Know, Act, and Preach Thoroughly and in Precise Detail

Main Scripture :
<Matthew 5:48> “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Hallelujah!

Today I will deliver the Word with the theme, “Know, act, and preach thoroughly and in precise detail.”

◎ Just as portrait artists draw lines without a single millimeter of error, the Almighty God acts without being off by a single second. God acts right on time, just like a clock. He never acts one second early or one second late.

◯ However, after waiting to the end of the 2,000 years of the New Testament era, expecting Jesus’ body to return at the appointed time,
since he has not come,
Christianity says, “Jesus’ return has been delayed. He could be a little late. He is not coming because people have not repented and we are not prepared.”
They judge and speak about God’s will in whatever way they like. They are ignorant.

God has always worked without missing a single second. Even so, those who do not know, do not know.

◯ Even though God works with a great will upon the earthly world,
at first only the one who acts as His body knows it,
and then gradually only those who follow him come to know.

In the time of Jesus as well, only those who followed him knew
that the New Testament history had begun.
Others did not know and spoke however they pleased.

In the New Testament era, God sent the Messiah Jesus for the whole world. However, even though Jesus preached the New Testament gospel,
only the chosen nation, Israel, knew about it.
Even within that nation, only the small number of people who followed Jesus, learned his words, believed in him, and loved him, knew.
Others, even though they saw him, did not know at all
whether he was the Messiah or a leader who taught religion.
It took about 1,800 years for that gospel to spread through Asia and reach Korea. Even after it spread [to Korea] in that way, only those who heard [the gospel] and followed, knew.

◯ Whenever the gospel is preached,
only those who hear it and absolutely believe in and follow him know that
he is the Man of Mission of the time period sent by God.
[People] receive blessings and prosper only as much as they believe in him.
Those who do not know perceive [things]
as if looking only at the top layer of rice in a jar
and assuming that the whole jar is full of rice.
You will know what is true only if you look inside.
As for the absolute truth and the Lord,
the more you look at them, the more clearly you come to know them.

◯ Untruth and those who are false are like a piece of paper that is blank on the front but covered with writing on the back.
The Holy Spirit said, “Look at both the front and the back, and look at the inside as well. You will not be deceived only if you look at the inside.” People are deceived because they look only at the front and say it is right. To distinguish untruth, you must look at the front and back, the outside and inside, all the way to the end.

◯ Erroneous religious people live with perceptions of fantasy. Their religion is a world of illusion.
You will not be deceived only if you look at the alpha and the omega,
from the beginning to the end, from the start to the finish.

Erroneous Bible interpretation is the same. On the outside, it appears correct. However, [you will see] it is not correct if you look at [their interpretation] at a fundamental level and interpret [the Scriptures] spiritually.
Because they interpret [the Bible] physically, it seems right on the surface.
When you look at the root and interpret it spiritually, [however,] it is not. Much of God’s Word, which belongs to the spiritual world,
was spoken regarding the spirit.

Falsehood also seems correct on the outside, but the inside is false.
That is how they deceive. If you check the inside as well, you will not be deceived. In some cases, the outer image and form appear genuine, just like the real thing. However, you come to know it is not genuine because the quality is different and it gives off a [foul] odor.

◯ The deceivers, those who are false, deceive by coloring the outside and fabricating it as they speak. They deceive by disguising their words and appearance. Therefore, you cannot tell just by looking at the outside. Ultimately, [their true identity] is revealed through [their] actions. So you must look not only at the disguised appearance but watch how they act while in disguise. When you observe their actions, their inner nature will be completely revealed.

◯ God brings falsehood to light. Falsehood is not fulfilled according to its deception. Their intention is to deceive and then vanish, but God, with justice, deals with them* according to their deeds, like sending a garbage truck to collect, haul away, and burn up trash.
{Translation note: Literally, “does it”}

◯ The truth may look rough on the outside, but in fact, it is right.
Even if people curse, slander, and disapprove of God’s true history,
it is revealed to be the true history
because it is a world that God works upon.
Because it is the true history, it is eternal.

For example, let’s suppose that a plastic [item] is made using stone.
No matter how much people speak ill of it, saying it is not stone,
because it is made from stone,
the characteristics of stone are evident and permanent.*
I am saying that God’s history is just like that.
{Translation note: Literally, “eternal”}

◯ No matter how fiercely a great typhoon-like tribulation may blow,
God’s true history is not blown away. Rather, it is the slanderers that are blown away. That is how we know they were false.
Those who deceived and fabricated things using [words] that go against fundamental principles will all be exposed and receive God’s judgment. However, even when they are judged, they are judged while their bodies, minds, thoughts, and spirits are in an erroneous state, so they still do not know God’s history.

