Those of You Who Teach and Guide [Others],
First Know [It] Properly, Acknowledge [it], and then Teach Others

Main Scriptures :
Luke 6:39-40 “He also told them this parable: ‘Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit? The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.’”
2 Timothy 3: 13-14 “…while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it…”
Galatians 6:6-8 “Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor. Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the body will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”

Hallelujah!

On the Lord’s Day of this week, I delivered a message with the theme,
“The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come.”

Today, I will give the Word with the theme,
“Those of you who teach and guide [others], first know [it] properly, acknowledge it, and then teach others.”
This is a message that educates especially leaders, so please listen well.

◎ Whether it is something big or small, if it is not done within [God], if you do it without belonging to the eternal God, it will end within the life of your body. Only when you do it while belonging to the eternal God will your spirit exist eternally through your body.

◯ If sand and gravel are not used together with cement, sand and gravel exist just by themselves, and that is the end of it. Only if they are used together with cement do they become houses, buildings, bridges, and roads, which last for the longest time.*
{Translation note: Literally, “forever”}

Likewise, whether it is something big or small, you must do it together with God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord. Only then will it be transformed into something eternal and exist.

◯ Although you live in the world just like [others],
if you do things together with God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord, then your life is made into an eternal life.
Therefore, your spirit is perfectly formed through your body,
and you will fulfill and obtain eternity.
If you live only as the body, [you] will ultimately end as the body.

◯ If you live in a rented place on a long term or monthly lease,
even if you pay money every month for your entire life,
you will still be living in someone else’s house.
[But] if you buy a house with a loan,
although you [have to] pay interest along with a fraction of the principal every month,
you will be living in your own house.

Even if you pay the same amount of money, depending on the method,
you may live in someone else’s house or you may live in your own house. Similarly, even for a person,
if the body believes in God and lives for the spirit,
even if they are [currently] going through suffering,
the person’s spirit goes to the eternal kingdom,
and their body also lives as a person of Heaven on earth.
On the other hand, if the same person does not believe in God,
they live only for the body; consequently, their spirit lives forever as Satan’s possession in the domain of death.
That is their end.

◯ Therefore, you must live serving God and being united with the Lord and the Holy Spirit every day. Then, even if you suffer sometimes, both your body and spirit will live as God’s people; therefore, you will live with eternal life and its hope as your own.
This is the happiest, eternal life for a human being.

◯ Whether a person believes in God or not, they sometimes face suffering and hardship in life just the same. However, if a person believes in the eternal God and lives with the Lord within the Holy Spirit, they will absolutely inherit the eternal kingdom.

The spirit lives the exact same life the body has lived on earth, so according to the way you have followed the time period [while] in the world, your body prospers, and your spirit lives in Heaven or the Golden Heaven. But do you doubt it? No matter who you are, things turn out according to how you act toward God and the Lord within the Holy Spirit. Therefore, there is no reason for you to doubt. There is no need for you to acknowledge or rebuke yourself. Things turn out exactly as what you do. The spirit goes to a location and lives [there] according to the deeds of the body.

◯ [People] live while using the sky, earth, and all things that God created for [them] just like everyone else in the world. But if they live believing in the Word that God gives through the one He sent, their spirits go to the eternal Heaven, and their bodies live a heavenly life in heaven on earth.
On the other hand, if people live without believing in the eternal God and the one He sent, only their bodies live, and then it ends there.

◯ Humans live ignorant lives because they are ignorant. Those who know the eternal world do not live only for the body for even a single day. The brief time of the physical body is created for the eternal world.

The framework made during construction of apartments or various houses is built temporarily for the sake of the construction. In the same way, the body lives a life of framework to make the form of the spirit. When the spirit is completed, the body withers and comes to an end, and you live as a spirit forever.

A single seed is buried in the ground, lives for a few days, and rots. Through that, a new sprout of the grain comes up and lives while bearing fruit.
Human beings also sow with the body and reap as the eternal spirit. Anyone who does not sow for their spirit is like someone who just eats up the seed and ends at that.

◯ Those who live only for the body or only serving idols in the world all end as the body, and their spirits go to Death, the darkness, and exist being tormented forever. In that domain, even though their physical bodies have died, they feel as if their physical bodies are suffering like that, and they regret it forever and ever.

When their bodies lived enjoying pleasures,
they should have utilized all of that to live following God and the Lord.
God created them as well as the heavens, earth, and all things
to let them live for this very purpose.

◯ How great and glorious is a life lived with God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord? Because people do not know this, their spirits go to eternal Hell.
The spirits of those who lived joyfully knowing [it] and believing [in the Trinity and the Lord] live forever in Heaven or the Golden Heaven,
and their bodies enjoy an ideal world in the [earthly] world.
Furthermore, just as their bodies live in heaven on earth, their spirits have gone to Heaven and are currently living the same life.
This is absolutely evident since our bodies are living in that domain right now.

