerly for a new history while in the old times,
then they run in their own way where they believe it is a new history,
but because it is not a new history, they continue to search and wander.
[Some of] them eventually come to Providence.
They come as if viewing rocks and garden stones that were searching for their true owner came to Seonsang, the owner of Wolmyeongdong, in 30 or 40 years. Those who were looking for the one sent by God for the new era also meet [him] now and come to Providence, don’t they?
◯ The Holy Spirit said, “See how God acts in a peculiar, marvelous, and wondrous way according to the times. Do you not realize the times are moving like this even though you see and hear? Now realize that I am speaking of reality and likening the times [to these things].”
◎ This is what I saw in a dream. A person who used to live in Seongmak-ri, [below] Wolmyeongdong, had a clothing business in the city. He brought all the clothes he was selling and sold them in Seongmak-ri as well. The scale of the business was very large. The clothes were for young people, and they were diverse.
The villagers of Seongmak-ri had grown old, so there were no clothes for them to buy and wear. Seonsang saw it and thought, “There is no one here to buy and wear them. If any, it would be only Providence people.”
Then, strong winds blew. There was a flagpole set up to promote the business, and as the wind blew fiercely, the store’s flag became clearly visible and shone as it fluttered. The clothes were not blown away.
◯ This was a revelation showing that Providence does not waver in heart and action through any tribulations. Isn’t the wind blowing strongly now? Clothes stand for the righteous acts of the saints.
(Rev 19:8) “It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.”
The higher your level of action, the cleaner and whiter clothes you buy and wear by paying the price with righteousness.
God and the Holy Spirit spoke so that [we] will realize this era.
◯ Just as God created the heavens, the earth, and all things, and makes the earth rotate and revolve according to the time,
He has people act according to the time, and works with them.
◯ I, Seonsang, speak as the Man of Mission of the era.
“Give glory and thanks to God and the Holy Spirit who are peculiar, marvelous, and wondrous. This is what those who are alive and fulfilling history must do. Since you are informed of the work God is doing in this era and since I deliver the revelation God gives now,
give thanks and give glory, rejoicing.” Amen!
◯ The Holy Spirit said,
“For the things that were the hope and that were the cause of deep sorrow throughout the history of the past,
you must use them valuably for decades, centuries, or even a thousand years
by seizing the time and taking action.
Now that you have found the one you sought, it is absolute.
Be perfect and blameless.”
◯ The deep sorrow that Jesus had toward the old era was resolved in the new era. With that sorrow, He worked for 2,000 years, and then he resolved it in the Complete Testament. The things of this era are what were hoped for during the New Testament. God made everything beautiful according to the time. Therefore, [we] must absolutely act with all our heart, will, and life.
◎ Today, God has made you realize this: “Whether it is viewing rocks, cars, or religion, there was a time when each was popular and thriving, but all of them have been cleared away, and only the real ones remain. Only the owners, the people of this era, are doing it.”
With that, the message has been delivered with the following core:
“Now is the time when God is clearing away what needs to be cleared away in Providence as well, and He makes only the remaining, real ones shine brighter.
Also, now is the time to properly put on the strong and shining clothes of righteousness. Wear perfect clothes of righteousness by making your deeds blameless.”
Everyone in Providence should wear more blameless clothes of righteousness, rise, and shine [their] light at this time.
◯ 45 years ago, when those following Seonsang were [only] about 30 to 70 people, they asked, “Teacher, those religious groups are not even real, yet they number in the hundreds and thousands. But why isn’t our evangelism working? When will we become greater than them in number?”
At that time, I said, “There are many fakes, but the real ones are few. There is plentiful iron, but gold is scarce. When the time comes, they will all disappear, and only we will have a tremendous crowd gathering and following. Believe [this], and let’s evangelize quickly.”
◯ Ultimately, just as those words said, only we remain, riding high, 45 years later. Just as it happened when God spoke through Neco, it has happened as He spoke through me, Seonsang.
▶ Reference Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 35:20-27
Things happen in reality just as [ I ] have spoken. You should realize and think about what I said: what kind of a time [it is], and how [it] will turn out.
I bid you the peace of the Lord God and the Holy Spirit.