Please open the Song of Solomon chapter
4:1-7 4:1 “Behold, you are fair, my love! Behold, you are fair! You have dove’s
eyes behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, going down from Mount Gilead .
Our teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep which have come up from the washing,
every one of which bears twins, and none is barren among them. Our lips are
like a strand of scarlet, and your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your
veil are like a piece of pomegranate. Our neck is like the tower of David ,
Built for an armory, on which hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty
men. Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle, which feed among
the lilies.
Verse 9, “You have ravished my heart, my
sister, my spouse.”
Yes, in verse 7 it says, “You are all
fair, my love, and there is no spot in you,”
Song of Solomon 7:1-9 “How beautiful are
your feet in sandals, o prince’s daughter! The curves of your thighs are like
jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman. Your navel is a rounded
goblet which lacks no blended beverage. Your waist is a heap of wheat set about
with lilies. Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck
is like an ivory tower, your eyes like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath
Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of
Lebanon which looks toward Damascus . Your head crowns
you like the Mount Carmel , and the hair of
your head is like purple; the king is held captive by its tresses. How fair and
how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights! This stature of yours is like
a palm tree, I will take hold of its branches. Let now your breasts be like
clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, and the roof
mouth like the best wine.”
Yes, who is this saying about? (Me) whom?
(Me) Is this saying about you? Then let us compare this with you and see
whether you are really like this.
“Behold,
you are fair, my love! Behold, you are fair!” Are you so beautiful? You don’t
look so beautiful to me. “You have dove’s eyes behind your veil. Your hair is
like a flock of goats, going down from Mount Gilead ,”
Your eyes are as pretty as dove’s eyes? Are our eyes as beautiful as dove’s
eyes? Far from it; we always have bloodshot and gummy eyes.
“Your hair is like a flock of goats, going
down form Mount Gilead.” Goats in Mount Gilead were grazing upon the most
beautiful pastures wearing lustrous glossy fur coats are your hairs as
beautiful and glossy as theirs fur coats? Fizzled and singed, our hair has become
split at the end; and something comes off from it sometimes.
And “Your teeth are like of shorn sheep
which have come up from the washing, every one of which bears twins, and none
is barren among them.” ----are your teeth as beautiful as a flock of shorn
sheep which teeth; and once we forget brushing, they give off bad odor. And how
can we look beautiful? Probably this isn’t saying about you.
And “your lips are like a strand of
scarlet.” Raise your hand if anyone has lips like strand of scarlet. Our lips
are drying cracked, and bleed sometimes. Is that blood scarlet strand?
“And your mouth is lovely.” Whose mouth is
lovely? Nobody has lovely mouth.
“Your temples behind your veil are like a
piece of pomegranate.” Does anybody here have cheeks like well-ripen
pomegranate? Everybody’s cheek is pale; whatever we paint on our face, we
cannot make our wrinkled sunken cheek look better. But here says, “What just
beautiful cheeks you have! They are like well-ripening pomegranate.”
And what a beautiful neck you have; it is
like a tower of David, built for an armory, on which hang a thousand bucklers,
all shields of mighty men.” Friends your neck is like the tower of David
built for an armory, on which hang a thousand bucklers and all shields of
mighty men? Your neck is skinny and ugly; once others ill of you, it gets
strained and trembles.
“Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of gazelle, which feed among the lilies.” Whose breasts are like two
fawns? You rather have straight walled breasts.
“You are all fair, my love, and there is
no spot in you.” Our Father said, “Your everything is beautiful, you are
perfect and spotless.” But are we perfect and spotless? “You are all fair, my
love. You are perfect; there is no spot in you. You are all beautiful. No spot,
no defect can be found in you.” Are you really perfect and beautiful? You are
full of imperfections. He is saying to us, “You have ravished My heart, My
spouse, My sister. You have ravished My heart with one look of your eyes, with one link of your necklace. Please don’t look
at Me, don’t look at Me. I feel captivated by you, by one look of your eyes. So
please don’t look at Me.”
“How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O
prince’s daughter!” Brethren! Let me see
your feet. Whose feet are so beautiful? How ugly our feet are, with long nails
stinking always due to athlete’s foot! But our Father says, “How beautiful your feet are!”