◎ You must be certain about this as you listen to the Word, and live realizing. To avoid doubting yourself, you need to pray and live united
within God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord in the domain of life.

◯ You yourself must be certain to live crying out with certainty.
Those who do not live within the Lord, even after having conviction on their own, should not even cry out and testify. People will doubt after hearing them instead [of believing]. You must preach while living a life full of the Holy Spirit and full of the Word yourself.
Leaders must not make lives diseased while claiming they are saving them. Leaders themselves must first learn perfectly and then testify and teach.

◯ It is to pray daily. It is a life of fulfilling fiery ideals within the Lord and the Word. You should live joyfully, being faithful. Only when someone living that way preaches can they revive a dead faith. They will give lives conviction. A living person saves a dead person.

◯ How do you know that God loves you? You know it based on the fact that He has saved you, He has helped you, and He has given you [things] and so you have gained them.
When you see this and cry out and testify [about them], everyone will acknowledge that God has loved [them], believe it in their hearts, and take action even more on their own.

◯ When you grow weak, [you need] prayer. [You need] the Word. Go to Wolmyeongdong and see how God has worked upon you. God sent the Man of Mission of the time period on earth and built God’s palace. Moreover, in order to help you for a thousand years, He takes His seat and executes [plans]. Since you have been shown, you should look, pray, and love as you loved in the beginning, just like the one God sent.*
{Translation note: Alternatively, “love, as you loved in the beginning, with the one God sent.”}

◯ Those without merits have no strength. You must have accomplishments. Then you will look at what you have done, gain strength from it, have hope, and be strong.

No matter how much God has granted you, if you remain still, your heart is not moved, and you have no strength to act.
Everyone must come to their senses and take action before the Almighty.
Anyone who strives with all their heart, will, and life can rise again.

◎ A person needs to be shocked to take action as a superhuman and thus achieve hope. Ordinarily, even though a person, as a human, has divine abilities, they do not act. Only if a beast chases them do they run, to the point of startling the beast, as if chased by a predator of the animal kingdom. There are times when God wakes everyone up through that. I hope that rather than having a right mind after encountering a beast, you will take action in advance every day and thus live free from the domain of beasts and monsters.

◯ I urge you to take action following me, Seonsang. Do it with me while it is being done. You must not prepare after a war has broken out. You will suffer in every aspect to the fullest; you will die or suffer. You must live being prepared in advance during ordinary times, and so dwell in a completely different domain.

God knows all things, so you must take action following [Him]. Even while suffering from tribulation, difficulties, and pains, those who prepare in advance following God feel gratified even if wind and rain beat down.

◯ Those who bought items before their prices go up feel gratified even if the prices hike. We bought the rocks and trees of Wolmyeongdong; we planted and raised [the trees] before their prices increased. Nowadays, even if you make a hard effort for a whole year to buy a single tree, it is hard to purchase. In the old days, we could easily buy them. Where else do they have large rocks and boulders like the ones in Wolmyeongdong? Where else do they have rocks and boulders with such images, forms, and stories? [We] took action even during suffering and took action before the tribulations; therefore, we are using them so preciously.

◯ I, Seonsang, am walking the path I need to walk according to the times; I am indeed saving lives while setting conditions.
Like Ezekiel, in this era, too, [the Man of Mission] must set conditions. [ I ] must set the conditions for our [Providence], for [my] nation, and for the world as well.

A car carries out only the mission of a car wherever it goes.
A savior focuses only on salvation wherever he goes.
A savior sees only those whom he must save wherever he goes.

◯ If you center on yourself, you can overcome neither suffering nor tribulation.
Haven’t [such people] all served as examples and lessons in Providence history until now?

You ought to take action to the very end. To do that, you must not simply endure but escape from where you are* while putting God’s will into action. Then, you will overcome tribulation, too. Only those who take action even if it is difficult, even if there is hardship, survive.
{Translation note: Literally, “there”}

◯ Through tribulations and persecutions, the outer shell has been formed hard. If you break it open, there are blessings contained inside.

I bid you the peace of the Holy Spirit’s love.

<Seonsangnim’s Chuseok Greeting>
In Korea, the long Chuseok holidays will now start. I will spend the holidays well while praying. I hope you, too, will have a good time with your family members whom you have not seen for a long while. Those of you who have no one to gather with, who are lonely, or who think of me, Seonsang, come to Wolmyeongdong. I told [them] to prepare abundant foods with a lot of care. Eat plentifully until you are full and pray plentifully as well before returning home.