11-20-2016 Weekly Message

Meditations on this week: Psalm 124: 1-8

Word of God: Psalm 126: 1-6

Message Title: Blessing of those who sow with tears

The Word given today tells us what we should harvest in Thanksgiving every year doing as an event, and what seed we should sow and why we should shed tears and earnestly. In addition, of the eternal blessings of those who sow the  precious seed with tears and finally reap in joy.

Psalm 126 is also a song of decrees. It is a song that people of Israel shall sing with joy as they go up to the temple, when Israel shall be fully restored and they shall occupy the land promised to Abraham, and then the temple of God shall finally be built in Jerusalem.

Four thousand years ago, when the covenant promised to Abraham by God shall be fulfilled, all of them shall be planted in the holy promised land without a single person scattered throughout the world. God spoke through the prophet Amos:

” And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.” (Amos 9:15)

When this word is fulfilled, they  will say it is as  like dream. At that time all the people of Israel will say that everyone will be filled with laughter as one man, and their tongue shall be filled with songs. Then it says that all the Gentile nations will realize that they are God’s people and that they will glorify God that have done the great thing that God has finally done to the covenant given to Abraham.

When the Israelites sinned against God according to the law of justice of God, God inflicted pestilence on the famine and punished them with  sword. God used Babylon, Assyria, Persia, Greece, Rome, and German Nazi Hitler with his sword. After God had chosen them as His people, He caused them to live as slaves in Egypt for four hundred years. He also allowed them to live in Babylon for seventy years, while they were leaving God and serving idols. In addition, when God appeared in the name of Jesus, they rejected Him and finally committed a crime of killing God. After that, God sent General Titus of Rome, and once again he totally destroyed Jerusalem not leaving a on a stone. Moreover, from then on, all the Israelites were expelled and scattered on the all the earth and lived  with despair and disgrace.

Although Israel made it possible to return to the land of promise of Palestine in 1948 with the grace of God, the city of Jerusalem was still occupied by foreign nations. He caused Moses Dayan to rise up to victory in the six-day war, finally taking possession of the eastern side of Jerusalem. But three-quarters of them still live scattered in foreign countries. The place where the temple of God is located is the place where the Islamic temple is located and it is not possible to know when the temple of God that they were looking for will be built.

When God finally restores them fully and the temple of God is built in Jerusalem, they are finally filled with joy, saying that those who sow with tears will eventually reap the reaping of joy. They shall also say that those who go out and cry with the precious seeds will also come back with joy bringing sheaves.

What then is the precious seed that God speaks of? The apostle Peter testified in the Holy Spirit about this precious seed:

” Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.“(1 Peter 1: 23-25)

The Apostle Peter testified, the gospel of Christ’s grace given to the children of God, is a precious seed. However, God gave the people of Israel the precious Gospel through Abraham. It is not corruptible, nor has it given the eternal seed of the gospel:

” In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.“(Genesis 15: 18-20)

God’s awakening led the servants Daniel and Ezekiel to pray with tears as the Israelites were held captive in the land of Babylon. In addition, the servants like Isaiah and Jeremiah, who preached the message of judgment before the captives, held the seed of the covenant promised to Abraham, a precious promise seed, and went out and wept and prayed. In addition, when they were scattered all over the earth from 70 AD to 1948, they tearfully sew  precious seed called Zionism. Even now, God is still using his servants to pray with tears for the restoration of Jerusalem. Psalm 126, which is  given to us today, is preaching and witnessing the day when the Israelites who shed their precious seeds with tears and cried out will rejoice with their joy.

            God has given us a precious seed to the church of God today through his chosen servant Paul. This precious seed is a precious seed given to those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ without discrimination, either Jew or Gentile. The apostle Paul testified about this precious seed:

” For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. “(Romans 1: 16-17)

Apostle Peter testified that this gospel is incorruptible and eternal seed. Just as the covenant given to Abraham in the past is precious seed, in today’s New Testament the gospel of Christ’s grace is the most precious seed. It is a seed that gives life and gives birth to all who believe.

Jesus once again spoke of the seed in the seeded parable:

”  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.  Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.  And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.“(Luke 8: 11-15).

That’s right! Planting seeds and harvesting the fruit. Jesus said that the fruit he spoke of was eternal life:

” Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.  And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.  And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. “(John 4: 35-37)

The seed we have to sow is the gospel of Christ’s grace, and it is also the soul that has everlasting life through the seed we sow. Despite the fact that there is no precious seed other than the one who gives eternal life to man, the apostate churches today seem to be interested only in harvesting the form of the flesh as the old disciples. As we have Thanksgiving Day this year, we once again have to know what a seed is and why we must sow with tears, and we must cry out for sowing. When we stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ in the future, We will enjoy the glory of receiving the crown of joy for the fruits of life with Christ.

Not only the word of the gospel, but all the words of promise given to us are precious seeds. We have to pray shedding tears with endurance holding all the words of  promises of God until those are to be fulfilled.

The apostle Paul testified that the sowing of this precious gospel was never difficult:

” And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.“(1 Corinthians 2: 1-5).

Therefore he testified that those who participated in the Lord’s Supper were worthy to participate in proclaiming the death of Christ.

Amen! Hallelujah!