All of these confessions are not true at
all. They are untruth, lie. They don’t apply to us. They are all lies.
And “the curves of your thighs are like
jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.” Whose thighs are as
beautiful as jewels? Does anybody here have thighs like glittering jewels?
Whose thighs are as beautiful as glittering
jewels? Are they not like a piece of dry wood they are not good-looking at all,
don’t they? They are like a splinter of wood, how come they are like jewels?
This is all lies. This is all untruths. These confessions don’t apply to you at
all. Never.
“Your navel is rounded goblet which lacks
no blended beverage.” Brethren! Does anybody have a goblet-like navel? Isn’t
that something dried up after scissoring? How can it look like a goblet?
“Your waist is a heap of wheat set about
with lilies.” Raise your hand if anybody has a waist like a sheaf of wheat
decorated with lilies. Isn’t that merely thick bones covered with skin. How can
it look like a sheaf of wheat decorated with lilies? These confessions don’t
apply to you at all, but to me alone.
“Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins
of a gazelle. Your neck is like an ivory tower.” How come our neck is like an
ivory tower? Once we forget washing, it gets dirty. And whose neck is like an
ivory tower?
And “Your eyes are like the pools in
Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim.” Our eyes are as beautiful as the pure
water in a lake? Nobody has that kind of eyes.
“Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
which looks toward Damascus.” Whose nose is like the tower of Lebanon ?
It gets infected by empress so easily and we carry strawberry nose. But here
says our nose is like the tower
of Lebanon . I haven’t
seen a nose like the tower
of Lebanon .
And “Your head is like Mount Carmel, and
the hair of your head is like purple’ the king is held captive by its
stresses.” Who has a head like Mount Carmel ?
And then He says, “How fair and
how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights! You are indescribably
beautiful. Even by thinking about you, I am sunken in happiness. You are so
beautiful that, once I think about your face, my happiness overflows.” Who has
such a beautiful face? Anybody here? No.
“This stature of yours is like a palm
tree.” Palm is very tall and good-looking. Is anybody here so tall and
good-looking? Our stature is one third of our original stature; we are as good
as creeping on the ground. All of us are dwarfs. And how can there be anyone as
tall as a palm tree? All of these are lies.
“And your breasts are like its clusters. I
said, ‘I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold its branches.’ Let now
your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like
apples.” Friends! Raise your hand if your breath gives off fragrance of apples.
Our breath gives off carbonic acid gas and bad odor; if we sleep in a confined
room with windows shut, we get into a big trouble. But he says our breath gives
off fragrance of apples. Who on earth give off fragrance of apple in his
breath?
And “Your mouth is like the best wine.”
Does anybody produce grape juice in his mouth? We should rather be careful not
to give out sputum by mistake while talking.
All these things are untruth; but
our Father says, “How fair you are! You are all fair, and there is no spot in
you.” Is this still saying about you? All of these? Is that true? O how
brazen-faced you are! I hope everything will be done according to your faith.
Indeed all these confessions are given to us. Undoubtedly God has spoken all
these things to us. Why? A man’s lovely son was drafted to the army once during
the war. Such a good-looking son got shot in his arm and leg; one of his arms
and legs were cut off and came back home with distorted face. And his mother
and father embraced him crying, “My son! You came back alive!”
“Baby that’s alright. It doesn’t matter.
It’s not something rare to get wounded in the battle.”
“Mom, I’ve lost my arm.”
“Don’t worry, it doesn’t matter. You are
still my lovely son.”
“Mom, I’ve lost my leg.”
“Leg? Don’t worry. It doesn’t matter. You
can walk with wooden leg, can’t you? You look still lovelier now than with 10
legs.”
In the sight of his parents, he looks even
lovelier than before since they have greater pity on him now. They feel happy
over him only because he came back alive and encourage him shedding tears,
“You’re all right. That’s Ok. What’s wrong with walking with wooden legs?”
