Title [Happy Today - Cheoljae Lee] Blessed Hope
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The Lord is coming again. This was the blessed hope of the early church and the dominant theme of faith. This hope has been a source of comfort to the early church, which suffered many misunderstandings and persecution. If the saints who received the early rain were longing for the resurrection and ascended Lord, it is natural that the church of today, who received the same latter rain (Joel 2:23,28), should be much more thirsty.
We believe in the Second Coming of Jesus before the Millennium Kingdom. First, to bring the dead saints back to life and to lift up the surviving saints to meet the Lord in the air. Second, we believe in his coming to reign on earth for 1000 years. We believe in the resurrection of the body, and we believe that the righteous have eternal life and the wicked have eternal punishment.
The Bible does not prophesy that this world will become a heaven. The world will become more and more wicked and will end in an eschatological judgment. Salvation is moving from a world that will perish to a new heaven and a new earth. For this, the Lord will return to this world. This is the prophecy of the Bible and the hope of the saints. Preaching is to confiscate the false hope of the world that will disappear and to give the true hope of eternal heaven. This is not a blind escape to heaven. The saints who have the blessed hope of the Lord's return must live holiness as a bride who will meet the Lord, the bridegroom, and burn with missionary passion to rescue one more of my beloved brothers and sisters who are falling into the hell of eternal destruction .
Holiness and mission are the subjects of the eschatological resurrection faith. It is not simply about overcoming the power of the devil on this earth with the gift and power of the Holy Spirit and eating well in this world, but living the eschatological salvation that the Lord has completed, but still in hope, in today's life. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is a special grace given by God to realize the eschatological ethical ethic of holiness and mission. Also, the baptism in the Holy Spirit is not received through fasting and prayer beyond Jesus, but Jesus Himself is the one who gives the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Faith is knowing (knowing), becoming right (be), and living right (do). Only when you know Jesus rightly can you become a person of Jesus, and only when you become a person of Jesus can you live as a person of Jesus. It is the Holy Spirit who does this. When you know and believe in Jesus' virgin birth, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and return, it can be said to be a successful life of faith.
The escapist faith that only clings to the second coming of Jesus is wrong, but the secularist faith that only lives well on this earth without hope for the second coming of Jesus is even worse. The corruption and enjoyment of our society today is due to the loss of the eschatological resurrection belief. The Lord is coming again. Let's rekindle the thrill of salvation and the passion for missions with this blessed hope.