- Isaiah 55:8-13 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
God said, “Do not consider one thing as a god.” This means, do not serve just one person as if you are serving a god. The head leaders, leaders, and evangelists should, like today’s message, not look at only ‘one’ as a God but rather you must treat ‘the whole fairly.’ Only then will the loss of lives decrease, the churches will grow in number, the head leaders and leaders will all receive strength, and they will run even more and work harder with joy and hope as a result.
Head leaders and leaders should not take care of only the people whom they like. This is unlawful. Everyone, consider your own bodies. Your bodies have dozens of body parts. What would happen if, because of your favoring that one body part, you only take care of, manage, and love only that one body part while not looking after your entire body? In the end, something will go wrong with the whole body, the body will get sick, and you will collapse. Will your entire body become healthier as a result of that one body part that you looked after? You have to take care of the whole in order for the whole body to improve.
You have to consider all the members of the church as each body part, treat everyone fairly, watch over, look after, and raise everybody evenly. You have to treat everybody evenly well, serve them, take care of people all around,
and treat them fairly. Like today’s main scriptures, just as God gives the rain and the sun to everybody both the good and evil and righteous and the unrighteous, people of mission should treat all the lives in that way. Every Church in every Department do not take care of only the people that you take care of but instead, you must treat everybody equally and fairly because they are all ‘precious people that God called and brought.’ When you treat the whole evenly and fairly, you will gain greatly as a result of that and will do well.
When I asked God, “What do you live by?” God said, “I, Yahweh, live by my thoughts.
I convey my thoughts to the people in this world and fulfill them, transform ‘the spirits’ of those who make those thoughts become real, and let their spirits come to my kingdom, Heaven.” When I asked him, “What do human beings live by?”
He said, “Human beings also live by their thoughts.” Human beings live by ‘thoughts.’ And their destinies are determined by what thoughts they live by. We have to do things according to ‘God’s thoughts.’
Only then will God come upon us and work upon us. Even after loving each other, people become distant and separate because their thoughts do not agree. Even though we say that we love God, if our thoughts do not agree, then that is a big sin and that is the reason for becoming distant. In the end, we end up sinning as a result of not doing according to God’s Word. Therefore, ‘sin’ is to not live according to God’s thoughts and to not live according to God’s word.
Even those who don’t believe in God realize their wrong thoughts every day and turn away from them. If you find something wrong but don’t tell yourself, ‘I must not do this!’ don’t realize it, and don’t turn away from it, you will end up living while continually doing wrong. This is ‘the conscience.’ Even with just a conscience, you will realize ‘your wrongs and contradictions’ and turn away from them, you will keep yourself from getting worse, and you will try to keep doing good. What about those who live believing in God and the Lord?
They have consciences and even have the Word of God on top of that foundation. Physical nature keeps coming up in people because people live with their bodies. Therefore, they think that whatever they think is good is ‘something good.’ That gets perceived as ‘God’s thoughts.’ But if you kill your ‘physical nature’ and look spiritually, you will finally see that your thoughts and God’s thoughts are clearly different. Do you know what a tremendous thing it is for a man to know ‘the thoughts of the Almighty God?’ Whenever we know His thoughts and take action according to His thoughts, God makes things happen and works upon us.
Just as you would wash everyday, you have to repent of your ignorance and various sins of thoughts every day. When a person doesn’t wash and is dirty, disease will come. The same is true with the disease of faith. If you don’t wash yourself everyday by repenting, ‘disease of faith’ will come. A person who does not repent of his ignorance and various sins of thoughts every day is like a person who lives without washing himself. He will eventually get sick with ‘a disease of faith.’ If your toilet is clogged, you should not leave it that way but make sure to unplug it. Right? If you leave it that way, you cannot use it. The same is true for each church. Whatever is plugged up must be unplugged. Only then will all the spirits in each church become clean. If you do nothing, ‘repentance and incineration’ will not happen. And in that state nobody can use it.
If you consider one a god and treat it that way, it is weak. You have to do it just as the head would watch over all parts of the body. If you take action while treating the whole with fairness, you will become tens of thousands of times stronger and will defeat Satan! You will do a lot, gain a lot, and reap a lot! A single strand is weak. A double strand is weak too. A triple strand is weak too. You have to make it become dozens of strands, hundreds of strands, and tens of thousands of strands! Only then will be take charge of this time period and capture ‘the lives with the net of the Word. If we run it according to God’s thoughts, it is easy and God will also work with us!