In the same way, although we don’t deserve
hearing all these confessions of love, even if our teeth, cheeks, lips,
breasts, and everything have become distorted and ruined, and our stature got
dwarfed one third of our original shape, our Father only loves and pities on us
much more than the angels only because we came back alive into his bosom. He is
jumping up and down with joy since we came back to Him alive after being
dragged, beaten up, and trodden down by Satan for 6,000 years: only because we
didn’t die but came back to Him alive, we look even lovelier than the angels in
His sight. This is our Father’s sincere confession of love for us. This is
truth, His sincere love. Our Father doesn’t lie at all. There is no lie in His
mouth. He only says truth. He loves us much more than angels only because we
didn’t die but came back alive into His bosom in spite of having been dragged,
trodden down by Satan, and fallen into swamps. These expressions are rather
insufficient. All of these were written to you. Therefore you should not
estimate yourself with your own eye but with the eye of your real Father. Don’t
say to yourself at a mirror, “How ugly I am!”
And all these things indicate your inner
characters. Even if the nose of your character, ears of your character, teeth,
mouth neck of your character are distorted, twisted, crooked, our Father
doesn’t look at our reined qualities; He is our Real Father who doesn’t look at
our sins and imperfections. Even if our characters are all ruined and spoiled,
our Father is overwhelmed with joy and happiness only because we came back to
Him alive.
He can see no sin in us but one. He sees
only one sin. How many sins does He see in us? One. What? The sin of departing
from Him. However terribly our characters may have been distorted and ruined, once
we return to Him, He makes all of us righteous. What makes us righteous? Our
Father’s love makes us righteous. So, please read Rom. 3:20, 24
“Therefore by the deeds of the law no
flesh will be justified in His sight.”
Now, can we be justified before
God by observing the law? (No) “Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will
be justified in His sight.” Among 5 billion inhabitant of the earth no one can
be justified by his own deeds. “By the deeds of the law no flesh will be
justified in His sight, for by the law we only gain knowledge of sin.” But
through the love of God in Christ Jesus we were made righteous without price or
deeds. Our Father’s love made us righteous without price. Seeing us come back
to Him alive, He is overwhelmed with joy without regard to our spoiled,
distorted characters.
If a son comes back home after going
through hardships away from home, his parents are overwhelmed with joy. They
don’t care however ugly he is, that’s parents love. Actually he is not
good-looking at all in the sight of others. Others may say, “How come they love
that ugly son so much?” They feel embarrassed?” but in the sight of his parents
he looks much himself is not good-looking than anybody in the world. The boy
himself is not good-looking at all, but the parents’ love makes him
good-looking despite of his ugly look.
In the same way, only because we didn’t
die but came back alive into our Father’s bosom, He feels so happy and His love
considers us most good-looking and spotless. That’s why by the deeds of the law
no one can be justified before God, but our real Father’s love which is
revealed Christ Jesus made us perfectly righteous without price. So, Rom.4:5-8.
“But to him who does not work but believes
on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes
righteousness, and whose apart from work; ‘Blessed are those whose lawless deed
are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.”
Yes, even if one does not work at all…
indeed, we don’t do much work. How much work did you do for saving the world?
You didn’t do much. You didn’t run around bustling like those churches. What is
more, you don’t look pious at all. Pastors and holy fathers in those churches
look pious and holy; but these folks here don’t look holy or pious at all. We
don’t work at all, look pious at all; but there is One who justifies us. Who is
that? Our Real Father makes us righteous. Even if we don’t work at all, look
pious at all, if we only believe our Father’s love which still makes us
righteous, He regards us righteous due to our believing. That’s why happy are
those who are made righteous by God without doing so much work.”
For example, a son came back from the
battle having lost one of his legs and says, “Mom! I used to cultivate the
whole land by myself before, but I’m sorry I can’t help you at all right now.”
Following them with a rake, he says, “I’m sorry mom, I can’t help you like
before.”
“Not at all, my son. I’m happier now than
before when you could do everything by yourself. Since you came back alive with
one leg even, I’m happier than before when you could do everything by
yourself.”