◯ In this way, God does not just leave [things] alone.
He carries everything out clearly, thoroughly, and flawlessly.
People just live thinking as they please according to their ignorance.
Those who know have passed through such phases, and therefore know it all.

◎ Those who know must be firm and strong.
Even when the whole world hated and disowned me, Seonsang,
God made my heart even stronger.
The whole world said this history was wrong, but it was those false words that were blown away instead, as if by a typhoon.
Therefore, only “the rock and deeply-rooted tree” remain, shining more brightly and standing out even more.

◯ Even though the wicked and those who are envious and jealous
do all kinds of outrageous things [against us],
because they are false, they cannot endure beyond a limit,
and they come to an end at their limit.
Evil is the number 6, and good is the number 7.
Therefore, the wicked go only so far and vanish at the end.

◯ All those who spoke ill of me, Seonsang, while I was growing up only acted [that way] for a brief while during those years and then they disappeared. Most of them have died and are no longer in the world.
I, Seonsang, have carried out God’s will
on a family level, national level, and worldwide level.
Through tribulations, I came to be even more absorbed in God’s Will and purpose only.
Also, I went to places that I could not have gone to, if there had not been the tribulation. I preached the gospel there, and had the salvation history of the gospel begin there as well.

Some of those who spoke ill of me are still alive and now witness today’s Providence and the work I do. They now acknowledge me, but they cannot follow because they are too old and weak.
However, those who shared in the suffering with me and took action with joy even in the midst of tribulation
live receiving heaven on earth,
and receiving the Golden Heaven in heaven as their inheritance.
{Translation note: Literally “on earth”}

◯ The wicked and satans pour out evil upon the righteous, but at the fork in the road, they follow the path of death according to their deeds. Since their paths are determined according to their actions, the wicked and the righteous can never meet until the end of their lives. Wherever the righteous go, they work serving God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord as well as holding feasts of love with them.

◯ This is something that happened when I attended a church in the former faith. The main leader of the church in Seongmak-ri, which was my home church, was a senior preacher who came from another region to lead [our church]. He was very harsh toward me, Seonsang. He looked down on me for not having graduated from a seminary and for living in the countryside. Based on his own misunderstandings and wrong knowledge, he admonished me. Even though I told him it was not so, he continued to act that way.

I had come to deliver the Word of the era to everyone, including that minister, but since he would not listen to my words, I thought something terrible would happen if I let him be. So I fasted for him, and I prayed for all the church members.

◯ Then one day, before the Wednesday service, the electricity at the church went out. The minister gathered with church members and tried to climb up an electric pole. He said he would reset the circuit breaker that had tripped. I told him he must absolutely not climb up, even if it meant not holding the service. But he said it was okay, and he joined with other church members and climbed the electric pole. Even though I begged him, “Please don’t go up! If you do, you will die,” he treated me according to his usual perception of me, saying, “What do you know?” Still, I urged him, “Do not climb up in person. Use a long pole,” and I fetched a pole for him. Even then, he did not listen to what I said.

◯ Ultimately, he climbed the pole and pushed up the breaker, and the power came back on. However, as he was coming down, there was a “snap!” sound, and he dropped to the ground. His foot was caught on a high-voltage power line of over 3,000 volts. Even though God told him through me not to climb up, he ignored me and did not listen to my words, and that was the outcome. He treated me as he always had, perceiving my faith as wrong.

◯ The thick smell of burning flesh filled the air. They rushed [him] to the hospital, but electricity continued to course through his body, causing him to scream. He was transferred from the hospital in Geumsan to another one in Daejeon. Even then, he did not recover. But after I visited him and prayed for him, his condition began to improve. At that time, God acted through me once again. The Holy Spirit said, “Drain [some] blood from the tip of his hands and feet,” so I did. Remarkably, he said his body, which had been aching and tingling, no longer hurt.

I asked him, “God was telling you so earnestly through me to not climb up, so why did you climb?” He said, “I was foolish,” and repented. The hospital said that they would monitor him and that he might need brain surgery. However, after receiving my prayer he recovered and was healed without [needing] brain surgery. After that, I never saw him again. At that time, this incident became a mirror for all the members of the Seongmak Church. Only after suffering did their perception change a little bit.

◯ In this way, I, Seonsang, came to guide everyone to God and Jesus by delivering God’s Word of this era. Nevertheless, the former faith church of Seongmak-ri, which followed that minister and acted alongside him, continued to live by the doctrines of the old era and walked an erroneous path. Ultimately, now, most of them do not even attend church.
I built the church building for them with the money I earned in Vietnam, the money that was like the compensation for [my] blood, but now it has become an empty church.

