1. Become One with God

2. Only God

Main Scriptures :
Ecc. 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…
Ecc. 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
John 15:4-5 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

Hallelujah!

On the Lord’s Day of this week, I preached with the theme, “Although the good time period comes, [only] those who have taken action on time receive it.”

Today, I will deliver the Word with the theme, First, “Become one with God,” and second, “Only God.”
I bless that all of you will realize the time through this message and become one only with God.

◎ When the One-and-Only God descends to this earth, chooses a savior to send to the world, makes him His body, and works [through him],
it is just like grafting a true persimmon tree onto a wild persimmon tree.
Also, those who receive salvation believe in the savior and live being united with him,
that, too, is grafting a true persimmon tree onto a wild persimmon tree.

◯ History works the same way.
The old history becomes one with the new history. This is like grafting.
For an individual as well, discarding things of the old and taking action being united with the new is like being grafted with the new. It is like cutting down a wild persimmon tree and grafting a true persimmon tree onto it. This is, in other words, “resurrection” or “being born again.”

◯ You should always discard the old that has already been used and do things with the new. Every day, you should throw away what has already been used and do things with the new. It is those who have discarded the old that seek the new.

History, too, is a new history. It is the new history of the Almighty and All-knowing God. The old have passed, just as yesterday has passed.
You should use new hours every day,
and receive the new Word, relay it, and put it into practice.

◯ History moves forward divided into days, months, and years, just like a clock or an era. A life that only repeats itself even though time has passed has no progress.
Even though the time for the history of the old era has passed,
people of the old era only continue to live the life of the old era.
In the new era, God works absolutely according to seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years just as the Earth rotates.
You must meet the model figure, the savior, of the new time period. Only then can you follow the history of the new time period.

◯ When farming, if you do not pick and eat cucumbers at the right time, they become overripe old cucumbers, so you cannot eat them.
There is a time for everything under heaven.

God’s time is passing. The one God sent is a human, so he is always visible.
You must listen to God’s Word through him and follow. Only then can you follow God’s Will according to the time.
Only then can you abundantly gain in due time what God has prepared,
and you will take action following the new history.

If you do not follow the time, you will become poor in faith, and your physical body also will live in poverty. You must follow the time well for your life to go well.

◯ The one whom God sent to save the world is “the time.” God sent him in according with the time of His history, and God works, holding onto him, absolutely in accordance with the time, just as the Earth rotates.
The one sent does not act on his own, but carries out things of God according to the will of the One who sent him at each time and in each age.
It is the model history; it is the exemplary history.
God advances while fulfilling and executing everything through him.

◯ God’s time runs like a clock. God said, “Look at a single day.”
The dawn, morning, afternoon, and night—these times run like a clock.
If you miss the time, it will pass by as you fail to do [things].
Some people miss the time, so they cannot do what they must do in the present. Some people seize the time, so they quickly complete what they could not do before and then move on.

◯ There are things that can never work because you missed the right time.
If you have missed the time, you must take action on your own for your existence. You must seize the time and act. Only then will complicated matters disappear.

These are the words of God and the Holy Spirit.
“If you do not follow the time, you cannot gain.
Be diligent.
You must not align with your own time.
Act according to God’s time of natural law.
Always act together with the Holy Spirit and the Lord.”

◎ God leaves those who act in their own way to do whatever they wish, and after they are done, He judges them thoroughly for good or evil.
God certainly brings down the Tower of Babel humans [built]. *
{Translation note: Alternatively, “… brings down human Tower of Bable”}

◯ If someone who is not the owner acts, the owner rebukes [them].
If someone acts because the owner instructed them [to do so], the owner praises them.
The Holy Spirit said, “If you want to see their actions, leave them alone to act. God judges only after seeing all their actions.”
At times, God also destroys the wicked when they are on their way to harm the righteous.

◯ These are the words of God. “Acknowledge only Me, God, and act. How can humans fully fathom Me, the Almighty God? It is easy if you believe, acknowledge, and follow. Since I am invisible, I work by sending a model figure. Therefore, take action, being united with him. The one who knows must act; who else would do it? The one who knows is the Man of Mission. Always act together with him.”

◯ The Almighty God does not try something twice; He completes it at once.
For example, if a farmer wants to feed wild birds, he does not gather up all the fallen ears of grain scattered on the ground when harvesting and farming. He only gathers what has gone into the threshing machine.
He does not gather everything including fallen ears of grain, and then fetch them in order to scatter them for the birds, saying, “Eat.”

◯ God’s working is like this in all things. Look at how God raises the birds flying in the air. He has people love the birds and feed them, and He creates wild fruits so that they can pick and eat them to live.
He cares for people in the same way.

▶ Reference verse: Matthew 6:26

◯ It is your own treasure. Therefore, you alone value it and delight in it.
This is the same for people and all creation.
God created everyone and everything with individuality, and He prevented them from fighting by letting them like things according to their individuality.
It is the same for the treasures given by God and the treasures given by the Holy Spirit.

◯ If someone views [a person who is like] a block of gold as [a person like] a block of silver,
that person also treats the viewer only as silver.
Everything in the world is like this.

God does the same. The Almighty God exists, but He treats people according to their faith and according to how they treat Him.

The one who holds life is the best. Life cannot be exchanged even for the entire world. God, who helps and saves life, is the greatest.
One who is saved by God both in body and spirit is someone
who is shown the greatest grace.

◯ If a person acts leaving this God,
their action becomes that of demons and devils.
If a person acts within God, it is an action taken according to God’s will.

A person is named according to how they use their body.
If a person uses [their body] for idols, [what they do] is an act of the idols. If a person uses [their body] for shamanism, [what they do] is an act of shamanism.

◯ The Holy Spirit said, “If [you] use [your body] for God, [what you do] is God’s action. The same is true for all creation.
According to how it is used, the action is defined, judged, and determined to be sin or righteousness.
Use your body as a body and heart that God takes delight in. If you do, [you] become God’s body.
Creation and people all are named according to how they are used.
Everyone, be used as God’s.”

◯ When your physical body dies,
even if everything under the heavens belongs to you,
once you close your eyes, everything ends, and all you have is your spirit.
However, the things you offered to God before departing [the world] are already placed as precious things in your home of the spiritual world.
This is how the spirit takes [things].
Physical things disappear like clothes, bones, and flesh,
but spiritual things exist exactly with their original forms and images in the spiritual world because God allows it.

◯ Just as a person, who is moving, packs everything up and goes,
God has thoroughly completed all the work of history up until now.
God has done everything He needed to do in Providence as well.

◯ Because humans do not know, they are in agony even while following God’s will. Even if you are advancing knowing God’s will, difficulties rise, but you [just] need to overcome them.
God must fulfill His will; therefore, He definitely accomplishes it.
Satan and demons cannot fulfill their will.

◯ A person comes to ruin because of their own actions.
Using the same person, God fulfills Heaven, but Satan fulfills Hell.
A righteous person takes an unrighteous person, has them transformed, and forms Heaven, but a wicked person forms Hell even with a good person.
As long as evil does not change, it turns existing things into evil and makes and uses people, too, as evil.
Therefore, you must remain on the good side of God until the end.

◎ Today, I delivered the Word by saying,
“Know God’s time and live becoming one only with God.”
I hope you will know that although the time comes,
only those who receive it become the owners of that time,
and I hope that all of you will realize once again about this present time
and seize the opportunity.

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