Even if he can’t help her at all, she
feels happy over him as if he were doing everything by himself. What makes him
happy? Because he tries to help her? No. Only because she loves him, she feels
happy over him regardless of what he does for her. And if we only believe and
accept our Father’s love which made us righteous without regard to our
ungodliness, He makes us righteous due to our believing in His love. Actually
you are not righteous at all, are you? Yet, our Father loves us and whatever we
do look lovely this love. Do you understand? Just remains in His love, fix your
eyes on His love, trust in His love, and believe the love which acknowledge you
as the most perfect and lovely son of His. If you believe and accept this love,
He says, “Thank you My son for accepting My love,” and puts His seal upon you
due to that believing.
For example, if one does not believe and
accept the love of his lover, it is most tormenting to her. Let’s say a husband
grasps his wife asking, “Where have you been?”
“I’ve been to the market.” “What
guy did you meet?”
She has been to the market to buy some
food stuffs, and the husband keeps asking what guy she met. “What are you
talking about? I love nobody but you.”
“Don’t lie; you must be loving
somebody else.”
Well, he doesn’t believe his wife’s love;
that’s because he ran mad with morbid suspicion of her love.
Friends! I hope you accept our Father’s
love, and He will put His seal upon you out of gratitude due to accepting His
love, and make you righteous and take you to heaven. But even though the wife
says, “No, I love no one but you,” if the husband keeps saying, “No, you don’t
love me,” what will happen to her? She cannot love him anymore. They have to
separate. But if the husband confide fully in her love, she gets loving him
more and more. Do you understand?
No matter how ugly and distorted face you
may have, just accept the love of our Father who confessed to you, “You are
perfect, you are My lovely son. You are good-looking, beautiful, and
righteous.” Then He will put His seal upon your faith and love you more and
make you more righteous.
If one doubts his lover’s love, she feels
most tormented, maddened, harassed, and afflicted, and they separate. To
believe God’s love is to be righteous. If we don’t believe it, we must
separate. To believe God’s love is to be righteous. If we don’t believe it, we
must separate from Him forever. That’s why this is what is called
“Righteousness by Faith.”
But without knowing our Father’s love, how
can those churches try to believe it? That’s why to know God’s love is eternal
life, and righteousness. So what it says in Rom. 8:30?
“Moreover whom He predestined them He also
called; whom He called them he also justified…”
Romans 8:31 “What then shall we
say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Yes, verse 33.
“Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.”
Yes, who shall say against this fact that
God loves us? Since God acknowledged me as righteous, who can dare condemn me?
Nobody in heaven and on earth can dare condemn me. No
matter how numerous defects you may have, only if God says “You are righteous,”
that’s all. Who can dare condemn us?
Who
will dare say against what God does? Nobody can argue against Him. If God is
for us, if God says “You are righteous,” who can be against us? Who can bring a
charge against God’s chosen ones whose sins He has forgiven? Who can accuse us
whom God has justified? Who has justified me? Myself? My wife? It is God, not
angels of heaven. It is God the King of the universe, the Lord of heaven who justified
us; and who can condemn us?
Once
He says “You are righteous,” I am righteous. No matter how pure, innocent,
righteous, pious life one may pretend to be living, if God says “you are a
sinner,” he ends up being a sinner. It is only God who justifies us. So, even
though those churches pretend to be living pious, innocent, pure life, since
they live away from our Real Father, what does He say to them? “You are
sinner.”
It’s the same in the present world. If
anybody forsakes his old parents, leaves them alone to starve to death, and
goes around running charitable works like an orphanage or an asylum for the
aged, and tries to show himself a righteous person, to be acknowledged in the
community, is he good or bad? He is a bad son, a sinner. But even if one may be
an uneducated, ignorant woodman, if he respects his parents at home and works
diligently to make them happy, gathering firewood on the mountain everyday and
serve them with warm and comfortable room, he is a nice filial son, a righteous
man. Anybody who comes back to our Real Daddy becomes righteous man; and
anybody who departs from Him becomes a sinner. That’s why He is crying to us,
“Only come back, I will not remember your sins anymore.”
Friends! The prodigal son was coming back
to his father. When he was staggering toward his father in the distance, he was
approaching to him nearer and nearer: 10 miles, 5 miles, 600 feet, 300 feet,
100 feet, and till he reached one foot from his father, what was he? A filthy
sinner with dirty off and he returned out to be a righteous son with new nice
garment. Anybody who returns to our real Daddy becomes a righteous man.
