Make Yourself Marvelous
and Use Yourself for God
Main Scriptures : * New American Standard Bible
2 Timothy 2:21 “Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be an implement for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.”
Ephesians 4:22-24 “(that, in reference to your former way of life,) you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.”
{Translation note: New American Standard Bible is used because its wording is closest to the Korean version. For Eph. 4:22-23, the Korean version starts with “you are to rid…”}
Hallelujah!
Today, I will deliver the Word with the theme,
“Make yourself marvelous and use yourself for God.”
<First, I will deliver the introductory Word.>
◎ God said, “Make yourself marvelous and peculiarly wondrous.
If you listen to My Word and put it into practice, you will be made that way.”
If you make yourself with God’s Word to be used by God,
then whatever you do, marvelous and peculiarly wondrous things happen,
and signs occur.
◯ If a machine is made peculiarly wondrous and completely set in a rice-cake mill, a variety of wonderful and pretty rice cakes are made and presented.
Likewise, if a person lives having made themselves marvelous and peculiarly wondrous, everything they do becomes marvelous and peculiarly wondrous.
On the path the person walks, marvelous and peculiarly wondrous things happen even during times of tribulation.
◯ It is the same with me, Seonsang.
Even though I face tribulation on the outside,
on the inside, in fact, wondrous things are happening.
Because they are God’s secrets, I cannot tell you everything.
It is because if Satan and the wicked know, they will block and shatter them.
When developing Wolmyeongdong, too, since I alone knew God’s will, I kept developing it despite going through difficulties. In the end, I have made everything as it is today. If the villagers had known all this, they would not have sold their land, and consequently, it would have been impossible to develop [Wolmyeongdong] like it is now.
◯ Therefore, I tell you, even if you do not know everything in the present, at least believe in the Word of God and follow. This is because God is the one who is at work. Only those who follow will live as co-owners.
<Now, let’s listen to the main part of the message.>
◎ God spoke. “Like mysterious, beautiful, and peculiarly wondrous ornamental rocks, and like works of art that have a variety of beautiful images and forms, make your body, spirit, and heart and take action. If you love Me, God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord, and if you act according to the Word, you will be transformed in a mysterious and astonishingly wondrous way; therefore, signs will take place in your life.”
◯ If you see ornamental rocks with peculiar, wondrous, and rare images and forms, all their weak parts were carved off and worn away in strong currents of water, and only the strong parts have remained. As a result, the images and forms are so intriguing, peculiar, and wondrous. It means that you are encouraged to make yourselves like this with the strong Word of God.
◎ God said, “With My Word, carve all off and discard what is weak in you and your weak faith, weak love, falsehood, unrighteousness, and sin. If you take action in a state where only strong faith, strong love, strong righteousness, and strong truth remain, you will become a rare and peculiarly wondrous person. You will become a beautiful and profound life, a life of masterpiece spirit and body.
“Wolmyeongdong is a museum in its entirety. When looking at the ornamental rocks or paintings in the Ornamental Rock Hall on the first floor of the Palace of God, look at them with this realization. When seeing the rocks and trees everywhere in Wolmyeongdong including the sports field, too, look at them with this understanding. I am telling you to perceive life and realize [about it] through the things that exist.”
<I will show you a new ornamental rock that has been brought into Wolmyeongdong [recently].>
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◯ While looking at this ornamental rock, make up your mind: “Just as this rock was polished by water over a long period and became beautiful and marvelous in form, by carving and making myself with God’s Word, I too will become a marvelous and wonderful life!” This is what you should realize while looking at the rocks, trees, and all things that exist in Wolmyeongdong.
<Video 1> End
◎ The Holy Spirit said, “Realize the inspiration from Me, the Holy Spirit, the working of God, and His thoughts. To realize, you need to pray in the predawn, gain realizations, and act upon the Word. If you act upon the Word of God, you will become a person of marvelous and peculiarly wondrous image and form.”
◯ The more you listen to and act upon the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord, the more marvelous and astonishingly wondrous things happen in various ways. When purchasing the boulders and ornamental rocks in Wolmyeongdong, when evangelizing, when running businesses, and in the midst of your everyday life as well, didn’t you see all the astonishingly wondrous and marvelous works of God and the Holy Spirit that occurred in various ways?
◯ With God’s blessings ahead in the future,
[our] tribulations, sufferings, problems, and all other things, too, will be resolved in truly astonishingly wondrous and marvelous ways.
Even though [we] are running for God’s Will while giving thanks to God with hope, unexpected problems break out, so we are shocked and collapse sometimes. [But] if we press on, saying, “Even so, let’s believe that God is with [us], and let’s live making [our] faith firm and strong,” things that are 10 times or 100 times better take place.
Sometimes God makes what you have been doing crumble down due to tribulation, and through that, He leads you to take a different path, where you gain greater blessings from Him. If you hear those stories, they are peculiarly wondrous and marvelous.
