Title: The Labor of Dissolution for the Church
Galatians 4:12-20.
If there is one thing that our people wish for the most, it would be happiness. But when are people happiest? It's time to love. People are happiest when they are in love.
People are not the only objects of love. The object can be an animal, a plant, the world, or anything, and love makes us happy no matter what the object is.
The happiness that love gives makes people healthy. make you blessed.
When I was young, I really loved the church. It was because he was loved by the church. It was because they were recognized by the church. I remember saying this several times during the sermon, but when it rained, the hill road leading up to the church was ruined.
When it comes to obesity, the church is worried. I woke up early in the morning, grabbed my backpack and went to church first. And I used to go to school by digging up the dirt in the church yard and filling in the hills.
As a child, I was very poor. But despite being poor, my childhood memories were not unhappy. Few people have such bright memories of their childhood. Being happy despite being poor had a very healthy effect on my life.
There are not many people who have received so much blessing from God like me. I really think so. I think the biggest reason for the indescribable blessings I have received is that I loved and liked the Church so much when I was young.
Psalm 122:6 says, "He who loves Jerusalem will prosper." The witness of that word is me. Those who love the church, that is, Jerusalem, will prosper. Guys, I am the witness.
I pray in the name of the Lord that all of our beloved members of Heavenly Church of the High Will can receive this blessing. By the way, your Jerusalem is a high-meaning heavenly church. Therefore, I want you to become people who love the high will of Heaven Church.
Do you love your church?
Parents love their children. However, it does not seem that father and mother are the same when it comes to love for children. There are no exceptions, but in general, a mother's love for her child is deeper than a father's love for her child.
A father's love for his children is probably a phenomenon unique to humans. For animals, love for a child is almost exclusively in the mother. In most cases, the father of an animal does not even recognize his offspring.
Why is a mother's love for her child greater than a father's love for her child? Needless to say, it is because mothers get their children through the labors of childbirth, and fathers do not have such labor.
In today's text, the Apostle Paul spoke about the Galatian church and said that he was laboring in childbirth for the church. (Ga 4:19)
Truly, the Apostle Paul was a man who did all the labors of childbirth for the church, the body of the Lord.
I once drove around the road Paul had traveled to establish churches and visit them. I was able to realize the words I confessed as the danger of mountains and dangers of rivers. I couldn't quite figure out how I could get there on foot.
It wasn't just that the road was difficult. The apostle Paul was beaten and stoned for the sake of the church. He passed the hazard of death several times, and in the end he was martyred for the sake of the church. So, it is correct to say that Paul worked hard in childbirth for the church of God.
Paul was a man who truly loved the Church of God. So he was always happy. So he could always rejoice and always be grateful.
I used to serve Youngnak Church when I was young. While I was ministering, I served several churches, and the church that I remember was the most in love with the church was Youngnak Church.
Youngnak Church was founded by refugees from the north on the 25th of June. This is a church built by refugees who had no food for themselves, so they pulled out the music and sold silk quilts to build a church. Church members without money actually helped with the construction work with their bodies.
The chapel of Youngnak Church is a very beautiful stone structure. The members of the church washed each stone with water and built it up. There was blood on the hands of the church members.
It was because the church members who built the chapel by washing each stone with water even though their hands were bleeding during evacuation could not leave the chapel. I don't think it was necessarily the right thing to do, but I could understand the sentiment.
There are not many people in the world who love their church as much as the members of Youngnak Church. So I think the members of Youngnak Church have been very blessed.
Our brother church, High Mean Seed Church, is building a school in Cheonan. First of all, we are going to build a small elementary school. First of all, we plan to run two classes per year.
But I did not agree. It was because if it was built so easily, it would become a seed of high will and the church could not become a good church. It has been decided to transfer the Cheongoram building to the Fruit Sharing Foundation for KRW 2 billion. The 2 billion won and the 500 million won from the United Missions are combined to provide 2.5 billion won. The remaining 2.5 billion won became a seed of high meaning, and church members were told to donate it to build it.
As a high-will church, it means that we donated 2.5 billion won to the Seed School and about 8 billion won to the Fruit Sharing Foundation. If the high-will churches had sold it and shared it, it would have helped a lot in the finances of the churches, but the high-will brothers churches declined it and made a donation to the Seed School and the Fruit Sharing Foundation.
I think this decision was a high-meaning church-like decision. It can't be anything to be grateful for.
Currently, it has become a seed of high will, and the church has about 450 people attending Sunday worship services. In order for 450 church members attending to donate 2.5 billion won, each person must donate 5-6 million won.
But as of right now, things are going very smoothly. On the day I decided to donate, I preached once and made a decision. After that, they don't advertise well. And even the pastors don't know who donates how much. Still, the teachers are doing well.
The church has become a seed of high will and is now a church that has been around for a little over two years. The members of the church have not yet taken root in the church. At such a point in time, a 2.5 billion won building donation can be a very risky decision. This is because members may not be able to bear the burden and may just be scattered.
It was an adventure. But the adventure seems to have been successful. It went up to 500 attendees, but about 50 people decreased. And 450 church members are carrying that heavy burden without saying a word. As the seeds of high will, the church will undoubtedly become a good and healthy church.
Our High Will Church is a church that is building an invisible temple. It was removed from the school that was being used as a chapel when the number of 5,000 members was about 5,000 to interfere with this construction.