“My people have committed two evils;
first, they have forsaken Me the fountain of living water, and second, since
they departed from their real Father, they suffer from soul thirst and try to
quench their thirst somewhere else. So, both of their first and second sin is
to have departed from God; so, they have committed only one sin. To depart from
the real Father is the unique sin they committed; that’s what is called
“blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.” But once they come back to Him, they
become all righteous. His love makes us righteous. Therefore even if we didn’t
work, are not holy, if we only believe Him whose love makes us righteous, He
puts His seal upon us due to that believing.
Therefore what shall anyone say against
this? Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven and covered by Him! Everybody
committed sin, but anybody who returns to our Real Father, his sins are covered,
and anybody who does not return to Him remains sinful because he has nobody to
cover, wash, or cleanse his sin. Even though everybody committed sin, one side
are covered of their sins, and the others remain sinful forever because they
have nobody who can cover their sins. Therefore blessed is the man whom the
Lord does not acknowledge it at all. Whose sin? One who returned to our real
Father? Do you understand? That’s why only if he pretends to be holy himself
having a tiny sin in his heart, he cannot but remain as a sinner forever due to
that tiny sin. Do you understand? It is
love that makes us righteous. Rom.
8:28-30.
“And we know that all things work together
for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His
purpose, who returned to God, who were called by Him and returned to His bosom.
In the old times Shin-Sime-Dang the famous
figure in our history participated a feast in her town, and saw a poor lady got
nervous after spilling black ink on her dress by mistake she borrowed from her
neighbor. In those days they could not remove the spot by washing; it couldn’t
be restored. The lady was too poor to buy another one to give back to its
owner. She got into a big trouble. And Shin-Dang told her, “Bring it to me,”
and drew a nice picture of a cluster of grapes, and it became a more expensive
dress. She then sold it, bought another one and returned to its owner; yet
there remained money.
In the same way if we return to our real
Father, everything works for our good as we read just now- all things work
together for good to those who love God, who were called according to His
purpose, and who returned to Him.
Last time I made a mistake while writing a
letter, but had only one envelope. My handwriting is quite poor, you know. I
made a mistake on the envelope, trying to erase it, made it worse. So I drew a
picture to cover the mistake, and it became a nicer envelop. And the one who
received that must have been much more pleased with my drawing on it.
Likewise if we only return to our real Father,
He returns all our ugly return to Him, He makes them talk about His love as
much as they want and gives them award. Have they become nicer or worse then?
They have become nicer. And if those who love wandering about return to Him, He
makes them go around spreading the good news of His love, and gives them
greater reward. And if stubborn persons return to Him, they get better, “I’ll
never be shaken a bit.” And receive prize.
So, we know that all things work together
for good to those who returned to Him. Therefore however terrible defects we
may have, only if we return to our real Father, they all become good qualities
and cause us to receive price. Is our real Daddy indeed precious? Yes, it was
prophesied that the most precious treasure would come upon us.
You
learned about moving sanctuary is Exodus 25th chapter. There it
says, “Make Me a sanctuary with nothing but pure gold; make every article with
pure gold and fill it with only pure gold, and complete it.” What kind of
sanctuary is that? That is our hearts sanctuary, our character sanctuary. Our
Father described our character as acacia wood covered with thorns: arid,
pitiless, harsh, and inhuman. Pure gold illustrates our real Father’s love. He
told us with His eyes of love, He keeps saying, “You are fair, you are
beautiful, you are lovely.” If we love anybody, everything he does looks
beautiful and lovely. If we hate anybody, whatever does our Father. That’s why,
as we fill our heart with nothing but pure gold which is His love, He makes us
blameless, righteous persons. His love makes us righteous. But once we depart
from our real Father, there is no love that can make us righteous. We are
supposed to be carried to heaven wrapped in our real Father’s love. Isaiah
54:11, 12.
“Oh you afflicted one, tossed with
tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make you pinnacles of rubies,
your gates of crystal, and all your walls of precious stones.”
Yes, and you shall be established in
righteousness. “Oh you afflicted one, tossed with tempest and not comforted.”
