[Shincheonji Truth] - 24 Q&A - 6 : Why Did God Create Villainss? Examples: Hitler, Stalin and Other Kinds of Criminals

[24 Q&A] 6. Why did God create villains? Examples: Hitler, Stalin and other kinds of criminals
Posted 6/16/2012 8:41:00 AM | Updated 2012-06-16 08:41
Photo caption: Chairman Lee Byoungchul and Chariman Lee Manhee   6. Why did God create villains? Examples: Hitler, Stalin and other kinds of criminals   The true God, the Creator, did not make evil people. The traitor, the evil god, took people away; and in order to make them his, he entered into them and made them do evil acts. This is how they became evil people. The seed of a god is the words of that particular god. When an evil spirit enters into a person, that god makes the person act according to its will. Therefore, evil began from the evil god. I hope you understand all creation has a spirit and a soul. The way to know this (truth, fact) is through religion.

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Religion News : [Shincheonji testify] - 18-Minute Sermons?Pastors Blast TED Ispired Advice

18-Minute Sermons? Pastors Blast TED Inspired Advice

By Tyler O'Neil, CP Contributor

August 9, 2013|4:29 pm


Several pastors criticized the suggestion that 18-minute sermons would be the most effective way to share the Gospel on Sunday mornings, as proposed by a seminary student inspired by TED talks.

Jeff Tatarchuck, an Andrews University seminary student and guest writer on TED, a non-profit dedicated to "Ideas Worth Spreading," suggested pastors limit their Sunday messages to 18 minutes. He argued that shorter messages would make more sermons go viral.

If "the topic is short and simple enough for people to listen and digest the information, it makes it much easier for the audience to take action, which is to share the information with others," he wrote. Making the Gospel short, simple, and shareable would greatly expand the pastor's reach, and bring more people to Christ, he said

While agreeing that they need to broadcast the Gospel as widely as possible, several pastors said that 18 minutes proves extremely insufficient for their mission in the pulpit.

Ken Hutcherson, former NFL linebacker and senior pastor of Seattle's Antioch Bible Church, told The Christian Post, "I guess we'd better make professional football games eighteen minutes – have you noticed how bored they are when the fourth quarter comes around?" Hutcherson found Tatarchuck's suggestion of 18-minute sermons laughable.

"No one can drive over eighteen minutes anywhere because their attention span drops," he quipped. Like some people's morning commute, his sermons go for about 40 to 45 minutes, "and sometimes that's too short."

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Hutcherson, who has spent three years preaching through the Gospel of John, claimed that inspiration from the Holy Spirit and connecting with his audience matter a great deal more than the length of his sermon. He traced the problem back to pastors themselves, who too often make their sermons dry.

"As in the football stadium, people in church get excited by something that stimulates them," he said. To better connect with his congregation, Hutcherson said he studies the word, trusts God, and uses all of himself, "steadied up under the Holy Spirit, I turn myself loose when I get in the pulpit."

"I love TED talks," Ryan Carrell, lead pastor of Indianapolis' The Southeast Project Church, to CP Thursday, but said his focus, like Hutcherson's, isn't on brevity.

Less heavy on step-by-step exegesis, Carrell zeroes in on connecting with people, he said. He acknowledged that every week "there are churched and unchurched, Christians and not-yet-Christians, in the same room." He connects people with biblical narratives, not by holding up biblical heroes, but by linking their struggles with the struggles of his congregation – and showing how God changes everything.

Carrell emphasized that faith grows gradually, over time, in the process of sanctification. His "modern church" uses sermons as a path to relationships with his congregation. "We can do a lot of teaching on Sunday mornings, but discipleship really occurs in those community moments as people are wrestling with faith together, not staring in rows and listening to somebody preaching," he said.

Despite his church's modern style, the Indianapolis pastor said he would never limit his sermons to 18 minutes, because sometimes it takes 40 or 45 minutes to inspire his audience through scripture.

Wallace Henley, senior associate pastor of the 60,000 member Houston Second Baptist Church and columnist for CP, echoed both Hutcherson and Carrell's main points. "What happens when the Spirit of God manifests itself through the world and people are magnetically attracted to it? They want more after 18 minutes," he told CP. Also, "it would be wrong to think that we could truly disciple a person in an 18-minute time span."

Henley also emphasized the need, even in topical sermons, of setting the exegetical background for a bible passage. He said his 40-minute sermons explain the background, why the text was written, and how to apply the passage today.

He related Hutcherson's focus on teaching and Carrell's emphasis on community with the call for discipleship. "You can make a disciple, as Jesus made disciples, in the relationship and the intentional teaching ties, as modeled in the Sermon on the Mount."

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/18-minute-sermons-pastors-blast-ted-advice-101947/#F3DCLsmsQlMFPDvC.99


Source: http://global.christianpost.com/news/18-minute-sermons-pastors-blast-ted-advice-101947/

    Recently, Christianity tries to pay attention to people, so it makes their duties useless. Even though sermons are absolutely part of God, human’s convenience is becoming a standard of many Christians’ activities. Reducing the sermon time is nonsense on the ground that people can be easily boring. It could be possible, however; if the word is truth and word of life, anyone really wants to listen to the word whether it takes one minutes or one hour.