◯ Since I am the bride of Jesus, God built a church in Wolmyeongdong. In the village where I alone resided, 700 people attend the service [now]. This sounds like a legend, but it is reality. This is what God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus have done. [Members] from all over the world wish to come all the way to this church and offer service [to God]. In the future, as many as 10,000 people will offer service at the church in Wolmyeongdong. Even now, not everyone can fit into the 3/16 Hall during a large-scale service, so we hold service in the lawn sanctuary, don’t we?

God said, “Do not be someone who sees and hears the history I am carrying out yet still does not know.” If a person is unaware even though Jesus fulfills for them the promises he made in the New Testament, and even though I, Seonsang, fulfill for them what I promised, such a person is a fool. Expanding this, [God] gives a lesson to all people of the former faith of this time period.

◯ God is carrying out His Will in Providence in this era. The former faith, the old era, is like the Seongmak-ri church. The old era does not know that God has started a new era. This is because they do not follow the times but instead slander together with [others]. In this way, when people do not know, they fail, and they weep bitterly in the old times. Providence history is the thousand-year history, which will be eternal. [People of] Providence will live serving God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus for a thousand years. Amen.

◯ God sends the Man of Mission, gives the Word through him, and then carries out the new history of the new era together with those who follow him.
God is with the old history as well, so that they will live as the old history. However, He carries out history while setting the core in the new history.
As time goes on, the new history will grow bigger and bigger. Ultimately, the nation and the world will become like the symbol.

◯ This is what God and the Holy Spirit say: “An earthenware vessel that collides with a rock will break. It is the same in this era. If [people] kick the rock that is appointed as the symbol, only those who kick it will be hurt. He conquers and conquers.* Those who fight against him are satans and wicked ones. Those who are with him go to Heaven; those who try to act alone and win [on their own] go to destruction.”
{Translation note: Literally, “wins and wins” or “overcomes and overcomes,” but this Korean phrase is found in the Book of Revelation, and the corresponding English phrase is “conquers and conquers.”}

◯ We should fight the good fight with this gospel and thus destroy evil into death. Only the truthful ones who take action together with him will overcome the world solely with what remains. Providence history will be everlasting and definite for a thousand years. This is because we proclaim the absolute truth. The thousand-year history is God’s work. We just need to follow along.

◯ Those who are still waiting for the thousand-year history live having lost the times. We also once lived in the old era, so we know their lives. When people do not know, they are truly pitiful. They live only with the hope of receiving the new history and then die.
I, Seonsang, think, “Even though I let them know, they only slander. So they cannot be helped. They are people who should not utter things about* me, but should lament for themselves,” and I just walk on the path of God.
{Translation note: Literally, “for me”}

◯ Since God is with him, he is true, and therefore he triumphs. Because he is light, he drives away darkness and ignorance. Just as Seonsang’s side always wins when playing soccer, God has predestined the good side, God’s side, to win absolutely. [The one] will win in the same way.

Falsehood is like something [wrapped] in paper and colored only on the outside. That is why you will be deceived again and again if you look only at the outside. When God judges with a flood, all falsehood is washed away while only the righteous, clean ones, remain and shine.

Those who follow falsehood and untruth are also like those who built their houses on sand. So when the monsoon rain falls and the flood rises, they are swept away and lament. Through this, [it] becomes cleaner, too. Since things become cleaner through God’s judgment, those who remain live with greater joy.

◯ Those who attack God’s side are like people who smash their heads against a rock, so it is only they who are shattered, fall away, and come to an end. This is what happens to anyone who attacks the one who is with God. God and the Holy Spirit always act together with the one They sent. They discuss the world with him. Afterward, they make things happen according to that* will.
{Translation note: Alternatively, “his will”}

If a bee that is being raised misunderstands the beekeeper and stings them out of anger, ultimately, the bee itself will waste away and die. We must know this and go on with patience.

◯ The one who is sent always acts together with the One who sent him. Therefore, you must act together with him in order to win. Those who do not truly take action with him will end up on a separate path at the time of tribulation and judgment.

God said, “He gathers and scatters with Me, God. You must gather and scatter with him. Problems will be resolved when the time comes. Therefore, always be vigilant and do well in the present reality.” It is a life of communing and living with God and the Holy Spirit only.

◎ By the heart, people receive salvation and go to Heaven. In this way, people live by their hearts. Anyone whose heart dislikes God and does not believe cannot go to Heaven. This is a definite statement that applies to everyone in the earthly world.