You who wandered about away from the real Father! Behold, since you returned to
your real Father, you will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay you
foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of
crystal, and all your walls of precious stones, and make you perfectly
righteous.
Only if we return to our real
Father, we can just keep standing before Him, because He will takes off our filthy
cloths Himself and puts a new garment on us and new shoes on our feet. So, we
become perfectly righteous without sweating a bit. His love itself adorns us
with pure gold, love over and over again, and wraps us completely and takes to
heavens: as perfect righteous persons. Do you understand?
Now, those churches also teach that even
if we have sins Jesus will wrap ourselves with His righteousness and take us to
heaven, and here teaches God will take us to heaven with His love; then aren’t
both the same? Not at all. God said He would put on us His colorful garments to
take us with Him; then do those churches have that? No, that’s why their claim
is deception. You learned many things here like “Do not commit sin even in you
thought.” Isn’t that a sapphire-like truth? Yes, indeed. This kind of teaching
cannot be heard in that world. “Don’t commit sin in your thought. Be perfectly
righteous.” How can this kind of perfect, grand truth which enables us to
govern our thoughts be found in those churches? By obeying these grand perfect
truths in heart, we actually become perfectly righteous.
“Become a foot. Receive 5 blessings of the
Sabbath”- aren’t these truths as precious as rubies? Those churches don’t have
that. And crystal-like truth as “Become holy saints.” Isn’t that like crystal?
When we become holy saints, we are ready to be carried to heaven. After
adorning us with all these precious truths, He says, “You are perfectly
righteous.” But do those churches have this king of things? They only say Jesus
will wrap them and take them all to heaven; but having nothing, what will they
be wrapped with? But our Father wraps us with His love over and over and makes
us righteous and takes us to heaven.
He puts on us heaven’s colorful garments
of character, so that we shall produce abundant fruits of love, joy, peace; and
through sapphire-like words- “Become a
foot. Don’t commit sin even in your thoughts,” He makes our hearts perfectly
clean. And “Become holy saints. Receive 5 blessings of the Sabbath”- He adorns
us with all sorts of precious gems of truth, makes us spotless, and takes us to
heaven wrapping us completely with His love.
So, I’d like to tell you one thing to do
once you go back home. Please never say to yourself, “I have a terrible
character, I am an ugly person.” Please never say, “Poor me, poor me. ” When Satan,
whispers to you, “You are hopeless, you are hopeless.” Shout to him, “No, My
Father loves me most. He said I am perfect. He said that, I don’t care what you
say.” Please do like this. Will you do so? No matter what the world says
against you or condemns you, it is God who justifies you; and who can condemn
you? So, you should never look at yourself with your own eye, but with your
Father’s eye of love.
And when you look at your husband at home,
don’t judge him with your own eye and mistreat him saying, “How come he is all
the same in spite of preaching nicely to people?” But say, “Even though my
husband goes with Father’s eye of love, he looks nice and good-looking. And
husbands too, “How come my wife gets sulky so easily with nothing great?” don’t
see her with your own eye. But say, “even though she is sulky all the time, our
Father said she is the most pretty, spotless princess of heaven. And how can I
condemn her?” Look at your wife with your Father’s eye of love, and you will be
able to forgive everything and love her. When you love like this, your home
will become a paradise. That’s the very seal.
So between father and son and among
brethren, don’t look at other’s imperfection. “Even though that brother is like
that, our Father said he is the best-looking righteous son He loves.” Look at
your brethren with your Father’s eye of love. Then you will be able to forgive
everyone, becomes perfect. So when we love one another like that, that becomes
a little paradise and grows to the heavenly paradise.
Accept our Father’s love; never look at
yourself with your own eye but say, “My Father loves me most.” When somebody
says to you, “You are bad in such a way,” don’t pay attention to what he says;
just read the 4th and 7th chapter of Song of Solomon. And
come out with a big smile saying, “No matter what people say to me, my Father
said I am the most righteous person.”
So in Revelations 7:10 the 144,000 and
countless number of the redeemed saints shouted loudly, “Salvation belongs to
Him who sits on the throne.”
Salvation belongs to them? God
makes us righteous unconditionally for Himself and takes to heaven. Revelations
15:3, 4.