◯ One of the greatest masterpieces of Providence history is the 130-ton grand masterpiece Holy Son Rock that was given by the Holy Son. Please listen to the story of this rock.
◯ You know Malgeo-ri located down the hill from Wolmyeongdong, where a gazebo is built in the current Persimmon-Tree Parking Lot, right? For 14 years, I had prayed earnestly to buy the grassy rice-paddy there, while asking the owner to sell it, but they would not sell it. Thinking, “They’ll sell it if I pray more,” I prayed and prayed, but they would not sell it. They sounded like they were about to sell it, but then they asked an absurdly high price, so we could not acquire it.
While constructing the 3/16 Memorial Hall, we had broken stones and dirt from the site. We wanted to haul down and bury them there, so we made great endeavors to buy [the land], but they would not sell it. Therefore, we had to urgently buy another parcel of land instead. In the end, feeling disappointed, we ended up buying the land in Myeongmak-gol, which is farther from Wolmyeongdong.
◯ On that land, there was a rock on which, I, Seonsang, used to play and pick stringy stonecrop when I was young. I told Pastor Beom Seok, “Let’s dig out that rock in the rice paddy all the way to its bottom, and bury there the dirt and [broken] stones we got from the 3/16 Memorial Hall construction site.” Pastor Beom Seok replied, “That rock is too big. There is no equipment to dig it out. Even if we dug it out, it would be hard to pull and take it up to Wolmyeongdong.”
At this, I said, “Let’s pull it out no matter what, Beom Seok. If a rock is big, it’s good. God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus will help with pulling it up [the hill]. I will help, too. We can pull it by using heavy equipment. Didn’t I tell you before to buy and bring any big rocks you find while going around Korea even if they have no [particular] image or form? Here we have a big rock in our [own] rice paddy, on our hill. It’s given by God. Let’s dig it out no matter what.”
It was when I, Seonsang, was crazy about rocks and loved them. In the end, we lifted the rock with a 500-ton crane, which was the highest-grade equipment among cranes used at construction sites, and moved it to Wolmyeongdong together with the people and with God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus.
<Video 2> Start
◯ One year after moving the rock, they took pictures of this rock and sent them to me. As I looked closely at it, it had images of God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and even the Man of Mission of the time period—all there. It is a grand masterpiece.
<Video 2> End
◯ What happened was that God guided us to where His will was in order to give us something better. He thwarted [the situation regarding] the land we had prayed for, so that we could not buy it. He turned [the direction] to the rice paddy in Myeongmak-gol, where His will was, so that we would buy [that instead]. At first, we said it had to be the land [we wanted first], but in Myeongmak-gol, we dug out the Holy Son Rock from the land and even built a huge parking lot. When the time came, we paved the Holy Son Path in Apsok-gol and built an even better parking lot there, too.
The land we initially tried to buy is actually too narrow to make a huge parking lot like this. Since the size is under 800 pyeong, it would not be feasible to make one like what we have. After that time passed, [the owner] came to sell it. They regretted, “We should have sold it back then…”
◯ The value of the Holy Son Rock is equivalent to the value of pure gold [and] gemstones in the same size. It is an artwork for the millennium history that the Holy Son gave us as a commemoration of completing His work in the earthly world and departing. The Holy Son said, “If you want to see Me, look at this image and remember [Me]. Don’t forget [Me]. “
◯ If you go on the path of God’s will, since it is His own work, how thoroughly would God take care of it? Because people are ignorant, they are disappointed, saying things don’t go according to their [own] will and leave. Then they only fail more greatly and suffer.
◯ People are shocked, as if fainting, when their hope is shattered. If they go all the way according to God’s will, a miracle happens later.
God said, “Only when the time comes is everything fulfilled wondrously. Pray until then. Hold fast to hope. As for Seonsang, he feels, sees, and knows in the spiritual realms as well as the physical realms. Therefore, believe in him and take action following him.”
◯ God gives better things to those He loves. To do that, He thwarts what is ahead so that it will not work out. However, people do not know this and become disappointed seeing just that. God works that way so that things will turn out even better.
With Wolmyeongdong’s Ambition Masterpiece, too, God had it collapse as many as five times to make it even better. Every time we built it, it collapsed. Only after building it for the sixth time did I realize, “God let it happen like this to make it turn out even better.”
God said, “It is the same with all of Providence history, both individuals and Providence [as whole]. Therefore, realize [it] and take action while giving thanks. Only then will you not fall into temptation.”
This is the key point of today’s message.
◯ If what you want does not work out, problems arise, things go wrong, or things fall apart even though you are good to God and the Lord,
it is because God is doing so in order to give you something better and make things turn out even better for you. It is absolutely so.
Therefore, God said, “Seek Me, God, while giving thanks and rejoicing at each time, and seek the Holy Spirit and the Lord as well. If you do not know when I am trying to treat you well, you will end up creating a conflict in ignorance.”
