You must know how valuable and how urgent the work of saving lives is, and you must know this to be the priority more than anything else. Let’s say today was the day you could not avoid death, but someone saved you. Would there be anything more joyful and greater than this? If death came upon you and you are waiting to die, what would you think in that moment and what would you do? In order to stay alive, you will struggle and cry out for the one who will save you. That is the first thing you must do, isn’t it? Let’s say someone came in the midst of your seeking for them. How happy would you be? You will be ecstatic that you will grab them, cry, and earnestly ask them to save you. At the moment of death, will you ask about how to make money to the one who came to save you? [Or] will you ask for a person you can live with for the rest of your life because you don’t have a lover? [No,] you will ask to save your life that will soon end, right?
Also for the one who came to save you, leading you and saving your life that is on the verge of death is the most urgent work they need to do more than anything else, isn’t it? Let’s say there in front of you is a person who will die soon. Even if someone tells you that they will pay you hundreds of times more if you work at that moment, and even if you have something that you must urgently do at that moment, saving a life that will die in a short while is the work you must do as the priority, isn’t it? When your physical life is in danger, you must put aside tens of thousands of things and do the work of saving your life at that moment.
Just as even the one saving the physical body’s life puts aside everything else and does the work of saving life first, you who save with the gospel need to put aside everything else and save those who are going to [the domain of] death. Since lives live and die with time, if you miss that opportune time at that moment, you will miss the chance forever.
You have seen through TV or other scenarios, haven’t you? Where the person who is drowning in water, or bound in the place set on fire was not saved and therefore, they die and that is their end forever. In this way, you need to save people’s spirits before they cross over to the side of death. Spirits are the same as physical bodies. If there are people being dragged away by Satan, drowning in the river of sin, or are bound because there is a fire of tribulation, the one who is sound (unimpaired) must jump in at that moment and save them. Then they will live. Do you know how many spirits have died because of tribulations of fire that came upon them while they were bound, and because of sins and tests of water that swept them away along with the waves. Therefore, even if you cannot do anything else, you must save [those dying] spirits. If you do not do them, you will miss that moment to save a life, and that person will also miss the opportunity to receive salvation, and the one doing the saving will miss the chance to save that life forever.
There are many fish in streams, rivers, and in the ocean, but why can’t you catch them? In the world, there are people who you need to save who are walking around here and there on the streets like a school of fish, aren’t there? The fact that you are unable to catch them is not because there isn’t any fish. It is because you do not know how to catch them.
Fish are the hardest to catch if you try to catch them with your bare hands. If you try to catch them with a fishing rod, you can catch them one at a time, but you cannot catch a big fish. If you catch them with a big net, you can catch big fish and you can also catch a lot of them at once. Even if there were fish, you need to have the mindset of catching them, and skills and techniques to catch them.
Just as the one saving lives needs to have ‘the saving-life mentality’ in order to save the physically dying, the same is true with saving spirits. The one having the mindset of salvation can save the [dying spirits]. In addition, those who receive salvation need to be connected vertically and horizontally through a net of love, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. Then you will be able to save many lives. When it comes to ‘life,’ I, the Holy Son, am [the best]. If you forget about me, the Holy Son, who is the savior of lives, you cannot save even the lives you could have saved. I need to be with you. Then I can give you the power and inspiration and do it with you, defeat the invisible obstruction of Satan, and then you will be able to save lives with me.
Know that saving the lives of your brothers is saving your own life. Make sure to remember that your brother’s life is inescapably connected to your life. One life is connected to [another] life. Since you are saving lives that will go to darkness forever, do not just do it easily. Pray and put in some effort. Pray to the Almighty God who created the physical and spiritual life for a week, two weeks, or a month and receive an answer. After that, according to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, seek me and go out with me. Then, some lives will wait for you.
Since each of you has saved your own life, make your body and spirit strong and healthy. For your body, awake the dawn and pray, live with the proper mindset, eat everything deliciously, exercise, and do what you have to do enthusiastically. Then you will be healthy. If you also want to be healthy in the life of your spirit and faith, you need to pray in the first hour of the predawn for your spirit and mind; pray for your brothers, the nation, and the world; and by listening to the Word carefully, you need to eat the spiritual food and take action. Putting the Word into practice is exercise for your spirit, and it is [keeping] the health of your spirit. Pray so that you can receive the spiritual power/ability and power; stand firm in faith; become one with me through love and live being attentive; destroy Satan always; and just as you get rid of all the dirt on your skin and filth by washing every day, you must repent of your sins every day and get rid of them. Just as you do the work of your physical body, you need to do your work in terms of faith too. Those who forget me and live by themselves are lonely people; they are people who live the life of death, and people who fall into a swamp. Save your life every day, and also save the lives of your brothers every day.
Extreme tribulations will come, and it will be difficult to save lives at that time. When a typhoon comes and turns the entire ocean upside down, how can you get [them] aboard the ship? Would fish in the ocean go through suffering of those waves and swim around the ship? [No.] They will go deep into the ocean. The same will be true for people at the time of the great tribulation on the earth. That is why I tell you to [evangelize] now. Those who save lives are ones who seek lives to evangelize wherever they go. Always call me and seek me. Ask me whether they are lives you should evangelize. See whether it is the right time [for them], and whether they are people that I, the Holy Son, have prepared. Even if they are people that I have prepared, you need to see whether there are people you need to evangelize first according to the time. You need to save those who are urgent first, don’t you think?
Save your parents and your siblings diligently. Will you find them in that big spiritual world after they die and preach the gospel to them then and save them? Those are your thoughts. Save them when you can see them with your [physical] eyes, and when you can communicate with them through your body and speak to them. Save them here on earth. Listen to my words today, and now with determination and tenacity, be strong and let’s try it again!
Know that I was with those who saved lives until now. Raise well the lives you have evangelized. If a farmer sows seeds for the crop, and only takes care of it from time to time, they cannot cultivate the crop nor can they bear grain or fruit properly. You need to manage well in order for it to bear good fruit. [In the same way,] teach lives well so that they can bear good fruit, and [teach] them to manage themselves. Fill the empty [seats] in each church. I will be with you. I bid you my peace. I am the Lord who saves lives with you endlessly. Shalom!