- Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Today, I will give you the message divided into two main subjects. This is the first message about ‘your brain’s perceptions.’ Even if you are given a gemstone worth a billion or two billion won (a million or two million USD), if the level of thoughts in your brain is low, you will say that your gemstone that is worth a few hundred USD is better. No matter who you are, if it is something you like, whether it is a person or an object, only that person or that object is stored in your brain and your thoughts are fixed on them and thus, wherever you go, you will choose and delight only in what has been perceived by your brain.
Even though the Messiah whom the Jewish religious people waited for had come, they refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah but rather, they delighted in Moses, whom they had been following, followed only in the Law that was received by Moses, and took pride in it. They rejected the Messiah whom God had promised and sent to the new time period. What was the reason? Just like a person who eats a lot of food when he is hungry and whose intestines are fully packed with food, the reason was that their brains were chock full of Moses’ Law and the mentality of the Old Testament Word,’ and that ‘perception’ was deeply embedded in them.
When people are accustomed to being a particular constitution and their brains have fixed perceptions, they refuse to accept it even when something better is given to them. Instead, they choose and delight in things that fit their constitution and what is in their perceptions. Idol worshiping shamanistic believers also make idols out of gold, silver, or bronze and worship them while bowing down to them thousands of times saying it is good. It is because they are accustomed to that constitution and their perceptions are fixed that way. If you teach them the most advanced religion and share the gospel with them saying they should believe in the Almighty God and the Messiah whom He has sent, they will refuse saying that they already believe in something. How can a true grape come from a wild grape vine? You have to raise it again by cutting out the wild grape vine and grafting in a true grape vine. Only then will it become a true grape vine and produce ‘the ideal true grape vine fruit of hope.’ The same is true with the hope of the new history. You have to cut off the established old history, accept the new history, and grow again!
Each person values more the forms and images that they like. They judge according to their perceptions, their levels, and their grade. When looking at people too – people look [at others] according to ‘their perceptions and their levels.’ Even though that person is a greater person, they don’t look at that person positively because someone else is imprinted in their brain’s perception and mentality as a better person. The same is true with God’s Word. People value and follow the Bible interpretation that they like. This is because they have lived that way in their everyday life. This is because their perception was embedded that way in their brain. That is why if people have the perceptions of the old time period embedded in them, they will not accept it even if they are given the Word of the new time period that changes their destinies in the greatest way. If the perception of a faith of wanting to be comforted, be blessed, and live comfortably is embedded in them, they will not easily accept it even if they are given the Word that fixes and completely changes their lives. No matter what Bible interpretation people like and what kind of Word they like, God’s Will is not fulfilled by those things. Only ‘God’s fundamental Word’ is fulfilled.
According to their own perceptions, only those who know the Lord correctly choose the Lord, keep the Word and live believing, following, and rejoicing. People recognize the value of the Messiah differently and treat him accordingly as much as they realize according to their perceptions and levels. Next, I will tell you about ‘the schemes of Satan and the world of evil.’ God chooses ‘good things’ and gives us ‘good things and good thoughts.’ Satan and unrighteous people always try to take them away from us. However, since they can’t take them away for nothing, they scheme. They entice the people of God who own good things, give them the fakes and the bad things they own, and make them exchange for those [bad things] saying that they are ten times or a hundred times better. They take away the good things God gave them in that way.
This also happened to Adam and Eve. God gave good thoughts and the Word of life to Adam and Eve. However, Satan enticed Adam and Eve, put bad things into their thoughts, and made them exchange for those things. As a result of that, Adam and Eve lost the good thoughts and good heart to Satan, lost the love and even lost their bodies. In the end, both ‘their physical lives’ and ‘their souls and spirits’ were ruined.
Since con-men and people who harm [others] cannot take away things that belong to others for nothing, they disguise the bad thing that they have, present it as something good, entice them by saying that it is good, make people exchange it for the good thoughts and good things, and then vanish. This is Satan’s trick. If you received God’s thoughts, the Lord’s thoughts, and the Holy Spirit’s inspiration, you must not fall for any deception but guard them till the end without exchanging them! If you think that Satan’s mentality and thought are good, accept them and take action on them, you will soon fail. What’s more, since you even worked hard with Satan’s mentality and thoughts, it will completely harm you and ruin you.
There are always two things that exist – a good thing and a bad thing. God gives you good things and Satan and wicked people have bad things. God judges if something is good by looking at both the present and the future. The land of Sodom was ‘a good land on the surface for the time being’ and the land of Canaan was ‘a bad land on the surface.’ Lot chose and lived in ‘the land of Sodom, which was a good land on the surface.’ And Abraham chose and lived in ‘the land of Canaan, which did not look good at that time but had a good Will.’ Ultimately, the land of Canaan was the land flowing with milk and honey, and Abraham’s descendants took possession of that land and lived there blessed. Satan works together with the unrighteous people to find fault with the good things from Heaven’s side, claims that his wicked thoughts are better, and makes you exchange for it. You must never lose the good thoughts that God gave you, the history of blessings, the Word of the time period, the precious love, and your precious body! You must never exchange them for anything!