◯ Even if God has definitely chosen you, if your heart dislikes Him and does not believe in God, it is over. God says there is nothing He can do about it. For His part, God has done everything throughout your life to enable you to believe in Him. He created the earth for you to live on, He has saved you from death, and He has always helped you. If you do not believe in and love Him despite that, even God cannot help it.

◯ With all things in the world, there is nothing that is achieved without working hard. You must believe in God, work hard, and take action. Only then will your spirit go to Heaven and your body also prosper.

Every body [living] in the earthly world grows old, becomes sick, and fades away over time, but the spirit of the spiritual world is eternally definite. Therefore, compared to the spiritual world and the spirit, the physical world and the body are like mayflies that live for one day. Therefore, even if it is difficult, we must go on the path of life.

◯ Those who know the spiritual world of Heaven or Hell, and those who know their future do not live solely for vain physical pleasures and ideals. Those who have lived only for the physical world have prepared nothing for the spiritual world; therefore they go to spiritual realms of nothingness.

◯ In the world, only those who know something do it. In the same way, only those who know the spiritual world take action for the spirit. Because [people] do not know the spiritual world, they only research in order to make the body live long. No matter how much they research, the body grows old every single day like the sun setting. Compared to the life of the spirit, a hundred-year life of the body is merely a moment. The life of the spirit lasts longer than trillions, hundreds of trillions, and thousands of trillions of years, and the spirit lives forever with God. This statement is eternal.

Only those who know this and act on God’s Word will live with God. Because “he” lives while seeing it clearly, he knows and tells you. God always lets him know that world and has him testify about it. The root and foundation are solely the Lord God and the Holy Spirit.

◯ You must take action with faithfulness to obtain an eternal spiritual inheritance. Only then will it become yours forever. The Holy Spirit said, “Take action limitlessly for [your] spirit.”
If you do, you will live in heaven, starting even from this world. And you will reach the Golden Heaven as much as you believe in and love God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord.

◯ Only those who take action know, and they live with joy in spite of suffering. It is the joy of knowing God and loving Him extremely, and it is the joy of living together with God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord every day. If you do a little and believe a little, only a little will be achieved.

◯ The Holy Spirit said, “If you want not only your spirit but also your body to live as heavens, your spirit, heart, and body must all live united with God. What you have done up until now is less than you think. On the other hand, what God has prepared for you is truly immense. He will give [it to you] only if you have done the basics. So hurry and take action.”

Even if God and the Holy Spirit buy us ornamental rocks, garden rocks, or trees, we can obtain them only if we pay at least the basic prices. Likewise, you yourself must pay the basic price—do the basic actions—to enter Heaven.

◎ For the wicked who torment the righteous and act maliciously, God has already pronounced His sentence according to their deeds. The wicked inflict suffering upon the righteous and the world and they say they have fulfilled their wishes. However, in reality, their spirits have gone to Death. Nevertheless, the righteous pray, asking, “God, why do You leave the wicked alone?” Things are not resolved only if the wicked die and disappear. Only after their physical bodies receive the punishment for their sins and suffer fully do their spirits go to Death. This is because since the body sinned, the body must be punished for the sin.

It was the same with King Saul. God condemned both his spirit and body for the sin of tormenting David. Consequently, Saul’s body suffered and died as the price for his sin. Furthermore, his spirit went to the spiritual world to suffer eternally.

◯ God regards those who torment the righteous sent by God as those who torment God. [Dealing with] the wicked is a matter that God handles as He sees fit.

The righteous, on the other hand, must genuinely pray for their enemies and everyone else. As the righteous, you should pray for anyone. This is so that you will not be judged with them.

The righteous must do the deeds of the righteous. That is ultimately a righteous life that saves yourself.
God said, “Do not think narrowly but live while thinking about the whole.”

◯ If the good fight with the wicked because the wicked torment them, they cannot go their way. So the good must not fight but focus only on serving God and following along with all their heart. You must never fail to go your way because of evil.

◯ Lastly, God speaks. This is the core of today’s message.
“I, God, speak through the Man of Mission, so listen.
The true history is eternal and becomes clearer the more closely and thoroughly you look at it. Distinguish the old era, erroneous religions, and the true history. If you misunderstand and disregard [the true history], you will suffer accidents, and serious trouble will result. The old era and erroneous religions always treat those who fulfill God’s will of the new times as a cult. Satan acts through ignorant bodies. I tell you, do not fight with the wicked, but treat them absolutely with goodness, and follow only God’s Will. Leave the wicked to Me, and only pray as righteous people. The physical world has limits and is empty, but the spiritual world is eternal. Therefore, live for your spirit with your body.”

◯ I bless that you will deeply engrave the Word spoken by God and the Holy Spirit and put it into practice. I bid you the peace of the Holy Spirit’s love.