8월 2008

Persecution and blessings (good and evil)

The standard we must use to judge between good and evil is the Bible (Jn 10:35). The tree of life symbolizes a person in whom God dwells (Jn 15:1-8); the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents a person in whom Satan dwells (Dan 4:20-22).

Repeatedly over the last 6,000 years of biblical history, those who persecute, curse, and murder others are the ones in whom evil spirits dwell; those who bless are the ones in whom God dwells. Physical Israel was persecuted and mistreated by the Egyptians (Exo 1:10-14; Exo 3:9-10).

Calvin's Geneva Council and the Christian Council of Korea

The following article was written to promote a true life of faith for all churches and all believers. I'd like to reflect on the history of Christianity and on the Christian Council of Korea. I'd also like to ask all Christians around the world to distinguish who is right and who is wrong.

What is the true meaning of Calvinism, which has predestination as one of its core doctrines? What are the true identities of the Presbyterian churches and the Christian Council of Korea, which have been founded on the teachings of Calvinism? There are many similarities between the two.

New Testament prophecies and believing when it is fulfilled

Greetings!

To my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ across the nation! Today I would like to share with you something so fascinating that words cannot possibly describe what I have experienced during my recent Christian life. For all these years that I have been going to church and learning the bible, I came to a realization that I was in the dark and have been asleep all this time. Fortunately, I have discovered the hidden treasure and found the chosen prophet that God has chosen and sent to us in confirm!ation to prove that God does exist and his prophecies will be fulfilled regardless of time and circumstances.

This is the only way

I've been a Christian since the first day I was born. My dad was a pastor since I could ever remember so going to church everyday and living at church was normal for me. I became a Christian at first not because I believed that this was the only way but because I was born into it. It wasn't until later that I chose to be a Christian and realized that this is the only way to life. Although I knew that God created us and that Jesus was our savior, I was always curious about the Bible since I was little and most of the time didn't understand what the Bible was talking about. If I asked any of my bible study teachers or pastors they would all just say "HAVE FAITH!" "God will answer all the questions you have when you get to heaven."

How God changed my life

I have been a Christian all my life, however growing up I never really had a clear understanding of the word of God. I clearly remember attending AWANA meetings, bible trivia contests and Friday night bible studies all my life, but I never was able to grasp and understand what the Bible meant. All I knew was that this Bible was a love letter written from God, but never did I understand the content inside the Bible. Growing up, there was never a person who could deeply explain the things in the Bible.

My new life in the Tabernacle of Testimony

Throughout my life I never knew the importance or paid any attention to the word of God let alone the word I was learning. I assumed that if I only confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that Jesus and God are real I would be saved (Rom 10:9). Furthermore, the lack of knowledge in God's word gave me a type of self- gratifying faith in God which ultimately led me to believe in my own human understandings.

The place where God and Jesus are revealing their words to a pastor today

I followed this word of testimony to the place where God and Jesus were revealing their words to a pastor at this time.

I would like this testimony to direct honor and glory to God, with sincere gratitude to those who prayed for me, a second-coming "Pharisee," and helped teach me the Bible truthfully - and ultimately from what was revealed from the one who received the open word. Below is my account: Isa 2:22: "Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?"

Up until three years ago (when I entered SCJ), I trusted in man, in the teachings of man (Isa 29:13), and judged my life upon what commentaries in my Bibles or from what my own family determined to be the truth in God's word. The word had been sealed to me (Rev 5), but with my lips I claimed that I could see and discern the truth from the lies, although I myself believed in lies and endorsed falsehood to others.

A dream and hope for heaven

What I am about to share with you is a part of my spiritual life...I would be spending the whole night if I were going to share the whole story, anyways...

Since I was three, I used to have visions and I used to ask my mom what they were but my mom used to tell me all kids have visions once in a while.

I thought it was very strange but never bothered to pay attention to my visions anymore although they used to appear to me occasionally.

Sometimes I used to see aura behind some people's head but never bother to share my experience with anybody.

God is working in me

I've lived a life so convenient for myself that I was blinded. For 26 years, I blindly followed what was familiar to me and followed the traditions, and in the process became so set on my own way of thinking. To experience and hear something that I have never heard before, was unacceptable to my stubborn thinking. The more I tried to disprove the Word of God with my own logic and my own thinking, the more God revealed to me through His word, that it is not of this physical world that I can explain this but it is that of God, of the spiritual world.

My testimony

Like many Christians I was born into a Christian family. At the age of 5, with help from my mom, I prayed my first prayer to God, asking Him to come into my heart so that one day I could go to heaven. I grew up not attending church regularly, but always having faith that Jesus Christ died for my sins and because of that I would go to heaven and in addition believed that God would always be there for me, guiding me and providing for me so that I could live a good life.

In high school I was very involved with different churches and even taught a bible study in a Christian club. I was very happy in my walk with God and thought for sure that I was following His plan because I was spreading the gospel and having a fun time doing it.

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