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4-24-2022 Weekly Messages

Meditation of the Week: Psalm 91:1-16

Text: Song of Solomon 7:10-13

Sermon Title: Do You Know God? Or know just about him?  

         When the Slamite woman was spiritually weak, she said to Solomon, “My beloved is mine, and I am his   ” (Sol 2:16). .When she was matured spiritually, said to him,  “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.” (Sol 7:10).

      These two kinds of confession may not seem like much difference, but in reality there is a huge difference. There must be big difference as heaven and earth in the view of relationship with Jesus Christ among Christians.

       The confession, “My beloved is mine” is a confession from those who today believe that Jesus Christ is the One who always gives what they need even not knowing who is Jesus Christ. They say, “Lord, Lord,” but because they don’t know Him, they are only religious ones that know Him only as a Helper in their need. They call him as the Lord with lips, but in reality, they became the Lord having the Lord  serving for them. 

        The God we must believe in is the God of OMNI POTENT,  God of OMNI SCIENT, and the  God of OMNI PRESENT. Those who truly know and believe in   God  like this will confess, ” I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.“.”

        Through the two kinds of confession of the Shulamite woman, the Holy Ghost is talking about the spiritual condition of two kinds of Christians. However, most Christians today cannot believe in God because they do not know God, so they cannot have spiritual relationships. On Sundays, they participate in the church worship service and say, “I believe in God Almighty, who made the heavens and the earth.” The reality is that it is impossible to know how many people believe that God is OMNI POTENT.

          Christian who has become a child of God by realizing, knowing God as knowing, and believing with all his heart, as OMNI POTENT< OMNISCIENT and OMNI PRESENT  has a life not uttering something negative from the mouth against will of God.  Instead of worry and concern, they will live a life of rejoicing in God, who works all things together for good, always rejoicing, praying without ceasing, and giving thanks in all things (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18). Apostle Paul testified that this kind of life is God’s will for us in Christ Jesus.

        King David, who believed in an almighty, omniscient, and omniscient God, professed his faith in God in his life:

“1  O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.” (Psalm 139:1-8).

         That’s right!  The distinction between a religious person and someone in a spiritual relationship with God can be understood by listening to the words that flow out from their mouth. Of the millions of Jews who had come out of Egypt, none had entered the land of Canaan except Joshua and Caleb. God heard the murmurings that kept coming from their mouths and made them wander forty years to kill them all in the wilderness.

       Noah was the only person who knew who God is and found grace in His eyes. At that time, all the people who were as numerous as the sand of the sea at that time had all their thoughts and imaginations in their hearts evil, and  all of them died in the flood. The Bible tells us that there were as many people as the number of sand of the sea at that time. From Adam to Noah, for about a thousand years, people lived for nearly nine hundred years. The Bible testifies that when Jesus Christ establishes the thousand-year kingdom on earth, the lifespan of a person will be like that of a tree. The Bible tells us that in a thousand years, how many people on this planet will be  like the sand of the sea. Apostle John testified of this

“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.” (Revelation 20:7). -8)

         Jesus spoke of what the world will be like when he returns:

“For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Matthew 24:38-39).

          The Lord spoke of them to eat and drink until the day of entry into the ark that is Jesus Christ, that is, until the day of the rapture, while only focusing on fleshly things, even those who claim to be Christians who have no interest in God’s Word as in the days of Noah. All of them became one, and the thoughts of the heart and the imagination became an evil image in the sight of God.

The time has come when sincere Christians who abiding in the Lord cry about the rapture, the coming Antichrist, and the judgment of the Great Tribulation as a joke. When Lot, who lived in Sodom, heard that Sodom was going to be judged by fire right away, all of them thought it a joke. It became a fact that everyone in the world knew that they was judged with brimstone fire that night. Even if we cry out, it is heartbreaking to see that most people, including even Christians, are living as slaves to their livelihood.

         The time has come to remember the warning message of Apostle Peter:

“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: ” (2 Peter 2:4-9)

          Some of the most important words of Jesus Christ in his last prayer is:

 “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 17:3).

        Only those who know the true God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit can become the bride of Jesus Christ and confess, “I am yours!” Apostle Paul testified that such Christians are children of God. These Christians are the ones who are so blessed that the Lord’s things are theirs:

” The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (Romans 8:16-18).

          The Christians who are one in the Holy Ghost with God shall not bear wild grape as the people of Israel did as testified by the Prophet Isaiah (Isa. 5:4). They are to bear true grape with scent of Christ. Sulamite woman  spoke unto Solomon to go to vineyard to find tender grape as well as pomegranates and the mandrakes giving smell. Yea! The Christians being one with Christ shall bear fruit of the Spirit to please him and glorify him as well.

Amen! Hallelujah!