◯ God has worked like this over the past 50 years of Providence history. There were many occasions where God had us set prayer conditions in order to make things go well in the days to come, and then suddenly changed the situation afterward.
Therefore, I encourage you, do not plop down, sighing out of disappointment. You can keep going, thinking, “Even so, God will give me something better.”
– This is how we obtained the pine tree that symbolizes me, Seonsang, a pine that is a great masterpiece measuring four-armfuls in circumference (630 cm). I had expectations in another pine tree at first, but that expectation was shattered. After [ I ] struggled for a year, God gave [me] something even better through a miracle. It is the highest-level masterpiece obtained that way.
– It is the same with the one appointed in place of the other who disappointed [Heaven]. God always gives something better and allows us to use it preciously with Him.
– With a garden stone masterpiece, Wolmyeong Rock, as well, the expectation was shattered the first time, but when I took action despite that, while not being disappointed but giving thanks, we were able to buy it miraculously.
– The Ilyang-gol valley was also acquired as something 100 times better after we sought to buy the area next to a stream at the foot of Mount Daedun but it went awry, and we could not buy it.
– With the blue-tile Palace of God in Wolmyeongdong also, the first plan was shattered, so we experienced disappointment. However, by pressing on again until the end, I received God’s design, and we built it even better, just as it is today, which is far beyond our expectations.
– When I was in my 20s, I used to pray at the area where the suspension bridge of Daedun Mountain is. [One day] the construction of the suspension bridge began, so I could not pray at that location anymore. I was disappointed, thinking, “It’s over now.” At that time, God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus had me move my prayer location to the Yongmun-gol valley of Daedun Mountain. Because of the suspension bridge construction, I went to another location to pray, which was quiet, 100 times better, and closer to home. Furthermore, God has allowed the followers of the era—who would come from all over the world for a thousand years—to see it so that they can go, see, and pray [there], too.
– The same thing happened with Wolmyeongdong, too. I had searched so hard to find a place in Seoul, but no matter how much I prayed, I could not find one. So I was almost disappointed, thinking I had no choice but to hold meetings at a place that is even 500 ri away from Seoul. Nevertheless, I trusted God and strived to the end. When I did so, it turned around completely—from sighs, disappointment, and frustration to the greatest joy and the ideal world of Heaven.
– Also, there was a time when I hurt my right foot while playing soccer. When we were located in Seoul, we would hold gatherings starting in the predawn until the daytime every day. Then one day, while playing [soccer] at dawn, I hurt my right foot. So I played with my left foot, and in the end, I came to play soccer using both feet. I became more skillful, and thus [my team] always won in every soccer game.
– It is similar when we look at the past 6,000 years of biblical history, too. God’s history may have been shattered at the first attempt, but at the second attempt, it was accomplished and thrived.
Because of the first Adam, God’s Will was shattered, but it was continuously restored for 4,000 years. Through Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, and many prophets, [the Will] was made in a better way until the New Testament history was fulfilled with the coming of the latter Adam, the Messiah Jesus.
Within the New Testament history as well, because the world was evil and dangerous, Jesus passed away, so everyone cried, bitterly wept, and wailed. However, apostles arose gradually and took action more.
And now, in the thousand-year history of the new era, Jesus has come again and surely fulfilled the Complete Testament history through me, Seonsang. [This history] will flourish for a thousand years. That is why Providence history has prospered in this way within the lifetime of [the Man of Mission].
◯ If the first artwork does not come out right, it is melted down in a furnace again and a new, hundred times better casting is made. At that time, you must not be disappointed, saying, “It is melted down.” God has always made [things] become better.
◯ Do not be disappointed seeing me, Seonsang, either. Only if you do not stumble on account of me will God fulfill the amazing will He has planned for both individuals and Providence. Seonsang is the one God uses in His history. So then, would God let him suffer a loss?
Therefore, the Holy Spirit said, “No matter what you go through, absolutely rely only on God. Rejoice more, give thanks more, and give glory more. Take action with Me, the Holy Spirit. Do not turn away from Seonsang either but take action in oneness. At this time, he is making you [become] spiritual and thus prosper even more. Since he does [what he does] because there is God’s will, you, too, run zealously.”
◎ Today, I have delivered the Word with the following core: “Make yourself marvelous and be used by God preciously. Do not lose heart just because one thing did not work out. God is the One who makes [things] even better through that.”
◯ God said, “Watch the actions of Me, God, and the Holy Spirit to the end, and do not lose heart.”
At times, when I watched the shattered hope to the end, there were occasions when God intentionally frustrated it. God did that to make [things] go even better within His will. Therefore, God says, “Believe and follow no matter what.”
You must uphold God’s dignity. Since you have [already] received the working of the Holy Spirit, you must not collapse just because you face a situation that is discouraging from your perspective.
◯ I pray that with God’s love and with the Holy Spirit’s powerful work, inspiration, movement of the heart, and peace
you will be healed from the diseases of the body
and the diseases of the spirit,
and your love will be sound and strong.