  Word which makes people feel good can be found other places in the world. However, the word of truth, life is nowhere. If people know the word of truth, the time would not be a problem.

Shincheonji Revelation : [Bible Comprehension through Shincheonji] -Two Seed and the Harvest

Two Seed and the Harvest

 

 

   The spiritual seed divided two seeds, God’s seed and Satan’s seed. Each seed represents the word of Spirit. Then, where is the place that each seed sows? And when is the time that these seeds sowed? And who is the one that sowed these seeds? What is the result after these seeds sowed?

 

- Jer 31:27 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will plant the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the offspring of men and of animals.”

 

  God prophesied that there will be two seeds sowed (Jer 31:27). In this verse, the offspring of men means seed of God, and the offspring of animal means the seed of Satan. The place that these seeds planted is the house of Israel and Judah, the world of God’s chosen people. These promises fulfilled at the time of the First Coming. Jesus came to the world, and he sowed the word of God to the Israelites. Then, Jesus is the one who sowed the word of God, God’s seed, to the world. However, something happens after Jesus sowed the God’s seed.

 

  Let us check out the parables of heaven that Jesus told more detail.

 

- Mt 13:24-30 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed food seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.”

  “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’”

“ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.

“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

“‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At the time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.

 

   Jesus sowed the seed to his field, the world of Christianity. After Son of Man sowed the GOOD SEED, the enemy sowed the weeds. Then, who is the enemy? Satan is the enemy. Satan sowed Satan’s seed, his own laws and doctrines to Jesus’ field. Therefore, the prophecy that God told to us was fulfilled at the First Coming.

- Mt 13:37-43 He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

“As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the age. The Son of Man will send out his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

 

In the parable, the owner’s servants noticed that the weeds sowed in their owner’s field. They asked to the owners to pull the weeds up. However, the owner just let the weeds leave in the field until the time of harvest. Then, when is the time of the harvest? The time of the harvest is the end of age. It does not mean the end of the world. What is the world to Jesus? It is the world of Jesus, therefore; the harvest starts at the end time of Jesus’ world.

 

What is the result after these two seeds sowed? Good Seed became the wheat, and the weeds are the sons of evil one. The wheat will be brought into the owner’s barn, Jesus’ barn. However; the weed will be thrown into the fiery furnace. It just merely small difference of seed, but the result is so tremendous. Therefore, bearing with God’s seed is so important to the believers. Because not all believers can go to the heaven, those who are born with the God’s seed only can enter the kingdom of heaven.

 

Jer 31:27 (Prophecy)	Seed of men	Seed of animals
Mt 13:24-25(fulfilled)	Good Seed	Weeds
Mt 13:37-39	God’s word(truth)	Satan’s word(lies)
	Sons of kngdom of heaven	Sons of evil one
1Jn3:9-10	Children of God	Children of devil(Jn8:44)
Secret of kingdom of heaven = SEED

 

Believers who want to enter the kingdom of heaven should be born with the God’s seed and be brought into the barn. Then, where is the barn that we should go at the time of the harvest. We can check it more specifically at the book of the Revelation written about the time of the end and the prophecies in the New Testament. At the Chapter 14 in the Revelation, there is a Mount Zion that those who offered as firstfruits of God and the lamb gathered. Also, this firstfuits are born with the word of truth, God’s seed (Jas 1:18). Therefore, people who gathered in Mount Zion are born with the God’s seed, the word of truth, and Mount Zion is the right place that God, Jesus and the spiritual thorn in the heaven are dwell in.

 

Believers who follow the word of Jesus and wish to go to the kingdom of heaven should understand the realities of these two seeds and should be the children of God that are born with the God’s seed so that they can be harvested to the barn at the time of the harvest, the end of the era.

 

Bible Comprehension through Shincheonji - The Water We Need to Drink

< The Water We Need to Drink >

 

   Human body is made of water by 70%. People get thirsty when their bodies lose water 2% and if our bodies lose the water 10%, people suffer in pain. If our bodies lose the water over 20%, people could die!! Also, water can remove harm substances in our body, so it helps our metabolism.

  Therefore, the water is an essential part of our body, so we need to drink water regularly and periodically. Then, how about our spirit?

God made our spirit in our body (Zec 12: 1), and the spirit is like an inner person. If physical bodies need physical water to live, what is the water for the spirit?

The spiritual water that we need to drink to make our soul alive is the word of God. As you can see at Dt 32: 2, God describes the water as his word. It means that the water is so important to our spirit like the physical water is essential part of our physical body. Drinking the spiritual water is listening to God’s words. In order to make our spirit alive, we should keep the word of God in our mind by listening to them.

As physical body needs water to live and be healthy, our spirits need God’s words to live and have healthy mind.

* Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.  – Dt 32: 2