“And they sing the song of Moses, the
servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: ‘Great and marvelous are Your
works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!
Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You are holy. For
all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments have been
manifested.”
Yes, the 144,000 and the countless number
of righteous saints praised God, “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God
Almighty, since You made righteous such a filthy sinner as me and take to
heaven. You are truly Almighty.” They praise Him since He made them righteous.
“O King of all nations! Your ways are just and true. Who shall not fear You, O
Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy.” We are not holy; only our
Father is holy.
“All nations shall come and worship before
You, for only Your righteousness have been manifested.” When we see ourselves,
we are full of imperfections, but our Father says, “You are all fair,
beautiful, your nose, eyes, lips, neck, everything is beautiful. There is no
spot in you, My love.” I’m not so fair actually but my Father says I am most
lovely.
So it isn’t because I am lovely actually
but His love sees me so lovely.
And He feels so thankful to those
who believe this love of His and puts His seal upon them. I hope you believe
our Father’s love. This is what is called “Righteousness by Faith,” by which we
go to heaven.
Do you think you can become a perfect
spotless person by attending church 100 or 1,000 years? No, you cannot. We are
always imperfect, but our Father surrounds us with truths as precious as jewels
and transforms us more and more. And although we are not perfect at the end, we
shall be transformed into perfect and righteous persons. Do you understand? You
are not perfect right now but He sees our perfect future.
“He who has called us is faithful; He will
see our perfection till the day of Jesus’ second coming by all means. Looking
forward to our perfect end, He regards us to be perfect right now. I hope you
believe this fact since our Father believes us.
So, in 1Cor. 6:19, 20 it says “You are not
your own, but bought at a price of God’s love; therefore glorify God in your
body.” You are righteous? You made yourselves righteous? God’s love made you
righteous; and you are supposed to glorify Him.
Now, I’ll read you one more thing. When
you look at yourself, you see your eyes congested, nose and ears diseased,
mouth and lips ugly, and your face old and wrinkled. But our Father keeps
saying to you, “How fair you are, My son. There is no spot in you.” Will you
accept this love of His? Upon everyone who accepts this love He puts His seal.
Our Father is looking for persons who will believe His love. Only if we believe
this love once, He saves us immediately. Habakkuk 3:17. Let’s finish after
reading this.
“Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor
fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields
yield no food; though the flock be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd
in the stalls,- yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my
salvation.”
Now the fig tree and the vines mentioned
here do not indicate those fruit trees out there; it indicates the fig tree of
your heart, of your character and the vineyard of your character.
The fig tree in my heart seems to have no
fruit, covered with fluttering leaves only. Is that right? Yes. And the vine of
my heart doesn’t seem to produce nine fruits of the Holy Spirit, standing alone
by itself. It seems to be dried up without fruits.
And I wished river-like oil
should flow from the olive tree in my heart, but it seems to be giving not a
drop. In the field of my heart there is no plant of His word. And I can’t see
Jesus the Lamb in the fold of my heart. It seems to be empty. And there is no
herd in the stall: I have no money for church offering. Yet I rejoice in the
Lord, in the God of my salvation who will still love me and justifies me.
I hope you will not behold your empty
heart. As I behold myself, I seem to be like fruitless fig tree and vine, and
an olive tree without a drop of oil. I seem to have no vegetable or fruit of
His word in the field of my heart and Jesus the Lamb doesn’t seem to be in the
fold of my heart. Yet what does my Daddy say to me? He loves me most and
embraces me. Believe and thank Him for this love and follow Him. Will you do
so?
Friends! Oh, this kind of
lecture… Even if you could sell the whole world and brought me everything, you
cannot pay the proper fee for this lecture. This is how you can be made
perfectly righteous and goes to heaven. Friends, I tell you again: please don’t
estimate yourselves with your own eye, nor condemn your wife, friends, and
neighbors with your own eye; but behold yourself and others with our Father’s
eye of love.
In order to do that, He must come into
your heart. And even if your brethren do something wrong, they’ll look lovely;
even if your wife commits wrong, your will be able to forgive and love her. And
husband will also look lovely. And your home will be a little paradise. I hope
every one of you will arrive in heaven this way.
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